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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 189 207
Rank change year-on-year -68 +18 -7
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 573 478 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.44% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.59% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 349 359
10th Percentile £413 £385 £400
25th Percentile £455 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £813
90th Percentile £766 £825 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile £77.88 £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 50,330 30,144 35,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 90.83% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,591 19,030 21,429
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 £636 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,999 1,630 1,541
10th Percentile £14.42 £13.75 £14.99
25th Percentile £19.77 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.91
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.39% -3.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.28 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.74 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.44% -41.69% -2.82%

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 4 October 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 4 October 2026.

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 4 October 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 -78 450 £520 -0.95% 518
London -84 261 £538 -14.00% 248
Work from Home -60 226 £540 -10.00% 259
UK excluding London -68 200 £488 +2.63% 363
North of England -44 87 £513 +13.89% 105
Midlands -25 52 £475 - 43
North West -28 45 £525 +26.51% 77
West Midlands -49 27 £476 +0.21% 21
East Midlands +13 25 £400 -23.85% 22
South West -20 23 £450 -21.74% 46
North East -23 23 £438 -15.87% 6
Yorkshire -51 19 £513 +2.50% 22
Scotland -34 17 £425 -9.33% 90
South East -65 14 £460 -12.38% 25
East of England -11 10 £510 +13.33% 22
Northern Ireland +1 1 £600 - 23

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 573 (100.00%) AWS
2 323 (56.37%) CI/CD
3 295 (51.48%) Terraform
4 261 (45.55%) DevOps
5 257 (44.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 219 (38.22%) Python
7 170 (29.67%) Serverless
8 169 (29.49%) Security Cleared
9 161 (28.10%) SC Cleared
10 158 (27.57%) Kubernetes
11 157 (27.40%) AWS Lambda
12 131 (22.86%) GitLab
13 129 (22.51%) Observability
14 125 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
15 122 (21.29%) Docker
16 118 (20.59%) Amazon S3
17 116 (20.24%) Containerisation
18 111 (19.37%) GitHub
19 107 (18.67%) Agile
20 105 (18.32%) Amazon EKS
21 94 (16.40%) Software Engineering
22 91 (15.88%) SQL
23 88 (15.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 87 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
25 84 (14.66%) AI
26 83 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
27 80 (13.96%) Git
28 79 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
29 78 (13.61%) Grafana
30 77 (13.44%) Amazon RDS

