AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 191 222
Rank change year-on-year -34 +31 -19
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 373 348 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.32% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.42% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 277 358
10th Percentile £375 £411 £425
25th Percentile £413 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £650
90th Percentile £730 £838 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
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 29,830 24,448 35,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 93.01% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,019 15,064 23,689
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
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 1,843 738 1,948
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.98 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.26 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -9.98% -13.33% +7.14%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -37 228 £525 -19.23% 58
North of England 0 85 £500 - 21
Yorkshire -20 44 £518 +8.95% 9
North West -2 32 £405 -16.92% 12
Midlands -26 32 £537 +7.40% 8
West Midlands -8 28 £545 +2.83% 8
South East -28 15 £538 +7.50% 21
North East -13 9 £550 -3.51%
South West -13 8 £488 -13.33% 10
East Midlands -23 4 £433 -13.50%
East of England -16 2 £525 -4.55% 6
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 January 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.

1 373 (100.00%) AWS
2 207 (55.50%) Terraform
3 206 (55.23%) Python
4 205 (54.96%) CI/CD
5 204 (54.69%) DevOps
6 146 (39.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 137 (36.73%) Security Cleared
8 132 (35.39%) SC Cleared
9 108 (28.95%) Kubernetes
10 107 (28.69%) Serverless
11 102 (27.35%) Docker
12 96 (25.74%) AWS Lambda
13 94 (25.20%) Amazon S3
14 86 (23.06%) GitHub
15 77 (20.64%) GitLab
16 74 (19.84%) Agile
17 72 (19.30%) Jenkins
18 69 (18.50%) AWS CloudFormation
19 67 (17.96%) Containerisation
20 61 (16.35%) Linux
21 59 (15.82%) Software Engineering
22 58 (15.55%) SQL
23 57 (15.28%) Amazon EC2
24 55 (14.75%) Cloud Security
25 53 (14.21%) Amazon ECS
25 53 (14.21%) Platform Engineering
26 52 (13.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
27 51 (13.67%) Amazon EKS
27 51 (13.67%) Amazon RDS
27 51 (13.67%) Ansible

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 44 (11.80%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.36%) Confluence
3 18 (4.83%) Apache
4 17 (4.56%) Apache Spark
5 12 (3.22%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (2.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 373 (100.00%) AWS
2 107 (28.69%) Serverless
3 96 (25.74%) AWS Lambda
4 94 (25.20%) Amazon S3
5 86 (23.06%) GitHub
6 69 (18.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (15.28%) Amazon EC2
8 53 (14.21%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (13.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 51 (13.67%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (13.67%) Azure
11 49 (13.14%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (10.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 34 (9.12%) GCP
14 26 (6.97%) AWS KMS
15 25 (6.70%) Snowflake
16 19 (5.09%) Amazon Kinesis
16 19 (5.09%) dbt
16 19 (5.09%) Route 53
17 15 (4.02%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.51%) DNS
2 22 (5.90%) Firewall
3 14 (3.75%) HTTP
4 12 (3.22%) FTP
4 12 (3.22%) SMTP
4 12 (3.22%) SSH
5 8 (2.14%) IMAP
5 8 (2.14%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (2.14%) VPN
6 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.80%) Network Security
8 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.54%) SSL
9 1 (0.27%) DHCP
9 1 (0.27%) LAN
9 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.67%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (8.85%) Data Lake
4 32 (8.58%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (6.17%) DynamoDB
7 22 (5.90%) NoSQL
8 17 (4.56%) Apache Iceberg
9 16 (4.29%) Apache Arrow
9 16 (4.29%) Dremio
10 14 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (2.95%) Apache Ignite
13 8 (2.14%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.88%) Big Data
14 7 (1.88%) Flink
14 7 (1.88%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.61%) Metadata
15 6 (1.61%) Tableau
16 5 (1.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 77 (20.64%) GitLab
2 72 (19.30%) Jenkins
3 42 (11.26%) Git
4 29 (7.77%) JIRA
5 12 (3.22%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.68%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.88%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.34%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.07%) MLflow
9 4 (1.07%) Mockito
9 4 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.07%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.80%) JUnit
