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 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 173 228
Rank change year-on-year -81 +55 -19
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 375 374 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.53% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.64% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 303 330
10th Percentile £374 £420 £413
25th Percentile £428 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £595 £788 £650
90th Percentile £690 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -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 34,460 22,787 34,959
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 93.03% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,776 15,097 23,367
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 791 2,280
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.16 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.61
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.25 £71.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.54% -23.53%

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 21 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 21 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 -71 229 £521 -22.78% 36
North of England -29 71 £500 -2.44% 18
Yorkshire -31 37 £523 +3.21% 2
Midlands -38 31 £538 +7.50% 9
West Midlands -40 25 £628 +18.40% 7
North West -14 23 £440 +0.34% 15
South East -52 14 £550 +10.00% 23
North East -14 11 £488 -13.72% 1
South West -21 8 £535 -6.96% 9
East of England -17 7 £528 +6.84% 2
East Midlands -31 6 £433 -13.50% 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 375 (100.00%) AWS
2 204 (54.40%) CI/CD
3 202 (53.87%) DevOps
4 192 (51.20%) Terraform
5 184 (49.07%) Python
6 141 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 134 (35.73%) Security Cleared
8 125 (33.33%) SC Cleared
9 104 (27.73%) Serverless
10 102 (27.20%) Kubernetes
11 93 (24.80%) AWS Lambda
12 91 (24.27%) Docker
13 80 (21.33%) GitHub
14 78 (20.80%) Amazon S3
14 78 (20.80%) GitLab
15 75 (20.00%) Containerisation
16 67 (17.87%) Agile
16 67 (17.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 66 (17.60%) Amazon EKS
18 61 (16.27%) Jenkins
19 56 (14.93%) Platform Engineering
20 55 (14.67%) SQL
21 52 (13.87%) Linux
22 51 (13.60%) Software Engineering
23 49 (13.07%) Azure
24 48 (12.80%) Cloud Security
25 46 (12.27%) Amazon EC2
25 46 (12.27%) GitHub Actions
26 45 (12.00%) Analytics
27 43 (11.47%) Data Pipeline

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 35 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (6.13%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.00%) Apache
4 6 (1.60%) Confluence
5 4 (1.07%) nginx
5 4 (1.07%) SAS
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
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 (0.53%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 375 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (27.73%) Serverless
3 93 (24.80%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (21.33%) GitHub
5 78 (20.80%) Amazon S3
6 67 (17.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 66 (17.60%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (13.07%) Azure
9 46 (12.27%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (12.27%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (11.20%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (8.00%) GCP
14 23 (6.13%) Snowflake
15 17 (4.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 17 (4.53%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (4.53%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
16 15 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.93%) DNS
1 11 (2.93%) Firewall
2 9 (2.40%) VPN
3 4 (1.07%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.53%) HTTP
4 2 (0.53%) LAN
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
4 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.53%) WAN
5 1 (0.27%) 4G
5 1 (0.27%) 5G
5 1 (0.27%) BGP
5 1 (0.27%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.27%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.07%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (8.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 27 (7.20%) Data Lake
3 27 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.07%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (4.80%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (4.27%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.67%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.40%) Metadata
10 8 (2.13%) Power BI
11 7 (1.87%) Flink
11 7 (1.87%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.60%) Big Data
12 6 (1.60%) Tableau
13 5 (1.33%) MySQL
13 5 (1.33%) Redis
14 4 (1.07%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 78 (20.80%) GitLab
2 61 (16.27%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.53%) Git
4 10 (2.67%) Cucumber
4 10 (2.67%) JIRA
5 8 (2.13%) Liquibase
6 5 (1.33%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.33%) Snyk
7 4 (1.07%) MLflow
7 4 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.80%) JUnit
8 3 (0.80%) Mockito
8 3 (0.80%) Selenium
8 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.53%) Gradle
9 2 (0.53%) Mocha
9 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.53%) tSQLt
General
1 66 (17.60%) Finance
2 57 (15.20%) Public Sector
3 56 (14.93%) Social Skills
4 33 (8.80%) Banking
5 18 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.13%) Front Office
7 7 (1.87%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.87%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Law
12 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Games
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.07%) Kafka
2 22 (5.87%) Node.js
3 20 (5.33%) REST
4 18 (4.80%) PySpark
5 17 (4.53%) RESTful
6 16 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (3.73%) AWS CDK
8 10 (2.67%) React
9 7 (1.87%) pytest
10 6 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.60%) Flask
10 6 (1.60%) Web Services
11 5 (1.33%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.33%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.33%) Next.js
11 5 (1.33%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.07%) boto
12 4 (1.07%) JWT
12 4 (1.07%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (1.07%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.27%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.47%) NHS
5 12 (3.20%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.40%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.40%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.33%) Replication
9 3 (0.80%) Equities
9 3 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.80%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.87%) Linux
2 10 (2.67%) Unix
3 5 (1.33%) Windows
4 3 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.53%) CentOS
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (54.40%) CI/CD
2 202 (53.87%) DevOps
3 141 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 67 (17.87%) Agile
6 56 (14.93%) Platform Engineering
7 51 (13.60%) Software Engineering
8 48 (12.80%) Cloud Security
9 45 (12.00%) Analytics
10 43 (11.47%) Data Pipeline
10 43 (11.47%) Observability
11 42 (11.20%) Data Engineering
12 41 (10.93%) Microservices
13 34 (9.07%) Migration
14 33 (8.80%) ETL
14 33 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (7.73%) AI
15 29 (7.73%) Data Modelling
16 24 (6.40%) High Availability
16 24 (6.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 184 (49.07%) Python
2 55 (14.67%) SQL
3 39 (10.40%) Bash
4 37 (9.87%) Java
5 19 (5.07%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.53%) Go
7 11 (2.93%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.87%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.60%) C#
11 4 (1.07%) Ruby
12 3 (0.80%) Groovy
12 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.53%) AWK
13 2 (0.53%) C
13 2 (0.53%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 134 (35.73%) Security Cleared
2 125 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.53%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.27%) Degree
5 11 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.93%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.80%) PhD
9 2 (0.53%) CCNP
9 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.53%) OCP
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.73%) GDPR
3 10 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.13%) NIST
4 8 (2.13%) QA
5 5 (1.33%) SLA
6 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.80%) NCSC
8 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.53%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (24.27%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 192 (51.20%) Terraform
2 102 (27.20%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.67%) Grafana
4 38 (10.13%) Ansible
4 38 (10.13%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.27%) Argo
6 8 (2.13%) Packer
7 7 (1.87%) Puppet
8 4 (1.07%) Istio
8 4 (1.07%) Rancher
9 3 (0.80%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.53%) Consul
10 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.53%) Salt
10 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.27%) Opsview
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (8.53%) Databricks
2 22 (5.87%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.87%) Splunk
3 8 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 7 (1.87%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.60%) Oracle
6 5 (1.33%) Arista
6 5 (1.33%) Citrix
6 5 (1.33%) Qualys
6 5 (1.33%) SAP
6 5 (1.33%) Tenable
7 4 (1.07%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.07%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.07%) Okta
7 4 (1.07%) Talend
8 3 (0.80%) Denodo
8 3 (0.80%) Informatica
9 2 (0.53%) Cisco
9 2 (0.53%) Confluent
9 2 (0.53%) Ping Identity