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 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 192 196
Rank change year-on-year -47 +4 +4
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 585 470 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.42% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.56% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 355 387
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.37%
75th Percentile £626 £825 £813
90th Percentile £743 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £481 £475
% change year-on-year +0.26% +1.32% -13.64%
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 49,690 30,209 36,033
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.30% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,849 19,090 23,214
10th Percentile £325 £281 £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 3,486 1,544 2,018
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.23
25th Percentile £20.62 £17.29 £20.12
Median hourly rate £41.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.84% -41.51% +2.38%
75th Percentile £67.96 £53.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +21.62%

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 16 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 16 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 -64 459 £519 -5.68% 185
London -64 275 £538 -23.21% 117
Work from Home -46 229 £530 -21.48% 76
UK excluding London -39 195 £483 +0.26% 89
North of England -49 84 £513 +7.89% 24
Midlands -29 43 £469 -1.26% 8
North West -32 39 £550 +36.82% 13
West Midlands -42 31 £469 -1.26% 1
North East -22 23 £425 -9.57% 5
Scotland -11 22 £425 -12.82% 17
Yorkshire -45 22 £513 +2.50% 6
South West -41 19 £450 -25.00% 19
East of England -7 16 £510 +13.33% 3
South East -74 15 £465 -7.00% 11
East Midlands -9 12 £413 -23.18% 7

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 585 (100.00%) AWS
2 325 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 288 (49.23%) Terraform
4 272 (46.50%) DevOps
5 245 (41.88%) Python
6 239 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 180 (30.77%) Serverless
8 175 (29.91%) Security Cleared
9 166 (28.38%) AWS Lambda
10 164 (28.03%) SC Cleared
11 154 (26.32%) Kubernetes
12 132 (22.56%) Amazon S3
13 129 (22.05%) GitLab
14 123 (21.03%) Platform Engineering
15 121 (20.68%) Docker
16 114 (19.49%) Containerisation
16 114 (19.49%) GitHub
17 113 (19.32%) Agile
18 105 (17.95%) Observability
19 100 (17.09%) Amazon EKS
20 95 (16.24%) SQL
21 91 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
22 88 (15.04%) Software Engineering
23 87 (14.87%) GitHub Actions
24 84 (14.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 84 (14.36%) Data Engineering
25 79 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
26 78 (13.33%) AI
27 77 (13.16%) Git
27 77 (13.16%) Grafana