10 3 (0.80%) Selenium
10 3 (0.80%) Snyk
10 3 (0.80%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.54%) Maven
General
1 74 (19.84%) Public Sector
2 73 (19.57%) Finance
3 60 (16.09%) Social Skills
4 37 (9.92%) Banking
5 22 (5.90%) Front Office
6 17 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.49%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.88%) Aeronautics
10 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Law
12 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.27%) Games
13 1 (0.27%) Retail
13 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.46%) Kafka
2 31 (8.31%) Node.js
3 25 (6.70%) React
4 23 (6.17%) REST
5 22 (5.90%) AWS CDK
6 18 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (4.83%) PySpark
7 17 (4.56%) NumPy
7 17 (4.56%) Pandas
8 16 (4.29%) RESTful
8 16 (4.29%) SciPy
9 11 (2.95%) gRPC
9 11 (2.95%) Protocol Buffers
10 10 (2.68%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.14%) Lambda Expressions
11 8 (2.14%) LDAP
11 8 (2.14%) Next.js
12 6 (1.61%) Flask
13 5 (1.34%) OAuth
13 5 (1.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.55%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.97%) Hedge funds
3 22 (5.90%) Fixed Income
4 20 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.29%) Equities
5 16 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.29%) Replication
6 15 (4.02%) NHS
7 11 (2.95%) Derivative
7 11 (2.95%) Pricing Data
8 8 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.35%) Linux
2 18 (4.83%) Windows
3 15 (4.02%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (3.22%) VMS
5 11 (2.95%) Unix
6 8 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.80%) CentOS
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (54.96%) CI/CD
2 204 (54.69%) DevOps
3 146 (39.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (19.84%) Agile
5 67 (17.96%) Containerisation
6 59 (15.82%) Software Engineering
7 55 (14.75%) Cloud Security
8 53 (14.21%) Platform Engineering
9 44 (11.80%) Microservices
9 44 (11.80%) Observability
10 38 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (9.38%) Analytics
12 34 (9.12%) Data Engineering
13 33 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (8.58%) High Availability
15 30 (8.04%) Migration
16 28 (7.51%) Change Management
17 26 (6.97%) Configuration Management
17 26 (6.97%) ETL
18 24 (6.43%) AI
Programming Languages
1 206 (55.23%) Python
2 58 (15.55%) SQL
3 45 (12.06%) Java
4 42 (11.26%) TypeScript
5 37 (9.92%) Bash
6 26 (6.97%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.63%) Go
7 21 (5.63%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.75%) Groovy
9 10 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.61%) Perl
11 4 (1.07%) C#
11 4 (1.07%) Ruby
12 2 (0.54%) AWK
12 2 (0.54%) PHP
12 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 132 (35.39%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.99%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.97%) Degree
5 18 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.75%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.22%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.88%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.80%) PhD
13 2 (0.54%) OCP
13 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.27%) CEH
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.95%) GDPR
3 10 (2.68%) QA
4 9 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.61%) NIST
6 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.07%) NCSC
7 3 (0.80%) WCAG
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 102 (27.35%) Docker
2 12 (3.22%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.14%) Dovecot
3 8 (2.14%) Postfix
3 8 (2.14%) Squid
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 207 (55.50%) Terraform
2 108 (28.95%) Kubernetes
3 51 (13.67%) Ansible
4 47 (12.60%) Grafana
5 44 (11.80%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.95%) Argo
7 10 (2.68%) Packer
7 10 (2.68%) Puppet
8 9 (2.41%) Nessus
9 8 (2.14%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.61%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.54%) Consul
12 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.27%) Control-M
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.27%) QRadar
13 1 (0.27%) Rancher
13 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (7.51%) Databricks
2 22 (5.90%) Splunk
3 18 (4.83%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.56%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.68%) Arista
6 8 (2.14%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (1.88%) Oracle
8 5 (1.34%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.34%) Qualys
8 5 (1.34%) Tenable
9 4 (1.07%) Citrix
9 4 (1.07%) Okta
10 3 (0.80%) Confluent
10 3 (0.80%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.54%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.54%) F5
11 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce