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 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 197 198
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 419 389 463
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.28% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.38% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 314 390
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £426 £485 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £675
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,233 28,165 35,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.89% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,092 17,437 24,751
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,705 974 1,399
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

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 7 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 7 December 2025. 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 -20 256 £550 -18.52% 31
North of England +3 90 £500 +25.00% 45
Yorkshire -25 49 £500 +25.00% 15
Midlands +9 47 £525 +1.94% 25
West Midlands +10 41 £531 +0.19% 15
North West +12 33 £405 -14.74% 21
South East -6 15 £538 +7.50% 38
North East +3 9 £550 -4.35% 9
South West -18 8 £510 -11.30% 22
East Midlands -12 6 £446 -10.75% 9
East of England -15 2 £450 -18.18% 25
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, 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.

1 419 (100.00%) AWS
2 248 (59.19%) Python
3 223 (53.22%) Terraform
4 217 (51.79%) DevOps
5 211 (50.36%) CI/CD
6 163 (38.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 138 (32.94%) Security Cleared
8 126 (30.07%) SC Cleared
9 110 (26.25%) Amazon S3
9 110 (26.25%) Serverless
10 109 (26.01%) Docker
11 108 (25.78%) Kubernetes
12 105 (25.06%) Agile
13 95 (22.67%) AWS Lambda
14 94 (22.43%) GitHub
15 90 (21.48%) Jenkins
16 89 (21.24%) Software Engineering
17 79 (18.85%) GitLab
18 73 (17.42%) Apache Airflow
18 73 (17.42%) AWS CloudFormation
19 72 (17.18%) Java
20 69 (16.47%) Containerisation
21 68 (16.23%) TypeScript
22 66 (15.75%) Platform Engineering
23 65 (15.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 64 (15.27%) Linux
25 63 (15.04%) Amazon Athena
25 63 (15.04%) Amazon EC2
25 63 (15.04%) SQL
26 61 (14.56%) Amazon RDS

