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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 194 210
Rank change year-on-year -48 +16 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 567 479 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.46% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.60% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 353 380
10th Percentile £406 £385 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £632 £788 £850
90th Percentile £763 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £457
% change year-on-year +1.58% +4.05% -17.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 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 £78.75 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £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 50,200 29,979 35,866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 91.08% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,804 18,923 22,265
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,754 1,564 1,727
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.27 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% -0.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +10.86%

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 13 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 13 September 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 -76 448 £515 -4.19% 292
London -81 261 £538 -20.33% 159
Work from Home -52 222 £538 -13.92% 178
UK excluding London -55 198 £483 +1.58% 183
North of England -50 84 £513 +13.89% 39
Midlands -28 49 £469 -1.26% 24
North West -49 42 £550 +35.80% 23
West Midlands -48 29 £477 +0.42% 8
North East -24 21 £425 -9.57% 3
South West -32 21 £450 -25.00% 22
Yorkshire -45 21 £513 +2.50% 13
East Midlands +1 20 £400 -23.85% 16
Scotland -31 19 £425 -12.82% 45
East of England -7 15 £510 +13.33% 14
South East -64 14 £460 -10.24% 29

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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.

1 567 (100.00%) AWS
2 312 (55.03%) CI/CD
3 288 (50.79%) Terraform
4 259 (45.68%) DevOps
5 247 (43.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 230 (40.56%) Python
7 170 (29.98%) Serverless
8 169 (29.81%) Security Cleared
9 161 (28.40%) SC Cleared
10 159 (28.04%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (26.81%) Kubernetes
12 125 (22.05%) GitLab
13 121 (21.34%) Platform Engineering
14 119 (20.99%) Amazon S3
14 119 (20.99%) Docker
15 112 (19.75%) GitHub
16 110 (19.40%) Observability
17 108 (19.05%) Agile
18 107 (18.87%) Containerisation
19 100 (17.64%) Amazon EKS
20 92 (16.23%) Software Engineering
21 90 (15.87%) SQL
22 86 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
23 83 (14.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 82 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
25 81 (14.29%) Git
26 79 (13.93%) AI
27 76 (13.40%) Grafana
28 75 (13.23%) Data Pipeline
29 74 (13.05%) Amazon RDS

