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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 200 197
Rank change year-on-year -33 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 592 467 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.42% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.55% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 357 388
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £800
90th Percentile £728 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -1.30% +1.32% -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 49,377 30,074 36,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 91.44% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,758 19,109 23,758
10th Percentile £331 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
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 3,409 1,479 2,147
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.69 £14.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £19.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £42.91
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.39% +0.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £54.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +11.69%

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 1 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 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 1 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 -72 450 £520 -7.96% 126
London -58 279 £538 -23.21% 72
Work from Home -45 238 £525 -30.00% 56
UK excluding London -31 190 £475 -1.30% 67
North of England -39 79 £513 +10.81% 25
Midlands -37 38 £469 -1.26% 5
North West -41 37 £560 +31.76% 18
Scotland -3 29 £425 -12.82% 8
West Midlands -51 29 £469 -1.26% 1
North East -23 21 £425 +6.25% 2
Yorkshire -35 21 £513 +2.50% 5
South West -29 19 £450 -26.53% 13
East of England -4 14 £510 +13.33% 4
South East -67 14 £483 -3.50% 11
East Midlands -11 9 £413 -20.44% 4
Wales - 1 £250 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 592 (100.00%) AWS
2 331 (55.91%) CI/CD
3 293 (49.49%) Terraform
4 276 (46.62%) DevOps
5 246 (41.55%) Python
6 233 (39.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 182 (30.74%) Security Cleared
8 177 (29.90%) Serverless
9 169 (28.55%) SC Cleared
10 163 (27.53%) AWS Lambda
11 142 (23.99%) Kubernetes
12 134 (22.64%) Amazon S3
13 127 (21.45%) Platform Engineering
14 118 (19.93%) Docker
14 118 (19.93%) GitLab
15 115 (19.43%) Agile
16 111 (18.75%) Containerisation
17 107 (18.07%) GitHub
18 99 (16.72%) AWS CloudFormation
18 99 (16.72%) Observability
19 95 (16.05%) Amazon EKS
20 90 (15.20%) Software Engineering
20 90 (15.20%) SQL
21 84 (14.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 81 (13.68%) Data Engineering
23 80 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
23 80 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
24 77 (13.01%) Amazon EC2
25 76 (12.84%) AI
25 76 (12.84%) 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 36 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.72%) Confluence
3 13 (2.20%) Apache
4 12 (2.03%) SAS
5 10 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.35%) nginx
7 7 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
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
1 592 (100.00%) AWS
2 177 (29.90%) Serverless
3 163 (27.53%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (22.64%) Amazon S3
5 107 (18.07%) GitHub
6 99 (16.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 95 (16.05%) Amazon EKS
8 84 (14.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 80 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (13.01%) Amazon EC2
11 66 (11.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 64 (10.81%) Azure
13 58 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
14 45 (7.60%) AWS Step Functions
15 41 (6.93%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (6.76%) Snowflake
17 35 (5.91%) Amazon EventBridge
18 31 (5.24%) SaaS
19 28 (4.73%) Amazon EMR
20 27 (4.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.55%) Firewall
2 12 (2.03%) DNS
3 11 (1.86%) Network Security
4 10 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.01%) VPN
5 6 (1.01%) WAN
6 5 (0.84%) SSH
7 4 (0.68%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.68%) SSL
8 2 (0.34%) BGP
8 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.34%) HTTP
8 2 (0.34%) Internet
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
9 1 (0.17%) 4G
9 1 (0.17%) 5G
9 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (8.78%) DynamoDB
3 48 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 47 (7.94%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (4.90%) MySQL
7 27 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 21 (3.55%) Data Lake
10 17 (2.87%) Power BI
10 17 (2.87%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.20%) Metadata
12 11 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (1.86%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.69%) Pentaho
14 9 (1.52%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.18%) Delta Lake
16 6 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
