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 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 192 219
Rank change year-on-year -24 +27 -14
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 503 426 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.38% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.49% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 338 414
10th Percentile £371 £408 £413
25th Percentile £413 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -7.56%
75th Percentile £588 £756 £650
90th Percentile £690 £838 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -2.95%
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 37,333 28,630 41,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 92.94% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,462 17,805 26,973
10th Percentile £305 £288 £275
25th Percentile £406 £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 £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,275 814 2,320
10th Percentile £14.61 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.50
Median hourly rate £31.18 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -2.86% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.80% -0.48%

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 19 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 19 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 -56 374 £525 -12.50% 106
London -60 236 £518 -20.38% 51
Work from Home -28 194 £533 -21.11% 38
UK excluding London +29 157 £500 - 68
North of England -23 76 £500 - 15
Yorkshire -27 41 £520 +4.00% 1
Midlands -40 31 £563 +12.50% 15
Scotland +18 28 £402 -19.60%
North West -4 28 £436 -10.51% 14
West Midlands -35 26 £680 +28.30% 13
South East -27 14 £550 +10.00% 18
North East -16 7 £550 -2.65%
South West -16 7 £536 -4.67% 17
East Midlands -23 5 £417 -16.55% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 -
East of England -26 2 £525 -4.55% 3
Wales -5 1 £250 -49.29%

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 503 (100.00%) AWS
2 294 (58.45%) Terraform
3 286 (56.86%) CI/CD
4 267 (53.08%) Python
5 252 (50.10%) DevOps
6 208 (41.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 180 (35.79%) Security Cleared
8 168 (33.40%) SC Cleared
9 149 (29.62%) Serverless
10 142 (28.23%) Kubernetes
11 130 (25.84%) AWS Lambda
11 130 (25.84%) Docker
12 121 (24.06%) Amazon S3
13 114 (22.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 106 (21.07%) GitHub
15 102 (20.28%) Containerisation
15 102 (20.28%) GitLab
16 91 (18.09%) Amazon EKS
17 89 (17.69%) Jenkins
18 88 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
19 86 (17.10%) Agile
20 79 (15.71%) Amazon ECS
21 78 (15.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 78 (15.51%) Observability
22 76 (15.11%) Amazon EC2
23 73 (14.51%) Linux
24 68 (13.52%) Azure
25 66 (13.12%) GitHub Actions
26 64 (12.72%) Software Engineering
27 61 (12.13%) 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 39 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.17%) Apache
4 12 (2.39%) Confluence
5 8 (1.59%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) Appian
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 503 (100.00%) AWS
2 149 (29.62%) Serverless
3 130 (25.84%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (24.06%) Amazon S3
5 114 (22.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 106 (21.07%) GitHub
7 91 (18.09%) Amazon EKS
8 79 (15.71%) Amazon ECS
9 78 (15.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 76 (15.11%) Amazon EC2
11 68 (13.52%) Azure
12 66 (13.12%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (8.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 39 (7.75%) AWS Step Functions
15 37 (7.36%) GCP
16 30 (5.96%) Snowflake
17 27 (5.37%) AWS CodePipeline
17 27 (5.37%) AWS KMS
18 25 (4.97%) Route 53
19 20 (3.98%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.78%) DNS
2 17 (3.38%) Firewall
3 8 (1.59%) HTTP
3 8 (1.59%) VPN
4 6 (1.19%) FTP
4 6 (1.19%) SMTP
4 6 (1.19%) SSH
5 4 (0.80%) IMAP
5 4 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.60%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) ICMP
7 1 (0.20%) LAN
7 1 (0.20%) SSL
7 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (12.13%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (7.55%) Amazon Athena
3 34 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (5.77%) Data Lake
5 27 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 27 (5.37%) DynamoDB
6 22 (4.37%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.39%) Apache Iceberg
9 11 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (1.99%) Apache Arrow
10 10 (1.99%) Dremio
10 10 (1.99%) Metadata
11 8 (1.59%) Big Data
11 8 (1.59%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.59%) MySQL
11 8 (1.59%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.39%) Flink
12 7 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 102 (20.28%) GitLab
2 89 (17.69%) Jenkins
3 44 (8.75%) Git
4 20 (3.98%) JIRA
5 11 (2.19%) Liquibase
6 9 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.79%) MLflow
7 6 (1.19%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.19%) Vagrant
8 5 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.60%) JUnit
10 3 (0.60%) Mockito
10 3 (0.60%) Selenium
10 3 (0.60%) Snyk
10 3 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (17.89%) Public Sector
2 87 (17.30%) Finance
3 71 (14.12%) Social Skills
4 43 (8.55%) Banking
5 22 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.18%) Front Office
7 9 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.39%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.60%) Legal
12 2 (0.40%) Law
12 2 (0.40%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.20%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.20%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.55%) Kafka
2 29 (5.77%) Node.js
3 28 (5.57%) AWS CDK
3 28 (5.57%) Elastic Stack
4 26 (5.17%) PySpark
5 25 (4.97%) React
5 25 (4.97%) REST
6 19 (3.78%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (3.78%) RESTful
7 17 (3.38%) Flask
8 12 (2.39%) Pandas
9 11 (2.19%) NumPy
10 10 (1.99%) .NET
10 10 (1.99%) AngularJS
10 10 (1.99%) OAuth
10 10 (1.99%) SciPy
11 7 (1.39%) JWT
11 7 (1.39%) Next.js
11 7 (1.39%) OAuth2
12 6 (1.19%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.78%) Hedge funds
4 18 (3.58%) Public Cloud
5 17 (3.38%) Fixed Income
6 15 (2.98%) NHS
7 11 (2.19%) Equities
8 10 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.99%) Replication
9 8 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.19%) Derivative
11 6 (1.19%) Pricing Data
12 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.80%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.51%) Linux
2 15 (2.98%) Windows
3 12 (2.39%) Unix
4 9 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.39%) VMS
6 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.60%) CentOS
7 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (56.86%) CI/CD
2 252 (50.10%) DevOps
3 208 (41.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (20.28%) Containerisation
5 88 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
6 86 (17.10%) Agile
7 78 (15.51%) Observability
8 64 (12.72%) Software Engineering
9 59 (11.73%) Cloud Security
10 53 (10.54%) Microservices
11 52 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
12 51 (10.14%) Analytics
13 49 (9.74%) Data Engineering
14 44 (8.75%) Migration
15 41 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (7.36%) ETL
17 36 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (7.16%) Infrastructure Automation
18 34 (6.76%) AI
19 33 (6.56%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 267 (53.08%) Python
2 57 (11.33%) SQL
3 46 (9.15%) Bash
4 45 (8.95%) Java
5 36 (7.16%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.17%) Go
7 22 (4.37%) JavaScript
8 21 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.38%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.99%) C#
10 10 (1.99%) Groovy
11 8 (1.59%) Ruby
12 4 (0.80%) Perl
13 3 (0.60%) PHP
13 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.40%) AWK
15 1 (0.20%) JSX
15 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.20%) Rust
15 1 (0.20%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 180 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 168 (33.40%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.74%) AWS Certification
4 23 (4.57%) Degree
5 18 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.58%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.39%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.99%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.60%) PhD
13 2 (0.40%) OCP
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.20%) CEH
14 1 (0.20%) CISSP
14 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.39%) GDPR
2 12 (2.39%) QA
3 10 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.39%) NIST
5 5 (0.99%) SLA
6 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.80%) NCSC
7 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.40%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (25.84%) Docker
2 9 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.19%) DFS Replication
4 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.80%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.80%) Postfix
5 4 (0.80%) Squid
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 294 (58.45%) Terraform
2 142 (28.23%) Kubernetes
3 61 (12.13%) Grafana
4 59 (11.73%) Prometheus
5 56 (11.13%) Ansible
6 18 (3.58%) Argo
7 9 (1.79%) Packer
7 9 (1.79%) Puppet
8 7 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.99%) Nessus
9 5 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.80%) Istio
10 4 (0.80%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.40%) Consul
12 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.40%) Kibana
12 2 (0.40%) logstash
13 1 (0.20%) Opsview
13 1 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 36 (7.16%) Databricks
2 26 (5.17%) Splunk
3 21 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 13 (2.58%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.59%) Arista
6 8 (1.59%) Oracle
7 7 (1.39%) Tenable
8 5 (0.99%) Citrix
8 5 (0.99%) Qualys
9 4 (0.80%) Confluent
9 4 (0.80%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.80%) Okta
10 3 (0.60%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.40%) AVEVA
11 2 (0.40%) IBM
11 2 (0.40%) New Relic
11 2 (0.40%) Ping Identity