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 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 199 203
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 507 458 541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.28% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.38% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 364 451
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £419 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £675
90th Percentile £825 £850 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +4.21% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
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 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -9 419 £525 -16.00% 67
London -20 256 £550 -18.52% 35
Work from Home -13 204 £575 -14.81% 38
UK excluding London +42 187 £495 +4.21% 43
North of England +3 90 £500 +25.00% 13
Yorkshire -25 49 £500 +25.00% 1
Midlands +9 47 £525 +1.94% 4
West Midlands +10 41 £531 +0.19% 2
North West +12 33 £405 -14.74% 7
Scotland +11 28 £420 -16.00% 2
South East -6 15 £538 +7.50% 11
North East +3 9 £550 -4.35% 5
South West -18 8 £510 -11.30% 11
East Midlands -12 6 £446 -10.75% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -15 2 £450 -18.18% 3

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 507 (100.00%) AWS
2 297 (58.58%) Python
3 282 (55.62%) Terraform
4 270 (53.25%) CI/CD
5 261 (51.48%) DevOps
6 217 (42.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 153 (30.18%) Security Cleared
8 149 (29.39%) Serverless
9 146 (28.80%) Amazon S3
10 140 (27.61%) Kubernetes
11 139 (27.42%) SC Cleared
12 136 (26.82%) Docker
13 131 (25.84%) AWS Lambda
14 127 (25.05%) Agile
15 120 (23.67%) GitHub
16 111 (21.89%) Jenkins
17 104 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 101 (19.92%) GitLab
19 96 (18.93%) Containerisation
20 93 (18.34%) Software Engineering
21 92 (18.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 87 (17.16%) Amazon EC2
23 84 (16.57%) Amazon ECS
24 83 (16.37%) Platform Engineering
25 82 (16.17%) Amazon RDS
26 81 (15.98%) Java
27 75 (14.79%) Apache Airflow
28 74 (14.60%) Amazon EKS
28 74 (14.60%) GitHub Actions
29 73 (14.40%) Grafana

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 75 (14.79%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (7.50%) Apache
3 27 (5.33%) Confluence
4 23 (4.54%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.96%) nginx
6 2 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 507 (100.00%) AWS
2 149 (29.39%) Serverless
3 146 (28.80%) Amazon S3
4 131 (25.84%) AWS Lambda
5 120 (23.67%) GitHub
6 104 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 92 (18.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 87 (17.16%) Amazon EC2
9 84 (16.57%) Amazon ECS
10 74 (14.60%) Amazon EKS
10 74 (14.60%) GitHub Actions
11 68 (13.41%) Azure
12 61 (12.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 47 (9.27%) dbt
14 46 (9.07%) GCP
15 45 (8.88%) Snowflake
16 37 (7.30%) AWS KMS
17 33 (6.51%) Route 53
18 26 (5.13%) AWS CodePipeline
19 23 (4.54%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.90%) DNS
2 28 (5.52%) Firewall
3 18 (3.55%) SMTP
4 17 (3.35%) FTP
4 17 (3.35%) HTTP
4 17 (3.35%) SSH
5 11 (2.17%) IMAP
5 11 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
5 11 (2.17%) VPN
6 6 (1.18%) Network Security
7 5 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.99%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.39%) DHCP
8 2 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.39%) SSL
9 1 (0.20%) BGP
9 1 (0.20%) IPsec
9 1 (0.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (16.17%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (13.61%) Amazon Athena
3 60 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (9.86%) Data Lake
5 45 (8.88%) Apache Iceberg
6 43 (8.48%) Apache Arrow
6 43 (8.48%) Dremio
7 28 (5.52%) Apache Ignite
8 27 (5.33%) DynamoDB
9 26 (5.13%) NoSQL
10 24 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (4.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.97%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.78%) Metadata
14 9 (1.78%) MySQL
15 7 (1.38%) Big Data
15 7 (1.38%) Flink
15 7 (1.38%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 111 (21.89%) Jenkins
2 101 (19.92%) GitLab
3 65 (12.82%) Git
4 40 (7.89%) JIRA
5 18 (3.55%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.56%) Liquibase
7 10 (1.97%) MLflow
8 9 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.79%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.59%) Maven
12 3 (0.59%) Mockito
12 3 (0.59%) Selenium
12 3 (0.59%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 135 (26.63%) Finance
2 91 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 89 (17.55%) Social Skills
4 65 (12.82%) Banking
5 49 (9.66%) Front Office
