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 23 December 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 200 213
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 -25
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 499 444 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 1.31% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.42% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 353 419
10th Percentile £365 £400 £413
25th Percentile £415 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £622 £738 £673
90th Percentile £815 £850 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 33,704 31,327 40,582
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.78% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,320 19,249 27,284
10th Percentile £293 £300 £285
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,988 974 1,449
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.56 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.33 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% -26.67% +48.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.32 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 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
England -12 410 £520 -14.19% 224
London -29 245 £550 -15.38% 49
Work from Home -24 192 £575 -11.54% 202
UK excluding London +42 185 £488 -2.50% 199
North of England +7 93 £500 +14.29% 46
Yorkshire -19 49 £500 +17.65% 22
Midlands +2 45 £525 +1.94% 33
West Midlands +9 40 £525 -0.94% 20
North West +4 36 £405 -14.74% 22
Scotland +7 26 £402 -19.60% 7
South East -6 16 £538 +7.50% 52
North East -6 9 £550 - 2
South West -7 6 £488 -15.22% 25
East Midlands -14 5 £446 -10.75% 10
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 - 3
East of England -23 2 £450 -21.74% 31

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 499 (100.00%) AWS
2 299 (59.92%) Python
3 281 (56.31%) Terraform
4 268 (53.71%) CI/CD
5 260 (52.10%) DevOps
6 212 (42.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 154 (30.86%) Security Cleared
8 150 (30.06%) Serverless
9 144 (28.86%) Amazon S3
9 144 (28.86%) SC Cleared
10 141 (28.26%) Kubernetes
11 138 (27.66%) Docker
12 133 (26.65%) AWS Lambda
13 119 (23.85%) GitHub
14 116 (23.25%) Agile
15 110 (22.04%) Jenkins
16 101 (20.24%) AWS CloudFormation
17 99 (19.84%) Containerisation
18 94 (18.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 94 (18.84%) GitLab
19 89 (17.84%) Amazon ECS
20 87 (17.43%) Amazon RDS
21 86 (17.23%) Amazon EC2
21 86 (17.23%) Software Engineering
22 81 (16.23%) Platform Engineering
23 79 (15.83%) Amazon EKS
24 77 (15.43%) GitHub Actions
25 76 (15.23%) Grafana
25 76 (15.23%) Linux
26 72 (14.43%) Azure

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 67 (13.43%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.21%) Apache
3 26 (5.21%) Confluence
4 22 (4.41%) Apache Spark
5 15 (3.01%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 499 (100.00%) AWS
2 150 (30.06%) Serverless
3 144 (28.86%) Amazon S3
4 133 (26.65%) AWS Lambda
5 119 (23.85%) GitHub
6 101 (20.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (18.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 89 (17.84%) Amazon ECS
9 86 (17.23%) Amazon EC2
10 79 (15.83%) Amazon EKS
11 77 (15.43%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (14.43%) Azure
13 59 (11.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 42 (8.42%) Snowflake
15 41 (8.22%) GCP
16 38 (7.62%) dbt
17 37 (7.41%) AWS KMS
18 32 (6.41%) Route 53
19 29 (5.81%) AWS CodePipeline
20 25 (5.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.01%) DNS
2 31 (6.21%) Firewall
3 18 (3.61%) HTTP
3 18 (3.61%) SMTP
4 17 (3.41%) FTP
4 17 (3.41%) SSH
5 13 (2.61%) VPN
6 11 (2.20%) IMAP
6 11 (2.20%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.00%) Network Security
8 5 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.40%) DHCP
9 2 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.40%) SSL
10 1 (0.20%) BGP
10 1 (0.20%) IPsec
10 1 (0.20%) LAN
10 1 (0.20%) OSPF
10 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (17.43%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (12.63%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (9.82%) Data Lake
5 36 (7.21%) Apache Iceberg
6 34 (6.81%) Apache Arrow
6 34 (6.81%) Dremio
7 30 (6.01%) DynamoDB
8 26 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (5.01%) NoSQL
10 24 (4.81%) Apache Ignite
11 22 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (2.61%) Relational Database
14 10 (2.00%) MySQL
15 8 (1.60%) Metadata
15 8 (1.60%) MongoDB
16 7 (1.40%) Big Data
16 7 (1.40%) Flink
16 7 (1.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 110 (22.04%) Jenkins
2 94 (18.84%) GitLab
3 63 (12.63%) Git
4 42 (8.42%) JIRA
5 18 (3.61%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.61%) Liquibase
7 10 (2.00%) MLflow
8 9 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.00%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.60%) JUnit
12 3 (0.60%) Maven
12 3 (0.60%) Mockito
12 3 (0.60%) Selenium
