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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 192 233
Rank change year-on-year -37 +41 -41
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 547 402 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.39% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.51% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 321 358
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £595 £825 £688
90th Percentile £675 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £47.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.57% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 45,367 26,659 39,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.33% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,689 17,296 25,850
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,009 1,048 2,796
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £25.31 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.28% -36.73% -6.98%

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 30 May 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 30 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 30 May 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 -66 402 £518 -9.21% 85
London -51 261 £525 -22.22% 47
Work from Home -45 204 £525 -22.22% 51
UK excluding London -32 155 £475 -5.00% 43
North of England -63 55 £519 +9.21% 19
Scotland +7 29 £425 -19.05% 1
Midlands -37 29 £469 -6.20% 11
North West -41 27 £550 +29.41% 14
West Midlands -44 26 £472 -5.60% 4
Yorkshire -56 18 £525 +1.20% 5
East of England -17 15 £510 +16.57%
South West -23 14 £475 -19.15% 6
South East -71 14 £505 +0.90% 4
North East -23 10 £425 -19.05%
East Midlands -24 3 £425 -15.00% 7
Wales -12 1 £250 -57.34%
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 547 (100.00%) AWS
2 300 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 283 (51.74%) Terraform
4 253 (46.25%) DevOps
5 240 (43.88%) Python
6 206 (37.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 194 (35.47%) Security Cleared
8 182 (33.27%) SC Cleared
9 151 (27.61%) Serverless
10 135 (24.68%) AWS Lambda
10 135 (24.68%) Kubernetes
11 115 (21.02%) Amazon S3
12 107 (19.56%) Docker
13 104 (19.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 102 (18.65%) GitLab
15 100 (18.28%) GitHub
16 99 (18.10%) Containerisation
17 97 (17.73%) Agile
18 93 (17.00%) Platform Engineering
19 91 (16.64%) Observability
20 90 (16.45%) Amazon EKS
21 76 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 75 (13.71%) Linux
23 74 (13.53%) Grafana
23 74 (13.53%) SQL
24 73 (13.35%) Bash
25 72 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
26 71 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
27 70 (12.80%) Azure
28 65 (11.88%) Data Engineering

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 33 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.29%) Confluence
3 13 (2.38%) Apache
4 12 (2.19%) SAS
5 11 (2.01%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.91%) nginx
7 3 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) Appian
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) Traefik
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.37%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 547 (100.00%) AWS
2 151 (27.61%) Serverless
3 135 (24.68%) AWS Lambda
4 115 (21.02%) Amazon S3
5 104 (19.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 100 (18.28%) GitHub
7 90 (16.45%) Amazon EKS
8 76 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 72 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
10 71 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
11 70 (12.80%) Azure
12 55 (10.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 53 (9.69%) Amazon ECS
14 39 (7.13%) AWS Step Functions
15 35 (6.40%) Snowflake
16 27 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (4.39%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (4.39%) AWS CodePipeline
17 24 (4.39%) GCP
18 21 (3.84%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.39%) Firewall
2 14 (2.56%) DNS
3 8 (1.46%) Network Security
4 7 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.28%) VPN
5 6 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (1.10%) WAN
6 4 (0.73%) HTTP
6 4 (0.73%) SSL
7 3 (0.55%) LAN
8 2 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.37%) Internet
9 1 (0.18%) 4G
9 1 (0.18%) 5G
9 1 (0.18%) AMQP
9 1 (0.18%) BGP
9 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.18%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.18%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.32%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (8.04%) DynamoDB
3 40 (7.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 38 (6.95%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (3.66%) SQL Server
8 18 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (3.29%) MySQL
9 17 (3.11%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.38%) Power BI
11 12 (2.19%) Metadata
12 11 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.83%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.65%) Pentaho
15 7 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
16 6 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.10%) Delta Lake
17 5 (0.91%) Big Data
17 5 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 102 (18.65%) GitLab
