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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 192 221
Rank change year-on-year -35 +29 -28
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 597 428 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.41% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.53% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 331 394
10th Percentile £400 £406 £402
25th Percentile £450 £472 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £771
90th Percentile £675 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.05% +5.26% -13.64%
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 47,106 27,940 40,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.14% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,573 17,914 25,878
10th Percentile £325 £289 £281
25th Percentile £415 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,158 1,233 2,861
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.76 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.21% -29.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -67 441 £520 -9.57% 78
London -47 294 £525 -22.22% 37
Work from Home -43 233 £525 -22.22% 44
UK excluding London -40 166 £480 -4.05% 51
North of England -45 61 £513 +7.89% 16
Midlands -39 32 £469 -6.20% 6
Scotland +5 29 £425 -16.05% 3
West Midlands -39 28 £472 +4.89% 6
North West -45 25 £550 +33.01% 10
Yorkshire -28 23 £525 +2.44% 2
South West -26 18 £488 -22.00% 12
East of England - 15 £510 -
North East -28 13 £425 +6.25% 4
South East -66 13 £505 +0.90% 13
East Midlands -14 4 £413 -17.50%
Wales - 1 £250 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 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.

1 597 (100.00%) AWS
2 328 (54.94%) CI/CD
3 306 (51.26%) Terraform
4 276 (46.23%) DevOps
5 250 (41.88%) Python
6 227 (38.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 206 (34.51%) Security Cleared
8 194 (32.50%) SC Cleared
9 171 (28.64%) Serverless
10 153 (25.63%) AWS Lambda
11 143 (23.95%) Kubernetes
12 136 (22.78%) Amazon S3
13 121 (20.27%) Docker
14 120 (20.10%) GitLab
15 115 (19.26%) Platform Engineering
16 113 (18.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 111 (18.59%) Containerisation
18 110 (18.43%) GitHub
19 105 (17.59%) Agile
20 99 (16.58%) Amazon EKS
21 96 (16.08%) Observability
22 84 (14.07%) SQL
23 80 (13.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 79 (13.23%) GitHub Actions
25 77 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
26 76 (12.73%) Data Engineering
26 76 (12.73%) Grafana
27 73 (12.23%) AI
27 73 (12.23%) Amazon EC2
27 73 (12.23%) 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 33 (5.53%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.35%) Confluence
3 12 (2.01%) SAS
4 11 (1.84%) Apache
5 10 (1.68%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.84%) nginx
8 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) Appian
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Traefik
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.34%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 597 (100.00%) AWS
2 171 (28.64%) Serverless
3 153 (25.63%) AWS Lambda
4 136 (22.78%) Amazon S3
5 113 (18.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 110 (18.43%) GitHub
7 99 (16.58%) Amazon EKS
8 80 (13.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 79 (13.23%) GitHub Actions
10 73 (12.23%) Amazon EC2
10 73 (12.23%) Azure
11 62 (10.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 56 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
13 40 (6.70%) AWS Step Functions
14 38 (6.37%) Snowflake
15 31 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (4.86%) Amazon EMR
17 25 (4.19%) Amazon EventBridge
17 25 (4.19%) GCP
17 25 (4.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.69%) Firewall
2 12 (2.01%) DNS
3 10 (1.68%) Network Security
4 6 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.01%) VPN
4 6 (1.01%) WAN
5 4 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.67%) SSL
6 3 (0.50%) HTTP
7 2 (0.34%) BGP
7 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.34%) Internet
7 2 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) 4G
8 1 (0.17%) 5G
8 1 (0.17%) AMQP
8 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.17%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.05%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (8.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 46 (7.71%) Amazon Athena
4 45 (7.54%) DynamoDB
5 33 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (3.52%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.52%) MySQL
8 19 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (2.85%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.68%) Power BI
11 12 (2.01%) Metadata
12 10 (1.68%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.51%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.34%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (1.34%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.01%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
16 5 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 120 (20.10%) GitLab
2 71 (11.89%) Jenkins
3 59 (9.88%) Git
4 29 (4.86%) JIRA
5 13 (2.18%) Claude Code
6 12 (2.01%) Artifactory
7 9 (1.51%) Gatling
7 9 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.34%) Snyk
