AWS Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 57 82
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 +20
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 10 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.65% 1.40% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.52% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 11
10th Percentile £480 - £425
25th Percentile £500 £288 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £400 £510
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -21.57% -2.86%
75th Percentile £538 - £523
90th Percentile - - £538
Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £400 £563
% change year-on-year +29.69% -28.89% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 585 923 1,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.53% 92.21% 98.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 577 994
10th Percentile £299 £288 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 34 16
10th Percentile - £11.90 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.53 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% -3.13% +3.34%
75th Percentile £30.10 £48.75 £26.25
90th Percentile £57.86 £53.75 £59.88
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £17.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year +21.37% -14.63% +12.33%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in West Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in West Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in West Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Leeds +7 10 £519 +29.69% 16
AWS Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, 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 across the West Yorkshire region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Python
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (40.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (30.00%) Docker
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
7 2 (20.00%) Git
7 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (20.00%) GitLab
7 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (20.00%) Ansible
7 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (20.00%) Serverless
7 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (10.00%) NIST
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (10.00%) Observability
8 1 (10.00%) FinOps
8 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
8 1 (10.00%) SOC 2

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (10.00%) Apigee
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) npm
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Babel
2 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) JWT
1 1 (10.00%) Next.js
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (10.00%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) FinOps
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk