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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 191 164
Rank change year-on-year -37 -27 +16
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 439 777 1,515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.39% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.47% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 608 1,206
10th Percentile £413 £463 £459
25th Percentile £453 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £850 £798 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -60 359 £573 -4.58% 78
London -11 283 £575 -8.00% 43
Work from Home -3 227 £600 -4.00% 56
UK excluding London -44 93 £500 -13.04% 37
North of England -4 31 £450 -14.29% 10
Scotland +44 26 £480 -8.57% 4
North West +16 25 £450 -10.00% 7
South East -23 19 £600 +2.13% 8
South West -19 8 £475 -17.39% 3
Yorkshire 0 6 £425 -29.17% 3
Midlands +18 5 £450 -18.18% 10
West Midlands +9 3 £488 -22.00% 6
East Midlands +12 2 £450 -14.29% 4
East of England -3 2 £625 +20.19% 2
Wales - 2 £666 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 439 (100.00%) AWS
2 239 (54.44%) Python
3 225 (51.25%) DevOps
4 189 (43.05%) Terraform
5 141 (32.12%) Kubernetes
6 139 (31.66%) CI/CD
7 113 (25.74%) Agile
8 111 (25.28%) Finance
9 103 (23.46%) Java
10 102 (23.23%) Security Cleared
11 92 (20.96%) SC Cleared
12 91 (20.73%) JavaScript
13 87 (19.82%) Docker
14 86 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
15 83 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 82 (18.68%) Snowflake
17 80 (18.22%) Serverless
17 80 (18.22%) Amazon Athena
18 79 (18.00%) Amazon S3
19 74 (16.86%) Software Engineering
20 73 (16.63%) Amazon EC2
20 73 (16.63%) TypeScript
21 72 (16.40%) dbt
22 69 (15.72%) Data Lake
22 69 (15.72%) AWS Lambda
23 67 (15.26%) Asset Management
23 67 (15.26%) SQL
23 67 (15.26%) Linux
24 66 (15.03%) gRPC
24 66 (15.03%) Protocol Buffers

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 86 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (14.12%) Apache
3 12 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.59%) Confluence
5 4 (0.91%) nginx
6 3 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.23%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.23%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 439 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (18.68%) Snowflake
3 80 (18.22%) Serverless
4 79 (18.00%) Amazon S3
5 73 (16.63%) Amazon EC2
6 72 (16.40%) dbt
7 69 (15.72%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (11.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (9.79%) Azure
10 38 (8.66%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (8.20%) GitHub
13 35 (7.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (4.33%) GCP
16 17 (3.87%) SaaS
17 16 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (3.64%) Route 53
18 15 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.73%) Firewall
2 11 (2.51%) DNS
3 9 (2.05%) Network Security
4 4 (0.91%) DHCP
5 3 (0.68%) IPv4
5 3 (0.68%) LAN
5 3 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.68%) SMTP
5 3 (0.68%) VPN
5 3 (0.68%) WLAN
6 2 (0.46%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.46%) SSL
7 1 (0.23%) MPLS
7 1 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.23%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (18.22%) Amazon Athena
2 69 (15.72%) Data Lake
3 66 (15.03%) Apache Arrow
3 66 (15.03%) Dremio
4 48 (10.93%) Apache Ignite
5 39 (8.88%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (7.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (6.61%) Big Data
8 25 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (3.64%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.73%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.28%) MySQL
12 7 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.59%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.14%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.14%) Flink
15 4 (0.91%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (12.30%) Jenkins
2 44 (10.02%) Git
3 40 (9.11%) GitLab
4 15 (3.42%) JIRA
5 8 (1.82%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.91%) JMeter
7 3 (0.68%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.68%) Maven
7 3 (0.68%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.46%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.46%) Snyk
8 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.46%) Subversion
8 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.46%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.23%) Storybook
General
1 111 (25.28%) Finance
2 50 (11.39%) Banking
3 49 (11.16%) Front Office
