AWS Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 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
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 538 637
Rank change year-on-year -6 +99 +170
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 6 25 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.065% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.070% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 4
10th Percentile £459 £407 -
25th Percentile £520 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £581
90th Percentile - £700 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -4.68% +9.30% +41.45%

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 30,033 35,612 47,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 93.02% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,934 22,137 32,503
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,556 1,741 1,472
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.73 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.06 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £52.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +12.50% +81.82%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Top 7 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 September 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 -9 6 £600 +9.09% 2
UK excluding London +3 4 £560 -4.68% 2
North of England - 4 £560 - 1
Work from Home +13 3 £519 -13.54% 4
North West - 3 £600 - 1
London +3 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £520 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, AWS Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) GitLab
3 4 (66.67%) Terraform
4 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) Ansible
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) Perl
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) Docker
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) Go
5 2 (33.33%) Node.js
5 2 (33.33%) High Availability
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) Packer

AWS Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) iGaming
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) RBAC
5 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Packer
4 1 (16.67%) Argo
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
1 1 (16.67%) F5
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) VMware
1 1 (16.67%) Zscaler