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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 186 210
Rank change year-on-year -63 +24 -27
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 457 411 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 1.50% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.63% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 319 335
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £565 £580
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% -2.59% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £675 £875 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £59.50 -
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +62.22% - -

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 41,767 25,148 32,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.78% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,470 16,339 21,305
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,003 1,263 2,075
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -38.49% -2.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.85 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +70.39% -39.40% -5.26%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -50 286 £536 -23.43% 71
North of England -50 77 £513 +13.89% 16
Midlands -34 39 £469 -1.26% 3
North West -43 35 £545 +28.24% 9
West Midlands -39 30 £469 -1.26% 3
Yorkshire -46 22 £513 +2.50% 2
South West -18 21 £450 -28.00% 18
North East -26 20 £425 +11.84% 5
East of England -5 14 £510 +13.33% 2
South East -75 13 £465 -7.00% 8
East Midlands -10 9 £413 -20.44%
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 457 (100.00%) AWS
2 241 (52.74%) CI/CD
3 221 (48.36%) Terraform
4 215 (47.05%) DevOps
5 186 (40.70%) Python
6 175 (38.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 153 (33.48%) Security Cleared
8 144 (31.51%) SC Cleared
9 120 (26.26%) Serverless
10 115 (25.16%) AWS Lambda
11 107 (23.41%) Kubernetes
12 100 (21.88%) Amazon S3
13 97 (21.23%) GitLab
14 94 (20.57%) Platform Engineering
15 91 (19.91%) Docker
16 87 (19.04%) Agile
17 84 (18.38%) Containerisation
18 79 (17.29%) GitHub
19 78 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
20 76 (16.63%) SQL
21 67 (14.66%) Data Engineering
22 65 (14.22%) Software Engineering
23 60 (13.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 60 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
24 59 (12.91%) Observability
25 58 (12.69%) Grafana
26 57 (12.47%) GitHub Actions
26 57 (12.47%) Jenkins
27 56 (12.25%) Analytics
28 55 (12.04%) AI

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 32 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.28%) Confluence
3 11 (2.41%) SAS
4 10 (2.19%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.97%) Apache
6 7 (1.53%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (1.31%) nginx
7 6 (1.31%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 457 (100.00%) AWS
2 120 (26.26%) Serverless
3 115 (25.16%) AWS Lambda
4 100 (21.88%) Amazon S3
5 79 (17.29%) GitHub
6 78 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (13.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (12.47%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (11.82%) Amazon EC2
9 54 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (10.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 46 (10.07%) Azure
12 40 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (6.56%) Snowflake
14 27 (5.91%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (4.60%) dbt
16 19 (4.16%) SaaS
17 18 (3.94%) GCP
18 17 (3.72%) Amazon EMR
18 17 (3.72%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.38%) Firewall
2 11 (2.41%) DNS
3 10 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.97%) Network Security
5 6 (1.31%) VPN
5 6 (1.31%) WAN
6 5 (1.09%) SSH
7 4 (0.88%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.88%) SSL
8 2 (0.44%) BGP
8 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.44%) HTTP
8 2 (0.44%) Internet
8 2 (0.44%) LAN
9 1 (0.22%) 4G
9 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.97%) Amazon Redshift
2 37 (8.10%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (7.66%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (5.69%) DynamoDB
6 21 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 16 (3.50%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.06%) Power BI
10 10 (2.19%) MySQL
11 9 (1.97%) Pentaho
12 8 (1.75%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.53%) Metadata
13 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.31%) Delta Lake
15 5 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (1.09%) Redis
16 4 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (21.23%) GitLab
2 57 (12.47%) Jenkins
3 48 (10.50%) Git
4 14 (3.06%) JIRA
5 9 (1.97%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.53%) Gatling
7 7 (1.53%) Snyk
8 6 (1.31%) JMeter
