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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 186 217
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 -19
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 505 431 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.23% 1.43% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.54% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 340 418
10th Percentile £372 £409 £413
25th Percentile £413 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -6.38%
75th Percentile £579 £788 £650
90th Percentile £675 £838 £779
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
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 37,601 28,063 41,310
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 92.89% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,630 17,563 27,190
10th Percentile £306 £293 £275
25th Percentile £408 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,287 822 2,342
10th Percentile £14.61 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -10.88%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £71.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -5.74%

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 February 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 24 February 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 -56 376 £519 -14.19% 110
London -63 237 £518 -23.33% 54
Work from Home -30 195 £525 -22.22% 42
UK excluding London +17 157 £500 - 68
North of England -18 75 £500 - 17
Yorkshire -26 40 £523 +4.50% 2
Midlands -32 31 £550 +10.00% 11
Scotland +24 29 £402 -19.60%
North West -9 28 £436 -10.51% 15
West Midlands -33 25 £680 +28.30% 10
South East -32 14 £550 +10.00% 19
North East -16 7 £550 -2.65%
South West -17 7 £536 -4.67% 18
East Midlands -26 6 £433 -13.50% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £430 -
East of England -22 2 £525 -4.55% 3
Wales -4 1 £250 -49.29%

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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.

1 505 (100.00%) AWS
2 295 (58.42%) Terraform
3 291 (57.62%) CI/CD
4 269 (53.27%) Python
5 259 (51.29%) DevOps
6 210 (41.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 181 (35.84%) Security Cleared
8 169 (33.47%) SC Cleared
9 150 (29.70%) Serverless
10 142 (28.12%) Kubernetes
11 131 (25.94%) AWS Lambda
12 129 (25.54%) Docker
13 118 (23.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 117 (23.17%) Amazon S3
15 107 (21.19%) GitHub
16 105 (20.79%) Containerisation
16 105 (20.79%) GitLab
17 92 (18.22%) Amazon EKS
18 88 (17.43%) Platform Engineering
19 87 (17.23%) Jenkins
20 85 (16.83%) Agile
21 80 (15.84%) Observability
22 79 (15.64%) Amazon ECS
23 78 (15.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 75 (14.85%) Amazon EC2
25 74 (14.65%) Linux
26 67 (13.27%) Azure
27 66 (13.07%) GitHub Actions
28 61 (12.08%) Software Engineering
29 60 (11.88%) Grafana

