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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 201 204
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 -11
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 389 360 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 1.28% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.38% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 290 353
10th Percentile £376 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £486 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £670
90th Percentile £825 £850 £768
UK median daily rate £518 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -10.47% +5.09% -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 28,978 26,109 33,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 92.88% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,528 16,189 23,132
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -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 1,750 814 1,430
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% -23.71% +40.01%
75th Percentile £61.23 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.41 £74.31 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%

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 1 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 1 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 -37 230 £550 -15.38% 51
North of England -3 92 £500 +5.26% 21
Yorkshire -28 48 £500 +17.65% 10
Midlands +4 44 £525 +1.94% 9
West Midlands +6 39 £531 +0.19% 8
North West +3 36 £405 -14.74% 11
South East -5 15 £525 +5.00% 16
North East -5 9 £550 -2.65%
South West -13 6 £488 -15.22% 12
East Midlands -14 5 £446 -10.75% 1
East of England -18 2 £450 -18.18% 8
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 389 (100.00%) AWS
2 231 (59.38%) Python
3 208 (53.47%) Terraform
4 206 (52.96%) DevOps
5 198 (50.90%) CI/CD
6 147 (37.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 131 (33.68%) Security Cleared
8 124 (31.88%) SC Cleared
9 103 (26.48%) Amazon S3
9 103 (26.48%) Serverless
10 102 (26.22%) Kubernetes
11 101 (25.96%) Docker
12 91 (23.39%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (22.62%) GitHub
14 87 (22.37%) Agile
15 84 (21.59%) Jenkins
16 78 (20.05%) Software Engineering
17 72 (18.51%) GitLab
18 69 (17.74%) AWS CloudFormation
19 64 (16.45%) Containerisation
20 63 (16.20%) Linux
21 62 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
22 60 (15.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 60 (15.42%) Amazon RDS
22 60 (15.42%) SQL
23 59 (15.17%) Amazon ECS
24 58 (14.91%) Apache Airflow
25 57 (14.65%) Amazon EC2
25 57 (14.65%) Grafana
25 57 (14.65%) 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 58 (14.91%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (7.20%) Apache
3 25 (6.43%) Confluence
4 17 (4.37%) Apache Spark
5 13 (3.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (2.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 389 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (26.48%) Amazon S3
2 103 (26.48%) Serverless
3 91 (23.39%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (22.62%) GitHub
5 69 (17.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 60 (15.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 59 (15.17%) Amazon ECS
8 57 (14.65%) Amazon EC2
9 54 (13.88%) Azure
10 51 (13.11%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (12.85%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (11.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 37 (9.51%) GCP
14 33 (8.48%) Snowflake
15 32 (8.23%) dbt
16 31 (7.97%) AWS KMS
17 21 (5.40%) Route 53
18 19 (4.88%) Amazon ELB
19 18 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.74%) DNS
2 27 (6.94%) Firewall
3 18 (4.63%) HTTP
4 17 (4.37%) FTP
4 17 (4.37%) SMTP
4 17 (4.37%) SSH
5 10 (2.57%) IMAP
5 10 (2.57%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.06%) VPN
7 6 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.77%) Network Security
9 2 (0.51%) DHCP
9 2 (0.51%) SSL
10 1 (0.26%) LAN
10 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.42%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (13.11%) Amazon Athena
3 47 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (11.05%) Data Lake
5 31 (7.97%) Apache Iceberg
6 29 (7.46%) Apache Arrow
6 29 (7.46%) Dremio
7 25 (6.43%) DynamoDB
8 24 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (5.66%) NoSQL
10 20 (5.14%) Apache Ignite
11 16 (4.11%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (2.31%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.06%) Metadata
15 7 (1.80%) Big Data
15 7 (1.80%) Flink
15 7 (1.80%) MongoDB
16 6 (1.54%) MySQL
16 6 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 84 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 72 (18.51%) GitLab
3 49 (12.60%) Git
4 35 (9.00%) JIRA
5 17 (4.37%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.08%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.29%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.29%) MLflow
9 5 (1.29%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.77%) JUnit
11 3 (0.77%) Mockito
11 3 (0.77%) Selenium
