AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 197 214
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 -22
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 480 439 488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.31% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.42% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 350 412
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £738 £669
90th Percentile £759 £838 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -0.47%
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 33,780 30,959 40,080
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.73% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,373 19,013 26,849
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 958 1,543
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.01 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £46.18
% change year-on-year -20.81% -31.23% +77.62%

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 31 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
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 31 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 -22 390 £520 -13.33% 294
London -32 231 £550 -15.38% 59
UK excluding London +36 181 £488 -2.50% 269
Work from Home -34 181 £575 -11.54% 142
North of England +3 92 £500 +10.13% 68
Yorkshire -24 48 £500 +17.65% 33
Midlands +6 44 £525 +1.94% 48
West Midlands +6 39 £531 +0.19% 26
North West +11 36 £405 -14.74% 30
Scotland +10 25 £402 -19.60% 16
South East -12 15 £525 +5.00% 59
North East -6 9 £550 -2.65% 5
South West -7 6 £488 -15.22% 31
East Midlands -11 5 £446 -10.75% 19
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 - 6
East of England -20 2 £450 -18.18% 38

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 480 (100.00%) AWS
2 287 (59.79%) Python
3 273 (56.88%) Terraform
4 257 (53.54%) CI/CD
5 251 (52.29%) DevOps
6 202 (42.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 147 (30.63%) Security Cleared
8 142 (29.58%) Serverless
9 138 (28.75%) SC Cleared
10 135 (28.13%) Amazon S3
11 134 (27.92%) Kubernetes
12 132 (27.50%) Docker
13 125 (26.04%) AWS Lambda
14 114 (23.75%) GitHub
15 107 (22.29%) Agile
15 107 (22.29%) Jenkins
16 104 (21.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 96 (20.00%) GitLab
18 94 (19.58%) Containerisation
19 87 (18.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 86 (17.92%) Amazon ECS
21 82 (17.08%) Software Engineering
22 79 (16.46%) Amazon EC2
22 79 (16.46%) Amazon EKS
22 79 (16.46%) Amazon RDS
22 79 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
23 76 (15.83%) Grafana
24 75 (15.63%) Linux
25 73 (15.21%) Azure
26 72 (15.00%) GitHub Actions

