AWS Engineer Contracts

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 201 153
Rank change year-on-year -51 -48 +26
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 417 809 1,645
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.37% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.44% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 637 1,334
10th Percentile £418 £456 £463
25th Percentile £461 £506 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England -51 336 £550 -8.33% 76
London -37 253 £575 -8.00% 44
Work from Home -19 205 £586 -2.29% 58
UK excluding London -29 95 £511 -7.05% 37
North of England +2 32 £463 -13.95% 9
Scotland +38 26 £480 -7.60% 1
North West +12 26 £456 -8.75% 8
South East -11 17 £600 +2.13% 6
South West -8 12 £475 -17.39% 4
Yorkshire +3 6 £525 -12.50% 1
Midlands +23 5 £450 -25.00% 12
East Midlands +22 3 £450 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +18 2 £488 -22.00% 9
Wales - 2 £666 - 2
East of England +7 1 £650 +25.00%

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 417 (100.00%) AWS
2 217 (52.04%) DevOps
2 217 (52.04%) Python
3 176 (42.21%) Terraform
4 143 (34.29%) CI/CD
5 130 (31.18%) Kubernetes
6 101 (24.22%) Agile
7 96 (23.02%) Security Cleared
7 96 (23.02%) Serverless
8 93 (22.30%) Finance
9 91 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 86 (20.62%) Java
10 86 (20.62%) SC Cleared
11 84 (20.14%) Amazon S3
11 84 (20.14%) AWS Lambda
12 80 (19.18%) Docker
13 76 (18.23%) Amazon EC2
14 67 (16.07%) SQL
14 67 (16.07%) Linux
15 63 (15.11%) JavaScript
16 62 (14.87%) Ansible
17 61 (14.63%) Snowflake
18 60 (14.39%) Amazon Athena
19 59 (14.15%) Software Engineering
20 57 (13.67%) Apache Airflow
21 53 (12.71%) Social Skills
22 52 (12.47%) Containerisation
22 52 (12.47%) Data Lake
22 52 (12.47%) Bash
23 51 (12.23%) TypeScript

