AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in London is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 133 160
Rank change year-on-year -36 +27 -10
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 249 289 288
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.91% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 2.04% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 236 255
10th Percentile £363 £422 £413
25th Percentile £413 £526 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £838 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £519 £614 £550
% change year-on-year -15.51% +11.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.50 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £61.00 - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 - -

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 13,145 14,173 17,825
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 9,174 12,891
10th Percentile £340 £338 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £683
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 152 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.19 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +2.14% -
75th Percentile £56.63 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in London

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 15 December 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 +7 20 £428 -25.65% 8
South London +4 12 £500 -7.41%
West London -12 7 £625 +6.38%
East London - 1 - - 2
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, AWS 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 London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 249 (100.00%) AWS
2 152 (61.04%) Python
3 115 (46.18%) Terraform
4 114 (45.78%) CI/CD
5 107 (42.97%) DevOps
6 74 (29.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 67 (26.91%) Security Cleared
8 64 (25.70%) SC Cleared
9 63 (25.30%) Agile
10 60 (24.10%) Amazon S3
11 59 (23.69%) Kubernetes
12 58 (23.29%) Software Engineering
13 54 (21.69%) Docker
14 53 (21.29%) Java
15 52 (20.88%) Amazon Athena
15 52 (20.88%) Apache Airflow
16 51 (20.48%) TypeScript
17 50 (20.08%) Serverless
18 48 (19.28%) AWS Lambda
19 45 (18.07%) GitHub
20 44 (17.67%) JavaScript
21 43 (17.27%) Investment Management
22 39 (15.66%) Apache Iceberg
22 39 (15.66%) dbt
22 39 (15.66%) Snowflake
23 38 (15.26%) Asset Management
23 38 (15.26%) Data Lake
23 38 (15.26%) SQL
24 37 (14.86%) Apache Arrow
24 37 (14.86%) Dremio

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

Application Platforms
1 52 (20.88%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (12.45%) Apache
3 15 (6.02%) Confluence
4 13 (5.22%) nginx
5 12 (4.82%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (4.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 249 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (24.10%) Amazon S3
3 50 (20.08%) Serverless
4 48 (19.28%) AWS Lambda
5 45 (18.07%) GitHub
6 39 (15.66%) dbt
6 39 (15.66%) Snowflake
7 36 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 33 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
8 33 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
8 33 (13.25%) Azure
9 30 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (9.24%) GCP
12 20 (8.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (6.83%) AWS KMS
14 16 (6.43%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (6.43%) Route 53
15 14 (5.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.02%) DNS
2 13 (5.22%) Firewall
3 10 (4.02%) FTP
3 10 (4.02%) HTTP
3 10 (4.02%) IMAP
3 10 (4.02%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (4.02%) SMTP
3 10 (4.02%) SSH
4 6 (2.41%) VPN
5 3 (1.20%) Network Security
6 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.40%) BGP
7 1 (0.40%) IPsec
7 1 (0.40%) OSPF
7 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (20.88%) Amazon Athena
2 39 (15.66%) Apache Iceberg
3 38 (15.26%) Data Lake
4 37 (14.86%) Apache Arrow
4 37 (14.86%) Dremio
5 32 (12.85%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (12.45%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (10.44%) Apache Ignite
8 16 (6.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.42%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.81%) Flink
10 7 (2.81%) Metadata
11 6 (2.41%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.41%) Tableau
12 4 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.61%) Big Data
12 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (13.25%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.84%) GitLab
3 22 (8.84%) Git
4 17 (6.83%) JIRA
5 10 (4.02%) Vagrant
6 4 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.61%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.20%) MLflow
8 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.80%) Maven
8 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.40%) JUnit
9 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.40%) Mockito
9 1 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) Selenium
9 1 (0.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 78 (31.33%) Finance
2 43 (17.27%) Banking
2 43 (17.27%) Front Office
2 43 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.45%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.84%) Investment Banking
5 11 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.80%) Retail
9 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.40%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Games
9 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Publishing
9 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.86%) NumPy
1 37 (14.86%) Pandas
1 37 (14.86%) SciPy
2 26 (10.44%) gRPC
2 26 (10.44%) Protocol Buffers
3 25 (10.04%) Kafka
4 24 (9.64%) Node.js
5 21 (8.43%) AWS CDK
6 18 (7.23%) React
7 14 (5.62%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.42%) Vue
9 10 (4.02%) LDAP
10 8 (3.21%) PySpark
11 7 (2.81%) RESTful
12 5 (2.01%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (2.01%) OAuth
12 5 (2.01%) REST
13 4 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (1.61%) GraphQL
13 4 (1.61%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.07%) Hedge funds
2 43 (17.27%) Fixed Income
3 37 (14.86%) Equities
3 37 (14.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (10.44%) Derivative
4 26 (10.44%) Pricing Data
5 24 (9.64%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.82%) Replication
7 7 (2.81%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.80%) BBC
11 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.40%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.44%) Linux
2 14 (5.62%) Windows
3 10 (4.02%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (4.02%) Ubuntu
3 10 (4.02%) VMS
4 5 (2.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (45.78%) CI/CD
2 107 (42.97%) DevOps
3 74 (29.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (25.30%) Agile
5 58 (23.29%) Software Engineering
6 43 (17.27%) Investment Management
7 38 (15.26%) Asset Management
8 35 (14.06%) Containerisation
9 34 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (10.44%) Observability
10 26 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (10.04%) Microservices
12 23 (9.24%) Analytics
13 21 (8.43%) Cloud Security
14 20 (8.03%) Data Engineering
14 20 (8.03%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (8.03%) Migration
15 18 (7.23%) Configuration Management
16 16 (6.43%) Change Management
16 16 (6.43%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 152 (61.04%) Python
2 53 (21.29%) Java
3 51 (20.48%) TypeScript
4 44 (17.67%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.26%) SQL
6 15 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.82%) Bash
7 12 (4.82%) Groovy
8 11 (4.42%) Go
9 5 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.20%) C#
10 3 (1.20%) Ruby
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.40%) JSX
12 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (26.91%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.70%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.65%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.43%) Degree
5 13 (5.22%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.80%) PhD
10 1 (0.40%) CCNP
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.81%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (21.69%) Docker
2 10 (4.02%) DFS Replication
2 10 (4.02%) Dovecot
2 10 (4.02%) Postfix
2 10 (4.02%) Squid
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (46.18%) Terraform
2 59 (23.69%) Kubernetes
3 29 (11.65%) Ansible
4 23 (9.24%) Grafana
5 17 (6.83%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.02%) Nessus
6 10 (4.02%) Proxmox
7 9 (3.61%) Argo
8 5 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.61%) Puppet
10 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.80%) Packer
12 1 (0.40%) Consul
12 1 (0.40%) Istio
12 1 (0.40%) Kibana
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.40%) QRadar
12 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (7.63%) Databricks
2 16 (6.43%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.02%) Arista
4 10 (4.02%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (1.61%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.20%) Qualys
6 3 (1.20%) Tenable
7 2 (0.80%) Cisco
7 2 (0.80%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.80%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.80%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.40%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.40%) Citrix
8 1 (0.40%) Confluent
8 1 (0.40%) Genesys
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.40%) Sage
8 1 (0.40%) Varonis