AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 179 208
Rank change year-on-year -69 +29 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 378 369 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.43% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.54% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 291 364
10th Percentile £375 £419 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £650
90th Percentile £713 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -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 32,499 23,947 34,620
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.94% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,614 15,190 23,219
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £411 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,088 723 2,142
10th Percentile £15.06 £16.25 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.89 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £34.38 £36.50 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +6.18% -14.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.20 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £33.17 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% - -10.26%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -57 239 £518 -23.33% 52
North of England -13 75 £500 - 15
Yorkshire -34 40 £523 +4.50%
Midlands -28 31 £550 +10.00% 7
North West -7 28 £436 -10.51% 15
West Midlands -28 25 £680 +28.30% 6
South East -35 14 £550 +10.00% 16
North East -15 7 £550 -2.65%
South West -23 7 £536 -4.67% 15
East Midlands -26 6 £433 -13.50% 1
East of England -20 2 £525 -4.55% 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 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.

1 378 (100.00%) AWS
2 212 (56.08%) CI/CD
3 209 (55.29%) DevOps
4 199 (52.65%) Terraform
5 196 (51.85%) Python
6 143 (37.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 141 (37.30%) Security Cleared
8 132 (34.92%) SC Cleared
9 107 (28.31%) Serverless
10 105 (27.78%) Kubernetes
11 95 (25.13%) Docker
12 94 (24.87%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (20.90%) Amazon S3
14 76 (20.11%) GitHub
14 76 (20.11%) GitLab
15 70 (18.52%) Containerisation
16 69 (18.25%) Agile
16 69 (18.25%) AWS CloudFormation
17 63 (16.67%) Jenkins
18 59 (15.61%) Amazon EKS
19 58 (15.34%) Linux
20 56 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
21 54 (14.29%) Cloud Security
21 54 (14.29%) Software Engineering
22 52 (13.76%) SQL
23 48 (12.70%) Azure
24 47 (12.43%) Amazon EC2
24 47 (12.43%) Amazon ECS
24 47 (12.43%) Ansible
25 45 (11.90%) Microservices

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 37 (9.79%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (5.82%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.23%) Apache
4 9 (2.38%) Confluence
5 7 (1.85%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) Appian
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 378 (100.00%) AWS
2 107 (28.31%) Serverless
3 94 (24.87%) AWS Lambda
4 79 (20.90%) Amazon S3
5 76 (20.11%) GitHub
6 69 (18.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 59 (15.61%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (12.70%) Azure
9 47 (12.43%) Amazon EC2
9 47 (12.43%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (8.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 32 (8.47%) GCP
14 22 (5.82%) Snowflake
15 20 (5.29%) AWS KMS
16 17 (4.50%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 16 (4.23%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (3.97%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.23%) DNS
2 13 (3.44%) Firewall
3 8 (2.12%) VPN
4 6 (1.59%) HTTP
5 4 (1.06%) FTP
5 4 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.06%) SMTP
5 4 (1.06%) SSH
5 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.79%) IMAP
6 3 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.26%) 4G
7 1 (0.26%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) DHCP
7 1 (0.26%) ICMP
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) Network Security
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.32%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 26 (6.88%) Data Lake
5 24 (6.35%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (5.29%) DynamoDB
6 20 (5.29%) NoSQL
7 16 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (2.12%) Apache Arrow
9 8 (2.12%) Dremio
9 8 (2.12%) Metadata
10 7 (1.85%) Big Data
10 7 (1.85%) Flink
10 7 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (1.59%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.59%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.59%) Tableau
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 76 (20.11%) GitLab
2 63 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 34 (8.99%) Git
4 15 (3.97%) JIRA
5 11 (2.91%) Liquibase
6 9 (2.38%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.32%) MLflow
7 5 (1.32%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.06%) Snyk
8 4 (1.06%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.06%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.79%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.79%) JUnit
9 3 (0.79%) Mockito
9 3 (0.79%) Selenium
