AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £514, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 198 215
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -28
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 486 438 495
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.31% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.41% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 349 418
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £738 £674
90th Percentile £755 £838 £768
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 33,673 31,116 40,613
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 92.74% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,283 19,110 27,220
10th Percentile £295 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,981 971 1,564
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.02 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +44.81%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.71 £73.75 £77.00
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 28 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 28 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 -20 394 £520 -13.33% 215
London -25 233 £550 -15.38% 53
Work from Home -29 186 £575 -11.54% 184
UK excluding London +25 181 £488 -2.50% 183
North of England +10 92 £500 +10.13% 44
Yorkshire -23 48 £500 +17.65% 22
Midlands 0 44 £525 +1.94% 29
West Midlands +10 39 £531 +0.19% 18
North West +6 36 £405 -14.74% 18
Scotland +6 25 £402 -19.60% 7
South East -9 15 £525 +5.00% 42
North East -4 9 £550 -2.65% 4
South West -7 6 £488 -15.22% 28
East Midlands -17 5 £446 -10.75% 10
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 - 2
East of England -23 2 £450 -18.18% 29

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 486 (100.00%) AWS
2 288 (59.26%) Python
3 278 (57.20%) Terraform
4 261 (53.70%) CI/CD
5 257 (52.88%) DevOps
6 207 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 152 (31.28%) Security Cleared
8 147 (30.25%) Serverless
9 142 (29.22%) SC Cleared
10 141 (29.01%) Amazon S3
11 134 (27.57%) Kubernetes
12 132 (27.16%) Docker
13 131 (26.95%) AWS Lambda
14 118 (24.28%) GitHub
15 111 (22.84%) Agile
16 106 (21.81%) Jenkins
17 103 (21.19%) AWS CloudFormation
18 95 (19.55%) GitLab
19 94 (19.34%) Containerisation
20 91 (18.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 86 (17.70%) Amazon ECS
22 85 (17.49%) Amazon EC2
22 85 (17.49%) Amazon RDS
23 82 (16.87%) Software Engineering
24 79 (16.26%) Platform Engineering
25 78 (16.05%) Amazon EKS
26 76 (15.64%) GitHub Actions
27 75 (15.43%) Grafana
28 74 (15.23%) Linux
29 72 (14.81%) 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 63 (12.96%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.00%) Apache
3 25 (5.14%) Confluence
4 22 (4.53%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.88%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.41%) 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 (2.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 486 (100.00%) AWS
2 147 (30.25%) Serverless
3 141 (29.01%) Amazon S3
4 131 (26.95%) AWS Lambda
5 118 (24.28%) GitHub
6 103 (21.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 91 (18.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 86 (17.70%) Amazon ECS
9 85 (17.49%) Amazon EC2
10 78 (16.05%) Amazon EKS
11 76 (15.64%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (14.81%) Azure
13 58 (11.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 41 (8.44%) GCP
15 39 (8.02%) Snowflake
16 36 (7.41%) AWS KMS
17 34 (7.00%) dbt
18 31 (6.38%) Route 53
19 29 (5.97%) AWS CodePipeline
20 25 (5.14%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.20%) DNS
2 30 (6.17%) Firewall
3 18 (3.70%) HTTP
4 17 (3.50%) FTP
4 17 (3.50%) SMTP
4 17 (3.50%) SSH
5 13 (2.67%) VPN
6 10 (2.06%) IMAP
6 10 (2.06%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.23%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.03%) Network Security
8 5 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.41%) DHCP
9 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.41%) SSL
10 1 (0.21%) LAN
10 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (17.49%) Amazon RDS
2 60 (12.35%) Amazon Athena
3 50 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (9.67%) Data Lake
5 33 (6.79%) Apache Iceberg
6 31 (6.38%) Apache Arrow
6 31 (6.38%) Dremio
7 29 (5.97%) DynamoDB
8 25 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (5.14%) NoSQL
9 22 (4.53%) Apache Ignite
10 21 (4.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.67%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.06%) MySQL
14 8 (1.65%) Metadata
14 8 (1.65%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.44%) Big Data
15 7 (1.44%) Flink
15 7 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (21.81%) Jenkins
2 95 (19.55%) GitLab
3 60 (12.35%) Git
4 40 (8.23%) JIRA
5 17 (3.50%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.67%) Liquibase
7 9 (1.85%) MLflow
7 9 (1.85%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.03%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.62%) JUnit
12 3 (0.62%) Maven
12 3 (0.62%) Mockito
12 3 (0.62%) Selenium
