AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 178 255
Rank change year-on-year -59 +77 -62
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 493 458 417
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.56% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.69% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 377 348
10th Percentile £386 £405 £416
25th Percentile £440 £475 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £594 £825 £675
90th Percentile £663 £875 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.47% -1.96% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £58.00 - -
90th Percentile £68.80 - -
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 43,667 27,136 40,368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.52% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,936 17,712 26,266
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.55% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,813 1,033 2,668
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.14 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -19.49% -19.95%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +62.36% -29.11% -6.91%

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 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 2 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 2 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 -93 366 £525 -12.50% 81
London -95 230 £525 -22.22% 32
Work from Home -64 175 £525 -22.22% 46
UK excluding London -33 153 £488 -2.47% 60
North of England -54 49 £505 +6.32% 21
Midlands -42 32 £500 - 13
Scotland +14 30 £402 -23.43% 2
West Midlands -34 28 £556 +1.14% 5
North West -39 22 £555 +34.22% 17
Yorkshire -43 15 £500 -3.61% 4
East of England -19 14 £510 +16.57% 3
South East -56 14 £550 +10.00% 18
South West -20 13 £500 -20.00% 3
North East -17 12 £425 -24.78%
East Midlands -35 4 £402 -19.60% 8
Wales -8 1 £250 -49.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 493 (100.00%) AWS
2 269 (54.56%) CI/CD
3 253 (51.32%) Terraform
4 240 (48.68%) DevOps
5 223 (45.23%) Python
6 187 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 182 (36.92%) Security Cleared
8 172 (34.89%) SC Cleared
9 140 (28.40%) Serverless
10 126 (25.56%) AWS Lambda
11 124 (25.15%) Kubernetes
12 109 (22.11%) Docker
13 105 (21.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 103 (20.89%) Amazon S3
15 95 (19.27%) Containerisation
16 93 (18.86%) Agile
17 92 (18.66%) GitHub
17 92 (18.66%) GitLab
18 86 (17.44%) Amazon EKS
19 78 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
20 75 (15.21%) Observability
21 67 (13.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 64 (12.98%) Jenkins
22 64 (12.98%) Linux
22 64 (12.98%) SQL
23 62 (12.58%) Amazon EC2
23 62 (12.58%) Azure
23 62 (12.58%) Grafana
24 61 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
24 61 (12.37%) Software 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 31 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.04%) Confluence
4 14 (2.84%) Apache
5 11 (2.23%) SAS
6 4 (0.81%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) Appian
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.20%) Traefik
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 493 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (28.40%) Serverless
3 126 (25.56%) AWS Lambda
4 105 (21.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 103 (20.89%) Amazon S3
6 92 (18.66%) GitHub
7 86 (17.44%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (13.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 62 (12.58%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (12.58%) Azure
10 61 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
12 47 (9.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 38 (7.71%) AWS Step Functions
14 32 (6.49%) Snowflake
15 29 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (4.46%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (4.06%) GCP
18 19 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.45%) Firewall
2 9 (1.83%) DNS
3 8 (1.62%) VPN
4 6 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.81%) HTTP
6 3 (0.61%) LAN
6 3 (0.61%) Network Security
6 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.61%) WAN
7 2 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.41%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) BGP
8 1 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) ICMP
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.52%) Amazon RDS
1 42 (8.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 39 (7.91%) Amazon Athena
2 39 (7.91%) DynamoDB
3 24 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.06%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.64%) Metadata
7 13 (2.64%) Power BI
8 12 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (1.83%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.62%) MySQL
10 8 (1.62%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.42%) Apache Iceberg
11 7 (1.42%) Big Data
11 7 (1.42%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.42%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (18.66%) GitLab
2 64 (12.98%) Jenkins
3 41 (8.32%) Git
4 21 (4.26%) JIRA
