Hybrid/Remote AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 123 135
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +1
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 204 227 322
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.00% 1.87% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 2.01% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 184 280
10th Percentile £401 £427 £425
25th Percentile £450 £512 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £675
90th Percentile £843 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid AWS Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid AWS Engineer job vacancies

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

AWS Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid AWS Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid AWS Engineer job vacancies

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, AWS Engineer 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 204 (100.00%) AWS
2 137 (67.16%) Python
3 100 (49.02%) Terraform
4 94 (46.08%) CI/CD
5 82 (40.20%) DevOps
6 78 (38.24%) Agile
6 78 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (27.45%) Software Engineering
8 54 (26.47%) GitHub
9 53 (25.98%) Kubernetes
9 53 (25.98%) TypeScript
10 52 (25.49%) Apache Airflow
11 51 (25.00%) Serverless
12 50 (24.51%) Amazon S3
13 49 (24.02%) Investment Management
13 49 (24.02%) Java
14 47 (23.04%) JavaScript
15 46 (22.55%) Amazon Athena
15 46 (22.55%) Docker
16 45 (22.06%) AWS Lambda
17 44 (21.57%) AWS CloudFormation
18 43 (21.08%) Apache Arrow
18 43 (21.08%) Apache Iceberg
18 43 (21.08%) Asset Management
18 43 (21.08%) dbt
18 43 (21.08%) Dremio
18 43 (21.08%) NumPy
18 43 (21.08%) Pandas
18 43 (21.08%) SciPy
19 39 (19.12%) Security Cleared

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 52 (25.49%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (14.71%) Apache
3 8 (3.92%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.45%) Confluence
5 2 (0.98%) nginx
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 204 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (26.47%) GitHub
3 51 (25.00%) Serverless
4 50 (24.51%) Amazon S3
5 45 (22.06%) AWS Lambda
6 44 (21.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (21.08%) dbt
8 37 (18.14%) Amazon EC2
8 37 (18.14%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (17.65%) Snowflake
10 35 (17.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (10.78%) GCP
14 19 (9.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (8.33%) Route 53
16 14 (6.86%) AWS CloudTrail
16 14 (6.86%) Azure
17 13 (6.37%) AWS Step Functions
18 12 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.92%) DNS
2 7 (3.43%) VPN
3 6 (2.94%) Firewall
4 3 (1.47%) Network Security
4 3 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.49%) DHCP
6 1 (0.49%) FTP
6 1 (0.49%) HTTP
6 1 (0.49%) IMAP
6 1 (0.49%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.49%) SMTP
6 1 (0.49%) SSH
6 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (22.55%) Amazon Athena
2 43 (21.08%) Apache Arrow
2 43 (21.08%) Apache Iceberg
2 43 (21.08%) Dremio
3 36 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 28 (13.73%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (13.73%) Apache Ignite
5 26 (12.75%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.41%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.43%) Flink
10 5 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.45%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.96%) Power BI
11 4 (1.96%) Tableau
12 3 (1.47%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.47%) Metadata
12 3 (1.47%) MySQL
12 3 (1.47%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 33 (16.18%) Jenkins
2 31 (15.20%) GitLab
3 18 (8.82%) Git
4 5 (2.45%) JIRA
5 4 (1.96%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.98%) Gradle
7 2 (0.98%) JUnit
7 2 (0.98%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.98%) Maven
7 2 (0.98%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.49%) MLflow
8 1 (0.49%) MSI
8 1 (0.49%) NUnit
8 1 (0.49%) Vagrant
General
1 89 (43.63%) Finance
2 49 (24.02%) Front Office
3 41 (20.10%) Social Skills
4 36 (17.65%) Banking
5 28 (13.73%) Investment Banking
5 28 (13.73%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.47%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (21.08%) NumPy
1 43 (21.08%) Pandas
1 43 (21.08%) SciPy
2 28 (13.73%) gRPC
2 28 (13.73%) Protocol Buffers
3 22 (10.78%) React
4 21 (10.29%) Node.js
5 19 (9.31%) Kafka
6 16 (7.84%) AngularJS
7 15 (7.35%) Vue
8 10 (4.90%) AWS CDK
9 9 (4.41%) Lambda Expressions
10 7 (3.43%) PySpark
11 6 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (1.96%) .NET
13 3 (1.47%) OAuth
13 3 (1.47%) REST
13 3 (1.47%) RESTful
13 3 (1.47%) SailPoint
13 3 (1.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (24.02%) Fixed Income
2 47 (23.04%) Hedge funds
3 43 (21.08%) Equities
3 43 (21.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (13.73%) Derivative
4 28 (13.73%) Pricing Data
5 16 (7.84%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.98%) NHS
10 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) Replication
10 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.80%) Linux
2 5 (2.45%) Windows
3 4 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (46.08%) CI/CD
2 82 (40.20%) DevOps
3 78 (38.24%) Agile
3 78 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (27.45%) Software Engineering
5 49 (24.02%) Investment Management
6 43 (21.08%) Asset Management
7 33 (16.18%) Containerisation
8 29 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
9 27 (13.24%) Observability
10 21 (10.29%) Cloud Security
11 18 (8.82%) AI
11 18 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
12 17 (8.33%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (7.84%) Analytics
13 16 (7.84%) Fintech
14 15 (7.35%) Order Management
14 15 (7.35%) Performance Attribution
14 15 (7.35%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (67.16%) Python
2 53 (25.98%) TypeScript
3 49 (24.02%) Java
4 47 (23.04%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.31%) Bash
6 15 (7.35%) Go
6 15 (7.35%) SQL
7 11 (5.39%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.96%) Groovy
9 2 (0.98%) Ruby
9 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) C#
10 1 (0.49%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.49%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) PromQL
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.29%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.45%) Degree
6 4 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.98%) OCP
8 2 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.92%) GDPR
2 6 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.47%) NIST
4 3 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.98%) QA
5 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) DICOM
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (22.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.49%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.49%) Postfix
4 1 (0.49%) Squid
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (49.02%) Terraform
2 53 (25.98%) Kubernetes
3 29 (14.22%) Ansible
4 22 (10.78%) Grafana
5 17 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.92%) Argo
7 7 (3.43%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.43%) Puppet
8 5 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.98%) Kibana
9 2 (0.98%) Packer
10 1 (0.49%) Consul
10 1 (0.49%) Nessus
10 1 (0.49%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 15 (7.35%) Arista
2 12 (5.88%) Databricks
3 7 (3.43%) Splunk
4 3 (1.47%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.47%) Tenable
5 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.49%) Confluent
5 1 (0.49%) Cribl.io
5 1 (0.49%) F5
5 1 (0.49%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.49%) Google
5 1 (0.49%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.49%) New Relic
5 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.49%) Qualys
5 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.49%) VMware
5 1 (0.49%) Zscaler