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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 205 209
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 609 463 482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.42% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.55% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 351 393
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £614 £825 £788
90th Percentile £725 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £59.50 -
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 49,051 29,963 37,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.58% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,625 19,061 24,462
10th Percentile £328 £285 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,310 1,445 2,320
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.71 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.24
Median hourly rate £42.85 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.39% -39.40% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67.88 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £74.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.04%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -63 457 £520 -7.96% 121
London -50 286 £536 -23.43% 72
Work from Home -41 246 £525 -30.00% 47
UK excluding London -19 190 £475 -3.06% 58
North of England -50 77 £513 +13.89% 17
Midlands -34 39 £469 -1.26% 5
North West -43 35 £545 +28.24% 10
West Midlands -39 30 £469 -1.26% 5
Scotland -7 29 £425 -15.00% 6
Yorkshire -46 22 £513 +2.50% 2
South West -18 21 £450 -28.00% 18
North East -26 20 £425 +11.84% 5
East of England -5 14 £510 +13.33% 3
South East -75 13 £465 -7.00% 8
East Midlands -10 9 £413 -20.44%
Wales - 1 £250 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 609 (100.00%) AWS
2 340 (55.83%) CI/CD
3 309 (50.74%) Terraform
4 283 (46.47%) DevOps
5 250 (41.05%) Python
6 240 (39.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 194 (31.86%) Security Cleared
8 181 (29.72%) SC Cleared
9 175 (28.74%) Serverless
10 160 (26.27%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (24.96%) Kubernetes
12 135 (22.17%) Amazon S3
12 135 (22.17%) Platform Engineering
13 122 (20.03%) Docker
14 121 (19.87%) Containerisation
14 121 (19.87%) GitLab
15 115 (18.88%) Agile
16 112 (18.39%) GitHub
17 106 (17.41%) AWS CloudFormation
18 103 (16.91%) Amazon EKS
19 101 (16.58%) Observability
20 90 (14.78%) SQL
21 87 (14.29%) Software Engineering
22 85 (13.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 83 (13.63%) GitHub Actions
24 82 (13.46%) Data Engineering
24 82 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
25 78 (12.81%) Amazon EC2
26 77 (12.64%) AI
26 77 (12.64%) 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 36 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.78%) Confluence
3 13 (2.13%) Apache
4 12 (1.97%) SAS
5 11 (1.81%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.31%) nginx
7 7 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) Traefik
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 609 (100.00%) AWS
2 175 (28.74%) Serverless
3 160 (26.27%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (22.17%) Amazon S3
5 112 (18.39%) GitHub
6 106 (17.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 103 (16.91%) Amazon EKS
8 85 (13.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 83 (13.63%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (12.81%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (11.49%) Azure
12 68 (11.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 57 (9.36%) Amazon ECS
14 44 (7.22%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (6.57%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (6.24%) Snowflake
17 34 (5.58%) Amazon EventBridge
18 31 (5.09%) SaaS
19 27 (4.43%) Amazon EMR
20 25 (4.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.45%) Firewall
2 12 (1.97%) DNS
3 10 (1.64%) Network Security
3 10 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.99%) VPN
4 6 (0.99%) WAN
5 5 (0.82%) SSH
6 4 (0.66%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.66%) SSL
7 2 (0.33%) BGP
7 2 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.33%) HTTP
7 2 (0.33%) Internet
7 2 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.16%) 4G
8 1 (0.16%) 5G
8 1 (0.16%) AMQP
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.69%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (8.21%) DynamoDB
3 49 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 45 (7.39%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (4.60%) MySQL
7 25 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 21 (3.45%) Data Lake
10 17 (2.79%) SQL Server
11 16 (2.63%) Power BI
12 12 (1.97%) Metadata
13 11 (1.81%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.64%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.64%) Pentaho
15 9 (1.48%) Apache Iceberg
16 7 (1.15%) Delta Lake
17 6 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
18 5 (0.82%) Redis
19 4 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 121 (19.87%) GitLab
2 76 (12.48%) Jenkins
3 68 (11.17%) Git
4 29 (4.76%) JIRA
5 17 (2.79%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.81%) Artifactory