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 38 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.76%) Confluence
3 13 (2.22%) Apache
4 12 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.05%) SAS
5 8 (1.37%) nginx
6 7 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.34%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
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 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.34%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 585 (100.00%) AWS
2 180 (30.77%) Serverless
3 166 (28.38%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (22.56%) Amazon S3
5 114 (19.49%) GitHub
6 100 (17.09%) Amazon EKS
7 91 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 87 (14.87%) GitHub Actions
9 84 (14.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 74 (12.65%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (11.97%) Azure
12 65 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 56 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
14 43 (7.35%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 36 (6.15%) Snowflake
17 35 (5.98%) Amazon EventBridge
18 33 (5.64%) SaaS
19 27 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
19 27 (4.62%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.59%) Firewall
2 14 (2.39%) DNS
3 12 (2.05%) Network Security
4 11 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.03%) VPN
5 6 (1.03%) WAN
6 5 (0.85%) SSH
6 5 (0.85%) SSL
7 4 (0.68%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.51%) HTTP
9 2 (0.34%) BGP
9 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.34%) Internet
9 2 (0.34%) LAN
10 1 (0.17%) 4G
10 1 (0.17%) 5G
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.17%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (8.55%) DynamoDB
3 48 (8.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 46 (7.86%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (5.30%) MySQL
7 26 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (3.42%) Data Lake
10 19 (3.25%) Power BI
11 16 (2.74%) SQL Server
12 13 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
13 11 (1.88%) Metadata
13 11 (1.88%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.71%) Pentaho
15 9 (1.54%) MongoDB
16 7 (1.20%) Delta Lake
16 7 (1.20%) Relational Database
17 6 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
17 6 (1.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 129 (22.05%) GitLab
2 77 (13.16%) Git
3 74 (12.65%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.13%) JIRA
5 19 (3.25%) Claude Code
6 13 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.71%) Artifactory
8 9 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.37%) Gatling
9 8 (1.37%) JMeter
10 6 (1.03%) Snyk
11 5 (0.85%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.51%) JUnit
13 3 (0.51%) Maven
13 3 (0.51%) Mockito
14 2 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 88 (15.04%) Social Skills
2 84 (14.36%) Public Sector
3 60 (10.26%) Finance
4 26 (4.44%) Banking
5 21 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.71%) Law
8 7 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.03%) Retail
10 5 (0.85%) Back Office
11 4 (0.68%) Military
12 3 (0.51%) Billing
12 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Legal
13 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.34%) Local Government
13 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Marketing
13 2 (0.34%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.69%) .NET
2 40 (6.84%) AWS CDK
3 37 (6.32%) Kafka
4 34 (5.81%) REST
5 28 (4.79%) React
6 27 (4.62%) PySpark
7 25 (4.27%) Node.js
8 18 (3.08%) Spring Boot
9 17 (2.91%) Spring
10 12 (2.05%) RESTful
11 11 (1.88%) Next.js
11 11 (1.88%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (1.71%) Flask
13 9 (1.54%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.54%) boto
13 9 (1.54%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.54%) Keycloak
13 9 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
14 8 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (1.37%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 118 (20.17%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.27%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.54%) Autonomous Agent
8 8 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.20%) NHS
10 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.03%) PKI
11 5 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.85%) Legacy Code
11 5 (0.85%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.68%) Clustering
12 4 (0.68%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.68%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.77%) Linux
2 20 (3.42%) Windows
3 14 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.85%) Unix
6 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.34%) CentOS
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 272 (46.50%) DevOps
3 239 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 123 (21.03%) Platform Engineering
5 114 (19.49%) Containerisation
6 113 (19.32%) Agile
7 105 (17.95%) Observability
8 88 (15.04%) Software Engineering
9 84 (14.36%) Data Engineering
10 79 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
11 78 (13.33%) AI
12 77 (13.16%) Microservices
13 67 (11.45%) Event-Driven
13 67 (11.45%) Migration
14 62 (10.60%) Analytics
15 57 (9.74%) Data Modelling
16 56 (9.57%) ETL
17 53 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
18 50 (8.55%) Test Automation
19 45 (7.69%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 245 (41.88%) Python
2 95 (16.24%) SQL
3 73 (12.48%) Bash
4 53 (9.06%) Java
5 36 (6.15%) C#
6 30 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.59%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.25%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.88%) Groovy
10 10 (1.71%) Go
11 8 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.85%) Scala
13 3 (0.51%) Bicep
13 3 (0.51%) C
14 2 (0.34%) COBOL
14 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) SAS Macro
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 175 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 164 (28.03%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.64%) AWS Certification
4 23 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.03%) Degree
9 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.34%) CCNP
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
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%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.88%) QA
3 8 (1.37%) SLA
4 7 (1.20%) GDPR
5 3 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.51%) WCAG
6 2 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 121 (20.68%) Docker
2 11 (1.88%) Squid
3 10 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.85%) vSphere
6 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.17%) Postfix
8 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 288 (49.23%) Terraform
2 154 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 77 (13.16%) Grafana
4 64 (10.94%) Prometheus
5 61 (10.43%) Ansible
6 18 (3.08%) Argo
7 13 (2.22%) Puppet
8 9 (1.54%) Istio
9 8 (1.37%) Packer
10 7 (1.20%) Kibana
10 7 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.85%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.68%) Cilium
12 4 (0.68%) Rancher
12 4 (0.68%) Suricata
13 3 (0.51%) Consul
13 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.51%) SELinux
14 2 (0.34%) Control-M
14 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (5.98%) Databricks
2 31 (5.30%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.08%) Splunk
4 17 (2.91%) Informatica
5 14 (2.39%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.39%) Google
5 14 (2.39%) Oracle
6 12 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.88%) Foundry
7 11 (1.88%) VMware
8 10 (1.71%) Denodo
9 8 (1.37%) Talend
10 7 (1.20%) Palantir
10 7 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.20%) SAP
11 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.85%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.68%) Okta
13 4 (0.68%) Trend Micro