AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 193 216
Rank change year-on-year -41 +23 -13
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 369 348 408
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 1.33% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.43% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 277 356
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £595 £788 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 30,066 24,417 35,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.06% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,145 15,033 24,004
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,886 731 2,091
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.92 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.60 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.64% +2.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.69
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £33.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year -10.27% -8.21% +2.71%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in England

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -45 228 £521 -19.81% 42
North of England +5 82 £500 - 23
Yorkshire -28 43 £519 +9.21% 8
North West -1 31 £420 -13.85% 13
Midlands -25 31 £539 +7.70% 16
West Midlands -15 27 £550 +3.77% 15
South East -22 15 £538 +7.50% 16
North East -13 8 £563 -1.32% 2
South West -16 8 £510 -9.33% 11
East Midlands -20 4 £433 -13.50% 1
East of England -22 2 £525 -4.55% 7
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 February 2026, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 369 (100.00%) AWS
2 205 (55.56%) Terraform
3 203 (55.01%) CI/CD
4 202 (54.74%) DevOps
5 198 (53.66%) Python
6 146 (39.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 136 (36.86%) Security Cleared
8 131 (35.50%) SC Cleared
9 107 (29.00%) Kubernetes
10 103 (27.91%) Serverless
11 98 (26.56%) Docker
12 91 (24.66%) AWS Lambda
13 87 (23.58%) Amazon S3
14 82 (22.22%) GitHub
15 78 (21.14%) GitLab
16 72 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 70 (18.97%) Containerisation
17 70 (18.97%) Jenkins
18 69 (18.70%) Agile
19 59 (15.99%) Linux
20 58 (15.72%) SQL
21 56 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
22 55 (14.91%) Amazon EKS
22 55 (14.91%) Cloud Security
23 54 (14.63%) Software Engineering
24 53 (14.36%) Amazon EC2
25 51 (13.82%) Amazon ECS
25 51 (13.82%) Azure
26 49 (13.28%) Ansible
27 48 (13.01%) Amazon RDS

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 41 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.61%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.61%) Confluence
3 16 (4.34%) Apache
4 11 (2.98%) nginx
5 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 369 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (27.91%) Serverless
3 91 (24.66%) AWS Lambda
4 87 (23.58%) Amazon S3
5 82 (22.22%) GitHub
6 72 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (14.91%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (14.36%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (13.82%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (13.82%) Azure
10 47 (12.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 45 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (10.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 35 (9.49%) GCP
14 25 (6.78%) AWS KMS
15 21 (5.69%) Snowflake
16 19 (5.15%) Amazon Kinesis
16 19 (5.15%) Route 53
17 16 (4.34%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (4.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.50%) DNS
2 19 (5.15%) Firewall
3 12 (3.25%) HTTP
4 10 (2.71%) FTP
4 10 (2.71%) SMTP
4 10 (2.71%) SSH
5 7 (1.90%) IMAP
5 7 (1.90%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (1.90%) VPN
6 4 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.54%) Network Security
7 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.01%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (8.13%) Data Lake
4 26 (7.05%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (6.23%) NoSQL
7 21 (5.69%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.52%) Apache Iceberg
8 13 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.25%) Apache Arrow
9 12 (3.25%) Dremio
10 11 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.17%) Apache Ignite
11 8 (2.17%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.90%) Flink
12 7 (1.90%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.90%) Tableau
13 6 (1.63%) Big Data
13 6 (1.63%) Metadata
14 5 (1.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (21.14%) GitLab
2 70 (18.97%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.57%) Git
4 25 (6.78%) JIRA
5 11 (2.98%) Liquibase
6 10 (2.71%) Vagrant
7 7 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.36%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.08%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.08%) MLflow