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 26 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.19%) Confluence
3 11 (1.92%) Apache
4 10 (1.75%) nginx
5 7 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (1.22%) SAS
6 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.17%) Appian
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) Traefik
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 573 (100.00%) AWS
2 170 (29.67%) Serverless
3 157 (27.40%) AWS Lambda
4 118 (20.59%) Amazon S3
5 111 (19.37%) GitHub
6 105 (18.32%) Amazon EKS
7 88 (15.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 87 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
9 83 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 72 (12.57%) Amazon EC2
11 66 (11.52%) Amazon ECS
12 64 (11.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 61 (10.65%) Azure
14 52 (9.08%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (6.63%) SaaS
16 37 (6.46%) Amazon EventBridge
16 37 (6.46%) Snowflake
17 34 (5.93%) AWS Step Functions
18 33 (5.76%) dbt
19 24 (4.19%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.66%) Firewall
2 16 (2.79%) DNS
3 13 (2.27%) Network Security
4 12 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.22%) HTTP
5 7 (1.22%) SSH
6 4 (0.70%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.70%) SSL
6 4 (0.70%) VPN
6 4 (0.70%) WAN
7 2 (0.35%) FTP
7 2 (0.35%) IMAP
7 2 (0.35%) Internet
7 2 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.35%) SMTP
8 1 (0.17%) AMQP
8 1 (0.17%) BGP
8 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (13.44%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (8.38%) DynamoDB
3 41 (7.16%) Amazon Athena
4 38 (6.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (5.76%) MySQL
6 32 (5.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 32 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.79%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.79%) Power BI
9 15 (2.62%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.09%) Apache Iceberg
11 11 (1.92%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.75%) NoSQL
13 8 (1.40%) Pentaho
14 7 (1.22%) Redis
14 7 (1.22%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.05%) Metadata
15 6 (1.05%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 131 (22.86%) GitLab
2 80 (13.96%) Git
3 73 (12.74%) Jenkins
4 31 (5.41%) JIRA
5 23 (4.01%) Claude Code
6 15 (2.62%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.57%) JMeter
7 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.05%) Gatling
9 6 (1.05%) JUnit
10 5 (0.87%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.87%) Maven
10 5 (0.87%) Mockito
11 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.52%) Snyk
13 2 (0.35%) Mocha
13 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
General
1 92 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 81 (14.14%) Public Sector
3 52 (9.08%) Finance
4 20 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.32%) Banking
6 12 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.57%) Law
8 8 (1.40%) Back Office
9 7 (1.22%) Military
9 7 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.87%) Retail
11 4 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.70%) Front Office
11 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.52%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Local Government
13 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.35%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (51.48%) Terraform
2 52 (9.08%) .NET
3 46 (8.03%) AWS CDK
4 39 (6.81%) REST
5 37 (6.46%) Kafka
6 27 (4.71%) React
7 25 (4.36%) Node.js
8 20 (3.49%) Spring Boot
9 19 (3.32%) Spring
10 18 (3.14%) PySpark
11 12 (2.09%) Flask
11 12 (2.09%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.92%) FastAPI
12 11 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (1.75%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.75%) RESTful
14 9 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (1.57%) Model Context Protocol
15 8 (1.40%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 125 (21.82%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.54%) AI Agents
4 14 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.57%) Autonomous Agent
6 8 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.40%) PKI
6 8 (1.40%) Replication
7 7 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.05%) NHS
9 5 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.87%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.70%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.70%) PropTech
10 4 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (11.34%) Linux
2 22 (3.84%) Windows
3 17 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.05%) Unix
7 4 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.52%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (56.37%) CI/CD
2 261 (45.55%) DevOps
3 257 (44.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (22.51%) Observability
5 125 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (20.24%) Containerisation
7 107 (18.67%) Agile
8 94 (16.40%) Software Engineering
9 84 (14.66%) AI
10 79 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
11 76 (13.26%) Microservices
12 74 (12.91%) Data Engineering
13 71 (12.39%) Event-Driven
14 67 (11.69%) Analytics
15 63 (10.99%) Migration
16 61 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (8.90%) Data Modelling
17 51 (8.90%) Test Automation
18 46 (8.03%) Cloud Security
19 45 (7.85%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 219 (38.22%) Python
2 91 (15.88%) SQL
3 64 (11.17%) Bash
4 49 (8.55%) Java
5 39 (6.81%) C#
6 31 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.32%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.27%) Groovy
10 11 (1.92%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.40%) Go
12 6 (1.05%) Scala
13 3 (0.52%) Bicep
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) COBOL
14 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) R
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 169 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 161 (28.10%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.76%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.87%) Degree
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.35%) CISSP
10 2 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.62%) QA
3 6 (1.05%) GDPR
4 5 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.52%) SLA
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 122 (21.29%) Docker
2 12 (2.09%) Squid
3 11 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.70%) vSphere
6 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.52%) Postfix
6 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.52%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 158 (27.57%) Kubernetes
2 78 (13.61%) Grafana
3 66 (11.52%) Prometheus
4 63 (10.99%) Ansible
5 17 (2.97%) Argo
6 12 (2.09%) Packer
6 12 (2.09%) Puppet
7 9 (1.57%) Kibana
7 9 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.40%) Istio
9 5 (0.87%) Rancher
10 4 (0.70%) Cilium
10 4 (0.70%) Consul
10 4 (0.70%) Nessus
10 4 (0.70%) Suricata
11 3 (0.52%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.52%) linkerd
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.52%) SELinux
11 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (4.89%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.54%) Databricks
3 21 (3.66%) Splunk
4 17 (2.97%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.79%) Oracle
6 15 (2.62%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.27%) Google
8 12 (2.09%) Informatica
9 11 (1.92%) Foundry
10 8 (1.40%) VMware
11 7 (1.22%) Palantir
11 7 (1.22%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.22%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.05%) Denodo
12 6 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.05%) SAP
13 5 (0.87%) Okta
14 4 (0.70%) Fortinet
15 3 (0.52%) Trend Micro
16 2 (0.35%) Teradata