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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 196 204
Rank change year-on-year -58 +8 -5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 576 488 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.48% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.62% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 359 371
10th Percentile £413 £385 £400
25th Percentile £455 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £825
90th Percentile £771 £835 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £454
% change year-on-year +2.11% +4.63% -13.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £67.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% - -
75th Percentile £78.31 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £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 50,385 30,076 35,581
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 91.01% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,746 18,991 21,622
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,923 1,619 1,598
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -1.71%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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% 463
London -78 264 £538 -17.23% 217
Work from Home -50 226 £540 -10.00% 184
UK excluding London -63 201 £485 +2.11% 295
North of England -50 87 £513 +13.89% 90
Midlands -20 51 £469 -1.26% 45
North West -42 44 £528 +27.11% 66
West Midlands -47 29 £476 +0.21% 22
North East -21 23 £438 -15.87% 6
East Midlands +4 22 £400 -23.85% 23
South West -21 22 £450 -25.00% 42
Yorkshire -57 20 £513 +2.50% 18
Scotland -33 18 £425 -10.53% 53
East of England -7 14 £510 +13.33% 22
South East -72 13 £460 -12.38% 24

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 576 (100.00%) AWS
2 321 (55.73%) CI/CD
3 291 (50.52%) Terraform
4 259 (44.97%) DevOps
5 252 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 226 (39.24%) Python
7 174 (30.21%) Serverless
8 166 (28.82%) Security Cleared
9 162 (28.13%) AWS Lambda
10 158 (27.43%) SC Cleared
11 157 (27.26%) Kubernetes
12 128 (22.22%) GitLab
13 124 (21.53%) Platform Engineering
14 123 (21.35%) Observability
15 121 (21.01%) Docker
16 120 (20.83%) Amazon S3
17 115 (19.97%) Containerisation
18 109 (18.92%) GitHub
19 107 (18.58%) Agile
20 103 (17.88%) Amazon EKS
21 92 (15.97%) Software Engineering
22 91 (15.80%) SQL
23 87 (15.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 85 (14.76%) GitHub Actions
25 84 (14.58%) Git
26 82 (14.24%) AWS CloudFormation
27 81 (14.06%) AI
28 79 (13.72%) Data Pipeline
29 77 (13.37%) Grafana
29 77 (13.37%) Microservices

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 30 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.17%) Confluence
3 10 (1.74%) Apache
3 10 (1.74%) nginx
4 8 (1.39%) SAS
5 7 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.17%) Appian
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.17%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
11 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 576 (100.00%) AWS
2 174 (30.21%) Serverless
3 162 (28.13%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (20.83%) Amazon S3
5 109 (18.92%) GitHub
6 103 (17.88%) Amazon EKS
7 87 (15.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 85 (14.76%) GitHub Actions
9 82 (14.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 72 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
11 65 (11.28%) Azure
12 63 (10.94%) Amazon ECS
12 63 (10.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 54 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (6.77%) Amazon EventBridge
15 38 (6.60%) Snowflake
16 37 (6.42%) SaaS
17 36 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
18 32 (5.56%) dbt
19 24 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.34%) Firewall
2 17 (2.95%) DNS
3 14 (2.43%) Network Security
4 12 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.22%) HTTP
5 7 (1.22%) SSH
6 5 (0.87%) SSL
6 5 (0.87%) WAN
7 4 (0.69%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.69%) VPN
8 2 (0.35%) FTP
8 2 (0.35%) IMAP
8 2 (0.35%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.35%) SMTP
9 1 (0.17%) BGP
9 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.17%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (13.19%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (8.68%) DynamoDB
3 42 (7.29%) Amazon Athena
4 37 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (5.73%) MySQL
6 32 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 31 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.78%) Power BI
9 15 (2.60%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.43%) MongoDB
11 12 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
11 12 (2.08%) SQL Server
12 11 (1.91%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.56%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.39%) Redis
15 7 (1.22%) Relational Database
16 6 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.04%) Metadata
16 6 (1.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 128 (22.22%) GitLab
2 84 (14.58%) Git
3 70 (12.15%) Jenkins
