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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 190 215
Rank change year-on-year -51 +25 -6
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 375 359 408
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.38% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.48% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 288 360
10th Percentile £371 £408 £413
25th Percentile £413 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £670
90th Percentile £717 £838 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 31,296 24,249 35,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.05% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,862 15,146 23,628
10th Percentile £300 £300 £272
25th Percentile £408 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,999 708 2,116
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.98 £13.17
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% - -7.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £72.39
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.52 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.50% -4.23% -2.23%

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 13 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 13 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 -42 236 £521 -19.81% 58
North of England -5 79 £500 - 20
Yorkshire -33 41 £520 +4.00% 4
Midlands -29 32 £545 +9.00% 16
North West -7 31 £405 -16.92% 16
West Midlands -24 27 £680 +28.30% 15
South East -36 15 £538 +7.50% 21
South West -12 7 £536 -4.67% 13
North East -15 7 £550 -2.65%
East Midlands -28 5 £417 -16.55% 2
East of England -23 2 £525 -4.55% 4
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 375 (100.00%) AWS
2 206 (54.93%) CI/CD
3 204 (54.40%) Terraform
4 203 (54.13%) DevOps
5 198 (52.80%) Python
6 146 (38.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 137 (36.53%) Security Cleared
8 131 (34.93%) SC Cleared
9 108 (28.80%) Kubernetes
10 101 (26.93%) Serverless
11 95 (25.33%) Docker
12 88 (23.47%) AWS Lambda
13 85 (22.67%) Amazon S3
14 82 (21.87%) GitHub
15 77 (20.53%) GitLab
16 71 (18.93%) Containerisation
17 70 (18.67%) Agile
18 69 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
19 68 (18.13%) Jenkins
20 60 (16.00%) Linux
21 58 (15.47%) Amazon EKS
21 58 (15.47%) SQL
22 57 (15.20%) Software Engineering
23 54 (14.40%) Platform Engineering
24 53 (14.13%) Cloud Security
25 51 (13.60%) Azure
26 50 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
27 49 (13.07%) Amazon ECS
28 47 (12.53%) Ansible
29 45 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 41 (10.93%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.53%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.27%) Apache
4 14 (3.73%) Confluence
5 9 (2.40%) 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 6 (1.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 375 (100.00%) AWS
2 101 (26.93%) Serverless
3 88 (23.47%) AWS Lambda
4 85 (22.67%) Amazon S3
5 82 (21.87%) GitHub
6 69 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (15.47%) Amazon EKS
8 51 (13.60%) Azure
9 50 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
10 49 (13.07%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (11.47%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (9.33%) GCP
13 35 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (6.13%) AWS KMS
15 22 (5.87%) Snowflake
16 19 (5.07%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (4.53%) dbt
17 17 (4.53%) Route 53
18 15 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.60%) DNS
2 16 (4.27%) Firewall
3 10 (2.67%) HTTP
4 8 (2.13%) FTP
4 8 (2.13%) SMTP
4 8 (2.13%) SSH
5 7 (1.87%) VPN
6 6 (1.60%) IMAP
6 6 (1.60%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.53%) Network Security
8 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.27%) LAN
9 1 (0.27%) SSL
9 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (8.00%) Data Lake
4 26 (6.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 25 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (6.13%) NoSQL
7 21 (5.60%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.47%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (3.20%) Apache Arrow
10 12 (3.20%) Dremio
11 10 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.13%) Apache Ignite
13 7 (1.87%) Flink
13 7 (1.87%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.87%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.60%) Big Data
14 6 (1.60%) Metadata
14 6 (1.60%) Tableau
15 5 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 77 (20.53%) GitLab
2 68 (18.13%) Jenkins
3 35 (9.33%) Git
4 22 (5.87%) JIRA
5 11 (2.93%) Liquibase
6 8 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.13%) Vagrant
7 6 (1.60%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.33%) MLflow
9 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.07%) JUnit
9 4 (1.07%) Mockito
10 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.80%) Selenium
