AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 188 212
Rank change year-on-year -71 +24 -18
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 448 420 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.52% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.66% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 324 323
10th Percentile £408 £400 £387
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £601 £825 £850
90th Percentile £700 £875 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile - £55.00 -
90th Percentile £77.10 £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 42,395 25,262 30,878
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 91.55% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,601 16,307 20,075
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,221 1,364 1,728
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.66 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.55%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -79 263 £538 -21.82% 69
North of England -40 86 £513 +7.89% 19
Midlands -32 44 £465 -2.11% 11
North West -37 42 £550 +37.16% 7
West Midlands -39 31 £469 -1.26% 6
North East -25 23 £425 -9.57% 8
Yorkshire -42 21 £513 +2.50% 4
South West -33 19 £450 -25.00% 11
East of England -6 16 £510 +13.33% 8
South East -68 15 £465 -7.00% 17
East Midlands -8 13 £400 -25.51% 5
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 August 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.

1 448 (100.00%) AWS
2 233 (52.01%) CI/CD
3 214 (47.77%) Terraform
4 197 (43.97%) DevOps
5 185 (41.29%) Python
6 181 (40.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 137 (30.58%) Security Cleared
8 132 (29.46%) SC Cleared
9 123 (27.46%) Serverless
10 118 (26.34%) AWS Lambda
11 109 (24.33%) Kubernetes
12 102 (22.77%) GitLab
13 96 (21.43%) Amazon S3
14 90 (20.09%) Platform Engineering
15 88 (19.64%) Docker
16 83 (18.53%) Agile
17 81 (18.08%) Containerisation
18 80 (17.86%) GitHub
18 80 (17.86%) SQL
19 75 (16.74%) Amazon EKS
20 70 (15.63%) Observability
20 70 (15.63%) Software Engineering
21 66 (14.73%) Data Engineering
22 63 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 61 (13.62%) Grafana
24 59 (13.17%) Data Pipeline
24 59 (13.17%) GitHub Actions
25 57 (12.72%) AI
26 56 (12.50%) Jenkins
27 55 (12.28%) Linux

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 31 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.57%) Confluence
3 10 (2.23%) SAS
4 7 (1.56%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (1.34%) Apache
5 6 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.12%) nginx
7 3 (0.67%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 448 (100.00%) AWS
2 123 (27.46%) Serverless
3 118 (26.34%) AWS Lambda
4 96 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 80 (17.86%) GitHub
6 75 (16.74%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 59 (13.17%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (11.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (10.49%) Azure
11 47 (10.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 43 (9.60%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (6.47%) Snowflake
14 28 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (5.36%) dbt
16 20 (4.46%) Amazon Bedrock
17 19 (4.24%) GCP
17 19 (4.24%) SaaS
18 18 (4.02%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.46%) Firewall
2 12 (2.68%) DNS
3 11 (2.46%) Network Security
4 10 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.34%) WAN
6 5 (1.12%) SSH
6 5 (1.12%) SSL
6 5 (1.12%) VPN
7 4 (0.89%) HTTP
7 4 (0.89%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.45%) BGP
9 2 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.45%) Internet
9 2 (0.45%) LAN
10 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 34 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
4 28 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 26 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (3.57%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.57%) Power BI
8 15 (3.35%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.46%) MySQL
10 9 (2.01%) Apache Iceberg
10 9 (2.01%) Pentaho
11 8 (1.79%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.56%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.34%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.34%) Metadata
14 5 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (1.12%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 102 (22.77%) GitLab
2 56 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 52 (11.61%) Git
4 15 (3.35%) JIRA
5 10 (2.23%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.01%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.56%) Gatling
8 6 (1.34%) JMeter
8 6 (1.34%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.12%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.12%) Snyk
10 4 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.67%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.67%) JUnit
11 3 (0.67%) Mockito
12 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.22%) Spinnaker
