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 15 November 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 15 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 275 | 198 | 204 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -77 | +6 | 0 |
| Contract AWS Engineer jobs | 565 | 519 | 443 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 1.02% | 1.47% | 1.21% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 1.11% | 1.62% | 1.30% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 398 | 377 | 349 |
| 10th Percentile | £411 | £384 | £400 |
| 25th Percentile | £463 | £428 | £463 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £525 | £585 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -10.26% | +6.36% |
| 75th Percentile | £638 | £638 | £788 |
| 90th Percentile | £753 | £825 | £850 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £500 | £489 | £465 |
| % change year-on-year | +2.30% | +5.22% | -11.52% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £65.00 | £40.50 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £72.50 | £41.25 | - |
| Median hourly rate | £75.00 | £45.00 | - |
| Median % change year-on-year | +66.67% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £77.44 | £55.00 | - |
| 90th Percentile | £100.13 | £59.50 | - |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £75.00 | £40.00 | - |
| % change year-on-year | +87.50% | - | - |
All Contract IT Job Roles
UK
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 15 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title | 50,683 | 32,136 | 33,980 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 91.79% | 91.00% | 92.91% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 29,745 | 20,384 | 20,503 |
| 10th Percentile | £330 | £278 | £300 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £402 | £411 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £638 | £619 | £638 |
| 90th Percentile | £738 | £725 | £738 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £500 | £475 | £490 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -3.06% | -2.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 4,363 | 1,875 | 1,271 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.22 | £14.22 | £15.10 |
| 25th Percentile | £19.25 | £17.87 | £20.30 |
| Median hourly rate | £41.00 | £25.15 | £36.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +63.02% | -30.14% | -19.10% |
| 75th Percentile | £68.75 | £53.99 | £65.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £81.73 | £70.00 | £73.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £40.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +59.05% | -28.14% | -21.35% |
AWS Engineer Job Vacancy Trend
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract AWS Engineer job postings relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.
AWS Engineer Daily Rate Trend
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the UK.
AWS Engineer Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for AWS Engineer jobs over the 6 months to 15 November 2026.
AWS Engineer Hourly Rate Trend
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the UK.
AWS Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution for AWS Engineer jobs over the 6 months to 15 November 2026.
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 AWS Engineer jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 15 November 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | -91 | 450 | £525 | - | 419 |
| London | -91 | 249 | £538 | -10.42% | 217 |
| Work from Home | -73 | 210 | £550 | -4.35% | 212 |
| UK excluding London | -75 | 204 | £500 | +2.30% | 234 |
| North of England | -68 | 82 | £520 | +4.00% | 72 |
| Midlands | -22 | 58 | £495 | +4.11% | 36 |
| North West | -43 | 41 | £550 | +36.31% | 43 |
| East Midlands | +14 | 34 | £413 | -9.39% | 14 |
| Yorkshire | -54 | 24 | £519 | +3.75% | 19 |
| West Midlands | -58 | 24 | £500 | - | 22 |
| South West | -22 | 21 | £525 | -12.50% | 17 |
| South East | -61 | 19 | £460 | -12.38% | 46 |
| North East | -23 | 17 | £463 | -15.91% | 10 |
| Scotland | -34 | 17 | £425 | -8.11% | 25 |
| East of England | -15 | 8 | £400 | -11.11% | 19 |
| Northern Ireland | +3 | 1 | £600 | - | 16 |
AWS Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities
For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, AWS Engineer contract job ads cited 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 AWS Engineer job ads.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 565 |
| 2 | CI/CD | 57.5% | 325 |
| 3 | Terraform | 52.4% | 296 |
| 4 | Infrastructure as Code | 48.1% | 272 |
| 5 | DevOps | 43.7% | 247 |
| 6 | Python | 40.2% | 227 |
| 7 | Security Cleared | 30.8% | 174 |
| 8 | Kubernetes | 30.6% | 173 |
| 9 | SC Cleared | 28.7% | 162 |
| 10 | Serverless | 28.3% | 160 |
| 11 | AWS Lambda | 25.8% | 146 |
| 12 | Docker | 23.4% | 132 |
| 13 | Platform Engineering | 23.2% | 131 |
| 14 | Containerisation | 22.7% | 128 |
| 14 | Observability | 22.7% | 128 |
| 16 | GitHub | 22.5% | 127 |
| 17 | GitLab | 20.9% | 118 |
| 18 | Amazon S3 | 20.4% | 115 |
| 19 | Agile | 19.5% | 110 |
| 20 | AI | 17.5% | 99 |
| 20 | Amazon EKS | 17.5% | 99 |
| 22 | SQL | 17.3% | 98 |
| 23 | GitHub Actions | 16.8% | 95 |
| 24 | AWS CloudFormation | 15.2% | 86 |
| 24 | Data Pipeline | 15.2% | 86 |
| 24 | Software Engineering | 15.2% | 86 |
| 27 | Jenkins | 14.9% | 84 |
| 28 | Amazon CloudWatch | 14.3% | 81 |
| 29 | Data Engineering | 13.6% | 77 |
| 29 | Git | 13.6% | 77 |
AWS Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS DevOps Engineer | 31.5% | 178 |
| 2 | Data Engineer | 24.1% | 136 |
| 3 | AWS Data Engineer | 21.1% | 119 |
| 4 | Cloud Engineer | 11.7% | 66 |
| 5 | Cloud Platform Engineer | 11.5% | 65 |
| 6 | AWS Platform Engineer | 10.6% | 60 |
| 7 | Senior Data Engineer | 10.1% | 57 |
| 8 | Python Engineer | 8.1% | 46 |
| 9 | AWS Software Engineer | 5.1% | 29 |
| 9 | Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | 5.1% | 29 |
| 11 | Java Engineer | 4.6% | 26 |
| 12 | Snowflake Engineer | 4.2% | 24 |
| 13 | Snowflake Data Engineer | 3.7% | 21 |
| 14 | Artificial Intelligence Engineer | 3.5% | 20 |
| 15 | Azure Engineer | 3.4% | 19 |
| 15 | Senior Cloud Engineer | 3.4% | 19 |
| 17 | Senior Platform Engineer | 3.2% | 18 |
| 18 | Kubernetes Engineer | 3.0% | 17 |
| 19 | AWS Infrastructure Engineer | 2.8% | 16 |
| 19 | Databricks Engineer | 2.8% | 16 |