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 during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 266 276
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 -49
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 94 184 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.80% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.85% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 153 180
10th Percentile £418 £453 £413
25th Percentile £447 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £639
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 2024. 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 -4 31 £463 -13.95% 9
Scotland +51 26 £480 -16.52% 2
North West +12 26 £456 -8.75% 7
South East -10 19 £600 +2.13% 7
South West -28 9 £475 -17.39% 2
Midlands +24 5 £450 -25.00% 10
Yorkshire -8 5 £494 -17.71% 2
West Midlands +19 3 £488 -22.00% 7
East Midlands +13 2 £450 -14.29% 3
East of England +3 2 £625 +20.19% 2
Wales - 2 £666 - 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (58.51%) DevOps
3 49 (52.13%) Terraform
3 49 (52.13%) Python
4 42 (44.68%) Kubernetes
5 32 (34.04%) CI/CD
6 31 (32.98%) Docker
7 27 (28.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (26.60%) Agile
9 23 (24.47%) Java
9 23 (24.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (23.40%) Ansible
11 20 (21.28%) Containerisation
11 20 (21.28%) SQL
11 20 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (21.28%) Amazon S3
12 19 (20.21%) Bash
13 18 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (19.15%) Serverless
14 17 (18.09%) Social Skills
14 17 (18.09%) Snowflake
15 16 (17.02%) Platform Engineering
16 15 (15.96%) Azure
16 15 (15.96%) Linux
17 14 (14.89%) Jenkins
18 13 (13.83%) GitLab
18 13 (13.83%) Data Engineering
19 12 (12.77%) AWS Certification
19 12 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
20 11 (11.70%) Software Delivery

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 8 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (24.47%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (21.28%) Amazon S3
4 18 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (19.15%) Serverless
5 17 (18.09%) Snowflake
6 15 (15.96%) Azure
7 10 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (9.57%) OpenShift
9 8 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (7.45%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (6.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (5.32%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (4.26%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (4.26%) Datadog
13 4 (4.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) Network Security
2 4 (4.26%) DNS
3 1 (1.06%) DHCP
3 1 (1.06%) MPLS
3 1 (1.06%) VPN
3 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.45%) Data Lake
3 6 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (6.38%) MySQL
4 5 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.26%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.19%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.13%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.13%) Tableau
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.06%) Parquet
8 1 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.83%) GitLab
3 8 (8.51%) Git
4 6 (6.38%) Artifactory
4 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.19%) JIRA
6 2 (2.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.06%) AppScan
7 1 (1.06%) JMeter
7 1 (1.06%) Maven
7 1 (1.06%) Selenium
7 1 (1.06%) Subversion
General
1 17 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.64%) Finance
3 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.19%) Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) AWS CDK
2 7 (7.45%) REST
2 7 (7.45%) Spring
3 6 (6.38%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 5 (5.32%) CSS
4 5 (5.32%) HTML
4 5 (5.32%) JPA
5 3 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.19%) RESTful
6 2 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.13%) Node.js
6 2 (2.13%) PySpark
7 1 (1.06%) .NET
7 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.06%) JSON
7 1 (1.06%) Kafka
7 1 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.06%) React
7 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.51%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.13%) IVR
3 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.96%) Linux
2 6 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (6.38%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.32%) Windows
4 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (58.51%) DevOps
2 32 (34.04%) CI/CD
3 27 (28.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (26.60%) Agile
5 20 (21.28%) Containerisation
6 16 (17.02%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (13.83%) Data Engineering
8 12 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (11.70%) Computer Science
9 11 (11.70%) ETL
9 11 (11.70%) Software Delivery
10 8 (8.51%) DataOps
10 8 (8.51%) GitOps
10 8 (8.51%) MLOps
10 8 (8.51%) SDLC
10 8 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (8.51%) Software Engineering
11 7 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (6.38%) Decision-Making
12 6 (6.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 49 (52.13%) Python
2 23 (24.47%) Java
3 20 (21.28%) SQL
4 19 (20.21%) Bash
5 11 (11.70%) Scala
6 8 (8.51%) Groovy
7 7 (7.45%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.32%) Go
9 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.26%) Ruby
9 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.19%) C#
10 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.13%) PHP
11 2 (2.13%) R
12 1 (1.06%) Bicep
12 1 (1.06%) C
12 1 (1.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) AWS Certification
2 11 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) Degree
6 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) IBM Certification
6 2 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (2.13%) SANS
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CCIE
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (32.98%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (52.13%) Terraform
2 42 (44.68%) Kubernetes
3 22 (23.40%) Ansible
4 8 (8.51%) Grafana
5 6 (6.38%) Kibana
6 5 (5.32%) HP Fortify
7 3 (3.19%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.13%) Graylog
8 2 (2.13%) Nagios
8 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.06%) Nessus
9 1 (1.06%) Puppet
9 1 (1.06%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (9.57%) Databricks
2 6 (6.38%) Splunk
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.19%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.13%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.13%) IBM
5 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.06%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.06%) Cisco
5 1 (1.06%) Citrix
5 1 (1.06%) F5
5 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.06%) Google
5 1 (1.06%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.06%) Informatica
5 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.06%) Veracode
5 1 (1.06%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.06%) VMware
5 1 (1.06%) Zscaler