AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 184 208
Rank change year-on-year -79 +24 -4
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 454 414 376
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.51% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.65% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 314 321
10th Percentile £411 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £531 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile - £55.00 -
90th Percentile £77.10 £59.50 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.89% - -

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 42,401 25,041 30,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 91.40% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,455 16,149 19,296
10th Percentile £326 £281 £304
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,293 1,339 1,564
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.54 £14.41
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £46.87
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -46.34% +6.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -78 260 £538 -23.14% 127
North of England -46 88 £513 +13.89% 30
Midlands -37 49 £469 -1.26% 19
North West -51 43 £550 +36.82% 16
West Midlands -47 29 £473 -0.42% 6
North East -19 24 £425 -9.57% 4
South West -27 21 £450 -25.00% 26
Yorkshire -49 21 £513 +2.50% 10
East Midlands -1 20 £400 -23.85% 13
East of England -7 16 £510 +13.33% 9
South East -71 15 £460 -8.00% 22
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 September 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.

1 454 (100.00%) AWS
2 232 (51.10%) CI/CD
3 221 (48.68%) Terraform
4 199 (43.83%) DevOps
5 192 (42.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 183 (40.31%) Python
7 139 (30.62%) Security Cleared
8 134 (29.52%) SC Cleared
9 123 (27.09%) Serverless
10 118 (25.99%) AWS Lambda
11 107 (23.57%) Kubernetes
12 102 (22.47%) GitLab
13 98 (21.59%) Platform Engineering
14 95 (20.93%) Amazon S3
15 89 (19.60%) Docker
16 84 (18.50%) Agile
17 81 (17.84%) Containerisation
18 80 (17.62%) SQL
19 77 (16.96%) GitHub
20 75 (16.52%) Amazon EKS
20 75 (16.52%) Software Engineering
21 71 (15.64%) Observability
22 66 (14.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 65 (14.32%) Data Engineering
24 62 (13.66%) Data Pipeline
25 59 (13.00%) AI
26 58 (12.78%) Grafana
27 56 (12.33%) Analytics
27 56 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
27 56 (12.33%) Jenkins

