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 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 202 202
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -27
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 514 438 567
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.21% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.31% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 345 470
10th Percentile £382 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £775 £667
90th Percentile £825 £850 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £465 £525
% change year-on-year +5.49% -11.52% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.50 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £59.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 32,191 33,474 43,775
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.85% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,427 20,165 29,691
10th Percentile £278 £300 £293
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,886 1,246 1,552
10th Percentile £14.16 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% -19.82% +60.06%
75th Percentile £54.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +87.50%

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 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 November 2025. 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 -7 429 £525 -13.58% 182
London -10 265 £575 -11.54% 86
Work from Home -2 214 £575 -14.81% 151
UK excluding London +53 190 £490 +5.49% 108
North of England +8 89 £500 +25.00% 73
Yorkshire -25 50 £500 +25.00% 19
Midlands +7 46 £475 -5.00% 6
West Midlands +9 41 £500 +13.64% 3
North West +7 32 £404 -15.05% 53
Scotland +9 28 £463 -7.50% 6
South East +12 18 £525 +7.69% 16
South West -6 10 £600 -2.04% 3
North East 0 8 £563 +1.90% 1
East Midlands -12 5 £455 -8.95% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
East of England -19 2 £450 -18.18% 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, 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.

1 514 (100.00%) AWS
2 304 (59.14%) Python
3 276 (53.70%) Terraform
4 263 (51.17%) CI/CD
5 256 (49.81%) DevOps
6 212 (41.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 150 (29.18%) Amazon S3
8 147 (28.60%) Serverless
9 140 (27.24%) Security Cleared
10 139 (27.04%) Kubernetes
11 131 (25.49%) Agile
11 131 (25.49%) Docker
12 129 (25.10%) SC Cleared
13 127 (24.71%) AWS Lambda
14 116 (22.57%) GitHub
15 110 (21.40%) Jenkins
16 102 (19.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 99 (19.26%) GitLab
17 99 (19.26%) Software Engineering
18 94 (18.29%) Containerisation
19 93 (18.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 91 (17.70%) Amazon EC2
20 91 (17.70%) Java
21 85 (16.54%) Amazon RDS
22 84 (16.34%) Apache Airflow
23 83 (16.15%) Amazon ECS
23 83 (16.15%) TypeScript
24 80 (15.56%) Amazon Athena
25 78 (15.18%) Linux
26 77 (14.98%) Platform Engineering

