AWS Engineer Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > South East

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 189 177
Rank change year-on-year +45 -12 +23
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 15 16 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 0.29% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.31% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 40
10th Percentile - £494 £473
25th Percentile - £517 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% -3.19% +2.17%
75th Percentile - £656 £600
90th Percentile £535 £699 £675
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the South East

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the South East

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the South East

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +51 12 £500 -16.67% 17
Berkshire +39 12 £500 -16.67% 8
Hampshire +23 1 £537 -4.53% 8
Kent +7 1 £675 +35.00% 4
East Sussex -4 1 - - 2
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 South East region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) DevOps
3 13 (86.67%) Python
4 11 (73.33%) GitHub
5 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
6 9 (60.00%) Docker
7 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
7 7 (46.67%) QA
7 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
7 7 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (46.67%) Terraform
7 7 (46.67%) Serverless
8 6 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (40.00%) JSON
8 6 (40.00%) Scrum
9 5 (33.33%) Windows
9 5 (33.33%) Linux
9 5 (33.33%) High Availability
9 5 (33.33%) Git
9 5 (33.33%) Ansible
9 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
10 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (26.67%) Server Building
10 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (26.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 4 (26.67%) Databricks
10 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
10 4 (26.67%) Customer-Centricity
10 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (6.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (73.33%) GitHub
3 7 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (46.67%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Akamai
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
6 1 (6.67%) Route 53
6 1 (6.67%) SonarCloud
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) DevOps
2 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (40.00%) Scrum
4 5 (33.33%) High Availability
4 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 4 (26.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (26.67%) Open Source
5 4 (26.67%) Server Building
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
7 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Observability
7 1 (6.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) Ruby
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) QA
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Kibana
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.67%) New Relic
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk