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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 194 206
Rank change year-on-year -51 +12 -12
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 581 479 459
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.46% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.60% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 351 374
10th Percentile £406 £385 £400
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £638 £800 £850
90th Percentile £768 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £457
% change year-on-year +1.58% +4.05% -13.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £67.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile £78.31 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £59.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 50,359 29,970 35,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.09% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,785 18,920 22,014
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,867 1,585 1,673
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.29 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.16 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.68%

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 20 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 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 20 September 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 -70 460 £520 -0.95% 468
London -80 267 £538 -17.31% 242
Work from Home -59 229 £538 -13.92% 182
UK excluding London -66 203 £483 +1.58% 269
North of England -46 86 £513 +13.89% 78
Midlands -35 50 £469 -1.26% 42
North West -38 44 £540 +33.33% 55
West Midlands -51 28 £473 -0.42% 20
North East -23 23 £438 -6.91% 5
South West -23 23 £450 -25.00% 36
East Midlands +1 22 £400 -23.85% 22
Yorkshire -54 19 £513 +2.50% 18
Scotland -28 18 £425 -10.53% 45
East of England -12 16 £510 +13.33% 21
South East -64 14 £460 -10.24% 28

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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.

1 581 (100.00%) AWS
2 321 (55.25%) CI/CD
3 291 (50.09%) Terraform
4 263 (45.27%) DevOps
5 250 (43.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 229 (39.41%) Python
7 174 (29.95%) Serverless
8 172 (29.60%) Security Cleared
9 164 (28.23%) SC Cleared
10 163 (28.06%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (26.68%) Kubernetes
12 128 (22.03%) GitLab
13 122 (21.00%) Platform Engineering
14 120 (20.65%) Amazon S3
14 120 (20.65%) Docker
14 120 (20.65%) Observability
15 114 (19.62%) GitHub
16 113 (19.45%) Containerisation
17 112 (19.28%) Agile
18 102 (17.56%) Amazon EKS
19 93 (16.01%) SQL
20 91 (15.66%) Software Engineering
21 87 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
22 84 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 83 (14.29%) Git
24 82 (14.11%) AWS CloudFormation
25 80 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
26 79 (13.60%) AI
27 78 (13.43%) Data Engineering
28 76 (13.08%) 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 31 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.30%) Confluence
3 10 (1.72%) nginx
4 9 (1.55%) Apache
5 8 (1.38%) SAS
6 7 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (1.03%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.34%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.17%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
11 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 581 (100.00%) AWS
2 174 (29.95%) Serverless
3 163 (28.06%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (20.65%) Amazon S3
5 114 (19.62%) GitHub
6 102 (17.56%) Amazon EKS
7 87 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
8 84 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 82 (14.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 72 (12.39%) Amazon EC2
11 69 (11.88%) Azure
12 63 (10.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 61 (10.50%) Amazon ECS
14 51 (8.78%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (6.71%) Amazon EventBridge
16 37 (6.37%) SaaS
17 36 (6.20%) AWS Step Functions
18 35 (6.02%) Snowflake
19 33 (5.68%) dbt
20 24 (4.13%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.30%) Firewall
2 16 (2.75%) DNS
3 15 (2.58%) Network Security
4 12 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.20%) SSH
6 6 (1.03%) HTTP
6 6 (1.03%) WAN
7 5 (0.86%) SSL
7 5 (0.86%) VPN
8 4 (0.69%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.34%) FTP
9 2 (0.34%) IMAP
9 2 (0.34%) Internet
9 2 (0.34%) LAN
9 2 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.34%) SMTP
10 1 (0.17%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (12.91%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (8.78%) DynamoDB
3 41 (7.06%) Amazon Athena
4 38 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (5.68%) MySQL
7 31 (5.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 31 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.75%) Power BI
9 14 (2.41%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.07%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (2.07%) SQL Server
11 11 (1.89%) MongoDB
11 11 (1.89%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.55%) Metadata
12 9 (1.55%) Pentaho
13 7 (1.20%) Redis
13 7 (1.20%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 128 (22.03%) GitLab
2 83 (14.29%) Git
3 70 (12.05%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.68%) JIRA
5 23 (3.96%) Claude Code
6 15 (2.58%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.55%) JMeter
