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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 182 240
Rank change year-on-year -51 +58 -45
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 514 459 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.57% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.69% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 374 373
10th Percentile £375 £408 £413
25th Percentile £431 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £788 £650
90th Percentile £668 £875 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.82%
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 41,646 27,118 40,940
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.78% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,966 17,841 26,815
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.53% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 956 2,534
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £31.29 £34.61
% change year-on-year +32.63% -9.58% -18.32%

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 4 April 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 17 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 4 April 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 -90 383 £525 -12.50% 95
London -78 235 £525 -22.22% 39
Work from Home -48 184 £536 -20.62% 46
UK excluding London -27 159 £500 - 71
North of England -40 69 £518 +3.50% 27
Yorkshire -33 35 £525 - 5
Midlands -44 34 £537 +7.45% 10
West Midlands -31 28 £575 +8.49% 8
Scotland +14 27 £402 -23.43% 2
North West -33 26 £494 +15.92% 20
East of England -23 11 £518 +18.29% 4
South East -54 11 £575 +15.00% 21
South West -21 9 £536 -10.63% 7
North East -14 8 £425 -25.44% 2
East Midlands -29 6 £433 -13.50% 2
Wales -14 1 £250 -49.29%
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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.

1 514 (100.00%) AWS
2 280 (54.47%) CI/CD
3 272 (52.92%) Terraform
4 256 (49.81%) Python
5 251 (48.83%) DevOps
6 195 (37.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 177 (34.44%) Security Cleared
8 166 (32.30%) SC Cleared
9 160 (31.13%) Serverless
10 138 (26.85%) AWS Lambda
11 134 (26.07%) Kubernetes
12 121 (23.54%) Docker
13 116 (22.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 115 (22.37%) Amazon S3
15 109 (21.21%) GitHub
16 103 (20.04%) Containerisation
17 102 (19.84%) GitLab
18 98 (19.07%) Agile
19 95 (18.48%) Amazon EKS
20 93 (18.09%) Platform Engineering
21 76 (14.79%) Jenkins
21 76 (14.79%) Observability
22 72 (14.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 72 (14.01%) Amazon EC2
23 69 (13.42%) Amazon ECS
24 68 (13.23%) Linux
25 67 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
25 67 (13.04%) SQL
26 66 (12.84%) Azure
27 63 (12.26%) 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 40 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.86%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.31%) Apache
4 9 (1.75%) Confluence
5 5 (0.97%) nginx
5 5 (0.97%) SAS
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 514 (100.00%) AWS
2 160 (31.13%) Serverless
3 138 (26.85%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (22.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 115 (22.37%) Amazon S3
6 109 (21.21%) GitHub
7 95 (18.48%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (14.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 72 (14.01%) Amazon EC2
9 69 (13.42%) Amazon ECS
10 67 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (12.84%) Azure
12 46 (8.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 43 (8.37%) AWS Step Functions
14 32 (6.23%) Snowflake
15 31 (6.03%) AWS CodePipeline
16 29 (5.64%) GCP
17 22 (4.28%) AWS CloudTrail
17 22 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (4.09%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.31%) Firewall
2 9 (1.75%) DNS
2 9 (1.75%) VPN
3 5 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.58%) LAN
4 3 (0.58%) Network Security
4 3 (0.58%) WAN
5 2 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.39%) HTTP
5 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.19%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) ICMP
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.14%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
2 34 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 33 (6.42%) DynamoDB
4 30 (5.84%) Data Lake
4 30 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.72%) Metadata
8 13 (2.53%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.75%) Power BI
11 8 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.56%) Tableau
12 7 (1.36%) Flink
12 7 (1.36%) MySQL
13 6 (1.17%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (1.17%) Big Data
14 5 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 102 (19.84%) GitLab
2 76 (14.79%) Jenkins
3 48 (9.34%) Git
4 13 (2.53%) JIRA
5 10 (1.95%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.56%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.36%) Snyk
