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 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 201 200
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -16
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 515 461 545
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.29% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.39% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 365 452
10th Percentile £375 £400 £423
25th Percentile £420 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £670
90th Percentile £825 £850 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -0.24%
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 32,727 33,118 42,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.81% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,756 20,117 28,647
10th Percentile £284 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £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 £724 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,905 1,179 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.32 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.63 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +44.26%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -6 428 £525 -16.00% 65
London -7 263 £563 -16.67% 38
Work from Home -9 210 £575 -14.81% 31
UK excluding London +37 192 £500 +5.26% 44
North of England -7 91 £500 +25.00% 15
Yorkshire -20 50 £500 +25.00% 2
Midlands +14 48 £525 +1.94% 4
West Midlands +9 42 £525 -0.94% 2
North West +3 33 £405 -14.74% 8
Scotland +9 28 £463 -7.50% 1
South East +8 15 £538 +7.50% 20
South West -6 11 £600 -2.04% 4
North East 0 9 £550 -4.35% 5
East Midlands -10 6 £446 -10.75% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -15 2 £450 -18.18%

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 515 (100.00%) AWS
2 298 (57.86%) Python
3 279 (54.17%) Terraform
4 267 (51.84%) CI/CD
5 259 (50.29%) DevOps
6 215 (41.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 149 (28.93%) Amazon S3
7 149 (28.93%) Security Cleared
8 148 (28.74%) Serverless
9 136 (26.41%) Kubernetes
9 136 (26.41%) SC Cleared
10 133 (25.83%) Docker
11 130 (25.24%) AWS Lambda
12 129 (25.05%) Agile
13 121 (23.50%) GitHub
14 108 (20.97%) Jenkins
15 101 (19.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 101 (19.61%) GitLab
16 94 (18.25%) Containerisation
16 94 (18.25%) Software Engineering
17 93 (18.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 88 (17.09%) Amazon EC2
19 84 (16.31%) Amazon ECS
19 84 (16.31%) Amazon RDS
19 84 (16.31%) Java
20 80 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
21 76 (14.76%) Apache Airflow
21 76 (14.76%) Linux
22 74 (14.37%) TypeScript
23 72 (13.98%) Amazon Athena

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 76 (14.76%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (7.96%) Apache
3 28 (5.44%) Confluence
4 25 (4.85%) Apache Spark
5 16 (3.11%) nginx
6 2 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 515 (100.00%) AWS
2 149 (28.93%) Amazon S3
3 148 (28.74%) Serverless
4 130 (25.24%) AWS Lambda
5 121 (23.50%) GitHub
6 101 (19.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 93 (18.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 88 (17.09%) Amazon EC2
9 84 (16.31%) Amazon ECS
10 72 (13.98%) Amazon EKS
10 72 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (12.82%) Azure
12 61 (11.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (9.51%) dbt
14 47 (9.13%) GCP
15 46 (8.93%) Snowflake
16 38 (7.38%) AWS KMS
17 34 (6.60%) Route 53
18 25 (4.85%) AWS CodePipeline
19 24 (4.66%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.99%) DNS
2 32 (6.21%) Firewall
3 19 (3.69%) SMTP
4 17 (3.30%) FTP
4 17 (3.30%) HTTP
4 17 (3.30%) SSH
5 14 (2.72%) VPN
6 12 (2.33%) IMAP
6 12 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.17%) Network Security
8 5 (0.97%) DHCP
8 5 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.97%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.78%) SSL
10 2 (0.39%) BGP
10 2 (0.39%) IPsec
10 2 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (16.31%) Amazon RDS
2 72 (13.98%) Amazon Athena
3 62 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (10.10%) Data Lake
5 47 (9.13%) Apache Iceberg
6 45 (8.74%) Apache Arrow
6 45 (8.74%) Dremio
7 30 (5.83%) Apache Ignite
8 27 (5.24%) DynamoDB
9 26 (5.05%) NoSQL
10 23 (4.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.94%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.75%) Metadata
14 9 (1.75%) MySQL
15 7 (1.36%) Big Data
15 7 (1.36%) Flink
15 7 (1.36%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (20.97%) Jenkins
2 101 (19.61%) GitLab
3 63 (12.23%) Git
4 41 (7.96%) JIRA
5 19 (3.69%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.52%) Liquibase
7 10 (1.94%) MLflow
8 9 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.36%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.97%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.97%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.58%) JUnit
13 3 (0.58%) Maven
13 3 (0.58%) Mockito
13 3 (0.58%) Selenium
13 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 139 (26.99%) Finance