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 73 (17.42%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (8.35%) Apache
3 27 (6.44%) Confluence
4 17 (4.06%) Apache Spark
5 14 (3.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 419 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (26.25%) Amazon S3
2 110 (26.25%) Serverless
3 95 (22.67%) AWS Lambda
4 94 (22.43%) GitHub
5 73 (17.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 65 (15.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 63 (15.04%) Amazon EC2
8 60 (14.32%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
10 51 (12.17%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (11.93%) Azure
11 50 (11.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 46 (10.98%) dbt
13 42 (10.02%) GCP
14 41 (9.79%) Snowflake
15 33 (7.88%) AWS KMS
16 23 (5.49%) Route 53
17 20 (4.77%) Amazon ELB
18 18 (4.30%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.11%) DNS
2 26 (6.21%) Firewall
3 18 (4.30%) SMTP
4 17 (4.06%) FTP
4 17 (4.06%) HTTP
4 17 (4.06%) SSH
5 11 (2.63%) IMAP
5 11 (2.63%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (2.15%) VPN
7 5 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.95%) Network Security
9 3 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.48%) DHCP
10 2 (0.48%) SSL
11 1 (0.24%) BGP
11 1 (0.24%) IPsec
11 1 (0.24%) OSPF
11 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (15.04%) Amazon Athena
2 61 (14.56%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (13.37%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (11.69%) Data Lake
5 45 (10.74%) Apache Iceberg
6 43 (10.26%) Apache Arrow
6 43 (10.26%) Dremio
7 28 (6.68%) Apache Ignite
8 24 (5.73%) DynamoDB
8 24 (5.73%) NoSQL
9 22 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (4.06%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.91%) Metadata
12 8 (1.91%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.67%) Big Data
13 7 (1.67%) Flink
13 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.43%) MySQL
14 6 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (21.48%) Jenkins
2 79 (18.85%) GitLab
3 54 (12.89%) Git
4 35 (8.35%) JIRA
5 18 (4.30%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.86%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.43%) MLflow
9 5 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.19%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.72%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.72%) JUnit
11 3 (0.72%) Mockito
11 3 (0.72%) Selenium
11 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.72%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.48%) Gradle
General
1 112 (26.73%) Finance
2 81 (19.33%) Public Sector
3 75 (17.90%) Social Skills
4 55 (13.13%) Banking
5 49 (11.69%) Front Office
6 29 (6.92%) Investment Banking
7 21 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.67%) Aeronautics
10 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.72%) Legal
13 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Law
13 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.48%) Retail
14 1 (0.24%) Games
14 1 (0.24%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.26%) NumPy
1 43 (10.26%) Pandas
1 43 (10.26%) SciPy
2 42 (10.02%) Node.js
3 39 (9.31%) Kafka
4 35 (8.35%) React
5 31 (7.40%) AWS CDK
6 28 (6.68%) gRPC
6 28 (6.68%) Protocol Buffers
7 22 (5.25%) REST
8 20 (4.77%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (4.77%) RESTful
9 18 (4.30%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.58%) PySpark
10 15 (3.58%) Vue
11 11 (2.63%) LDAP
12 8 (1.91%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (1.19%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.19%) OAuth
13 5 (1.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 49 (11.69%) Fixed Income
3 48 (11.46%) Hedge funds
4 43 (10.26%) Equities
4 43 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 28 (6.68%) Derivative
5 28 (6.68%) Pricing Data
6 21 (5.01%) Replication
7 20 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.82%) Public Cloud
9 14 (3.34%) NHS
10 9 (2.15%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.19%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 64 (15.27%) Linux
2 26 (6.21%) Windows
3 21 (5.01%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (4.30%) VMS
5 12 (2.86%) Unix
6 10 (2.39%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (51.79%) DevOps
2 211 (50.36%) CI/CD
3 163 (38.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (25.06%) Agile
5 89 (21.24%) Software Engineering
6 69 (16.47%) Containerisation
7 66 (15.75%) Platform Engineering
8 54 (12.89%) Cloud Security
9 49 (11.69%) Investment Management
10 48 (11.46%) Microservices
11 43 (10.26%) Asset Management
12 42 (10.02%) Observability
13 41 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (9.31%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (8.83%) Migration
16 34 (8.11%) Change Management
16 34 (8.11%) High Availability
17 33 (7.88%) Configuration Management
18 31 (7.40%) Data Engineering
19 30 (7.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 248 (59.19%) Python
2 72 (17.18%) Java
3 68 (16.23%) TypeScript
4 63 (15.04%) SQL
5 56 (13.37%) JavaScript
6 33 (7.88%) Go
7 31 (7.40%) Bash
8 27 (6.44%) PowerShell
9 20 (4.77%) Groovy
10 11 (2.63%) Perl
10 11 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.72%) C#
11 3 (0.72%) PHP
11 3 (0.72%) Ruby
12 2 (0.48%) AWK
12 2 (0.48%) Scala
13 1 (0.24%) C
13 1 (0.24%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 138 (32.94%) Security Cleared
2 126 (30.07%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.69%) AWS Certification
4 31 (7.40%) Degree
5 19 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.82%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.86%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.48%) OCP
14 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.48%) PhD
15 1 (0.24%) CCNP
15 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.34%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.86%) QA
3 10 (2.39%) GDPR
4 7 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.19%) WCAG
6 4 (0.95%) NCSC
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.72%) NIST
8 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 109 (26.01%) Docker
2 17 (4.06%) DFS Replication
3 13 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.63%) Dovecot
4 11 (2.63%) Postfix
4 11 (2.63%) Squid
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 223 (53.22%) Terraform
2 108 (25.78%) Kubernetes
3 58 (13.84%) Grafana
4 57 (13.60%) Ansible
5 49 (11.69%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.63%) Nessus
7 10 (2.39%) Packer
7 10 (2.39%) Proxmox
7 10 (2.39%) Puppet
8 9 (2.15%) Argo
8 9 (2.15%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.48%) Kibana
12 1 (0.24%) Consul
12 1 (0.24%) Control-M
12 1 (0.24%) Istio
12 1 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (5.97%) Databricks
2 24 (5.73%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.49%) Splunk
4 16 (3.82%) Arista
5 15 (3.58%) Microsoft
6 11 (2.63%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (1.43%) IBM
7 6 (1.43%) Oracle
8 5 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.72%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.72%) Confluent
9 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.72%) Okta
10 2 (0.48%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.48%) F5
10 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.48%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.48%) Tenable
10 2 (0.48%) Virgin Media