AWS Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £543 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 700 813
Rank change year-on-year +138 +113 -148
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 29 18 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.030% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.032% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 26
10th Percentile £407 £470 £457
25th Percentile £456 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -2.22% +9.22%
75th Percentile £609 £744 £606
90th Percentile £729 £800 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Top 5 Contract 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 4 May 2024. 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 +125 27 £550 - 5
London +116 25 £543 -1.36% 3
Work from Home +130 10 £625 +25.00% 4
UK excluding London +66 2 £600 - 2
South East - 2 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 29 (100.00%) AWS
1 29 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (62.07%) DevOps
3 12 (41.38%) Linux
3 12 (41.38%) Terraform
4 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
5 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
6 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
6 8 (27.59%) Python
6 8 (27.59%) Azure
7 6 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
7 6 (20.69%) Finance
8 5 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (17.24%) Git
9 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
9 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
9 4 (13.79%) SaaS
9 4 (13.79%) PaaS
9 4 (13.79%) B2C
9 4 (13.79%) Windows
9 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
9 4 (13.79%) SDLC
9 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
9 4 (13.79%) Serverless

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Apache
1 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (13.79%) PaaS
5 4 (13.79%) SaaS
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Cloudflare
6 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DNS
1 3 (10.34%) SMTP
2 2 (6.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Sisense
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.45%) VisualWorks
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
1 3 (10.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (62.07%) DevOps
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
4 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (13.79%) B2C
5 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
5 4 (13.79%) SDLC
6 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL
6 3 (10.34%) Load Balancing
6 3 (10.34%) Microservices
6 3 (10.34%) Migration
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.34%) Workflow
7 2 (6.90%) Auto-Scaling
7 2 (6.90%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) PHP
2 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
1 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Terraform
2 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) Puppet
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) F5
1 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) SAP