AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 184 212
Rank change year-on-year -67 +28 -9
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 374 372 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 1.45% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.56% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 293 365
10th Percentile £375 £420 £413
25th Percentile £414 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +9.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £650
90th Percentile £713 £860 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -6.38%
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 32,663 23,861 35,129
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.91% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,724 15,180 23,561
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 745 2,165
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.24 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.40 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% -0.71% -12.50%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -65 236 £518 -23.33% 38
North of England -14 74 £500 - 14
Yorkshire -34 39 £525 +5.00% 1
Midlands -32 30 £550 +10.00% 5
North West -13 28 £436 -10.51% 13
West Midlands -28 24 £680 +28.30% 4
South East -37 13 £550 +10.00% 11
North East -15 7 £550 -2.65%
South West -24 7 £536 -4.67% 11
East Midlands -19 6 £433 -13.50% 1
East of England -24 3 £525 -4.55% 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 February 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.

1 374 (100.00%) AWS
2 211 (56.42%) CI/CD
3 210 (56.15%) DevOps
4 199 (53.21%) Terraform
5 189 (50.53%) Python
6 144 (38.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 142 (37.97%) Security Cleared
8 133 (35.56%) SC Cleared
9 107 (28.61%) Kubernetes
10 106 (28.34%) Serverless
11 95 (25.40%) Docker
12 93 (24.87%) AWS Lambda
13 78 (20.86%) GitHub
13 78 (20.86%) GitLab
14 77 (20.59%) Amazon S3
15 72 (19.25%) Containerisation
16 69 (18.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 66 (17.65%) Agile
18 63 (16.84%) Jenkins
19 60 (16.04%) Amazon EKS
20 57 (15.24%) Linux
21 54 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
22 53 (14.17%) Cloud Security
23 52 (13.90%) Software Engineering
24 50 (13.37%) SQL
25 47 (12.57%) Ansible
25 47 (12.57%) Azure
26 46 (12.30%) Amazon EC2
26 46 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
26 46 (12.30%) Observability

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 35 (9.36%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.01%) Apache
4 8 (2.14%) Confluence
5 6 (1.60%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 374 (100.00%) AWS
2 106 (28.34%) Serverless
3 93 (24.87%) AWS Lambda
4 78 (20.86%) GitHub
5 77 (20.59%) Amazon S3
6 69 (18.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 60 (16.04%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (12.57%) Azure
9 46 (12.30%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (11.50%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (11.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (8.29%) GCP
14 21 (5.61%) Snowflake
15 19 (5.08%) AWS KMS
16 17 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (4.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 16 (4.28%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (4.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.01%) DNS
2 13 (3.48%) Firewall
3 9 (2.41%) VPN
4 5 (1.34%) HTTP
5 4 (1.07%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.80%) FTP
6 3 (0.80%) SMTP
6 3 (0.80%) SSH
7 2 (0.53%) IMAP
7 2 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.27%) 4G
8 1 (0.27%) 5G
8 1 (0.27%) BGP
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) ICMP
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) Network Security
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.89%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (6.68%) Data Lake
4 22 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.35%) DynamoDB
6 19 (5.08%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (2.14%) Metadata
9 7 (1.87%) Big Data
9 7 (1.87%) Flink
9 7 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
10 6 (1.60%) Dremio
10 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.60%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.60%) Tableau
11 5 (1.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (20.86%) GitLab
2 63 (16.84%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.82%) Git
4 14 (3.74%) JIRA
5 10 (2.67%) Liquibase
6 9 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.34%) MLflow
7 5 (1.34%) Snyk
7 5 (1.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.07%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.80%) JUnit
9 3 (0.80%) Mockito
9 3 (0.80%) Selenium
9 3 (0.80%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.80%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.53%) Mocha
General
1 71 (18.98%) Public Sector
2 66 (17.65%) Finance
3 60 (16.04%) Social Skills
4 34 (9.09%) Banking
5 21 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.21%) Front Office
7 9 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.87%) Aeronautics
9 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.80%) Legal
12 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Law
13 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.27%) Billing
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.63%) Kafka
2 24 (6.42%) Node.js
3 22 (5.88%) REST
4 19 (5.08%) RESTful
5 18 (4.81%) AWS CDK
5 18 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (4.55%) PySpark
7 16 (4.28%) React
8 8 (2.14%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.14%) Pandas
8 8 (2.14%) pytest
9 7 (1.87%) NumPy
10 6 (1.60%) Flask
10 6 (1.60%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (1.60%) Next.js
10 6 (1.60%) SciPy
10 6 (1.60%) Web Services
11 5 (1.34%) HTML
12 4 (1.07%) gRPC
12 4 (1.07%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.81%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.01%) Hedge funds
5 14 (3.74%) NHS
6 13 (3.48%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.87%) Equities
9 6 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.60%) Replication
10 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.07%) Derivative
11 4 (1.07%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.24%) Linux
2 11 (2.94%) Unix
3 10 (2.67%) Windows
4 6 (1.60%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.07%) VMS
6 3 (0.80%) CentOS
6 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (56.42%) CI/CD
2 210 (56.15%) DevOps
3 144 (38.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (19.25%) Containerisation
5 66 (17.65%) Agile
6 54 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
7 53 (14.17%) Cloud Security
8 52 (13.90%) Software Engineering
9 46 (12.30%) Observability
10 45 (12.03%) Microservices
11 41 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (10.70%) Analytics
13 39 (10.43%) Data Engineering
14 36 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (7.75%) Migration
16 28 (7.49%) AI
17 25 (6.68%) Data Modelling
17 25 (6.68%) High Availability
18 24 (6.42%) ETL
18 24 (6.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 189 (50.53%) Python
2 50 (13.37%) SQL
3 38 (10.16%) Bash
4 37 (9.89%) Java
5 26 (6.95%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.35%) Go
7 16 (4.28%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.21%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.14%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.60%) C#
11 5 (1.34%) Groovy
12 4 (1.07%) Ruby
13 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) AWK
15 1 (0.27%) C
15 1 (0.27%) Perl
15 1 (0.27%) PHP
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Rust
15 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 142 (37.97%) Security Cleared
2 133 (35.56%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.70%) AWS Certification
4 20 (5.35%) Degree
5 18 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.41%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
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%) CCNP
14 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.74%) GDPR
3 10 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.67%) QA
4 7 (1.87%) NIST
5 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.07%) NCSC
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.53%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 95 (25.40%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) DFS Replication
3 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) Dovecot
4 2 (0.53%) Postfix
4 2 (0.53%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 199 (53.21%) Terraform
2 107 (28.61%) Kubernetes
3 47 (12.57%) Ansible
4 37 (9.89%) Grafana
4 37 (9.89%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.48%) Argo
6 10 (2.67%) Puppet
7 9 (2.41%) Packer
8 4 (1.07%) Istio
8 4 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.80%) Nessus
9 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.53%) Consul
10 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.53%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.53%) Rancher
10 2 (0.53%) Salt
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (7.75%) Databricks
2 23 (6.15%) Splunk
3 18 (4.81%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.60%) Arista
5 6 (1.60%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.60%) Oracle
5 6 (1.60%) Qualys
5 6 (1.60%) Tenable
6 5 (1.34%) Citrix
7 4 (1.07%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.07%) Okta
7 4 (1.07%) SAP
8 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.53%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.53%) Confluent
9 2 (0.53%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.53%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.27%) Cribl.io