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 28 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.96%) Confluence
3 8 (1.76%) SAS
4 7 (1.54%) nginx
4 7 (1.54%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (1.32%) Apache
5 6 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.88%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 454 (100.00%) AWS
2 123 (27.09%) Serverless
3 118 (25.99%) AWS Lambda
4 95 (20.93%) Amazon S3
5 77 (16.96%) GitHub
6 75 (16.52%) Amazon EKS
7 66 (14.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 56 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (12.11%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (11.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (10.79%) Azure
11 49 (10.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 46 (10.13%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (6.61%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (5.95%) Snowflake
15 23 (5.07%) dbt
16 21 (4.63%) Amazon Bedrock
17 20 (4.41%) SaaS
18 19 (4.19%) Amazon EventBridge
19 17 (3.74%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.63%) Firewall
2 14 (3.08%) DNS
3 11 (2.42%) Network Security
4 10 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.54%) SSH
6 6 (1.32%) HTTP
6 6 (1.32%) VPN
6 6 (1.32%) WAN
7 5 (1.10%) SSL
8 4 (0.88%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.44%) FTP
9 2 (0.44%) IMAP
9 2 (0.44%) Internet
9 2 (0.44%) LAN
9 2 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.44%) SMTP
10 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.23%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
3 33 (7.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 29 (6.39%) DynamoDB
5 28 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (3.30%) Power BI
7 15 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.86%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.20%) MySQL
10 9 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (1.98%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (1.76%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.76%) Pentaho
12 6 (1.32%) Metadata
12 6 (1.32%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.10%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.10%) Parquet
13 5 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 102 (22.47%) GitLab
2 56 (12.33%) Jenkins
3 55 (12.11%) Git
4 17 (3.74%) JIRA
5 8 (1.76%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.76%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.54%) Gatling
7 6 (1.32%) JMeter
8 5 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.88%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.88%) Mockito
9 4 (0.88%) Snyk
10 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.66%) JUnit
11 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.44%) Maven
11 2 (0.44%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 69 (15.20%) Public Sector
1 69 (15.20%) Social Skills
2 44 (9.69%) Finance
3 20 (4.41%) Banking
4 19 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.98%) Law
7 6 (1.32%) Back Office
7 6 (1.32%) Retail
8 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.10%) Military
9 3 (0.66%) Front Office
10 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.44%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.44%) Legal
10 2 (0.44%) Local Government
10 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.44%) Marketing
10 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (48.68%) Terraform
2 27 (5.95%) Kafka
3 25 (5.51%) .NET
4 20 (4.41%) React
5 18 (3.96%) AWS CDK
6 17 (3.74%) Node.js
6 17 (3.74%) REST
6 17 (3.74%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.52%) Spring
8 15 (3.30%) PySpark
9 11 (2.42%) Next.js
10 10 (2.20%) Flask
11 9 (1.98%) FastAPI
11 9 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (1.76%) Keycloak
12 8 (1.76%) RESTful
13 7 (1.54%) JSON
13 7 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
14 6 (1.32%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 88 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (2.64%) AI Agents
4 7 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (1.54%) NHS
4 7 (1.54%) Replication
5 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.88%) PKI
6 4 (0.88%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.66%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.66%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (0.66%) Legacy Code
7 3 (0.66%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.11%) Linux
2 17 (3.74%) Windows
3 14 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.76%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.88%) Unix
7 3 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) CentOS
8 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (51.10%) CI/CD
2 199 (43.83%) DevOps
3 192 (42.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (21.59%) Platform Engineering
5 84 (18.50%) Agile
6 81 (17.84%) Containerisation
7 75 (16.52%) Software Engineering
8 71 (15.64%) Observability
9 65 (14.32%) Data Engineering
10 62 (13.66%) Data Pipeline
11 59 (13.00%) AI
12 56 (12.33%) Analytics
13 54 (11.89%) Migration
14 45 (9.91%) Microservices
15 44 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (9.47%) Data Modelling
16 43 (9.47%) Event-Driven
17 41 (9.03%) ETL
18 37 (8.15%) Cloud Security
18 37 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 183 (40.31%) Python
2 80 (17.62%) SQL
3 51 (11.23%) Bash
4 42 (9.25%) Java
5 20 (4.41%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.19%) C#
7 15 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.64%) Groovy
10 6 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.88%) Go
11 4 (0.88%) Scala
12 3 (0.66%) Bicep
13 2 (0.44%) C
13 2 (0.44%) R
14 1 (0.22%) C++
14 1 (0.22%) COBOL
14 1 (0.22%) Perl
14 1 (0.22%) PHP
14 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 139 (30.62%) Security Cleared
2 134 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.19%) AWS Certification
4 13 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.32%) Degree
8 5 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) CCIE
11 1 (0.22%) CCNP
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.64%) QA
3 4 (0.88%) GDPR
4 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.44%) SLA
4 2 (0.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 89 (19.60%) Docker
2 13 (2.86%) Squid
3 8 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.10%) vSphere
6 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.66%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.66%) Postfix
7 3 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.44%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 107 (23.57%) Kubernetes
2 58 (12.78%) Grafana
3 48 (10.57%) Ansible
4 45 (9.91%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.64%) Argo
6 11 (2.42%) Puppet
7 7 (1.54%) Kibana
7 7 (1.54%) Packer
8 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.88%) Istio
9 4 (0.88%) Nessus
9 4 (0.88%) Rancher
9 4 (0.88%) Suricata
10 3 (0.66%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.66%) SELinux
11 2 (0.44%) Consul
11 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 28 (6.17%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.29%) Databricks
3 17 (3.74%) Splunk
4 15 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.42%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.42%) Foundry
5 11 (2.42%) VMware
6 10 (2.20%) Informatica
6 10 (2.20%) Oracle
7 7 (1.54%) Denodo
7 7 (1.54%) Palantir
7 7 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.32%) Google
9 5 (1.10%) SAP
9 5 (1.10%) Talend
10 4 (0.88%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.88%) Cisco
10 4 (0.88%) Trend Micro
11 3 (0.66%) F5
11 3 (0.66%) Fortinet
229 AWS Engineer jobs in England