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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 197 205
Rank change year-on-year -32 +8 -6
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 367 346 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.30% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.39% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 278 354
10th Percentile £372 £403 £425
25th Percentile £413 £489 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £781 £670
90th Percentile £774 £838 £768
UK median daily rate £518 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -10.93% +5.64% -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 28,385 24,808 33,927
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 92.87% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,098 15,356 23,077
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,734 749 1,544
10th Percentile £14.45 £15.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.45 £21.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -19.38% +24.04%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.77 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -37 220 £535 -17.69% 40
North of England +5 88 £500 +5.26% 21
Yorkshire -11 47 £500 +14.29% 10
Midlands -11 37 £525 +1.94% 6
North West -4 33 £404 -15.05% 8
West Midlands -4 33 £537 +1.32% 5
South East -11 14 £538 +7.50% 22
North East -6 9 £550 -3.51% 3
South West -20 6 £488 -15.22% 7
East Midlands -17 4 £433 -13.50%
East of England -22 1 - - 4
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 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.

1 367 (100.00%) AWS
2 218 (59.40%) Python
3 199 (54.22%) Terraform
4 196 (53.41%) DevOps
5 191 (52.04%) CI/CD
6 142 (38.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 129 (35.15%) Security Cleared
8 122 (33.24%) SC Cleared
9 103 (28.07%) Serverless
10 101 (27.52%) Kubernetes
11 97 (26.43%) Docker
12 95 (25.89%) Amazon S3
13 91 (24.80%) AWS Lambda
14 82 (22.34%) Agile
14 82 (22.34%) GitHub
15 79 (21.53%) Jenkins
16 72 (19.62%) Software Engineering
17 69 (18.80%) GitLab
18 62 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
19 59 (16.08%) Containerisation
19 59 (16.08%) Linux
20 58 (15.80%) SQL
21 57 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
22 55 (14.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 55 (14.99%) Amazon EC2
22 55 (14.99%) Amazon RDS
22 55 (14.99%) Grafana
23 54 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
24 53 (14.44%) Apache Airflow
24 53 (14.44%) Java

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 53 (14.44%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (6.81%) Apache
3 23 (6.27%) Confluence
4 17 (4.63%) Apache Spark
5 12 (3.27%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 367 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (28.07%) Serverless
3 95 (25.89%) Amazon S3
4 91 (24.80%) AWS Lambda
5 82 (22.34%) GitHub
6 62 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (14.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 55 (14.99%) Amazon EC2
8 54 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (13.90%) Azure
10 50 (13.62%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
12 40 (10.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 35 (9.54%) GCP
14 30 (8.17%) Snowflake
15 29 (7.90%) AWS KMS
16 27 (7.36%) dbt
17 20 (5.45%) Route 53
18 17 (4.63%) Amazon ELB
18 17 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.45%) DNS
2 24 (6.54%) Firewall
3 16 (4.36%) HTTP
4 15 (4.09%) FTP
4 15 (4.09%) SMTP
4 15 (4.09%) SSH
5 9 (2.45%) IMAP
5 9 (2.45%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.18%) VPN
7 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.82%) Network Security
9 2 (0.54%) SSL
10 1 (0.27%) DHCP
10 1 (0.27%) LAN
10 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (14.99%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (11.44%) Amazon Athena
3 40 (10.90%) Data Lake
3 40 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (7.08%) Apache Iceberg
5 24 (6.54%) Apache Arrow
5 24 (6.54%) Dremio
5 24 (6.54%) DynamoDB
6 23 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (5.99%) NoSQL
8 17 (4.63%) Apache Ignite
9 15 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.18%) Metadata
11 8 (2.18%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.91%) Big Data
12 7 (1.91%) Flink
12 7 (1.91%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.63%) MySQL
13 6 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (21.53%) Jenkins
2 69 (18.80%) GitLab
3 44 (11.99%) Git
4 33 (8.99%) JIRA
5 15 (4.09%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.27%) Liquibase
7 6 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.63%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.36%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.36%) MLflow