4 32 (5.56%) JIRA
5 23 (3.99%) Claude Code
6 15 (2.60%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.56%) JMeter
8 8 (1.39%) Artifactory
8 8 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.04%) Gatling
9 6 (1.04%) JUnit
10 5 (0.87%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.87%) Mockito
10 5 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.69%) Maven
11 4 (0.69%) Snyk
12 3 (0.52%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.35%) Spinnaker
General
1 93 (16.15%) Social Skills
2 80 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 52 (9.03%) Finance
4 22 (3.82%) Banking
5 19 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.56%) Law
8 8 (1.39%) Back Office
9 7 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.04%) Military
11 5 (0.87%) Retail
12 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.69%) Front Office
12 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Legal
13 2 (0.35%) Local Government
13 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.35%) Marketing
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (50.52%) Terraform
2 52 (9.03%) .NET
3 41 (7.12%) AWS CDK
4 38 (6.60%) Kafka
4 38 (6.60%) REST
5 29 (5.03%) React
6 26 (4.51%) Node.js
7 20 (3.47%) PySpark
7 20 (3.47%) Spring Boot
8 19 (3.30%) Spring
9 12 (2.08%) Keycloak
10 11 (1.91%) Flask
10 11 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (1.74%) .NET Core
11 10 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (1.74%) FastAPI
11 10 (1.74%) Next.js
11 10 (1.74%) RESTful
12 9 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
13 8 (1.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 120 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.51%) AI Agents
4 14 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.56%) Autonomous Agent
6 8 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.39%) PKI
7 7 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.22%) NHS
7 7 (1.22%) Replication
8 5 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (0.87%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.69%) Mainframe
9 4 (0.69%) PropTech
9 4 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (11.63%) Linux
2 23 (3.99%) Windows
3 17 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.04%) Unix
7 4 (0.69%) CentOS
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.52%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (55.73%) CI/CD
2 259 (44.97%) DevOps
3 252 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (21.53%) Platform Engineering
5 123 (21.35%) Observability
6 115 (19.97%) Containerisation
7 107 (18.58%) Agile
8 92 (15.97%) Software Engineering
9 81 (14.06%) AI
10 79 (13.72%) Data Pipeline
11 77 (13.37%) Microservices
12 74 (12.85%) Data Engineering
13 71 (12.33%) Event-Driven
14 62 (10.76%) Analytics
15 61 (10.59%) Migration
16 58 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 53 (9.20%) Data Modelling
18 52 (9.03%) Test Automation
19 45 (7.81%) Cloud Security
20 44 (7.64%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 226 (39.24%) Python
2 91 (15.80%) SQL
3 66 (11.46%) Bash
4 48 (8.33%) Java
5 41 (7.12%) C#
6 31 (5.38%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.43%) Groovy
10 10 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.39%) Go
12 5 (0.87%) 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
1 166 (28.82%) Security Cleared
2 158 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.38%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.22%) 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%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.26%) QA
3 6 (1.04%) GDPR
4 4 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.69%) SLA
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 121 (21.01%) Docker
2 13 (2.26%) Squid
3 12 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.87%) vSphere
5 4 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.52%) Postfix
7 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 157 (27.26%) Kubernetes
2 77 (13.37%) Grafana
3 64 (11.11%) Ansible
3 64 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 18 (3.13%) Argo
5 12 (2.08%) Packer
5 12 (2.08%) Puppet
6 9 (1.56%) Kibana
6 9 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.39%) Istio
8 5 (0.87%) Rancher
9 4 (0.69%) Cilium
9 4 (0.69%) Consul
9 4 (0.69%) Nessus
9 4 (0.69%) Suricata
10 3 (0.52%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.52%) linkerd
10 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.52%) SELinux
10 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (4.86%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.34%) Databricks
3 21 (3.65%) Splunk
4 17 (2.95%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.78%) Oracle
6 15 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.26%) Google
8 12 (2.08%) Informatica
9 11 (1.91%) Foundry
10 10 (1.74%) VMware
11 8 (1.39%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.22%) Denodo
12 7 (1.22%) Palantir
12 7 (1.22%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.04%) SAP
14 5 (0.87%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.87%) Okta
15 4 (0.69%) Cisco
15 4 (0.69%) Trend Micro