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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 196 211
Rank change year-on-year -31 +15 -15
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 613 460 485
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.41% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.54% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 348 397
10th Percentile £400 £401 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £601 £825 £788
90th Percentile £711 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.80% +5.26% -17.39%
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 48,955 29,836 39,186
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 91.66% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,608 19,006 25,297
10th Percentile £325 £285 £288
25th Percentile £420 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -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 3,284 1,415 2,570
10th Percentile £15.82 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £43.69 £25.30 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.69% -36.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.72
% change year-on-year +78.93% -38.24% +4.34%

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 18 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 18 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 -59 455 £523 -5.00% 85
London -49 294 £532 -23.96% 46
Work from Home -41 253 £525 -30.00% 42
UK excluding London -50 180 £476 -4.80% 43
North of England -53 71 £513 +10.81% 13
Midlands -36 36 £469 -3.79% 5
North West -47 30 £540 +27.06% 6
Scotland -2 29 £425 -15.00% 1
West Midlands -42 29 £469 -1.26% 3
Yorkshire -34 23 £513 +2.50% 2
South West -27 19 £475 -24.00% 15
North East -19 18 £425 +11.84% 5
East of England -5 15 £510 +13.33%
South East -63 13 £465 -7.00% 9
East Midlands -11 7 £413 -17.50% 2
Wales - 1 £250 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 613 (100.00%) AWS
2 338 (55.14%) CI/CD
3 318 (51.88%) Terraform
4 283 (46.17%) DevOps
5 255 (41.60%) Python
6 239 (38.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 204 (33.28%) Security Cleared
8 192 (31.32%) SC Cleared
9 176 (28.71%) Serverless
10 161 (26.26%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (24.31%) Kubernetes
12 139 (22.68%) Amazon S3
13 132 (21.53%) Platform Engineering
14 122 (19.90%) Docker
14 122 (19.90%) GitLab
15 120 (19.58%) Containerisation
16 114 (18.60%) GitHub
17 109 (17.78%) Agile
17 109 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
18 101 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
19 97 (15.82%) Observability
20 88 (14.36%) SQL
21 84 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
22 83 (13.54%) Data Pipeline
23 82 (13.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 82 (13.38%) Data Engineering
24 81 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
25 79 (12.89%) Software Engineering
26 76 (12.40%) Grafana
26 76 (12.40%) Jenkins

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 35 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (3.92%) Confluence
3 12 (1.96%) Apache
3 12 (1.96%) SAS
4 11 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.47%) nginx
6 7 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.98%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
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 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 613 (100.00%) AWS
2 176 (28.71%) Serverless
3 161 (26.26%) AWS Lambda
4 139 (22.68%) Amazon S3
5 114 (18.60%) GitHub
6 109 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 101 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
8 84 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
9 82 (13.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 81 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (11.42%) Azure
12 68 (11.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 55 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
14 46 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 37 (6.04%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (6.04%) Snowflake
16 33 (5.38%) Amazon EventBridge
17 29 (4.73%) SaaS
18 28 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
19 25 (4.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.43%) Firewall
2 12 (1.96%) DNS
3 10 (1.63%) Network Security
3 10 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.98%) VPN
4 6 (0.98%) WAN
5 4 (0.65%) OpenVPN
5 4 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.65%) SSH
5 4 (0.65%) SSL
6 2 (0.33%) BGP
6 2 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.33%) HTTP
6 2 (0.33%) Internet
6 2 (0.33%) LAN
7 1 (0.16%) AMQP
7 1 (0.16%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.46%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
3 48 (7.83%) DynamoDB
4 46 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (4.08%) MySQL
7 22 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
7 22 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (3.43%) Data Lake
9 17 (2.77%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.61%) Power BI
11 12 (1.96%) Metadata
12 10 (1.63%) Pentaho
13 9 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (1.47%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.47%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.14%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.82%) Redis
17 4 (0.65%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 122 (19.90%) GitLab
