AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 192 213
Rank change year-on-year -63 +21 -6
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 575 486 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.47% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.62% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 357 355
10th Percentile £413 £385 £400
25th Percentile £455 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year - -9.64% +5.64%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £788
90th Percentile £768 £825 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile £77.88 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £59.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,214 30,082 35,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 90.84% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,439 18,998 21,292
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,075 1,645 1,472
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.75 £14.87
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -39.40% -7.78%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £68.00 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.18% -4.49%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 October 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
England -79 453 £518 -1.43% 433
London -76 259 £538 -10.42% 210
Work from Home -53 227 £540 -10.00% 193
UK excluding London -67 201 £500 +5.26% 263
North of England -60 87 £513 +7.89% 90
Midlands -27 56 £475 - 33
North West -33 47 £525 +31.25% 65
East Midlands +17 29 £400 -23.85% 20
West Midlands -58 27 £476 +0.21% 13
South West -15 24 £463 -19.57% 25
North East -25 21 £463 -11.06% 7
Yorkshire -46 19 £513 +2.50% 18
Scotland -36 15 £425 -9.33% 52
South East -71 14 £460 -12.38% 23
East of England -19 8 £510 +13.33% 19
Northern Ireland 0 1 £600 - 15

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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 featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 575 (100.00%) AWS
2 325 (56.52%) CI/CD
3 301 (52.35%) Terraform
4 263 (45.74%) DevOps
5 262 (45.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 222 (38.61%) Python
7 171 (29.74%) Serverless
8 170 (29.57%) Security Cleared
9 162 (28.17%) SC Cleared
10 159 (27.65%) Kubernetes
11 157 (27.30%) AWS Lambda
12 130 (22.61%) GitLab
12 130 (22.61%) Observability
13 124 (21.57%) Docker
13 124 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
14 118 (20.52%) Amazon S3
14 118 (20.52%) GitHub
15 117 (20.35%) Containerisation
16 110 (19.13%) Agile
17 105 (18.26%) Amazon EKS
18 94 (16.35%) GitHub Actions
18 94 (16.35%) Software Engineering
19 90 (15.65%) AI
19 90 (15.65%) SQL
20 88 (15.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 85 (14.78%) AWS CloudFormation
22 83 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
23 79 (13.74%) Git
24 77 (13.39%) Amazon RDS
24 77 (13.39%) Jenkins

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 24 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (4.17%) Confluence
2 14 (2.43%) Apache
3 10 (1.74%) nginx
4 8 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (1.22%) SAS
6 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.17%) Appian
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) Traefik
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 575 (100.00%) AWS
2 171 (29.74%) Serverless
3 157 (27.30%) AWS Lambda
4 118 (20.52%) Amazon S3
4 118 (20.52%) GitHub
5 105 (18.26%) Amazon EKS
6 94 (16.35%) GitHub Actions
7 88 (15.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 85 (14.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 70 (12.17%) Amazon EC2
10 68 (11.83%) Amazon ECS
11 65 (11.30%) Azure
12 63 (10.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 52 (9.04%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (6.96%) SaaS
15 39 (6.78%) Amazon EventBridge
16 35 (6.09%) AWS Step Functions
16 35 (6.09%) Snowflake
17 34 (5.91%) dbt
18 27 (4.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.48%) Firewall
2 16 (2.78%) DNS
3 13 (2.26%) Network Security
4 12 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.22%) HTTP
5 7 (1.22%) SSH
6 4 (0.70%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.70%) SSL
6 4 (0.70%) VPN
6 4 (0.70%) WAN
7 2 (0.35%) FTP
7 2 (0.35%) IMAP
7 2 (0.35%) Internet
7 2 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.35%) SMTP
8 1 (0.17%) AMQP
8 1 (0.17%) BGP
8 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (13.39%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (8.35%) DynamoDB
3 41 (7.13%) Amazon Athena
4 35 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (5.74%) MySQL
6 31 (5.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 30 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (2.96%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.61%) Apache Iceberg
9 15 (2.61%) Power BI
10 13 (2.26%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.74%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.74%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.39%) Pentaho
12 8 (1.39%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.22%) Redis
14 6 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.04%) Metadata
14 6 (1.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 130 (22.61%) GitLab
2 79 (13.74%) Git
3 77 (13.39%) Jenkins