General
1 70 (15.63%) Public Sector
2 66 (14.73%) Social Skills
3 48 (10.71%) Finance
4 22 (4.91%) Banking
5 15 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.01%) Law
8 6 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.34%) Retail
9 5 (1.12%) Back Office
10 4 (0.89%) Military
11 2 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.45%) Front Office
11 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.45%) Legal
11 2 (0.45%) Local Government
11 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.45%) Marketing
11 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.22%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (47.77%) Terraform
2 25 (5.58%) Kafka
3 23 (5.13%) .NET
4 19 (4.24%) React
4 19 (4.24%) Spring Boot
5 18 (4.02%) AWS CDK
5 18 (4.02%) Spring
6 17 (3.79%) PySpark
7 16 (3.57%) REST
8 15 (3.35%) Node.js
9 11 (2.46%) Next.js
10 10 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (2.01%) Flask
11 9 (2.01%) RESTful
12 8 (1.79%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.56%) boto
13 7 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (1.56%) Keycloak
13 7 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
14 6 (1.34%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 85 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (2.68%) AI Agents
4 9 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.34%) NHS
7 4 (0.89%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.89%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.89%) Replication
8 3 (0.67%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.67%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.67%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.67%) PKI
8 3 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.28%) Linux
2 16 (3.57%) Windows
3 13 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.12%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.89%) Unix
7 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.45%) CentOS
7 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (52.01%) CI/CD
2 197 (43.97%) DevOps
3 181 (40.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (20.09%) Platform Engineering
5 83 (18.53%) Agile
6 81 (18.08%) Containerisation
7 70 (15.63%) Observability
7 70 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 66 (14.73%) Data Engineering
9 59 (13.17%) Data Pipeline
10 57 (12.72%) AI
11 55 (12.28%) Migration
12 54 (12.05%) Analytics
13 47 (10.49%) Microservices
14 42 (9.38%) Data Modelling
14 42 (9.38%) Event-Driven
15 41 (9.15%) ETL
16 39 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (8.04%) Cloud Security
17 36 (8.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 185 (41.29%) Python
2 80 (17.86%) SQL
3 53 (11.83%) Bash
4 44 (9.82%) Java
5 19 (4.24%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.02%) C#
7 14 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.01%) Groovy
9 6 (1.34%) Go
10 5 (1.12%) Scala
10 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.67%) Bicep
11 3 (0.67%) C
12 1 (0.22%) C++
12 1 (0.22%) COBOL
12 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.22%) Perl
12 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 137 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 132 (29.46%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.46%) AWS Certification
4 13 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.12%) Degree
8 4 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.45%) CCNP
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) CCIE
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.23%) QA
3 6 (1.34%) GDPR
4 5 (1.12%) SLA
5 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.45%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (19.64%) Docker
2 11 (2.46%) Squid
3 7 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.56%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.12%) vSphere
5 3 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 109 (24.33%) Kubernetes
2 61 (13.62%) Grafana
3 46 (10.27%) Ansible
3 46 (10.27%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.68%) Puppet
5 11 (2.46%) Argo
6 7 (1.56%) Kibana
6 7 (1.56%) Packer
7 6 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.89%) Istio
8 4 (0.89%) Rancher
8 4 (0.89%) Suricata
9 3 (0.67%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.67%) SELinux
10 2 (0.45%) Consul
10 2 (0.45%) Salt
10 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.22%) Control-M
11 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.80%) Databricks
3 18 (4.02%) Splunk
4 12 (2.68%) Informatica
4 12 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.46%) Foundry
5 11 (2.46%) Oracle
5 11 (2.46%) VMware
6 10 (2.23%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.01%) Denodo
8 8 (1.79%) Talend
9 7 (1.56%) Google
9 7 (1.56%) Palantir
9 7 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.12%) SAP
11 4 (0.89%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.89%) Cisco
11 4 (0.89%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.89%) Trend Micro
12 3 (0.67%) Cloudera