AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 126 112
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 +51
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 47 6 22
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.52% 0.24% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 0.26% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 4 11
10th Percentile £451 £388 £450
25th Percentile £463 £444 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +0.49% -4.65%
75th Percentile £738 £535 £600
90th Percentile - £544 £625
England median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,759 2,333 2,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 92.99% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 1,450 1,740
10th Percentile £216 £225 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 98 116
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.38 £16.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £27.21 £32.13 £31.59
90th Percentile £40.25 £50.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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 the Midlands.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the Midlands

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +10 41 £531 +0.19% 4
East Midlands -12 6 £446 -10.75% 2
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Midlands region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (70.21%) Docker
2 33 (70.21%) Python
2 33 (70.21%) Terraform
3 32 (68.09%) DevOps
4 31 (65.96%) Security Cleared
5 29 (61.70%) Jenkins
5 29 (61.70%) SC Cleared
6 26 (55.32%) Amazon S3
6 26 (55.32%) CI/CD
7 24 (51.06%) Change Management
7 24 (51.06%) Git
7 24 (51.06%) Grafana
7 24 (51.06%) Linux
7 24 (51.06%) Prometheus
8 23 (48.94%) AWS KMS
8 23 (48.94%) Cloud Security
9 21 (44.68%) Windows
10 20 (42.55%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (40.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (40.43%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (40.43%) Amazon ELB
11 19 (40.43%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (40.43%) PowerShell
11 19 (40.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (38.30%) Amazon Linux
12 18 (38.30%) AWS Certification
12 18 (38.30%) Configuration Management
12 18 (38.30%) Confluence
12 18 (38.30%) DNS

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 18 (38.30%) Confluence
2 11 (23.40%) nginx
3 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (55.32%) Amazon S3
3 23 (48.94%) AWS KMS
4 19 (40.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (40.43%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (40.43%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (40.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (34.04%) Azure
6 12 (25.53%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (23.40%) Route 53
8 9 (19.15%) Serverless
9 7 (14.89%) Amazon Glacier
10 6 (12.77%) GCP
11 5 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (8.51%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (6.38%) GitHub
14 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (38.30%) DNS
1 18 (38.30%) Firewall
1 18 (38.30%) SMTP
2 17 (36.17%) FTP
2 17 (36.17%) HTTP
2 17 (36.17%) SSH
3 11 (23.40%) IMAP
3 11 (23.40%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (2.13%) SSL
4 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (40.43%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (36.17%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (23.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.26%) Aerospike
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (61.70%) Jenkins
2 24 (51.06%) Git
3 18 (38.30%) JIRA
3 18 (38.30%) Vagrant
4 15 (31.91%) GitLab
5 6 (12.77%) Liquibase
General
1 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 20 (42.55%) Public Sector
3 10 (21.28%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (19.15%) Finance
5 7 (14.89%) Aeronautics
6 6 (12.77%) Banking
6 6 (12.77%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) LDAP
2 7 (14.89%) REST
3 6 (12.77%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (12.77%) RESTful
4 3 (6.38%) PySpark
5 2 (4.26%) Kafka
5 2 (4.26%) Node.js
5 2 (4.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.17%) Replication
2 10 (21.28%) Cloud Native
3 9 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (12.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (51.06%) Linux
2 21 (44.68%) Windows
3 18 (38.30%) Amazon Linux
3 18 (38.30%) VMS
4 10 (21.28%) Ubuntu
5 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) DevOps
2 26 (55.32%) CI/CD
3 24 (51.06%) Change Management
4 23 (48.94%) Cloud Security
5 20 (42.55%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (38.30%) Configuration Management
7 17 (36.17%) Patch Management
8 15 (31.91%) Agile
8 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (23.40%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
11 7 (14.89%) Computer Science
11 7 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (14.89%) High Availability
11 7 (14.89%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (12.77%) Cryptography
12 6 (12.77%) Microservices
12 6 (12.77%) Non-Functional Testing
12 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
13 5 (10.64%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 33 (70.21%) Python
2 19 (40.43%) PowerShell
3 18 (38.30%) Groovy
4 17 (36.17%) SQL
5 9 (19.15%) Java
6 7 (14.89%) Go
6 7 (14.89%) Perl
7 1 (2.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (65.96%) Security Cleared
2 29 (61.70%) SC Cleared
3 18 (38.30%) AWS Certification
4 17 (36.17%) Degree
5 15 (31.91%) Azure Certification
6 7 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (12.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (12.77%) Master's Degree
8 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 33 (70.21%) Docker
2 17 (36.17%) DFS Replication
3 11 (23.40%) Active Directory
3 11 (23.40%) Dovecot
3 11 (23.40%) Postfix
3 11 (23.40%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (70.21%) Terraform
2 24 (51.06%) Grafana
2 24 (51.06%) Prometheus
3 11 (23.40%) Ansible
3 11 (23.40%) Kubernetes
3 11 (23.40%) Nessus
4 10 (21.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) ServiceNow
2 11 (23.40%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.77%) Splunk
4 2 (4.26%) Databricks
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle
5 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.13%) F5
5 1 (2.13%) IBM
5 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto