AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 180 238
Rank change year-on-year -54 +58 -43
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 503 437 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.49% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.61% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 360 359
10th Percentile £390 £406 £414
25th Percentile £440 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £594 £825 £688
90th Percentile £668 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.99% -10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £47.20 - -
25th Percentile £58.00 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.14% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 44,407 27,141 39,490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.39% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,193 17,684 25,687
10th Percentile £321 £293 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -3.23%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,901 1,046 2,662
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.15 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.17 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -22.99% -18.72%
75th Percentile £66.25 £61.44 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.90% -32.19% -5.88%

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 17 May 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 17 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 17 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 17 May 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 -97 371 £525 -12.50% 60
London -70 240 £525 -22.22% 30
Work from Home -49 184 £525 -22.22% 34
UK excluding London -44 144 £480 -4.00% 39
North of England -60 49 £510 +7.37% 13
Midlands -42 29 £470 -12.57% 9
Scotland +9 26 £425 -19.05% 2
North West -34 26 £550 +33.01% 9
West Midlands -37 25 £475 -13.64% 3
East of England -14 14 £510 +16.57%
South West -20 14 £500 -14.89% 2
South East -64 13 £550 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire -55 12 £513 -2.38% 4
North East -19 11 £425 -19.05%
East Midlands -23 4 £402 -19.60% 6
Wales -12 1 £250 -57.34% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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.

1 503 (100.00%) AWS
2 275 (54.67%) CI/CD
3 261 (51.89%) Terraform
4 238 (47.32%) DevOps
5 222 (44.14%) Python
6 190 (37.77%) Security Cleared
7 188 (37.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 178 (35.39%) SC Cleared
9 140 (27.83%) Serverless
10 126 (25.05%) Kubernetes
11 125 (24.85%) AWS Lambda
12 108 (21.47%) Docker
13 99 (19.68%) Amazon S3
14 96 (19.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 95 (18.89%) Containerisation
16 93 (18.49%) GitHub
16 93 (18.49%) GitLab
17 92 (18.29%) Agile
18 90 (17.89%) Amazon EKS
19 81 (16.10%) Platform Engineering
20 79 (15.71%) Observability
21 71 (14.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 69 (13.72%) Grafana
23 67 (13.32%) Amazon EC2
23 67 (13.32%) Azure
24 65 (12.92%) Bash
24 65 (12.92%) GitHub Actions
25 64 (12.72%) Linux
25 64 (12.72%) Software Engineering
25 64 (12.72%) SQL

