AWS Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Leeds is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

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

 6 months to
25 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.29% - 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £530 - £456
25th Percentile £538 - £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £483
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.31%
75th Percentile £613 - £504
90th Percentile £620 - £515
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - £483
% change year-on-year - - -6.31%

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 651 627 1,031
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 93.30% 96.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 389 703
10th Percentile £306 £320 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £575 £567 £625
90th Percentile £664 £645 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 11
10th Percentile £21.63 £17.89 £16.50
25th Percentile £23.80 £19.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.59 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +15.39% -0.30%
75th Percentile £27.06 £46.25 £23.00
90th Percentile £28.08 £48.75 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £26.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +31.25% -5.53%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, AWS Platform 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 Leeds region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
6 AWS Platform Engineer jobs in Leeds