AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Northampton is £446, 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 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £501 - -
90th Percentile £576 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £446 - £513
% change year-on-year - - -6.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 216 98 93
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 85.22% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 83 74
10th Percentile £311 £309 £248
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -18.20% +13.72%
75th Percentile £475 £495 £533
90th Percentile £525 £575 £558
Northamptonshire median daily rate £410 £400 £489
% change year-on-year +2.50% -18.20% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.09%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £24.20 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +38.29% -2.02%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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 Northampton.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in Northampton

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

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

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Northampton

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

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 Northampton region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Data Security
3 3 (60.00%) PySpark
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Aerospike
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) Backtesting
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
4 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospike
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Data Security
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
4 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks