AWS Engineer Contracts

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 195 158
Rank change year-on-year -40 -37 +23
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 429 795 1,570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.38% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.45% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 623 1,280
10th Percentile £415 £456 £463
25th Percentile £463 £503 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

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 11 May 2024.

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 15 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 11 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 -56 348 £573 -4.58% 72
London -15 264 £575 -8.00% 42
Work from Home -16 211 £600 -3.23% 56
UK excluding London -26 97 £511 -7.05% 33
North of England +4 31 £463 -13.95% 8
Scotland +49 26 £480 -16.52% 2
North West +12 26 £456 -8.75% 7
South East -7 19 £600 +2.13% 6
South West -14 12 £475 -17.39% 3
Midlands +23 5 £450 -25.00% 13
Yorkshire -4 5 £494 -17.71% 1
East Midlands +21 3 £450 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +9 2 £488 -22.00% 9
East of England +6 2 £625 +20.19%
Wales - 2 £666 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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.

1 429 (100.00%) AWS
2 226 (52.68%) Python
3 223 (51.98%) DevOps
4 181 (42.19%) Terraform
5 149 (34.73%) CI/CD
6 136 (31.70%) Kubernetes
7 108 (25.17%) Agile
8 99 (23.08%) Finance
9 97 (22.61%) Security Cleared
10 96 (22.38%) Serverless
11 93 (21.68%) Java
12 92 (21.45%) Infrastructure as Code
13 87 (20.28%) SC Cleared
14 85 (19.81%) Amazon S3
15 84 (19.58%) AWS Lambda
15 84 (19.58%) Docker
16 77 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
17 72 (16.78%) JavaScript
18 68 (15.85%) SQL
18 68 (15.85%) Linux
18 68 (15.85%) Snowflake
19 67 (15.62%) Amazon Athena
20 66 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
21 64 (14.92%) Ansible
22 63 (14.69%) Software Engineering
23 60 (13.99%) TypeScript
24 58 (13.52%) dbt
24 58 (13.52%) Data Lake
25 54 (12.59%) Jenkins
26 53 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation

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 66 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (11.89%) Apache
3 8 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.86%) Confluence
4 5 (1.17%) nginx
5 3 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
6 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.23%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 429 (100.00%) AWS
2 96 (22.38%) Serverless
3 85 (19.81%) Amazon S3
4 84 (19.58%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
6 68 (15.85%) Snowflake
7 58 (13.52%) dbt
8 53 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (11.19%) Azure
10 41 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (8.39%) GitHub
14 32 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (4.66%) GCP
18 19 (4.43%) Amazon EMR
19 18 (4.20%) Route 53
20 17 (3.96%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.26%) Firewall
2 12 (2.80%) DNS
3 9 (2.10%) Network Security
4 4 (0.93%) DHCP
5 3 (0.70%) IPv4
5 3 (0.70%) LAN
5 3 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.70%) SMTP
5 3 (0.70%) VPN
5 3 (0.70%) WLAN
6 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.23%) MPLS
6 1 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.23%) SSL
6 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.62%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (13.52%) Data Lake
3 50 (11.66%) Apache Arrow
3 50 (11.66%) Dremio
4 40 (9.32%) Amazon RDS
5 37 (8.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (8.39%) Apache Ignite
7 28 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (4.90%) Big Data
9 18 (4.20%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.56%) MySQL
11 11 (2.56%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.86%) Flink
13 6 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.17%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.17%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.17%) Tableau
15 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (12.59%) Jenkins
2 46 (10.72%) Git
3 40 (9.32%) GitLab
4 18 (4.20%) JIRA
5 8 (1.86%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.17%) Maven
7 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.93%) JMeter
8 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.70%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.70%) NeoLoad
8 3 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.47%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.47%) Snyk
9 2 (0.47%) Subversion
9 2 (0.47%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.23%) Ant
10 1 (0.23%) AppScan
10 1 (0.23%) VisualWorks
General
1 99 (23.08%) Finance
2 51 (11.89%) Social Skills
3 40 (9.32%) Banking
4 37 (8.62%) Front Office
5 32 (7.46%) Investment Banking
6 28 (6.53%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.10%) Law
9 8 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.86%) Retail
10 4 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Marketing
12 1 (0.23%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.66%) gRPC
1 50 (11.66%) Protocol Buffers
2 41 (9.56%) Pandas
3 40 (9.32%) NumPy
4 36 (8.39%) SciPy
5 26 (6.06%) Kafka
6 22 (5.13%) PySpark
7 21 (4.90%) AWS CDK
8 20 (4.66%) React
9 15 (3.50%) .NET
10 14 (3.26%) Node.js
10 14 (3.26%) REST
11 13 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.80%) AngularJS
12 12 (2.80%) CSS
13 9 (2.10%) Lambda Expressions
14 8 (1.86%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.86%) Spring
15 7 (1.63%) Vue
15 7 (1.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.32%) Hedge funds
2 33 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 26 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (5.59%) Derivative
4 24 (5.59%) Equities
5 15 (3.50%) Clustering
6 14 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.86%) Pricing Data
9 6 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.17%) PKI
11 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.70%) Life Science
13 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (15.85%) Linux
2 25 (5.83%) Windows
3 13 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.86%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.40%) Unix
7 3 (0.70%) Debian
8 2 (0.47%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) Android
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (51.98%) DevOps
2 149 (34.73%) CI/CD
3 108 (25.17%) Agile
4 92 (21.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (14.69%) Software Engineering
6 53 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
7 52 (12.12%) Containerisation
8 51 (11.89%) Asset Management
9 45 (10.49%) Investment Management
10 42 (9.79%) Data Engineering
11 39 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
12 36 (8.39%) Analytics
13 35 (8.16%) ETL
14 34 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 31 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 25 (5.83%) Migration
18 24 (5.59%) Computer Science
18 24 (5.59%) Test Automation
19 23 (5.36%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 226 (52.68%) Python
2 93 (21.68%) Java
3 72 (16.78%) JavaScript
4 68 (15.85%) SQL
5 60 (13.99%) TypeScript
6 52 (12.12%) Bash
7 31 (7.23%) Go
8 19 (4.43%) C#
9 15 (3.50%) Scala
10 14 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.26%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.56%) Groovy
12 8 (1.86%) C
12 8 (1.86%) C++
13 7 (1.63%) PHP
13 7 (1.63%) Ruby
13 7 (1.63%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.93%) Perl
14 4 (0.93%) R
15 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 97 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 87 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.90%) Degree
5 15 (3.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 14 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.47%) CISA
8 2 (0.47%) CISM
8 2 (0.47%) CISSP
8 2 (0.47%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.47%) SANS
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCIE
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.93%) NCSC
3 4 (0.93%) NIST
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.47%) GDPR
4 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.47%) QA
5 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (19.58%) Docker
2 7 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 181 (42.19%) Terraform
2 136 (31.70%) Kubernetes
3 64 (14.92%) Ansible
4 28 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.66%) Grafana
6 10 (2.33%) Kibana
6 10 (2.33%) Puppet
7 9 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.17%) Argo
8 5 (1.17%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.93%) Nagios
10 3 (0.70%) Consul
10 3 (0.70%) Graylog
10 3 (0.70%) Packer
10 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Nessus
12 1 (0.23%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 1 (0.23%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 21 (4.90%) Splunk
2 17 (3.96%) Databricks
3 13 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.10%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.86%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.40%) Oracle
7 4 (0.93%) F5
7 4 (0.93%) Informatica
7 4 (0.93%) SAP
8 3 (0.70%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.70%) UiPath
8 3 (0.70%) VMware
9 2 (0.47%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco
9 2 (0.47%) Google
9 2 (0.47%) IBM
9 2 (0.47%) MKS
9 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.23%) Zscaler