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 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 190 224
Rank change year-on-year -20 +34 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 502 429 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.26% 1.38% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.49% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 343 413
10th Percentile £371 £407 £413
25th Percentile £413 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £656
90th Percentile £710 £838 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.03% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 36,458 28,796 41,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 92.96% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,924 17,765 27,180
10th Percentile £300 £288 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -0.52% -2.35% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 834 2,292
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.92 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.45
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -2.23%
75th Percentile £62.44 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £32.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.87% -8.20% -

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 12 February 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
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 12 February 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 -52 374 £525 -12.50% 128
London -52 235 £518 -20.38% 63
Work from Home -31 192 £537 -17.38% 50
UK excluding London +22 162 £500 - 79
North of England -9 79 £500 - 22
Yorkshire -29 41 £520 +4.00% 6
Midlands -26 32 £545 +9.00% 16
North West +2 31 £405 -16.92% 16
Scotland +14 28 £402 -19.60%
West Midlands -25 27 £680 +28.30% 14
South East -29 15 £538 +7.50% 21
North East -16 7 £550 -2.65%
South West -17 7 £536 -4.67% 14
East Midlands -21 5 £417 -16.55% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 -
East of England -25 2 £525 -4.55% 6
Wales -1 1 £250 -49.29%

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

For the 6 months to 12 February 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.

