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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 196 223
Rank change year-on-year -18 +27 -26
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 591 417 468
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.40% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.51% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 328 387
10th Percentile £400 £406 £404
25th Percentile £440 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £738
90th Percentile £675 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.80% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.57% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 46,784 27,533 40,775
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.21% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,447 17,712 26,117
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £414 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,114 1,185 2,993
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.91 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.50 £16.37
Median hourly rate £44.94 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.40% -26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -3.61%

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 20 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 17 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 20 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 -53 438 £525 -9.68% 67
London -50 292 £525 -22.22% 28
Work from Home -35 229 £525 -22.22% 38
UK excluding London -43 162 £476 -4.80% 51
North of England -57 58 £513 +7.89% 14
Midlands -35 32 £469 -6.20% 5
West Midlands -35 28 £472 -5.60% 4
Scotland -1 26 £425 -16.05% 2
North West -41 25 £550 +29.41% 11
Yorkshire -47 22 £519 - 2
South West -18 18 £488 -22.00% 11
East of England -19 15 £510 +16.57% 5
South East -67 14 £505 +0.90% 11
North East -31 11 £431 -12.44% 1
East Midlands -18 4 £413 -17.50% 1
Northern Ireland +1 1 £430 - 3
Wales - 1 £250 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 591 (100.00%) AWS
2 324 (54.82%) CI/CD
3 305 (51.61%) Terraform
4 269 (45.52%) DevOps
5 250 (42.30%) Python
6 224 (37.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 205 (34.69%) Security Cleared
8 193 (32.66%) SC Cleared
9 170 (28.76%) Serverless
10 152 (25.72%) AWS Lambda
11 139 (23.52%) Kubernetes
12 133 (22.50%) Amazon S3
13 119 (20.14%) Docker
14 118 (19.97%) GitLab
15 115 (19.46%) Platform Engineering
16 111 (18.78%) AWS CloudFormation
17 109 (18.44%) Containerisation
18 108 (18.27%) GitHub
19 106 (17.94%) Agile
20 99 (16.75%) Amazon EKS
21 94 (15.91%) Observability
22 85 (14.38%) SQL
23 80 (13.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 79 (13.37%) GitHub Actions
25 78 (13.20%) Grafana
26 75 (12.69%) Data Pipeline
27 74 (12.52%) Amazon EC2
27 74 (12.52%) Data Engineering
28 73 (12.35%) Software Engineering
29 71 (12.01%) 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 34 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.38%) Confluence
3 12 (2.03%) Apache
3 12 (2.03%) SAS
4 10 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.85%) nginx
7 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 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
1 591 (100.00%) AWS
2 170 (28.76%) Serverless
3 152 (25.72%) AWS Lambda
4 133 (22.50%) Amazon S3
5 111 (18.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 108 (18.27%) GitHub
7 99 (16.75%) Amazon EKS
8 80 (13.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 79 (13.37%) GitHub Actions
10 74 (12.52%) Amazon EC2
11 71 (12.01%) Azure
12 60 (10.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 57 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
14 40 (6.77%) AWS Step Functions
15 38 (6.43%) Snowflake
16 30 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
18 25 (4.23%) Amazon EventBridge
19 24 (4.06%) GCP
20 23 (3.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.72%) Firewall
2 12 (2.03%) DNS
3 10 (1.69%) Network Security
4 6 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.02%) VPN
4 6 (1.02%) WAN
5 4 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.68%) SSL
6 3 (0.51%) 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%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.14%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 45 (7.61%) Amazon Athena
4 44 (7.45%) DynamoDB
5 32 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (3.55%) Data Lake
8 19 (3.21%) MySQL
9 18 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (3.05%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.71%) Power BI
11 12 (2.03%) Metadata
12 11 (1.86%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.52%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.35%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
16 6 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.02%) Delta Lake
17 5 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
17 5 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (19.97%) GitLab
2 70 (11.84%) Jenkins
3 55 (9.31%) Git
4 29 (4.91%) JIRA
5 12 (2.03%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.69%) Claude Code
