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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 199 202
Rank change year-on-year -53 +3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 582 479 457
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.45% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.59% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 352 375
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.69%
75th Percentile £638 £794 £850
90th Percentile £761 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +2.37% +3.26% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 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 - £55.00 -
90th Percentile £77.10 £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 49,838 30,062 35,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.24% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,768 18,992 22,689
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £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 3,565 1,567 1,847
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.04 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.84% +10.00%

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 29 August 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 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 29 August 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 -73 456 £525 -4.55% 250
London -72 264 £549 -18.70% 160
Work from Home -40 228 £538 -24.49% 90
UK excluding London -46 202 £486 +2.37% 142
North of England -44 88 £513 +10.81% 29
Midlands -27 49 £467 -1.68% 21
North West -48 43 £550 +37.16% 12
West Midlands -31 33 £469 -1.26% 8
North East -18 24 £425 -9.57% 5
Yorkshire -48 21 £513 +2.50% 12
South West -30 20 £450 -25.00% 19
Scotland -26 19 £425 -12.82% 36
East Midlands -1 16 £400 -23.85% 13
East of England -9 15 £510 +13.33% 10
South East -68 15 £463 -7.50% 19

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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.

1 582 (100.00%) AWS
2 320 (54.98%) CI/CD
3 290 (49.83%) Terraform
4 263 (45.19%) DevOps
5 250 (42.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 237 (40.72%) Python
7 178 (30.58%) Serverless
8 167 (28.69%) Security Cleared
9 164 (28.18%) AWS Lambda
10 159 (27.32%) SC Cleared
11 156 (26.80%) Kubernetes
12 129 (22.16%) Amazon S3
13 127 (21.82%) GitLab
14 123 (21.13%) Docker
15 122 (20.96%) Platform Engineering
16 113 (19.42%) Agile
16 113 (19.42%) GitHub
17 112 (19.24%) Containerisation
18 107 (18.38%) Observability
19 102 (17.53%) Amazon EKS
20 97 (16.67%) SQL
21 92 (15.81%) Software Engineering
22 88 (15.12%) AWS CloudFormation
23 87 (14.95%) GitHub Actions
24 84 (14.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 81 (13.92%) AI
25 81 (13.92%) Grafana
26 79 (13.57%) Git
27 77 (13.23%) Data Engineering
28 75 (12.89%) Data Pipeline