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 57 (13.67%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (11.03%) Apache
3 9 (2.16%) Confluence
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 417 (100.00%) AWS
2 96 (23.02%) Serverless
3 84 (20.14%) Amazon S3
3 84 (20.14%) AWS Lambda
4 76 (18.23%) Amazon EC2
5 61 (14.63%) Snowflake
6 51 (12.23%) dbt
7 50 (11.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (11.75%) Azure
9 41 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (9.83%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (9.35%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (8.15%) GitHub
12 32 (7.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (6.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 26 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (4.80%) GCP
15 19 (4.56%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (4.32%) Route 53
17 17 (4.08%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.12%) Firewall
2 12 (2.88%) DNS
3 8 (1.92%) Network Security
4 4 (0.96%) DHCP
5 3 (0.72%) IPv4
5 3 (0.72%) LAN
5 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.72%) SMTP
5 3 (0.72%) VPN
5 3 (0.72%) WLAN
6 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.24%) MPLS
6 1 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.24%) SSL
6 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.39%) Amazon Athena
2 52 (12.47%) Data Lake
3 43 (10.31%) Apache Arrow
3 43 (10.31%) Dremio
4 39 (9.35%) Amazon RDS
5 37 (8.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 31 (7.43%) Apache Ignite
7 28 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.56%) Big Data
9 18 (4.32%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.64%) MySQL
11 11 (2.64%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.92%) Flink
13 6 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.20%) Tableau
15 4 (0.96%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (12.23%) Jenkins
2 45 (10.79%) Git
3 40 (9.59%) GitLab
4 19 (4.56%) JIRA
5 8 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.20%) Maven
7 4 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.96%) JMeter
7 4 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.72%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.72%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.48%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.48%) Snyk
9 2 (0.48%) Subversion
9 2 (0.48%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.24%) Storybook
10 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 93 (22.30%) Finance
2 53 (12.71%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.63%) Banking
4 31 (7.43%) Front Office
5 29 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.71%) Investment Banking
7 11 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.16%) Law
9 8 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.92%) Retail
10 5 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Marketing
12 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.24%) Back Office
13 1 (0.24%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.24%) Electronics
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.24%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.24%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.31%) gRPC
1 43 (10.31%) Protocol Buffers
2 35 (8.39%) NumPy
2 35 (8.39%) Pandas
3 31 (7.43%) SciPy
4 24 (5.76%) Kafka
5 22 (5.28%) PySpark
6 21 (5.04%) AWS CDK
7 19 (4.56%) React
8 15 (3.60%) REST
9 13 (3.12%) .NET
9 13 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (3.12%) Node.js
10 11 (2.64%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.64%) CSS
11 9 (2.16%) Lambda Expressions
12 8 (1.92%) Spring
13 7 (1.68%) .NET Core
13 7 (1.68%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.91%) Hedge funds
2 28 (6.71%) Fixed Income
3 22 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (4.80%) Derivative
4 20 (4.80%) Equities
5 15 (3.60%) Public Cloud
6 13 (3.12%) Clustering
6 13 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.44%) Pricing Data
10 5 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.20%) PKI
11 4 (0.96%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.72%) Life Science
13 2 (0.48%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (16.07%) Linux
2 25 (6.00%) Windows
3 13 (3.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.68%) Unix
7 3 (0.72%) Debian
8 2 (0.48%) VMS
9 1 (0.24%) Android
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (52.04%) DevOps
2 143 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 101 (24.22%) Agile
4 91 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (14.15%) Software Engineering
6 52 (12.47%) Containerisation
7 51 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
8 45 (10.79%) Asset Management
9 42 (10.07%) Data Engineering
10 38 (9.11%) Investment Management
10 38 (9.11%) Platform Engineering
11 35 (8.39%) Analytics
11 35 (8.39%) ETL
12 34 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 33 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 25 (6.00%) Test Automation
15 24 (5.76%) Microservices
15 24 (5.76%) Migration
16 21 (5.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 217 (52.04%) Python
2 86 (20.62%) Java
3 67 (16.07%) SQL
4 63 (15.11%) JavaScript
5 52 (12.47%) Bash
6 51 (12.23%) TypeScript
7 28 (6.71%) Go
8 18 (4.32%) C#
9 15 (3.60%) Scala
10 13 (3.12%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.88%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.64%) Groovy
13 7 (1.68%) C
13 7 (1.68%) C++
13 7 (1.68%) PHP
13 7 (1.68%) Ruby
14 6 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.96%) Perl
15 4 (0.96%) R
16 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (23.02%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.91%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.32%) Degree
5 14 (3.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 13 (3.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.48%) SANS
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CCIE
10 1 (0.24%) CISA
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CISM
10 1 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.96%) NCSC
3 4 (0.96%) NIST
4 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.48%) GDPR
4 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.48%) QA
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (19.18%) Docker
2 7 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 176 (42.21%) Terraform
2 130 (31.18%) Kubernetes
3 62 (14.87%) Ansible
4 25 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.80%) Grafana
6 10 (2.40%) Kibana
6 10 (2.40%) Puppet
7 9 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.20%) Argo
8 5 (1.20%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.72%) Consul
9 3 (0.72%) Graylog
9 3 (0.72%) Nagios
9 3 (0.72%) Packer
9 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.24%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.24%) Nessus
11 1 (0.24%) Podman
11 1 (0.24%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 20 (4.80%) Splunk
2 17 (4.08%) Databricks
3 13 (3.12%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.16%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.44%) Oracle
7 5 (1.20%) SAP
8 4 (0.96%) F5
8 4 (0.96%) Informatica
8 4 (0.96%) UiPath
9 3 (0.72%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.72%) Google
9 3 (0.72%) VMware
10 2 (0.48%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco
10 2 (0.48%) IBM
10 2 (0.48%) MKS
10 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.48%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.24%) Cylance