AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 193 222
Rank change year-on-year -41 +29 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 371 353 401
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 1.34% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.44% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 282 352
10th Percentile £371 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £592 £788 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £775
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 30,616 24,434 35,357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.01% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,494 15,146 23,822
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 1,931 720 2,109
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.99 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.82 £21.41 £16.79
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.17% -5.71% -

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 6 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 6 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 -49 230 £518 -20.38% 45
North of England 0 80 £500 - 22
Yorkshire -26 43 £519 +6.41% 7
Midlands -27 33 £539 +7.70% 15
North West -2 30 £405 -16.92% 15
West Midlands -18 28 £615 +16.04% 14
South East -30 15 £538 +7.50% 17
South West -14 7 £486 -13.56% 14
North East -14 7 £550 -3.51%
East Midlands -24 5 £417 -16.55% 1
East of England -26 2 £525 -4.55% 6
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 371 (100.00%) AWS
2 204 (54.99%) CI/CD
3 202 (54.45%) DevOps
3 202 (54.45%) Terraform
4 200 (53.91%) Python
5 143 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (36.12%) Security Cleared
7 129 (34.77%) SC Cleared
8 108 (29.11%) Kubernetes
9 102 (27.49%) Serverless
10 97 (26.15%) Docker
11 89 (23.99%) AWS Lambda
12 84 (22.64%) Amazon S3
13 81 (21.83%) GitHub
14 75 (20.22%) GitLab
15 72 (19.41%) Agile
16 70 (18.87%) Containerisation
16 70 (18.87%) Jenkins
17 69 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
18 59 (15.90%) Linux
19 58 (15.63%) SQL
20 57 (15.36%) Amazon EKS
20 57 (15.36%) Software Engineering
21 54 (14.56%) Cloud Security
21 54 (14.56%) Platform Engineering
22 52 (14.02%) Azure
23 51 (13.75%) Amazon EC2
24 50 (13.48%) Amazon ECS
25 48 (12.94%) Ansible
26 46 (12.40%) 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 (11.05%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.31%) Apache
3 16 (4.31%) Confluence
4 11 (2.96%) nginx
5 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 371 (100.00%) AWS
2 102 (27.49%) Serverless
3 89 (23.99%) AWS Lambda
4 84 (22.64%) Amazon S3
5 81 (21.83%) GitHub
6 69 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (15.36%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (14.02%) Azure
9 51 (13.75%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (13.48%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (12.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (11.59%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 35 (9.43%) GCP
15 25 (6.74%) AWS KMS
16 21 (5.66%) Snowflake
17 19 (5.12%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (4.85%) Route 53
19 15 (4.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 15 (4.04%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.20%) DNS
2 18 (4.85%) Firewall
3 12 (3.23%) HTTP
4 10 (2.70%) FTP
4 10 (2.70%) SMTP
4 10 (2.70%) SSH
5 7 (1.89%) IMAP
5 7 (1.89%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (1.89%) VPN
6 3 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.54%) Network Security
7 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.40%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (8.09%) Data Lake
4 25 (6.74%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (6.20%) NoSQL
7 22 (5.93%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.50%) Apache Iceberg
8 13 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.23%) Apache Arrow
9 12 (3.23%) Dremio
10 11 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.16%) Apache Ignite
11 8 (2.16%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.89%) Flink
12 7 (1.89%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.62%) Big Data
13 6 (1.62%) Metadata
13 6 (1.62%) Tableau
14 5 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 75 (20.22%) GitLab
2 70 (18.87%) Jenkins
3 38 (10.24%) Git
4 24 (6.47%) JIRA
5 11 (2.96%) Liquibase
6 10 (2.70%) Vagrant
7 8 (2.16%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.35%) MLflow
8 5 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.08%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.08%) JUnit
9 4 (1.08%) Mockito
10 3 (0.81%) Selenium
10 3 (0.81%) Snyk
10 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.81%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.54%) Gradle
11 2 (0.54%) Maven
General
1 71 (19.14%) Finance
1 71 (19.14%) Public Sector
2 63 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 37 (9.97%) Banking
