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 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 173 223
Rank change year-on-year -74 +50 -18
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 370 378 397
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 1.53% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.64% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 304 344
10th Percentile £374 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +10.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £791 £670
90th Percentile £691 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.75% +9.09% -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 33,332 23,040 35,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 93.07% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,054 15,071 23,616
10th Percentile £308 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,175 758 2,288
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.44 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.41 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% -23.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.61
90th Percentile £75.79 £77.50 £71.78
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £33.20 £32.69
% change year-on-year +5.42% +1.56% -22.84%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -68 234 £518 -23.33% 32
North of England -18 69 £500 -3.61% 18
Yorkshire -31 37 £525 +5.00% 1
Midlands -44 29 £545 +9.00% 7
North West -14 23 £448 -8.21% 17
West Midlands -40 23 £680 +28.30% 6
South East -43 13 £550 +10.00% 18
North East -14 9 £488 -13.72%
South West -23 7 £536 -6.74% 11
East Midlands -29 6 £433 -13.50% 1
East of England -32 3 £525 -4.55% 4
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 March 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.

1 370 (100.00%) AWS
2 206 (55.68%) CI/CD
3 201 (54.32%) DevOps
4 193 (52.16%) Terraform
5 184 (49.73%) Python
6 141 (38.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 135 (36.49%) Security Cleared
8 126 (34.05%) SC Cleared
9 107 (28.92%) Kubernetes
10 104 (28.11%) Serverless
11 93 (25.14%) AWS Lambda
12 92 (24.86%) Docker
13 80 (21.62%) GitHub
14 78 (21.08%) Amazon S3
14 78 (21.08%) GitLab
15 72 (19.46%) Containerisation
16 71 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
17 65 (17.57%) Agile
17 65 (17.57%) Amazon EKS
18 59 (15.95%) Jenkins
19 53 (14.32%) Platform Engineering
20 52 (14.05%) Linux
21 51 (13.78%) SQL
22 49 (13.24%) Cloud Security
22 49 (13.24%) Software Engineering
23 48 (12.97%) Observability
24 46 (12.43%) Amazon EC2
25 45 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
26 44 (11.89%) Amazon ECS
26 44 (11.89%) Ansible

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 33 (8.92%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (6.22%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.05%) Apache
4 5 (1.35%) Confluence
5 4 (1.08%) nginx
5 4 (1.08%) SAS
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 370 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (28.11%) Serverless
3 93 (25.14%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (21.62%) GitHub
5 78 (21.08%) Amazon S3
6 71 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (17.57%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (12.43%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (11.89%) Amazon ECS
11 43 (11.62%) Azure
12 39 (10.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (8.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (7.84%) GCP
15 23 (6.22%) Snowflake
16 17 (4.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 17 (4.59%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (4.59%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (4.32%) AWS KMS
18 14 (3.78%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.97%) DNS
2 10 (2.70%) Firewall
3 8 (2.16%) VPN
4 4 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.54%) HTTP
7 1 (0.27%) 4G
7 1 (0.27%) 5G
7 1 (0.27%) BGP
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) ICMP
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) Network Security
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.46%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 28 (7.57%) Data Lake
4 26 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (5.68%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (5.41%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (4.05%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.43%) Metadata
10 8 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.16%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.89%) Flink
11 7 (1.89%) Power BI
11 7 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.62%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.62%) Big Data
12 6 (1.62%) MySQL
12 6 (1.62%) Tableau
13 5 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (1.08%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 78 (21.08%) GitLab
2 59 (15.95%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.38%) Git
4 10 (2.70%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.43%) JIRA
6 8 (2.16%) Liquibase
7 5 (1.35%) Snyk
8 4 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.08%) MLflow
8 4 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.81%) JUnit
9 3 (0.81%) Mockito
9 3 (0.81%) Selenium
9 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.81%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.54%) Gradle
10 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.54%) tSQLt
General
1 66 (17.84%) Finance
2 64 (17.30%) Public Sector
3 57 (15.41%) Social Skills
4 33 (8.92%) Banking
5 18 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.43%) Front Office
7 7 (1.89%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.81%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Games
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.46%) Kafka
2 21 (5.68%) Node.js
3 20 (5.41%) REST
4 18 (4.86%) AWS CDK
5 17 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (4.59%) PySpark
5 17 (4.59%) RESTful
6 9 (2.43%) React
7 7 (1.89%) pytest
8 6 (1.62%) Web Services
9 5 (1.35%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.35%) Flask
9 5 (1.35%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.35%) Pandas
9 5 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.08%) boto
10 4 (1.08%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.08%) JWT
10 4 (1.08%) Lambda Expressions
10 4 (1.08%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.05%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.78%) Hedge funds
4 14 (3.78%) NHS
5 10 (2.70%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.43%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.08%) Equities
9 4 (1.08%) Replication
10 3 (0.81%) Derivative
10 3 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.81%) PKI
10 3 (0.81%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 52 (14.05%) Linux
2 11 (2.97%) Unix
3 6 (1.62%) Windows
4 3 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (0.81%) CentOS
4 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (55.68%) CI/CD
2 201 (54.32%) DevOps
3 141 (38.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (19.46%) Containerisation
5 65 (17.57%) Agile
6 53 (14.32%) Platform Engineering
7 49 (13.24%) Cloud Security
7 49 (13.24%) Software Engineering
8 48 (12.97%) Observability
9 43 (11.62%) Analytics
9 43 (11.62%) Microservices
10 41 (11.08%) Data Pipeline
11 40 (10.81%) Data Engineering
12 35 (9.46%) Migration
13 33 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (8.11%) ETL
15 28 (7.57%) AI
16 27 (7.30%) Data Modelling
17 23 (6.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 23 (6.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 184 (49.73%) Python
2 51 (13.78%) SQL
3 41 (11.08%) Bash
4 36 (9.73%) Java
5 21 (5.68%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.86%) Go
7 11 (2.97%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.62%) C#
11 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.54%) AWK
13 2 (0.54%) C
13 2 (0.54%) Groovy
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
14 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (36.49%) Security Cleared
2 126 (34.05%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.92%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.32%) Degree
5 12 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.81%) PhD
11 2 (0.54%) OCP
11 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.27%) CCNP
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.05%) GDPR
3 10 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.16%) QA
5 7 (1.89%) NIST
6 5 (1.35%) SLA
7 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.08%) NCSC
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.54%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (24.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 193 (52.16%) Terraform
2 107 (28.92%) Kubernetes
3 44 (11.89%) Ansible
4 39 (10.54%) Grafana
5 37 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.78%) Argo
7 10 (2.70%) Puppet
8 9 (2.43%) Packer
9 4 (1.08%) Istio
9 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.81%) Rancher
11 2 (0.54%) Consul
11 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.54%) Salt
11 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.27%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.27%) Opsview
12 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (8.65%) Databricks
2 23 (6.22%) Splunk
3 20 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 7 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.62%) Arista
5 6 (1.62%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.62%) Oracle
5 6 (1.62%) Qualys
6 5 (1.35%) Citrix
6 5 (1.35%) SAP
6 5 (1.35%) Tenable
7 4 (1.08%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.08%) Okta
8 3 (0.81%) Informatica
8 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.81%) Talend
9 2 (0.54%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.54%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.54%) Salesforce