AWS Infrastructure Lead Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Leader - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Leader - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 - 585
Rank change year-on-year - - +134
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Lead 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% - 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £727 - -
25th Percentile £758 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £925 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £850 - -

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 42,439 27,180 40,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 92.60% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,345 17,830 26,590
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,678 986 2,604
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.71 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £19.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.20% -12.02% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.59 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £75.38 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £29.53 £35.00
% change year-on-year +45.64% -15.64% -17.38%

AWS Infrastructure Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Infrastructure Lead' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Infrastructure Lead job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Lead
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Infrastructure Lead
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Lead over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Infrastructure Lead in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Lead
Top 5 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 Lead within the UK over the 6 months to 17 April 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 - 4 £850 - 5
South West - 3 £850 - 3
UK excluding London - 3 £850 - 5
London - 1 £713 -
Work from Home - 1 £850 - 4

AWS Infrastructure Lead Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 April 2026, AWS Infrastructure Lead 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 Infrastructure Lead in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) BCP
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Windows

AWS Infrastructure Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform