AWS Software Engineer Contracts

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 642 601
Rank change year-on-year +106 -41 +25
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 49 51 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.088% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.093% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 44 227
10th Percentile £563 £442 £438
25th Percentile £663 £522 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% +10.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £750
90th Percentile - - £888
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
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 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Software Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +109 48 £775 +14.81% 15
London +96 46 £775 +14.81% 14
Work from Home +124 34 £800 +18.52% 17
UK excluding London +66 3 - - 1
North of England +24 2 - -
North West +22 2 - -
Scotland +45 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, AWS Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (77.55%) Finance
2 38 (77.55%) Python
3 37 (75.51%) TypeScript
4 36 (73.47%) JavaScript
4 36 (73.47%) Agile
5 34 (69.39%) Asset Management
5 34 (69.39%) Front Office
5 34 (69.39%) Apache
5 34 (69.39%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (69.39%) SciPy
5 34 (69.39%) NumPy
5 34 (69.39%) Pandas
5 34 (69.39%) gRPC
5 34 (69.39%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (69.39%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (69.39%) Apache Ignite
5 34 (69.39%) Dremio
5 34 (69.39%) dbt
5 34 (69.39%) Apache Arrow
6 32 (65.31%) Java
7 31 (63.27%) Fixed Income
8 28 (57.14%) Banking
8 28 (57.14%) Investment Banking
8 28 (57.14%) Investment Management
9 23 (46.94%) Snowflake
10 22 (44.90%) Equities
10 22 (44.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (44.90%) Derivative

AWS Software 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 34 (69.39%) Apache
1 34 (69.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (69.39%) dbt
3 23 (46.94%) Snowflake
4 12 (24.49%) GCP
5 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.12%) Azure
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.04%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (69.39%) Amazon Athena
1 34 (69.39%) Apache Arrow
1 34 (69.39%) Apache Ignite
1 34 (69.39%) Dremio
2 22 (44.90%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (77.55%) Finance
2 34 (69.39%) Front Office
3 28 (57.14%) Banking
3 28 (57.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (69.39%) gRPC
1 34 (69.39%) NumPy
1 34 (69.39%) Pandas
1 34 (69.39%) Protocol Buffers
1 34 (69.39%) SciPy
2 11 (22.45%) React
3 7 (14.29%) .NET
3 7 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 6 (12.24%) .NET Core
4 6 (12.24%) CSS
4 6 (12.24%) Node.js
4 6 (12.24%) Redux
4 6 (12.24%) Vue
5 5 (10.20%) Kafka
6 2 (4.08%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (4.08%) Spring
7 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.04%) HTML
7 1 (2.04%) JPA
7 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (63.27%) Fixed Income
2 22 (44.90%) Derivative
2 22 (44.90%) Equities
2 22 (44.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (44.90%) Hedge funds
3 6 (12.24%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 36 (73.47%) Agile
3 34 (69.39%) Asset Management
4 28 (57.14%) Investment Management
5 16 (32.65%) Greeks
6 13 (26.53%) Analytics
7 7 (14.29%) Fintech
8 6 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (12.24%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 6 (12.24%) Machine Learning
8 6 (12.24%) Performance Attribution
9 5 (10.20%) Data Governance
9 5 (10.20%) LLM
10 4 (8.16%) Data Engineering
11 3 (6.12%) CI/CD
11 3 (6.12%) Data Architecture
11 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (6.12%) Technical Leadership
12 2 (4.08%) Data Pipeline
12 2 (4.08%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (77.55%) Python
2 37 (75.51%) TypeScript
3 36 (73.47%) JavaScript
4 32 (65.31%) Java
5 8 (16.33%) SQL
6 7 (14.29%) C#
7 5 (10.20%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.04%) PHP
8 1 (2.04%) Ruby
8 1 (2.04%) Scala
8 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
1 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (2.04%) Databricks