9 3 (0.79%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.53%) Mocha
General
1 70 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 68 (17.99%) Finance
3 62 (16.40%) Social Skills
4 35 (9.26%) Banking
5 21 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.70%) Front Office
7 9 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.85%) Aeronautics
8 7 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.79%) Legal
13 2 (0.53%) Law
13 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.26%) Billing
14 1 (0.26%) Military
14 1 (0.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.79%) Kafka
2 25 (6.61%) Node.js
3 23 (6.08%) REST
4 19 (5.03%) RESTful
5 18 (4.76%) AWS CDK
5 18 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (4.50%) PySpark
6 17 (4.50%) React
7 10 (2.65%) Pandas
8 9 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 9 (2.38%) NumPy
9 8 (2.12%) pytest
9 8 (2.12%) SciPy
10 6 (1.59%) Flask
10 6 (1.59%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (1.59%) Next.js
10 6 (1.59%) Web Services
11 5 (1.32%) gRPC
11 5 (1.32%) HTML
11 5 (1.32%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.14%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 17 (4.50%) Hedge funds
5 15 (3.97%) Fixed Income
6 14 (3.70%) NHS
7 9 (2.38%) Equities
8 8 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 8 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.12%) Replication
9 5 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.32%) Derivative
9 5 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.32%) Pricing Data
10 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.34%) Linux
2 12 (3.17%) Unix
3 11 (2.91%) Windows
4 7 (1.85%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.32%) VMS
6 3 (0.79%) CentOS
6 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (56.08%) CI/CD
2 209 (55.29%) DevOps
3 143 (37.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (18.52%) Containerisation
5 69 (18.25%) Agile
6 56 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
7 54 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 54 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 45 (11.90%) Microservices
8 45 (11.90%) Observability
9 41 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
10 40 (10.58%) Analytics
11 39 (10.32%) Data Engineering
12 36 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (7.67%) Migration
14 28 (7.41%) AI
15 26 (6.88%) High Availability
16 25 (6.61%) Data Modelling
17 24 (6.35%) ETL
17 24 (6.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 196 (51.85%) Python
2 52 (13.76%) SQL
3 38 (10.05%) Bash
3 38 (10.05%) Java
4 28 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 21 (5.56%) Go
6 18 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.44%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.59%) C#
9 6 (1.59%) Groovy
10 4 (1.06%) Ruby
11 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.53%) AWK
13 1 (0.26%) C
13 1 (0.26%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) PHP
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 141 (37.30%) Security Cleared
2 132 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.85%) AWS Certification
4 21 (5.56%) Degree
5 18 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.44%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.38%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.12%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.79%) PhD
13 2 (0.53%) OCP
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.26%) CEH
14 1 (0.26%) CISSP
14 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.70%) GDPR
3 10 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.65%) QA
4 7 (1.85%) NIST
5 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.06%) NCSC
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.53%) WCAG
7 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 95 (25.13%) Docker
2 6 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.06%) DFS Replication
4 3 (0.79%) Dovecot
4 3 (0.79%) Postfix
4 3 (0.79%) Squid
4 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 199 (52.65%) Terraform
2 105 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 47 (12.43%) Ansible
4 37 (9.79%) Grafana
4 37 (9.79%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.44%) Argo
6 10 (2.65%) Puppet
7 9 (2.38%) Packer
8 4 (1.06%) Istio
8 4 (1.06%) Nessus
8 4 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.79%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.53%) Consul
10 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.53%) Rancher
10 2 (0.53%) Salt
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (7.67%) Databricks
2 23 (6.08%) Splunk
3 17 (4.50%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.85%) Arista
6 6 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.59%) Oracle
6 6 (1.59%) Qualys
6 6 (1.59%) Tenable
7 5 (1.32%) Citrix
8 4 (1.06%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.06%) Okta
8 4 (1.06%) SAP
9 3 (0.79%) Confluent
9 3 (0.79%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.53%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.53%) IBM
10 2 (0.53%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.53%) Salesforce