AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 195 230
Rank change year-on-year -31 +35 -38
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 555 414 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.43% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.54% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 329 368
10th Percentile £400 £412 £411
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £594 £825 £688
90th Percentile £675 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -14.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £67.20 - -
25th Percentile £70.50 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.14% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 45,608 26,825 40,003
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.39% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,789 17,300 25,804
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £403 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,038 1,097 2,862
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.39% -36.94% -5.88%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -61 408 £518 -10.00% 126
London -57 269 £525 -22.22% 58
Work from Home -39 209 £525 -22.22% 95
UK excluding London -43 154 £475 -5.00% 78
North of England -59 56 £513 +7.89% 36
Midlands -33 29 £469 -6.20% 18
Scotland -3 27 £425 -19.05% 3
North West -36 27 £550 +29.41% 26
West Midlands -34 26 £472 +4.89% 10
Yorkshire -55 19 £525 +2.44% 9
East of England -12 15 £510 +16.57%
South West -14 15 £475 -24.00% 7
South East -68 13 £505 +0.90% 8
North East -25 10 £425 -19.05% 1
East Midlands -25 3 £425 -15.00% 8
Wales -18 1 £250 -57.34%
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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.

1 555 (100.00%) AWS
2 301 (54.23%) CI/CD
3 285 (51.35%) Terraform
4 257 (46.31%) DevOps
5 241 (43.42%) Python
6 208 (37.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 197 (35.50%) Security Cleared
8 185 (33.33%) SC Cleared
9 157 (28.29%) Serverless
10 139 (25.05%) AWS Lambda
11 133 (23.96%) Kubernetes
12 119 (21.44%) Amazon S3
13 108 (19.46%) Docker
14 107 (19.28%) GitLab
15 103 (18.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 102 (18.38%) Containerisation
17 101 (18.20%) Agile
17 101 (18.20%) GitHub
18 96 (17.30%) Platform Engineering
19 93 (16.76%) Amazon EKS
20 90 (16.22%) Observability
21 78 (14.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 76 (13.69%) Grafana
23 75 (13.51%) SQL
24 73 (13.15%) Amazon EC2
24 73 (13.15%) GitHub Actions
25 72 (12.97%) Azure
25 72 (12.97%) Bash
26 71 (12.79%) Linux
27 66 (11.89%) Data Pipeline

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 32 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.42%) Confluence
3 13 (2.34%) Apache
4 12 (2.16%) SAS
5 11 (1.98%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.90%) nginx
7 4 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.18%) Appian
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) Traefik
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.36%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 555 (100.00%) AWS
2 157 (28.29%) Serverless
3 139 (25.05%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (21.44%) Amazon S3
5 103 (18.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 101 (18.20%) GitHub
7 93 (16.76%) Amazon EKS
8 78 (14.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 73 (13.15%) Amazon EC2
9 73 (13.15%) GitHub Actions
10 72 (12.97%) Azure
11 59 (10.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 55 (9.91%) Amazon ECS
13 40 (7.21%) AWS Step Functions
14 36 (6.49%) Snowflake
15 28 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (4.50%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (4.50%) GCP
17 23 (4.14%) Amazon EventBridge
18 22 (3.96%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.32%) Firewall
2 12 (2.16%) DNS
3 9 (1.62%) Network Security
4 7 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.26%) VPN
5 6 (1.08%) WAN
6 4 (0.72%) HTTP
6 4 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.72%) SSL
7 3 (0.54%) LAN
8 2 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.36%) Internet
9 1 (0.18%) 5G
9 1 (0.18%) AMQP
9 1 (0.18%) BGP
9 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.18%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.18%) DHCP
9 1 (0.18%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.55%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (8.11%) DynamoDB
3 41 (7.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 39 (7.03%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 19 (3.42%) MySQL
8 17 (3.06%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.70%) Power BI
10 12 (2.16%) Metadata
11 11 (1.98%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.80%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.62%) Pentaho
14 7 (1.26%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.08%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.90%) Big Data
16 5 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 107 (19.28%) GitLab
2 62 (11.17%) Jenkins
3 54 (9.73%) Git
4 29 (5.23%) JIRA
5 12 (2.16%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.80%) Claude Code
