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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 202 214
Rank change year-on-year -20 +12 -16
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 617 453 493
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.40% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.52% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 344 404
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -4.58%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £788
90th Percentile £700 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.25% +5.26% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £59.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.00 - -

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 48,916 29,817 39,992
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.88% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,647 19,017 25,745
10th Percentile £325 £288 £288
25th Percentile £418 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,278 1,379 2,732
10th Percentile £15.92 £13.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.31 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £39.53
Median % change year-on-year +63.21% -32.95% -8.08%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.97
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +1.07%

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 11 July 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
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 11 July 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 -59 457 £525 -7.69% 86
London -53 298 £525 -22.22% 49
Work from Home -33 247 £525 -22.22% 44
UK excluding London -30 180 £484 -3.25% 49
North of England -40 72 £520 +9.47% 10
Midlands -43 32 £469 -6.20% 5
Scotland +3 31 £425 -16.05% 3
North West -45 30 £540 +27.06% 5
West Midlands -48 28 £472 +2.05% 1
Yorkshire -36 25 £525 +2.44% 1
South West -23 19 £475 -24.00% 15
North East -19 17 £425 +11.84% 4
East of England -11 15 £510 +13.33% 2
South East -69 13 £505 +0.90% 13
East Midlands -22 4 £413 -17.50% 4
Wales - 1 £250 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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.

