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 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 189 230
Rank change year-on-year -48 +41 -36
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 520 412 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.44% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.56% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 336 362
10th Percentile £400 £406 £417
25th Percentile £440 £472 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £594 £825 £688
90th Percentile £663 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £47.20 - -
25th Percentile £58.00 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.14% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 44,842 26,406 39,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.30% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,414 17,194 25,665
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -2.82%
75th Percentile £617 £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 2,942 1,004 2,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.31% -23.38% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.44 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.04% -33.75% -5.88%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -83 380 £525 -8.70% 73
London -70 246 £525 -22.22% 37
Work from Home -46 190 £525 -22.22% 50
UK excluding London -41 149 £475 -5.00% 46
North of England -62 54 £510 +7.37% 16
Scotland +9 28 £425 -19.05% 2
North West -33 27 £550 +29.41% 11
Midlands -52 25 £469 -9.55% 12
West Midlands -43 23 £469 -14.73% 5
Yorkshire -55 16 £525 +1.20% 5
East of England -17 15 £510 +16.57% 1
South West -20 15 £500 -14.89% 5
South East -73 13 £550 +10.00% 10
North East -25 11 £425 -19.05%
East Midlands -31 2 £419 -16.25% 7
Wales -11 1 £250 -57.34% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 520 (100.00%) AWS
2 283 (54.42%) CI/CD
3 269 (51.73%) Terraform
4 244 (46.92%) DevOps
5 228 (43.85%) Python
6 193 (37.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 186 (35.77%) Security Cleared
8 174 (33.46%) SC Cleared
9 146 (28.08%) Serverless
10 131 (25.19%) AWS Lambda
11 127 (24.42%) Kubernetes
12 107 (20.58%) Amazon S3
13 105 (20.19%) Docker
14 98 (18.85%) AWS CloudFormation
15 95 (18.27%) Containerisation
16 94 (18.08%) GitHub
16 94 (18.08%) GitLab
17 88 (16.92%) Agile
17 88 (16.92%) Amazon EKS
18 84 (16.15%) Platform Engineering
19 83 (15.96%) Observability
20 72 (13.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 70 (13.46%) Grafana
21 70 (13.46%) SQL
22 69 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
22 69 (13.27%) Linux
23 67 (12.88%) Azure
24 66 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
25 65 (12.50%) Bash
25 65 (12.50%) 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 32 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.88%) Confluence
3 14 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.50%) Apache
5 11 (2.12%) SAS
6 4 (0.77%) nginx
7 2 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) Traefik
8 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.38%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 520 (100.00%) AWS
2 146 (28.08%) Serverless
3 131 (25.19%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (20.58%) Amazon S3
5 98 (18.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 94 (18.08%) GitHub
7 88 (16.92%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (13.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 69 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
10 67 (12.88%) Azure
11 66 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 39 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 33 (6.35%) Snowflake
15 26 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
16 24 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (4.42%) GCP
18 20 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.04%) Firewall
2 11 (2.12%) DNS
3 8 (1.54%) Network Security
4 7 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.35%) VPN
5 6 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.96%) WAN
7 4 (0.77%) HTTP
8 3 (0.58%) LAN
8 3 (0.58%) SSL
9 2 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.38%) Internet
10 1 (0.19%) 4G
10 1 (0.19%) 5G
10 1 (0.19%) AMQP
10 1 (0.19%) BGP
10 1 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.19%) DHCP
10 1 (0.19%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.65%) Amazon RDS
2 43 (8.27%) DynamoDB
3 40 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 38 (7.31%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 18 (3.46%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 15 (2.88%) MySQL
9 13 (2.50%) Power BI
10 12 (2.31%) Metadata
10 12 (2.31%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.73%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.54%) Pentaho
13 7 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.15%) Big Data
14 6 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.15%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 94 (18.08%) GitLab
2 57 (10.96%) Jenkins
3 52 (10.00%) Git
4 24 (4.62%) JIRA
5 12 (2.31%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.73%) Claude Code
