AWS Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > North of England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 152 143
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 +26
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 37 39 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.06% 0.80% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.86% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 48
10th Percentile £362 £288 £455
25th Percentile £400 £400 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £401 £505
Median % change year-on-year +18.38% -20.54% -8.18%
75th Percentile £519 £481 £600
90th Percentile £538 £550 £633
England median daily rate £588 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,262 4,512 5,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 92.80% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,156 2,739 3,620
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 450 169
10th Percentile £12.58 £11.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% -8.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.88 £43.48
90th Percentile £76.11 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the North of England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the North of England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the North of England

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
North West +6 22 £425 -6.85% 81
Yorkshire -2 10 £519 +29.69% 22
North East - 5 £400 - 7
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 North of England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (59.46%) DevOps
3 16 (43.24%) Terraform
4 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
5 13 (35.14%) Amazon S3
5 13 (35.14%) SQL
6 12 (32.43%) Python
7 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
7 11 (29.73%) Kubernetes
8 10 (27.03%) Docker
8 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
8 10 (27.03%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (24.32%) GitLab
9 9 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (21.62%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (18.92%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
11 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
11 7 (18.92%) TypeScript
11 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
11 7 (18.92%) Node.js
12 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
12 6 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (16.22%) GitHub
12 6 (16.22%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (13.51%) Serverless
13 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (21.62%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.11%) Apache
2 3 (8.11%) nginx
2 3 (8.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (35.14%) Amazon S3
3 10 (27.03%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (18.92%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (16.22%) GitHub
8 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (13.51%) Serverless
9 4 (10.81%) AWS KMS
10 2 (5.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (5.41%) dbt
10 2 (5.41%) GCP
10 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
10 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (2.70%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) SSL
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
1 4 (10.81%) DynamoDB
1 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) GitLab
2 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Git
4 1 (2.70%) Babel
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Banking
3 1 (2.70%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Node.js
2 5 (13.51%) React
3 3 (8.11%) .NET
3 3 (8.11%) OAuth
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.70%) boto
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) JWT
5 1 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.70%) Next.js
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) DevOps
2 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
3 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
5 6 (16.22%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
6 5 (13.51%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (10.81%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (10.81%) Customer Acquisition
7 4 (10.81%) High Availability
7 4 (10.81%) Process Improvement
7 4 (10.81%) Resource Allocation
7 4 (10.81%) Secrets Management
8 3 (8.11%) Agile
8 3 (8.11%) Blue-Green Deployment
8 3 (8.11%) Service Catalogue
9 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) SQL
2 12 (32.43%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 7 (18.92%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) Scala
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) Terraform
2 11 (29.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
3 3 (8.11%) Kibana
4 1 (2.70%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.70%) Packer
4 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.41%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk