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 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 213 197
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 -22
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 410 385 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.49% 1.18% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.27% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 325 438
10th Percentile £385 £394 £429
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £688
90th Percentile £875 - £788
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £59.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £35.00

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 25,142 30,231 40,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.98% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,215 18,878 28,055
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,352 1,487 1,370
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.61 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

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
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 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +7 281 £675 +3.85% 55
North of England +19 65 £450 +12.50% 32
North West +21 35 £405 -10.00% 23
Midlands +20 34 £475 +35.71% 2
West Midlands +17 31 £475 +35.71% 1
Yorkshire -17 27 £500 +25.00% 5
South East +25 16 £513 -12.77% 27
South West +18 11 £600 +4.35% 3
North East - 4 £470 - 4
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
East of England +4 1 £450 -16.28% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, 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.

1 410 (100.00%) AWS
2 246 (60.00%) Python
3 176 (42.93%) Terraform
4 174 (42.44%) DevOps
5 171 (41.71%) CI/CD
6 135 (32.93%) Agile
7 130 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 128 (31.22%) Finance
9 117 (28.54%) Software Engineering
9 117 (28.54%) TypeScript
10 115 (28.05%) JavaScript
11 114 (27.80%) Amazon S3
12 104 (25.37%) Apache Airflow
13 100 (24.39%) Amazon Athena
14 99 (24.15%) Java
15 97 (23.66%) Security Cleared
16 96 (23.41%) Kubernetes
17 94 (22.93%) Docker
18 93 (22.68%) dbt
19 90 (21.95%) Serverless
20 88 (21.46%) SC Cleared
21 84 (20.49%) Apache Iceberg
22 83 (20.24%) Apache Arrow
22 83 (20.24%) Dremio
22 83 (20.24%) Investment Management
22 83 (20.24%) Asset Management
22 83 (20.24%) Front Office
22 83 (20.24%) Fixed Income
22 83 (20.24%) Pandas
22 83 (20.24%) SciPy