7 8 (1.54%) Snyk
7 8 (1.54%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.96%) Gatling
10 4 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.77%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.58%) JMeter
12 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.38%) JUnit
12 2 (0.38%) Maven
12 2 (0.38%) MSTest
12 2 (0.38%) NUnit
General
1 78 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 70 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 45 (8.65%) Finance
4 27 (5.19%) Banking
5 17 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.58%) Billing
8 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.58%) Law
8 3 (0.58%) Legal
8 3 (0.58%) Military
8 3 (0.58%) Retail
9 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.38%) Police
10 1 (0.19%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.19%) Marketing
10 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.19%) Kafka
2 25 (4.81%) AWS CDK
2 25 (4.81%) PySpark
3 22 (4.23%) REST
4 21 (4.04%) React
5 20 (3.85%) .NET
6 18 (3.46%) Flask
7 16 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (2.88%) Node.js
9 10 (1.92%) Next.js
10 9 (1.73%) RESTful
10 9 (1.73%) Spring
10 9 (1.73%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.54%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.54%) OAuth
11 8 (1.54%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.35%) .NET Core
12 7 (1.35%) pytest
13 6 (1.15%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.15%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 96 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (1.92%) AI Agents
4 9 (1.73%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.73%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.54%) Clustering
5 8 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.15%) NHS
7 6 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.77%) Replication
10 3 (0.58%) PKI
10 3 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (13.27%) Linux
2 15 (2.88%) Windows
3 9 (1.73%) Unix
4 7 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (54.42%) CI/CD
2 244 (46.92%) DevOps
3 193 (37.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (18.27%) Containerisation
5 88 (16.92%) Agile
6 84 (16.15%) Platform Engineering
7 83 (15.96%) Observability
8 65 (12.50%) Data Engineering
9 62 (11.92%) Software Engineering
10 60 (11.54%) Analytics
10 60 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
11 57 (10.96%) Migration
12 49 (9.42%) Cloud Security
13 48 (9.23%) ETL
14 46 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (8.85%) Microservices
15 44 (8.46%) Data Modelling
16 36 (6.92%) AI
16 36 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (6.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 228 (43.85%) Python
2 70 (13.46%) SQL
3 65 (12.50%) Bash
4 44 (8.46%) Java
5 25 (4.81%) TypeScript
6 23 (4.42%) C#
7 17 (3.27%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.31%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.12%) Go
10 10 (1.92%) JavaScript
11 9 (1.73%) Groovy
12 5 (0.96%) Ruby
13 4 (0.77%) Scala
14 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.38%) Perl
16 1 (0.19%) C
16 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.19%) R
16 1 (0.19%) Rust
16 1 (0.19%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 186 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 174 (33.46%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.92%) Degree
7 9 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.58%) CISSP
10 3 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.38%) CCNP
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PhD
12 1 (0.19%) CCIE
12 1 (0.19%) CEH
12 1 (0.19%) OCP
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.31%) SLA
3 9 (1.73%) QA
4 8 (1.54%) GDPR
5 7 (1.35%) NIST
6 6 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (20.19%) Docker
2 7 (1.35%) Squid
2 7 (1.35%) VMware NSX
3 5 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.96%) vSphere
4 4 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 269 (51.73%) Terraform
2 127 (24.42%) Kubernetes
3 70 (13.46%) Grafana
4 56 (10.77%) Prometheus
5 46 (8.85%) Ansible
6 19 (3.65%) Argo
7 15 (2.88%) Puppet
8 5 (0.96%) Istio
8 5 (0.96%) Packer
9 4 (0.77%) Cilium
9 4 (0.77%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.77%) Rancher
9 4 (0.77%) Suricata
10 3 (0.58%) Salt
10 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.38%) Consul
11 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.38%) Kibana
11 2 (0.38%) linkerd
11 2 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (6.15%) Databricks
2 20 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.88%) Dynatrace
4 14 (2.69%) Splunk
5 13 (2.50%) Oracle
6 12 (2.31%) Informatica
7 10 (1.92%) Denodo
7 10 (1.92%) VMware
8 9 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.15%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.15%) Google
9 6 (1.15%) SAP
9 6 (1.15%) Talend
10 5 (0.96%) Citrix
10 5 (0.96%) Qualys
10 5 (0.96%) Tenable
11 4 (0.77%) Cisco
12 3 (0.58%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.58%) Foundry
12 3 (0.58%) Trend Micro