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 36 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.30%) Confluence
3 11 (1.89%) Apache
3 11 (1.89%) SAS
4 9 (1.55%) nginx
5 7 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.34%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 582 (100.00%) AWS
2 178 (30.58%) Serverless
3 164 (28.18%) AWS Lambda
4 129 (22.16%) Amazon S3
5 113 (19.42%) GitHub
6 102 (17.53%) Amazon EKS
7 88 (15.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 87 (14.95%) GitHub Actions
9 84 (14.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 73 (12.54%) Amazon EC2
10 73 (12.54%) Azure
11 65 (11.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 59 (10.14%) Amazon ECS
13 46 (7.90%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (6.19%) Amazon EventBridge
14 36 (6.19%) AWS Step Functions
15 35 (6.01%) SaaS
16 31 (5.33%) Snowflake
17 27 (4.64%) dbt
17 27 (4.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.12%) Firewall
2 16 (2.75%) DNS
3 13 (2.23%) Network Security
4 10 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.20%) SSH
6 6 (1.03%) HTTP
6 6 (1.03%) VPN
6 6 (1.03%) WAN
7 5 (0.86%) SSL
8 4 (0.69%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.34%) FTP
9 2 (0.34%) IMAP
9 2 (0.34%) Internet
9 2 (0.34%) LAN
9 2 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.34%) SMTP
10 1 (0.17%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (8.59%) DynamoDB
3 45 (7.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 42 (7.22%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (5.67%) MySQL
6 30 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (4.64%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (3.26%) Power BI
9 18 (3.09%) Data Lake
10 17 (2.92%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.06%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (1.72%) Metadata
12 10 (1.72%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.72%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.72%) Pentaho
13 7 (1.20%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.20%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 127 (21.82%) GitLab
2 79 (13.57%) Git
3 73 (12.54%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.67%) JIRA
5 20 (3.44%) Claude Code
6 13 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.55%) Artifactory
8 8 (1.37%) Gatling
8 8 (1.37%) JMeter
9 6 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.86%) Snyk
10 5 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.69%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.69%) Mockito
12 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.52%) JUnit
12 3 (0.52%) Maven
13 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 94 (16.15%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.57%) Public Sector
3 56 (9.62%) Finance
4 24 (4.12%) Banking
5 22 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.72%) Law
8 6 (1.03%) Back Office
8 6 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.03%) Retail
9 4 (0.69%) Military
10 3 (0.52%) Front Office
10 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.52%) Legal
11 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.34%) Local Government
11 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.34%) Marketing
11 2 (0.34%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (49.83%) Terraform
2 47 (8.08%) .NET
3 39 (6.70%) AWS CDK
4 36 (6.19%) Kafka
5 35 (6.01%) REST
6 29 (4.98%) React
7 27 (4.64%) Node.js
8 25 (4.30%) PySpark
9 19 (3.26%) Spring Boot
10 18 (3.09%) Spring
11 11 (1.89%) Flask
11 11 (1.89%) Next.js
11 11 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (1.72%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.72%) FastAPI
12 10 (1.72%) Keycloak
12 10 (1.72%) RESTful
13 9 (1.55%) JSON
13 9 (1.55%) Model Context Protocol
14 8 (1.37%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 119 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.64%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.55%) Autonomous Agent
6 9 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.37%) NHS
8 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.20%) PKI
9 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.03%) Replication
10 5 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.86%) Legacy Code
10 5 (0.86%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.69%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (11.17%) Linux
2 22 (3.78%) Windows
3 15 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.86%) Unix
7 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.34%) CentOS
8 2 (0.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (54.98%) CI/CD
2 263 (45.19%) DevOps
3 250 (42.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (20.96%) Platform Engineering
5 113 (19.42%) Agile
6 112 (19.24%) Containerisation
7 107 (18.38%) Observability
8 92 (15.81%) Software Engineering
9 81 (13.92%) AI
10 77 (13.23%) Data Engineering
11 75 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
12 74 (12.71%) Microservices
13 70 (12.03%) Event-Driven
14 69 (11.86%) Migration
15 60 (10.31%) Analytics
16 56 (9.62%) Data Modelling
17 55 (9.45%) ETL
18 51 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
19 50 (8.59%) Test Automation
20 44 (7.56%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 237 (40.72%) Python
2 97 (16.67%) SQL
3 70 (12.03%) Bash
4 50 (8.59%) Java
5 38 (6.53%) C#
6 32 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 20 (3.44%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.23%) Groovy
10 9 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.20%) Go
12 5 (0.86%) Scala
13 3 (0.52%) Bicep
13 3 (0.52%) C
14 2 (0.34%) COBOL
14 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 167 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 159 (27.32%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.50%) AWS Certification
4 24 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.20%) Degree
7 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.34%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.17%) CCIE
12 1 (0.17%) CCNP
12 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.23%) QA
3 6 (1.03%) SLA
4 5 (0.86%) GDPR
5 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 123 (21.13%) Docker
2 13 (2.23%) Squid
3 12 (2.06%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.86%) vSphere
6 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.52%) Postfix
6 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.34%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 156 (26.80%) Kubernetes
2 81 (13.92%) Grafana
3 66 (11.34%) Prometheus
4 63 (10.82%) Ansible
5 20 (3.44%) Argo
6 12 (2.06%) Puppet
7 8 (1.37%) Packer
8 7 (1.20%) Kibana
8 7 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.03%) Istio
10 4 (0.69%) Cilium
10 4 (0.69%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.69%) Nessus
10 4 (0.69%) Suricata
11 3 (0.52%) Consul
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.52%) Rancher
11 3 (0.52%) SELinux
12 2 (0.34%) linkerd
12 2 (0.34%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (5.50%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.15%) Databricks
3 19 (3.26%) Splunk
4 17 (2.92%) Informatica
5 14 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.41%) Google
5 14 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.23%) Oracle
7 12 (2.06%) VMware
8 11 (1.89%) Foundry
9 10 (1.72%) Denodo
10 8 (1.37%) Talend
11 7 (1.20%) Palantir
11 7 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.20%) SAP
12 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.86%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.69%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.69%) Cisco
14 4 (0.69%) Fortinet