AWS Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 253 303 279
Rank change year-on-year +50 -24 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 83 96 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.46% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.50% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 78 158
10th Percentile £393 £421 £455
25th Percentile £430 £450 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% -
75th Percentile £538 £570 £625
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +29 43 £475 +2.70% 46
North West +13 23 £414 -10.59% 38
Scotland +4 17 £525 +9.38% 6
South East +45 15 £500 -12.09% 37
Yorkshire +12 10 £519 -1.19% 5
North East - 10 £565 - 4
Midlands +22 5 £500 +11.11% 5
East Midlands +11 4 £500 +11.11% 4
South West +35 2 £625 +31.58% 5
Wales +1 2 £493 -26.00%
East of England +30 1 £438 -32.69% 3
West Midlands +13 1 £550 +12.82%
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (56.63%) DevOps
3 43 (51.81%) Python
4 39 (46.99%) CI/CD
5 32 (38.55%) Terraform
6 27 (32.53%) Kubernetes
6 27 (32.53%) Amazon S3
7 25 (30.12%) Docker
7 25 (30.12%) Serverless
8 23 (27.71%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (25.30%) GitHub
10 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (22.89%) Jenkins
12 18 (21.69%) SQL
13 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
14 16 (19.28%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
15 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
16 14 (16.87%) Linux
16 14 (16.87%) Finance
16 14 (16.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (15.66%) GitLab
18 12 (14.46%) Amazon EKS
18 12 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (14.46%) SC Cleared
18 12 (14.46%) JSON
19 11 (13.25%) Git
19 11 (13.25%) Test Automation
19 11 (13.25%) Node.js

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (12.05%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.82%) Apache
2 4 (4.82%) nginx
3 3 (3.61%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.41%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) JBoss
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (32.53%) Amazon S3
3 25 (30.12%) Serverless
4 23 (27.71%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (25.30%) GitHub
6 16 (19.28%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (16.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (14.46%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (12.05%) Azure
11 7 (8.43%) OpenShift
12 6 (7.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (7.23%) Route 53
13 5 (6.02%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (4.82%) AWS CodeBuild
14 4 (4.82%) AWS CodeDeploy
14 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (4.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) DynamoDB
2 7 (8.43%) Big Data
3 5 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.82%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.82%) MySQL
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.61%) Parquet
5 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.20%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.20%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 19 (22.89%) Jenkins
2 13 (15.66%) GitLab
3 11 (13.25%) Git
4 8 (9.64%) JIRA
5 3 (3.61%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (2.41%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.41%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.41%) webpack
7 1 (1.20%) Ant
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.20%) Babel
7 1 (1.20%) Gradle
7 1 (1.20%) Maven
7 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Finance
3 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.41%) Electronics
4 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.41%) Marketing
4 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Retail
5 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.46%) JSON
2 11 (13.25%) Node.js
3 10 (12.05%) AWS CDK
4 8 (9.64%) React
5 6 (7.23%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (6.02%) OAuth
7 4 (4.82%) .NET
7 4 (4.82%) RESTful
8 2 (2.41%) JSON Schema
8 2 (2.41%) REST
8 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.20%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.20%) boto
9 1 (1.20%) CSS
9 1 (1.20%) HTML
9 1 (1.20%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.20%) PySpark
9 1 (1.20%) Serverless Framework
9 1 (1.20%) SOAP
9 1 (1.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) FMCG
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.87%) Linux
2 7 (8.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (8.43%) Windows
3 6 (7.23%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (56.63%) DevOps
2 39 (46.99%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
6 11 (13.25%) Agile
6 11 (13.25%) Scrum
6 11 (13.25%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.05%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.84%) High Availability
9 8 (9.64%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (9.64%) ETL
9 8 (9.64%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (8.43%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (8.43%) Migration
11 6 (7.23%) Cloud Security
11 6 (7.23%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (7.23%) Microservices
11 6 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (6.02%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.81%) Python
2 18 (21.69%) SQL
3 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
4 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.84%) Bash
6 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.61%) Groovy
7 3 (3.61%) Java
8 2 (2.41%) Perl
9 1 (1.20%) C#
9 1 (1.20%) Go
9 1 (1.20%) Ruby
9 1 (1.20%) Scala
9 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.05%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.41%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) QA
2 5 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 25 (30.12%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (38.55%) Terraform
2 27 (32.53%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.25%) Ansible
4 8 (9.64%) Kibana
5 4 (4.82%) Grafana
6 3 (3.61%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.20%) Argo
8 1 (1.20%) logstash
8 1 (1.20%) Nagios
8 1 (1.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) AppDynamics
1 6 (7.23%) Databricks
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.41%) Google
3 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.41%) SAP
3 2 (2.41%) Splunk
4 1 (1.20%) Brio
4 1 (1.20%) Imperva
4 1 (1.20%) Informatica
4 1 (1.20%) New Relic
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle
4 1 (1.20%) VMware