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
1 104 (25.37%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (13.17%) Apache
3 25 (6.10%) Confluence
4 17 (4.15%) nginx
5 9 (2.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.98%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) Luigi
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Endur
1 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.24%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 410 (100.00%) AWS
2 114 (27.80%) Amazon S3
3 93 (22.68%) dbt
4 90 (21.95%) Serverless
5 76 (18.54%) AWS Lambda
6 63 (15.37%) Amazon EC2
7 61 (14.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 61 (14.88%) Snowflake
8 57 (13.90%) GitHub
9 56 (13.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (13.66%) GCP
10 53 (12.93%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (10.73%) Azure
12 42 (10.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 39 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
14 35 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (7.32%) AWS KMS
16 22 (5.37%) Amazon ELB
17 19 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (4.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.78%) Firewall
2 33 (8.05%) DNS
3 21 (5.12%) HTTP
4 19 (4.63%) SMTP
4 19 (4.63%) SSH
5 17 (4.15%) FTP
6 12 (2.93%) IMAP
6 12 (2.93%) OpenLDAP
6 12 (2.93%) VPN
7 9 (2.20%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.71%) SSL
9 6 (1.46%) BGP
9 6 (1.46%) IPsec
9 6 (1.46%) OSPF
10 5 (1.22%) DHCP
10 5 (1.22%) Network Security
11 3 (0.73%) Internet
11 3 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.24%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (24.39%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (20.49%) Apache Iceberg
3 83 (20.24%) Apache Arrow
3 83 (20.24%) Dremio
4 64 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (12.93%) Amazon RDS
6 51 (12.44%) Data Lake
7 47 (11.46%) Apache Ignite
8 30 (7.32%) DynamoDB
9 19 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
9 19 (4.63%) NoSQL
10 17 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.71%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.46%) SQL Server
14 5 (1.22%) MySQL
14 5 (1.22%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.98%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.98%) Metadata
16 3 (0.73%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 79 (19.27%) Jenkins
2 56 (13.66%) GitLab
3 48 (11.71%) Git
4 37 (9.02%) JIRA
5 19 (4.63%) Vagrant
6 8 (1.95%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.46%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.46%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.22%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.73%) Maven
11 3 (0.73%) MLflow
11 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.49%) Mocha
12 2 (0.49%) Postman
12 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
General
1 128 (31.22%) Finance
2 83 (20.24%) Front Office
3 70 (17.07%) Social Skills
4 62 (15.12%) Banking
5 59 (14.39%) Public Sector
6 49 (11.95%) Investment Banking
7 20 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.49%) Law
11 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.49%) Retail
12 1 (0.24%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.24%) iGaming
12 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Legal
12 1 (0.24%) Publishing
12 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (20.24%) NumPy
1 83 (20.24%) Pandas
1 83 (20.24%) SciPy
2 63 (15.37%) React
3 59 (14.39%) Node.js
4 47 (11.46%) gRPC
4 47 (11.46%) Protocol Buffers
5 40 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 38 (9.27%) Vue
7 30 (7.32%) AWS CDK
8 22 (5.37%) Kafka
9 14 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (3.41%) GraphQL
10 12 (2.93%) LDAP
10 12 (2.93%) REST
10 12 (2.93%) RESTful
11 9 (2.20%) PySpark
12 8 (1.95%) .NET
13 6 (1.46%) OAuth
14 5 (1.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.24%) Fixed Income
2 82 (20.00%) Equities
3 81 (19.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 60 (14.63%) Hedge funds
5 47 (11.46%) Derivative
5 47 (11.46%) Pricing Data
6 37 (9.02%) Cloud Native
7 18 (4.39%) Replication
8 13 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (3.17%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.71%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.73%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.49%) BBC
13 2 (0.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.17%) Linux
2 29 (7.07%) Windows
3 19 (4.63%) Amazon Linux
3 19 (4.63%) VMS
4 10 (2.44%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.44%) Unix
5 8 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (42.44%) DevOps
2 171 (41.71%) CI/CD
3 135 (32.93%) Agile
4 130 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 117 (28.54%) Software Engineering
6 83 (20.24%) Asset Management
6 83 (20.24%) Investment Management
7 59 (14.39%) Containerisation
8 47 (11.46%) Cloud Security
9 44 (10.73%) Platform Engineering
9 44 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (9.27%) Configuration Management
10 38 (9.27%) Fintech
11 36 (8.78%) Mentoring
11 36 (8.78%) Order Management
11 36 (8.78%) Performance Attribution
11 36 (8.78%) Risk Management
12 34 (8.29%) Migration
13 31 (7.56%) Microservices
14 29 (7.07%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 246 (60.00%) Python
2 117 (28.54%) TypeScript
3 115 (28.05%) JavaScript
4 99 (24.15%) Java
5 58 (14.15%) SQL
6 37 (9.02%) Bash
7 31 (7.56%) PowerShell
8 26 (6.34%) Go
9 21 (5.12%) Groovy
10 11 (2.68%) Perl
11 10 (2.44%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.46%) C++
13 5 (1.22%) C
14 4 (0.98%) Scala
15 2 (0.49%) C#
15 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.49%) PHP
16 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.24%) R
16 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 97 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 88 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 54 (13.17%) AWS Certification
4 28 (6.83%) Degree
5 17 (4.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.20%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.46%) CCNP
10 6 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.22%) PhD
12 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.98%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.66%) QA
2 10 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.98%) NIST
3 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
4 3 (0.73%) WCAG
5 2 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 94 (22.93%) Docker
2 17 (4.15%) DFS Replication
3 12 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.93%) Dovecot
3 12 (2.93%) Postfix
3 12 (2.93%) Squid
4 1 (0.24%) iptables
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 176 (42.93%) Terraform
2 96 (23.41%) Kubernetes
3 58 (14.15%) Ansible
4 42 (10.24%) Grafana
5 38 (9.27%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.90%) Puppet
7 12 (2.93%) Nessus
7 12 (2.93%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.44%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.46%) Kibana
10 5 (1.22%) Argo
11 4 (0.98%) Packer
12 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.49%) SELinux
14 1 (0.24%) Control-M
14 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.24%) logstash
14 1 (0.24%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (5.12%) ServiceNow
2 20 (4.88%) Arista
3 12 (2.93%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (2.44%) Databricks
5 9 (2.20%) Splunk
6 8 (1.95%) CheckPoint
7 7 (1.71%) Cisco
8 6 (1.46%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.46%) IBM
9 5 (1.22%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.22%) Microsoft
10 4 (0.98%) Google
10 4 (0.98%) Oracle
10 4 (0.98%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.73%) Qualys
11 3 (0.73%) Tenable
12 2 (0.49%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.49%) Okta
12 2 (0.49%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media