AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 191 229
Rank change year-on-year -21 +38 -22
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 486 428 470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.38% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.48% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 343 407
10th Percentile £371 £409 £413
25th Percentile £413 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 35,711 28,902 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 92.95% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,518 17,719 27,795
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £405 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £490
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.86% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,166 840 2,312
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.89 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.57 £21.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate £29.82 £33.77 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -3.51% -
75th Percentile £61.25 £63.38 £61.51
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £32.13 £35.95
% change year-on-year -12.85% -10.63% +8.94%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -54 368 £520 -13.33% 104
London -41 229 £518 -20.38% 45
Work from Home -27 184 £540 -16.92% 49
UK excluding London +4 159 £500 - 72
North of England -7 81 £500 - 22
Yorkshire -23 43 £519 +3.75% 7
North West -3 31 £405 -16.92% 15
Midlands -23 31 £540 +8.00% 13
West Midlands -19 26 £680 +28.30% 12
Scotland +10 25 £402 -19.55% 1
South East -24 15 £538 +7.50% 17
North East -16 7 £550 -2.65%
South West -15 6 £535 -4.89% 13
East Midlands -25 5 £417 -16.55% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 -
East of England -24 2 £525 -4.55% 6
Wales 0 1 £250 -49.29%

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

For the 6 months to 7 February 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.

1 486 (100.00%) AWS
2 288 (59.26%) Terraform
3 275 (56.58%) CI/CD
4 263 (54.12%) Python
5 250 (51.44%) DevOps
6 208 (42.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 169 (34.77%) Security Cleared
8 161 (33.13%) SC Cleared
9 144 (29.63%) Kubernetes
10 140 (28.81%) Serverless
11 127 (26.13%) Docker
12 121 (24.90%) AWS Lambda
13 119 (24.49%) Amazon S3
14 116 (23.87%) GitHub
15 111 (22.84%) AWS CloudFormation
16 103 (21.19%) Containerisation
16 103 (21.19%) GitLab
17 94 (19.34%) Jenkins
18 88 (18.11%) Agile
19 87 (17.90%) Amazon EKS
20 77 (15.84%) Amazon ECS
21 76 (15.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 75 (15.43%) Platform Engineering
23 73 (15.02%) Amazon EC2
23 73 (15.02%) Azure
23 73 (15.02%) Linux
24 71 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
24 71 (14.61%) Observability
25 64 (13.17%) Amazon RDS
26 63 (12.96%) SQL

