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 17 January 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 202 207
Rank change year-on-year -33 +5 -11
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 375 348 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.29% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.39% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 279 356
10th Percentile £374 £407 £425
25th Percentile £415 £491 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £669
90th Percentile £763 £838 £768
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 29,270 25,024 34,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 92.98% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,698 15,494 23,173
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 1,784 765 1,662
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.91 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £41.91
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -16.48% +19.73%
75th Percentile £61.52 £64.73 £64.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £41.37
% change year-on-year -15.38% -21.43% +18.19%

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 17 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 17 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 -30 232 £533 -18.08% 33
North of England -10 85 £500 - 20
Yorkshire -26 44 £509 +10.00% 8
Midlands -6 36 £525 +1.94% 2
North West +2 33 £404 -15.05% 12
West Midlands -7 32 £539 +1.60% 2
South East -9 15 £538 +7.50% 16
North East -9 9 £550 -3.51%
South West -17 6 £488 -15.22% 8
East Midlands -25 4 £433 -13.50%
East of England -21 1 - - 7
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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
2 220 (58.67%) Python
3 204 (54.40%) Terraform
4 201 (53.60%) DevOps
5 200 (53.33%) CI/CD
6 146 (38.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 136 (36.27%) Security Cleared
8 129 (34.40%) SC Cleared
9 106 (28.27%) Kubernetes
10 105 (28.00%) Serverless
11 103 (27.47%) Docker
12 97 (25.87%) Amazon S3
13 94 (25.07%) AWS Lambda
14 86 (22.93%) GitHub
15 80 (21.33%) Agile
16 76 (20.27%) Jenkins
17 73 (19.47%) GitLab
18 70 (18.67%) Software Engineering
19 67 (17.87%) AWS CloudFormation
20 63 (16.80%) Containerisation
21 62 (16.53%) Linux
22 59 (15.73%) SQL
23 57 (15.20%) Amazon ECS
23 57 (15.20%) Platform Engineering
24 56 (14.93%) Amazon EC2
25 55 (14.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 54 (14.40%) Amazon RDS
27 53 (14.13%) Apache Airflow
27 53 (14.13%) Grafana
28 52 (13.87%) 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 53 (14.13%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (6.67%) Apache
3 21 (5.60%) 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 9 (2.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 375 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (28.00%) Serverless
3 97 (25.87%) Amazon S3
4 94 (25.07%) AWS Lambda
5 86 (22.93%) GitHub
6 67 (17.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (15.20%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (14.93%) Amazon EC2
9 55 (14.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 52 (13.87%) Azure
11 51 (13.60%) Amazon EKS
12 50 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (10.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 35 (9.33%) GCP
15 32 (8.53%) Snowflake
16 28 (7.47%) AWS KMS
17 27 (7.20%) dbt
18 19 (5.07%) Route 53
19 17 (4.53%) Amazon Kinesis
20 16 (4.27%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.00%) DNS
2 24 (6.40%) Firewall
3 16 (4.27%) HTTP
4 14 (3.73%) FTP
4 14 (3.73%) SMTP
4 14 (3.73%) SSH
5 9 (2.40%) IMAP
5 9 (2.40%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.13%) VPN
7 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.80%) Network Security
9 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.53%) SSL
10 1 (0.27%) DHCP
10 1 (0.27%) LAN
10 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (14.40%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (11.73%) Amazon Athena
3 41 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (10.67%) Data Lake
5 26 (6.93%) Apache Iceberg
6 25 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (6.40%) Apache Arrow
7 24 (6.40%) Dremio
7 24 (6.40%) DynamoDB
8 22 (5.87%) NoSQL
9 17 (4.53%) Apache Ignite
10 15 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.13%) Metadata
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%) Tableau
15 5 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 76 (20.27%) Jenkins
2 73 (19.47%) GitLab
3 44 (11.73%) Git
4 31 (8.27%) JIRA
5 14 (3.73%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.67%) Liquibase
7 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.33%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.33%) MLflow
8 5 (1.33%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
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%) Gradle
11 2 (0.53%) Maven
11 2 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 83 (22.13%) Finance
2 75 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 60 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 43 (11.47%) Banking
5 30 (8.00%) Front Office
6 19 (5.07%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.87%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.80%) Legal
13 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Law
13 2 (0.53%) Military
13 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.40%) Kafka
2 33 (8.80%) Node.js
3 29 (7.73%) React
4 26 (6.93%) AWS CDK
5 25 (6.67%) NumPy
5 25 (6.67%) Pandas
6 24 (6.40%) REST
6 24 (6.40%) SciPy
7 20 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (5.07%) RESTful
9 17 (4.53%) gRPC
9 17 (4.53%) Protocol Buffers
9 17 (4.53%) PySpark
10 12 (3.20%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.40%) LDAP
12 8 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
12 8 (2.13%) Next.js
13 7 (1.87%) Vue
14 6 (1.60%) Flask
15 5 (1.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.80%) Hedge funds
3 30 (8.00%) Fixed Income
4 24 (6.40%) Equities
4 24 (6.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.80%) Replication
7 17 (4.53%) Derivative
7 17 (4.53%) Pricing Data
8 15 (4.00%) Public Cloud
9 14 (3.73%) NHS
10 7 (1.87%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 62 (16.53%) Linux
2 20 (5.33%) Windows
3 17 (4.53%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (3.73%) VMS
5 11 (2.93%) Unix
6 9 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.80%) CentOS
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (53.60%) DevOps
2 200 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 146 (38.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (21.33%) Agile
5 70 (18.67%) Software Engineering
6 63 (16.80%) Containerisation
7 57 (15.20%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (13.87%) Cloud Security
9 47 (12.53%) Observability
10 44 (11.73%) Microservices
11 37 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (9.60%) Analytics
13 34 (9.07%) Data Engineering
13 34 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (8.53%) High Availability
15 30 (8.00%) Change Management
15 30 (8.00%) Investment Management
16 29 (7.73%) Configuration Management
17 26 (6.93%) AI
17 26 (6.93%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 220 (58.67%) Python
2 59 (15.73%) SQL
3 52 (13.87%) Java
4 49 (13.07%) TypeScript
5 37 (9.87%) Bash
6 34 (9.07%) JavaScript
7 24 (6.40%) Go
7 24 (6.40%) PowerShell
8 16 (4.27%) Groovy
9 10 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.87%) 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%) JSX
14 1 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (36.27%) Security Cleared
2 129 (34.40%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.67%) AWS Certification
4 27 (7.20%) Degree
5 18 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.00%) 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 15 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.93%) GDPR
3 10 (2.67%) QA
4 8 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.33%) NIST
6 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.07%) NCSC
6 4 (1.07%) WCAG
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 103 (27.47%) Docker
2 14 (3.73%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.40%) Dovecot
3 9 (2.40%) Postfix
3 9 (2.40%) Squid
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 204 (54.40%) Terraform
2 106 (28.27%) Kubernetes
3 53 (14.13%) Grafana
4 51 (13.60%) Ansible
5 45 (12.00%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.93%) Argo
7 10 (2.67%) Puppet
8 9 (2.40%) Nessus
8 9 (2.40%) Packer
8 9 (2.40%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.87%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.27%) Consul
12 1 (0.27%) Control-M
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.27%) QRadar
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
12 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (7.20%) Databricks
2 21 (5.60%) Splunk
3 20 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.27%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.93%) Arista
6 9 (2.40%) 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%) 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%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.53%) SAP