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 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 201 208
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -14
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 496 444 500
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 1.31% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.41% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 353 419
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £609 £738 £673
90th Percentile £759 £850 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
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 33,803 31,437 40,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 92.75% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,362 19,311 27,163
10th Percentile £294 £300 £283
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £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 1,992 980 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.86
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.03 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.20 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -26.67% +45.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -18 404 £520 -13.66% 193
London -22 240 £550 -15.38% 46
Work from Home -25 189 £575 -11.54% 168
UK excluding London +43 184 £488 -2.50% 166
North of England -1 93 £500 +10.62% 37
Yorkshire -17 49 £500 +17.65% 18
Midlands +1 44 £525 +1.94% 26
West Midlands +5 39 £531 +0.19% 16
North West 0 36 £405 -14.74% 15
Scotland +7 26 £402 -19.60% 5
South East -21 16 £538 +7.50% 44
North East -5 9 £550 -2.65% 4
South West -17 6 £488 -15.22% 24
East Midlands -16 5 £446 -10.75% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 - 1
East of England -22 2 £450 -21.74% 27

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 496 (100.00%) AWS
2 294 (59.27%) Python
3 284 (57.26%) Terraform
4 268 (54.03%) CI/CD
5 260 (52.42%) DevOps
6 214 (43.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 155 (31.25%) Security Cleared
8 150 (30.24%) Serverless
9 145 (29.23%) SC Cleared
10 142 (28.63%) Amazon S3
11 139 (28.02%) Kubernetes
12 134 (27.02%) Docker
13 133 (26.81%) AWS Lambda
14 121 (24.40%) GitHub
15 115 (23.19%) Agile
16 108 (21.77%) Jenkins
17 103 (20.77%) AWS CloudFormation
18 98 (19.76%) Containerisation
19 96 (19.35%) GitLab
20 92 (18.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 87 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
22 85 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
22 85 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
23 84 (16.94%) Software Engineering
24 81 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
25 79 (15.93%) Amazon EKS
25 79 (15.93%) GitHub Actions
26 75 (15.12%) Grafana
26 75 (15.12%) Linux
27 74 (14.92%) 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 65 (13.10%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (6.85%) Apache
3 25 (5.04%) Confluence
4 22 (4.44%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.82%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 496 (100.00%) AWS
2 150 (30.24%) Serverless
3 142 (28.63%) Amazon S3
4 133 (26.81%) AWS Lambda
5 121 (24.40%) GitHub
6 103 (20.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 92 (18.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 87 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
9 85 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
10 79 (15.93%) Amazon EKS
10 79 (15.93%) GitHub Actions
11 74 (14.92%) Azure
12 58 (11.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 42 (8.47%) GCP
14 40 (8.06%) Snowflake
15 36 (7.26%) AWS KMS
16 35 (7.06%) dbt
17 31 (6.25%) Route 53
18 29 (5.85%) AWS CodePipeline
19 25 (5.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.06%) DNS
2 30 (6.05%) Firewall
3 18 (3.63%) HTTP
4 17 (3.43%) FTP
4 17 (3.43%) SMTP
4 17 (3.43%) SSH
5 13 (2.62%) VPN
6 10 (2.02%) IMAP
6 10 (2.02%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.01%) Network Security
8 5 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.40%) DHCP
9 2 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.40%) SSL
10 1 (0.20%) LAN
10 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (12.30%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (9.48%) Data Lake
5 34 (6.85%) Apache Iceberg
6 32 (6.45%) Apache Arrow
6 32 (6.45%) Dremio
7 29 (5.85%) DynamoDB
8 25 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (5.04%) NoSQL
9 22 (4.44%) Apache Ignite
10 21 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.62%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.02%) MySQL
14 8 (1.61%) Metadata
14 8 (1.61%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.41%) Big Data
15 7 (1.41%) Flink
15 7 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (21.77%) Jenkins
2 96 (19.35%) GitLab
3 62 (12.50%) Git
4 41 (8.27%) JIRA
5 17 (3.43%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.62%) Liquibase
7 9 (1.81%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.81%) MLflow
7 9 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.21%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.01%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.01%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.81%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.60%) JUnit
