AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Amazon Web Services Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £487, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 91 96
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +14
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.21% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £418 £555 £435
25th Percentile £442 £580 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £645 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.46% +29.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £695 £513
90th Percentile £566 £712 £520
South East median daily rate £513 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -12.77% -2.08% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 875 1,279 1,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 93.15% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 809 695
10th Percentile £213 £360 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 120 103
10th Percentile £16.63 £22.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.82 £51.06 £21.03
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +43.84%
75th Percentile £58.13 £71.88 £67.43
90th Percentile £71.00 £77.05 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +108.33%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Hampshire

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Hampshire

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Fleet - 1 £402 -
AWS Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 Hampshire region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat