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 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 202 206
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -15
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 496 446 500
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 1.31% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.42% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 355 419
10th Percentile £364 £400 £413
25th Percentile £414 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £738 £673
90th Percentile £820 £850 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 33,689 31,494 40,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.77% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,297 19,365 27,107
10th Percentile £293 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 978 1,483
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £15.02
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.01 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +45.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.54 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 24 December 2025. 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 -19 407 £520 -14.19% 160
London -28 243 £550 -15.38% 54
Work from Home -17 192 £575 -11.54% 134
UK excluding London +39 184 £488 -2.50% 125
North of England 0 93 £500 +11.11% 31
Yorkshire -14 49 £500 +17.65% 15
Midlands -3 44 £525 +1.94% 15
West Midlands +11 39 £531 +0.19% 10
North West +1 36 £405 -14.74% 11
Scotland +6 26 £402 -19.60% 4
South East -4 16 £538 +7.50% 32
North East -5 9 £550 -2.65% 5
South West -9 6 £488 -15.22% 24
East Midlands -12 5 £446 -10.75% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 -
East of England -16 2 £450 -21.74% 17

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

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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.

1 496 (100.00%) AWS
2 296 (59.68%) Python
3 279 (56.25%) Terraform
4 266 (53.63%) CI/CD
5 258 (52.02%) DevOps
6 211 (42.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 153 (30.85%) Security Cleared
8 150 (30.24%) Serverless
9 143 (28.83%) Amazon S3
9 143 (28.83%) SC Cleared
10 140 (28.23%) Kubernetes
11 136 (27.42%) Docker
12 133 (26.81%) AWS Lambda
13 119 (23.99%) GitHub
14 116 (23.39%) Agile
15 108 (21.77%) Jenkins
16 101 (20.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 98 (19.76%) Containerisation
18 94 (18.95%) GitLab
19 93 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 88 (17.74%) Amazon ECS
21 86 (17.34%) Amazon RDS
21 86 (17.34%) Software Engineering
22 85 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
23 80 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
24 78 (15.73%) Amazon EKS
25 77 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
26 75 (15.12%) Grafana
27 74 (14.92%) Linux
28 72 (14.52%) Azure

