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 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 194 206
Rank change year-on-year -60 +12 -9
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 573 474 468
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.44% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.58% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 355 380
10th Percentile £410 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.69%
75th Percentile £626 £819 £850
90th Percentile £750 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £481 £475
% change year-on-year +0.52% +1.32% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile - £55.00 -
90th Percentile £77.10 £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 49,757 29,939 36,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 91.25% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,837 18,916 23,063
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £729 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,525 1,560 1,966
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.29 £19.52
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.55%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +14.67%

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 August 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 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 22 August 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 -71 448 £519 -5.68% 58
London -79 263 £538 -21.82% 24
Work from Home -43 224 £538 -28.27% 26
UK excluding London -51 197 £484 +0.52% 44
North of England -40 86 £513 +7.89% 14
Midlands -32 44 £465 -2.11% 5
North West -37 42 £550 +37.16% 4
West Midlands -39 31 £469 -1.26% 1
North East -25 23 £425 -9.57% 6
Scotland -17 21 £425 -12.82% 3
Yorkshire -42 21 £513 +2.50% 4
South West -33 19 £450 -25.00% 7
East of England -6 16 £510 +13.33% 5
South East -68 15 £465 -7.00% 12
East Midlands -8 13 £400 -25.51% 4

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

For the 6 months to 22 August 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
2 319 (55.67%) CI/CD
3 282 (49.21%) Terraform
4 262 (45.72%) DevOps
5 240 (41.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 236 (41.19%) Python
7 174 (30.37%) Serverless
8 166 (28.97%) Security Cleared
9 160 (27.92%) AWS Lambda
10 158 (27.57%) SC Cleared
11 153 (26.70%) Kubernetes
12 128 (22.34%) GitLab
13 126 (21.99%) Amazon S3
14 118 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
15 117 (20.42%) Docker
16 114 (19.90%) GitHub
17 112 (19.55%) Containerisation
18 111 (19.37%) Agile
19 106 (18.50%) Observability
20 97 (16.93%) Amazon EKS
21 92 (16.06%) SQL
22 90 (15.71%) AWS CloudFormation
23 87 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
23 87 (15.18%) Software Engineering
24 81 (14.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 80 (13.96%) AI
26 78 (13.61%) Data Engineering
26 78 (13.61%) Grafana
27 75 (13.09%) Data Pipeline
27 75 (13.09%) Git