2 63 (11.52%) Jenkins
3 55 (10.05%) Git
4 28 (5.12%) JIRA
5 13 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.83%) Claude Code
7 9 (1.65%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.46%) Snyk
9 6 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.10%) Gatling
10 5 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.73%) JMeter
11 4 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.37%) JUnit
12 2 (0.37%) Mocha
12 2 (0.37%) MSTest
General
1 79 (14.44%) Public Sector
2 77 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 50 (9.14%) Finance
4 27 (4.94%) Banking
5 16 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
7 4 (0.73%) Legal
8 3 (0.55%) Billing
8 3 (0.55%) Law
8 3 (0.55%) Military
8 3 (0.55%) Retail
9 2 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.37%) Local Government
9 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.37%) Police
10 1 (0.18%) Marketing
10 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.48%) AWS CDK
2 28 (5.12%) Kafka
3 25 (4.57%) PySpark
4 23 (4.20%) .NET
4 23 (4.20%) React
5 22 (4.02%) REST
6 18 (3.29%) Flask
7 17 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (2.74%) Node.js
9 10 (1.83%) Next.js
10 9 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.65%) RESTful
10 9 (1.65%) Spring
10 9 (1.65%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.46%) OAuth
11 8 (1.46%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.28%) .NET Core
12 7 (1.28%) JSON
12 7 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (1.28%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 107 (19.56%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 10 (1.83%) Management Information System
4 10 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.46%) Clustering
6 8 (1.46%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.28%) NHS
8 6 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.73%) PKI
10 4 (0.73%) Replication
10 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 75 (13.71%) Linux
2 17 (3.11%) Windows
3 9 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.46%) Unix
4 8 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.37%) CentOS
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (54.84%) CI/CD
2 253 (46.25%) DevOps
3 206 (37.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (18.10%) Containerisation
5 97 (17.73%) Agile
6 93 (17.00%) Platform Engineering
7 91 (16.64%) Observability
8 65 (11.88%) Data Engineering
9 64 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
9 64 (11.70%) Software Engineering
10 60 (10.97%) Analytics
10 60 (10.97%) Migration
11 51 (9.32%) Cloud Security
11 51 (9.32%) Microservices
12 49 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (8.96%) ETL
13 45 (8.23%) Data Modelling
14 39 (7.13%) AI
15 36 (6.58%) Event-Driven
15 36 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 240 (43.88%) Python
2 74 (13.53%) SQL
3 73 (13.35%) Bash
4 45 (8.23%) Java
5 29 (5.30%) TypeScript
6 25 (4.57%) C#
7 22 (4.02%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.19%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.01%) Go
9 11 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.83%) Groovy
11 5 (0.91%) Ruby
12 4 (0.73%) Scala
13 3 (0.55%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.37%) C
14 2 (0.37%) Perl
15 1 (0.18%) Bicep
15 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.18%) Rust
15 1 (0.18%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 194 (35.47%) Security Cleared
2 182 (33.27%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.40%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (1.65%) Degree
8 8 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.55%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) CCNP
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) OCP
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.38%) SLA
3 10 (1.83%) QA
4 7 (1.28%) GDPR
4 7 (1.28%) NIST
5 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (19.56%) Docker
2 9 (1.65%) Squid
3 7 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.28%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.91%) vSphere
5 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.18%) Postfix
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 283 (51.74%) Terraform
2 135 (24.68%) Kubernetes
3 74 (13.53%) Grafana
4 63 (11.52%) Prometheus
5 55 (10.05%) Ansible
6 19 (3.47%) Argo
7 18 (3.29%) Puppet
8 7 (1.28%) Istio
8 7 (1.28%) Packer
9 5 (0.91%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.73%) Cilium
10 4 (0.73%) Rancher
10 4 (0.73%) Suricata
11 3 (0.55%) Consul
11 3 (0.55%) Kibana
11 3 (0.55%) Salt
11 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.37%) linkerd
12 2 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (6.03%) Databricks
2 20 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.11%) Splunk
4 15 (2.74%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.56%) Oracle
6 13 (2.38%) Informatica
7 10 (1.83%) Denodo
7 10 (1.83%) VMware
8 9 (1.65%) Google
8 9 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.28%) Talend
10 6 (1.10%) SAP
11 5 (0.91%) Cisco
11 5 (0.91%) Citrix
11 5 (0.91%) Qualys
11 5 (0.91%) Tenable
12 4 (0.73%) Foundry
12 4 (0.73%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.73%) Trend Micro