AWS Engineer Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £556 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 192 143
Rank change year-on-year -63 -49 +35
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 339 674 1,360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 1.37% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.45% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 542 1,115
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £688
90th Percentile £850 £798 £767
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 7 May 2024.

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
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 7 May 2024. 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 -17 257 £575 -8.00% 54
North of England -3 32 £463 -13.95% 9
North West +18 26 £456 -8.75% 8
South East -7 17 £600 +2.13% 5
South West -10 12 £475 -17.39% 5
Yorkshire +7 6 £525 -12.50% 1
Midlands +27 5 £450 -25.00% 12
East Midlands +21 3 £450 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +18 2 £488 -22.00% 9
East of England -3 2 £625 +20.19%
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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.

1 339 (100.00%) AWS
2 181 (53.39%) Python
3 165 (48.67%) DevOps
4 143 (42.18%) Terraform
5 111 (32.74%) CI/CD
6 103 (30.38%) Kubernetes
7 87 (25.66%) Finance
8 78 (23.01%) Security Cleared
9 77 (22.71%) Java
10 75 (22.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 74 (21.83%) Serverless
12 73 (21.53%) SC Cleared
13 72 (21.24%) Agile
14 69 (20.35%) Amazon S3
15 66 (19.47%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (19.17%) Amazon Athena
17 64 (18.88%) JavaScript
18 62 (18.29%) AWS Lambda
18 62 (18.29%) Docker
19 58 (17.11%) Linux
20 55 (16.22%) Apache Airflow
21 54 (15.93%) Software Engineering
22 53 (15.63%) SQL
22 53 (15.63%) Snowflake
23 52 (15.34%) Data Lake
24 51 (15.04%) Ansible
25 50 (14.75%) TypeScript
26 49 (14.45%) Apache
26 49 (14.45%) Asset Management
26 49 (14.45%) dbt

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 55 (16.22%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (14.45%) Apache
3 6 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.47%) nginx
5 4 (1.18%) Confluence
6 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.29%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 339 (100.00%) AWS
2 74 (21.83%) Serverless
3 69 (20.35%) Amazon S3
4 66 (19.47%) Amazon EC2
5 62 (18.29%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (15.63%) Snowflake
7 49 (14.45%) dbt
8 40 (11.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (8.85%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (8.85%) Azure
10 30 (8.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (7.08%) GitHub
12 18 (5.31%) Amazon Kinesis
12 18 (5.31%) GCP
13 17 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (4.72%) Amazon EMR
14 16 (4.72%) AWS CodePipeline
14 16 (4.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.83%) Firewall
2 12 (3.54%) DNS
3 7 (2.06%) Network Security
4 4 (1.18%) DHCP
5 3 (0.88%) IPv4
5 3 (0.88%) LAN
5 3 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.88%) SMTP
5 3 (0.88%) VPN
5 3 (0.88%) WLAN
6 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.29%) MPLS
6 1 (0.29%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.17%) Amazon Athena
2 52 (15.34%) Data Lake
3 48 (14.16%) Apache Arrow
3 48 (14.16%) Dremio
4 37 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (10.03%) Apache Ignite
6 25 (7.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 20 (5.90%) Big Data
7 20 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (4.72%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.65%) MySQL
9 9 (2.65%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.36%) Flink
11 6 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.47%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.88%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.88%) Parquet
13 3 (0.88%) Tableau
14 2 (0.59%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 37 (10.91%) Git
1 37 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.67%) GitLab
3 8 (2.36%) JIRA
4 6 (1.77%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.18%) JMeter
5 4 (1.18%) Maven
6 3 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.88%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.88%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.59%) Snyk
7 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.59%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.29%) Gatling
8 1 (0.29%) Gradle
8 1 (0.29%) Storybook
8 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 87 (25.66%) Finance
2 46 (13.57%) Social Skills
3 36 (10.62%) Banking
4 34 (10.03%) Front Office
5 30 (8.85%) Investment Banking
6 23 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.65%) Law
8 8 (2.36%) Retail
9 7 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.29%) Marketing
12 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.16%) gRPC
1 48 (14.16%) Protocol Buffers
2 38 (11.21%) NumPy
2 38 (11.21%) Pandas
3 34 (10.03%) SciPy
4 22 (6.49%) Kafka
5 17 (5.01%) React
6 14 (4.13%) AWS CDK
6 14 (4.13%) Node.js
6 14 (4.13%) PySpark
7 13 (3.83%) .NET
8 10 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.36%) Lambda Expressions
10 7 (2.06%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.06%) Redux
10 7 (2.06%) REST
10 7 (2.06%) Vue
10 7 (2.06%) YAML
11 6 (1.77%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.91%) Hedge funds
2 31 (9.14%) Fixed Income
3 24 (7.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (6.49%) Derivative
4 22 (6.49%) Equities
5 14 (4.13%) Clustering
6 13 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.77%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.47%) PKI
10 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.88%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.88%) Life Science
12 2 (0.59%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.59%) IoT
12 2 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (17.11%) Linux
2 18 (5.31%) Windows
3 7 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.77%) Unix
5 3 (0.88%) Debian
6 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (48.67%) DevOps
2 111 (32.74%) CI/CD
3 75 (22.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (21.24%) Agile
5 54 (15.93%) Software Engineering
6 49 (14.45%) Asset Management
7 43 (12.68%) Investment Management
8 37 (10.91%) Containerisation
9 31 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (8.55%) Data Engineering
12 27 (7.96%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (7.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 26 (7.67%) Analytics
14 25 (7.37%) ETL
15 23 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (5.31%) Microservices
17 16 (4.72%) Greeks
17 16 (4.72%) Migration
17 16 (4.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 181 (53.39%) Python
2 77 (22.71%) Java
3 64 (18.88%) JavaScript
4 53 (15.63%) SQL
5 50 (14.75%) TypeScript
6 40 (11.80%) Bash
7 30 (8.85%) Go
8 18 (5.31%) C#
9 13 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.95%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.36%) C
11 8 (2.36%) C++
12 7 (2.06%) Scala
13 6 (1.77%) PHP
13 6 (1.77%) Ruby
13 6 (1.77%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.47%) Groovy
15 3 (0.88%) Perl
16 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 73 (21.53%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.55%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.42%) Degree
5 14 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.59%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) CCIE
10 1 (0.29%) CISA
10 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.18%) NIST
4 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.59%) GDPR
4 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.29%) NCSC
5 1 (0.29%) QA
5 1 (0.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (18.29%) Docker
2 7 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 143 (42.18%) Terraform
2 103 (30.38%) Kubernetes
3 51 (15.04%) Ansible
4 23 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.65%) Grafana
5 9 (2.65%) Puppet
6 7 (2.06%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.18%) Argo
7 4 (1.18%) HP Fortify
7 4 (1.18%) Kibana
8 3 (0.88%) Consul
8 3 (0.88%) Packer
8 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.29%) Graylog
9 1 (0.29%) logstash
9 1 (0.29%) Nagios
9 1 (0.29%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (3.83%) Red Hat
1 13 (3.83%) Splunk
2 6 (1.77%) Oracle
3 5 (1.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.18%) Databricks
4 4 (1.18%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.18%) F5
4 4 (1.18%) SAP
5 3 (0.88%) AppDynamics
5 3 (0.88%) VMware
6 2 (0.59%) Cisco
6 2 (0.59%) Google
6 2 (0.59%) IBM
6 2 (0.59%) Informatica
6 2 (0.59%) MKS
6 2 (0.59%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.59%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.29%) Meraki
7 1 (0.29%) New Relic
7 1 (0.29%) Zscaler