AWS Engineer Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 169 148
Rank change year-on-year +53 -21 -39
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 309 252 486
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.46% 1.41% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.64% 1.52% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 215 384
10th Percentile £419 £421 £464
25th Percentile £513 £488 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £838 £768 £708
90th Percentile £875 £850 £805
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -5 17 £588 +6.82% 18
South London +8 6 £463 -10.63%
West London +10 5 £478 -17.83% 4
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 309 (100.00%) AWS
2 220 (71.20%) Python
3 145 (46.93%) Finance
4 138 (44.66%) Terraform
5 134 (43.37%) Agile
6 133 (43.04%) Software Engineering
6 133 (43.04%) DevOps
7 125 (40.45%) CI/CD
8 124 (40.13%) Amazon Athena
9 117 (37.86%) Apache Airflow
9 117 (37.86%) Asset Management
10 116 (37.54%) Front Office
11 115 (37.22%) Kubernetes
12 113 (36.57%) dbt
13 111 (35.92%) Apache Iceberg
13 111 (35.92%) Java
14 102 (33.01%) Serverless
14 102 (33.01%) Dremio
15 100 (32.36%) Apache Arrow
16 99 (32.04%) AWS Lambda
17 98 (31.72%) Apache
18 83 (26.86%) JavaScript
18 83 (26.86%) Docker
19 78 (25.24%) Infrastructure as Code
20 74 (23.95%) Amazon S3
21 73 (23.62%) PySpark
22 72 (23.30%) Fixed Income
23 70 (22.65%) TypeScript
23 70 (22.65%) Snowflake
24 69 (22.33%) Amazon ECS

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 117 (37.86%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (31.72%) Apache
3 49 (15.86%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.62%) nginx
5 4 (1.29%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) JBoss
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 309 (100.00%) AWS
2 113 (36.57%) dbt
3 102 (33.01%) Serverless
4 99 (32.04%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (23.95%) Amazon S3
6 70 (22.65%) Snowflake
7 69 (22.33%) Amazon ECS
8 62 (20.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 58 (18.77%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (16.18%) GCP
11 37 (11.97%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (11.65%) OpenShift
13 21 (6.80%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (6.80%) GitHub
14 20 (6.47%) IaaS
15 19 (6.15%) PaaS
16 18 (5.83%) Azure
17 17 (5.50%) Dagster
18 15 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (4.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.18%) Firewall
2 10 (3.24%) HTTP
3 7 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.62%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.29%) Network Security
6 3 (0.97%) BGP
6 3 (0.97%) IPsec
6 3 (0.97%) OSPF
7 2 (0.65%) DNS
7 2 (0.65%) Internet
7 2 (0.65%) SSL
7 2 (0.65%) VPN
8 1 (0.32%) Broadband
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (40.13%) Amazon Athena
2 111 (35.92%) Apache Iceberg
3 102 (33.01%) Dremio
4 100 (32.36%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (22.01%) Apache Ignite
6 45 (14.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 40 (12.94%) Data Lake
8 32 (10.36%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.85%) DynamoDB
12 13 (4.21%) Tableau
13 10 (3.24%) NoSQL
13 10 (3.24%) Relational Database
14 9 (2.91%) Big Data
15 6 (1.94%) Parquet
16 5 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (1.62%) Apache Hive
16 5 (1.62%) Hadoop
16 5 (1.62%) Presto
Development Applications
1 34 (11.00%) Artifactory
1 34 (11.00%) GitLab
2 29 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.18%) Git
4 7 (2.27%) JIRA
5 5 (1.62%) Poetry
6 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.65%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.65%) Maven
7 2 (0.65%) Mocha
7 2 (0.65%) Postman
7 2 (0.65%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.32%) Ant
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) MLflow
8 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.32%) Travis CI
General
1 145 (46.93%) Finance
2 116 (37.54%) Front Office
3 66 (21.36%) Banking
4 50 (16.18%) Investment Banking
5 32 (10.36%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.80%) Social Skills
7 6 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.62%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.62%) Law
8 5 (1.62%) Retail
9 3 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (0.97%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Local Government
10 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (23.62%) PySpark
2 56 (18.12%) NumPy
2 56 (18.12%) Pandas
2 56 (18.12%) SciPy
3 49 (15.86%) Kafka
4 42 (13.59%) React
5 40 (12.94%) gRPC
5 40 (12.94%) Protocol Buffers
6 35 (11.33%) Node.js
7 33 (10.68%) J2EE
8 29 (9.39%) Vue
9 28 (9.06%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.21%) AWS CDK
11 11 (3.56%) Redux
12 7 (2.27%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (1.62%) Dask
14 5 (1.62%) LAPP Stack
15 4 (1.29%) REST
15 4 (1.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 72 (23.30%) Fixed Income
2 56 (18.12%) Equities
3 55 (17.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 48 (15.53%) Hedge funds
5 45 (14.56%) Derivative
6 12 (3.88%) Pricing Data
7 9 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.62%) Tandem
11 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.65%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.65%) Vector Graphics
13 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.12%) Linux
2 4 (1.29%) Unix
3 3 (0.97%) Windows
4 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.32%) CentOS
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (43.37%) Agile
2 133 (43.04%) DevOps
2 133 (43.04%) Software Engineering
3 125 (40.45%) CI/CD
4 117 (37.86%) Asset Management
5 78 (25.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (15.86%) Data Engineering
7 45 (14.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 40 (12.94%) Fintech
9 39 (12.62%) Investment Management
10 36 (11.65%) Open Source
11 32 (10.36%) Cloud Security
11 32 (10.36%) Containerisation
12 30 (9.71%) Migration
12 30 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (9.39%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (8.74%) Performance Attribution
15 25 (8.09%) Microservices
16 18 (5.83%) Infrastructure Automation
17 17 (5.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 220 (71.20%) Python
2 111 (35.92%) Java
3 83 (26.86%) JavaScript
4 70 (22.65%) TypeScript
5 53 (17.15%) SQL
6 41 (13.27%) Go
7 19 (6.15%) Bash
8 7 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.94%) C
9 6 (1.94%) C++
10 4 (1.29%) C#
10 4 (1.29%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.65%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) Bicep
12 1 (0.32%) DAML
12 1 (0.32%) Groovy
12 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 64 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.44%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.18%) Degree
5 7 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.94%) PhD
7 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.97%) CCNP
9 3 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.65%) OCP
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.29%) NIST
2 4 (1.29%) QA
3 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 83 (26.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (44.66%) Terraform
2 115 (37.22%) Kubernetes
3 28 (9.06%) Ansible
4 21 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.83%) Grafana
6 5 (1.62%) Puppet
7 3 (0.97%) Argo
7 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) Cilium
8 1 (0.32%) Istio
8 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.32%) logstash
8 1 (0.32%) Packer
8 1 (0.32%) Podman
8 1 (0.32%) QRadar
8 1 (0.32%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.32%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (2.27%) Virgin Media
2 5 (1.62%) Databricks
2 5 (1.62%) Oracle
3 4 (1.29%) Cisco
4 3 (0.97%) Arista
4 3 (0.97%) CheckPoint
4 3 (0.97%) Dataiku
4 3 (0.97%) Fortinet
5 2 (0.65%) Cribl.io
5 2 (0.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.65%) Qualys
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.65%) Tenable
6 1 (0.32%) Citrix
6 1 (0.32%) Confluent
6 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir
6 1 (0.32%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.32%) TOWER Software