4 45 (10.25%) Social Skills
5 41 (9.34%) Investment Banking
6 34 (7.74%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.05%) Law
8 8 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.82%) Retail
9 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.03%) gRPC
1 66 (15.03%) Protocol Buffers
2 53 (12.07%) NumPy
2 53 (12.07%) Pandas
3 48 (10.93%) SciPy
4 23 (5.24%) React
5 21 (4.78%) Kafka
6 17 (3.87%) AWS CDK
6 17 (3.87%) Node.js
7 16 (3.64%) .NET
7 16 (3.64%) PySpark
8 15 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 13 (2.96%) CSS
9 13 (2.96%) REST
10 10 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (2.28%) Redux
10 10 (2.28%) Vue
11 9 (2.05%) .NET Core
11 9 (2.05%) Lambda Expressions
11 9 (2.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (12.76%) Hedge funds
2 48 (10.93%) Fixed Income
3 38 (8.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (8.20%) Derivative
4 36 (8.20%) Equities
5 19 (4.33%) Clustering
6 14 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.19%) Pricing Data
7 13 (2.96%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.68%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.68%) Life Science
9 3 (0.68%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.68%) PKI
9 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.46%) IVR
10 2 (0.46%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.26%) Linux
2 20 (4.56%) Windows
3 14 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.59%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.59%) Unix
6 2 (0.46%) Debian
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (51.25%) DevOps
2 139 (31.66%) CI/CD
3 113 (25.74%) Agile
4 83 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (16.86%) Software Engineering
6 67 (15.26%) Asset Management
7 64 (14.58%) Investment Management
8 50 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (11.16%) Containerisation
10 37 (8.43%) Data Engineering
11 34 (7.74%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (7.52%) ETL
12 33 (7.52%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (7.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 31 (7.06%) Analytics
13 31 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 27 (6.15%) Migration
15 24 (5.47%) Computer Science
16 22 (5.01%) Greeks
16 22 (5.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 239 (54.44%) Python
2 103 (23.46%) Java
3 91 (20.73%) JavaScript
4 73 (16.63%) TypeScript
5 67 (15.26%) SQL
6 51 (11.62%) Bash
7 37 (8.43%) Go
8 18 (4.10%) C#
9 13 (2.96%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.73%) Scala
11 11 (2.51%) PowerShell
12 10 (2.28%) C
12 10 (2.28%) C++
12 10 (2.28%) Groovy
13 9 (2.05%) Ruby
14 8 (1.82%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.59%) PHP
16 4 (0.91%) Perl
17 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.96%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.74%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.78%) Degree
5 17 (3.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.68%) CISA
10 3 (0.68%) CISM
10 3 (0.68%) CISSP
11 2 (0.46%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.46%) SANS
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.23%) CCIE
12 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.91%) NCSC
2 4 (0.91%) NIST
3 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.46%) GDPR
4 2 (0.46%) QA
5 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (19.82%) Docker
2 7 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 189 (43.05%) Terraform
2 141 (32.12%) Kubernetes
3 65 (14.81%) Ansible
4 31 (7.06%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.78%) Grafana
6 10 (2.28%) Kibana
7 9 (2.05%) Puppet
8 8 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.14%) Argo
9 5 (1.14%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.91%) Nagios
10 4 (0.91%) Packer
11 3 (0.68%) Graylog
11 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.46%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.23%) Consul
13 1 (0.23%) logstash
13 1 (0.23%) Nessus
13 1 (0.23%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 26 (5.92%) Splunk
2 20 (4.56%) Databricks
3 10 (2.28%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.05%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.37%) Oracle
7 4 (0.91%) F5
7 4 (0.91%) SAP
8 3 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.68%) Cisco
8 3 (0.68%) Informatica
8 3 (0.68%) UiPath
9 2 (0.46%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.46%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.46%) IBM
9 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.46%) VMware
10 1 (0.23%) New Relic
10 1 (0.23%) Veracode