8 8 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.20%) Gatling
9 7 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.03%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.86%) JUnit
11 5 (0.86%) Mockito
11 5 (0.86%) Snyk
12 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.69%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.69%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.69%) Maven
13 2 (0.34%) Spinnaker
General
1 95 (16.35%) Social Skills
2 82 (14.11%) Public Sector
3 50 (8.61%) Finance
4 22 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.79%) Banking
5 12 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.55%) Law
7 8 (1.38%) Back Office
8 7 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.03%) Military
10 5 (0.86%) Retail
11 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.69%) Front Office
11 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.34%) Billing
12 2 (0.34%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.34%) Legal
12 2 (0.34%) Local Government
12 2 (0.34%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (50.09%) Terraform
2 53 (9.12%) .NET
3 41 (7.06%) AWS CDK
4 38 (6.54%) Kafka
4 38 (6.54%) REST
5 29 (4.99%) React
6 25 (4.30%) Node.js
7 23 (3.96%) PySpark
8 18 (3.10%) Spring Boot
9 17 (2.93%) Spring
10 12 (2.07%) Keycloak
11 11 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (1.72%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.72%) Flask
12 10 (1.72%) Next.js
13 9 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (1.55%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.55%) Model Context Protocol
13 9 (1.55%) RESTful
14 8 (1.38%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 118 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 14 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.55%) Autonomous Agent
7 8 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.38%) PKI
8 7 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.20%) NHS
8 7 (1.20%) Replication
9 6 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.86%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.69%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.69%) PropTech
11 4 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (11.70%) Linux
2 23 (3.96%) Windows
3 17 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.38%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.03%) Unix
7 4 (0.69%) CentOS
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.52%) VMS
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (55.25%) CI/CD
2 263 (45.27%) DevOps
3 250 (43.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (21.00%) Platform Engineering
5 120 (20.65%) Observability
6 113 (19.45%) Containerisation
7 112 (19.28%) Agile
8 91 (15.66%) Software Engineering
9 80 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
10 79 (13.60%) AI
11 78 (13.43%) Data Engineering
12 76 (13.08%) Microservices
13 70 (12.05%) Event-Driven
14 64 (11.02%) Analytics
15 62 (10.67%) Migration
16 58 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (9.81%) Data Modelling
18 53 (9.12%) Test Automation
19 47 (8.09%) ETL
20 43 (7.40%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 229 (39.41%) Python
2 93 (16.01%) SQL
3 67 (11.53%) Bash
4 46 (7.92%) Java
5 42 (7.23%) C#
6 31 (5.34%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.44%) JavaScript
8 18 (3.10%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.41%) Groovy
10 10 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.20%) Go
12 3 (0.52%) Bicep
12 3 (0.52%) Scala
13 2 (0.34%) C
13 2 (0.34%) COBOL
13 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.34%) R
14 1 (0.17%) C++
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 172 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 164 (28.23%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.82%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.20%) Degree
8 5 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.34%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.57%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.24%) QA
3 5 (0.86%) GDPR
4 4 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.52%) SLA
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 120 (20.65%) Docker
2 13 (2.24%) Squid
3 12 (2.07%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.86%) vSphere
7 4 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.52%) Postfix
9 2 (0.34%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 155 (26.68%) Kubernetes
2 76 (13.08%) Grafana
3 64 (11.02%) Ansible
4 62 (10.67%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.10%) Argo
6 12 (2.07%) Puppet
7 11 (1.89%) Packer
8 9 (1.55%) Kibana
9 8 (1.38%) Istio
9 8 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.86%) Rancher
11 4 (0.69%) Cilium
11 4 (0.69%) Consul
11 4 (0.69%) Nessus
11 4 (0.69%) Suricata
12 3 (0.52%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.52%) linkerd
12 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.52%) SELinux
12 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (4.99%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.65%) Databricks
3 19 (3.27%) Splunk
4 16 (2.75%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.58%) Dynatrace
5 15 (2.58%) Informatica
5 15 (2.58%) Oracle
6 13 (2.24%) Google
6 13 (2.24%) VMware
7 11 (1.89%) Foundry
8 8 (1.38%) Denodo
8 8 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.20%) Palantir
9 7 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.03%) SAP
11 5 (0.86%) Cisco
11 5 (0.86%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.86%) Okta
11 5 (0.86%) Talend