10 3 (0.80%) Snyk
10 3 (0.80%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.53%) Gradle
11 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 71 (18.93%) Finance
2 68 (18.13%) Public Sector
3 64 (17.07%) Social Skills
4 38 (10.13%) Banking
5 20 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.80%) Front Office
7 10 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.87%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Games
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Retail
13 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.13%) Kafka
2 28 (7.47%) Node.js
3 23 (6.13%) REST
4 21 (5.60%) React
5 19 (5.07%) AWS CDK
6 18 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (4.53%) RESTful
8 15 (4.00%) PySpark
9 14 (3.73%) Pandas
10 13 (3.47%) NumPy
11 12 (3.20%) SciPy
12 10 (2.67%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.13%) gRPC
13 8 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
14 7 (1.87%) Next.js
15 6 (1.60%) Flask
15 6 (1.60%) LDAP
16 5 (1.33%) pytest
17 4 (1.07%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.73%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (5.60%) Hedge funds
3 19 (5.07%) Fixed Income
3 19 (5.07%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.73%) NHS
5 13 (3.47%) Equities
6 12 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (3.20%) Replication
7 8 (2.13%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.13%) Derivative
7 8 (2.13%) Pricing Data
8 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.00%) Linux
2 14 (3.73%) Windows
3 11 (2.93%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (2.93%) Unix
4 9 (2.40%) VMS
5 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.80%) CentOS
6 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (54.93%) CI/CD
2 203 (54.13%) DevOps
3 146 (38.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (18.93%) Containerisation
5 70 (18.67%) Agile
6 57 (15.20%) Software Engineering
7 54 (14.40%) Platform Engineering
8 53 (14.13%) Cloud Security
9 44 (11.73%) Microservices
10 42 (11.20%) Observability
11 39 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (9.60%) Analytics
13 35 (9.33%) Data Engineering
14 34 (9.07%) Migration
14 34 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (8.00%) High Availability
16 27 (7.20%) AI
17 25 (6.67%) Change Management
18 24 (6.40%) ETL
19 23 (6.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 198 (52.80%) Python
2 58 (15.47%) SQL
3 41 (10.93%) Java
4 36 (9.60%) TypeScript
5 33 (8.80%) Bash
6 23 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.33%) Go
8 17 (4.53%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.67%) Groovy
10 9 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.33%) C#
12 4 (1.07%) Ruby
13 2 (0.53%) AWK
13 2 (0.53%) Perl
13 2 (0.53%) PHP
13 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) C
14 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 137 (36.53%) Security Cleared
2 131 (34.93%) SC Cleared
3 42 (11.20%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.40%) Degree
5 18 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (2.13%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.87%) 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%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.27%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.20%) GDPR
3 11 (2.93%) QA
4 10 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.60%) NIST
6 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.07%) NCSC
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
7 2 (0.53%) WCAG
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (25.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.13%) DFS Replication
3 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.60%) Dovecot
3 6 (1.60%) Postfix
3 6 (1.60%) Squid
4 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 204 (54.40%) Terraform
2 108 (28.80%) Kubernetes
3 47 (12.53%) Ansible
4 40 (10.67%) Grafana
5 38 (10.13%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.00%) Argo
7 9 (2.40%) Packer
7 9 (2.40%) Puppet
8 7 (1.87%) Nessus
9 6 (1.60%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.33%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.27%) Control-M
13 1 (0.27%) Istio
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.27%) Opsview
13 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (7.47%) Databricks
2 23 (6.13%) Splunk
3 17 (4.53%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.13%) Arista
6 6 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.60%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (1.60%) Oracle
7 5 (1.33%) Citrix
7 5 (1.33%) Qualys
7 5 (1.33%) Tenable
8 4 (1.07%) Okta
9 3 (0.80%) Confluent
9 3 (0.80%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.53%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.53%) IBM
10 2 (0.53%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.53%) SAP