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 18 October 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 251 | 198 | 217 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -53 | +19 | -16 |
| Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer | 581 | 477 | 441 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 1.06% | 1.43% | 1.18% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 1.15% | 1.58% | 1.27% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 406 | 352 | 349 |
| 10th Percentile | £413 | £385 | £400 |
| 25th Percentile | £455 | £435 | £463 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £525 | £581 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -9.64% | +5.64% |
| 75th Percentile | £638 | £675 | £788 |
| 90th Percentile | £767 | £825 | £850 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £500 | £475 | £475 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.26% | - | -9.52% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 12 | 2 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £65.00 | £44.50 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £72.50 | £47.50 | - |
| Median hourly rate | £76.00 | £53.75 | - |
| Median % change year-on-year | +41.40% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £77.44 | £58.75 | - |
| 90th Percentile | £100.13 | £61.00 | - |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £75.50 | - | - |
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.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title | 50,500 | 30,274 | 34,801 |
| % of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title | 91.88% | 90.93% | 92.97% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 29,636 | 19,120 | 20,974 |
| 10th Percentile | £325 | £280 | £300 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £402 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £638 | £625 | £638 |
| 90th Percentile | £736 | £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 | 4,178 | 1,676 | 1,413 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.25 | £13.80 | £15.07 |
| 25th Percentile | £19.33 | £17.30 | £20.50 |
| Median hourly rate | £41.06 | £25.15 | £40.33 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +63.26% | -37.63% | -10.39% |
| 75th Percentile | £67.50 | £50.00 | £65.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £80.00 | £68.65 | £73.95 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £40.32 | £24.62 | £41.27 |
| % change year-on-year | +63.77% | -40.34% | -7.27% |
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 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 jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 18 October 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 of jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 18 October 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 IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 October 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 | 458 | £515 | -1.90% | 417 |
| London | -70 | 262 | £535 | -10.83% | 197 |
| Work from Home | -65 | 224 | £550 | -8.33% | 178 |
| UK excluding London | -67 | 203 | £500 | +5.26% | 253 |
| North of England | -40 | 86 | £513 | +13.89% | 85 |
| Midlands | -26 | 58 | £475 | - | 28 |
| North West | -24 | 48 | £525 | +31.25% | 61 |
| East Midlands | +11 | 31 | £400 | -13.04% | 16 |
| West Midlands | -59 | 27 | £476 | +0.21% | 12 |
| South West | -26 | 25 | £475 | -17.39% | 24 |
| North East | -28 | 19 | £463 | -11.06% | 7 |
| Yorkshire | -49 | 19 | £513 | +2.50% | 17 |
| Scotland | -39 | 15 | £418 | -10.77% | 48 |
| South East | -63 | 15 | £460 | -12.38% | 28 |
| East of England | -19 | 7 | £455 | +1.11% | 26 |
| Northern Ireland | +1 | 1 | £600 | - | 11 |
AWS Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities
For the 6 months to 18 October 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.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 581 |
| 2 | CI/CD | 57.5% | 334 |
| 3 | Terraform | 52.3% | 304 |
| 4 | Infrastructure as Code | 46.3% | 269 |
| 5 | DevOps | 45.8% | 266 |
| 6 | Python | 38.0% | 221 |
| 7 | Security Cleared | 29.1% | 169 |
| 8 | Serverless | 28.9% | 168 |
| 9 | Kubernetes | 28.2% | 164 |
| 10 | SC Cleared | 27.7% | 161 |
| 11 | AWS Lambda | 26.5% | 154 |
| 12 | Observability | 23.6% | 137 |
| 13 | GitLab | 22.5% | 131 |
| 14 | Platform Engineering | 22.0% | 128 |
| 15 | Docker | 21.5% | 125 |
| 16 | Containerisation | 20.7% | 120 |
| 17 | GitHub | 20.1% | 117 |
| 18 | Amazon S3 | 20.0% | 116 |
| 19 | Agile | 18.8% | 109 |
| 20 | Amazon EKS | 18.4% | 107 |
| 21 | Software Engineering | 16.4% | 95 |
| 22 | Amazon CloudWatch | 15.8% | 92 |
| 22 | GitHub Actions | 15.8% | 92 |
| 24 | AI | 15.5% | 90 |
| 24 | SQL | 15.5% | 90 |
| 26 | AWS CloudFormation | 15.1% | 88 |
| 27 | Data Pipeline | 14.1% | 82 |
| 28 | Git | 13.4% | 78 |
| 29 | Amazon RDS | 13.1% | 76 |
| 29 | Jenkins | 13.1% | 76 |
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 | 30.3% | 176 |
| 2 | Data Engineer | 24.4% | 142 |
| 3 | AWS Data Engineer | 21.9% | 127 |
| 4 | Cloud Engineer | 13.1% | 76 |
| 5 | Cloud Platform Engineer | 11.4% | 66 |
| 6 | Senior Data Engineer | 10.8% | 63 |
| 7 | AWS Platform Engineer | 10.5% | 61 |
| 8 | Python Engineer | 7.2% | 42 |
| 9 | AWS Software Engineer | 6.2% | 36 |
| 10 | Java Engineer | 5.0% | 29 |
| 10 | Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | 5.0% | 29 |
| 12 | Snowflake Engineer | 4.6% | 27 |
| 13 | Snowflake Data Engineer | 4.3% | 25 |
| 14 | Azure Engineer | 4.0% | 23 |
| 15 | Senior Platform Engineer | 3.8% | 22 |
| 16 | Senior Cloud Engineer | 3.6% | 21 |
| 17 | Lambda Engineer | 3.4% | 20 |
| 18 | Artificial Intelligence Engineer | 3.3% | 19 |
| 19 | Java Software Engineer | 3.1% | 18 |
| 20 | AWS Infrastructure Engineer | 2.8% | 16 |