AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 266 272
Rank change year-on-year +56 +6 +5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 183 92 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.01% 0.62% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.67% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 75 107
10th Percentile £363 £381 £425
25th Percentile £402 £411 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £568 £620
90th Percentile £621 £613 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 16,345 13,724 18,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.39% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,035 8,185 11,953
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,655 776 1,187
10th Percentile £13.84 £15.36 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.48 £20.26 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% -26.67% +50.00%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies 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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies 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 21 December 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 +14 93 £500 +14.29% 11
Yorkshire -22 49 £500 +17.65% 3
Midlands +7 45 £525 +1.94% 3
West Midlands +9 40 £525 -0.94% 3
North West +1 36 £405 -14.74% 7
Scotland +7 26 £402 -19.60% 1
South East -9 15 £538 +7.50% 15
North East -2 9 £550 - 1
South West -17 6 £488 -15.22% 13
East Midlands -15 5 £446 -10.75%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East of England -22 2 £450 -21.74% 6
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 183 (100.00%) AWS
2 123 (67.21%) DevOps
3 117 (63.93%) Terraform
4 112 (61.20%) CI/CD
5 109 (59.56%) Python
6 90 (49.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (39.34%) Docker
8 69 (37.70%) Jenkins
8 69 (37.70%) Security Cleared
9 63 (34.43%) SC Cleared
10 61 (33.33%) Serverless
11 57 (31.15%) Amazon S3
11 57 (31.15%) Kubernetes
12 54 (29.51%) GitLab
13 49 (26.78%) Linux
14 48 (26.23%) AWS Lambda
15 47 (25.68%) Grafana
16 45 (24.59%) Agile
16 45 (24.59%) Cloud Security
17 43 (23.50%) Prometheus
18 42 (22.95%) Git
19 41 (22.40%) Amazon EC2
19 41 (22.40%) Containerisation
19 41 (22.40%) GitHub
20 39 (21.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 39 (21.31%) AWS CloudFormation
21 38 (20.77%) Azure
22 37 (20.22%) Amazon ECS
22 37 (20.22%) Amazon RDS
22 37 (20.22%) Platform Engineering

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (10.93%) Confluence
2 18 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (6.56%) nginx
4 9 (4.92%) Apache Spark
5 6 (3.28%) Apache
6 2 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.55%) JBoss
Applications
1 11 (6.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (33.33%) Serverless
3 57 (31.15%) Amazon S3
4 48 (26.23%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (22.40%) Amazon EC2
5 41 (22.40%) GitHub
6 39 (21.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 39 (21.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (20.77%) Azure
8 37 (20.22%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (19.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 28 (15.30%) AWS KMS
11 24 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (12.02%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (11.48%) GCP
14 19 (10.38%) Amazon ELB
15 16 (8.74%) Route 53
16 11 (6.01%) Amazon SageMaker
16 11 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.66%) DNS
1 25 (13.66%) Firewall
2 18 (9.84%) HTTP
2 18 (9.84%) SMTP
3 17 (9.29%) FTP
3 17 (9.29%) SSH
4 11 (6.01%) IMAP
4 11 (6.01%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.09%) DHCP
6 2 (1.09%) VPN
7 1 (0.55%) LAN
7 1 (0.55%) SSL
7 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.22%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.84%) NoSQL
4 15 (8.20%) DynamoDB
5 13 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (5.46%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.28%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.64%) Big Data
10 3 (1.64%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.64%) MySQL
10 3 (1.64%) Redis
11 2 (1.09%) Aerospike
11 2 (1.09%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.09%) Data Mart
11 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.09%) HBase
11 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 69 (37.70%) Jenkins
2 54 (29.51%) GitLab
3 42 (22.95%) Git
4 34 (18.58%) JIRA
5 18 (9.84%) Vagrant
6 12 (6.56%) Liquibase
7 7 (3.83%) MLflow
8 6 (3.28%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.28%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.73%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.73%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.09%) Gradle
