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 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 197 212
Rank change year-on-year -45 +15 -11
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 577 476 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.46% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.60% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 347 378
10th Percentile £413 £385 £400
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £626 £819 £850
90th Percentile £762 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +1.00% +3.26% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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 £76.69 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £85.88 £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 49,947 29,816 35,657
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 91.16% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,790 18,788 22,381
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 £623 £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 3,636 1,547 1,786
10th Percentile £14.85 £13.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.48 £17.00 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.91 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +12.50%

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 6 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 6 September 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 -72 455 £515 -1.90% 229
London -75 261 £538 -21.75% 129
Work from Home -50 224 £538 -24.49% 84
UK excluding London -52 204 £480 +1.00% 158
North of England -49 88 £513 +13.89% 29
Midlands -38 49 £469 -1.26% 19
North West -48 43 £550 +36.82% 15
West Midlands -45 29 £473 -0.42% 6
North East -19 24 £425 -9.57% 4
South West -29 21 £450 -25.00% 24
Yorkshire -42 21 £513 +2.50% 10
East Midlands +1 20 £400 -23.85% 13
Scotland -34 19 £425 -11.69% 46
East of England -8 16 £510 +13.33% 8
South East -74 15 £460 -8.00% 23

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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.

1 577 (100.00%) AWS
2 318 (55.11%) CI/CD
3 290 (50.26%) Terraform
4 265 (45.93%) DevOps
5 251 (43.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 230 (39.86%) Python
7 175 (30.33%) Serverless
8 169 (29.29%) Security Cleared
9 163 (28.25%) AWS Lambda
10 162 (28.08%) SC Cleared
11 155 (26.86%) Kubernetes
12 128 (22.18%) GitLab
13 124 (21.49%) Platform Engineering
14 123 (21.32%) Amazon S3
15 122 (21.14%) Docker
16 113 (19.58%) Containerisation
17 111 (19.24%) GitHub
18 109 (18.89%) Agile
19 106 (18.37%) Observability
20 99 (17.16%) Amazon EKS
21 92 (15.94%) Software Engineering
22 91 (15.77%) SQL
23 85 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
24 84 (14.56%) AWS CloudFormation
25 83 (14.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 81 (14.04%) Git
27 79 (13.69%) AI
28 75 (13.00%) Grafana
29 74 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
29 74 (12.82%) 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 33 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.51%) Confluence
3 10 (1.73%) Apache
4 9 (1.56%) nginx
4 9 (1.56%) SAS
5 7 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.35%) 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 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 577 (100.00%) AWS
2 175 (30.33%) Serverless
3 163 (28.25%) AWS Lambda
4 123 (21.32%) Amazon S3
5 111 (19.24%) GitHub
6 99 (17.16%) Amazon EKS
7 85 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
8 84 (14.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 83 (14.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (12.31%) Azure
11 70 (12.13%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (11.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 59 (10.23%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (8.32%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (6.41%) Amazon EventBridge
15 37 (6.41%) SaaS
16 35 (6.07%) AWS Step Functions
17 29 (5.03%) Snowflake
18 26 (4.51%) dbt
19 24 (4.16%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.16%) Firewall
2 16 (2.77%) DNS
3 13 (2.25%) Network Security
4 10 (1.73%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.21%) SSH
6 6 (1.04%) HTTP
6 6 (1.04%) VPN
6 6 (1.04%) WAN
7 5 (0.87%) SSL
8 4 (0.69%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.35%) FTP
9 2 (0.35%) IMAP
9 2 (0.35%) Internet
9 2 (0.35%) LAN
9 2 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.35%) SMTP
10 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (8.84%) DynamoDB
3 40 (6.93%) Amazon Athena
3 40 (6.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (5.55%) MySQL
5 32 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (5.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 18 (3.12%) Power BI
8 15 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.60%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
10 11 (1.91%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.56%) Metadata
11 9 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.56%) Pentaho
12 7 (1.21%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (1.04%) Parquet
13 6 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 128 (22.18%) GitLab
2 81 (14.04%) Git
3 72 (12.48%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.89%) JIRA
5 22 (3.81%) Claude Code
6 13 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.56%) Artifactory
7 9 (1.56%) JMeter
8 8 (1.39%) Gatling