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 67 (13.51%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.26%) Apache
3 25 (5.04%) Confluence
4 22 (4.44%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.82%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 496 (100.00%) AWS
2 150 (30.24%) Serverless
3 143 (28.83%) Amazon S3
4 133 (26.81%) AWS Lambda
5 119 (23.99%) GitHub
6 101 (20.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 93 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 88 (17.74%) Amazon ECS
9 85 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
10 78 (15.73%) Amazon EKS
11 77 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (14.52%) Azure
13 58 (11.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 42 (8.47%) Snowflake
15 41 (8.27%) GCP
16 38 (7.66%) dbt
17 36 (7.26%) AWS KMS
18 31 (6.25%) Route 53
19 29 (5.85%) AWS CodePipeline
20 25 (5.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.06%) DNS
2 30 (6.05%) Firewall
3 18 (3.63%) HTTP
4 17 (3.43%) FTP
4 17 (3.43%) SMTP
4 17 (3.43%) SSH
5 13 (2.62%) VPN
6 10 (2.02%) IMAP
6 10 (2.02%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.01%) Network Security
8 5 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.40%) DHCP
9 2 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.40%) SSL
10 1 (0.20%) LAN
10 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (17.34%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (12.70%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (9.88%) Data Lake
5 36 (7.26%) Apache Iceberg
6 34 (6.85%) Apache Arrow
6 34 (6.85%) Dremio
7 30 (6.05%) DynamoDB
8 26 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (5.04%) NoSQL
10 24 (4.84%) Apache Ignite
11 21 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (2.62%) Relational Database
14 10 (2.02%) MySQL
15 8 (1.61%) Metadata
15 8 (1.61%) MongoDB
16 7 (1.41%) Big Data
16 7 (1.41%) Flink
16 7 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (21.77%) Jenkins
2 94 (18.95%) GitLab
3 62 (12.50%) Git
4 41 (8.27%) JIRA
5 17 (3.43%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.62%) Liquibase
7 10 (2.02%) MLflow
8 9 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.81%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.01%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.81%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.60%) JUnit
12 3 (0.60%) Maven
12 3 (0.60%) Mockito
12 3 (0.60%) Selenium
12 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 120 (24.19%) Finance
2 91 (18.35%) Public Sector
3 84 (16.94%) Social Skills
4 60 (12.10%) Banking
5 40 (8.06%) Front Office
6 25 (5.04%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.81%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.41%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.81%) Legal
13 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.40%) Law
14 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.20%) Publishing
15 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.27%) Kafka
1 41 (8.27%) Node.js
2 37 (7.46%) AWS CDK
3 35 (7.06%) NumPy
3 35 (7.06%) Pandas
3 35 (7.06%) React
4 34 (6.85%) SciPy
5 29 (5.85%) Elastic Stack
6 27 (5.44%) REST
7 26 (5.24%) PySpark
8 24 (4.84%) gRPC
8 24 (4.84%) Protocol Buffers
9 22 (4.44%) RESTful
10 15 (3.02%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.82%) Lambda Expressions
12 10 (2.02%) LDAP
12 10 (2.02%) Vue
13 9 (1.81%) .NET
14 7 (1.41%) Next.js
14 7 (1.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.67%) Hedge funds
3 40 (8.06%) Fixed Income
4 34 (6.85%) Equities
4 34 (6.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (4.84%) Derivative
6 24 (4.84%) Pricing Data
7 21 (4.23%) Replication
8 18 (3.63%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.02%) NHS
10 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 74 (14.92%) Linux
2 30 (6.05%) Windows
3 20 (4.03%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (3.43%) VMS
5 11 (2.22%) Unix
6 10 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.60%) CentOS
8 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (53.63%) CI/CD
2 258 (52.02%) DevOps
3 211 (42.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (23.39%) Agile
5 98 (19.76%) Containerisation
6 86 (17.34%) Software Engineering
7 80 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
8 69 (13.91%) Cloud Security
9 64 (12.90%) Observability
10 60 (12.10%) Microservices
11 48 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (8.47%) Infrastructure Automation
14 41 (8.27%) Data Engineering
15 40 (8.06%) Analytics
15 40 (8.06%) Investment Management
16 39 (7.86%) Migration
17 35 (7.06%) Asset Management
17 35 (7.06%) Change Management
17 35 (7.06%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 296 (59.68%) Python
2 72 (14.52%) Java
3 69 (13.91%) SQL
4 63 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 48 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 45 (9.07%) Bash
7 38 (7.66%) Go
8 34 (6.85%) PowerShell
9 20 (4.03%) Groovy
10 15 (3.02%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.62%) Perl
12 10 (2.02%) C#
13 6 (1.21%) Ruby
14 3 (0.60%) PHP
15 2 (0.40%) AWK
15 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.20%) C
16 1 (0.20%) HiveQL
16 1 (0.20%) Scala
16 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 143 (28.83%) SC Cleared
3 64 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 37 (7.46%) Degree
5 24 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.43%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.02%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 6 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.60%) PhD
15 2 (0.40%) OCP
15 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.20%) CEH
16 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.82%) QA
3 11 (2.22%) GDPR
4 10 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.21%) NIST
6 5 (1.01%) WCAG
7 4 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.81%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 136 (27.42%) Docker
2 17 (3.43%) DFS Replication
3 15 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.02%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.02%) Postfix
4 10 (2.02%) Squid
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 279 (56.25%) Terraform
2 140 (28.23%) Kubernetes
3 75 (15.12%) Grafana
4 68 (13.71%) Ansible
5 63 (12.70%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.23%) Argo
7 10 (2.02%) Nessus
7 10 (2.02%) Packer
7 10 (2.02%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.02%) Proxmox
8 9 (1.81%) Puppet
9 7 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.21%) Kibana
11 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.40%) logstash
13 1 (0.20%) Consul
13 1 (0.20%) Control-M
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.20%) QRadar
13 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (6.45%) Databricks
2 25 (5.04%) ServiceNow
3 24 (4.84%) Splunk
4 20 (4.03%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.82%) Arista
6 10 (2.02%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.81%) Oracle
8 7 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.41%) Tenable
9 6 (1.21%) IBM
10 4 (0.81%) Confluent
10 4 (0.81%) Okta
10 4 (0.81%) Qualys
11 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.60%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.40%) Cisco
12 2 (0.40%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.40%) F5
12 2 (0.40%) SAP