AWS Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Leicester is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
22 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.37% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £400 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 68 64 111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 77.11% 96.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 39 77
10th Percentile £313 £169 £262
25th Percentile £407 £278 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +18.34%
75th Percentile £566 £537 £600
90th Percentile £693 £630 £635
Leicestershire median daily rate £431 £388 £449
% change year-on-year +11.29% -13.70% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £13.52 - £14.98
25th Percentile £16.51 - £19.81
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +49.79%
75th Percentile £22.00 - £27.81
90th Percentile £23.58 - £28.38
Leicestershire median hourly rate £16.28 £24.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -33.57% -2.00% +36.02%

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

AWS Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Leicester

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 22 June 2026, AWS Software 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 Leicester region featuring AWS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
AWS Software Engineer jobs