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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 198 196
Rank change year-on-year -33 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 593 471 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.43% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.57% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 357 389
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £800
90th Percentile £738 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -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 49,634 30,076 36,192
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 91.43% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,863 19,075 23,380
10th Percentile £328 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £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 3,458 1,498 2,043
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.30 £20.24
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +20.00%

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 8 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 8 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 -66 456 £520 -7.96% 192
London -75 280 £538 -23.21% 130
Work from Home -45 238 £525 -30.00% 83
UK excluding London -39 191 £475 -2.56% 85
North of England -52 81 £513 +7.89% 19
Midlands -33 40 £469 -1.26% 8
North West -36 37 £545 +28.24% 10
West Midlands -41 31 £469 -1.26% 1
Scotland -4 26 £425 -12.82% 19
North East -25 23 £425 -9.57% 3
Yorkshire -40 21 £513 +2.50% 6
South West -35 20 £450 -25.00% 18
East of England -3 14 £510 +13.33% 3
South East -63 14 £483 -3.50% 11
East Midlands -5 9 £425 -20.86% 7

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 593 (100.00%) AWS
2 332 (55.99%) CI/CD
3 294 (49.58%) Terraform
4 276 (46.54%) DevOps
5 247 (41.65%) Python
6 238 (40.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 181 (30.52%) Security Cleared
8 178 (30.02%) Serverless
9 169 (28.50%) SC Cleared
10 165 (27.82%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (25.13%) Kubernetes
12 134 (22.60%) Amazon S3
13 130 (21.92%) Platform Engineering
14 126 (21.25%) GitLab
15 121 (20.40%) Docker
16 114 (19.22%) Agile
16 114 (19.22%) Containerisation
17 111 (18.72%) GitHub
18 105 (17.71%) Observability
19 101 (17.03%) Amazon EKS
20 97 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
21 91 (15.35%) SQL
22 88 (14.84%) Software Engineering
23 86 (14.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 85 (14.33%) GitHub Actions
25 83 (14.00%) Data Engineering
26 80 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
27 79 (13.32%) Grafana
28 78 (13.15%) Amazon EC2
29 76 (12.82%) 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 36 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.71%) Confluence
3 13 (2.19%) Apache
4 12 (2.02%) 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%) ArcGIS
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
1 593 (100.00%) AWS
2 178 (30.02%) Serverless
3 165 (27.82%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (22.60%) Amazon S3
5 111 (18.72%) GitHub
6 101 (17.03%) Amazon EKS
7 97 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 86 (14.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 85 (14.33%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (13.15%) Amazon EC2
11 67 (11.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 66 (11.13%) Azure
13 60 (10.12%) Amazon ECS
14 44 (7.42%) AWS Step Functions
15 42 (7.08%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (6.41%) Snowflake
17 36 (6.07%) Amazon EventBridge
18 32 (5.40%) SaaS
19 28 (4.72%) Amazon EMR
20 27 (4.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.54%) Firewall
2 14 (2.36%) DNS
3 11 (1.85%) Network Security
3 11 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.01%) VPN
4 6 (1.01%) WAN
5 5 (0.84%) SSH
5 5 (0.84%) SSL
6 4 (0.67%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.51%) HTTP
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%) Internet
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
9 1 (0.17%) 4G
9 1 (0.17%) 5G
9 1 (0.17%) AMQP
9 1 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (10.46%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (8.77%) DynamoDB
3 48 (8.09%) Amazon Athena
3 48 (8.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 32 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (5.06%) MySQL
6 25 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 20 (3.37%) Data Lake
9 17 (2.87%) Power BI
10 16 (2.70%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.19%) Metadata
12 11 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (1.85%) 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%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 126 (21.25%) GitLab
2 74 (12.48%) Git
3 73 (12.31%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.06%) JIRA
5 18 (3.04%) Claude Code
