AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 193 210
Rank change year-on-year -65 +17 -13
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 462 417 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.50% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.64% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 317 327
10th Percentile £406 £385 £396
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £67.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile £78.31 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £59.50 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.89% - -

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 42,946 25,411 30,652
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.36% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,575 16,393 19,112
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,509 1,371 1,480
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.75 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

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 19 September 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 -73 268 £538 -17.31% 240
North of England -50 89 £513 +13.89% 80
Midlands -34 49 £469 -1.26% 43
North West -46 44 £540 +33.33% 57
West Midlands -52 28 £473 -0.42% 21
North East -30 24 £431 -8.24% 5
South West -24 22 £450 -25.00% 36
East Midlands +4 21 £400 -23.85% 22
Yorkshire -45 21 £513 +2.50% 18
East of England -10 16 £510 +13.33% 20
South East -62 14 £460 -10.24% 28
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 462 (100.00%) AWS
2 238 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 225 (48.70%) Terraform
4 201 (43.51%) DevOps
5 193 (41.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 185 (40.04%) Python
7 142 (30.74%) Security Cleared
8 136 (29.44%) SC Cleared
9 125 (27.06%) Serverless
10 120 (25.97%) AWS Lambda
11 108 (23.38%) Kubernetes
12 101 (21.86%) GitLab
13 100 (21.65%) Platform Engineering
14 92 (19.91%) Amazon S3
15 90 (19.48%) Agile
15 90 (19.48%) Docker
16 82 (17.75%) Observability
17 81 (17.53%) Containerisation
17 81 (17.53%) SQL
18 79 (17.10%) GitHub
19 77 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
19 77 (16.67%) Software Engineering
20 69 (14.94%) Data Engineering
21 67 (14.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 67 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
22 60 (12.99%) AI
22 60 (12.99%) Analytics
22 60 (12.99%) Grafana
23 59 (12.77%) Linux
24 58 (12.55%) GitHub Actions