9 5 (1.09%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.66%) JUnit
10 3 (0.66%) Mockito
10 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.44%) Mocha
11 2 (0.44%) MSTest
11 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (16.41%) Public Sector
2 69 (15.10%) Social Skills
3 50 (10.94%) Finance
4 24 (5.25%) Banking
5 17 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.09%) Retail
9 4 (0.88%) Back Office
9 4 (0.88%) Law
9 4 (0.88%) Military
10 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.44%) Billing
10 2 (0.44%) Front Office
10 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.44%) Legal
10 2 (0.44%) Local Government
10 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.25%) Kafka
2 21 (4.60%) .NET
3 17 (3.72%) AWS CDK
3 17 (3.72%) PySpark
3 17 (3.72%) REST
4 16 (3.50%) Node.js
4 16 (3.50%) React
5 15 (3.28%) Spring Boot
6 14 (3.06%) Spring
7 10 (2.19%) Next.js
7 10 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (1.97%) Flask
8 9 (1.97%) RESTful
9 8 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (1.75%) FastAPI
10 7 (1.53%) boto
10 7 (1.53%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.31%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.31%) JSON
11 6 (1.31%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 85 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.75%) AI Agents
4 8 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (1.75%) NHS
5 6 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.31%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.88%) Replication
8 3 (0.66%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.66%) PKI
8 3 (0.66%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (11.82%) Linux
2 15 (3.28%) Windows
3 13 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.66%) Unix
7 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.44%) CentOS
7 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (52.74%) CI/CD
2 215 (47.05%) DevOps
3 175 (38.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (20.57%) Platform Engineering
5 87 (19.04%) Agile
6 84 (18.38%) Containerisation
7 67 (14.66%) Data Engineering
8 65 (14.22%) Software Engineering
9 60 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
10 59 (12.91%) Observability
11 56 (12.25%) Analytics
12 55 (12.04%) AI
13 53 (11.60%) Migration
14 47 (10.28%) Data Modelling
15 46 (10.07%) Microservices
16 43 (9.41%) Cloud Security
17 41 (8.97%) ETL
18 36 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
19 34 (7.44%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 186 (40.70%) Python
2 76 (16.63%) SQL
3 50 (10.94%) Bash
4 44 (9.63%) Java
5 20 (4.38%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.94%) C#
7 15 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.75%) Groovy
10 7 (1.53%) Go
11 4 (0.88%) Scala
12 3 (0.66%) Bicep
12 3 (0.66%) C
13 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) C++
14 1 (0.22%) Perl
14 1 (0.22%) R
14 1 (0.22%) Ruby
14 1 (0.22%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 153 (33.48%) Security Cleared
2 144 (31.51%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.69%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.09%) Degree
8 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CCNP
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.22%) CCIE
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.41%) QA
3 6 (1.31%) GDPR
4 5 (1.09%) SLA
5 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.66%) NIST
5 3 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (19.91%) Docker
2 11 (2.41%) Squid
3 7 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.53%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.09%) vSphere
5 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.22%) Postfix
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 221 (48.36%) Terraform
2 107 (23.41%) Kubernetes
3 58 (12.69%) Grafana
4 47 (10.28%) Prometheus
5 46 (10.07%) Ansible
6 14 (3.06%) Argo
7 12 (2.63%) Puppet
8 6 (1.31%) Istio
8 6 (1.31%) Kibana
8 6 (1.31%) Packer
9 5 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.88%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.88%) Rancher
10 4 (0.88%) Suricata
11 3 (0.66%) SELinux
12 2 (0.44%) Salt
13 1 (0.22%) Nessus
13 1 (0.22%) Opsview
13 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (6.56%) Databricks
2 27 (5.91%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.94%) Splunk
4 12 (2.63%) Informatica
4 12 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.41%) Foundry
6 10 (2.19%) Oracle
6 10 (2.19%) VMware
7 9 (1.97%) Denodo
8 8 (1.75%) Talend
9 7 (1.53%) Palantir
9 7 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.09%) Google
10 5 (1.09%) SAP
11 4 (0.88%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.88%) Cisco
11 4 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.88%) Trend Micro
12 3 (0.66%) Cloudera