AWS Engineer Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 201 143
Rank change year-on-year -52 -58 +38
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 335 686 1,384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.90% 1.36% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.44% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 555 1,135
10th Percentile £413 £459 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2024. 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 -30 252 £575 -8.00% 58
North of England +4 32 £463 -13.95% 9
North West +22 26 £456 -8.75% 7
South East -9 16 £569 -3.19% 7
South West -9 13 £475 -17.39% 4
Yorkshire +10 6 £525 -12.50% 1
Midlands +22 5 £450 -25.00% 12
East Midlands +18 3 £450 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +21 2 £488 -22.00% 8
East of England 0 1 £650 +25.00% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 335 (100.00%) AWS
2 176 (52.54%) Python
3 158 (47.16%) DevOps
4 137 (40.90%) Terraform
5 106 (31.64%) CI/CD
6 96 (28.66%) Kubernetes
7 85 (25.37%) Finance
8 79 (23.58%) Security Cleared
9 74 (22.09%) SC Cleared
9 74 (22.09%) Serverless
10 73 (21.79%) Java
11 72 (21.49%) Agile
11 72 (21.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 68 (20.30%) Amazon S3
13 64 (19.10%) Amazon EC2
14 62 (18.51%) AWS Lambda
15 61 (18.21%) Amazon Athena
15 61 (18.21%) Docker
16 59 (17.61%) JavaScript
17 56 (16.72%) Linux
17 56 (16.72%) Software Engineering
18 55 (16.42%) SQL
19 50 (14.93%) Apache Airflow
20 48 (14.33%) TypeScript
20 48 (14.33%) Social Skills
21 47 (14.03%) Snowflake
21 47 (14.03%) Ansible
21 47 (14.03%) Asset Management
22 46 (13.73%) Apache
22 46 (13.73%) Data Lake

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 50 (14.93%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (13.73%) Apache
3 5 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.49%) Confluence
3 5 (1.49%) nginx
4 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 335 (100.00%) AWS
2 74 (22.09%) Serverless
3 68 (20.30%) Amazon S3
4 64 (19.10%) Amazon EC2
5 62 (18.51%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (14.03%) Snowflake
7 45 (13.43%) dbt
8 40 (11.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (9.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 32 (9.55%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (9.25%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (8.66%) Azure
12 29 (8.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (7.16%) GitHub
14 21 (6.27%) GCP
15 18 (5.37%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (5.07%) AWS CodePipeline
16 17 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (4.78%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (4.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.58%) DNS
2 11 (3.28%) Firewall
3 6 (1.79%) Network Security
4 4 (1.19%) DHCP
5 3 (0.90%) IPv4
5 3 (0.90%) LAN
5 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.90%) SMTP
5 3 (0.90%) VPN
5 3 (0.90%) WLAN
6 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.30%) MPLS
6 1 (0.30%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
6 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (18.21%) Amazon Athena
2 46 (13.73%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.13%) Apache Arrow
3 44 (13.13%) Dremio
4 36 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (9.55%) Apache Ignite
6 27 (8.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (5.37%) Big Data
9 17 (5.07%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.99%) MySQL
11 9 (2.69%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.39%) Flink
13 6 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.19%) Data Mining
15 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.90%) Parquet
15 3 (0.90%) Tableau
16 2 (0.60%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 36 (10.75%) Git
2 34 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 26 (7.76%) GitLab
4 8 (2.39%) JIRA
5 6 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.19%) JMeter
7 3 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.90%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.90%) Maven
7 3 (0.90%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.60%) Snyk
8 2 (0.60%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) Gatling
9 1 (0.30%) Gradle
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) Storybook
9 1 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (25.37%) Finance
2 48 (14.33%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.15%) Banking
4 33 (9.85%) Front Office
5 29 (8.66%) Investment Banking
6 25 (7.46%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.69%) Law
8 8 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.39%) Retail
9 5 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Back Office
12 1 (0.30%) Electronics
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.13%) gRPC
1 44 (13.13%) Protocol Buffers
2 36 (10.75%) NumPy
2 36 (10.75%) Pandas
3 32 (9.55%) SciPy
4 21 (6.27%) Kafka
5 17 (5.07%) React
6 14 (4.18%) PySpark
7 13 (3.88%) AWS CDK
7 13 (3.88%) Node.js
8 12 (3.58%) .NET
9 9 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.39%) Lambda Expressions
10 8 (2.39%) REST
11 7 (2.09%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.09%) YAML
12 6 (1.79%) CSS
12 6 (1.79%) Redux
12 6 (1.79%) Vue
13 5 (1.49%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.25%) Hedge funds
2 26 (7.76%) Fixed Income
3 20 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (5.37%) Derivative
4 18 (5.37%) Equities
5 12 (3.58%) Clustering
5 12 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.39%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.49%) PKI
9 4 (1.19%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.19%) Pricing Data
10 3 (0.90%) Life Science
11 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.60%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 56 (16.72%) Linux
2 16 (4.78%) Windows
3 7 (2.09%) Unix
4 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.90%) Debian
6 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.60%) VMS
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (47.16%) DevOps
2 106 (31.64%) CI/CD
3 72 (21.49%) Agile
3 72 (21.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (16.72%) Software Engineering
5 47 (14.03%) Asset Management
6 36 (10.75%) Containerisation
6 36 (10.75%) Investment Management
7 30 (8.96%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (8.66%) Data Engineering
8 29 (8.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (8.36%) Analytics
9 28 (8.36%) ETL
10 23 (6.87%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (6.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (5.97%) Microservices
12 17 (5.07%) Migration
13 16 (4.78%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (4.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 176 (52.54%) Python
2 73 (21.79%) Java
3 59 (17.61%) JavaScript
4 55 (16.42%) SQL
5 48 (14.33%) TypeScript
6 39 (11.64%) Bash
7 28 (8.36%) Go
8 18 (5.37%) C#
9 12 (3.58%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.39%) Scala
10 8 (2.39%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.09%) C
11 7 (2.09%) C++
11 7 (2.09%) Ruby
12 6 (1.79%) PHP
12 6 (1.79%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.90%) Groovy
13 3 (0.90%) Perl
14 2 (0.60%) R
15 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 74 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.06%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (3.88%) Degree
5 10 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.60%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.30%) CCIE
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.19%) NIST
4 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) QA
5 1 (0.30%) SLA
5 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (18.21%) Docker
2 6 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 137 (40.90%) Terraform
2 96 (28.66%) Kubernetes
3 47 (14.03%) Ansible
4 21 (6.27%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.99%) Grafana
6 8 (2.39%) Puppet
7 7 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.19%) Argo
8 4 (1.19%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.19%) Kibana
9 3 (0.90%) Consul
9 3 (0.90%) Packer
9 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.30%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.30%) Graylog
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Nagios
10 1 (0.30%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (3.88%) Red Hat
1 13 (3.88%) Splunk
2 5 (1.49%) Oracle
2 5 (1.49%) SAP
3 4 (1.19%) Databricks
3 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.19%) F5
3 4 (1.19%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.90%) AppDynamics
4 3 (0.90%) Google
4 3 (0.90%) VMware
5 2 (0.60%) Cisco
5 2 (0.60%) IBM
5 2 (0.60%) Informatica
5 2 (0.60%) MKS
5 2 (0.60%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.60%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.30%) Cylance
6 1 (0.30%) UiPath
6 1 (0.30%) Zscaler