4 20 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.85%) Front Office
6 10 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.43%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.89%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.81%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) 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 39 (10.51%) Kafka
2 29 (7.82%) Node.js
3 24 (6.47%) REST
4 22 (5.93%) React
5 19 (5.12%) AWS CDK
6 18 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (4.85%) RESTful
7 16 (4.31%) PySpark
8 14 (3.77%) Pandas
9 13 (3.50%) NumPy
10 12 (3.23%) SciPy
11 10 (2.70%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.16%) gRPC
12 8 (2.16%) Lambda Expressions
12 8 (2.16%) Protocol Buffers
13 7 (1.89%) LDAP
13 7 (1.89%) Next.js
14 6 (1.62%) Flask
15 5 (1.35%) HTML
15 5 (1.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.93%) Hedge funds
3 21 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.12%) Fixed Income
5 18 (4.85%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.04%) NHS
7 14 (3.77%) Replication
8 13 (3.50%) Equities
9 12 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.16%) Derivative
10 8 (2.16%) Pricing Data
11 5 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.35%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.90%) Linux
2 16 (4.31%) Windows
3 13 (3.50%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (2.96%) Unix
5 10 (2.70%) VMS
6 7 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.81%) CentOS
7 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (54.99%) CI/CD
2 202 (54.45%) DevOps
3 143 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (19.41%) Agile
5 70 (18.87%) Containerisation
6 57 (15.36%) Software Engineering
7 54 (14.56%) Cloud Security
7 54 (14.56%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (12.13%) Microservices
9 42 (11.32%) Observability
10 39 (10.51%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (9.43%) Analytics
12 34 (9.16%) Data Engineering
12 34 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (8.63%) Migration
14 31 (8.36%) High Availability
15 27 (7.28%) AI
15 27 (7.28%) Change Management
16 25 (6.74%) ETL
17 24 (6.47%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (53.91%) Python
2 58 (15.63%) SQL
3 41 (11.05%) Java
4 35 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 33 (8.89%) Bash
6 22 (5.93%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.39%) Go
8 19 (5.12%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.23%) Groovy
10 9 (2.43%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.35%) C#
12 4 (1.08%) Ruby
13 3 (0.81%) Perl
14 2 (0.54%) AWK
14 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.27%) C
15 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 134 (36.12%) Security Cleared
2 129 (34.77%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.05%) AWS Certification
4 26 (7.01%) Degree
5 19 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.50%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.89%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.81%) PhD
12 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.54%) OCP
12 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.27%) CEH
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
13 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.31%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.23%) GDPR
2 12 (3.23%) QA
3 10 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.62%) NIST
5 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.08%) NCSC
6 3 (0.81%) WCAG
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.54%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 97 (26.15%) Docker
2 10 (2.70%) DFS Replication
3 7 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.89%) Dovecot
3 7 (1.89%) Postfix
3 7 (1.89%) Squid
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (54.45%) Terraform
2 108 (29.11%) Kubernetes
3 48 (12.94%) Ansible
4 43 (11.59%) Grafana
5 41 (11.05%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.50%) Argo
7 9 (2.43%) Packer
7 9 (2.43%) Puppet
8 8 (2.16%) Nessus
9 7 (1.89%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.35%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.54%) Consul
12 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.27%) Control-M
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.27%) QRadar
13 1 (0.27%) Rancher
13 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 29 (7.82%) Databricks
2 23 (6.20%) Splunk
3 17 (4.58%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.43%) Arista
6 7 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (1.62%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.62%) Oracle
8 5 (1.35%) Citrix
8 5 (1.35%) Qualys
8 5 (1.35%) Tenable
9 4 (1.08%) Okta
10 3 (0.81%) Confluent
10 3 (0.81%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.54%) AVEVA
11 2 (0.54%) IBM
11 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.54%) SAP