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 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 202 198
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 428 391 484
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.26% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 1.35% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 315 404
10th Percentile £383 £400 £423
25th Percentile £434 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £665
90th Percentile £825 £850 £773
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.50 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £59.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 27,614 28,942 36,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.95% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,664 17,706 25,343
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,686 1,084 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +39.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +49.17%

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 November 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 24 November 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 24 November 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 -15 266 £575 -11.54% 27
North of England +4 88 £500 +25.00% 11
Midlands +16 49 £500 - 4
Yorkshire -22 49 £500 +25.00% 4
West Midlands +23 42 £525 +19.32% 1
North West +6 32 £404 -15.05% 4
South East +6 15 £550 +12.82% 18
South West +1 10 £600 -2.04% 3
North East -1 8 £563 +1.90% 3
East Midlands -5 7 £451 -9.90% 3
East of England -14 2 £450 -18.18%
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, 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.

1 428 (100.00%) AWS
2 253 (59.11%) Python
3 219 (51.17%) Terraform
4 215 (50.23%) DevOps
5 208 (48.60%) CI/CD
6 162 (37.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 134 (31.31%) Security Cleared
8 123 (28.74%) SC Cleared
9 114 (26.64%) Amazon S3
10 110 (25.70%) Agile
11 109 (25.47%) Serverless
12 106 (24.77%) Docker
12 106 (24.77%) Kubernetes
13 93 (21.73%) AWS Lambda
14 92 (21.50%) GitHub
14 92 (21.50%) Software Engineering
15 90 (21.03%) Jenkins
16 80 (18.69%) GitLab
17 78 (18.22%) Java
18 77 (17.99%) Apache Airflow
19 75 (17.52%) TypeScript
20 72 (16.82%) AWS CloudFormation
21 70 (16.36%) Amazon Athena
22 69 (16.12%) Linux
23 68 (15.89%) Containerisation
24 67 (15.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 65 (15.19%) Amazon EC2
26 64 (14.95%) SQL
27 63 (14.72%) Amazon RDS
27 63 (14.72%) JavaScript

