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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 194 214
Rank change year-on-year -31 +20 -15
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 601 447 491
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.42% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.54% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 342 407
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £788
90th Percentile £688 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.05% +5.26% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £59.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.00 - -

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 47,708 29,033 40,392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.03% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,866 18,550 25,972
10th Percentile £325 £288 £287
25th Percentile £416 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,233 1,310 2,837
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.78 £12.87
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +62.26% -29.80% -12.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +1.01%

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 4 July 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 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 4 July 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 -61 444 £523 -9.13% 106
London -44 294 £525 -22.22% 52
Work from Home -41 240 £525 -22.22% 60
UK excluding London -24 170 £480 -4.05% 65
North of England -48 64 £513 +10.81% 10
Midlands -35 32 £469 -3.79% 10
Scotland 0 30 £425 -17.07% 4
West Midlands -42 28 £472 +2.05% 8
North West -35 27 £530 +31.84% 4
Yorkshire -42 23 £525 +2.44% 3
South West -22 18 £488 -22.00% 18
East of England - 15 £510 - 4
North East -26 14 £425 +6.25% 3
South East -62 13 £505 +0.90% 18
East Midlands -16 4 £413 -17.50% 2
Wales - 1 £250 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 601 (100.00%) AWS
2 331 (55.07%) CI/CD
3 309 (51.41%) Terraform
4 278 (46.26%) DevOps
5 251 (41.76%) Python
6 228 (37.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 206 (34.28%) Security Cleared
8 194 (32.28%) SC Cleared
9 170 (28.29%) Serverless
10 154 (25.62%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (24.13%) Kubernetes
12 137 (22.80%) Amazon S3
13 122 (20.30%) Docker
14 121 (20.13%) GitLab
15 118 (19.63%) Platform Engineering
16 115 (19.13%) Containerisation
17 111 (18.47%) AWS CloudFormation
18 109 (18.14%) GitHub
19 104 (17.30%) Agile
20 97 (16.14%) Amazon EKS
21 95 (15.81%) Observability
22 84 (13.98%) SQL
23 80 (13.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 78 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
25 77 (12.81%) Data Engineering
25 77 (12.81%) Data Pipeline
26 76 (12.65%) Software Engineering
27 74 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
27 74 (12.31%) Grafana
28 73 (12.15%) AI

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 33 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.33%) Confluence
3 12 (2.00%) SAS
4 11 (1.83%) Apache
5 10 (1.66%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.83%) nginx
8 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) Appian
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Traefik
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 601 (100.00%) AWS
2 170 (28.29%) Serverless
3 154 (25.62%) AWS Lambda
4 137 (22.80%) Amazon S3
5 111 (18.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 109 (18.14%) GitHub
7 97 (16.14%) Amazon EKS
8 80 (13.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 78 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
10 74 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
11 71 (11.81%) Azure
12 62 (10.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 56 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
14 41 (6.82%) AWS Step Functions
15 38 (6.32%) Snowflake
16 33 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (4.83%) Amazon EMR
18 27 (4.49%) Amazon EventBridge
19 26 (4.33%) SaaS
20 25 (4.16%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.66%) Firewall
2 12 (2.00%) DNS
3 10 (1.66%) Network Security
4 6 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.00%) VPN
4 6 (1.00%) WAN
5 4 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.67%) SSL
6 3 (0.50%) HTTP
7 2 (0.33%) BGP
7 2 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.33%) Internet
7 2 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) 4G
8 1 (0.17%) 5G
8 1 (0.17%) AMQP
8 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.17%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (9.32%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 47 (7.82%) DynamoDB
4 46 (7.65%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (3.66%) MySQL
8 21 (3.49%) Data Lake
9 20 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (3.00%) SQL Server
11 16 (2.66%) Power BI
12 12 (2.00%) Metadata
13 10 (1.66%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.50%) Pentaho
15 8 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (1.33%) MongoDB
16 6 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.00%) Delta Lake
17 5 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
17 5 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 121 (20.13%) GitLab
2 72 (11.98%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.98%) Git
4 31 (5.16%) JIRA
5 14 (2.33%) Claude Code
6 12 (2.00%) Artifactory
7 9 (1.50%) Gatling
7 9 (1.50%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.33%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.33%) Snyk
9 7 (1.16%) JMeter
10 5 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.50%) Maven
11 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.33%) Mocha
12 2 (0.33%) MSTest
12 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 87 (14.48%) Public Sector
1 87 (14.48%) Social Skills
2 53 (8.82%) Finance
3 25 (4.16%) Banking
4 19 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (0.83%) Law
8 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.50%) Billing
9 3 (0.50%) Legal
9 3 (0.50%) Military
9 3 (0.50%) Retail
10 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.33%) Local Government
10 2 (0.33%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.33%) Police
11 1 (0.17%) Aviation
11 1 (0.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.49%) AWS CDK
2 37 (6.16%) .NET
3 28 (4.66%) Kafka
4 26 (4.33%) PySpark
4 26 (4.33%) React
4 26 (4.33%) REST
5 20 (3.33%) Node.js
6 13 (2.16%) Flask
7 12 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (1.50%) .NET Core
9 9 (1.50%) Spring
9 9 (1.50%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.33%) JSON
10 8 (1.33%) Model Context Protocol
10 8 (1.33%) Next.js
10 8 (1.33%) RESTful
11 7 (1.16%) FastAPI
11 7 (1.16%) Keycloak
11 7 (1.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.16%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.50%) Autonomous Agent
7 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.16%) NHS
10 6 (1.00%) Clustering
10 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.67%) PKI
12 4 (0.67%) Replication
13 3 (0.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 66 (10.98%) Linux
2 21 (3.49%) Windows
3 10 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.16%) Unix
5 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.33%) CentOS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (55.07%) CI/CD
2 278 (46.26%) DevOps
3 228 (37.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (19.63%) Platform Engineering
5 115 (19.13%) Containerisation
6 104 (17.30%) Agile
7 95 (15.81%) Observability
8 77 (12.81%) Data Engineering
8 77 (12.81%) Data Pipeline
9 76 (12.65%) Software Engineering
10 73 (12.15%) AI
11 71 (11.81%) Migration
12 67 (11.15%) Analytics
13 60 (9.98%) Microservices
14 53 (8.82%) ETL
15 51 (8.49%) Cloud Security
16 50 (8.32%) Data Modelling
17 49 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (7.82%) Event-Driven
19 43 (7.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 251 (41.76%) Python
2 84 (13.98%) SQL
3 71 (11.81%) Bash
4 44 (7.32%) Java
5 34 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 32 (5.32%) C#
7 19 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.00%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.66%) Go
9 10 (1.66%) Groovy
10 8 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.67%) Scala
12 3 (0.50%) Bicep
12 3 (0.50%) C
13 2 (0.33%) Ruby
13 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) R
14 1 (0.17%) Rust
14 1 (0.17%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 206 (34.28%) Security Cleared
2 194 (32.28%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.49%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.83%) Degree
9 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.33%) CCNP
11 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.33%) 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%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.99%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.00%) SLA
3 8 (1.33%) QA
4 7 (1.16%) GDPR
5 5 (0.83%) NIST
6 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (20.30%) Docker
2 11 (1.83%) Squid
3 10 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.16%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.83%) vSphere
6 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.17%) Postfix
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 309 (51.41%) Terraform
2 145 (24.13%) Kubernetes
3 74 (12.31%) Grafana
4 65 (10.82%) Prometheus
5 64 (10.65%) Ansible
6 19 (3.16%) Argo
7 15 (2.50%) Puppet
8 7 (1.16%) Istio
8 7 (1.16%) Packer
9 6 (1.00%) Kibana
10 5 (0.83%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.67%) Cilium
11 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.67%) Rancher
11 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.67%) Suricata
12 3 (0.50%) Consul
12 3 (0.50%) Salt
13 2 (0.33%) linkerd
13 2 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (6.32%) Databricks
2 25 (4.16%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.49%) Splunk
4 16 (2.66%) Informatica
5 15 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.83%) Foundry
6 11 (1.83%) Google
6 11 (1.83%) Oracle
6 11 (1.83%) VMware
7 10 (1.66%) Denodo
8 7 (1.16%) Palantir
8 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.16%) Talend
9 6 (1.00%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.83%) Citrix
10 5 (0.83%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.83%) SAP
11 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.67%) Cisco