AWS Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 88 89
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +28
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 10 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.84% 0.86% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.96% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 20
10th Percentile £480 - £425
25th Percentile £500 £288 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £400 £563
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -28.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 - £625
90th Percentile - £426 £663
England median daily rate £594 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,120 1,569 2,080
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.33% 96.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 978 1,406
10th Percentile £263 £250 £223
25th Percentile £375 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -6.19% +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £618
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 77 29
10th Percentile £16.25 £11.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.53 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £17.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.37% -14.63% +10.81%
75th Percentile £22.14 £25.83 £33.75
90th Percentile £33.38 £53.75 £52.90
England median hourly rate £28.88 £39.53 £44.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -10.17% +80.66%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Yorkshire -1 10 £519 +29.69% 18
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 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 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