11 2 (1.09%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.09%) JUnit
11 2 (1.09%) Mockito
11 2 (1.09%) PyCharm
11 2 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 58 (31.69%) Public Sector
2 41 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 38 (20.77%) Finance
4 20 (10.93%) Banking
5 10 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.92%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.83%) Aeronautics
9 3 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.09%) Law
10 2 (1.09%) Legal
10 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.38%) REST
2 18 (9.84%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (9.29%) Node.js
4 14 (7.65%) PySpark
4 14 (7.65%) React
4 14 (7.65%) RESTful
5 13 (7.10%) Kafka
6 11 (6.01%) LDAP
7 7 (3.83%) AWS CDK
8 4 (2.19%) .NET
9 3 (1.64%) Flask
9 3 (1.64%) HTML
9 3 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.64%) pytest
9 3 (1.64%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.64%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.64%) TensorFlow
10 2 (1.09%) Middleware
10 2 (1.09%) Swagger
10 2 (1.09%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.38%) Replication
3 18 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.10%) Public Cloud
5 11 (6.01%) NHS
6 4 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Clustering
8 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.78%) Linux
2 24 (13.11%) Windows
3 21 (11.48%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (9.84%) VMS
5 10 (5.46%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.64%) Unix
6 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (67.21%) DevOps
2 112 (61.20%) CI/CD
3 90 (49.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (24.59%) Agile
4 45 (24.59%) Cloud Security
5 41 (22.40%) Containerisation
6 37 (20.22%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (16.39%) Change Management
7 30 (16.39%) High Availability
8 26 (14.21%) Configuration Management
8 26 (14.21%) Software Engineering
9 24 (13.11%) Microservices
10 23 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (10.38%) Data Engineering
11 19 (10.38%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (9.84%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (9.84%) Migration
12 18 (9.84%) Test Automation
13 17 (9.29%) ETL
13 17 (9.29%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (59.56%) Python
2 37 (20.22%) SQL
3 27 (14.75%) PowerShell
4 21 (11.48%) Java
5 19 (10.38%) Go
6 18 (9.84%) Groovy
7 14 (7.65%) Bash
8 13 (7.10%) Perl
8 13 (7.10%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.19%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.64%) C#
10 3 (1.64%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.09%) AWK
11 2 (1.09%) Ruby
12 1 (0.55%) C
12 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (37.70%) Security Cleared
2 63 (34.43%) SC Cleared
3 36 (19.67%) AWS Certification
4 26 (14.21%) Degree
5 15 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (7.65%) Azure Certification
7 12 (6.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (6.56%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.09%) OCP
11 2 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.46%) QA
2 6 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.73%) WCAG
4 4 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.19%) GDPR
5 3 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.09%) NIST
7 1 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (39.34%) Docker
2 17 (9.29%) DFS Replication
3 12 (6.56%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.01%) Dovecot
4 11 (6.01%) Postfix
4 11 (6.01%) Squid
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (63.93%) Terraform
2 57 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 47 (25.68%) Grafana
4 43 (23.50%) Prometheus
5 32 (17.49%) Ansible
6 11 (6.01%) Nessus
7 10 (5.46%) Proxmox
8 5 (2.73%) Packer
9 4 (2.19%) Argo
9 4 (2.19%) Puppet
10 3 (1.64%) Kibana
10 3 (1.64%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.09%) logstash
12 1 (0.55%) Control-M
12 1 (0.55%) linkerd
12 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.93%) ServiceNow
2 19 (10.38%) Splunk
3 12 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.01%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (4.37%) Databricks
6 5 (2.73%) IBM
7 4 (2.19%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.19%) Oracle
8 2 (1.09%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.09%) Confluent
8 2 (1.09%) Google
8 2 (1.09%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.55%) Avaya
9 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.55%) Cisco
9 1 (0.55%) Greenplum
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.55%) SAP
9 1 (0.55%) VMware