11 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.77%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.51%) Gradle
General
1 89 (22.88%) Finance
2 77 (19.79%) Public Sector
3 70 (17.99%) Social Skills
4 46 (11.83%) Banking
5 35 (9.00%) Front Office
6 21 (5.40%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.31%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.80%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
14 2 (0.51%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.26%) Games
15 1 (0.26%) Military
15 1 (0.26%) Retail
15 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.28%) Kafka
2 37 (9.51%) Node.js
3 31 (7.97%) React
4 30 (7.71%) NumPy
4 30 (7.71%) Pandas
5 29 (7.46%) AWS CDK
5 29 (7.46%) SciPy
6 24 (6.17%) REST
7 22 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (5.14%) gRPC
8 20 (5.14%) Protocol Buffers
8 20 (5.14%) RESTful
9 18 (4.63%) PySpark
10 14 (3.60%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.57%) LDAP
12 9 (2.31%) Vue
13 8 (2.06%) Lambda Expressions
14 7 (1.80%) Next.js
15 5 (1.29%) Flask
15 5 (1.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 54 (13.88%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.77%) Hedge funds
3 35 (9.00%) Fixed Income
4 29 (7.46%) Equities
4 29 (7.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.40%) Replication
6 20 (5.14%) Derivative
6 20 (5.14%) Pricing Data
7 15 (3.86%) Public Cloud
8 14 (3.60%) NHS
9 7 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 63 (16.20%) Linux
2 25 (6.43%) Windows
3 20 (5.14%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (4.37%) VMS
5 10 (2.57%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.57%) Unix
6 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.77%) CentOS
7 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (52.96%) DevOps
2 198 (50.90%) CI/CD
3 147 (37.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (22.37%) Agile
5 78 (20.05%) Software Engineering
6 64 (16.45%) Containerisation
7 62 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
8 54 (13.88%) Cloud Security
9 48 (12.34%) Microservices
10 46 (11.83%) Observability
11 38 (9.77%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (9.00%) Investment Management
13 34 (8.74%) Change Management
14 33 (8.48%) Analytics
15 32 (8.23%) Data Engineering
15 32 (8.23%) High Availability
16 31 (7.97%) Configuration Management
17 30 (7.71%) Asset Management
18 28 (7.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 231 (59.38%) Python
2 60 (15.42%) SQL
3 57 (14.65%) Java
4 55 (14.14%) TypeScript
5 39 (10.03%) JavaScript
6 33 (8.48%) Bash
7 26 (6.68%) Go
7 26 (6.68%) PowerShell
8 19 (4.88%) Groovy
9 12 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.83%) Perl
11 4 (1.03%) C#
12 3 (0.77%) Ruby
13 2 (0.51%) AWK
13 2 (0.51%) PHP
13 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) C
14 1 (0.26%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.26%) Scala
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (33.68%) Security Cleared
2 124 (31.88%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.34%) AWS Certification
4 33 (8.48%) Degree
5 23 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.37%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (3.34%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.29%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.77%) PhD
13 2 (0.51%) OCP
13 2 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.26%) CEH
14 1 (0.26%) CISSP
14 1 (0.26%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.08%) QA
3 11 (2.83%) GDPR
4 8 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.29%) WCAG
6 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.03%) NCSC
6 4 (1.03%) NIST
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 101 (25.96%) Docker
2 17 (4.37%) DFS Replication
3 12 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.57%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.57%) Postfix
4 10 (2.57%) Squid
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 208 (53.47%) Terraform
2 102 (26.22%) Kubernetes
3 57 (14.65%) Grafana
4 53 (13.62%) Ansible
5 49 (12.60%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.83%) Argo
7 10 (2.57%) Nessus
7 10 (2.57%) Packer
7 10 (2.57%) Proxmox
8 9 (2.31%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.31%) Puppet
9 4 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.51%) Kibana
12 1 (0.26%) Consul
12 1 (0.26%) Control-M
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.26%) QRadar
12 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (6.68%) Databricks
2 24 (6.17%) ServiceNow
3 22 (5.66%) Splunk
4 15 (3.86%) Microsoft
5 13 (3.34%) Arista
6 10 (2.57%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (1.80%) Oracle
8 6 (1.54%) IBM
9 5 (1.29%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.03%) Okta
10 4 (1.03%) Qualys
10 4 (1.03%) Tenable
11 3 (0.77%) Confluent
11 3 (0.77%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.51%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.51%) F5
12 2 (0.51%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.51%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.51%) SAP
12 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media