AWS Engineer Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 219 184
Rank change year-on-year +32 -35 -28
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 394 411 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.51% 1.10% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.18% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 350 535
10th Percentile £406 £400 £456
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £825 £813 £694
90th Percentile £875 £850 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £59.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £35.00

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 24,051 34,738 44,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.94% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,688 22,731 31,726
10th Percentile £292 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 2,569 1,360
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.88 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £16.86 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer 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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +12 298 £675 +12.50% 120
North of England +3 38 £463 +15.63% 54
North West +7 22 £402 -13.08% 44
South East +42 19 £500 -16.67% 17
Midlands +18 11 £488 +8.33% 12
Yorkshire -4 11 £513 +28.13% 10
South West +26 8 £625 +28.21% 4
West Midlands +9 6 £463 -5.13% 8
East Midlands +6 5 £500 +11.11% 4
North East - 5 £400 -
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 394 (100.00%) AWS
2 244 (61.93%) Python
3 171 (43.40%) DevOps
4 160 (40.61%) CI/CD
5 155 (39.34%) Terraform
6 152 (38.58%) Finance
7 139 (35.28%) Agile
8 126 (31.98%) Software Engineering
8 126 (31.98%) Apache Airflow
9 119 (30.20%) Amazon Athena
10 113 (28.68%) Java
11 112 (28.43%) Kubernetes
12 111 (28.17%) dbt
13 104 (26.40%) Apache Iceberg
14 102 (25.89%) Serverless
14 102 (25.89%) Infrastructure as Code
15 100 (25.38%) Dremio
15 100 (25.38%) Apache Arrow
15 100 (25.38%) Front Office
15 100 (25.38%) Asset Management
16 99 (25.13%) JavaScript
17 91 (23.10%) AWS Lambda
17 91 (23.10%) TypeScript
18 90 (22.84%) Security Cleared
19 87 (22.08%) Apache
20 85 (21.57%) Fixed Income
20 85 (21.57%) Amazon S3
20 85 (21.57%) Docker
21 77 (19.54%) SC Cleared
21 77 (19.54%) Equities

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 126 (31.98%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (22.08%) Apache
3 31 (7.87%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.78%) Confluence
5 6 (1.52%) nginx
6 5 (1.27%) JBoss
7 4 (1.02%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.25%) Camunda
9 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.25%) Luigi
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Endur
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 394 (100.00%) AWS
2 111 (28.17%) dbt
3 102 (25.89%) Serverless
4 91 (23.10%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (21.57%) Amazon S3
6 65 (16.50%) Snowflake
7 55 (13.96%) Amazon EC2
8 54 (13.71%) GitHub
9 53 (13.45%) GCP
10 46 (11.68%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (11.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (9.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (7.87%) Azure
15 29 (7.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (5.84%) OpenShift
18 18 (4.57%) AWS Step Functions
19 13 (3.30%) AWS KMS
20 12 (3.05%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.57%) Firewall
2 10 (2.54%) VPN
3 9 (2.28%) DNS
4 7 (1.78%) BGP
4 7 (1.78%) IPsec
4 7 (1.78%) OSPF
5 6 (1.52%) HTTP
5 6 (1.52%) Network Security
6 5 (1.27%) SSL
7 4 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.76%) DHCP
8 3 (0.76%) Internet
8 3 (0.76%) SMTP
8 3 (0.76%) SSH
9 2 (0.51%) IMAP
9 2 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.25%) FTP
10 1 (0.25%) NAS
10 1 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.20%) Amazon Athena
2 104 (26.40%) Apache Iceberg
3 100 (25.38%) Apache Arrow
3 100 (25.38%) Dremio
4 53 (13.45%) Apache Ignite
5 46 (11.68%) Data Lake
6 42 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (7.36%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (6.35%) DynamoDB
9 20 (5.08%) NoSQL
10 15 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.55%) Relational Database
12 13 (3.30%) Big Data
13 12 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (2.28%) Tableau
15 8 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (1.78%) MongoDB
17 6 (1.52%) SQL Server
18 3 (0.76%) Data Mining
18 3 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (13.71%) Jenkins
2 53 (13.45%) GitLab
3 31 (7.87%) Git
4 19 (4.82%) JIRA
5 18 (4.57%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.76%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.51%) Ant
10 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.51%) Maven
10 2 (0.51%) Mocha
10 2 (0.51%) Postman
