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 4 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
4 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 199 208
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 -15
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 431 395 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 1.29% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 1.39% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 319 385
10th Percentile £375 £400 £424
25th Percentile £429 £480 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £675
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,419 28,414 35,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.93% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,221 17,533 24,351
10th Percentile £285 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,705 993 1,381
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.36 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £74.69 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +44.15%

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 4 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 4 December 2025. 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 -25 264 £575 -14.81% 25
North of England 0 91 £500 +25.00% 21
Yorkshire -17 50 £500 +25.00% 2
Midlands +13 48 £525 +1.94% 4
West Midlands +8 42 £525 -0.94% 2
North West +6 33 £405 -14.74% 11
South East +4 15 £538 +7.50% 11
South West -11 11 £600 -2.04% 5
North East -2 9 £550 -4.35% 8
East Midlands -8 6 £446 -10.75% 2
East of England -16 2 £450 -18.18% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, 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.

1 431 (100.00%) AWS
2 253 (58.70%) Python
3 226 (52.44%) Terraform
4 220 (51.04%) DevOps
5 213 (49.42%) CI/CD
6 166 (38.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 139 (32.25%) Security Cleared
8 127 (29.47%) SC Cleared
9 113 (26.22%) Amazon S3
10 111 (25.75%) Serverless
11 108 (25.06%) Docker
12 107 (24.83%) Agile
12 107 (24.83%) Kubernetes
13 99 (22.97%) GitHub
14 96 (22.27%) AWS Lambda
15 91 (21.11%) Jenkins
16 89 (20.65%) Software Engineering
17 81 (18.79%) GitLab
18 76 (17.63%) AWS CloudFormation
19 75 (17.40%) Java
20 74 (17.17%) Apache Airflow
21 70 (16.24%) Containerisation
21 70 (16.24%) TypeScript
22 69 (16.01%) Linux
23 68 (15.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 67 (15.55%) Platform Engineering
25 66 (15.31%) Amazon Athena
26 64 (14.85%) Amazon EC2
26 64 (14.85%) SQL
27 63 (14.62%) 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 74 (17.17%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (8.58%) Apache
3 28 (6.50%) Confluence
4 18 (4.18%) Apache Spark
5 15 (3.48%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.46%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (2.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 431 (100.00%) AWS
2 113 (26.22%) Amazon S3
3 111 (25.75%) Serverless
4 99 (22.97%) GitHub
5 96 (22.27%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (17.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 68 (15.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 64 (14.85%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (14.39%) Amazon ECS
10 53 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (11.60%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (11.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 49 (11.37%) Azure
13 48 (11.14%) dbt
14 43 (9.98%) GCP
14 43 (9.98%) Snowflake
15 34 (7.89%) AWS KMS
16 24 (5.57%) Route 53
17 21 (4.87%) Amazon ELB
18 18 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.58%) DNS
2 30 (6.96%) Firewall
3 19 (4.41%) SMTP
4 17 (3.94%) FTP
4 17 (3.94%) HTTP
4 17 (3.94%) SSH
5 12 (2.78%) IMAP
5 12 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
5 12 (2.78%) VPN
6 5 (1.16%) DHCP
6 5 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.93%) Network Security
7 4 (0.93%) SSL
8 3 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.46%) BGP
9 2 (0.46%) IPsec
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.31%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (14.62%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (11.83%) Data Lake
5 47 (10.90%) Apache Iceberg
6 45 (10.44%) Apache Arrow
6 45 (10.44%) Dremio
7 30 (6.96%) Apache Ignite
8 24 (5.57%) DynamoDB
8 24 (5.57%) NoSQL
9 21 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (4.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.86%) Metadata
12 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.62%) Big Data
13 7 (1.62%) Flink
13 7 (1.62%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.39%) MySQL
14 6 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (21.11%) Jenkins
2 81 (18.79%) GitLab
3 54 (12.53%) Git
4 36 (8.35%) JIRA
5 19 (4.41%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.78%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.62%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.62%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.39%) MLflow
9 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.16%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.70%) JUnit