1 617 (100.00%) AWS
2 342 (55.43%) CI/CD
3 318 (51.54%) Terraform
4 285 (46.19%) DevOps
5 260 (42.14%) Python
6 240 (38.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 209 (33.87%) Security Cleared
8 197 (31.93%) SC Cleared
9 176 (28.53%) Serverless
10 161 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
11 151 (24.47%) Kubernetes
12 142 (23.01%) Amazon S3
13 126 (20.42%) Docker
13 126 (20.42%) Platform Engineering
14 124 (20.10%) GitLab
15 120 (19.45%) Containerisation
16 114 (18.48%) GitHub
17 112 (18.15%) AWS CloudFormation
18 107 (17.34%) Agile
19 100 (16.21%) Amazon EKS
20 98 (15.88%) Observability
21 89 (14.42%) SQL
22 83 (13.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 83 (13.45%) GitHub Actions
23 82 (13.29%) Data Engineering
23 82 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
24 79 (12.80%) Software Engineering
25 78 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
26 75 (12.16%) AI
26 75 (12.16%) 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 34 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.24%) Confluence
3 12 (1.94%) Apache
3 12 (1.94%) SAS
4 11 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.81%) nginx
7 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) Traefik
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 617 (100.00%) AWS
2 176 (28.53%) Serverless
3 161 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
4 142 (23.01%) Amazon S3
5 114 (18.48%) GitHub
6 112 (18.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 100 (16.21%) Amazon EKS
8 83 (13.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 83 (13.45%) GitHub Actions
9 78 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
10 71 (11.51%) Azure
11 64 (10.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 58 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
13 45 (7.29%) AWS Step Functions
14 39 (6.32%) Snowflake
15 34 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
16 31 (5.02%) Amazon EventBridge
17 29 (4.70%) Amazon EMR
18 27 (4.38%) SaaS
19 25 (4.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.57%) Firewall
2 12 (1.94%) DNS
3 10 (1.62%) Network Security
4 6 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.97%) VPN
4 6 (0.97%) WAN
5 4 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.65%) SSL
6 3 (0.49%) HTTP
7 2 (0.32%) BGP
7 2 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.32%) Internet
7 2 (0.32%) LAN
8 1 (0.16%) 4G
8 1 (0.16%) 5G
8 1 (0.16%) AMQP
8 1 (0.16%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.16%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.56%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (8.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 49 (7.94%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (7.78%) DynamoDB
5 34 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (3.89%) MySQL
6 24 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 21 (3.40%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.92%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.59%) Power BI
10 12 (1.94%) Metadata
11 10 (1.62%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.46%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (1.46%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.46%) Pentaho
13 7 (1.13%) Delta Lake
14 6 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
15 5 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 124 (20.10%) GitLab
2 74 (11.99%) Jenkins
3 64 (10.37%) Git
4 31 (5.02%) JIRA
5 16 (2.59%) Claude Code
6 12 (1.94%) Artifactory
7 10 (1.62%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.62%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.46%) Gatling
9 8 (1.30%) Snyk
10 7 (1.13%) JMeter
11 5 (0.81%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.81%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.49%) Maven
14 2 (0.32%) Mocha
14 2 (0.32%) MSTest
14 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (14.59%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.42%) Public Sector
3 56 (9.08%) Finance
4 26 (4.21%) Banking
5 20 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.81%) Law
9 4 (0.65%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.65%) Retail
10 3 (0.49%) Back Office
10 3 (0.49%) Billing
10 3 (0.49%) Legal
10 3 (0.49%) Military
11 2 (0.32%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.32%) Local Government
11 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.32%) Police
12 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.48%) .NET
1 40 (6.48%) AWS CDK
2 30 (4.86%) Kafka
3 28 (4.54%) React
3 28 (4.54%) REST
4 27 (4.38%) PySpark
5 22 (3.57%) Node.js
6 13 (2.11%) Flask
7 11 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.62%) Next.js
8 10 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (1.46%) .NET Core
9 9 (1.46%) RESTful
9 9 (1.46%) Spring
9 9 (1.46%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.30%) GraphQL
10 8 (1.30%) JSON
10 8 (1.30%) Lambda Expressions
10 8 (1.30%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (1.13%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 125 (20.26%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.05%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.46%) Autonomous Agent
7 9 (1.46%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.46%) NHS
8 8 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.97%) Clustering
11 5 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.81%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.81%) PKI
12 4 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.86%) Linux
2 21 (3.40%) Windows
3 10 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.13%) Unix
5 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) CentOS
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (55.43%) CI/CD
2 285 (46.19%) DevOps
3 240 (38.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 126 (20.42%) Platform Engineering
5 120 (19.45%) Containerisation
6 107 (17.34%) Agile
7 98 (15.88%) Observability
8 82 (13.29%) Data Engineering
8 82 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
9 79 (12.80%) Software Engineering
10 75 (12.16%) AI
11 72 (11.67%) Migration
12 69 (11.18%) Analytics
13 64 (10.37%) Microservices
14 55 (8.91%) Data Modelling
14 55 (8.91%) ETL
15 54 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (8.43%) Cloud Security
16 52 (8.43%) Event-Driven
17 46 (7.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 260 (42.14%) Python
2 89 (14.42%) SQL
3 73 (11.83%) Bash
4 44 (7.13%) Java
5 35 (5.67%) TypeScript
6 33 (5.35%) C#
7 20 (3.24%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.62%) Go
9 10 (1.62%) Groovy
10 7 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.65%) Scala
12 3 (0.49%) Bicep
12 3 (0.49%) C
13 2 (0.32%) Ruby
13 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) R
14 1 (0.16%) Rust
14 1 (0.16%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 209 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 197 (31.93%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.32%) AWS Certification
4 24 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.81%) Degree
9 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.32%) CCNP
11 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.32%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.16%) CCIE
12 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.94%) SLA
3 10 (1.62%) QA
4 7 (1.13%) GDPR
5 5 (0.81%) NIST
6 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 126 (20.42%) Docker
2 11 (1.78%) Squid
3 10 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.81%) vSphere
6 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.16%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) zsh
Systems Management
1 318 (51.54%) Terraform
2 151 (24.47%) Kubernetes
3 75 (12.16%) Grafana
4 66 (10.70%) Prometheus
5 64 (10.37%) Ansible
6 20 (3.24%) Argo
7 15 (2.43%) Puppet
8 7 (1.13%) Istio
8 7 (1.13%) Packer
9 6 (0.97%) Kibana
10 5 (0.81%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.65%) Cilium
11 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.65%) Rancher
11 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.65%) Suricata
12 3 (0.49%) Consul
12 3 (0.49%) Salt
13 2 (0.32%) linkerd
13 2 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (6.32%) Databricks
2 26 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.40%) Splunk
4 16 (2.59%) Informatica
5 15 (2.43%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.78%) Foundry
6 11 (1.78%) Google
6 11 (1.78%) Oracle
6 11 (1.78%) VMware
7 10 (1.62%) Denodo
8 7 (1.13%) Palantir
8 7 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.13%) Talend
9 6 (0.97%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.81%) Citrix
10 5 (0.81%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.81%) SAP
11 4 (0.65%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.65%) Cisco