16 6 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
17 5 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (19.93%) GitLab
2 71 (11.99%) Git
2 71 (11.99%) Jenkins
3 29 (4.90%) JIRA
4 17 (2.87%) Claude Code
5 10 (1.69%) Artifactory
5 10 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.35%) Gatling
8 7 (1.18%) JMeter
9 6 (1.01%) Snyk
10 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.68%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.68%) JUnit
11 4 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.51%) Maven
12 3 (0.51%) Mockito
13 2 (0.34%) Mocha
General
1 86 (14.53%) Social Skills
2 84 (14.19%) Public Sector
3 59 (9.97%) Finance
4 25 (4.22%) Banking
5 20 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.01%) Law
10 5 (0.84%) Retail
11 4 (0.68%) 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 42 (7.09%) .NET
2 39 (6.59%) AWS CDK
3 33 (5.57%) Kafka
4 32 (5.41%) REST
5 30 (5.07%) React
6 26 (4.39%) PySpark
7 24 (4.05%) Node.js
8 18 (3.04%) Spring Boot
9 17 (2.87%) Spring
10 12 (2.03%) RESTful
11 11 (1.86%) Next.js
12 10 (1.69%) Flask
12 10 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (1.52%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.52%) boto
13 9 (1.52%) FastAPI
14 8 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (1.35%) Keycloak
14 8 (1.35%) Lambda Expressions
14 8 (1.35%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 123 (20.78%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.89%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.52%) Autonomous Agent
8 8 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.35%) NHS
9 6 (1.01%) PKI
10 5 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.68%) Clustering
11 4 (0.68%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.68%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.68%) Replication
11 4 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.64%) Linux
2 20 (3.38%) Windows
3 14 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.68%) Unix
7 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.34%) CentOS
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (55.91%) CI/CD
2 276 (46.62%) DevOps
3 233 (39.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (21.45%) Platform Engineering
5 115 (19.43%) Agile
6 111 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 99 (16.72%) Observability
8 90 (15.20%) Software Engineering
9 81 (13.68%) Data Engineering
10 80 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
11 76 (12.84%) AI
11 76 (12.84%) Microservices
12 67 (11.32%) Analytics
13 64 (10.81%) Migration
14 60 (10.14%) Event-Driven
15 58 (9.80%) Data Modelling
16 56 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (9.46%) ETL
17 50 (8.45%) Cloud Security
18 49 (8.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 246 (41.55%) Python
2 90 (15.20%) SQL
3 71 (11.99%) Bash
4 54 (9.12%) Java
5 34 (5.74%) C#
6 32 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.72%) JavaScript
8 18 (3.04%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.52%) Go
9 9 (1.52%) Groovy
10 5 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.68%) Scala
12 3 (0.51%) Bicep
12 3 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.17%) C++
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) R
14 1 (0.17%) Rust
14 1 (0.17%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 182 (30.74%) Security Cleared
2 169 (28.55%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.08%) AWS Certification
4 23 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.84%) Degree
9 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
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 40 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.03%) QA
3 11 (1.86%) SLA
4 6 (1.01%) 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
1 118 (19.93%) Docker
2 11 (1.86%) Squid
3 9 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.84%) vSphere
6 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.51%) 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
1 293 (49.49%) Terraform
2 142 (23.99%) Kubernetes
3 75 (12.67%) Grafana
4 63 (10.64%) Prometheus
5 58 (9.80%) Ansible
6 17 (2.87%) Argo
7 13 (2.20%) Puppet
8 7 (1.18%) Istio
9 6 (1.01%) Kibana
9 6 (1.01%) Packer
9 6 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.84%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.68%) Cilium
11 4 (0.68%) Rancher
11 4 (0.68%) Suricata
12 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.51%) SELinux
13 2 (0.34%) Consul
13 2 (0.34%) linkerd
13 2 (0.34%) Salt
Vendors
1 38 (6.42%) Databricks
2 29 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.70%) Splunk
4 15 (2.53%) Informatica
5 12 (2.03%) Dynatrace
5 12 (2.03%) Oracle
5 12 (2.03%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.86%) Foundry
6 11 (1.86%) Google
6 11 (1.86%) VMware
7 10 (1.69%) Denodo
8 8 (1.35%) Talend
9 7 (1.18%) Palantir
9 7 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.84%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.84%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.84%) SAP
12 4 (0.68%) Cisco
12 4 (0.68%) Trend Micro