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 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 177 210
Rank change year-on-year -67 +33 -12
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 372 375 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 1.50% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.61% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 299 364
10th Percentile £375 £424 £413
25th Percentile £419 £500 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £650
90th Percentile £713 £853 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £587 £550
% change year-on-year -11.80% +6.68% -6.38%
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 32,730 23,243 35,186
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.89% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,732 14,914 23,562
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £411 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,123 731 2,215
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -17.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.31 £34.08
% change year-on-year -2.35% +0.66% -15.85%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -60 236 £518 -23.33% 44
North of England -14 71 £500 -1.23% 21
Yorkshire -35 38 £525 +5.00% 2
Midlands -32 30 £550 +10.00% 7
North West -16 26 £441 -9.49% 17
West Midlands -30 24 £680 +28.30% 5
South East -31 13 £550 +10.00% 22
North East -14 7 £550 -2.65% 2
South West -14 7 £536 -4.67% 18
East Midlands -28 6 £433 -13.50% 2
East of England -26 3 £525 -4.55% 7
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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.

1 372 (100.00%) AWS
2 209 (56.18%) CI/CD
3 207 (55.65%) DevOps
4 198 (53.23%) Terraform
5 189 (50.81%) Python
6 142 (38.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 141 (37.90%) Security Cleared
8 132 (35.48%) SC Cleared
9 105 (28.23%) Serverless
10 104 (27.96%) Kubernetes
11 95 (25.54%) Docker
12 94 (25.27%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (21.24%) Amazon S3
13 79 (21.24%) GitHub
14 78 (20.97%) GitLab
15 72 (19.35%) Containerisation
16 68 (18.28%) AWS CloudFormation
17 65 (17.47%) Agile
18 63 (16.94%) Amazon EKS
19 62 (16.67%) Jenkins
20 55 (14.78%) Linux
21 53 (14.25%) Platform Engineering
22 52 (13.98%) Cloud Security
23 51 (13.71%) Software Engineering
24 50 (13.44%) SQL
25 48 (12.90%) Observability
26 47 (12.63%) Amazon EC2
27 46 (12.37%) Ansible
27 46 (12.37%) Azure
28 45 (12.10%) Amazon ECS

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 36 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (5.91%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.03%) Apache
4 7 (1.88%) Confluence
5 5 (1.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.54%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 372 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (28.23%) Serverless
3 94 (25.27%) AWS Lambda
4 79 (21.24%) Amazon S3
4 79 (21.24%) GitHub
5 68 (18.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (16.94%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (12.63%) Amazon EC2
8 46 (12.37%) Azure
9 45 (12.10%) Amazon ECS
10 44 (11.83%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (11.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (9.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 32 (8.60%) GCP
14 23 (6.18%) Snowflake
15 18 (4.84%) AWS KMS
16 17 (4.57%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (4.57%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (4.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 15 (4.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.76%) DNS
2 12 (3.23%) Firewall
3 9 (2.42%) VPN
4 4 (1.08%) HTTP
4 4 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.54%) FTP
5 2 (0.54%) SMTP
5 2 (0.54%) SSH
6 1 (0.27%) 4G
6 1 (0.27%) 5G
6 1 (0.27%) BGP
6 1 (0.27%) DHCP
6 1 (0.27%) ICMP
6 1 (0.27%) IMAP
6 1 (0.27%) LAN
6 1 (0.27%) Network Security
6 1 (0.27%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (6.72%) Data Lake
4 22 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (5.65%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (2.15%) Metadata
9 7 (1.88%) Flink
9 7 (1.88%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (1.61%) Apache Arrow
10 6 (1.61%) Big Data
10 6 (1.61%) Dremio
10 6 (1.61%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.61%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.61%) Tableau
11 5 (1.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (20.97%) GitLab
2 62 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.60%) Git
4 13 (3.49%) JIRA
5 10 (2.69%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.42%) Liquibase
7 5 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.34%) Snyk
7 5 (1.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.08%) MLflow
9 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.81%) JUnit
9 3 (0.81%) Mockito
