AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Amazon Web Services Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Shropshire is £464, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.61% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £432 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £556 £550 £488
% change year-on-year +1.14% +12.82% -22.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 606 120 119
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 93.75% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 76 81
10th Percentile £351 £314 £260
25th Percentile £403 £418 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £485 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.32% -8.64%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £536
90th Percentile £575 £541 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £492 £490
% change year-on-year -3.46% +0.41% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 6
10th Percentile £25.15 - £14.94
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £12.18 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% -18.80% -72.73%
75th Percentile £61.00 - -
90th Percentile £65.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £32.75 £18.07 £22.00
% change year-on-year +81.29% -17.89% +12.82%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Telford - 4 £464 - 1
AWS Engineer
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2026, 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 Shropshire region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Confluence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) Denodo
1 4 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Pentaho
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (100.00%) Python

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
1 4 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 4 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (100.00%) Pentaho
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Denodo
1 4 (100.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (75.00%) Informatica
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle