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 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 202 203
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 433 385 479
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.24% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.33% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 311 401
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £788 £675
90th Percentile £825 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.50 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £59.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 27,794 28,871 36,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.97% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,815 17,661 25,211
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -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 1,691 1,070 1,414
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.37
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +49.84%
75th Percentile £56.47 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.63 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.40% -20.83% +55.17%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -15 269 £575 -11.54% 70
North of England -5 89 £500 +25.00% 35
Yorkshire -25 50 £500 +25.00% 12
Midlands +17 46 £475 -5.00% 5
West Midlands +6 41 £500 +13.64% 2
North West +3 32 £404 -15.05% 20
South East +10 18 £525 +7.69% 16
South West -8 10 £600 -2.04% 2
North East -3 8 £563 +1.90% 3
East Midlands -13 5 £455 -8.95% 3
East of England -23 2 £450 -18.18% 3
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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.

1 433 (100.00%) AWS
2 258 (59.58%) Python
3 221 (51.04%) Terraform
4 220 (50.81%) DevOps
5 210 (48.50%) CI/CD
6 162 (37.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 131 (30.25%) Security Cleared
8 121 (27.94%) SC Cleared
9 114 (26.33%) Amazon S3
10 111 (25.64%) Agile
10 111 (25.64%) Kubernetes
10 111 (25.64%) Serverless
11 109 (25.17%) Docker
12 94 (21.71%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (21.71%) GitHub
12 94 (21.71%) Software Engineering
13 93 (21.48%) Jenkins
14 82 (18.94%) Apache Airflow
15 81 (18.71%) Java
16 80 (18.48%) GitLab
17 79 (18.24%) TypeScript
18 74 (17.09%) Amazon Athena
18 74 (17.09%) AWS CloudFormation
19 71 (16.40%) Containerisation
20 70 (16.17%) Linux
21 69 (15.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 68 (15.70%) JavaScript
23 67 (15.47%) SQL
24 66 (15.24%) Amazon EC2
25 64 (14.78%) 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 82 (18.94%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (9.47%) Apache
3 28 (6.47%) Confluence
4 15 (3.46%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.46%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.46%) JBoss
5 2 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Endur
1 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 433 (100.00%) AWS
2 114 (26.33%) Amazon S3
3 111 (25.64%) Serverless
4 94 (21.71%) AWS Lambda
4 94 (21.71%) GitHub
5 74 (17.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (15.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 66 (15.24%) Amazon EC2
8 62 (14.32%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (12.93%) dbt
10 52 (12.01%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (11.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 49 (11.32%) Azure
13 47 (10.85%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (10.62%) GCP
15 45 (10.39%) Snowflake
16 35 (8.08%) AWS KMS
17 24 (5.54%) Route 53
18 21 (4.85%) Amazon ELB
19 19 (4.39%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.01%) DNS
2 31 (7.16%) Firewall
3 19 (4.39%) SMTP
4 18 (4.16%) SSH
5 17 (3.93%) FTP
5 17 (3.93%) HTTP
6 13 (3.00%) VPN
7 12 (2.77%) IMAP
7 12 (2.77%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (1.62%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.15%) DHCP
9 5 (1.15%) Network Security
9 5 (1.15%) SSL
10 3 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.46%) BGP
11 2 (0.46%) IPsec
11 2 (0.46%) OSPF
12 1 (0.23%) Internet
12 1 (0.23%) NAS
12 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (17.09%) Amazon Athena
2 64 (14.78%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (14.09%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (12.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 54 (12.47%) Data Lake
6 53 (12.24%) Apache Arrow
6 53 (12.24%) Dremio
7 34 (7.85%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (5.77%) NoSQL
9 24 (5.54%) DynamoDB
10 23 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (4.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (2.08%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.62%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.39%) Big Data
15 6 (1.39%) Metadata
15 6 (1.39%) MySQL
15 6 (1.39%) Tableau
16 5 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 93 (21.48%) Jenkins
2 80 (18.48%) GitLab
3 54 (12.47%) Git
4 38 (8.78%) JIRA
5 19 (4.39%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.77%) Liquibase
7 8 (1.85%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.39%) MLflow
9 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.15%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.15%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.92%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.69%) Maven