9 3 (0.81%) Selenium
9 3 (0.81%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.54%) Mocha
10 2 (0.54%) MSTest
General
1 70 (18.82%) Public Sector
2 65 (17.47%) Finance
3 60 (16.13%) Social Skills
4 33 (8.87%) Banking
5 21 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.23%) Front Office
7 8 (2.15%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.88%) Aeronautics
9 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.81%) Legal
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.27%) Billing
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Law
14 1 (0.27%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.41%) Kafka
2 23 (6.18%) Node.js
3 21 (5.65%) REST
4 18 (4.84%) AWS CDK
4 18 (4.84%) RESTful
5 17 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (4.30%) PySpark
7 14 (3.76%) React
8 8 (2.15%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.15%) Pandas
8 8 (2.15%) pytest
9 7 (1.88%) NumPy
10 6 (1.61%) SciPy
10 6 (1.61%) Web Services
11 5 (1.34%) Flask
11 5 (1.34%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (1.34%) Next.js
11 5 (1.34%) OAuth
12 4 (1.08%) JWT
12 4 (1.08%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.57%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.03%) Hedge funds
5 14 (3.76%) NHS
6 13 (3.49%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.15%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.88%) Equities
9 6 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.34%) Replication
11 4 (1.08%) Derivative
11 4 (1.08%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.78%) Linux
2 11 (2.96%) Unix
3 9 (2.42%) Windows
4 5 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.81%) CentOS
5 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.81%) VMS
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (56.18%) CI/CD
2 207 (55.65%) DevOps
3 142 (38.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (19.35%) Containerisation
5 65 (17.47%) Agile
6 53 (14.25%) Platform Engineering
7 52 (13.98%) Cloud Security
8 51 (13.71%) Software Engineering
9 48 (12.90%) Observability
10 44 (11.83%) Microservices
11 41 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (10.75%) Analytics
13 39 (10.48%) Data Engineering
14 37 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (8.33%) Migration
16 27 (7.26%) AI
17 26 (6.99%) Data Modelling
18 25 (6.72%) ETL
19 24 (6.45%) High Availability
19 24 (6.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 189 (50.81%) Python
2 50 (13.44%) SQL
3 39 (10.48%) Bash
4 38 (10.22%) Java
5 24 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.11%) Go
7 16 (4.30%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.96%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.61%) C#
11 4 (1.08%) Groovy
11 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.54%) AWK
14 1 (0.27%) C
14 1 (0.27%) Perl
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 141 (37.90%) Security Cleared
2 132 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.22%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.84%) Degree
5 17 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.81%) PhD
12 2 (0.54%) OCP
12 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.27%) CCNP
13 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.76%) GDPR
3 10 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.69%) QA
4 7 (1.88%) NIST
5 5 (1.34%) SLA
6 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.08%) NCSC
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.54%) WCAG
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 95 (25.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.54%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.27%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.27%) Postfix
5 1 (0.27%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 198 (53.23%) Terraform
2 104 (27.96%) Kubernetes
3 46 (12.37%) Ansible
4 37 (9.95%) Grafana
4 37 (9.95%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.49%) Argo
6 10 (2.69%) Puppet
7 9 (2.42%) Packer
8 4 (1.08%) Istio
8 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.54%) Consul
10 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.54%) Nessus
10 2 (0.54%) Rancher
10 2 (0.54%) Salt
11 1 (0.27%) Control-M
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (7.80%) Databricks
2 24 (6.45%) Splunk
3 18 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.88%) Oracle
6 6 (1.61%) Arista
6 6 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.61%) Qualys
6 6 (1.61%) Tenable
7 5 (1.34%) Citrix
8 4 (1.08%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.08%) Okta
8 4 (1.08%) SAP
9 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.54%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.54%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.54%) Confluent
10 2 (0.54%) Informatica
10 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.54%) Salesforce