AWS Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Amazon Web Services Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 55 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +7
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 10 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.00% 1.73% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.88% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 10
10th Percentile £480 - £423
25th Percentile £500 £288 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £400 £505
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -20.79% -3.81%
75th Percentile £538 - £522
90th Percentile - - £555
West Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £400 £505
% change year-on-year +29.69% -20.79% -3.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 491 744 1,172
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.00% 91.85% 98.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 477 845
10th Percentile £279 £300 £359
25th Percentile £400 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £528
% change year-on-year -3.70% -5.21% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 23 13
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £33.11 £18.13 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +82.63% -9.35% -5.88%
75th Percentile £66.51 £48.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.74 - £62.20
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £19.00
% change year-on-year +21.18% -3.84% +2.70%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Leeds

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Leeds

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 Leeds region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Python
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (40.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (30.00%) Docker
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
7 2 (20.00%) Git
7 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (20.00%) GitLab
7 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (20.00%) Ansible
7 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (20.00%) Serverless
7 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (10.00%) NIST
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (10.00%) Observability
8 1 (10.00%) FinOps
8 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
8 1 (10.00%) SOC 2

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

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (10.00%) Apigee
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) npm
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Babel
2 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) JWT
1 1 (10.00%) Next.js
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (10.00%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) FinOps
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk