Hybrid/Remote AWS Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 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
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 320 419
Rank change year-on-year +13 +99 +155
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 3 11 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.087% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.093% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 2
10th Percentile £434 £513 -
25th Percentile £458 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £583 £700 £575
90th Percentile £608 - £590
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% -2.27%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 9,265 11,845 19,477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 93.44% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,088 7,657 13,778
10th Percentile £325 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £526
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.14% -4.41%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £747 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 306 451
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.45 £16.98
25th Percentile £20.44 £30.45 £23.50
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.38 £66.38
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, AWS Infrastructure 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) iGaming
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) iGaming
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler