AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 189 209
Rank change year-on-year -87 +20 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 453 416 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.48% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.63% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 314 321
10th Percentile £413 £385 £386
25th Percentile £450 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £615 £813 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile £77.88 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £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 42,864 25,553 30,182
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 91.19% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,324 16,470 18,510
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,642 1,405 1,351
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.44%
75th Percentile £67.88 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.96
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.45% -3.47%

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 3 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

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 3 October 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 -75 264 £538 -13.92% 231
North of England -53 87 £513 +13.89% 101
Midlands -32 51 £475 - 45
North West -36 45 £525 +29.63% 74
West Midlands -44 27 £476 +0.21% 21
East Midlands +4 24 £400 -23.85% 24
South West -25 23 £450 -21.74% 45
North East -29 23 £438 -15.87% 6
Yorkshire -48 19 £513 +2.50% 21
South East -67 14 £460 -12.38% 25
East of England -14 11 £498 +10.56% 19
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 453 (100.00%) AWS
2 237 (52.32%) CI/CD
3 223 (49.23%) Terraform
4 197 (43.49%) DevOps
5 194 (42.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 176 (38.85%) Python
7 139 (30.68%) Security Cleared
8 133 (29.36%) SC Cleared
9 119 (26.27%) Serverless
10 113 (24.94%) AWS Lambda
11 108 (23.84%) Kubernetes
12 103 (22.74%) Platform Engineering
13 102 (22.52%) GitLab
14 90 (19.87%) Amazon S3
15 89 (19.65%) Agile
15 89 (19.65%) Observability
16 88 (19.43%) Docker
17 83 (18.32%) Containerisation
18 80 (17.66%) Software Engineering
19 79 (17.44%) SQL
20 78 (17.22%) Amazon EKS
21 75 (16.56%) GitHub
22 68 (15.01%) Data Pipeline
23 67 (14.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 67 (14.79%) Data Engineering
24 64 (14.13%) Analytics
25 63 (13.91%) AI
26 57 (12.58%) Grafana
27 56 (12.36%) Linux
28 55 (12.14%) GitHub Actions