2 76 (12.40%) Jenkins
3 67 (10.93%) Git
4 30 (4.89%) JIRA
5 17 (2.77%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.79%) Artifactory
7 10 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.63%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.47%) Gatling
9 7 (1.14%) JMeter
9 7 (1.14%) Snyk
10 5 (0.82%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.65%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.49%) Maven
13 2 (0.33%) Mocha
13 2 (0.33%) MSTest
13 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (14.68%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.52%) Public Sector
3 53 (8.65%) Finance
4 25 (4.08%) Banking
5 20 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.82%) Law
9 4 (0.65%) Retail
10 3 (0.49%) Back Office
10 3 (0.49%) Billing
10 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.49%) Legal
11 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.33%) Local Government
11 2 (0.33%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.33%) Military
11 2 (0.33%) Police
12 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.69%) .NET
1 41 (6.69%) AWS CDK
2 30 (4.89%) Kafka
3 29 (4.73%) REST
4 28 (4.57%) React
5 27 (4.40%) PySpark
6 23 (3.75%) Node.js
7 13 (2.12%) Flask
8 10 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.63%) Next.js
8 10 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (1.63%) Spring
8 10 (1.63%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.47%) .NET Core
9 9 (1.47%) boto
9 9 (1.47%) RESTful
10 8 (1.31%) GraphQL
10 8 (1.31%) JSON
10 8 (1.31%) Lambda Expressions
10 8 (1.31%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 125 (20.39%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (3.92%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.12%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.47%) Autonomous Agent
7 9 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (1.47%) NHS
8 8 (1.31%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.82%) PKI
12 4 (0.65%) Clustering
12 4 (0.65%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.65%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.65%) Replication
12 4 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.93%) Linux
2 20 (3.26%) Windows
3 14 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.82%) Unix
6 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.33%) CentOS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (55.14%) CI/CD
2 283 (46.17%) DevOps
3 239 (38.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (21.53%) Platform Engineering
5 120 (19.58%) Containerisation
6 109 (17.78%) Agile
7 97 (15.82%) Observability
8 83 (13.54%) Data Pipeline
9 82 (13.38%) Data Engineering
10 79 (12.89%) Software Engineering
11 75 (12.23%) AI
12 71 (11.58%) Migration
13 67 (10.93%) Analytics
14 64 (10.44%) Microservices
15 56 (9.14%) Data Modelling
16 55 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (8.97%) Event-Driven
17 54 (8.81%) ETL
18 52 (8.48%) Cloud Security
19 45 (7.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 255 (41.60%) Python
2 88 (14.36%) SQL
3 71 (11.58%) Bash
4 46 (7.50%) Java
5 34 (5.55%) C#
5 34 (5.55%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.63%) Go
8 10 (1.63%) Groovy
9 6 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.65%) Scala
11 3 (0.49%) Bicep
11 3 (0.49%) C
12 2 (0.33%) R
12 2 (0.33%) Ruby
12 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.16%) Perl
13 1 (0.16%) Rust
13 1 (0.16%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 204 (33.28%) Security Cleared
2 192 (31.32%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.36%) AWS Certification
4 24 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (0.98%) 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 (0.33%) CCNP
11 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.33%) 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 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.79%) QA
2 11 (1.79%) SLA
3 7 (1.14%) GDPR
4 4 (0.65%) NIST
5 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (19.90%) Docker
2 11 (1.79%) Squid
3 9 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.14%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.82%) 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 (51.88%) Terraform
2 149 (24.31%) Kubernetes
3 76 (12.40%) Grafana
4 66 (10.77%) Prometheus
5 63 (10.28%) Ansible
6 20 (3.26%) Argo
7 13 (2.12%) Puppet
8 7 (1.14%) Istio
8 7 (1.14%) Packer
8 7 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.98%) Kibana
10 5 (0.82%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.65%) Cilium
11 4 (0.65%) Rancher
11 4 (0.65%) Suricata
12 3 (0.49%) Consul
12 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.49%) SELinux
13 2 (0.33%) linkerd
13 2 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 39 (6.36%) Databricks
2 29 (4.73%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.26%) Splunk
4 16 (2.61%) Informatica
5 15 (2.45%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.96%) Oracle
6 12 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.79%) Foundry
7 11 (1.79%) Google
7 11 (1.79%) VMware
8 10 (1.63%) Denodo
9 8 (1.31%) Talend
10 7 (1.14%) Palantir
10 7 (1.14%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.82%) Citrix
12 5 (0.82%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.82%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.82%) SAP
13 4 (0.65%) Trend Micro