AWS Engineer Contracts

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 245 196
Rank change year-on-year +70 -49 -42
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 456 415 817
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.56% 0.95% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.03% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 349 640
10th Percentile £406 £416 £456
25th Percentile £475 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £825 £675 £688
90th Percentile £875 £813 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 16 Contract 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 1 May 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 +85 392 £600 +9.09% 321
London +53 309 £675 +17.39% 120
Work from Home +42 230 £675 +15.14% 264
UK excluding London +50 83 £500 -2.20% 242
North of England +29 43 £475 +2.70% 78
North West +13 23 £414 -10.59% 52
Scotland +4 17 £525 +9.38% 12
South East +45 15 £500 -12.09% 71
Yorkshire +12 10 £519 -1.19% 19
North East - 10 £565 - 8
Midlands +22 5 £500 +11.11% 35
East Midlands +11 4 £500 +11.11% 16
South West +35 2 £625 +31.58% 23
Wales +1 2 £493 -26.00% 4
East of England +30 1 £438 -32.69% 27
West Midlands +13 1 £550 +12.82% 16

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 456 (100.00%) AWS
2 297 (65.13%) Python
3 218 (47.81%) DevOps
4 215 (47.15%) Terraform
5 198 (43.42%) CI/CD
6 167 (36.62%) Kubernetes
7 165 (36.18%) Finance
8 160 (35.09%) Agile
9 145 (31.80%) Software Engineering
10 139 (30.48%) Serverless
11 134 (29.39%) AWS Lambda
12 130 (28.51%) Amazon Athena
13 127 (27.85%) Apache Airflow
13 127 (27.85%) Docker
14 121 (26.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 117 (25.66%) dbt
15 117 (25.66%) Amazon S3
15 117 (25.66%) Asset Management
16 116 (25.44%) Front Office
16 116 (25.44%) Java
17 111 (24.34%) Apache Iceberg
18 110 (24.12%) Security Cleared
19 106 (23.25%) Apache
20 102 (22.37%) Dremio
21 100 (21.93%) Apache Arrow
22 98 (21.49%) JavaScript
22 98 (21.49%) SC Cleared
23 91 (19.96%) AWS CloudFormation
24 87 (19.08%) TypeScript
24 87 (19.08%) Amazon ECS