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 63 (13.13%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.08%) Apache
3 25 (5.21%) Confluence
4 22 (4.58%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.92%) nginx
6 2 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (2.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 480 (100.00%) AWS
2 142 (29.58%) Serverless
3 135 (28.13%) Amazon S3
4 125 (26.04%) AWS Lambda
5 114 (23.75%) GitHub
6 104 (21.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 87 (18.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 86 (17.92%) Amazon ECS
9 79 (16.46%) Amazon EC2
9 79 (16.46%) Amazon EKS
10 73 (15.21%) Azure
11 72 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (10.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 41 (8.54%) GCP
14 39 (8.13%) Snowflake
15 35 (7.29%) AWS KMS
16 34 (7.08%) dbt
17 31 (6.46%) Route 53
18 25 (5.21%) AWS Step Functions
19 24 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.29%) DNS
2 30 (6.25%) Firewall
3 18 (3.75%) HTTP
4 17 (3.54%) FTP
4 17 (3.54%) SMTP
4 17 (3.54%) SSH
5 10 (2.08%) IMAP
5 10 (2.08%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (1.67%) VPN
7 6 (1.25%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.04%) Network Security
9 2 (0.42%) DHCP
9 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.42%) SSL
10 1 (0.21%) LAN
10 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (16.46%) Amazon RDS
2 60 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 50 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (9.79%) Data Lake
5 33 (6.88%) Apache Iceberg
6 31 (6.46%) Apache Arrow
6 31 (6.46%) Dremio
7 29 (6.04%) DynamoDB
8 25 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (5.21%) NoSQL
9 22 (4.58%) Apache Ignite
10 21 (4.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.71%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.08%) MySQL
14 8 (1.67%) Metadata
14 8 (1.67%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.46%) Big Data
15 7 (1.46%) Flink
15 7 (1.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 107 (22.29%) Jenkins
2 96 (20.00%) GitLab
3 60 (12.50%) Git
4 40 (8.33%) JIRA
5 17 (3.54%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.71%) Liquibase
7 9 (1.88%) MLflow
7 9 (1.88%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.67%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.25%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.04%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.83%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.63%) JUnit
12 3 (0.63%) Maven
12 3 (0.63%) Mockito
12 3 (0.63%) Selenium
12 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 113 (23.54%) Finance
2 92 (19.17%) Public Sector
3 82 (17.08%) Social Skills
4 59 (12.29%) Banking
5 37 (7.71%) Front Office
6 23 (4.79%) Investment Banking
7 17 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.88%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.46%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.83%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.63%) Legal
13 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.42%) Law
14 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.21%) Games
15 1 (0.21%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.54%) Kafka
2 40 (8.33%) Node.js
3 36 (7.50%) AWS CDK
4 34 (7.08%) React
5 32 (6.67%) NumPy
5 32 (6.67%) Pandas
6 31 (6.46%) Elastic Stack
6 31 (6.46%) SciPy
7 27 (5.63%) REST
8 26 (5.42%) PySpark
9 22 (4.58%) gRPC
9 22 (4.58%) Protocol Buffers
9 22 (4.58%) RESTful
10 14 (2.92%) AngularJS
10 14 (2.92%) Lambda Expressions
11 10 (2.08%) LDAP
12 9 (1.88%) Vue
13 8 (1.67%) .NET
13 8 (1.67%) Flask
14 7 (1.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.92%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 37 (7.71%) Fixed Income
4 31 (6.46%) Equities
4 31 (6.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (4.58%) Derivative
6 22 (4.58%) Pricing Data
7 21 (4.38%) Replication
8 17 (3.54%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.13%) NHS
10 8 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.83%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 75 (15.63%) Linux
2 29 (6.04%) Windows
3 20 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (3.54%) VMS
5 11 (2.29%) Unix
6 10 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.63%) CentOS
8 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (53.54%) CI/CD
2 251 (52.29%) DevOps
3 202 (42.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (22.29%) Agile
5 94 (19.58%) Containerisation
6 82 (17.08%) Software Engineering
7 79 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
8 67 (13.96%) Observability
9 62 (12.92%) Cloud Security
10 59 (12.29%) Microservices
11 45 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (8.33%) Analytics
14 39 (8.13%) Data Engineering
14 39 (8.13%) Infrastructure Automation
15 37 (7.71%) Investment Management
16 35 (7.29%) Change Management
16 35 (7.29%) Configuration Management
16 35 (7.29%) High Availability
16 35 (7.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 287 (59.79%) Python
2 67 (13.96%) Java
3 65 (13.54%) SQL
4 59 (12.29%) TypeScript
5 43 (8.96%) Bash
5 43 (8.96%) JavaScript
6 36 (7.50%) Go
7 32 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.17%) Groovy
9 17 (3.54%) Shell Script
10 13 (2.71%) Perl
11 9 (1.88%) C#
12 6 (1.25%) Ruby
13 3 (0.63%) PHP
14 2 (0.42%) AWK
14 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.21%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.21%) JSX
15 1 (0.21%) Scala
15 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 147 (30.63%) Security Cleared
2 138 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 63 (13.13%) AWS Certification
4 36 (7.50%) Degree
5 24 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.54%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 6 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.63%) PhD
14 2 (0.42%) OCP
14 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.21%) CEH
15 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.92%) QA
3 11 (2.29%) GDPR
4 9 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.04%) NIST
5 5 (1.04%) WCAG
6 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.83%) NCSC
7 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 132 (27.50%) Docker
2 17 (3.54%) DFS Replication
3 15 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.08%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.08%) Postfix
4 10 (2.08%) Squid
5 4 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 273 (56.88%) Terraform
2 134 (27.92%) Kubernetes
3 76 (15.83%) Grafana
4 65 (13.54%) Ansible
4 65 (13.54%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.33%) Argo
6 10 (2.08%) Nessus
6 10 (2.08%) Packer
6 10 (2.08%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.08%) Proxmox
7 9 (1.88%) Puppet
8 7 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.25%) Kibana
10 3 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.42%) logstash
12 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.21%) linkerd
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.21%) QRadar
12 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (6.46%) Databricks
2 25 (5.21%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.00%) Splunk
4 20 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.71%) Arista
6 10 (2.08%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.88%) Oracle
8 7 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.46%) Tenable
9 6 (1.25%) IBM
10 4 (0.83%) Confluent
10 4 (0.83%) Okta
10 4 (0.83%) Qualys
11 3 (0.63%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.63%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.42%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.42%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.42%) F5
12 2 (0.42%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.42%) Virgin Media