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 23 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.53%) Confluence
3 8 (1.77%) nginx
4 7 (1.55%) Apache
4 7 (1.55%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (1.32%) SAS
6 5 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.88%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 453 (100.00%) AWS
2 119 (26.27%) Serverless
3 113 (24.94%) AWS Lambda
4 90 (19.87%) Amazon S3
5 78 (17.22%) Amazon EKS
6 75 (16.56%) GitHub
7 67 (14.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 55 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (11.92%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (11.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (10.60%) Amazon ECS
12 43 (9.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 39 (8.61%) Azure
14 37 (8.17%) Snowflake
15 30 (6.62%) Amazon SQS
15 30 (6.62%) dbt
16 20 (4.42%) Amazon Bedrock
17 18 (3.97%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (3.97%) Amazon EventBridge
17 18 (3.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.97%) Firewall
2 14 (3.09%) DNS
3 11 (2.43%) Network Security
3 11 (2.43%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.55%) HTTP
4 7 (1.55%) SSH
5 4 (0.88%) OpenVPN
5 4 (0.88%) SSL
5 4 (0.88%) VPN
5 4 (0.88%) WAN
6 2 (0.44%) FTP
6 2 (0.44%) IMAP
6 2 (0.44%) Internet
6 2 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.44%) SMTP
7 1 (0.22%) BGP
7 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.04%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (7.28%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 28 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (5.52%) DynamoDB
5 25 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.87%) Power BI
8 12 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.99%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (1.77%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.77%) MySQL
11 7 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.55%) Pentaho
12 6 (1.32%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.10%) Metadata
13 5 (1.10%) Parquet
13 5 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 102 (22.52%) GitLab
2 54 (11.92%) Jenkins
3 52 (11.48%) Git
4 14 (3.09%) JIRA
5 10 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.55%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.32%) Gatling
7 6 (1.32%) JMeter
7 6 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.10%) Mockito
9 4 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.88%) JUnit
10 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.66%) Maven
10 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.44%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.44%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (15.67%) Public Sector
2 66 (14.57%) Social Skills
3 45 (9.93%) Finance
4 19 (4.19%) Banking
5 18 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.77%) Back Office
7 8 (1.77%) Law
8 7 (1.55%) Military
9 5 (1.10%) Retail
10 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.88%) Front Office
11 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.44%) Local Government
12 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.44%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (49.23%) Terraform
2 27 (5.96%) Kafka
3 26 (5.74%) .NET
4 20 (4.42%) AWS CDK
4 20 (4.42%) REST
5 19 (4.19%) Spring Boot
6 18 (3.97%) Spring
7 17 (3.75%) React
8 15 (3.31%) Node.js
9 13 (2.87%) PySpark
10 11 (2.43%) Flask
11 10 (2.21%) FastAPI
12 9 (1.99%) Keycloak
12 9 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (1.99%) RESTful
13 8 (1.77%) Next.js
14 7 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (1.55%) Model Context Protocol
15 6 (1.32%) boto
16 5 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 100 (22.08%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.43%) AI Agents
4 7 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (1.55%) Replication
5 6 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.32%) NHS
6 5 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.10%) PKI
7 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.88%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.66%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.66%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.66%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (12.36%) Linux
2 17 (3.75%) Windows
3 15 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.77%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.10%) Unix
7 3 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.66%) CentOS
7 3 (0.66%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (52.32%) CI/CD
2 197 (43.49%) DevOps
3 194 (42.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (22.74%) Platform Engineering
5 89 (19.65%) Agile
5 89 (19.65%) Observability
6 83 (18.32%) Containerisation
7 80 (17.66%) Software Engineering
8 68 (15.01%) Data Pipeline
9 67 (14.79%) Data Engineering
10 64 (14.13%) Analytics
11 63 (13.91%) AI
12 52 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (10.82%) Migration
14 47 (10.38%) Microservices
15 43 (9.49%) Cloud Security
15 43 (9.49%) Data Modelling
16 42 (9.27%) Event-Driven
17 38 (8.39%) Test Automation
18 37 (8.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 176 (38.85%) Python
2 79 (17.44%) SQL
3 48 (10.60%) Bash
4 46 (10.15%) Java
5 18 (3.97%) C#
5 18 (3.97%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.43%) Groovy
9 8 (1.77%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.32%) Scala
11 4 (0.88%) Go
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 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 133 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.30%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (0.88%) Degree
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.09%) QA
3 4 (0.88%) GDPR
4 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.44%) WCAG
6 1 (0.22%) NCSC
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (19.43%) Docker
2 12 (2.65%) Squid
3 7 (1.55%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.88%) vSphere
5 3 (0.66%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.66%) Postfix
5 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.44%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 108 (23.84%) Kubernetes
2 57 (12.58%) Grafana
3 47 (10.38%) Ansible
4 45 (9.93%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.43%) Puppet
6 9 (1.99%) Argo
6 9 (1.99%) Packer
7 8 (1.77%) Kibana
8 7 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.10%) Istio
9 5 (1.10%) Rancher
10 4 (0.88%) Nessus
10 4 (0.88%) Suricata
11 3 (0.66%) Consul
11 3 (0.66%) SELinux
11 3 (0.66%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.44%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (5.96%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.30%) Databricks
3 20 (4.42%) Splunk
4 15 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.43%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.43%) Foundry
5 11 (2.43%) Oracle
6 9 (1.99%) Informatica
7 7 (1.55%) Palantir
7 7 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.55%) VMware
8 5 (1.10%) Denodo
8 5 (1.10%) Google
8 5 (1.10%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.10%) SAP
9 4 (0.88%) Okta
10 3 (0.66%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.66%) Trend Micro
11 2 (0.44%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.44%) Cisco