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 5 March 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 179 221
Rank change year-on-year -43 +42 -21
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 504 445 477
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.47% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.58% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 355 413
10th Percentile £372 £409 £413
25th Percentile £413 £494 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +6.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £650
90th Percentile £675 £838 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
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 39,102 28,091 40,933
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 92.82% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,515 17,820 26,884
10th Percentile £310 £290 £275
25th Percentile £409 £406 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.46% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 852 2,408
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.23 £13.04
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.39 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £34.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - -16.05%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.57 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.23 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -10.26%

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 5 March 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 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 5 March 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 -69 376 £525 -12.50% 95
London -67 240 £518 -23.33% 38
Work from Home -32 190 £525 -22.22% 50
UK excluding London -15 151 £500 - 64
North of England -15 71 £500 -2.44% 24
Yorkshire -40 39 £525 +5.00% 1
Midlands -37 30 £550 +10.00% 8
Scotland +26 29 £402 -19.60% 1
North West -15 25 £445 -8.72% 22
West Midlands -33 24 £680 +28.30% 6
South East -48 13 £550 +10.00% 13
North East -12 7 £550 -2.65% 1
South West -25 7 £536 -4.67% 13
East Midlands -27 6 £433 -13.50% 2
East of England -27 3 £525 -4.55% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £430 -
Wales -4 1 £250 -49.29%

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

For the 6 months to 5 March 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.

1 504 (100.00%) AWS
2 293 (58.13%) Terraform
3 291 (57.74%) CI/CD
4 265 (52.58%) Python
5 258 (51.19%) DevOps
6 211 (41.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 179 (35.52%) Security Cleared
8 167 (33.13%) SC Cleared
9 151 (29.96%) Serverless
10 140 (27.78%) Kubernetes
11 132 (26.19%) AWS Lambda
12 129 (25.60%) Docker
13 120 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 117 (23.21%) Amazon S3
15 110 (21.83%) GitHub
16 106 (21.03%) Containerisation
16 106 (21.03%) GitLab
17 94 (18.65%) Amazon EKS
18 88 (17.46%) Platform Engineering
19 85 (16.87%) Jenkins
19 85 (16.87%) Observability
20 83 (16.47%) Agile
21 79 (15.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 76 (15.08%) Amazon ECS
23 75 (14.88%) Amazon EC2
24 70 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
24 70 (13.89%) Linux
25 61 (12.10%) Azure
25 61 (12.10%) Grafana
26 59 (11.71%) Prometheus