7 10 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.48%) Gatling
9 7 (1.15%) JMeter
9 7 (1.15%) Snyk
10 5 (0.82%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.49%) JUnit
12 3 (0.49%) Maven
12 3 (0.49%) Mockito
13 2 (0.33%) Mocha
General
1 90 (14.78%) Public Sector
1 90 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 59 (9.69%) Finance
3 27 (4.43%) Banking
4 21 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (0.82%) Law
7 5 (0.82%) Retail
8 4 (0.66%) Back Office
8 4 (0.66%) Military
9 3 (0.49%) Billing
9 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.49%) Legal
10 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.33%) Front Office
10 2 (0.33%) Local Government
10 2 (0.33%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.33%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.73%) .NET
1 41 (6.73%) AWS CDK
2 33 (5.42%) Kafka
3 32 (5.25%) REST
4 29 (4.76%) React
5 26 (4.27%) PySpark
6 24 (3.94%) Node.js
7 15 (2.46%) Spring
7 15 (2.46%) Spring Boot
8 12 (1.97%) Flask
9 11 (1.81%) RESTful
10 10 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (1.64%) Next.js
10 10 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (1.48%) .NET Core
11 9 (1.48%) boto
11 9 (1.48%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.31%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.31%) Keycloak
12 8 (1.31%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 128 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.78%) AI Agents
4 14 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.48%) Autonomous Agent
7 9 (1.48%) NHS
8 8 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.99%) PKI
9 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.82%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.66%) Clustering
11 4 (0.66%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (10.67%) Linux
2 20 (3.28%) Windows
3 14 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.66%) Unix
7 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.33%) CentOS
8 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (55.83%) CI/CD
2 283 (46.47%) DevOps
3 240 (39.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (22.17%) Platform Engineering
5 121 (19.87%) Containerisation
6 115 (18.88%) Agile
7 101 (16.58%) Observability
8 87 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 82 (13.46%) Data Engineering
9 82 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
10 77 (12.64%) AI
11 72 (11.82%) Microservices
12 69 (11.33%) Migration
13 67 (11.00%) Analytics
14 59 (9.69%) Data Modelling
14 59 (9.69%) Event-Driven
15 57 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (9.03%) ETL
17 52 (8.54%) Cloud Security
18 49 (8.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 250 (41.05%) Python
2 90 (14.78%) SQL
3 71 (11.66%) Bash
4 52 (8.54%) Java
5 34 (5.58%) C#
6 33 (5.42%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.96%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.64%) Go
10 9 (1.48%) Groovy
11 6 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.66%) Scala
13 3 (0.49%) Bicep
13 3 (0.49%) C
14 2 (0.33%) R
14 2 (0.33%) Ruby
14 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.16%) Perl
15 1 (0.16%) Rust
15 1 (0.16%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 194 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 181 (29.72%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.40%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (0.99%) Degree
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.33%) CCNP
11 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.33%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.16%) CCIE
12 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.97%) QA
3 11 (1.81%) SLA
4 7 (1.15%) GDPR
5 4 (0.66%) NIST
6 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.33%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 122 (20.03%) Docker
2 11 (1.81%) Squid
3 9 (1.48%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.82%) vSphere
6 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.16%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) zsh
Systems Management
1 309 (50.74%) Terraform
2 152 (24.96%) Kubernetes
3 77 (12.64%) Grafana
4 66 (10.84%) Prometheus
5 63 (10.34%) Ansible
6 20 (3.28%) Argo
7 13 (2.13%) Puppet
8 7 (1.15%) Istio
9 6 (0.99%) Kibana
9 6 (0.99%) Packer
9 6 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.82%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.66%) Cilium
11 4 (0.66%) Rancher
11 4 (0.66%) Suricata
12 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.49%) SELinux
13 2 (0.33%) Consul
13 2 (0.33%) linkerd
13 2 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 38 (6.24%) Databricks
2 29 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.28%) Splunk
4 16 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 16 (2.63%) Informatica
5 13 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.97%) Oracle
7 11 (1.81%) Foundry
7 11 (1.81%) Google
7 11 (1.81%) VMware
8 10 (1.64%) Denodo
9 8 (1.31%) Talend
10 7 (1.15%) Palantir
10 7 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.82%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.82%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.82%) SAP
13 4 (0.66%) Cisco
13 4 (0.66%) Trend Micro