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 31 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.41%) Confluence
3 10 (1.76%) nginx
4 9 (1.59%) Apache
5 8 (1.41%) SAS
6 7 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.71%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Drupal
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
11 1 (0.18%) JBoss
11 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.18%) Traefik
11 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 567 (100.00%) AWS
2 170 (29.98%) Serverless
3 159 (28.04%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (20.99%) Amazon S3
5 112 (19.75%) GitHub
6 100 (17.64%) Amazon EKS
7 86 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
8 83 (14.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 82 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (12.52%) Amazon EC2
11 67 (11.82%) Azure
12 63 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 61 (10.76%) Amazon ECS
14 47 (8.29%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (6.53%) Amazon EventBridge
16 36 (6.35%) SaaS
17 34 (6.00%) AWS Step Functions
18 32 (5.64%) Snowflake
19 29 (5.11%) dbt
20 24 (4.23%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.23%) Firewall
2 16 (2.82%) DNS
3 14 (2.47%) Network Security
4 11 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.23%) SSH
6 6 (1.06%) HTTP
6 6 (1.06%) WAN
7 5 (0.88%) SSL
7 5 (0.88%) VPN
8 4 (0.71%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.35%) FTP
9 2 (0.35%) IMAP
9 2 (0.35%) Internet
9 2 (0.35%) LAN
9 2 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.35%) SMTP
10 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (13.05%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (8.64%) DynamoDB
3 39 (6.88%) Amazon Athena
4 37 (6.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (5.64%) MySQL
6 32 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (5.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (2.82%) Power BI
9 14 (2.47%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.29%) Data Lake
11 12 (2.12%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (1.76%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.76%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.59%) Metadata
13 9 (1.59%) Pentaho
14 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.06%) Parquet
15 6 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 125 (22.05%) GitLab
2 81 (14.29%) Git
3 73 (12.87%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.82%) JIRA
5 22 (3.88%) Claude Code
6 14 (2.47%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.59%) Artifactory
7 9 (1.59%) JMeter
8 8 (1.41%) Gatling
9 7 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.06%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.88%) Snyk
12 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.71%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.71%) JUnit
12 4 (0.71%) Maven
12 4 (0.71%) Mockito
13 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
General
1 92 (16.23%) Social Skills
2 81 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 50 (8.82%) Finance
4 22 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.70%) Banking
6 12 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.59%) Law
8 7 (1.23%) Back Office
8 7 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.06%) Military
10 5 (0.88%) Retail
11 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.71%) Front Office
12 3 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.53%) Legal
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
1 288 (50.79%) Terraform
2 49 (8.64%) .NET
3 40 (7.05%) AWS CDK
4 37 (6.53%) Kafka
5 36 (6.35%) REST
6 30 (5.29%) React
7 25 (4.41%) Node.js
8 23 (4.06%) PySpark
9 17 (3.00%) Spring Boot
10 16 (2.82%) Spring
11 12 (2.12%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.94%) Flask
12 11 (1.94%) Next.js
12 11 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (1.76%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.76%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (1.59%) Model Context Protocol
14 9 (1.59%) RESTful
15 8 (1.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 114 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 40 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.59%) AI Agents
4 14 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.59%) Autonomous Agent
7 8 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.41%) PKI
8 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.23%) NHS
8 7 (1.23%) Replication
9 5 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.88%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.88%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.71%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.71%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 65 (11.46%) Linux
2 22 (3.88%) Windows
3 16 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.06%) Unix
7 3 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.53%) CentOS
7 3 (0.53%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (55.03%) CI/CD
2 259 (45.68%) DevOps
3 247 (43.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 121 (21.34%) Platform Engineering
5 110 (19.40%) Observability
6 108 (19.05%) Agile
7 107 (18.87%) Containerisation
8 92 (16.23%) Software Engineering
9 79 (13.93%) AI
10 75 (13.23%) Data Pipeline
11 73 (12.87%) Data Engineering
11 73 (12.87%) Microservices
12 67 (11.82%) Event-Driven
13 60 (10.58%) Migration
14 57 (10.05%) Analytics
15 53 (9.35%) Data Modelling
16 52 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (8.99%) Test Automation
18 47 (8.29%) ETL
19 46 (8.11%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 230 (40.56%) Python
2 90 (15.87%) SQL
3 66 (11.64%) Bash
4 46 (8.11%) Java
5 39 (6.88%) C#
6 31 (5.47%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.53%) JavaScript
8 18 (3.17%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.47%) Groovy
10 9 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.41%) Go
12 4 (0.71%) Scala
13 3 (0.53%) Bicep
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) COBOL
14 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) R
15 1 (0.18%) C++
15 1 (0.18%) Perl
15 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 169 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 161 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 24 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.23%) Degree
8 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.29%) QA
3 5 (0.88%) GDPR
4 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.53%) SLA
5 3 (0.53%) WCAG
6 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 119 (20.99%) Docker
2 13 (2.29%) Squid
3 12 (2.12%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.88%) vSphere
7 3 (0.53%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.53%) Postfix
7 3 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.18%) zsh
Systems Management
1 152 (26.81%) Kubernetes
2 76 (13.40%) Grafana
3 64 (11.29%) Ansible
4 62 (10.93%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.17%) Argo
6 12 (2.12%) Puppet
7 10 (1.76%) Packer
8 7 (1.23%) Istio
8 7 (1.23%) Kibana
8 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.88%) HAProxy
9 5 (0.88%) Rancher
10 4 (0.71%) Cilium
10 4 (0.71%) Consul
10 4 (0.71%) Nessus
10 4 (0.71%) Suricata
11 3 (0.53%) linkerd
11 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.53%) SELinux
11 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (5.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.76%) Databricks
3 18 (3.17%) Splunk
4 16 (2.82%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.65%) Dynatrace
5 15 (2.65%) Informatica
6 13 (2.29%) Google
6 13 (2.29%) Oracle
6 13 (2.29%) VMware
7 11 (1.94%) Foundry
8 8 (1.41%) Denodo
9 7 (1.23%) Palantir
9 7 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.06%) SAP
11 5 (0.88%) Talend
12 4 (0.71%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.71%) Cisco
12 4 (0.71%) Fortinet