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 39 (7.74%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.57%) Apache
4 8 (1.59%) Confluence
5 5 (0.99%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) Appian
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 504 (100.00%) AWS
2 151 (29.96%) Serverless
3 132 (26.19%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 117 (23.21%) Amazon S3
6 110 (21.83%) GitHub
7 94 (18.65%) Amazon EKS
8 79 (15.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 76 (15.08%) Amazon ECS
10 75 (14.88%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (12.10%) Azure
13 47 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 39 (7.74%) AWS Step Functions
15 36 (7.14%) GCP
16 33 (6.55%) Snowflake
17 30 (5.95%) AWS CodePipeline
18 23 (4.56%) AWS KMS
18 23 (4.56%) Route 53
19 19 (3.77%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.98%) DNS
1 15 (2.98%) Firewall
2 9 (1.79%) VPN
3 5 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.79%) HTTP
4 4 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.40%) FTP
5 2 (0.40%) SMTP
5 2 (0.40%) SSH
6 1 (0.20%) 4G
6 1 (0.20%) 5G
6 1 (0.20%) BGP
6 1 (0.20%) DHCP
6 1 (0.20%) ICMP
6 1 (0.20%) IMAP
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) Network Security
6 1 (0.20%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (6.75%) Amazon Athena
3 31 (6.15%) DynamoDB
3 31 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (5.75%) Data Lake
5 27 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.18%) Metadata
10 10 (1.98%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (1.59%) MySQL
11 8 (1.59%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.39%) Big Data
12 7 (1.39%) Flink
12 7 (1.39%) Power BI
12 7 (1.39%) Tableau
13 6 (1.19%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 106 (21.03%) GitLab
2 85 (16.87%) Jenkins
3 42 (8.33%) Git
4 15 (2.98%) JIRA
5 10 (1.98%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.79%) Liquibase
7 8 (1.59%) MLflow
7 8 (1.59%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.39%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.19%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.99%) Snyk
10 5 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.79%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.60%) JUnit
12 3 (0.60%) Mockito
12 3 (0.60%) Selenium
12 3 (0.60%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.40%) Maven
13 2 (0.40%) NUnit
General
1 90 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 79 (15.67%) Finance
3 68 (13.49%) Social Skills
4 41 (8.13%) Banking
5 22 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.38%) Front Office
7 8 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.39%) Aeronautics
9 6 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.60%) Legal
12 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.20%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.20%) Law
13 1 (0.20%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.54%) Kafka
2 29 (5.75%) AWS CDK
3 27 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
4 26 (5.16%) Node.js
4 26 (5.16%) PySpark
5 23 (4.56%) REST
6 20 (3.97%) React
7 19 (3.77%) RESTful
8 16 (3.17%) Flask
9 15 (2.98%) Lambda Expressions
10 11 (2.18%) OAuth
11 9 (1.79%) .NET
12 8 (1.59%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.59%) JWT
12 8 (1.59%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.59%) Pandas
12 8 (1.59%) pytest
13 7 (1.39%) NumPy
14 6 (1.19%) SciPy
14 6 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.37%) Public Cloud
4 15 (2.98%) Hedge funds
4 15 (2.98%) NHS
5 13 (2.58%) Fixed Income
6 10 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.39%) Equities
8 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.99%) Clustering
10 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.99%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.99%) Replication
11 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.79%) Derivative
11 4 (0.79%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.89%) Linux
2 12 (2.38%) Unix
3 11 (2.18%) Windows
4 5 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.60%) CentOS
5 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.60%) VMS
5 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (57.74%) CI/CD
2 258 (51.19%) DevOps
3 211 (41.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (21.03%) Containerisation
5 88 (17.46%) Platform Engineering
6 85 (16.87%) Observability
7 83 (16.47%) Agile
8 59 (11.71%) Software Engineering
9 57 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
10 56 (11.11%) Analytics
10 56 (11.11%) Cloud Security
11 55 (10.91%) Data Engineering
11 55 (10.91%) Microservices
12 43 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (8.53%) Migration
13 42 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (7.54%) AI
15 37 (7.34%) ETL
16 36 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
16 36 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 265 (52.58%) Python
2 59 (11.71%) SQL
3 56 (11.11%) Bash
4 46 (9.13%) Java
5 29 (5.75%) TypeScript
6 25 (4.96%) Go
7 17 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 16 (3.17%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.98%) C#
10 8 (1.59%) Ruby
11 6 (1.19%) Groovy
12 3 (0.60%) Perl
12 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.40%) AWK
13 2 (0.40%) C
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
14 1 (0.20%) R
14 1 (0.20%) Rust
14 1 (0.20%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 179 (35.52%) Security Cleared
2 167 (33.13%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (3.77%) Degree
5 17 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (2.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.60%) PhD
12 2 (0.40%) OCP
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.20%) CCNP
13 1 (0.20%) CEH
13 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.78%) GDPR
3 12 (2.38%) QA
4 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.98%) SLA
5 8 (1.59%) NIST
6 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.79%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 129 (25.60%) Docker
2 9 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.40%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.20%) Postfix
5 1 (0.20%) Squid
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 293 (58.13%) Terraform
2 140 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 61 (12.10%) Grafana
4 59 (11.71%) Prometheus
5 56 (11.11%) Ansible
6 17 (3.37%) Argo
7 10 (1.98%) Puppet
8 9 (1.79%) Packer
9 5 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.79%) Istio
11 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.40%) Consul
12 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.40%) Kibana
12 2 (0.40%) logstash
12 2 (0.40%) Nessus
12 2 (0.40%) Rancher
12 2 (0.40%) Salt
13 1 (0.20%) Opsview
Vendors
1 40 (7.94%) Databricks
2 27 (5.36%) Splunk
3 23 (4.56%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.98%) Oracle
5 9 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.19%) Arista
6 6 (1.19%) Qualys
6 6 (1.19%) Tenable
7 5 (0.99%) Citrix
8 4 (0.79%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.79%) Okta
8 4 (0.79%) SAP
9 3 (0.60%) Confluent
9 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.40%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.40%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.40%) New Relic
10 2 (0.40%) Ping Identity