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 28 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.98%) Confluence
4 11 (2.19%) Apache
4 11 (2.19%) SAS
5 4 (0.80%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) Appian
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Traefik
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.40%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 503 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (27.83%) Serverless
3 125 (24.85%) AWS Lambda
4 99 (19.68%) Amazon S3
5 96 (19.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 93 (18.49%) GitHub
7 90 (17.89%) Amazon EKS
8 71 (14.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 67 (13.32%) Amazon EC2
9 67 (13.32%) Azure
10 65 (12.92%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (10.74%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (9.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 37 (7.36%) AWS Step Functions
14 33 (6.56%) Snowflake
15 27 (5.37%) AWS CodePipeline
16 24 (4.77%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (4.37%) GCP
18 21 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
19 19 (3.78%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.98%) Firewall
2 10 (1.99%) DNS
3 7 (1.39%) Network Security
3 7 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.39%) VPN
4 6 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.80%) HTTP
5 4 (0.80%) WAN
6 3 (0.60%) LAN
7 2 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.40%) Internet
7 2 (0.40%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) BGP
8 1 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.35%) Amazon RDS
1 42 (8.35%) DynamoDB
2 40 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 35 (6.96%) Amazon Athena
4 22 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (3.58%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.58%) SQL Server
6 17 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (2.78%) MySQL
7 14 (2.78%) Power BI
8 13 (2.58%) Metadata
9 10 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.59%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.59%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
11 7 (1.39%) Big Data
12 6 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (1.19%) Redis
12 6 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 93 (18.49%) GitLab
2 58 (11.53%) Jenkins
3 50 (9.94%) Git
4 22 (4.37%) JIRA
5 12 (2.39%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.59%) Snyk
6 8 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.39%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.80%) Gatling
9 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.80%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.40%) JMeter
11 2 (0.40%) JUnit
11 2 (0.40%) Mocha
11 2 (0.40%) MSTest
11 2 (0.40%) tSQLt
General
1 74 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 67 (13.32%) Social Skills
3 46 (9.15%) Finance
4 27 (5.37%) Banking
5 18 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.60%) Law
9 3 (0.60%) Legal
9 3 (0.60%) Military
9 3 (0.60%) Retail
10 2 (0.40%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.40%) Billing
10 2 (0.40%) Front Office
10 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.40%) Police
11 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.96%) Kafka
2 24 (4.77%) AWS CDK
3 22 (4.37%) PySpark
4 19 (3.78%) React
4 19 (3.78%) REST
5 18 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (3.58%) Node.js
6 17 (3.38%) .NET
6 17 (3.38%) Flask
7 10 (1.99%) Next.js
8 9 (1.79%) OAuth
8 9 (1.79%) pytest
8 9 (1.79%) Spring
8 9 (1.79%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.59%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.59%) OAuth2
9 8 (1.59%) RESTful
10 7 (1.39%) JWT
11 6 (1.19%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.19%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 97 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.59%) Clustering
4 8 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (1.59%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.39%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 5 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (0.99%) NHS
7 5 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.99%) Replication
7 5 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.60%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 64 (12.72%) Linux
2 15 (2.98%) Windows
3 9 (1.79%) Unix
4 7 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (54.67%) CI/CD
2 238 (47.32%) DevOps
3 188 (37.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (18.89%) Containerisation
5 92 (18.29%) Agile
6 81 (16.10%) Platform Engineering
7 79 (15.71%) Observability
8 64 (12.72%) Software Engineering
9 63 (12.52%) Analytics
10 60 (11.93%) Data Engineering
11 54 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
12 52 (10.34%) Migration
13 50 (9.94%) Cloud Security
14 47 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (9.15%) ETL
16 43 (8.55%) Data Modelling
17 42 (8.35%) Microservices
18 37 (7.36%) AI
18 37 (7.36%) Problem-Solving
19 35 (6.96%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 222 (44.14%) Python
2 65 (12.92%) Bash
3 64 (12.72%) SQL
4 43 (8.55%) Java
5 22 (4.37%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.98%) C#
7 16 (3.18%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.58%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.99%) Go
9 10 (1.99%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.79%) Groovy
11 5 (0.99%) Ruby
12 4 (0.80%) Scala
13 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.40%) Perl
15 1 (0.20%) C
15 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.20%) R
15 1 (0.20%) Rust
15 1 (0.20%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 190 (37.77%) Security Cleared
2 178 (35.39%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.36%) AWS Certification
4 14 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.19%) Degree
5 11 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.60%) CISSP
10 3 (0.60%) PhD
11 2 (0.40%) CCNP
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.97%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.19%) SLA
3 8 (1.59%) GDPR
3 8 (1.59%) QA
4 7 (1.39%) NIST
5 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 108 (21.47%) Docker
2 7 (1.39%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.19%) Squid
4 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.99%) vSphere
5 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 261 (51.89%) Terraform
2 126 (25.05%) Kubernetes
3 69 (13.72%) Grafana
4 55 (10.93%) Prometheus
5 43 (8.55%) Ansible
6 18 (3.58%) Argo
7 13 (2.58%) Puppet
8 5 (0.99%) Rancher
9 4 (0.80%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.80%) Istio
9 4 (0.80%) Suricata
10 3 (0.60%) Cilium
10 3 (0.60%) Packer
10 3 (0.60%) Salt
10 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.40%) Consul
11 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.40%) linkerd
11 2 (0.40%) Podman
12 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 34 (6.76%) Databricks
2 21 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.18%) Dynatrace
4 13 (2.58%) Oracle
4 13 (2.58%) Splunk
5 12 (2.39%) Informatica
6 11 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.99%) Denodo
7 10 (1.99%) VMware
8 6 (1.19%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.19%) SAP
8 6 (1.19%) Talend
9 5 (0.99%) Citrix
9 5 (0.99%) Google
9 5 (0.99%) Qualys
9 5 (0.99%) Tenable
10 4 (0.80%) Cisco
11 3 (0.60%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.60%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics