AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 193 228
Rank change year-on-year -25 +35 -19
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 479 421 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.36% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.46% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 336 410
10th Percentile £375 £409 £413
25th Percentile £413 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.03% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 35,158 28,873 41,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.93% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,167 17,619 27,765
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £495
% change year-on-year -0.84% -3.23% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,109 850 2,268
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.86
Median hourly rate £29.61 £33.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -8.21% +2.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £62.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.77 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -12.99% +15.54%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -41 369 £525 -12.50% 100
London -45 228 £521 -19.81% 47
Work from Home -34 180 £545 -16.15% 51
UK excluding London +13 158 £500 - 67
North of England +5 82 £500 - 22
Yorkshire -28 43 £519 +9.21% 8
North West -1 31 £420 -13.85% 12
Midlands -25 31 £539 +7.70% 14
West Midlands -15 27 £550 +3.77% 13
Scotland +4 22 £402 -19.60% 1
South East -22 15 £538 +7.50% 16
North East -13 8 £563 -1.32% 2
South West -16 8 £510 -9.33% 8
East Midlands -20 4 £433 -13.50% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 -
East of England -22 2 £525 -4.55% 6

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

For the 6 months to 2 February 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.

1 479 (100.00%) AWS
2 287 (59.92%) Terraform
3 273 (56.99%) CI/CD
4 259 (54.07%) Python
5 251 (52.40%) DevOps
6 208 (43.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 171 (35.70%) Security Cleared
8 164 (34.24%) SC Cleared
9 143 (29.85%) Kubernetes
10 141 (29.44%) Serverless
11 131 (27.35%) Docker
12 123 (25.68%) AWS Lambda
13 121 (25.26%) Amazon S3
14 117 (24.43%) GitHub
15 111 (23.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 106 (22.13%) GitLab
17 104 (21.71%) Containerisation
18 96 (20.04%) Jenkins
19 86 (17.95%) Agile
20 85 (17.75%) Amazon EKS
21 79 (16.49%) Amazon ECS
22 78 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 77 (16.08%) Platform Engineering
24 75 (15.66%) Amazon EC2
25 74 (15.45%) Linux
26 73 (15.24%) Azure
26 73 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
27 70 (14.61%) Observability
28 68 (14.20%) Amazon RDS
29 65 (13.57%) 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 44 (9.19%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 20 (4.18%) Apache
4 18 (3.76%) Confluence
5 11 (2.30%) nginx
6 2 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.21%) Appian
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 479 (100.00%) AWS
2 141 (29.44%) Serverless
3 123 (25.68%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (25.26%) Amazon S3
5 117 (24.43%) GitHub
6 111 (23.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 85 (17.75%) Amazon EKS
8 79 (16.49%) Amazon ECS
9 78 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 75 (15.66%) Amazon EC2
11 73 (15.24%) Azure
11 73 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (9.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 39 (8.14%) GCP
14 29 (6.05%) AWS KMS
14 29 (6.05%) Route 53
15 28 (5.85%) AWS CodePipeline
16 25 (5.22%) Snowflake
17 24 (5.01%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (4.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.22%) DNS
2 22 (4.59%) Firewall
3 12 (2.51%) HTTP
4 10 (2.09%) FTP
4 10 (2.09%) SMTP
4 10 (2.09%) SSH
5 7 (1.46%) IMAP
5 7 (1.46%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (1.46%) VPN
6 4 (0.84%) Network Security
6 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.21%) DHCP
8 1 (0.21%) LAN
8 1 (0.21%) SSL
8 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.20%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (7.31%) Amazon Athena
4 32 (6.68%) Data Lake
5 26 (5.43%) DynamoDB
6 25 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (5.22%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.71%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (2.51%) Apache Arrow
10 12 (2.51%) Dremio
10 12 (2.51%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.88%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.88%) MySQL
12 8 (1.67%) Apache Ignite
12 8 (1.67%) Tableau
13 7 (1.46%) Big Data
13 7 (1.46%) Flink
14 6 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 106 (22.13%) GitLab
2 96 (20.04%) Jenkins
3 49 (10.23%) Git
4 29 (6.05%) JIRA
5 11 (2.30%) Liquibase
6 10 (2.09%) Vagrant
7 8 (1.67%) MLflow
8 7 (1.46%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.25%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.84%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.84%) Mockito