7 9 (1.52%) Gatling
7 9 (1.52%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.35%) Snyk
9 7 (1.18%) JMeter
10 6 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.85%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.51%) Maven
13 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.34%) MSTest
14 2 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 90 (15.23%) Public Sector
2 84 (14.21%) Social Skills
3 50 (8.46%) Finance
4 25 (4.23%) Banking
5 20 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.85%) Law
9 3 (0.51%) Billing
9 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.51%) Legal
9 3 (0.51%) Military
9 3 (0.51%) Retail
10 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.34%) Local Government
10 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.34%) Police
11 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.75%) AWS CDK
2 29 (4.91%) .NET
3 28 (4.74%) Kafka
4 26 (4.40%) PySpark
5 24 (4.06%) React
5 24 (4.06%) REST
6 22 (3.72%) Flask
7 15 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (2.54%) Node.js
8 10 (1.69%) FastAPI
8 10 (1.69%) Next.js
8 10 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (1.52%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.52%) Model Context Protocol
9 9 (1.52%) Spring
9 9 (1.52%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.35%) JSON
10 8 (1.35%) RESTful
11 7 (1.18%) OAuth
11 7 (1.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 118 (19.97%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.55%) AI Agents
4 11 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.18%) NHS
9 6 (1.02%) Clustering
9 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (0.85%) Autonomous Agent
10 5 (0.85%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.68%) PKI
11 4 (0.68%) Replication
12 3 (0.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 69 (11.68%) Linux
2 21 (3.55%) Windows
3 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.18%) Unix
5 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.51%) 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
1 324 (54.82%) CI/CD
2 269 (45.52%) DevOps
3 224 (37.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (19.46%) Platform Engineering
5 109 (18.44%) Containerisation
6 106 (17.94%) Agile
7 94 (15.91%) Observability
8 75 (12.69%) Data Pipeline
9 74 (12.52%) Data Engineering
10 73 (12.35%) Software Engineering
11 69 (11.68%) AI
12 66 (11.17%) Analytics
12 66 (11.17%) Migration
13 56 (9.48%) Microservices
14 52 (8.80%) Cloud Security
15 51 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (8.63%) ETL
16 48 (8.12%) Data Modelling
17 44 (7.45%) Event-Driven
18 40 (6.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 250 (42.30%) Python
2 85 (14.38%) SQL
3 68 (11.51%) Bash
4 44 (7.45%) Java
5 32 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 28 (4.74%) C#
7 18 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 16 (2.71%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.69%) Go
9 10 (1.69%) Groovy
10 9 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.68%) Scala
12 3 (0.51%) Bicep
12 3 (0.51%) 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
1 205 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 193 (32.66%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.60%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.68%) Degree
9 3 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.34%) CCNP
10 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.34%) CISSP
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.17%) CCIE
11 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.03%) SLA
3 9 (1.52%) QA
4 6 (1.02%) GDPR
5 5 (0.85%) NIST
6 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.51%) 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
1 119 (20.14%) Docker
2 10 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.52%) Squid
4 7 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.85%) vSphere
6 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.17%) Postfix
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 305 (51.61%) Terraform
2 139 (23.52%) Kubernetes
3 78 (13.20%) Grafana
4 69 (11.68%) Prometheus
5 61 (10.32%) Ansible
6 18 (3.05%) Argo
7 16 (2.71%) Puppet
8 7 (1.18%) Istio
8 7 (1.18%) Packer
9 6 (1.02%) Kibana
10 5 (0.85%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.68%) Cilium
11 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.68%) Rancher
11 4 (0.68%) Suricata
12 3 (0.51%) Consul
12 3 (0.51%) Salt
12 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 37 (6.26%) Databricks
2 24 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.55%) Splunk
4 15 (2.54%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.37%) Informatica
6 12 (2.03%) Oracle
7 11 (1.86%) Foundry
7 11 (1.86%) VMware
8 10 (1.69%) Denodo
9 9 (1.52%) Google
10 8 (1.35%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.18%) Palantir
11 7 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.18%) Talend
12 6 (1.02%) SAP
13 5 (0.85%) Citrix
13 5 (0.85%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.68%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.68%) Cisco
14 4 (0.68%) Trend Micro