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 44 (9.05%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.53%) Apache Spark
3 20 (4.12%) Apache
4 15 (3.09%) Confluence
5 9 (1.85%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.21%) Appian
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 486 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (28.81%) Serverless
3 121 (24.90%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (24.49%) Amazon S3
5 116 (23.87%) GitHub
6 111 (22.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 87 (17.90%) Amazon EKS
8 77 (15.84%) Amazon ECS
9 76 (15.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 73 (15.02%) Amazon EC2
10 73 (15.02%) Azure
11 71 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
12 44 (9.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 39 (8.02%) GCP
14 28 (5.76%) Snowflake
15 27 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
15 27 (5.56%) AWS KMS
15 27 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (5.56%) Route 53
16 20 (4.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.53%) DNS
2 19 (3.91%) Firewall
3 10 (2.06%) HTTP
4 8 (1.65%) FTP
4 8 (1.65%) SMTP
4 8 (1.65%) SSH
5 7 (1.44%) VPN
6 6 (1.23%) IMAP
6 6 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.82%) Network Security
8 3 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.21%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) SSL
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.17%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (7.00%) Amazon Athena
4 33 (6.79%) Data Lake
5 26 (5.35%) DynamoDB
6 25 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (5.14%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.67%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (2.47%) Apache Arrow
10 12 (2.47%) Dremio
11 11 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.85%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.65%) Apache Ignite
13 8 (1.65%) MySQL
14 7 (1.44%) Big Data
14 7 (1.44%) Flink
14 7 (1.44%) SQL Server
14 7 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 103 (21.19%) GitLab
2 94 (19.34%) Jenkins
3 46 (9.47%) Git
4 26 (5.35%) JIRA
5 11 (2.26%) Liquibase
6 9 (1.85%) MLflow
7 8 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.65%) Vagrant
8 6 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.23%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.82%) JUnit
10 4 (0.82%) Mockito
10 4 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.62%) Maven
11 3 (0.62%) Snyk
11 3 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (18.52%) Finance
2 89 (18.31%) Public Sector
3 69 (14.20%) Social Skills
4 47 (9.67%) Banking
5 21 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.70%) Front Office
7 10 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.44%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.62%) Legal
12 2 (0.41%) Law
12 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Games
13 1 (0.21%) Military
13 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.44%) Kafka
2 32 (6.58%) Node.js
3 28 (5.76%) AWS CDK
3 28 (5.76%) Elastic Stack
4 26 (5.35%) React
5 25 (5.14%) REST
6 23 (4.73%) PySpark
7 18 (3.70%) RESTful
8 17 (3.50%) Flask
9 16 (3.29%) Lambda Expressions
10 14 (2.88%) Pandas
11 13 (2.67%) NumPy
12 12 (2.47%) SciPy
13 10 (2.06%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.85%) .NET
15 8 (1.65%) gRPC
15 8 (1.65%) Protocol Buffers
16 7 (1.44%) Next.js
17 6 (1.23%) LDAP
17 6 (1.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 70 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.53%) Hedge funds
4 19 (3.91%) Fixed Income
5 18 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.29%) NHS
7 13 (2.67%) Equities
8 12 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (2.47%) Replication
9 10 (2.06%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.65%) Derivative
10 8 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.65%) Pricing Data
11 7 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.82%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 73 (15.02%) Linux
2 17 (3.50%) Windows
3 12 (2.47%) Unix
4 11 (2.26%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (1.65%) VMS
6 6 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.62%) CentOS
7 3 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (56.58%) CI/CD
2 250 (51.44%) DevOps
3 208 (42.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (21.19%) Containerisation
5 88 (18.11%) Agile
6 75 (15.43%) Platform Engineering
7 71 (14.61%) Observability
8 62 (12.76%) Software Engineering
9 60 (12.35%) Cloud Security
10 53 (10.91%) Microservices
11 49 (10.08%) Data Pipeline
12 48 (9.88%) Analytics
13 43 (8.85%) Data Engineering
14 42 (8.64%) Migration
15 40 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (7.20%) AI
16 35 (7.20%) High Availability
17 34 (7.00%) ETL
17 34 (7.00%) Infrastructure Automation
18 31 (6.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 263 (54.12%) Python
2 63 (12.96%) SQL
3 47 (9.67%) Java
4 45 (9.26%) Bash
5 40 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.56%) Go
7 25 (5.14%) JavaScript
8 23 (4.73%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.50%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.47%) Groovy
11 9 (1.85%) C#
12 8 (1.65%) Ruby
13 4 (0.82%) Perl
14 3 (0.62%) PHP
15 2 (0.41%) AWK
15 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.21%) HiveQL
16 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.21%) R
16 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 169 (34.77%) Security Cleared
2 161 (33.13%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.91%) AWS Certification
4 25 (5.14%) Degree
5 18 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.47%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.06%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.85%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.62%) PhD
15 2 (0.41%) OCP
15 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.21%) CEH
16 1 (0.21%) CISSP
16 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.12%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.88%) QA
3 12 (2.47%) GDPR
4 10 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.44%) NIST
6 4 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.82%) NCSC
6 4 (0.82%) SLA
7 3 (0.62%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (26.13%) Docker
2 9 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.65%) DFS Replication
4 6 (1.23%) Dovecot
4 6 (1.23%) Postfix
4 6 (1.23%) Squid
5 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 288 (59.26%) Terraform
2 144 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 62 (12.76%) Grafana
4 59 (12.14%) Ansible
5 58 (11.93%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.70%) Argo
7 9 (1.85%) Packer
7 9 (1.85%) Puppet
8 8 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.44%) Nessus
10 6 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.23%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.41%) Consul
12 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.41%) Kibana
12 2 (0.41%) logstash
13 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.21%) Podman
13 1 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 35 (7.20%) Databricks
2 26 (5.35%) Splunk
3 22 (4.53%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.09%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.85%) Arista
5 9 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.65%) Oracle
6 8 (1.65%) Tenable
7 6 (1.23%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.03%) Citrix
8 5 (1.03%) Qualys
9 4 (0.82%) Confluent
9 4 (0.82%) Okta
10 3 (0.62%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.62%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.41%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.41%) AVEVA
11 2 (0.41%) IBM
11 2 (0.41%) New Relic
11 2 (0.41%) Ping Identity