7 7 (1.36%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.17%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.78%) MLflow
10 4 (0.78%) Selenium
10 4 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.58%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.58%) Gatling
11 3 (0.58%) JUnit
11 3 (0.58%) Mockito
11 3 (0.58%) Postman
12 2 (0.39%) Mocha
General
1 79 (15.37%) Public Sector
2 72 (14.01%) Finance
3 66 (12.84%) Social Skills
4 38 (7.39%) Banking
5 21 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.56%) Front Office
7 7 (1.36%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 5 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (0.97%) Legal
9 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.39%) Billing
11 2 (0.39%) Law
11 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.19%) Games
12 1 (0.19%) Military
12 1 (0.19%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.78%) Kafka
2 28 (5.45%) PySpark
3 26 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (5.06%) Node.js
3 26 (5.06%) REST
4 22 (4.28%) AWS CDK
5 18 (3.50%) React
5 18 (3.50%) RESTful
6 16 (3.11%) Flask
7 14 (2.72%) Lambda Expressions
8 10 (1.95%) OAuth
9 9 (1.75%) pytest
10 8 (1.56%) JWT
11 7 (1.36%) .NET
11 7 (1.36%) Next.js
11 7 (1.36%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.36%) Web Services
12 6 (1.17%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.17%) FastAPI
12 6 (1.17%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 88 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (2.92%) Public Cloud
4 14 (2.72%) NHS
5 10 (1.95%) AI Agents
5 10 (1.95%) Hedge funds
6 9 (1.75%) Fixed Income
6 9 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.36%) Clustering
9 5 (0.97%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.97%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (13.23%) Linux
2 10 (1.95%) Unix
3 9 (1.75%) Windows
4 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (54.47%) CI/CD
2 251 (48.83%) DevOps
3 195 (37.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (20.04%) Containerisation
5 98 (19.07%) Agile
6 93 (18.09%) Platform Engineering
7 76 (14.79%) Observability
8 62 (12.06%) Analytics
8 62 (12.06%) Data Engineering
8 62 (12.06%) Data Pipeline
8 62 (12.06%) Software Engineering
9 53 (10.31%) Cloud Security
9 53 (10.31%) Microservices
10 49 (9.53%) ETL
11 44 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (8.37%) Data Modelling
12 43 (8.37%) Migration
13 40 (7.78%) Test Automation
14 37 (7.20%) AI
15 36 (7.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 256 (49.81%) Python
2 67 (13.04%) SQL
3 58 (11.28%) Bash
4 47 (9.14%) Java
5 26 (5.06%) TypeScript
6 24 (4.67%) Go
7 17 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.72%) Shell Script
9 12 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 11 (2.14%) C#
11 8 (1.56%) Ruby
12 5 (0.97%) Groovy
13 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.39%) AWK
14 2 (0.39%) C
14 2 (0.39%) Perl
14 2 (0.39%) Scala
15 1 (0.19%) JSX
15 1 (0.19%) R
15 1 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 177 (34.44%) Security Cleared
2 166 (32.30%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.17%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.70%) Degree
5 18 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.58%) PhD
12 2 (0.39%) CCNP
12 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.39%) OCP
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.72%) GDPR
3 11 (2.14%) SLA
4 10 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.75%) NIST
5 9 (1.75%) QA
6 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.39%) NCSC
7 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.39%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 121 (23.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Squid
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 272 (52.92%) Terraform
2 134 (26.07%) Kubernetes
3 63 (12.26%) Grafana
4 60 (11.67%) Prometheus
5 47 (9.14%) Ansible
6 18 (3.50%) Argo
7 7 (1.36%) Packer
7 7 (1.36%) Puppet
8 4 (0.78%) Istio
8 4 (0.78%) Rancher
9 3 (0.58%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.39%) Consul
10 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.39%) Salt
11 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.19%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Opsview
11 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (8.37%) Databricks
2 24 (4.67%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.28%) Splunk
4 10 (1.95%) Oracle
5 9 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.36%) Informatica
8 6 (1.17%) Talend
9 5 (0.97%) Citrix
9 5 (0.97%) Fortinet
9 5 (0.97%) Qualys
9 5 (0.97%) SAP
9 5 (0.97%) VMware
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco
10 4 (0.78%) Denodo
10 4 (0.78%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.78%) Tenable
11 3 (0.58%) Arista
11 3 (0.58%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.58%) Okta