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 26 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.68%) Confluence
3 8 (1.73%) nginx
4 7 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.52%) SAS
5 6 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.08%) Apache
7 4 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.87%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 462 (100.00%) AWS
2 125 (27.06%) Serverless
3 120 (25.97%) AWS Lambda
4 92 (19.91%) Amazon S3
5 79 (17.10%) GitHub
6 77 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 67 (14.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 58 (12.55%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (11.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (10.17%) Azure
12 46 (9.96%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (9.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 32 (6.93%) Snowflake
14 31 (6.71%) Amazon SQS
15 29 (6.28%) dbt
16 21 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
17 20 (4.33%) Amazon EventBridge
18 19 (4.11%) SaaS
19 18 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.76%) Firewall
2 14 (3.03%) DNS
3 12 (2.60%) Network Security
4 11 (2.38%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.52%) SSH
6 6 (1.30%) HTTP
6 6 (1.30%) WAN
7 5 (1.08%) SSL
7 5 (1.08%) VPN
8 4 (0.87%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.43%) FTP
9 2 (0.43%) IMAP
9 2 (0.43%) Internet
9 2 (0.43%) LAN
9 2 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.43%) SMTP
10 1 (0.22%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.04%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (7.58%) Amazon Athena
3 31 (6.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 29 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (6.28%) DynamoDB
4 29 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.81%) Power BI
7 12 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (2.16%) MySQL
9 9 (1.95%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (1.73%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.52%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.30%) Metadata
12 6 (1.30%) Redis
13 5 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (1.08%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 101 (21.86%) GitLab
2 57 (12.34%) Jenkins
3 56 (12.12%) Git
4 16 (3.46%) JIRA
5 10 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.73%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.52%) Gatling
8 6 (1.30%) JMeter
9 5 (1.08%) Mockito
9 5 (1.08%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.87%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.87%) JUnit
10 4 (0.87%) Snyk
11 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.65%) Maven
12 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.43%) Spinnaker
General
1 72 (15.58%) Public Sector
2 71 (15.37%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.52%) Finance
4 20 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.33%) Banking
5 12 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.73%) Back Office
6 8 (1.73%) Law
7 6 (1.30%) Military
8 5 (1.08%) Retail
9 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.87%) Front Office
10 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.43%) Legal
11 2 (0.43%) Local Government
11 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.43%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (48.70%) Terraform
2 29 (6.28%) Kafka
3 27 (5.84%) .NET
4 19 (4.11%) React
5 18 (3.90%) AWS CDK
5 18 (3.90%) REST
5 18 (3.90%) Spring Boot
6 17 (3.68%) Spring
7 16 (3.46%) Node.js
8 15 (3.25%) PySpark
9 10 (2.16%) Keycloak
9 10 (2.16%) Next.js
10 9 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (1.95%) Flask
10 9 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (1.73%) FastAPI
11 8 (1.73%) RESTful
12 7 (1.52%) Model Context Protocol
13 6 (1.30%) boto
13 6 (1.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 93 (20.13%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 8 (1.73%) Replication
5 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.52%) NHS
6 6 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.08%) PKI
8 4 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.87%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.65%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.65%) Legacy Code
9 3 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 59 (12.77%) Linux
2 18 (3.90%) Windows
3 15 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.73%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.08%) Unix
7 3 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.65%) CentOS
7 3 (0.65%) VMS
8 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (51.52%) CI/CD
2 201 (43.51%) DevOps
3 193 (41.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (21.65%) Platform Engineering
5 90 (19.48%) Agile
6 82 (17.75%) Observability
7 81 (17.53%) Containerisation
8 77 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 69 (14.94%) Data Engineering
10 67 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
11 60 (12.99%) AI
11 60 (12.99%) Analytics
12 50 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (10.82%) Migration
13 46 (9.96%) Data Modelling
13 46 (9.96%) Microservices
14 43 (9.31%) Event-Driven
15 41 (8.87%) Test Automation
16 40 (8.66%) Cloud Security
17 38 (8.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 185 (40.04%) Python
2 81 (17.53%) SQL
3 54 (11.69%) Bash
4 44 (9.52%) Java
5 20 (4.33%) C#
5 20 (4.33%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.81%) Groovy
8 7 (1.52%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.87%) Go
9 4 (0.87%) Scala
10 3 (0.65%) Bicep
11 2 (0.43%) C
11 2 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.22%) C++
12 1 (0.22%) COBOL
12 1 (0.22%) Perl
12 1 (0.22%) PHP
12 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 142 (30.74%) Security Cleared
2 136 (29.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.30%) Degree
8 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.60%) QA
3 4 (0.87%) GDPR
4 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.43%) SLA
4 2 (0.43%) WCAG
5 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (19.48%) Docker
2 13 (2.81%) Squid
3 8 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.08%) vSphere
7 4 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.65%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.65%) Postfix
9 2 (0.43%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 108 (23.38%) Kubernetes
2 60 (12.99%) Grafana
3 49 (10.61%) Ansible
4 46 (9.96%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.38%) Puppet
6 9 (1.95%) Argo
6 9 (1.95%) Packer
7 8 (1.73%) Kibana
8 7 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.30%) Rancher
10 5 (1.08%) Istio
11 4 (0.87%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.87%) Nessus
11 4 (0.87%) Suricata
12 3 (0.65%) Consul
12 3 (0.65%) SELinux
12 3 (0.65%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.43%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (6.49%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.98%) Databricks
3 19 (4.11%) Splunk
4 16 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.60%) Dynatrace
5 12 (2.60%) VMware
6 11 (2.38%) Foundry
6 11 (2.38%) Oracle
7 10 (2.16%) Informatica
8 7 (1.52%) Denodo
8 7 (1.52%) Palantir
8 7 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.08%) Google
9 5 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.08%) SAP
9 5 (1.08%) Talend
10 4 (0.87%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco
10 4 (0.87%) Okta
10 4 (0.87%) Trend Micro