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 84 (16.34%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (8.56%) Apache
3 28 (5.45%) Confluence
4 22 (4.28%) Apache Spark
5 16 (3.11%) nginx
6 2 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.39%) JBoss
6 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Endur
1 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 514 (100.00%) AWS
2 150 (29.18%) Amazon S3
3 147 (28.60%) Serverless
4 127 (24.71%) AWS Lambda
5 116 (22.57%) GitHub
6 102 (19.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 93 (18.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 91 (17.70%) Amazon EC2
9 83 (16.15%) Amazon ECS
10 70 (13.62%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (12.84%) Amazon EKS
11 66 (12.84%) Azure
12 64 (12.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 57 (11.09%) dbt
14 50 (9.73%) GCP
15 48 (9.34%) Snowflake
16 40 (7.78%) AWS KMS
17 34 (6.61%) Route 53
18 23 (4.47%) AWS CodePipeline
19 22 (4.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.59%) DNS
2 33 (6.42%) Firewall
3 19 (3.70%) SMTP
4 18 (3.50%) SSH
5 17 (3.31%) FTP
5 17 (3.31%) HTTP
6 15 (2.92%) VPN
7 12 (2.33%) IMAP
7 12 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (1.36%) Network Security
8 7 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.97%) DHCP
9 5 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (0.97%) SSL
10 2 (0.39%) BGP
10 2 (0.39%) IPsec
10 2 (0.39%) OSPF
11 1 (0.19%) Internet
11 1 (0.19%) LAN
11 1 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (16.54%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (15.56%) Amazon Athena
3 64 (12.45%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (10.70%) Apache Iceberg
4 55 (10.70%) Data Lake
5 53 (10.31%) Apache Arrow
5 53 (10.31%) Dremio
6 34 (6.61%) Apache Ignite
7 27 (5.25%) DynamoDB
7 27 (5.25%) NoSQL
8 25 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.56%) MySQL
13 7 (1.36%) Metadata
13 7 (1.36%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.36%) Tableau
14 5 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (21.40%) Jenkins
2 99 (19.26%) GitLab
3 63 (12.26%) Git
4 43 (8.37%) JIRA
5 19 (3.70%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.53%) Liquibase
7 9 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.75%) MLflow
7 9 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.97%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.97%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.78%) Maven
10 4 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.58%) Mockito
11 3 (0.58%) Selenium
11 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 147 (28.60%) Finance
2 100 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 82 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 70 (13.62%) Banking
5 57 (11.09%) Front Office
6 35 (6.81%) Investment Banking
7 25 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.53%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.97%) Aeronautics
10 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.58%) Legal
11 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.39%) Law
12 2 (0.39%) Retail
12 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.19%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.31%) NumPy
1 53 (10.31%) Pandas
1 53 (10.31%) SciPy
2 44 (8.56%) Node.js
3 41 (7.98%) React
4 34 (6.61%) AWS CDK
4 34 (6.61%) gRPC
4 34 (6.61%) Kafka
4 34 (6.61%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (4.47%) REST
7 22 (4.28%) AngularJS
8 21 (4.09%) RESTful
9 19 (3.70%) PySpark
9 19 (3.70%) Vue
10 14 (2.72%) Lambda Expressions
11 12 (2.33%) LDAP
12 9 (1.75%) .NET
13 7 (1.36%) OAuth
14 5 (0.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.09%) Fixed Income
2 55 (10.70%) Hedge funds
3 54 (10.51%) Cloud Native
4 53 (10.31%) Equities
4 53 (10.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 34 (6.61%) Derivative
5 34 (6.61%) Pricing Data
6 21 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (3.89%) Replication
8 19 (3.70%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.72%) NHS
10 9 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.97%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 78 (15.18%) Linux
2 31 (6.03%) Windows
3 22 (4.28%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (3.70%) VMS
5 16 (3.11%) Unix
6 10 (1.95%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.58%) CentOS
8 3 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (51.17%) CI/CD
2 256 (49.81%) DevOps
3 212 (41.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (25.49%) Agile
5 99 (19.26%) Software Engineering
6 94 (18.29%) Containerisation
7 77 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
8 67 (13.04%) Cloud Security
9 58 (11.28%) Microservices
10 57 (11.09%) Investment Management
11 53 (10.31%) Asset Management
11 53 (10.31%) Observability
12 50 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (9.34%) Migration
14 46 (8.95%) Infrastructure Automation
15 45 (8.75%) Data Pipeline
16 43 (8.37%) Configuration Management
17 37 (7.20%) High Availability
18 36 (7.00%) Change Management
19 35 (6.81%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 304 (59.14%) Python
2 91 (17.70%) Java
3 83 (16.15%) TypeScript
4 73 (14.20%) SQL
5 70 (13.62%) JavaScript
6 44 (8.56%) Bash
7 42 (8.17%) Go
8 34 (6.61%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.67%) Groovy
10 13 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.33%) Perl
12 8 (1.56%) C#
13 6 (1.17%) C
13 6 (1.17%) C++
14 4 (0.78%) PHP
15 3 (0.58%) Ruby
15 3 (0.58%) Scala
16 2 (0.39%) AWK
17 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 140 (27.24%) Security Cleared
2 129 (25.10%) SC Cleared
3 69 (13.42%) AWS Certification
4 38 (7.39%) Degree
5 23 (4.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.92%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.97%) PhD
13 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.39%) CCNP
14 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.19%) OCP
15 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.31%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.92%) QA
3 10 (1.95%) GDPR
4 8 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.97%) NIST
5 5 (0.97%) WCAG
6 4 (0.78%) NCSC
7 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) DICOM
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) HL7
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 131 (25.49%) Docker
2 17 (3.31%) DFS Replication
3 15 (2.92%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.33%) Dovecot
4 12 (2.33%) Postfix
4 12 (2.33%) Squid
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) iptables
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 276 (53.70%) Terraform
2 139 (27.04%) Kubernetes
3 75 (14.59%) Ansible
4 69 (13.42%) Grafana
5 61 (11.87%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.31%) Puppet
7 13 (2.53%) Argo
8 12 (2.33%) Nessus
9 11 (2.14%) Packer
9 11 (2.14%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.95%) Proxmox
10 10 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.17%) Kibana
12 3 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.39%) logstash
13 2 (0.39%) SELinux
14 1 (0.19%) Consul
14 1 (0.19%) Istio
14 1 (0.19%) linkerd
14 1 (0.19%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (5.06%) Splunk
2 24 (4.67%) Databricks
3 23 (4.47%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.70%) Arista
5 16 (3.11%) Microsoft
6 12 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.36%) IBM
7 7 (1.36%) Oracle
8 5 (0.97%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.97%) Tenable
9 4 (0.78%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.78%) Confluent
9 4 (0.78%) Okta
9 4 (0.78%) Ping Identity
10 3 (0.58%) Cisco
10 3 (0.58%) Google
11 2 (0.39%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.39%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.39%) SAP