11 4 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.63%) Maven
12 3 (0.63%) Selenium
12 3 (0.63%) Snyk
12 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 92 (19.21%) Public Sector
2 87 (18.16%) Finance
3 69 (14.41%) Social Skills
4 47 (9.81%) Banking
5 19 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.76%) Front Office
7 10 (2.09%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.46%) Aeronautics
10 7 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.63%) Legal
11 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.42%) Law
12 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.21%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.35%) Kafka
2 32 (6.68%) Node.js
3 29 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (5.85%) AWS CDK
5 25 (5.22%) React
5 25 (5.22%) REST
6 24 (5.01%) PySpark
7 18 (3.76%) RESTful
8 17 (3.55%) Flask
9 14 (2.92%) Lambda Expressions
9 14 (2.92%) Pandas
10 13 (2.71%) NumPy
11 12 (2.51%) SciPy
12 9 (1.88%) AngularJS
13 8 (1.67%) .NET
13 8 (1.67%) gRPC
13 8 (1.67%) Protocol Buffers
14 7 (1.46%) LDAP
14 7 (1.46%) Next.js
14 7 (1.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.59%) Hedge funds
4 18 (3.76%) Fixed Income
4 18 (3.76%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.13%) NHS
6 14 (2.92%) Replication
7 12 (2.51%) Equities
7 12 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.67%) Derivative
9 8 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.67%) Pricing Data
10 5 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.84%) Clustering
11 4 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 74 (15.45%) Linux
2 19 (3.97%) Windows
3 13 (2.71%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (2.51%) Unix
5 10 (2.09%) VMS
6 7 (1.46%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.63%) CentOS
7 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (56.99%) CI/CD
2 251 (52.40%) DevOps
3 208 (43.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (21.71%) Containerisation
5 86 (17.95%) Agile
6 77 (16.08%) Platform Engineering
7 70 (14.61%) Observability
8 63 (13.15%) Cloud Security
9 57 (11.90%) Software Engineering
10 53 (11.06%) Microservices
11 47 (9.81%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (8.98%) Analytics
12 43 (8.98%) Migration
13 41 (8.56%) Data Engineering
14 39 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (7.72%) High Availability
16 35 (7.31%) Infrastructure Automation
17 34 (7.10%) AI
18 32 (6.68%) ETL
19 30 (6.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 259 (54.07%) Python
2 63 (13.15%) SQL
3 46 (9.60%) Java
4 44 (9.19%) Bash
5 40 (8.35%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.85%) Go
7 25 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 24 (5.01%) JavaScript
9 18 (3.76%) Shell Script
10 14 (2.92%) Groovy
11 8 (1.67%) C#
11 8 (1.67%) Ruby
12 6 (1.25%) Perl
13 3 (0.63%) PHP
14 2 (0.42%) AWK
15 1 (0.21%) C
15 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.21%) R
15 1 (0.21%) Scala
15 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 171 (35.70%) Security Cleared
2 164 (34.24%) SC Cleared
3 52 (10.86%) AWS Certification
4 27 (5.64%) Degree
5 19 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.71%) Master's Degree
8 10 (2.09%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.63%) PhD
13 2 (0.42%) OCP
13 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.21%) CEH
14 1 (0.21%) CISSP
14 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.51%) GDPR
2 12 (2.51%) QA
3 10 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.46%) NIST
5 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.84%) NCSC
6 3 (0.63%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.42%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 131 (27.35%) Docker
2 10 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.09%) DFS Replication
3 7 (1.46%) Dovecot
3 7 (1.46%) Postfix
3 7 (1.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 287 (59.92%) Terraform
2 143 (29.85%) Kubernetes
3 65 (13.57%) Grafana
4 61 (12.73%) Prometheus
5 60 (12.53%) Ansible
6 18 (3.76%) Argo
7 10 (2.09%) Packer
8 9 (1.88%) Puppet
9 8 (1.67%) Nessus
9 8 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.46%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.25%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.42%) Consul
13 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.42%) Kibana
13 2 (0.42%) logstash
14 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.21%) QRadar
14 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (6.68%) Databricks
2 26 (5.43%) Splunk
3 22 (4.59%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.88%) Arista
5 9 (1.88%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.67%) Oracle
6 8 (1.67%) Tenable
7 7 (1.46%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.04%) Citrix
8 5 (1.04%) Qualys
9 4 (0.84%) Confluent
9 4 (0.84%) Okta
10 3 (0.63%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.63%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.42%) New Relic
11 2 (0.42%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.42%) SAP