1 502 (100.00%) AWS
2 299 (59.56%) Terraform
3 286 (56.97%) CI/CD
4 268 (53.39%) Python
5 254 (50.60%) DevOps
6 214 (42.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 178 (35.46%) Security Cleared
8 169 (33.67%) SC Cleared
9 145 (28.88%) Kubernetes
10 143 (28.49%) Serverless
11 130 (25.90%) Docker
12 124 (24.70%) Amazon S3
12 124 (24.70%) AWS Lambda
13 118 (23.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 117 (23.31%) GitHub
15 107 (21.31%) Containerisation
16 106 (21.12%) GitLab
17 94 (18.73%) Jenkins
18 90 (17.93%) Amazon EKS
19 87 (17.33%) Agile
20 82 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
20 82 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
21 80 (15.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 78 (15.54%) Amazon EC2
23 76 (15.14%) Observability
24 75 (14.94%) Linux
25 73 (14.54%) Azure
26 71 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
27 65 (12.95%) Amazon RDS
27 65 (12.95%) 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 44 (8.76%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.98%) Apache
4 15 (2.99%) Confluence
5 9 (1.79%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) Appian
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 502 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (28.49%) Serverless
3 124 (24.70%) Amazon S3
3 124 (24.70%) AWS Lambda
4 118 (23.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 117 (23.31%) GitHub
6 90 (17.93%) Amazon EKS
7 82 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
8 80 (15.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 78 (15.54%) Amazon EC2
10 73 (14.54%) Azure
11 71 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (9.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 39 (7.77%) GCP
14 32 (6.37%) AWS Step Functions
15 30 (5.98%) Snowflake
16 29 (5.78%) AWS CodePipeline
16 29 (5.78%) AWS KMS
17 27 (5.38%) Route 53
18 20 (3.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.38%) DNS
2 19 (3.78%) Firewall
3 10 (1.99%) HTTP
4 8 (1.59%) FTP
4 8 (1.59%) SMTP
4 8 (1.59%) SSH
5 7 (1.39%) VPN
6 6 (1.20%) IMAP
6 6 (1.20%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.80%) Network Security
8 3 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.20%) LAN
9 1 (0.20%) SSL
9 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.95%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (7.37%) Amazon Athena
4 33 (6.57%) Data Lake
5 29 (5.78%) DynamoDB
6 27 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (4.98%) NoSQL
8 18 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (2.59%) Apache Iceberg
11 12 (2.39%) Apache Arrow
11 12 (2.39%) Dremio
12 11 (2.19%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.79%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.59%) Apache Ignite
14 8 (1.59%) MySQL
15 7 (1.39%) Big Data
15 7 (1.39%) Flink
15 7 (1.39%) SQL Server
15 7 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (21.12%) GitLab
2 94 (18.73%) Jenkins
3 45 (8.96%) Git
4 25 (4.98%) JIRA
5 11 (2.19%) Liquibase
6 9 (1.79%) MLflow
7 8 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.59%) Vagrant
8 6 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.20%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.80%) JUnit
10 4 (0.80%) Mockito
10 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.60%) Selenium
11 3 (0.60%) Snyk
11 3 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (17.93%) Public Sector
2 89 (17.73%) Finance
3 72 (14.34%) Social Skills
4 47 (9.36%) Banking
5 21 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.59%) Front Office
7 10 (1.99%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.39%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.60%) Legal
12 2 (0.40%) Law
13 1 (0.20%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Military
13 1 (0.20%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.97%) Kafka
2 31 (6.18%) Node.js
3 29 (5.78%) AWS CDK
4 28 (5.58%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (5.38%) React
6 25 (4.98%) REST
7 24 (4.78%) PySpark
8 18 (3.59%) RESTful
9 17 (3.39%) Flask
9 17 (3.39%) Lambda Expressions
10 14 (2.79%) Pandas
11 13 (2.59%) NumPy
12 12 (2.39%) SciPy
13 10 (1.99%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.79%) .NET
14 9 (1.79%) OAuth
15 8 (1.59%) gRPC
15 8 (1.59%) Protocol Buffers
16 7 (1.39%) JWT
16 7 (1.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.18%) Hedge funds
4 19 (3.78%) Fixed Income
4 19 (3.78%) Public Cloud
5 15 (2.99%) NHS
6 13 (2.59%) Equities
7 12 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (2.39%) Replication
8 10 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.59%) Derivative
9 8 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.59%) Pricing Data
10 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.80%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 75 (14.94%) Linux
2 17 (3.39%) Windows
3 12 (2.39%) Unix
4 11 (2.19%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (1.79%) VMS
6 6 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.60%) CentOS
7 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (56.97%) CI/CD
2 254 (50.60%) DevOps
3 214 (42.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (21.31%) Containerisation
5 87 (17.33%) Agile
6 82 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
7 76 (15.14%) Observability
8 64 (12.75%) Software Engineering
9 61 (12.15%) Cloud Security
10 53 (10.56%) Microservices
11 51 (10.16%) Data Pipeline
12 49 (9.76%) Analytics
13 46 (9.16%) Data Engineering
13 46 (9.16%) Migration
14 40 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (7.37%) Infrastructure Automation
16 36 (7.17%) High Availability
17 35 (6.97%) AI
18 34 (6.77%) ETL
19 32 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 268 (53.39%) Python
2 65 (12.95%) SQL
3 47 (9.36%) Java
4 46 (9.16%) Bash
5 40 (7.97%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.38%) Go
7 25 (4.98%) JavaScript
8 23 (4.58%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.39%) Groovy
11 9 (1.79%) C#
12 8 (1.59%) Ruby
13 4 (0.80%) Perl
14 3 (0.60%) PHP
15 2 (0.40%) AWK
15 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.20%) C
16 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.20%) R
16 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 178 (35.46%) Security Cleared
2 169 (33.67%) SC Cleared
3 54 (10.76%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.98%) Degree
5 18 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.79%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.60%) PhD
14 2 (0.40%) OCP
14 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.20%) CEH
15 1 (0.20%) CISSP
15 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.59%) QA
3 12 (2.39%) GDPR
4 10 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.39%) NIST
6 5 (1.00%) SLA
7 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.80%) NCSC
8 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (25.90%) Docker
2 9 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.59%) DFS Replication
4 6 (1.20%) Dovecot
4 6 (1.20%) Postfix
4 6 (1.20%) Squid
5 5 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 299 (59.56%) Terraform
2 145 (28.88%) Kubernetes
3 63 (12.55%) Grafana
4 59 (11.75%) Prometheus
5 57 (11.35%) Ansible
6 20 (3.98%) Argo
7 9 (1.79%) Packer
7 9 (1.79%) Puppet
8 8 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.39%) Nessus
10 6 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.20%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.40%) Consul
12 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.40%) Kibana
12 2 (0.40%) logstash
13 1 (0.20%) Opsview
13 1 (0.20%) QRadar
13 1 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 36 (7.17%) Databricks
2 26 (5.18%) Splunk
3 22 (4.38%) Microsoft
4 15 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.59%) Arista
6 8 (1.59%) Oracle
6 8 (1.59%) Tenable
7 6 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.00%) Citrix
8 5 (1.00%) Qualys
9 4 (0.80%) Confluent
9 4 (0.80%) Okta
10 3 (0.60%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.40%) AVEVA
11 2 (0.40%) IBM
11 2 (0.40%) New Relic
11 2 (0.40%) Ping Identity