6 13 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 9 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.35%) Gatling
9 8 (1.35%) JMeter
10 6 (1.01%) Snyk
11 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.67%) 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 90 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 85 (14.33%) Public Sector
3 60 (10.12%) Finance
4 27 (4.55%) Banking
5 19 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.18%) Law
9 6 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.84%) Back Office
10 5 (0.84%) Retail
11 4 (0.67%) 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%) Front Office
13 2 (0.34%) Local Government
13 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.42%) .NET
2 39 (6.58%) AWS CDK
3 34 (5.73%) Kafka
4 33 (5.56%) REST
5 30 (5.06%) React
6 26 (4.38%) PySpark
7 25 (4.22%) Node.js
8 17 (2.87%) Spring
8 17 (2.87%) Spring Boot
9 12 (2.02%) RESTful
10 11 (1.85%) Next.js
10 11 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (1.69%) Flask
12 9 (1.52%) .NET Core
12 9 (1.52%) boto
12 9 (1.52%) FastAPI
12 9 (1.52%) Keycloak
12 9 (1.52%) OAuth
12 9 (1.52%) OAuth2
13 8 (1.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 124 (20.91%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.88%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.85%) 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
9 7 (1.18%) NHS
10 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.01%) PKI
11 5 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.84%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.67%) Clustering
12 4 (0.67%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.67%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.67%) Replication
13 3 (0.51%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.13%) Linux
2 20 (3.37%) Windows
3 14 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.84%) Unix
6 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.34%) CentOS
7 2 (0.34%) VMS
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (55.99%) CI/CD
2 276 (46.54%) DevOps
3 238 (40.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (21.92%) Platform Engineering
5 114 (19.22%) Agile
5 114 (19.22%) Containerisation
6 105 (17.71%) Observability
7 88 (14.84%) Software Engineering
8 83 (14.00%) Data Engineering
9 80 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
10 76 (12.82%) AI
10 76 (12.82%) Microservices
11 66 (11.13%) Migration
12 63 (10.62%) Event-Driven
13 62 (10.46%) Analytics
14 57 (9.61%) Data Modelling
15 56 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (9.11%) ETL
17 49 (8.26%) Cloud Security
17 49 (8.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 247 (41.65%) Python
2 91 (15.35%) SQL
3 74 (12.48%) Bash
4 52 (8.77%) Java
5 35 (5.90%) C#
6 31 (5.23%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.54%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.69%) Go
9 10 (1.69%) Groovy
10 7 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.84%) Scala
12 3 (0.51%) Bicep
12 3 (0.51%) C
13 1 (0.17%) C++
13 1 (0.17%) Perl
13 1 (0.17%) R
13 1 (0.17%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (30.52%) Security Cleared
2 169 (28.50%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.73%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.01%) Degree
9 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.67%) 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 39 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.69%) QA
3 9 (1.52%) SLA
4 7 (1.18%) 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 (20.40%) Docker
2 11 (1.85%) Squid
3 10 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.84%) vSphere
6 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.17%) Postfix
8 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 294 (49.58%) Terraform
2 149 (25.13%) Kubernetes
3 79 (13.32%) Grafana
4 67 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 60 (10.12%) Ansible
6 19 (3.20%) Argo
7 13 (2.19%) Puppet
8 9 (1.52%) Istio
9 7 (1.18%) Kibana
9 7 (1.18%) Packer
9 7 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.84%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.67%) Cilium
11 4 (0.67%) Rancher
11 4 (0.67%) Suricata
12 3 (0.51%) Consul
12 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.51%) SELinux
13 2 (0.34%) Salt
13 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (5.73%) Databricks
2 30 (5.06%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.04%) Splunk
4 15 (2.53%) Informatica
5 14 (2.36%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.19%) Google
7 12 (2.02%) Oracle
7 12 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.85%) Foundry
8 11 (1.85%) VMware
9 10 (1.69%) Denodo
10 8 (1.35%) Talend
11 7 (1.18%) Palantir
11 7 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.18%) SAP
12 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.84%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.84%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.67%) Trend Micro