9 7 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.04%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.87%) Snyk
12 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.69%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.69%) JUnit
12 4 (0.69%) Maven
12 4 (0.69%) Mockito
13 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.35%) Spinnaker
General
1 92 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.69%) Public Sector
3 51 (8.84%) Finance
4 22 (3.81%) Banking
5 21 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.73%) Law
8 6 (1.04%) Back Office
8 6 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.04%) Retail
9 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.87%) Military
10 3 (0.52%) Front Office
10 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.52%) Legal
11 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.35%) Local Government
11 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.35%) Marketing
11 2 (0.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (50.26%) Terraform
2 49 (8.49%) .NET
3 40 (6.93%) AWS CDK
4 37 (6.41%) REST
5 36 (6.24%) Kafka
6 30 (5.20%) React
7 26 (4.51%) Node.js
8 23 (3.99%) PySpark
9 17 (2.95%) Spring Boot
10 16 (2.77%) Spring
11 11 (1.91%) Flask
11 11 (1.91%) Keycloak
11 11 (1.91%) Next.js
11 11 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (1.73%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.73%) FastAPI
12 10 (1.73%) RESTful
13 9 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
14 8 (1.39%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 116 (20.10%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.68%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.56%) Autonomous Agent
7 8 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.39%) NHS
8 7 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.21%) PKI
8 7 (1.21%) Replication
9 5 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.87%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.87%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.69%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.52%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.92%) Linux
2 21 (3.64%) Windows
3 15 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.87%) Unix
7 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.35%) CentOS
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (55.11%) CI/CD
2 265 (45.93%) DevOps
3 251 (43.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (21.49%) Platform Engineering
5 113 (19.58%) Containerisation
6 109 (18.89%) Agile
7 106 (18.37%) Observability
8 92 (15.94%) Software Engineering
9 79 (13.69%) AI
10 74 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
10 74 (12.82%) Microservices
11 73 (12.65%) Data Engineering
12 69 (11.96%) Event-Driven
13 65 (11.27%) Migration
14 58 (10.05%) Analytics
15 53 (9.19%) Data Modelling
16 52 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 50 (8.67%) ETL
17 50 (8.67%) Test Automation
18 43 (7.45%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 230 (39.86%) Python
2 91 (15.77%) SQL
3 65 (11.27%) Bash
4 47 (8.15%) Java
5 39 (6.76%) C#
6 32 (5.55%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.64%) JavaScript
8 18 (3.12%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.43%) Groovy
10 9 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.21%) Go
12 4 (0.69%) Scala
13 3 (0.52%) Bicep
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) COBOL
14 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) R
15 1 (0.17%) C++
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 169 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 162 (28.08%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.85%) AWS Certification
4 24 (4.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.21%) Degree
8 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
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 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.25%) QA
3 5 (0.87%) GDPR
4 4 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.52%) SLA
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 122 (21.14%) Docker
2 13 (2.25%) Squid
3 12 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.21%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.87%) vSphere
6 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.52%) Postfix
6 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 155 (26.86%) Kubernetes
2 75 (13.00%) Grafana
3 63 (10.92%) Ansible
4 62 (10.75%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.64%) Argo
6 12 (2.08%) Puppet
7 9 (1.56%) Packer
8 7 (1.21%) Kibana
8 7 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.04%) Istio
10 4 (0.69%) Cilium
10 4 (0.69%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.69%) Nessus
10 4 (0.69%) Rancher
10 4 (0.69%) Suricata
11 3 (0.52%) Consul
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.52%) SELinux
12 2 (0.35%) linkerd
12 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 29 (5.03%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.85%) Databricks
3 17 (2.95%) Splunk
4 15 (2.60%) Dynatrace
4 15 (2.60%) Informatica
4 15 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.43%) Google
6 13 (2.25%) Oracle
7 12 (2.08%) VMware
8 11 (1.91%) Foundry
9 8 (1.39%) Denodo
10 7 (1.21%) Palantir
10 7 (1.21%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.04%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.04%) SAP
12 5 (0.87%) Talend
13 4 (0.69%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.69%) Cisco
13 4 (0.69%) Fortinet