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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 193 211
Rank change year-on-year -40 +18 -6
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 375 353 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.32% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.42% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 280 358
10th Percentile £375 £409 £425
25th Percentile £415 £498 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £622 £788 £670
90th Percentile £738 £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 29,794 24,851 34,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.97% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 15,358 23,541
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
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 1,844 750 1,852
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
% change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -37 231 £525 -19.23% 53
North of England -7 85 £500 - 31
Yorkshire -33 44 £518 +8.95% 14
Midlands -16 34 £531 +3.11% 14
North West -2 33 £405 -16.92% 16
West Midlands -21 30 £540 +1.89% 8
South East -18 15 £538 +7.50% 28
North East -11 9 £550 -3.51% 1
South West -18 6 £488 -15.22% 19
East Midlands -23 4 £433 -13.50% 5
East of England -17 2 £525 -4.55% 12
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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.

1 375 (100.00%) AWS
2 211 (56.27%) Python
3 205 (54.67%) Terraform
4 204 (54.40%) CI/CD
4 204 (54.40%) DevOps
5 145 (38.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (37.07%) Security Cleared
7 133 (35.47%) SC Cleared
8 107 (28.53%) Serverless
9 106 (28.27%) Kubernetes
10 103 (27.47%) Docker
11 96 (25.60%) AWS Lambda
12 95 (25.33%) Amazon S3
13 85 (22.67%) GitHub
14 77 (20.53%) Agile
14 77 (20.53%) GitLab
15 73 (19.47%) Jenkins
16 69 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
17 65 (17.33%) Containerisation
18 63 (16.80%) Software Engineering
19 61 (16.27%) Linux
20 59 (15.73%) SQL
21 57 (15.20%) Amazon EC2
22 54 (14.40%) Amazon ECS
23 53 (14.13%) Cloud Security
23 53 (14.13%) Platform Engineering
24 52 (13.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 51 (13.60%) Amazon EKS
25 51 (13.60%) Amazon RDS
25 51 (13.60%) Azure

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 48 (12.80%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (5.60%) Apache
3 20 (5.33%) Confluence
4 17 (4.53%) Apache Spark
5 12 (3.20%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 375 (100.00%) AWS
2 107 (28.53%) Serverless
3 96 (25.60%) AWS Lambda
4 95 (25.33%) Amazon S3
5 85 (22.67%) GitHub
6 69 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (15.20%) Amazon EC2
8 54 (14.40%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (13.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 51 (13.60%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (13.60%) Azure
11 49 (13.07%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (10.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 34 (9.07%) GCP
14 28 (7.47%) Snowflake
15 26 (6.93%) AWS KMS
16 23 (6.13%) dbt
17 19 (5.07%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (5.07%) Route 53
18 15 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.47%) DNS
2 22 (5.87%) Firewall
3 14 (3.73%) HTTP
4 12 (3.20%) FTP
4 12 (3.20%) SMTP
4 12 (3.20%) SSH
5 8 (2.13%) IMAP
5 8 (2.13%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (2.13%) VPN
6 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.80%) Network Security
8 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.53%) SSL
9 1 (0.27%) DHCP
9 1 (0.27%) LAN
9 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.60%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (9.87%) Amazon Athena
4 36 (9.60%) Data Lake
5 25 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (6.13%) DynamoDB
7 22 (5.87%) NoSQL
8 21 (5.60%) Apache Iceberg
9 20 (5.33%) Apache Arrow
9 20 (5.33%) Dremio
10 14 (3.73%) Apache Ignite
10 14 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.13%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.87%) Big Data
13 7 (1.87%) Flink
13 7 (1.87%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.60%) Metadata
14 6 (1.60%) Tableau
15 5 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 77 (20.53%) GitLab
2 73 (19.47%) Jenkins
3 42 (11.20%) Git
4 29 (7.73%) JIRA
5 12 (3.20%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.67%) Liquibase
7 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.33%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.07%) MLflow
9 4 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.07%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.80%) JUnit
10 3 (0.80%) Mockito
10 3 (0.80%) Selenium
10 3 (0.80%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.53%) Gradle