2 95 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 87 (16.89%) Public Sector
4 67 (13.01%) Banking
5 51 (9.90%) Front Office
6 31 (6.02%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.36%) Aeronautics
11 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.58%) Legal
13 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.39%) Law
14 2 (0.39%) Retail
14 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.19%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.74%) NumPy
1 45 (8.74%) Pandas
1 45 (8.74%) SciPy
2 44 (8.54%) Node.js
3 40 (7.77%) Kafka
4 37 (7.18%) React
5 36 (6.99%) AWS CDK
6 30 (5.83%) gRPC
6 30 (5.83%) Protocol Buffers
7 26 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (4.66%) REST
9 22 (4.27%) PySpark
10 21 (4.08%) RESTful
11 18 (3.50%) AngularJS
12 15 (2.91%) Vue
13 14 (2.72%) Lambda Expressions
14 12 (2.33%) LDAP
15 10 (1.94%) .NET
16 8 (1.55%) OAuth
17 5 (0.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.65%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.90%) Fixed Income
3 50 (9.71%) Hedge funds
4 45 (8.74%) Equities
4 45 (8.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (5.83%) Derivative
5 30 (5.83%) Pricing Data
6 24 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (4.08%) Replication
8 19 (3.69%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.91%) NHS
10 10 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.97%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
16 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 76 (14.76%) Linux
2 30 (5.83%) Windows
3 22 (4.27%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (3.69%) VMS
5 16 (3.11%) Unix
6 10 (1.94%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.58%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (51.84%) CI/CD
2 259 (50.29%) DevOps
3 215 (41.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (25.05%) Agile
5 94 (18.25%) Containerisation
5 94 (18.25%) Software Engineering
6 80 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
7 68 (13.20%) Cloud Security
8 57 (11.07%) Microservices
9 56 (10.87%) Observability
10 51 (9.90%) Investment Management
11 49 (9.51%) Migration
12 47 (9.13%) Data Pipeline
12 47 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (8.74%) Asset Management
14 44 (8.54%) Infrastructure Automation
15 40 (7.77%) Configuration Management
16 38 (7.38%) Data Engineering
17 36 (6.99%) Analytics
17 36 (6.99%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 298 (57.86%) Python
2 84 (16.31%) Java
3 74 (14.37%) TypeScript
4 71 (13.79%) SQL
5 60 (11.65%) JavaScript
6 41 (7.96%) Bash
6 41 (7.96%) Go
7 34 (6.60%) PowerShell
8 24 (4.66%) Groovy
9 12 (2.33%) Perl
9 12 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.55%) C#
11 4 (0.78%) PHP
12 3 (0.58%) Ruby
13 2 (0.39%) AWK
13 2 (0.39%) C
13 2 (0.39%) Scala
14 1 (0.19%) C++
14 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 149 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 136 (26.41%) SC Cleared
3 67 (13.01%) AWS Certification
4 35 (6.80%) Degree
5 23 (4.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.11%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.58%) PhD
13 2 (0.39%) CCNP
13 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.39%) OCP
13 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.72%) QA
3 10 (1.94%) GDPR
4 8 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.97%) WCAG
6 4 (0.78%) NCSC
6 4 (0.78%) NIST
7 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) DICOM
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) HL7
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 133 (25.83%) Docker
2 17 (3.30%) DFS Replication
3 16 (3.11%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.33%) Dovecot
4 12 (2.33%) Postfix
4 12 (2.33%) Squid
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) iptables
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 279 (54.17%) Terraform
2 136 (26.41%) Kubernetes
3 72 (13.98%) Grafana
4 71 (13.79%) Ansible
5 62 (12.04%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.91%) Puppet
7 14 (2.72%) Argo
8 12 (2.33%) Nessus
9 11 (2.14%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.94%) Packer
10 10 (1.94%) Proxmox
10 10 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.17%) Kibana
12 3 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.39%) logstash
13 2 (0.39%) SELinux
14 1 (0.19%) Consul
14 1 (0.19%) Control-M
14 1 (0.19%) linkerd
14 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (5.83%) Databricks
2 25 (4.85%) ServiceNow
2 25 (4.85%) Splunk
3 19 (3.69%) Microsoft
4 18 (3.50%) Arista
5 12 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (1.36%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.36%) IBM
7 6 (1.17%) Oracle
8 5 (0.97%) Tenable
9 4 (0.78%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.78%) Confluent
9 4 (0.78%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.78%) Okta
9 4 (0.78%) Ping Identity
10 3 (0.58%) Cisco
10 3 (0.58%) Google
10 3 (0.58%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.39%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.39%) Red Hat