AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 188 218
Rank change year-on-year -59 +30 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 376 360 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.39% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.50% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 286 364
10th Percentile £375 £416 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £670
90th Percentile £713 £838 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -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 31,731 24,013 35,082
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 93.02% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,150 15,038 23,479
10th Percentile £303 £296 £273
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -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 2,026 700 2,145
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.49 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.93 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.03 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.11 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.05% -2.54% -9.09%

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 18 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 18 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 -61 237 £518 -20.38% 58
North of England -5 77 £500 - 18
Yorkshire -23 41 £520 +4.00% 1
Midlands -30 31 £563 +12.50% 14
North West -4 29 £435 -10.77% 17
West Midlands -25 26 £680 +28.30% 13
South East -28 14 £550 +10.00% 22
North East -14 7 £550 -2.65%
South West -18 7 £536 -4.67% 13
East Midlands -21 5 £417 -16.55% 1
East of England -27 2 £525 -4.55% 3
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 376 (100.00%) AWS
2 207 (55.05%) CI/CD
3 203 (53.99%) DevOps
4 202 (53.72%) Terraform
5 194 (51.60%) Python
6 143 (38.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 139 (36.97%) Security Cleared
8 131 (34.84%) SC Cleared
9 108 (28.72%) Kubernetes
10 106 (28.19%) Serverless
11 95 (25.27%) Docker
12 93 (24.73%) AWS Lambda
13 81 (21.54%) Amazon S3
14 74 (19.68%) GitHub
14 74 (19.68%) GitLab
15 69 (18.35%) Agile
16 68 (18.09%) Containerisation
17 67 (17.82%) AWS CloudFormation
18 65 (17.29%) Jenkins
19 59 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
20 57 (15.16%) Linux
20 57 (15.16%) Software Engineering
21 56 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
22 52 (13.83%) Cloud Security
23 51 (13.56%) SQL
24 49 (13.03%) Azure
25 48 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
26 46 (12.23%) Amazon ECS
26 46 (12.23%) Ansible
26 46 (12.23%) Microservices

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 36 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.32%) Apache Spark
3 17 (4.52%) Apache
4 11 (2.93%) Confluence
5 8 (2.13%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 376 (100.00%) AWS
2 106 (28.19%) Serverless
3 93 (24.73%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (21.54%) Amazon S3
5 74 (19.68%) GitHub
6 67 (17.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 59 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (13.03%) Azure
9 48 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
10 46 (12.23%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (11.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (9.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (9.04%) GCP
15 22 (5.85%) Snowflake
16 21 (5.59%) AWS KMS
17 17 (4.52%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (4.52%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (3.99%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (3.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.05%) DNS
2 14 (3.72%) Firewall
3 8 (2.13%) HTTP
3 8 (2.13%) VPN
4 6 (1.60%) FTP
4 6 (1.60%) SMTP
4 6 (1.60%) SSH
5 4 (1.06%) IMAP
5 4 (1.06%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.53%) Network Security
8 1 (0.27%) 4G
8 1 (0.27%) 5G
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) ICMP
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.90%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.91%) Amazon Redshift
3 26 (6.91%) Data Lake
4 25 (6.65%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.32%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.79%) DynamoDB
7 14 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.19%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (2.66%) Apache Arrow
9 10 (2.66%) Dremio
10 8 (2.13%) Metadata
11 7 (1.86%) Flink
11 7 (1.86%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.86%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.60%) Apache Ignite
12 6 (1.60%) Big Data
12 6 (1.60%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (19.68%) GitLab
2 65 (17.29%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.78%) Git
4 17 (4.52%) JIRA
5 11 (2.93%) Liquibase
6 9 (2.39%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.60%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.60%) Vagrant
8 5 (1.33%) MLflow
9 4 (1.06%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.06%) JUnit
9 4 (1.06%) 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%) Mocha
11 2 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (18.35%) Finance
2 68 (18.09%) Public Sector
3 63 (16.76%) Social Skills
4 35 (9.31%) Banking
5 21 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.26%) Front Office
7 9 (2.39%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.86%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.80%) Legal
13 2 (0.53%) Law
13 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Military
14 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.84%) Kafka
2 27 (7.18%) Node.js
3 23 (6.12%) REST
4 20 (5.32%) React
5 18 (4.79%) AWS CDK
5 18 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (4.79%) RESTful
6 15 (3.99%) PySpark
7 12 (3.19%) Pandas
8 11 (2.93%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.93%) NumPy
9 10 (2.66%) SciPy
10 8 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
11 7 (1.86%) Next.js
12 6 (1.60%) Flask
12 6 (1.60%) gRPC
12 6 (1.60%) Protocol Buffers
12 6 (1.60%) Web Services
13 5 (1.33%) HTML
13 5 (1.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.05%) Hedge funds
3 19 (5.05%) Public Cloud
4 17 (4.52%) Fixed Income
5 14 (3.72%) NHS
6 11 (2.93%) Equities
7 10 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.66%) Replication
8 8 (2.13%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.60%) Derivative
9 6 (1.60%) Pricing Data
10 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.16%) Linux
2 12 (3.19%) Windows
3 11 (2.93%) Unix
4 9 (2.39%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.86%) VMS
6 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.80%) CentOS
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (55.05%) CI/CD
2 203 (53.99%) DevOps
3 143 (38.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (18.35%) Agile
5 68 (18.09%) Containerisation
6 57 (15.16%) Software Engineering
7 56 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (13.83%) Cloud Security
9 46 (12.23%) Microservices
10 43 (11.44%) Observability
11 38 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
12 37 (9.84%) Analytics
13 36 (9.57%) Data Engineering
13 36 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (8.51%) Migration
15 27 (7.18%) High Availability
16 26 (6.91%) AI
17 25 (6.65%) ETL
18 23 (6.12%) Validation
19 21 (5.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 194 (51.60%) Python
2 51 (13.56%) SQL
3 40 (10.64%) Java
4 34 (9.04%) Bash
5 32 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.85%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.05%) Go
8 15 (3.99%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.39%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.13%) Groovy
11 6 (1.60%) C#
12 4 (1.06%) Ruby
13 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) AWK
14 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
15 1 (0.27%) C
15 1 (0.27%) JSX
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 139 (36.97%) Security Cleared
2 131 (34.84%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.37%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.85%) Degree
5 18 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.46%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.66%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.06%) 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 17 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.19%) GDPR
3 10 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.66%) QA
4 6 (1.60%) NIST
5 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.06%) NCSC
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.53%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (25.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.60%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.06%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.06%) Postfix
3 4 (1.06%) Squid
4 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (53.72%) Terraform
2 108 (28.72%) Kubernetes
3 46 (12.23%) Ansible
4 38 (10.11%) Grafana
4 38 (10.11%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.72%) Argo
6 9 (2.39%) Packer
6 9 (2.39%) Puppet
7 5 (1.33%) Nessus
8 4 (1.06%) Istio
8 4 (1.06%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.06%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.53%) Consul
10 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.27%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.27%) Opsview
11 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (7.45%) Databricks
2 23 (6.12%) Splunk
3 16 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.13%) Arista
6 6 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.60%) Oracle
7 5 (1.33%) Citrix
7 5 (1.33%) Qualys
7 5 (1.33%) Tenable
8 4 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.06%) 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