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 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 194 220
Rank change year-on-year -57 +26 -9
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 364 359 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.39% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.50% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 286 361
10th Percentile £375 £411 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +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 31,201 23,999 35,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 93.03% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,793 14,993 23,712
10th Percentile £300 £296 £275
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 697 2,128
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.23 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.53
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.17% -5.74%

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 16 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 16 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 -56 229 £518 -20.38% 56
North of England -10 76 £500 - 22
Yorkshire -29 40 £520 +4.00% 4
Midlands -27 30 £550 +10.00% 14
North West -5 29 £435 -10.77% 18
West Midlands -24 25 £680 +28.30% 13
South East -30 14 £550 +10.00% 21
North East -14 7 £550 -2.65%
South West -20 7 £536 -4.67% 13
East Midlands -19 5 £417 -16.55% 1
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 16 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.

1 364 (100.00%) AWS
2 202 (55.49%) CI/CD
3 198 (54.40%) DevOps
3 198 (54.40%) Terraform
4 188 (51.65%) Python
5 141 (38.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (36.81%) Security Cleared
7 128 (35.16%) SC Cleared
8 106 (29.12%) Kubernetes
9 100 (27.47%) Serverless
10 91 (25.00%) Docker
11 87 (23.90%) AWS Lambda
12 76 (20.88%) Amazon S3
13 74 (20.33%) GitHub
13 74 (20.33%) GitLab
14 67 (18.41%) Containerisation
15 66 (18.13%) Agile
15 66 (18.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 65 (17.86%) Jenkins
17 57 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
17 57 (15.66%) Linux
18 54 (14.84%) Software Engineering
19 52 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
20 51 (14.01%) Cloud Security
21 49 (13.46%) Azure
22 48 (13.19%) SQL
23 46 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
23 46 (12.64%) Ansible
24 44 (12.09%) Amazon ECS
24 44 (12.09%) 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 35 (9.62%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.67%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.85%) Apache
4 11 (3.02%) Confluence
5 7 (1.92%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 364 (100.00%) AWS
2 100 (27.47%) Serverless
3 87 (23.90%) AWS Lambda
4 76 (20.88%) Amazon S3
5 74 (20.33%) GitHub
6 66 (18.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (13.46%) Azure
9 46 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (12.09%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (9.34%) GCP
13 34 (9.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (5.77%) AWS KMS
15 19 (5.22%) Snowflake
16 16 (4.40%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (4.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (4.12%) Route 53
18 14 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.22%) DNS
2 14 (3.85%) Firewall
3 8 (2.20%) HTTP
4 7 (1.92%) VPN
5 6 (1.65%) FTP
5 6 (1.65%) SMTP
5 6 (1.65%) SSH
6 4 (1.10%) IMAP
6 4 (1.10%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.55%) Network Security
8 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.27%) LAN
9 1 (0.27%) SSL
9 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.26%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (6.87%) Data Lake
4 23 (6.32%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.49%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.95%) DynamoDB
7 13 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.02%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (2.75%) Apache Arrow
9 10 (2.75%) Dremio
10 7 (1.92%) Flink
10 7 (1.92%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.92%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.65%) Apache Ignite
11 6 (1.65%) Big Data
11 6 (1.65%) Metadata
11 6 (1.65%) Tableau
12 5 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 74 (20.33%) GitLab
2 65 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.79%) Git
4 17 (4.67%) JIRA
5 11 (3.02%) Liquibase
6 8 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.65%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.65%) Vagrant
8 5 (1.37%) MLflow
9 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.10%) JUnit
9 4 (1.10%) Mockito
10 3 (0.82%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.82%) Selenium
10 3 (0.82%) Snyk
10 3 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.55%) Gradle
11 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (18.68%) Finance
2 66 (18.13%) Public Sector
3 61 (16.76%) Social Skills
4 36 (9.89%) Banking
5 18 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.40%) Front Office
7 9 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.92%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.82%) Legal
13 2 (0.55%) Law
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Military
14 1 (0.27%) Retail
14 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.89%) Kafka
2 27 (7.42%) Node.js
3 22 (6.04%) REST
4 20 (5.49%) React
5 18 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (4.67%) AWS CDK
6 17 (4.67%) RESTful
7 15 (4.12%) PySpark
8 12 (3.30%) Pandas
9 11 (3.02%) NumPy
10 10 (2.75%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.75%) SciPy
11 8 (2.20%) Lambda Expressions
12 7 (1.92%) Next.js
13 6 (1.65%) Flask
13 6 (1.65%) gRPC
13 6 (1.65%) Protocol Buffers
14 5 (1.37%) pytest
15 4 (1.10%) Spring Boot
15 4 (1.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.22%) Hedge funds
3 19 (5.22%) Public Cloud
4 17 (4.67%) Fixed Income
5 14 (3.85%) NHS
6 11 (3.02%) Equities
7 10 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.75%) Replication
8 8 (2.20%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.65%) Derivative
9 6 (1.65%) Pricing Data
10 5 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.66%) Linux
2 12 (3.30%) Windows
3 11 (3.02%) Unix
4 9 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.92%) VMS
6 4 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.82%) CentOS
7 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (55.49%) CI/CD
2 198 (54.40%) DevOps
3 141 (38.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (18.41%) Containerisation
5 66 (18.13%) Agile
6 54 (14.84%) Software Engineering
7 52 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 51 (14.01%) Cloud Security
9 44 (12.09%) Microservices
10 41 (11.26%) Observability
11 36 (9.89%) Analytics
12 35 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (9.07%) Data Engineering
13 33 (9.07%) Migration
13 33 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (7.42%) High Availability
15 26 (7.14%) AI
16 23 (6.32%) ETL
17 22 (6.04%) Validation
18 20 (5.49%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (51.65%) Python
2 48 (13.19%) SQL
3 38 (10.44%) Java
4 33 (9.07%) Bash
5 32 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 21 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.95%) Go
8 15 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.47%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.20%) Groovy
11 5 (1.37%) C#
12 4 (1.10%) Ruby
13 2 (0.55%) AWK
13 2 (0.55%) Perl
13 2 (0.55%) PHP
13 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) C
14 1 (0.27%) JSX
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 134 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 128 (35.16%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.04%) Degree
5 18 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (2.20%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.82%) PhD
13 2 (0.55%) OCP
13 2 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.27%) CEH
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.12%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.30%) GDPR
3 10 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.75%) QA
4 6 (1.65%) NIST
5 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.10%) NCSC
6 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 91 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.65%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.10%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.10%) Postfix
3 4 (1.10%) Squid
4 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 198 (54.40%) Terraform
2 106 (29.12%) Kubernetes
3 46 (12.64%) Ansible
4 38 (10.44%) Grafana
5 36 (9.89%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.12%) Argo
7 9 (2.47%) Packer
7 9 (2.47%) Puppet
8 5 (1.37%) Nessus
9 4 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.55%) Consul
11 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.27%) Opsview
12 1 (0.27%) QRadar
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
12 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (7.69%) Databricks
2 23 (6.32%) Splunk
3 16 (4.40%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.20%) Arista
6 6 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.65%) Oracle
7 5 (1.37%) Citrix
7 5 (1.37%) Qualys
7 5 (1.37%) Tenable
8 4 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.10%) Okta
9 3 (0.82%) Confluent
9 3 (0.82%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.55%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.55%) IBM
10 2 (0.55%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.55%) SAP