12 3 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 113 (23.25%) Finance
2 91 (18.72%) Public Sector
3 83 (17.08%) Social Skills
4 59 (12.14%) Banking
5 37 (7.61%) Front Office
6 23 (4.73%) Investment Banking
7 17 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.44%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.62%) Legal
13 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.41%) Law
14 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.21%) Games
15 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.44%) Kafka
2 40 (8.23%) Node.js
3 36 (7.41%) AWS CDK
4 34 (7.00%) React
5 32 (6.58%) NumPy
5 32 (6.58%) Pandas
6 31 (6.38%) SciPy
7 30 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
8 27 (5.56%) REST
9 26 (5.35%) PySpark
10 22 (4.53%) gRPC
10 22 (4.53%) Protocol Buffers
10 22 (4.53%) RESTful
11 14 (2.88%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.88%) Lambda Expressions
12 10 (2.06%) LDAP
13 9 (1.85%) .NET
13 9 (1.85%) Vue
14 8 (1.65%) Flask
15 7 (1.44%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.76%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.23%) Hedge funds
3 37 (7.61%) Fixed Income
4 31 (6.38%) Equities
4 31 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (4.53%) Derivative
6 22 (4.53%) Pricing Data
7 21 (4.32%) Replication
8 17 (3.50%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.09%) NHS
10 8 (1.65%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.23%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.82%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 74 (15.23%) Linux
2 29 (5.97%) Windows
3 20 (4.12%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (3.50%) VMS
5 11 (2.26%) Unix
6 10 (2.06%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.62%) CentOS
8 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (53.70%) CI/CD
2 257 (52.88%) DevOps
3 207 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (22.84%) Agile
5 94 (19.34%) Containerisation
6 82 (16.87%) Software Engineering
7 79 (16.26%) Platform Engineering
8 68 (13.99%) Cloud Security
9 66 (13.58%) Observability
10 59 (12.14%) Microservices
11 45 (9.26%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (8.85%) Infrastructure Automation
14 40 (8.23%) Analytics
15 39 (8.02%) Data Engineering
16 37 (7.61%) Investment Management
17 35 (7.20%) Change Management
17 35 (7.20%) Configuration Management
17 35 (7.20%) High Availability
17 35 (7.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 288 (59.26%) Python
2 67 (13.79%) Java
3 65 (13.37%) SQL
4 59 (12.14%) TypeScript
5 45 (9.26%) Bash
6 43 (8.85%) JavaScript
7 36 (7.41%) Go
8 33 (6.79%) PowerShell
9 20 (4.12%) Groovy
10 16 (3.29%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.67%) Perl
12 9 (1.85%) C#
13 6 (1.23%) Ruby
14 3 (0.62%) PHP
15 2 (0.41%) AWK
15 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.21%) C
16 1 (0.21%) HiveQL
16 1 (0.21%) Scala
16 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 152 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 142 (29.22%) SC Cleared
3 63 (12.96%) AWS Certification
4 36 (7.41%) Degree
5 24 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (4.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.09%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 6 (1.23%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.62%) PhD
15 2 (0.41%) OCP
15 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.21%) CEH
16 1 (0.21%) CISSP
16 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.88%) QA
3 11 (2.26%) GDPR
4 9 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.03%) NIST
5 5 (1.03%) WCAG
6 4 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.82%) NCSC
7 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 132 (27.16%) Docker
2 17 (3.50%) DFS Replication
3 15 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.06%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.06%) Postfix
4 10 (2.06%) Squid
5 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 278 (57.20%) Terraform
2 134 (27.57%) Kubernetes
3 75 (15.43%) Grafana
4 65 (13.37%) Ansible
5 64 (13.17%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.29%) Argo
7 10 (2.06%) Nessus
7 10 (2.06%) Packer
7 10 (2.06%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.06%) Proxmox
8 9 (1.85%) Puppet
9 7 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.23%) Kibana
11 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.41%) logstash
13 1 (0.21%) Control-M
13 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.21%) QRadar
13 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (6.38%) Databricks
2 25 (5.14%) ServiceNow
3 24 (4.94%) Splunk
4 20 (4.12%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.67%) Arista
6 10 (2.06%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.85%) Oracle
8 7 (1.44%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.44%) Tenable
9 6 (1.23%) IBM
10 4 (0.82%) Confluent
10 4 (0.82%) Okta
10 4 (0.82%) Qualys
11 3 (0.62%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.62%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.41%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.41%) F5
12 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.41%) Virgin Media