6 29 (5.72%) Investment Banking
7 22 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.38%) Aeronautics
10 5 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.59%) Legal
12 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.39%) Law
13 2 (0.39%) Retail
13 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.68%) Node.js
2 43 (8.48%) NumPy
2 43 (8.48%) Pandas
2 43 (8.48%) SciPy
3 40 (7.89%) Kafka
4 37 (7.30%) React
5 36 (7.10%) AWS CDK
6 28 (5.52%) gRPC
6 28 (5.52%) Protocol Buffers
7 27 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (4.73%) REST
9 22 (4.34%) PySpark
10 21 (4.14%) RESTful
11 18 (3.55%) AngularJS
12 15 (2.96%) Vue
13 14 (2.76%) Lambda Expressions
14 11 (2.17%) LDAP
15 9 (1.78%) .NET
16 7 (1.38%) OAuth
17 5 (0.99%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.43%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.66%) Fixed Income
3 48 (9.47%) Hedge funds
4 43 (8.48%) Equities
4 43 (8.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 28 (5.52%) Derivative
5 28 (5.52%) Pricing Data
6 23 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (4.14%) Replication
8 19 (3.75%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.96%) NHS
10 10 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.99%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.40%) Linux
2 30 (5.92%) Windows
3 21 (4.14%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (3.55%) VMS
5 13 (2.56%) Unix
6 10 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.59%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (53.25%) CI/CD
2 261 (51.48%) DevOps
3 217 (42.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (25.05%) Agile
5 96 (18.93%) Containerisation
6 93 (18.34%) Software Engineering
7 83 (16.37%) Platform Engineering
8 65 (12.82%) Cloud Security
9 60 (11.83%) Observability
10 57 (11.24%) Microservices
11 49 (9.66%) Investment Management
12 46 (9.07%) Data Pipeline
13 45 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (8.68%) Migration
15 43 (8.48%) Asset Management
15 43 (8.48%) Infrastructure Automation
16 38 (7.50%) Data Engineering
17 37 (7.30%) Analytics
17 37 (7.30%) Configuration Management
18 36 (7.10%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 297 (58.58%) Python
2 81 (15.98%) Java
3 72 (14.20%) TypeScript
4 69 (13.61%) SQL
5 58 (11.44%) JavaScript
6 42 (8.28%) Bash
6 42 (8.28%) Go
7 32 (6.31%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.34%) Groovy
9 13 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.37%) Perl
11 8 (1.58%) C#
12 5 (0.99%) Ruby
13 4 (0.79%) PHP
14 2 (0.39%) AWK
14 2 (0.39%) Scala
15 1 (0.20%) C
15 1 (0.20%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 153 (30.18%) Security Cleared
2 139 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 65 (12.82%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.71%) Degree
5 22 (4.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.16%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.39%) OCP
13 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.39%) PhD
14 1 (0.20%) CCNP
14 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.76%) QA
3 10 (1.97%) GDPR
4 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.99%) WCAG
6 4 (0.79%) NCSC
6 4 (0.79%) NIST
7 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) DICOM
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 136 (26.82%) Docker
2 17 (3.35%) DFS Replication
3 16 (3.16%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.17%) Dovecot
4 11 (2.17%) Postfix
4 11 (2.17%) Squid
5 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 282 (55.62%) Terraform
2 140 (27.61%) Kubernetes
3 73 (14.40%) Grafana
4 69 (13.61%) Ansible
5 63 (12.43%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.76%) Argo
7 11 (2.17%) Nessus
8 10 (1.97%) Packer
8 10 (1.97%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.97%) Proxmox
8 10 (1.97%) Puppet
9 8 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.18%) Kibana
11 3 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.39%) logstash
13 1 (0.20%) Consul
13 1 (0.20%) Control-M
13 1 (0.20%) Istio
13 1 (0.20%) linkerd
13 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (5.92%) Databricks
2 25 (4.93%) Splunk
3 24 (4.73%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.94%) Microsoft
5 16 (3.16%) Arista
6 11 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.18%) IBM
8 6 (1.18%) Oracle
9 5 (0.99%) Tenable
10 4 (0.79%) Confluent
11 3 (0.59%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.59%) Okta
11 3 (0.59%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.39%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.39%) F5
12 2 (0.39%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.39%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.39%) Virgin Media