9 7 (1.17%) JMeter
10 6 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.84%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.50%) Maven
12 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.50%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.34%) Mocha
13 2 (0.34%) MSTest
General
1 91 (15.24%) Public Sector
2 85 (14.24%) Social Skills
3 51 (8.54%) Finance
4 25 (4.19%) Banking
5 19 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.84%) Law
9 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.50%) Billing
10 3 (0.50%) Legal
10 3 (0.50%) Military
10 3 (0.50%) Retail
11 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.34%) Local Government
11 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.34%) Police
12 1 (0.17%) Marketing
12 1 (0.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.03%) AWS CDK
2 33 (5.53%) .NET
3 28 (4.69%) Kafka
4 26 (4.36%) PySpark
4 26 (4.36%) React
5 25 (4.19%) REST
6 17 (2.85%) Flask
7 16 (2.68%) Node.js
8 14 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (1.51%) Next.js
10 9 (1.51%) Spring
10 9 (1.51%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.34%) FastAPI
11 8 (1.34%) JSON
11 8 (1.34%) Model Context Protocol
11 8 (1.34%) RESTful
12 7 (1.17%) AngularJS
12 7 (1.17%) Keycloak
12 7 (1.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (19.93%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.02%) AI Agents
4 12 (2.01%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.51%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.34%) Autonomous Agent
7 8 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.17%) NHS
8 7 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.01%) Clustering
10 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.67%) PKI
11 4 (0.67%) Replication
12 3 (0.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 68 (11.39%) Linux
2 21 (3.52%) Windows
3 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.17%) Unix
5 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.34%) CentOS
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (54.94%) CI/CD
2 276 (46.23%) DevOps
3 227 (38.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (19.26%) Platform Engineering
5 111 (18.59%) Containerisation
6 105 (17.59%) Agile
7 96 (16.08%) Observability
8 77 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
9 76 (12.73%) Data Engineering
10 73 (12.23%) AI
10 73 (12.23%) Software Engineering
11 69 (11.56%) Migration
12 67 (11.22%) Analytics
13 58 (9.72%) Microservices
14 53 (8.88%) ETL
15 52 (8.71%) Cloud Security
16 51 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 50 (8.38%) Data Modelling
18 45 (7.54%) Event-Driven
19 42 (7.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 250 (41.88%) Python
2 84 (14.07%) SQL
3 71 (11.89%) Bash
4 44 (7.37%) Java
5 35 (5.86%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.03%) C#
7 19 (3.18%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.02%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.68%) Go
9 10 (1.68%) Groovy
10 9 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.67%) Scala
12 3 (0.50%) Bicep
12 3 (0.50%) C
13 2 (0.34%) Ruby
13 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) R
14 1 (0.17%) Rust
14 1 (0.17%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 206 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 194 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.70%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.84%) Degree
9 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.34%) CCNP
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.34%) 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
12 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.01%) SLA
3 8 (1.34%) QA
4 7 (1.17%) GDPR
5 5 (0.84%) NIST
6 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 121 (20.27%) Docker
2 10 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.51%) Squid
4 7 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.84%) vSphere
6 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.17%) Postfix
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 306 (51.26%) Terraform
2 143 (23.95%) Kubernetes
3 76 (12.73%) Grafana
4 67 (11.22%) Prometheus
5 60 (10.05%) Ansible
6 17 (2.85%) Argo
7 15 (2.51%) Puppet
8 7 (1.17%) Istio
8 7 (1.17%) Packer
9 6 (1.01%) Kibana
10 5 (0.84%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.67%) Cilium
11 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.67%) Rancher
11 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.67%) Suricata
12 3 (0.50%) Consul
12 3 (0.50%) Salt
13 2 (0.34%) linkerd
13 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (6.37%) Databricks
2 25 (4.19%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.52%) Splunk
4 16 (2.68%) Informatica
5 15 (2.51%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.84%) Foundry
6 11 (1.84%) Oracle
6 11 (1.84%) VMware
7 10 (1.68%) Denodo
7 10 (1.68%) Google
8 7 (1.17%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.17%) Palantir
8 7 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.17%) Talend
9 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.84%) Citrix
10 5 (0.84%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.84%) SAP
11 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.67%) Cisco