11 3 (0.70%) Mockito
11 3 (0.70%) Selenium
11 3 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.70%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.46%) Gradle
General
1 117 (27.15%) Finance
2 81 (18.79%) Public Sector
3 78 (18.10%) Social Skills
4 57 (13.23%) Banking
5 51 (11.83%) Front Office
6 31 (7.19%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.02%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.62%) Aeronautics
11 5 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.70%) Legal
14 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Law
14 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.46%) Retail
15 1 (0.23%) Publishing
15 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.44%) NumPy
1 45 (10.44%) Pandas
1 45 (10.44%) SciPy
2 42 (9.74%) Node.js
3 39 (9.05%) Kafka
4 35 (8.12%) React
5 31 (7.19%) AWS CDK
6 30 (6.96%) gRPC
6 30 (6.96%) Protocol Buffers
7 22 (5.10%) REST
8 20 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (4.64%) RESTful
9 18 (4.18%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.48%) PySpark
10 15 (3.48%) Vue
11 12 (2.78%) LDAP
12 8 (1.86%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (1.16%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.16%) OAuth
13 5 (1.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 51 (11.83%) Fixed Income
3 50 (11.60%) Hedge funds
4 45 (10.44%) Equities
4 45 (10.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (6.96%) Derivative
5 30 (6.96%) Pricing Data
6 21 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (4.87%) Replication
7 16 (3.71%) Public Cloud
8 14 (3.25%) NHS
9 9 (2.09%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.16%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.93%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.01%) Linux
2 26 (6.03%) Windows
3 22 (5.10%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (4.41%) VMS
5 14 (3.25%) Unix
6 10 (2.32%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (51.04%) DevOps
2 213 (49.42%) CI/CD
3 166 (38.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (24.83%) Agile
5 89 (20.65%) Software Engineering
6 70 (16.24%) Containerisation
7 67 (15.55%) Platform Engineering
8 57 (13.23%) Cloud Security
9 51 (11.83%) Investment Management
10 48 (11.14%) Microservices
11 45 (10.44%) Asset Management
12 42 (9.74%) Observability
12 42 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (9.51%) Migration
14 39 (9.05%) Data Pipeline
15 35 (8.12%) Change Management
15 35 (8.12%) Configuration Management
16 34 (7.89%) High Availability
17 31 (7.19%) Data Engineering
18 30 (6.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 253 (58.70%) Python
2 75 (17.40%) Java
3 70 (16.24%) TypeScript
4 64 (14.85%) SQL
5 58 (13.46%) JavaScript
6 33 (7.66%) Go
7 32 (7.42%) Bash
8 29 (6.73%) PowerShell
9 21 (4.87%) Groovy
10 11 (2.55%) Perl
10 11 (2.55%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.70%) C#
11 3 (0.70%) PHP
11 3 (0.70%) Ruby
12 2 (0.46%) AWK
12 2 (0.46%) C
12 2 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.23%) C++
13 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 139 (32.25%) Security Cleared
2 127 (29.47%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.83%) AWS Certification
4 32 (7.42%) Degree
5 19 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (3.71%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.70%) PhD
13 2 (0.46%) CCNP
13 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.46%) OCP
13 2 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.25%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.78%) QA
3 10 (2.32%) GDPR
4 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.16%) WCAG
6 4 (0.93%) NCSC
7 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.70%) NIST
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 108 (25.06%) Docker
2 17 (3.94%) DFS Replication
3 13 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.78%) Dovecot
4 12 (2.78%) Postfix
4 12 (2.78%) Squid
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) iptables
6 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 226 (52.44%) Terraform
2 107 (24.83%) Kubernetes
3 59 (13.69%) Ansible
4 58 (13.46%) Grafana
5 49 (11.37%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.25%) Puppet
7 12 (2.78%) Nessus
8 10 (2.32%) Packer
8 10 (2.32%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.32%) Proxmox
9 9 (2.09%) Argo
10 5 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.46%) Kibana
12 2 (0.46%) SELinux
13 1 (0.23%) Consul
13 1 (0.23%) Control-M
13 1 (0.23%) Istio
13 1 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (5.80%) Databricks
1 25 (5.80%) ServiceNow
2 23 (5.34%) Splunk
3 18 (4.18%) Arista
4 14 (3.25%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (1.62%) IBM
7 6 (1.39%) Oracle
8 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.93%) Okta
10 3 (0.70%) Confluent
10 3 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.70%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.46%) Cisco
11 2 (0.46%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.46%) F5
11 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
58 AWS Engineer jobs in England