9 4 (1.08%) Mockito
9 4 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.81%) JUnit
10 3 (0.81%) Selenium
10 3 (0.81%) Snyk
10 3 (0.81%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.54%) Maven
General
1 73 (19.78%) Public Sector
2 69 (18.70%) Finance
3 62 (16.80%) Social Skills
4 37 (10.03%) Banking
5 18 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.88%) Front Office
6 10 (2.71%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.90%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.30%) Kafka
2 29 (7.86%) Node.js
3 23 (6.23%) REST
4 22 (5.96%) React
5 21 (5.69%) AWS CDK
6 19 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (4.61%) RESTful
8 16 (4.34%) PySpark
9 14 (3.79%) Pandas
10 13 (3.52%) NumPy
11 12 (3.25%) SciPy
12 9 (2.44%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.17%) gRPC
13 8 (2.17%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (2.17%) Protocol Buffers
14 7 (1.90%) LDAP
14 7 (1.90%) Next.js
15 6 (1.63%) Flask
16 5 (1.36%) OAuth
17 4 (1.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.99%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.96%) Hedge funds
3 20 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.88%) Fixed Income
4 18 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.79%) NHS
5 14 (3.79%) Replication
6 12 (3.25%) Equities
6 12 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.17%) Derivative
7 8 (2.17%) Pricing Data
8 6 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.99%) Linux
2 16 (4.34%) Windows
3 13 (3.52%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (2.98%) Unix
5 10 (2.71%) VMS
6 7 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.81%) CentOS
7 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (55.01%) CI/CD
2 202 (54.74%) DevOps
3 146 (39.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (18.97%) Containerisation
5 69 (18.70%) Agile
6 56 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
7 55 (14.91%) Cloud Security
8 54 (14.63%) Software Engineering
9 44 (11.92%) Microservices
10 43 (11.65%) Observability
11 39 (10.57%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (9.49%) Analytics
13 34 (9.21%) Data Engineering
14 33 (8.94%) Migration
14 33 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (8.67%) High Availability
16 27 (7.32%) Change Management
17 26 (7.05%) AI
18 25 (6.78%) ETL
19 24 (6.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 198 (53.66%) Python
2 58 (15.72%) SQL
3 40 (10.84%) Java
4 36 (9.76%) TypeScript
5 34 (9.21%) Bash
6 22 (5.96%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.69%) Go
8 19 (5.15%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.25%) Groovy
10 10 (2.71%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.08%) C#
11 4 (1.08%) Perl
11 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 2 (0.54%) AWK
12 2 (0.54%) PHP
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (36.86%) Security Cleared
2 131 (35.50%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 26 (7.05%) Degree
5 19 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.90%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.81%) PhD
12 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.54%) OCP
12 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.27%) CEH
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
13 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.25%) GDPR
3 10 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.71%) QA
4 6 (1.63%) NIST
5 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.08%) NCSC
6 3 (0.81%) WCAG
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.54%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (26.56%) Docker
2 10 (2.71%) DFS Replication
3 7 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.90%) Dovecot
3 7 (1.90%) Postfix
3 7 (1.90%) Squid
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 205 (55.56%) Terraform
2 107 (29.00%) Kubernetes
3 49 (13.28%) Ansible
4 44 (11.92%) Grafana
5 42 (11.38%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.52%) Argo
7 10 (2.71%) Packer
8 9 (2.44%) Puppet
9 8 (2.17%) Nessus
10 7 (1.90%) Proxmox
11 5 (1.36%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.54%) Consul
13 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.27%) Istio
14 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.27%) QRadar
14 1 (0.27%) Rancher
14 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (7.32%) Databricks
2 23 (6.23%) Splunk
3 17 (4.61%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.44%) Arista
6 7 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (1.63%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.63%) Oracle
8 5 (1.36%) Citrix
8 5 (1.36%) Qualys
8 5 (1.36%) Tenable
9 4 (1.08%) Okta
10 3 (0.81%) Confluent
10 3 (0.81%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.54%) AVEVA
11 2 (0.54%) IBM
11 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.54%) SAP