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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 175 245
Rank change year-on-year -81 +70 -49
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 380 396 363
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.62% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.75% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 324 308
10th Percentile £384 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £671
90th Percentile £691 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £585 £549
% change year-on-year -11.11% +6.61% -8.54%
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 36,247 22,616 34,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.68% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,781 15,117 23,069
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,412 859 2,363
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.38 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.53 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -5.88% -21.17%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.49
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.20% -12.02% -22.22%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -72 243 £525 -22.22% 31
North of England -52 59 £510 +7.37% 21
Midlands -44 29 £575 +11.65% 5
Yorkshire -41 26 £520 -0.95% 1
West Midlands -37 23 £703 +30.09% 4
North West -32 22 £500 +20.92% 14
East of England -23 14 £510 +16.57% 3
North East -15 11 £431 -24.34% 6
South East -57 11 £575 +15.00% 9
South West -20 9 £536 -14.20% 6
East Midlands -31 6 £433 -13.50% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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.

1 380 (100.00%) AWS
2 197 (51.84%) CI/CD
3 192 (50.53%) DevOps
4 180 (47.37%) Terraform
5 175 (46.05%) Python
6 140 (36.84%) Security Cleared
7 133 (35.00%) SC Cleared
8 129 (33.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (27.37%) Serverless
10 100 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
11 95 (25.00%) Kubernetes
12 88 (23.16%) Docker
13 83 (21.84%) Amazon S3
14 77 (20.26%) GitHub
15 68 (17.89%) Agile
16 67 (17.63%) Containerisation
16 67 (17.63%) GitLab
17 66 (17.37%) Amazon EKS
18 62 (16.32%) AWS CloudFormation
19 60 (15.79%) SQL
20 57 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
21 53 (13.95%) Azure
22 50 (13.16%) Analytics
23 48 (12.63%) Data Engineering
24 47 (12.37%) Linux
24 47 (12.37%) Software Engineering
25 46 (12.11%) Amazon EC2
25 46 (12.11%) GitHub Actions
25 46 (12.11%) Jenkins
26 44 (11.58%) Cloud Security

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 36 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.32%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.16%) Apache
4 6 (1.58%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) SAS
6 4 (1.05%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 380 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (27.37%) Serverless
3 100 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
4 83 (21.84%) Amazon S3
5 77 (20.26%) GitHub
6 66 (17.37%) Amazon EKS
7 62 (16.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 53 (13.95%) Azure
9 46 (12.11%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (12.11%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (6.32%) Snowflake
13 22 (5.79%) GCP
14 20 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (4.47%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (4.21%) Amazon EMR
16 16 (4.21%) AWS CodePipeline
17 15 (3.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.21%) Firewall
2 9 (2.37%) VPN
3 7 (1.84%) DNS
4 5 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.79%) LAN
5 3 (0.79%) Network Security
5 3 (0.79%) WAN
6 2 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.53%) HTTP
6 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.26%) 4G
7 1 (0.26%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) BGP
7 1 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.26%) DHCP
7 1 (0.26%) ICMP
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
2 29 (7.63%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (6.05%) Amazon Athena
4 22 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.26%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.74%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.16%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.89%) Metadata
9 9 (2.37%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.37%) Power BI
10 7 (1.84%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (1.84%) Flink
10 7 (1.84%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.84%) Tableau
11 6 (1.58%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.32%) Big Data
12 5 (1.32%) MySQL
12 5 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (17.63%) GitLab
2 46 (12.11%) Jenkins
3 38 (10.00%) Git
4 9 (2.37%) JIRA
5 8 (2.11%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.11%) Snyk
6 6 (1.58%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.79%) JUnit
9 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.53%) Gradle
9 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.53%) MLflow
9 2 (0.53%) Mocha
9 2 (0.53%) MSTest
9 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.53%) tSQLt
General
1 58 (15.26%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.21%) Public Sector
3 53 (13.95%) Finance
4 26 (6.84%) Banking
5 18 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.84%) Aeronautics
6 7 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.58%) Front Office
7 6 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.05%) Legal
10 3 (0.79%) Law
10 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.53%) Military
11 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Billing
12 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.47%) Kafka
2 19 (5.00%) Node.js
3 17 (4.47%) PySpark
4 14 (3.68%) REST
5 12 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.89%) AWS CDK
6 11 (2.89%) React
7 9 (2.37%) RESTful
8 8 (2.11%) Next.js
9 7 (1.84%) pytest
10 6 (1.58%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.58%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.58%) Web Services
11 5 (1.32%) .NET
11 5 (1.32%) Spring
12 4 (1.05%) boto
12 4 (1.05%) Django
12 4 (1.05%) Flask
12 4 (1.05%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (1.05%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.74%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.63%) NHS
4 9 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.37%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.84%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.84%) Fixed Income
5 7 (1.84%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.79%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.79%) Replication
10 2 (0.53%) Life Science
10 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.37%) Linux
2 9 (2.37%) Windows
3 7 (1.84%) Unix
4 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (51.84%) CI/CD
2 192 (50.53%) DevOps
3 129 (33.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (17.89%) Agile
5 67 (17.63%) Containerisation
6 57 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
7 50 (13.16%) Analytics
8 48 (12.63%) Data Engineering
9 47 (12.37%) Software Engineering
10 44 (11.58%) Cloud Security
11 41 (10.79%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (10.79%) Observability
12 39 (10.26%) ETL
13 35 (9.21%) Microservices
14 34 (8.95%) Data Modelling
15 33 (8.68%) Migration
16 30 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (6.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 23 (6.05%) AI
18 23 (6.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 175 (46.05%) Python
2 60 (15.79%) SQL
3 38 (10.00%) Java
4 37 (9.74%) Bash
5 16 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.63%) C#
6 10 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.84%) Go
9 5 (1.32%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.05%) Groovy
11 3 (0.79%) Ruby
11 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.53%) AWK
12 2 (0.53%) C
12 2 (0.53%) Scala
13 1 (0.26%) JSX
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 140 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 133 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.63%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.16%) Degree
5 11 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (0.79%) PhD
9 2 (0.53%) CCNP
9 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.53%) OCP
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.16%) GDPR
3 9 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.84%) NIST
5 6 (1.58%) QA
5 6 (1.58%) SLA
6 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (23.16%) Docker
2 7 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.84%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.05%) vSphere
4 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Squid
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 180 (47.37%) Terraform
2 95 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 35 (9.21%) Grafana
4 34 (8.95%) Prometheus
5 33 (8.68%) Ansible
6 18 (4.74%) Argo
7 8 (2.11%) Puppet
8 6 (1.58%) Packer
9 5 (1.32%) Istio
10 4 (1.05%) Rancher
11 3 (0.79%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.79%) Salt
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Nessus
13 1 (0.26%) Opsview
13 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) QRadar
13 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (8.16%) Databricks
2 21 (5.53%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.68%) Splunk
4 9 (2.37%) VMware
5 8 (2.11%) Oracle
6 7 (1.84%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.58%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.58%) Talend
8 5 (1.32%) Citrix
8 5 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.32%) Informatica
8 5 (1.32%) Qualys
8 5 (1.32%) SAP
9 4 (1.05%) Cisco
9 4 (1.05%) Denodo
9 4 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.05%) Tenable
10 3 (0.79%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.79%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.53%) AVEVA