AWS Engineer Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £573 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 190 151
Rank change year-on-year -49 -39 +30
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 352 674 1,311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 1.40% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.48% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 543 1,083
10th Percentile £410 £463 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £710 £694 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -21 272 £575 -8.00% 55
North of England -4 31 £463 -13.95% 10
North West +12 26 £456 -8.75% 8
South East -10 19 £600 +2.13% 14
South West -28 9 £475 -17.39% 2
Midlands +24 5 £450 -25.00% 12
Yorkshire -8 5 £494 -17.71% 2
West Midlands +19 3 £488 -22.00% 9
East Midlands +13 2 £450 -14.29% 3
East of England +3 2 £625 +20.19% 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 352 (100.00%) AWS
2 191 (54.26%) Python
3 167 (47.44%) DevOps
4 149 (42.33%) Terraform
5 113 (32.10%) CI/CD
6 105 (29.83%) Kubernetes
7 95 (26.99%) Finance
8 84 (23.86%) Java
9 82 (23.30%) Agile
10 78 (22.16%) Security Cleared
11 77 (21.88%) JavaScript
12 74 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 73 (20.74%) SC Cleared
13 73 (20.74%) Amazon Athena
14 68 (19.32%) Serverless
15 67 (19.03%) Apache Airflow
16 66 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (18.75%) Amazon S3
17 62 (17.61%) Docker
18 61 (17.33%) Software Engineering
19 60 (17.05%) Snowflake
19 60 (17.05%) Linux
20 59 (16.76%) TypeScript
21 58 (16.48%) Data Lake
21 58 (16.48%) Asset Management
21 58 (16.48%) dbt
22 57 (16.19%) Apache Arrow
22 57 (16.19%) Dremio
22 57 (16.19%) gRPC
22 57 (16.19%) AWS Lambda

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 67 (19.03%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (15.91%) Apache
3 6 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.42%) nginx
5 4 (1.14%) Confluence
6 3 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.28%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 352 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (19.32%) Serverless
3 66 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 66 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 60 (17.05%) Snowflake
5 58 (16.48%) dbt
6 57 (16.19%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 29 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (7.95%) Azure
12 25 (7.10%) GitHub
13 18 (5.11%) GCP
13 18 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.83%) AWS CodePipeline
15 16 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (4.55%) Route 53
16 15 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.41%) DNS
1 12 (3.41%) Firewall
2 9 (2.56%) Network Security
3 4 (1.14%) DHCP
4 3 (0.85%) IPv4
4 3 (0.85%) LAN
4 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.85%) SMTP
4 3 (0.85%) VPN
4 3 (0.85%) WLAN
5 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.28%) MPLS
5 1 (0.28%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (20.74%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (16.48%) Data Lake
3 57 (16.19%) Apache Arrow
3 57 (16.19%) Dremio
4 41 (11.65%) Apache Ignite
5 37 (10.51%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (6.25%) Big Data
8 19 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (4.26%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.84%) MySQL
11 9 (2.56%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.27%) Flink
13 6 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.42%) Data Mining
15 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
16 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
16 3 (0.85%) Parquet
16 3 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.08%) Git
3 26 (7.39%) GitLab
4 8 (2.27%) JIRA
5 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.14%) JMeter
6 4 (1.14%) Maven
7 3 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.85%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.85%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.57%) Snyk
8 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.57%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.28%) Gatling
9 1 (0.28%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) Storybook
9 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 95 (26.99%) Finance
2 45 (12.78%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.93%) Banking
3 42 (11.93%) Front Office
4 36 (10.23%) Investment Banking
5 23 (6.53%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.56%) Law
7 7 (1.99%) Retail
8 6 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.28%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.19%) gRPC
1 57 (16.19%) Protocol Buffers
2 46 (13.07%) Pandas
3 45 (12.78%) NumPy
4 41 (11.65%) SciPy
5 23 (6.53%) Kafka
6 19 (5.40%) React
7 16 (4.55%) .NET
8 15 (4.26%) Node.js
9 14 (3.98%) AWS CDK
10 12 (3.41%) PySpark
11 10 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (2.27%) .NET Core
12 8 (2.27%) Lambda Expressions
12 8 (2.27%) Redux
12 8 (2.27%) Vue
13 7 (1.99%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.99%) CSS
13 7 (1.99%) REST
14 6 (1.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.07%) Hedge funds
2 38 (10.80%) Fixed Income
3 30 (8.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (7.95%) Derivative
4 28 (7.95%) Equities
5 16 (4.55%) Clustering
6 12 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.84%) Pricing Data
8 7 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.14%) PKI
12 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (17.05%) Linux
2 17 (4.83%) Windows
3 7 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.70%) Unix
4 6 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.85%) Debian
6 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.57%) VMS
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (47.44%) DevOps
2 113 (32.10%) CI/CD
3 82 (23.30%) Agile
4 74 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (17.33%) Software Engineering
6 58 (16.48%) Asset Management
7 52 (14.77%) Investment Management
8 37 (10.51%) Containerisation
9 31 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (8.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 28 (7.95%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (7.67%) Data Engineering
13 26 (7.39%) Analytics
13 26 (7.39%) ETL
14 25 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (5.11%) Greeks
15 18 (5.11%) Microservices
16 17 (4.83%) Computer Science
16 17 (4.83%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 191 (54.26%) Python
2 84 (23.86%) Java
3 77 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 59 (16.76%) TypeScript
5 55 (15.63%) SQL
6 40 (11.36%) Bash
7 33 (9.38%) Go
8 18 (5.11%) C#
9 12 (3.41%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.56%) C
11 9 (2.56%) C++
12 8 (2.27%) Ruby
13 7 (1.99%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.70%) PHP
14 6 (1.70%) Scala
15 5 (1.42%) Groovy
16 3 (0.85%) Perl
17 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (22.16%) Security Cleared
2 73 (20.74%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.24%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.11%) Degree
5 15 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.85%) CISA
8 3 (0.85%) CISM
8 3 (0.85%) CISSP
8 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.28%) CCIE
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.14%) NIST
4 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.57%) GDPR
4 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.28%) NCSC
5 1 (0.28%) QA
5 1 (0.28%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (17.61%) Docker
2 6 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 149 (42.33%) Terraform
2 105 (29.83%) Kubernetes
3 53 (15.06%) Ansible
4 26 (7.39%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.84%) Grafana
6 9 (2.56%) Puppet
7 7 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.14%) Argo
8 4 (1.14%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.14%) Kibana
9 3 (0.85%) Consul
9 3 (0.85%) Packer
9 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.57%) Nagios
11 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.28%) Graylog
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) Podman
11 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (5.11%) Splunk
2 12 (3.41%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.70%) Oracle
4 5 (1.42%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.14%) Databricks
5 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.14%) F5
5 4 (1.14%) SAP
6 3 (0.85%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.85%) VMware
7 2 (0.57%) Cisco
7 2 (0.57%) IBM
7 2 (0.57%) MKS
7 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.57%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.28%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.28%) Meraki
8 1 (0.28%) New Relic
8 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) Zscaler