10 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 152 (38.58%) Finance
2 100 (25.38%) Front Office
3 68 (17.26%) Banking
4 55 (13.96%) Investment Banking
5 49 (12.44%) Social Skills
6 32 (8.12%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.28%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.02%) Law
9 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Retail
10 3 (0.76%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) iGaming
12 1 (0.25%) Legal
12 1 (0.25%) Local Government
12 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.51%) NumPy
1 69 (17.51%) Pandas
1 69 (17.51%) SciPy
2 51 (12.94%) Node.js
3 50 (12.69%) React
4 47 (11.93%) PySpark
5 38 (9.64%) gRPC
5 38 (9.64%) Protocol Buffers
6 36 (9.14%) Vue
7 35 (8.88%) AngularJS
8 29 (7.36%) Kafka
9 18 (4.57%) AWS CDK
10 15 (3.81%) J2EE
11 12 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (2.79%) .NET
13 9 (2.28%) GraphQL
14 5 (1.27%) JSON
14 5 (1.27%) REST
14 5 (1.27%) RESTful
14 5 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.57%) Fixed Income
2 77 (19.54%) Equities
3 76 (19.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 58 (14.72%) Hedge funds
5 51 (12.94%) Derivative
6 30 (7.61%) Pricing Data
7 25 (6.35%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.55%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.78%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.02%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.76%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
14 2 (0.51%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 42 (10.66%) Linux
2 15 (3.81%) Windows
3 10 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.03%) Unix
5 7 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (43.40%) DevOps
2 160 (40.61%) CI/CD
3 139 (35.28%) Agile
4 126 (31.98%) Software Engineering
5 102 (25.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 100 (25.38%) Asset Management
7 64 (16.24%) Investment Management
8 46 (11.68%) Containerisation
9 38 (9.64%) Data Engineering
10 37 (9.39%) Cloud Security
11 36 (9.14%) Fintech
11 36 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (8.88%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (8.88%) Mentoring
13 34 (8.63%) Performance Attribution
14 31 (7.87%) Order Management
14 31 (7.87%) Risk Management
15 29 (7.36%) Migration
16 27 (6.85%) Microservices
17 26 (6.60%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 244 (61.93%) Python
2 113 (28.68%) Java
3 99 (25.13%) JavaScript
4 91 (23.10%) TypeScript
5 72 (18.27%) SQL
6 31 (7.87%) Bash
7 29 (7.36%) Go
8 16 (4.06%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.03%) C++
10 7 (1.78%) C
10 7 (1.78%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.27%) C#
11 5 (1.27%) Groovy
11 5 (1.27%) Scala
12 4 (1.02%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.25%) R
14 1 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 90 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.90%) AWS Certification
4 17 (4.31%) Degree
5 13 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.78%) CCNP
7 7 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.78%) PhD
8 6 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.51%) OCP
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.05%) Data Quality
1 12 (3.05%) QA
2 6 (1.52%) NIST
3 5 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.02%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.76%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 85 (21.57%) Docker
2 7 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.51%) Postfix
3 2 (0.51%) Squid
4 1 (0.25%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.25%) iptables
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 155 (39.34%) Terraform
2 112 (28.43%) Kubernetes
3 53 (13.45%) Ansible
4 24 (6.09%) Grafana
5 21 (5.33%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.81%) Puppet
7 10 (2.54%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.78%) Kibana
9 4 (1.02%) Argo
10 3 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.51%) Cilium
11 2 (0.51%) Nessus
11 2 (0.51%) Packer
11 2 (0.51%) Podman
11 2 (0.51%) SELinux
12 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.25%) QRadar
12 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.25%) yum
Vendors
1 14 (3.55%) Arista
2 10 (2.54%) Databricks
3 8 (2.03%) Cisco
4 7 (1.78%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.78%) CheckPoint
4 7 (1.78%) Fortinet
4 7 (1.78%) Oracle
4 7 (1.78%) Splunk
5 6 (1.52%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.52%) Virgin Media
6 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.76%) Google
8 2 (0.51%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.51%) Qualys
8 2 (0.51%) Tenable
9 1 (0.25%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.25%) Okta
9 1 (0.25%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.25%) UiPath