4 31 (5.39%) JIRA
5 25 (4.35%) Claude Code
6 15 (2.61%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.57%) JMeter
7 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.04%) Gatling
9 6 (1.04%) JUnit
10 5 (0.87%) Maven
10 5 (0.87%) Mockito
11 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.70%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.52%) Snyk
13 2 (0.35%) Mocha
General
1 95 (16.52%) Social Skills
2 82 (14.26%) Public Sector
3 52 (9.04%) Finance
4 22 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.30%) Banking
6 11 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.39%) Back Office
7 8 (1.39%) Law
8 7 (1.22%) Military
9 6 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.87%) Retail
11 4 (0.70%) Front Office
11 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.52%) Billing
12 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.35%) Local Government
13 2 (0.35%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (52.35%) Terraform
2 52 (9.04%) .NET
3 48 (8.35%) AWS CDK
4 40 (6.96%) REST
5 38 (6.61%) Kafka
6 27 (4.70%) React
7 25 (4.35%) Node.js
8 21 (3.65%) PySpark
9 20 (3.48%) Spring Boot
10 19 (3.30%) Spring
11 12 (2.09%) Flask
12 11 (1.91%) FastAPI
12 11 (1.91%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.91%) RESTful
13 10 (1.74%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (1.57%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.57%) Model Context Protocol
14 9 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
15 8 (1.39%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 123 (21.39%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.70%) AI Agents
4 14 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.57%) Autonomous Agent
6 8 (1.39%) Replication
7 7 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.22%) PKI
8 6 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.04%) NHS
9 5 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.87%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.70%) PropTech
10 4 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.48%) Linux
2 22 (3.83%) Windows
3 16 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.87%) Unix
7 4 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.52%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.35%) macOS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (56.52%) CI/CD
2 263 (45.74%) DevOps
3 262 (45.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (22.61%) Observability
5 124 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
6 117 (20.35%) Containerisation
7 110 (19.13%) Agile
8 94 (16.35%) Software Engineering
9 90 (15.65%) AI
10 83 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
11 76 (13.22%) Data Engineering
11 76 (13.22%) Microservices
12 74 (12.87%) Event-Driven
13 69 (12.00%) Analytics
14 65 (11.30%) Migration
15 64 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (9.57%) Data Modelling
17 54 (9.39%) Test Automation
18 47 (8.17%) Deployment Automation
19 46 (8.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 222 (38.61%) Python
2 90 (15.65%) SQL
3 66 (11.48%) Bash
4 51 (8.87%) Java
5 38 (6.61%) C#
6 32 (5.57%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 18 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.43%) Groovy
10 11 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.22%) Go
12 6 (1.04%) Scala
13 3 (0.52%) Bicep
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) COBOL
14 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) R
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 170 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 162 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.43%) AWS Certification
4 28 (4.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.87%) Degree
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.35%) CISSP
10 2 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.96%) QA
3 6 (1.04%) GDPR
4 5 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.52%) SLA
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (21.57%) Docker
2 12 (2.09%) Squid
3 11 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.52%) Postfix
5 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.35%) vSphere
7 1 (0.17%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 159 (27.65%) Kubernetes
2 74 (12.87%) Grafana
3 62 (10.78%) Prometheus
4 60 (10.43%) Ansible
5 16 (2.78%) Argo
6 12 (2.09%) Packer
7 11 (1.91%) Puppet
8 10 (1.74%) Kibana
8 10 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.22%) Istio
10 5 (0.87%) Rancher
11 4 (0.70%) Cilium
11 4 (0.70%) Consul
11 4 (0.70%) Nessus
11 4 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.70%) Suricata
12 3 (0.52%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.52%) SELinux
12 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (4.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.52%) Databricks
3 21 (3.65%) Splunk
4 17 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.61%) Dynatrace
5 15 (2.61%) Oracle
6 14 (2.43%) Google
7 12 (2.09%) Informatica
8 11 (1.91%) Foundry
9 7 (1.22%) Palantir
9 7 (1.22%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.04%) Denodo
10 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.04%) SAP
10 6 (1.04%) VMware
11 5 (0.87%) Okta
12 3 (0.52%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.52%) Talend
12 3 (0.52%) Trend Micro