5 8 (1.62%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.62%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.62%) Snyk
5 8 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.81%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.61%) Gatling
8 3 (0.61%) JUnit
8 3 (0.61%) MLflow
8 3 (0.61%) Postman
9 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.41%) Gradle
9 2 (0.41%) Mocha
9 2 (0.41%) tSQLt
General
1 72 (14.60%) Public Sector
2 62 (12.58%) Social Skills
3 56 (11.36%) Finance
4 28 (5.68%) Banking
5 17 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.42%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.01%) Legal
9 4 (0.81%) Front Office
9 4 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.61%) Law
10 3 (0.61%) Retail
11 2 (0.41%) Billing
11 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.41%) Military
11 2 (0.41%) Police
12 1 (0.20%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.10%) Kafka
2 25 (5.07%) PySpark
3 23 (4.67%) AWS CDK
4 21 (4.26%) Node.js
5 20 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (3.85%) REST
7 17 (3.45%) React
8 15 (3.04%) Flask
9 9 (1.83%) OAuth
9 9 (1.83%) pytest
9 9 (1.83%) RESTful
9 9 (1.83%) Spring
9 9 (1.83%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.62%) .NET
10 8 (1.62%) Next.js
10 8 (1.62%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.42%) JWT
11 7 (1.42%) Lambda Expressions
11 7 (1.42%) Web Services
12 6 (1.22%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 89 (18.05%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (1.62%) Clustering
3 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (1.62%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.42%) AI Agents
4 7 (1.42%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.22%) NHS
6 5 (1.01%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.01%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.01%) Replication
6 5 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.81%) Hedge funds
7 4 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 64 (12.98%) Linux
2 14 (2.84%) Windows
3 9 (1.83%) Unix
4 8 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (54.56%) CI/CD
2 240 (48.68%) DevOps
3 187 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (19.27%) Containerisation
5 93 (18.86%) Agile
6 78 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
7 75 (15.21%) Observability
8 61 (12.37%) Software Engineering
9 60 (12.17%) Analytics
9 60 (12.17%) Data Engineering
10 56 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
11 51 (10.34%) Migration
12 50 (10.14%) ETL
13 49 (9.94%) Cloud Security
14 48 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (8.72%) Data Modelling
16 40 (8.11%) Microservices
17 38 (7.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 37 (7.51%) Test Automation
19 35 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 223 (45.23%) Python
2 64 (12.98%) SQL
3 58 (11.76%) Bash
4 47 (9.53%) Java
5 22 (4.46%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.64%) C#
8 12 (2.43%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.03%) Go
9 10 (2.03%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.83%) Groovy
11 7 (1.42%) Ruby
12 4 (0.81%) Scala
13 3 (0.61%) Perl
13 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.20%) AWK
14 1 (0.20%) C
14 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.20%) R
14 1 (0.20%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 182 (36.92%) Security Cleared
2 172 (34.89%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.91%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.23%) Degree
6 10 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.61%) PhD
12 2 (0.41%) CCNP
12 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.41%) OCP
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.20%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.23%) SLA
3 10 (2.03%) GDPR
4 8 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.62%) QA
5 7 (1.42%) NIST
6 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 109 (22.11%) Docker
2 7 (1.42%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.01%) vSphere
5 4 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Squid
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 253 (51.32%) Terraform
2 124 (25.15%) Kubernetes
3 62 (12.58%) Grafana
4 54 (10.95%) Prometheus
5 43 (8.72%) Ansible
6 17 (3.45%) Argo
7 11 (2.23%) Puppet
8 5 (1.01%) Rancher
9 4 (0.81%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.81%) Istio
10 3 (0.61%) Packer
10 3 (0.61%) Salt
10 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.41%) Consul
11 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.41%) linkerd
11 2 (0.41%) Podman
12 1 (0.20%) Cilium
12 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 36 (7.30%) Databricks
2 20 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.25%) Dynatrace
4 14 (2.84%) Oracle
5 12 (2.43%) Informatica
5 12 (2.43%) Splunk
6 10 (2.03%) Denodo
6 10 (2.03%) VMware
7 9 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.22%) SAP
8 6 (1.22%) Talend
9 5 (1.01%) Citrix
9 5 (1.01%) Qualys
10 4 (0.81%) Cisco
10 4 (0.81%) Tenable
11 3 (0.61%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.61%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.61%) Google
12 2 (0.41%) AVEVA