AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 197 213
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 -15
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 492 444 505
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 1.31% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.42% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 353 422
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £417 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £617 £738 £670
90th Percentile £825 £850 £767
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 33,457 31,336 40,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 92.78% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,148 19,251 27,411
10th Percentile £291 £300 £285
25th Percentile £404 £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 1,983 978 1,439
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.18 £21.05 £19.21
Median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.54 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £72.99 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +84.29%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -14 404 £520 -14.19% 218
London -29 241 £544 -16.35% 48
Work from Home -21 188 £575 -11.54% 199
UK excluding London +47 183 £488 -2.50% 197
North of England +10 93 £500 +14.29% 47
Yorkshire -21 49 £500 +17.65% 25
Midlands +2 45 £525 +1.94% 31
West Midlands +9 40 £525 -0.94% 19
North West +3 36 £405 -14.74% 20
Scotland +8 26 £402 -19.60% 8
South East -13 15 £538 +7.50% 51
North East -3 9 £550 - 2
South West -8 6 £488 -15.22% 25
East Midlands -14 5 £446 -10.75% 9
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
East of England -20 2 £450 -21.74% 30

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 492 (100.00%) AWS
2 293 (59.55%) Python
3 277 (56.30%) Terraform
4 263 (53.46%) CI/CD
5 258 (52.44%) DevOps
6 207 (42.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 151 (30.69%) Security Cleared
8 146 (29.67%) Serverless
9 141 (28.66%) Amazon S3
9 141 (28.66%) SC Cleared
10 138 (28.05%) Kubernetes
11 136 (27.64%) Docker
12 129 (26.22%) AWS Lambda
13 118 (23.98%) GitHub
14 114 (23.17%) Agile
15 110 (22.36%) Jenkins
16 100 (20.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 96 (19.51%) Containerisation
18 94 (19.11%) GitLab
19 93 (18.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 86 (17.48%) Amazon ECS
21 85 (17.28%) Amazon RDS
22 84 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
22 84 (17.07%) Software Engineering
23 81 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
24 76 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
24 76 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
25 75 (15.24%) Grafana
25 75 (15.24%) Linux
26 72 (14.63%) 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 66 (13.41%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.11%) Apache
3 26 (5.28%) Confluence
4 22 (4.47%) Apache Spark
5 15 (3.05%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.41%) 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 11 (2.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 492 (100.00%) AWS
2 146 (29.67%) Serverless
3 141 (28.66%) Amazon S3
4 129 (26.22%) AWS Lambda
5 118 (23.98%) GitHub
6 100 (20.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 93 (18.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 86 (17.48%) Amazon ECS
9 84 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
11 72 (14.63%) Azure
12 59 (11.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 42 (8.54%) Snowflake
14 41 (8.33%) GCP
15 38 (7.72%) dbt
16 37 (7.52%) AWS KMS
17 32 (6.50%) Route 53
18 29 (5.89%) AWS CodePipeline
19 24 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.11%) DNS
2 31 (6.30%) Firewall
3 18 (3.66%) HTTP
3 18 (3.66%) SMTP
4 17 (3.46%) FTP
4 17 (3.46%) SSH
5 13 (2.64%) VPN
6 11 (2.24%) IMAP
6 11 (2.24%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.22%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.02%) Network Security
8 5 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.41%) DHCP
9 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.41%) SSL
10 1 (0.20%) BGP
10 1 (0.20%) IPsec
10 1 (0.20%) LAN
10 1 (0.20%) OSPF
10 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (17.28%) Amazon RDS
2 62 (12.60%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (9.76%) Data Lake
5 36 (7.32%) Apache Iceberg
6 34 (6.91%) Apache Arrow
6 34 (6.91%) Dremio
7 29 (5.89%) DynamoDB
8 25 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (4.88%) Apache Ignite
9 24 (4.88%) NoSQL
10 22 (4.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.64%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.03%) MySQL
14 8 (1.63%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.42%) Big Data
15 7 (1.42%) Flink
15 7 (1.42%) Metadata
15 7 (1.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 110 (22.36%) Jenkins
2 94 (19.11%) GitLab
3 63 (12.80%) Git
4 42 (8.54%) JIRA
5 18 (3.66%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.64%) Liquibase
7 10 (2.03%) MLflow