12 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 120 (24.05%) Finance
2 91 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 85 (17.03%) Social Skills
4 60 (12.02%) Banking
5 40 (8.02%) Front Office
6 25 (5.01%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.40%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.80%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.80%) Legal
13 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.40%) Law
14 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.20%) Retail
15 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.22%) Kafka
1 41 (8.22%) Node.js
2 37 (7.41%) AWS CDK
3 35 (7.01%) NumPy
3 35 (7.01%) Pandas
3 35 (7.01%) React
4 34 (6.81%) SciPy
5 29 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
6 27 (5.41%) REST
7 26 (5.21%) PySpark
8 24 (4.81%) gRPC
8 24 (4.81%) Protocol Buffers
9 22 (4.41%) RESTful
10 15 (3.01%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.81%) Lambda Expressions
12 11 (2.20%) LDAP
13 10 (2.00%) Vue
14 9 (1.80%) .NET
15 7 (1.40%) Next.js
15 7 (1.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.62%) Hedge funds
3 40 (8.02%) Fixed Income
4 34 (6.81%) Equities
4 34 (6.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (4.81%) Derivative
6 24 (4.81%) Pricing Data
7 21 (4.21%) Replication
8 18 (3.61%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.01%) NHS
10 9 (1.80%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.20%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.80%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 76 (15.23%) Linux
2 30 (6.01%) Windows
3 21 (4.21%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (3.61%) VMS
5 11 (2.20%) Unix
6 10 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.60%) CentOS
8 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (53.71%) CI/CD
2 260 (52.10%) DevOps
3 212 (42.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (23.25%) Agile
5 99 (19.84%) Containerisation
6 86 (17.23%) Software Engineering
7 81 (16.23%) Platform Engineering
8 70 (14.03%) Cloud Security
9 64 (12.83%) Observability
10 60 (12.02%) Microservices
11 48 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (8.62%) Infrastructure Automation
14 41 (8.22%) Data Engineering
15 40 (8.02%) Analytics
15 40 (8.02%) Investment Management
16 39 (7.82%) Migration
17 37 (7.41%) Configuration Management
18 36 (7.21%) Change Management
19 35 (7.01%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 299 (59.92%) Python
2 72 (14.43%) Java
3 70 (14.03%) SQL
4 63 (12.63%) TypeScript
5 48 (9.62%) JavaScript
6 46 (9.22%) Bash
7 39 (7.82%) Go
8 35 (7.01%) PowerShell
9 21 (4.21%) Groovy
10 15 (3.01%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.61%) Perl
12 10 (2.00%) C#
13 6 (1.20%) Ruby
14 3 (0.60%) PHP
15 2 (0.40%) AWK
15 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.20%) C
16 1 (0.20%) HiveQL
16 1 (0.20%) Scala
16 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 144 (28.86%) SC Cleared
3 64 (12.83%) AWS Certification
4 37 (7.41%) Degree
5 24 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.41%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.01%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.80%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.60%) PhD
15 2 (0.40%) OCP
15 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.20%) CCNP
16 1 (0.20%) CEH
16 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.81%) QA
3 11 (2.20%) GDPR
4 10 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.20%) NIST
6 5 (1.00%) WCAG
7 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.80%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 138 (27.66%) Docker
2 17 (3.41%) DFS Replication
3 15 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.20%) Dovecot
4 11 (2.20%) Postfix
4 11 (2.20%) Squid
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 281 (56.31%) Terraform
2 141 (28.26%) Kubernetes
3 76 (15.23%) Grafana
4 70 (14.03%) Ansible
5 64 (12.83%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.21%) Argo
7 11 (2.20%) Nessus
8 10 (2.00%) Packer
8 10 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.00%) Proxmox
9 9 (1.80%) Puppet
10 7 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.20%) Kibana
12 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.40%) logstash
14 1 (0.20%) Consul
14 1 (0.20%) Control-M
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.20%) QRadar
14 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (6.41%) Databricks
2 26 (5.21%) ServiceNow
3 24 (4.81%) Splunk
4 20 (4.01%) Microsoft
5 15 (3.01%) Arista
6 11 (2.20%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.80%) Oracle
8 7 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.40%) Tenable
9 6 (1.20%) IBM
10 4 (0.80%) Confluent
10 4 (0.80%) Okta
10 4 (0.80%) Qualys
11 3 (0.60%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.60%) Cisco
11 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.60%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.40%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.40%) SAP