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 40 (7.92%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.96%) Apache
4 10 (1.98%) Confluence
5 7 (1.39%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
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%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 505 (100.00%) AWS
2 150 (29.70%) Serverless
3 131 (25.94%) AWS Lambda
4 118 (23.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 117 (23.17%) Amazon S3
6 107 (21.19%) GitHub
7 92 (18.22%) Amazon EKS
8 79 (15.64%) Amazon ECS
9 78 (15.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 75 (14.85%) Amazon EC2
11 67 (13.27%) Azure
12 66 (13.07%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (8.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 37 (7.33%) AWS Step Functions
15 36 (7.13%) GCP
16 30 (5.94%) Snowflake
17 27 (5.35%) AWS CodePipeline
18 26 (5.15%) AWS KMS
19 24 (4.75%) Route 53
20 19 (3.76%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.37%) DNS
2 16 (3.17%) Firewall
3 8 (1.58%) VPN
4 6 (1.19%) HTTP
5 5 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.79%) FTP
6 4 (0.79%) SMTP
6 4 (0.79%) SSH
6 4 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.59%) IMAP
7 3 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) ICMP
8 1 (0.20%) LAN
8 1 (0.20%) Network Security
8 1 (0.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (11.68%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (6.93%) Amazon Athena
3 33 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (5.74%) Data Lake
4 29 (5.74%) DynamoDB
5 28 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (4.36%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.98%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (1.98%) Metadata
10 9 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.58%) Apache Arrow
11 8 (1.58%) Big Data
11 8 (1.58%) Dremio
11 8 (1.58%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.58%) MySQL
11 8 (1.58%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.39%) Flink
12 7 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (20.79%) GitLab
2 87 (17.23%) Jenkins
3 44 (8.71%) Git
4 18 (3.56%) JIRA
5 11 (2.18%) Liquibase
6 9 (1.78%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.78%) MLflow
7 7 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.79%) Snyk
10 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.79%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.59%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.59%) JUnit
11 3 (0.59%) Mockito
11 3 (0.59%) Selenium
11 3 (0.59%) Terragrunt
General
1 92 (18.22%) Public Sector
2 84 (16.63%) Finance
3 70 (13.86%) Social Skills
4 43 (8.51%) Banking
5 22 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.77%) Front Office
7 9 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.39%) Aeronautics
8 7 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.59%) Legal
13 2 (0.40%) Law
13 2 (0.40%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.20%) Games
14 1 (0.20%) Military
14 1 (0.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.72%) Kafka
2 28 (5.54%) AWS CDK
2 28 (5.54%) Elastic Stack
2 28 (5.54%) Node.js
3 27 (5.35%) PySpark
4 25 (4.95%) REST
5 23 (4.55%) React
6 20 (3.96%) RESTful
7 17 (3.37%) Flask
8 16 (3.17%) Lambda Expressions
9 10 (1.98%) .NET
9 10 (1.98%) OAuth
9 10 (1.98%) Pandas
10 9 (1.78%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.78%) NumPy
11 8 (1.58%) pytest
11 8 (1.58%) SciPy
12 7 (1.39%) JWT
12 7 (1.39%) OAuth2
13 6 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.56%) Public Cloud
4 17 (3.37%) Hedge funds
5 15 (2.97%) Fixed Income
5 15 (2.97%) NHS
6 10 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.78%) Equities
8 8 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.58%) Replication
9 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.99%) Clustering
11 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.99%) Derivative
11 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.99%) Pricing Data
12 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 74 (14.65%) Linux
2 14 (2.77%) Windows
3 13 (2.57%) Unix
4 7 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.99%) VMS
6 3 (0.59%) CentOS
6 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (57.62%) CI/CD
2 259 (51.29%) DevOps
3 210 (41.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (20.79%) Containerisation
5 88 (17.43%) Platform Engineering
6 85 (16.83%) Agile
7 80 (15.84%) Observability
8 61 (12.08%) Software Engineering
9 59 (11.68%) Cloud Security
10 54 (10.69%) Data Pipeline
10 54 (10.69%) Microservices
11 53 (10.50%) Analytics
12 51 (10.10%) Data Engineering
13 42 (8.32%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (8.12%) Migration
15 38 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (7.13%) AI
16 36 (7.13%) Infrastructure Automation
17 35 (6.93%) ETL
18 33 (6.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 269 (53.27%) Python
2 59 (11.68%) SQL
3 50 (9.90%) Bash
4 44 (8.71%) Java
5 33 (6.53%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.35%) Go
7 19 (3.76%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.56%) JavaScript
9 17 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.98%) C#
11 8 (1.58%) Groovy
11 8 (1.58%) Ruby
12 3 (0.59%) Perl
12 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.40%) AWK
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
14 1 (0.20%) JSX
14 1 (0.20%) R
14 1 (0.20%) Rust
14 1 (0.20%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 181 (35.84%) Security Cleared
2 169 (33.47%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.90%) AWS Certification
4 22 (4.36%) Degree
5 18 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.57%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.59%) PhD
12 2 (0.40%) OCP
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.20%) CEH
13 1 (0.20%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.77%) GDPR
3 12 (2.38%) QA
4 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.58%) NIST
6 5 (0.99%) SLA
7 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.79%) NCSC
8 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.40%) WCAG
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 129 (25.54%) Docker
2 9 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.79%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.59%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.59%) Postfix
5 3 (0.59%) Squid
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 295 (58.42%) Terraform
2 142 (28.12%) Kubernetes
3 60 (11.88%) Grafana
4 58 (11.49%) Ansible
4 58 (11.49%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.56%) Argo
6 10 (1.98%) Puppet
7 9 (1.78%) Packer
8 6 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.79%) Istio
10 4 (0.79%) Nessus
11 3 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.59%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.40%) Consul
12 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.40%) Kibana
12 2 (0.40%) logstash
12 2 (0.40%) Rancher
12 2 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 37 (7.33%) Databricks
2 26 (5.15%) Splunk
3 22 (4.36%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.18%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.78%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.58%) Oracle
7 7 (1.39%) Arista
7 7 (1.39%) Tenable
8 6 (1.19%) Qualys
9 5 (0.99%) Citrix
10 4 (0.79%) Confluent
10 4 (0.79%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.79%) Okta
10 4 (0.79%) SAP
11 3 (0.59%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.40%) AVEVA
12 2 (0.40%) IBM
12 2 (0.40%) Ping Identity