8 9 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.02%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.81%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.61%) JUnit
12 3 (0.61%) Maven
12 3 (0.61%) Mockito
12 3 (0.61%) Selenium
12 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 120 (24.39%) Finance
2 89 (18.09%) Public Sector
3 84 (17.07%) Social Skills
4 60 (12.20%) Banking
5 40 (8.13%) Front Office
6 25 (5.08%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.42%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.81%) Legal
13 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.41%) Law
14 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.20%) Publishing
15 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.33%) Kafka
1 41 (8.33%) Node.js
2 37 (7.52%) AWS CDK
3 34 (6.91%) NumPy
3 34 (6.91%) Pandas
3 34 (6.91%) SciPy
4 33 (6.71%) React
5 29 (5.89%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (5.28%) REST
7 24 (4.88%) gRPC
7 24 (4.88%) Protocol Buffers
7 24 (4.88%) PySpark
8 22 (4.47%) RESTful
9 14 (2.85%) Lambda Expressions
10 13 (2.64%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.24%) LDAP
12 10 (2.03%) Vue
13 9 (1.83%) .NET
14 7 (1.42%) OAuth
15 5 (1.02%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.74%) Hedge funds
3 40 (8.13%) Fixed Income
4 34 (6.91%) Equities
4 34 (6.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (4.88%) Derivative
6 24 (4.88%) Pricing Data
7 21 (4.27%) Replication
8 18 (3.66%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.05%) NHS
10 9 (1.83%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.61%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 75 (15.24%) Linux
2 30 (6.10%) Windows
3 21 (4.27%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (3.66%) VMS
5 11 (2.24%) Unix
6 10 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.61%) CentOS
8 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (53.46%) CI/CD
2 258 (52.44%) DevOps
3 207 (42.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (23.17%) Agile
5 96 (19.51%) Containerisation
6 84 (17.07%) Software Engineering
7 81 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
8 68 (13.82%) Cloud Security
9 63 (12.80%) Observability
10 60 (12.20%) Microservices
11 46 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (8.74%) Infrastructure Automation
14 40 (8.13%) Analytics
14 40 (8.13%) Data Engineering
14 40 (8.13%) Investment Management
15 39 (7.93%) Migration
16 36 (7.32%) Change Management
16 36 (7.32%) Configuration Management
17 35 (7.11%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (59.55%) Python
2 72 (14.63%) Java
3 68 (13.82%) SQL
4 63 (12.80%) TypeScript
5 48 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 45 (9.15%) Bash
7 39 (7.93%) Go
8 35 (7.11%) PowerShell
9 21 (4.27%) Groovy
10 15 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.64%) Perl
12 10 (2.03%) C#
13 6 (1.22%) Ruby
14 3 (0.61%) PHP
15 2 (0.41%) AWK
15 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.20%) HiveQL
16 1 (0.20%) JSX
16 1 (0.20%) Scala
16 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 141 (28.66%) SC Cleared
3 64 (13.01%) AWS Certification
4 37 (7.52%) Degree
5 24 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.46%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.05%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.61%) PhD
15 2 (0.41%) OCP
15 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.20%) CCNP
16 1 (0.20%) CEH
16 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.46%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.64%) QA
3 11 (2.24%) GDPR
4 10 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.22%) NIST
6 5 (1.02%) WCAG
7 4 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.81%) NCSC
8 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 136 (27.64%) Docker
2 17 (3.46%) DFS Replication
3 15 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.24%) Dovecot
4 11 (2.24%) Postfix
4 11 (2.24%) Squid
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 277 (56.30%) Terraform
2 138 (28.05%) Kubernetes
3 75 (15.24%) Grafana
4 69 (14.02%) Ansible
5 63 (12.80%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.05%) Argo
7 11 (2.24%) Nessus
8 10 (2.03%) Packer
8 10 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.03%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.63%) Puppet
10 7 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.22%) Kibana
12 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.41%) logstash
14 1 (0.20%) Consul
14 1 (0.20%) Control-M
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.20%) QRadar
14 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (6.50%) Databricks
2 26 (5.28%) ServiceNow
3 24 (4.88%) Splunk
4 20 (4.07%) Microsoft
5 15 (3.05%) Arista
6 11 (2.24%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (1.63%) Oracle
8 7 (1.42%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.42%) Tenable
9 6 (1.22%) IBM
10 4 (0.81%) Confluent
10 4 (0.81%) Okta
10 4 (0.81%) Qualys
11 3 (0.61%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco
11 3 (0.61%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.61%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.41%) Red Hat