9 4 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.82%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.82%) JUnit
10 3 (0.82%) Mockito
10 3 (0.82%) Selenium
10 3 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.54%) Gradle
11 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (22.34%) Finance
2 73 (19.89%) Public Sector
3 61 (16.62%) Social Skills
4 43 (11.72%) Banking
5 30 (8.17%) Front Office
6 18 (4.90%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.45%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.91%) Aeronautics
10 6 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.82%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Law
12 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
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 40 (10.90%) Kafka
2 34 (9.26%) Node.js
3 30 (8.17%) React
4 25 (6.81%) AWS CDK
4 25 (6.81%) NumPy
4 25 (6.81%) Pandas
5 24 (6.54%) REST
5 24 (6.54%) SciPy
6 21 (5.72%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (5.45%) RESTful
8 17 (4.63%) gRPC
8 17 (4.63%) Protocol Buffers
8 17 (4.63%) PySpark
9 12 (3.27%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.45%) LDAP
11 8 (2.18%) Lambda Expressions
11 8 (2.18%) Next.js
12 7 (1.91%) Vue
13 6 (1.63%) Flask
14 5 (1.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.99%) Hedge funds
3 30 (8.17%) Fixed Income
4 24 (6.54%) Equities
4 24 (6.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (5.18%) Replication
7 17 (4.63%) Derivative
7 17 (4.63%) Pricing Data
8 15 (4.09%) Public Cloud
9 14 (3.81%) NHS
10 6 (1.63%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.08%) Linux
2 20 (5.45%) Windows
3 18 (4.90%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (4.09%) VMS
5 10 (2.72%) Unix
6 9 (2.45%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.82%) CentOS
7 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (53.41%) DevOps
2 191 (52.04%) CI/CD
3 142 (38.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (22.34%) Agile
5 72 (19.62%) Software Engineering
6 59 (16.08%) Containerisation
7 57 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (14.17%) Cloud Security
9 46 (12.53%) Microservices
10 44 (11.99%) Observability
11 37 (10.08%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (8.72%) Analytics
13 32 (8.72%) Data Engineering
14 31 (8.45%) Change Management
14 31 (8.45%) High Availability
15 30 (8.17%) Investment Management
16 28 (7.63%) Configuration Management
17 25 (6.81%) AI
17 25 (6.81%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 218 (59.40%) Python
2 58 (15.80%) SQL
3 53 (14.44%) Java
4 48 (13.08%) TypeScript
5 34 (9.26%) JavaScript
6 33 (8.99%) Bash
7 25 (6.81%) Go
8 24 (6.54%) PowerShell
9 17 (4.63%) Groovy
10 11 (3.00%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.18%) Perl
12 4 (1.09%) C#
13 3 (0.82%) Ruby
14 2 (0.54%) AWK
14 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) C
15 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 122 (33.24%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.17%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.63%) Degree
5 19 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.09%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.54%) Master's Degree
8 10 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.82%) PhD
13 2 (0.54%) OCP
13 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.27%) CEH
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.27%) QA
3 11 (3.00%) GDPR
4 8 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.36%) WCAG
6 4 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.09%) NCSC
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (26.43%) Docker
2 15 (4.09%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.45%) Dovecot
3 9 (2.45%) Postfix
3 9 (2.45%) Squid
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 199 (54.22%) Terraform
2 101 (27.52%) Kubernetes
3 55 (14.99%) Grafana
4 48 (13.08%) Ansible
5 46 (12.53%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.00%) Argo
7 9 (2.45%) Nessus
7 9 (2.45%) Packer
7 9 (2.45%) Proxmox
7 9 (2.45%) Puppet
8 7 (1.91%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.27%) Consul
12 1 (0.27%) Control-M
12 1 (0.27%) Kibana
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.27%) QRadar
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (7.08%) Databricks
2 21 (5.72%) ServiceNow
2 21 (5.72%) Splunk
3 14 (3.81%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.00%) Arista
5 9 (2.45%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (1.91%) Oracle
7 4 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.09%) Okta
7 4 (1.09%) Qualys
7 4 (1.09%) Tenable
8 3 (0.82%) Confluent
8 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.54%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.54%) F5
9 2 (0.54%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.54%) IBM
9 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.54%) SAP