11 3 (0.69%) Mockito
11 3 (0.69%) Selenium
11 3 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 120 (27.71%) Finance
2 83 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.32%) Public Sector
4 60 (13.86%) Banking
5 57 (13.16%) Front Office
6 35 (8.08%) Investment Banking
7 24 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.00%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.15%) Aeronautics
10 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Law
12 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.46%) Retail
13 1 (0.23%) Publishing
13 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (12.24%) NumPy
1 53 (12.24%) Pandas
1 53 (12.24%) SciPy
2 42 (9.70%) Node.js
3 39 (9.01%) React
4 34 (7.85%) gRPC
4 34 (7.85%) Kafka
4 34 (7.85%) Protocol Buffers
5 30 (6.93%) AWS CDK
6 22 (5.08%) AngularJS
6 22 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
6 22 (5.08%) REST
7 20 (4.62%) RESTful
8 19 (4.39%) Vue
9 12 (2.77%) LDAP
9 12 (2.77%) PySpark
10 8 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (1.15%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.15%) JSON
11 5 (1.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.16%) Fixed Income
2 55 (12.70%) Hedge funds
3 53 (12.24%) Equities
3 53 (12.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 49 (11.32%) Cloud Native
5 34 (7.85%) Derivative
5 34 (7.85%) Pricing Data
6 21 (4.85%) Replication
7 19 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.70%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.00%) NHS
10 8 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.15%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.17%) Linux
2 26 (6.00%) Windows
3 22 (5.08%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (4.39%) VMS
5 14 (3.23%) Unix
6 10 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.69%) CentOS
8 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (50.81%) DevOps
2 210 (48.50%) CI/CD
3 162 (37.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (25.64%) Agile
5 94 (21.71%) Software Engineering
6 71 (16.40%) Containerisation
7 61 (14.09%) Platform Engineering
8 57 (13.16%) Investment Management
9 56 (12.93%) Cloud Security
10 53 (12.24%) Asset Management
11 50 (11.55%) Microservices
12 46 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (9.24%) Migration
13 40 (9.24%) Observability
14 38 (8.78%) Configuration Management
14 38 (8.78%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (8.31%) Change Management
16 35 (8.08%) High Availability
17 32 (7.39%) Infrastructure Automation
18 28 (6.47%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 258 (59.58%) Python
2 81 (18.71%) Java
3 79 (18.24%) TypeScript
4 68 (15.70%) JavaScript
5 67 (15.47%) SQL
6 34 (7.85%) Bash
6 34 (7.85%) Go
7 29 (6.70%) PowerShell
8 22 (5.08%) Groovy
9 12 (2.77%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.54%) Perl
11 4 (0.92%) C
11 4 (0.92%) C#
11 4 (0.92%) C++
12 3 (0.69%) PHP
12 3 (0.69%) Scala
13 2 (0.46%) AWK
13 2 (0.46%) Ruby
14 1 (0.23%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (30.25%) Security Cleared
2 121 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 52 (12.01%) AWS Certification
4 34 (7.85%) Degree
5 19 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (3.46%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.46%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.92%) PhD
11 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.46%) CCNP
12 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.23%) OCP
13 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.23%) QA
2 13 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.31%) GDPR
4 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.15%) WCAG
6 4 (0.92%) NCSC
6 4 (0.92%) NIST
7 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (25.17%) Docker
2 17 (3.93%) DFS Replication
3 12 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.77%) Dovecot
3 12 (2.77%) Postfix
3 12 (2.77%) Squid
4 1 (0.23%) iptables
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 221 (51.04%) Terraform
2 111 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 63 (14.55%) Ansible
4 58 (13.39%) Grafana
5 50 (11.55%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.70%) Puppet
7 12 (2.77%) Nessus
8 11 (2.54%) Packer
9 10 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.31%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.85%) Argo
11 5 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.46%) Kibana
13 2 (0.46%) SELinux
14 1 (0.23%) Consul
14 1 (0.23%) Control-M
14 1 (0.23%) Istio
14 1 (0.23%) Rancher
14 1 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (5.54%) ServiceNow
1 24 (5.54%) Splunk
2 21 (4.85%) Databricks
3 19 (4.39%) Arista
4 12 (2.77%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (2.77%) Microsoft
5 7 (1.62%) IBM
6 6 (1.39%) Oracle
7 5 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.92%) CheckPoint
8 4 (0.92%) Okta
9 3 (0.69%) Confluent
9 3 (0.69%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.46%) Cisco
10 2 (0.46%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.46%) Google
10 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.46%) SAP
10 2 (0.46%) Tenable