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 77 (17.99%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (9.35%) Apache
3 28 (6.54%) Confluence
4 18 (4.21%) Apache Spark
5 15 (3.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.47%) JBoss
6 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Luigi
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 428 (100.00%) AWS
2 114 (26.64%) Amazon S3
3 109 (25.47%) Serverless
4 93 (21.73%) AWS Lambda
5 92 (21.50%) GitHub
6 72 (16.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (15.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 65 (15.19%) Amazon EC2
9 60 (14.02%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (12.15%) dbt
11 50 (11.68%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (11.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 48 (11.21%) Azure
13 47 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (10.05%) GCP
14 43 (10.05%) Snowflake
15 34 (7.94%) AWS KMS
16 24 (5.61%) Route 53
17 21 (4.91%) Amazon ELB
18 18 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.64%) DNS
2 30 (7.01%) Firewall
3 19 (4.44%) SMTP
4 18 (4.21%) SSH
5 17 (3.97%) FTP
5 17 (3.97%) HTTP
6 12 (2.80%) IMAP
6 12 (2.80%) OpenLDAP
6 12 (2.80%) VPN
7 6 (1.40%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.17%) DHCP
9 4 (0.93%) Network Security
9 4 (0.93%) SSL
10 3 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.47%) BGP
11 2 (0.47%) IPsec
11 2 (0.47%) OSPF
12 1 (0.23%) Internet
12 1 (0.23%) NAS
12 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (16.36%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (14.72%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (12.15%) Data Lake
5 51 (11.92%) Apache Iceberg
6 49 (11.45%) Apache Arrow
6 49 (11.45%) Dremio
7 32 (7.48%) Apache Ignite
8 23 (5.37%) DynamoDB
8 23 (5.37%) NoSQL
9 21 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (2.10%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.64%) Metadata
13 7 (1.64%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.40%) Big Data
14 6 (1.40%) Flink
14 6 (1.40%) MySQL
14 6 (1.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (21.03%) Jenkins
2 80 (18.69%) GitLab
3 54 (12.62%) Git
4 37 (8.64%) JIRA
5 19 (4.44%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.80%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.40%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.40%) MLflow
9 5 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.17%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.70%) Maven
11 3 (0.70%) Mockito
11 3 (0.70%) Selenium
11 3 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 118 (27.57%) Finance
2 81 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.52%) Public Sector
4 59 (13.79%) Banking
5 54 (12.62%) Front Office
6 33 (7.71%) Investment Banking
7 23 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.04%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.64%) Aeronautics
11 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.70%) Legal
13 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Law
13 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.47%) Retail
14 1 (0.23%) Publishing
14 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.45%) NumPy
1 49 (11.45%) Pandas
1 49 (11.45%) SciPy
2 43 (10.05%) Node.js
3 37 (8.64%) React
4 36 (8.41%) Kafka
5 32 (7.48%) gRPC
5 32 (7.48%) Protocol Buffers
6 30 (7.01%) AWS CDK
7 22 (5.14%) REST
8 21 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (4.67%) AngularJS
9 20 (4.67%) RESTful
10 17 (3.97%) Vue
11 14 (3.27%) PySpark
12 12 (2.80%) LDAP
13 8 (1.87%) Lambda Expressions
14 5 (1.17%) GraphQL
14 5 (1.17%) JSON
14 5 (1.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 54 (12.62%) Fixed Income
2 53 (12.38%) Hedge funds
3 51 (11.92%) Cloud Native
4 49 (11.45%) Equities
4 49 (11.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (7.48%) Derivative
5 32 (7.48%) Pricing Data
6 21 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (4.91%) Replication
7 16 (3.74%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.04%) NHS
9 8 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.93%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.12%) Linux
2 27 (6.31%) Windows
3 22 (5.14%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (4.44%) VMS
5 14 (3.27%) Unix
6 10 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (50.23%) DevOps
2 208 (48.60%) CI/CD
3 162 (37.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (25.70%) Agile
5 92 (21.50%) Software Engineering
6 68 (15.89%) Containerisation
7 62 (14.49%) Platform Engineering
8 56 (13.08%) Cloud Security
9 54 (12.62%) Investment Management
10 49 (11.45%) Asset Management
10 49 (11.45%) Microservices
11 45 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (9.35%) Migration
13 39 (9.11%) Observability
14 38 (8.88%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (8.64%) Configuration Management
16 35 (8.18%) Change Management
17 34 (7.94%) High Availability
18 31 (7.24%) Infrastructure Automation
19 29 (6.78%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 253 (59.11%) Python
2 78 (18.22%) Java
3 75 (17.52%) TypeScript
4 64 (14.95%) SQL
5 63 (14.72%) JavaScript
6 33 (7.71%) Bash
6 33 (7.71%) Go
7 29 (6.78%) PowerShell
8 22 (5.14%) Groovy
9 11 (2.57%) Perl
9 11 (2.57%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.93%) C
10 4 (0.93%) C#
10 4 (0.93%) C++
11 3 (0.70%) PHP
12 2 (0.47%) AWK
12 2 (0.47%) Ruby
12 2 (0.47%) Scala
13 1 (0.23%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 134 (31.31%) Security Cleared
2 123 (28.74%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.92%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.71%) Degree
5 18 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.93%) PhD
12 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.47%) CCNP
13 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.23%) OCP
14 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.04%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.80%) QA
3 9 (2.10%) GDPR
4 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.17%) WCAG
6 4 (0.93%) NCSC
7 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.70%) NIST
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 106 (24.77%) Docker
2 17 (3.97%) DFS Replication
3 13 (3.04%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.80%) Dovecot
4 12 (2.80%) Postfix
4 12 (2.80%) Squid
5 1 (0.23%) iptables
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 219 (51.17%) Terraform
2 106 (24.77%) Kubernetes
3 62 (14.49%) Ansible
4 57 (13.32%) Grafana
5 49 (11.45%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.50%) Puppet
7 12 (2.80%) Nessus
8 11 (2.57%) Packer
9 10 (2.34%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.34%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.87%) Argo
11 5 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.47%) Kibana
13 2 (0.47%) SELinux
14 1 (0.23%) Consul
14 1 (0.23%) Control-M
14 1 (0.23%) Istio
14 1 (0.23%) Rancher
14 1 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 25 (5.84%) ServiceNow
2 23 (5.37%) Databricks
2 23 (5.37%) Splunk
3 19 (4.44%) Arista
4 13 (3.04%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.80%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (1.64%) IBM
6 7 (1.64%) Oracle
7 5 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.93%) CheckPoint
8 4 (0.93%) Okta
9 3 (0.70%) Confluent
9 3 (0.70%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.47%) Cisco
10 2 (0.47%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.47%) Google
10 2 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.47%) Tenable