11 3 (0.60%) Maven
11 3 (0.60%) Mockito
11 3 (0.60%) Selenium
11 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 117 (23.59%) Finance
2 93 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 83 (16.73%) Social Skills
4 59 (11.90%) Banking
5 38 (7.66%) Front Office
6 23 (4.64%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.81%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.41%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.81%) Legal
13 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.40%) Law
14 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.20%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.27%) Kafka
1 41 (8.27%) Node.js
2 36 (7.26%) AWS CDK
3 35 (7.06%) React
4 33 (6.65%) NumPy
4 33 (6.65%) Pandas
5 32 (6.45%) SciPy
6 30 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
7 27 (5.44%) REST
8 26 (5.24%) PySpark
9 22 (4.44%) gRPC
9 22 (4.44%) Protocol Buffers
9 22 (4.44%) RESTful
10 15 (3.02%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.82%) Lambda Expressions
12 10 (2.02%) LDAP
12 10 (2.02%) Vue
13 9 (1.81%) .NET
14 7 (1.41%) Flask
14 7 (1.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.06%) Hedge funds
3 38 (7.66%) Fixed Income
4 32 (6.45%) Equities
4 32 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (4.44%) Derivative
6 22 (4.44%) Pricing Data
7 21 (4.23%) Replication
8 19 (3.83%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.02%) NHS
10 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 75 (15.12%) Linux
2 30 (6.05%) Windows
3 20 (4.03%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (3.43%) VMS
5 11 (2.22%) Unix
6 10 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.60%) CentOS
8 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (54.03%) CI/CD
2 260 (52.42%) DevOps
3 214 (43.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (23.19%) Agile
5 98 (19.76%) Containerisation
6 84 (16.94%) Software Engineering
7 81 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
8 69 (13.91%) Cloud Security
9 66 (13.31%) Observability
10 60 (12.10%) Microservices
11 48 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (8.67%) Infrastructure Automation
14 40 (8.06%) Analytics
14 40 (8.06%) Data Engineering
15 38 (7.66%) Investment Management
16 37 (7.46%) Migration
17 35 (7.06%) Change Management
17 35 (7.06%) Configuration Management
17 35 (7.06%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 294 (59.27%) Python
2 69 (13.91%) Java
3 68 (13.71%) SQL
4 61 (12.30%) TypeScript
5 46 (9.27%) JavaScript
6 45 (9.07%) Bash
7 38 (7.66%) Go
8 34 (6.85%) PowerShell
9 20 (4.03%) Groovy
10 16 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.62%) Perl
12 10 (2.02%) C#
13 6 (1.21%) Ruby
14 3 (0.60%) PHP
15 2 (0.40%) AWK
15 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.20%) C
16 1 (0.20%) HiveQL
16 1 (0.20%) Scala
16 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 155 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 145 (29.23%) SC Cleared
3 64 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 37 (7.46%) Degree
5 24 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.43%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.02%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 6 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.60%) PhD
15 2 (0.40%) OCP
15 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.20%) CEH
16 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.82%) QA
3 11 (2.22%) GDPR
4 10 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.21%) NIST
6 5 (1.01%) WCAG
7 4 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.81%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 134 (27.02%) Docker
2 17 (3.43%) DFS Replication
3 15 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.02%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.02%) Postfix
4 10 (2.02%) Squid
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 284 (57.26%) Terraform
2 139 (28.02%) Kubernetes
3 75 (15.12%) Grafana
4 67 (13.51%) Ansible
5 64 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.23%) Argo
7 10 (2.02%) Nessus
7 10 (2.02%) Packer
7 10 (2.02%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.02%) Proxmox
8 9 (1.81%) Puppet
9 7 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.21%) Kibana
11 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.40%) logstash
13 1 (0.20%) Control-M
13 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.20%) Istio
13 1 (0.20%) linkerd
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (6.25%) Databricks
2 25 (5.04%) ServiceNow
3 24 (4.84%) Splunk
4 20 (4.03%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.62%) Arista
6 10 (2.02%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.81%) Oracle
8 7 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.41%) Tenable
9 6 (1.21%) IBM
10 4 (0.81%) Confluent
10 4 (0.81%) Okta
10 4 (0.81%) Qualys
11 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.60%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.40%) Cisco
12 2 (0.40%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.40%) F5
12 2 (0.40%) SAP