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 36 (6.28%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.01%) Confluence
3 11 (1.92%) SAS
4 10 (1.75%) Apache
5 7 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.22%) nginx
5 7 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 573 (100.00%) AWS
2 174 (30.37%) Serverless
3 160 (27.92%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (21.99%) Amazon S3
5 114 (19.90%) GitHub
6 97 (16.93%) Amazon EKS
7 90 (15.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 87 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (14.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 72 (12.57%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (12.22%) Azure
12 63 (10.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 54 (9.42%) Amazon ECS
14 43 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (6.11%) Amazon EventBridge
15 35 (6.11%) AWS Step Functions
16 33 (5.76%) SaaS
16 33 (5.76%) Snowflake
17 27 (4.71%) dbt
17 27 (4.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.66%) Firewall
2 13 (2.27%) DNS
2 13 (2.27%) Network Security
3 10 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.05%) WAN
5 5 (0.87%) SSH
5 5 (0.87%) SSL
5 5 (0.87%) VPN
6 4 (0.70%) HTTP
6 4 (0.70%) OpenVPN
7 3 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.35%) BGP
8 2 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.35%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) LAN
9 1 (0.17%) AMQP
9 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.17%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (8.73%) DynamoDB
3 45 (7.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 41 (7.16%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (5.41%) MySQL
7 25 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (4.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 19 (3.32%) Data Lake
9 19 (3.32%) Power BI
10 16 (2.79%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.09%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (1.92%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.75%) Pentaho
14 9 (1.57%) Metadata
14 9 (1.57%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.22%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.22%) Relational Database
16 6 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
16 6 (1.05%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 128 (22.34%) GitLab
2 75 (13.09%) Git
3 73 (12.74%) Jenkins
4 31 (5.41%) JIRA
5 19 (3.32%) Claude Code
6 15 (2.62%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.75%) Artifactory
8 8 (1.40%) Gatling
8 8 (1.40%) JMeter
9 7 (1.22%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.05%) Snyk
11 5 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.52%) JUnit
13 3 (0.52%) Maven
13 3 (0.52%) Mockito
14 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 88 (15.36%) Social Skills
2 81 (14.14%) Public Sector
3 56 (9.77%) Finance
4 25 (4.36%) Banking
5 19 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.75%) Law
8 7 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.05%) Retail
10 5 (0.87%) Back Office
11 4 (0.70%) Military
12 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.52%) Legal
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Local Government
13 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.35%) Marketing
13 2 (0.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (49.21%) Terraform
2 45 (7.85%) .NET
3 40 (6.98%) AWS CDK
4 36 (6.28%) Kafka
5 33 (5.76%) REST
6 28 (4.89%) React
7 25 (4.36%) PySpark
8 24 (4.19%) Node.js
9 19 (3.32%) Spring Boot
10 18 (3.14%) Spring
11 12 (2.09%) OpenTelemetry
12 11 (1.92%) Next.js
12 11 (1.92%) RESTful
13 10 (1.75%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.75%) Flask
13 10 (1.75%) Keycloak
14 9 (1.57%) boto
14 9 (1.57%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.57%) Model Context Protocol
15 8 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 119 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.71%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.57%) Autonomous Agent
8 8 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.22%) NHS
10 6 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.05%) PKI
11 5 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.87%) Legacy Code
11 5 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.70%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.70%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.99%) Linux
2 21 (3.66%) Windows
3 14 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.87%) Unix
6 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.35%) CentOS
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (55.67%) CI/CD
2 262 (45.72%) DevOps
3 240 (41.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
5 112 (19.55%) Containerisation
6 111 (19.37%) Agile
7 106 (18.50%) Observability
8 87 (15.18%) Software Engineering
9 80 (13.96%) AI
10 78 (13.61%) Data Engineering
11 75 (13.09%) Data Pipeline
11 75 (13.09%) Microservices
12 69 (12.04%) Event-Driven
13 67 (11.69%) Migration
14 59 (10.30%) Analytics
15 53 (9.25%) Data Modelling
16 52 (9.08%) ETL
16 52 (9.08%) Test Automation
17 51 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
18 44 (7.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 236 (41.19%) Python
2 92 (16.06%) SQL
3 72 (12.57%) Bash
4 51 (8.90%) Java
5 36 (6.28%) C#
6 30 (5.24%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.49%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.32%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.92%) Groovy
10 9 (1.57%) Go
11 8 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.87%) Scala
13 3 (0.52%) Bicep
13 3 (0.52%) C
14 2 (0.35%) COBOL
14 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 166 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 158 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.58%) AWS Certification
4 23 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.05%) Degree
9 4 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CCNP
11 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.17%) CCIE
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.92%) QA
3 8 (1.40%) SLA
4 7 (1.22%) GDPR
5 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 117 (20.42%) Docker
2 11 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.92%) Squid
3 7 (1.22%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.87%) vSphere
5 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.17%) Postfix
7 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 153 (26.70%) Kubernetes
2 78 (13.61%) Grafana
3 63 (10.99%) Prometheus
4 60 (10.47%) Ansible
5 20 (3.49%) Argo
6 13 (2.27%) Puppet
7 8 (1.40%) Packer
8 7 (1.22%) Kibana
8 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.05%) Istio
10 4 (0.70%) Cilium
10 4 (0.70%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.70%) Rancher
10 4 (0.70%) Suricata
11 3 (0.52%) Consul
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.52%) SELinux
12 2 (0.35%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.35%) linkerd
12 2 (0.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 33 (5.76%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.58%) Databricks
3 18 (3.14%) Splunk
4 17 (2.97%) Informatica
5 14 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.44%) Google
5 14 (2.44%) Oracle
6 12 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.09%) VMware
7 11 (1.92%) Foundry
8 10 (1.75%) Denodo
9 8 (1.40%) Talend
10 7 (1.22%) Palantir
10 7 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.87%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.87%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.87%) SAP
13 4 (0.70%) Cisco
13 4 (0.70%) Okta