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 127 (27.85%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (23.25%) Apache
3 51 (11.18%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.41%) nginx
5 10 (2.19%) Confluence
6 4 (0.88%) JBoss
6 4 (0.88%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 456 (100.00%) AWS
2 139 (30.48%) Serverless
3 134 (29.39%) AWS Lambda
4 117 (25.66%) Amazon S3
4 117 (25.66%) dbt
5 91 (19.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 87 (19.08%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (18.86%) Amazon EC2
8 80 (17.54%) Snowflake
9 63 (13.82%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (12.06%) GitHub
11 54 (11.84%) GCP
12 45 (9.87%) OpenShift
13 34 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (6.58%) Azure
15 28 (6.14%) PaaS
16 26 (5.70%) IaaS
17 25 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 23 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
19 21 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.04%) Firewall
2 12 (2.63%) HTTP
3 9 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.32%) DNS
5 5 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.88%) Network Security
7 3 (0.66%) BGP
7 3 (0.66%) IPsec
7 3 (0.66%) OSPF
7 3 (0.66%) SSL
7 3 (0.66%) VPN
8 2 (0.44%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) Broadband
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.22%) SSH
9 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (28.51%) Amazon Athena
2 111 (24.34%) Apache Iceberg
3 102 (22.37%) Dremio
4 100 (21.93%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (14.91%) Apache Ignite
6 54 (11.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (10.09%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (9.87%) Data Lake
9 38 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (6.14%) DynamoDB
12 18 (3.95%) Big Data
12 18 (3.95%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.07%) NoSQL
14 13 (2.85%) Tableau
15 12 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (1.97%) Parquet
17 8 (1.75%) MongoDB
18 7 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 63 (13.82%) Jenkins
2 58 (12.72%) GitLab
3 40 (8.77%) Artifactory
4 35 (7.68%) Git
5 20 (4.39%) JIRA
6 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.10%) Poetry
6 5 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.88%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.66%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (0.66%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.66%) Maven
9 2 (0.44%) Gradle
9 2 (0.44%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.44%) Postman
9 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 165 (36.18%) Finance
2 116 (25.44%) Front Office
3 68 (14.91%) Banking
4 50 (10.96%) Investment Banking
5 45 (9.87%) Social Skills
6 42 (9.21%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.32%) Retail
10 5 (1.10%) Law
11 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.88%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Electronics
13 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.44%) Local Government
13 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.44%) Marketing
13 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (16.45%) PySpark
2 56 (12.28%) NumPy
2 56 (12.28%) Pandas
2 56 (12.28%) React
2 56 (12.28%) SciPy
3 55 (12.06%) Kafka
4 53 (11.62%) Node.js
5 40 (8.77%) gRPC
5 40 (8.77%) Protocol Buffers
6 33 (7.24%) J2EE
7 29 (6.36%) Vue
8 28 (6.14%) AngularJS
9 25 (5.48%) AWS CDK
10 17 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (2.85%) JSON
12 11 (2.41%) Redux
13 10 (2.19%) RESTful
14 9 (1.97%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.75%) .NET
16 7 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 72 (15.79%) Fixed Income
2 56 (12.28%) Equities
3 55 (12.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 48 (10.53%) Hedge funds
5 45 (9.87%) Derivative
6 19 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.63%) Pricing Data
8 11 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.10%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.10%) Tandem
12 3 (0.66%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.44%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.44%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.44%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.96%) Linux
2 16 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (3.07%) Windows
4 8 (1.75%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.32%) Unix
7 2 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (47.81%) DevOps
2 198 (43.42%) CI/CD
3 160 (35.09%) Agile
4 145 (31.80%) Software Engineering
5 121 (26.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (25.66%) Asset Management
7 58 (12.72%) Containerisation
8 56 (12.28%) Data Engineering
9 54 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (11.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 46 (10.09%) Cloud Security
11 43 (9.43%) Fintech
12 42 (9.21%) Migration
13 41 (8.99%) Open Source
14 39 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
14 39 (8.55%) Investment Management
14 39 (8.55%) Microservices
15 30 (6.58%) Platform Engineering
16 28 (6.14%) ETL
16 28 (6.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 297 (65.13%) Python
2 116 (25.44%) Java
3 98 (21.49%) JavaScript
4 87 (19.08%) TypeScript
5 79 (17.32%) SQL
6 48 (10.53%) Go
7 38 (8.33%) Bash
8 13 (2.85%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.32%) C
10 6 (1.32%) C++
11 5 (1.10%) C#
11 5 (1.10%) Groovy
12 3 (0.66%) Perl
12 3 (0.66%) Ruby
12 3 (0.66%) Scala
13 1 (0.22%) Bicep
13 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.22%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 110 (24.12%) Security Cleared
2 98 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 27 (5.92%) Degree
5 11 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.32%) PhD
8 5 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.66%) CCNP
9 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.44%) OCP
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.22%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.07%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.63%) QA
3 4 (0.88%) NIST
4 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 127 (27.85%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 215 (47.15%) Terraform
2 167 (36.62%) Kubernetes
3 49 (10.75%) Ansible
4 29 (6.36%) Grafana
4 29 (6.36%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.63%) Kibana
6 11 (2.41%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.54%) Puppet
8 6 (1.32%) Argo
8 6 (1.32%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.88%) logstash
9 4 (0.88%) Packer
10 2 (0.44%) Consul
11 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.22%) Istio
11 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.22%) Nagios
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
11 1 (0.22%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.22%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 12 (2.63%) Databricks
2 8 (1.75%) AppDynamics
2 8 (1.75%) Oracle
3 7 (1.54%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.54%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.54%) Splunk
3 7 (1.54%) Virgin Media
4 4 (0.88%) Cisco
5 3 (0.66%) Arista
5 3 (0.66%) CheckPoint
5 3 (0.66%) Confluent
5 3 (0.66%) Dataiku
5 3 (0.66%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.66%) Fortinet
5 3 (0.66%) Google
5 3 (0.66%) SAP
6 2 (0.44%) Cribl.io
6 2 (0.44%) New Relic
6 2 (0.44%) Qualys
6 2 (0.44%) Tenable