11 2 (0.53%) Maven
General
1 77 (20.53%) Finance
2 74 (19.73%) Public Sector
3 60 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 40 (10.67%) Banking
5 26 (6.93%) Front Office
6 16 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.40%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.87%) Aeronautics
9 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Law
11 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Retail
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.40%) Kafka
2 31 (8.27%) Node.js
3 26 (6.93%) React
4 23 (6.13%) AWS CDK
4 23 (6.13%) REST
5 21 (5.60%) NumPy
5 21 (5.60%) Pandas
6 20 (5.33%) SciPy
7 19 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (4.80%) PySpark
9 16 (4.27%) RESTful
10 14 (3.73%) gRPC
10 14 (3.73%) Protocol Buffers
11 11 (2.93%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
12 8 (2.13%) LDAP
12 8 (2.13%) Next.js
13 6 (1.60%) Flask
13 6 (1.60%) Vue
14 5 (1.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.73%) Hedge funds
3 26 (6.93%) Fixed Income
4 20 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.33%) Equities
4 20 (5.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (4.27%) Replication
6 15 (4.00%) Public Cloud
7 14 (3.73%) Derivative
7 14 (3.73%) NHS
7 14 (3.73%) Pricing Data
8 8 (2.13%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.80%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.27%) Linux
2 18 (4.80%) Windows
3 15 (4.00%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (3.20%) VMS
5 11 (2.93%) Unix
6 8 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.80%) CentOS
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (54.40%) CI/CD
1 204 (54.40%) DevOps
2 145 (38.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (20.53%) Agile
4 65 (17.33%) Containerisation
5 63 (16.80%) Software Engineering
6 53 (14.13%) Cloud Security
6 53 (14.13%) Platform Engineering
7 45 (12.00%) Observability
8 44 (11.73%) Microservices
9 38 (10.13%) Data Pipeline
10 36 (9.60%) Analytics
11 34 (9.07%) Data Engineering
11 34 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (8.53%) High Availability
13 28 (7.47%) Change Management
14 27 (7.20%) Migration
15 26 (6.93%) Configuration Management
15 26 (6.93%) ETL
15 26 (6.93%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (56.27%) Python
2 59 (15.73%) SQL
3 48 (12.80%) Java
4 45 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 37 (9.87%) Bash
6 30 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 22 (5.87%) Go
7 22 (5.87%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.73%) Groovy
9 10 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.60%) Perl
11 4 (1.07%) C#
12 3 (0.80%) Ruby
13 2 (0.53%) AWK
13 2 (0.53%) PHP
13 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) C
14 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 139 (37.07%) Security Cleared
2 133 (35.47%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.67%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.93%) Degree
5 18 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.87%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.80%) PhD
13 2 (0.53%) OCP
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.27%) CEH
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.93%) GDPR
3 9 (2.40%) QA
4 8 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.33%) NIST
6 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.07%) NCSC
7 3 (0.80%) WCAG
8 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.53%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 103 (27.47%) Docker
2 12 (3.20%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.13%) Dovecot
3 8 (2.13%) Postfix
3 8 (2.13%) Squid
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 205 (54.67%) Terraform
2 106 (28.27%) Kubernetes
3 49 (13.07%) Ansible
3 49 (13.07%) Grafana
4 44 (11.73%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.93%) Argo
6 10 (2.67%) Packer
6 10 (2.67%) Puppet
7 8 (2.13%) Nessus
7 8 (2.13%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.53%) Consul
10 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.27%) Control-M
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
11 1 (0.27%) Rancher
11 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (7.47%) Databricks
2 21 (5.60%) Splunk
3 18 (4.80%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.53%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.67%) Arista
6 8 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (1.87%) Oracle
8 5 (1.33%) Qualys
8 5 (1.33%) Tenable
9 4 (1.07%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.07%) Okta
10 3 (0.80%) Citrix
10 3 (0.80%) Confluent
10 3 (0.80%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.53%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.53%) F5
11 2 (0.53%) IBM
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.53%) SAP