7 9 (1.62%) Snyk
7 9 (1.62%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.26%) Gatling
9 5 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.90%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.90%) JMeter
10 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.36%) Maven
11 2 (0.36%) MSTest
11 2 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 80 (14.41%) Public Sector
2 79 (14.23%) Social Skills
3 48 (8.65%) Finance
4 27 (4.86%) Banking
5 17 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
7 4 (0.72%) Legal
8 3 (0.54%) Billing
8 3 (0.54%) Law
8 3 (0.54%) Military
8 3 (0.54%) Retail
9 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.36%) Local Government
9 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.36%) Police
10 1 (0.18%) Marketing
10 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.77%) AWS CDK
2 28 (5.05%) Kafka
3 26 (4.68%) .NET
3 26 (4.68%) PySpark
4 23 (4.14%) React
4 23 (4.14%) REST
5 19 (3.42%) Flask
6 17 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (2.70%) Node.js
8 10 (1.80%) Next.js
9 9 (1.62%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.62%) RESTful
10 8 (1.44%) OAuth
10 8 (1.44%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (1.44%) Spring
10 8 (1.44%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.26%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.26%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (1.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 110 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (2.88%) AI Agents
4 11 (1.98%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.62%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.62%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.26%) NHS
8 6 (1.08%) Clustering
8 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (0.90%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.72%) PKI
10 4 (0.72%) Replication
10 4 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.54%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 71 (12.79%) Linux
2 17 (3.06%) Windows
3 9 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.44%) Unix
4 8 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.36%) CentOS
7 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (54.23%) CI/CD
2 257 (46.31%) DevOps
3 208 (37.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (18.38%) Containerisation
5 101 (18.20%) Agile
6 96 (17.30%) Platform Engineering
7 90 (16.22%) Observability
8 66 (11.89%) Data Pipeline
8 66 (11.89%) Software Engineering
9 65 (11.71%) Data Engineering
10 60 (10.81%) Analytics
10 60 (10.81%) Migration
11 54 (9.73%) Microservices
12 52 (9.37%) Cloud Security
13 50 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (8.83%) ETL
15 47 (8.47%) AI
16 46 (8.29%) Data Modelling
17 41 (7.39%) Event-Driven
18 36 (6.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 241 (43.42%) Python
2 75 (13.51%) SQL
3 72 (12.97%) Bash
4 43 (7.75%) Java
5 30 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 27 (4.86%) C#
7 22 (3.96%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.34%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.80%) Go
9 10 (1.80%) Groovy
9 10 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.72%) Scala
11 3 (0.54%) Ruby
11 3 (0.54%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.36%) Bicep
12 2 (0.36%) C
12 2 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.18%) R
13 1 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 197 (35.50%) Security Cleared
2 185 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.44%) Degree
9 7 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.54%) CISSP
13 2 (0.36%) CCNP
13 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.18%) CEH
14 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.34%) SLA
3 11 (1.98%) QA
4 7 (1.26%) GDPR
4 7 (1.26%) NIST
5 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (19.46%) Docker
2 9 (1.62%) Squid
3 7 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.90%) vSphere
5 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.18%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.18%) Postfix
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 285 (51.35%) Terraform
2 133 (23.96%) Kubernetes
3 76 (13.69%) Grafana
4 65 (11.71%) Prometheus
5 57 (10.27%) Ansible
6 19 (3.42%) Argo
7 18 (3.24%) Puppet
8 7 (1.26%) Istio
8 7 (1.26%) Packer
9 5 (0.90%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.72%) Cilium
10 4 (0.72%) Kibana
10 4 (0.72%) Rancher
10 4 (0.72%) Suricata
11 3 (0.54%) Consul
11 3 (0.54%) Salt
11 3 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.36%) linkerd
12 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (6.13%) Databricks
2 20 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.24%) Splunk
4 15 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.52%) Informatica
5 14 (2.52%) Oracle
6 10 (1.80%) Denodo
6 10 (1.80%) VMware
7 9 (1.62%) Google
7 9 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.26%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.26%) Talend
9 6 (1.08%) Foundry
9 6 (1.08%) SAP
10 5 (0.90%) Cisco
10 5 (0.90%) Citrix
10 5 (0.90%) Qualys
10 5 (0.90%) Tenable
11 4 (0.72%) Palantir
11 4 (0.72%) Palo Alto