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 in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 182 153
Rank change year-on-year -44 -29 +32
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 387 676 1,296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 1.44% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.52% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 545 1,051
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £450 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £788 £694 £688
90th Percentile £850 £805 £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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 12 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
London -11 298 £575 -8.00% 41
North of England -7 37 £414 -19.66% 13
North West +5 24 £456 -8.75% 9
South East -21 19 £600 +2.13% 10
Yorkshire +3 13 £400 -33.33% 4
South West -19 12 £475 -19.15% 4
Midlands +14 7 £450 -14.29% 9
West Midlands +15 5 £488 -9.30% 5
East of England -2 3 £600 +15.38% 1
East Midlands +7 2 £450 -14.29% 4
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 387 (100.00%) AWS
2 222 (57.36%) Python
3 180 (46.51%) DevOps
4 163 (42.12%) Terraform
5 123 (31.78%) Kubernetes
6 114 (29.46%) CI/CD
7 110 (28.42%) Finance
8 102 (26.36%) Java
9 101 (26.10%) JavaScript
10 99 (25.58%) Agile
11 95 (24.55%) Amazon Athena
12 89 (23.00%) Apache Airflow
12 89 (23.00%) Security Cleared
13 84 (21.71%) SC Cleared
14 83 (21.45%) Software Engineering
15 82 (21.19%) TypeScript
16 81 (20.93%) Snowflake
17 79 (20.41%) dbt
18 78 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (20.16%) Data Lake
18 78 (20.16%) Asset Management
19 77 (19.90%) gRPC
19 77 (19.90%) Protocol Buffers
19 77 (19.90%) Dremio
19 77 (19.90%) Apache Arrow
20 76 (19.64%) Docker
21 74 (19.12%) Amazon S3
22 73 (18.86%) Apache
23 71 (18.35%) Investment Management
24 67 (17.31%) Amazon EC2

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 89 (23.00%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (18.86%) Apache
3 13 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.03%) Confluence
4 4 (1.03%) nginx
5 3 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 387 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (20.93%) Snowflake
3 79 (20.41%) dbt
4 74 (19.12%) Amazon S3
5 67 (17.31%) Amazon EC2
6 65 (16.80%) Serverless
7 53 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (9.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (9.04%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (8.01%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (7.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (7.49%) Azure
12 25 (6.46%) GitHub
12 25 (6.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (5.94%) GCP
14 19 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (4.65%) Amazon EMR
16 15 (3.88%) AWS CodePipeline
17 14 (3.62%) Amazon Kinesis
17 14 (3.62%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.84%) DNS
1 11 (2.84%) Firewall
2 8 (2.07%) Network Security
3 4 (1.03%) DHCP
4 3 (0.78%) IPv4
4 3 (0.78%) LAN
4 3 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.78%) SMTP
4 3 (0.78%) VPN
4 3 (0.78%) WLAN
5 2 (0.52%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.52%) SSL
6 1 (0.26%) MPLS
6 1 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (24.55%) Amazon Athena
2 78 (20.16%) Data Lake
3 77 (19.90%) Apache Arrow
3 77 (19.90%) Dremio
4 59 (15.25%) Apache Ignite
5 38 (9.82%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (7.49%) Big Data
7 26 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.62%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.58%) MySQL
11 7 (1.81%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.55%) Data Mining
13 5 (1.29%) Flink
14 4 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.03%) Tableau
15 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (11.37%) Jenkins
2 36 (9.30%) Git
3 32 (8.27%) GitLab
4 8 (2.07%) JIRA
5 6 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.03%) JMeter
7 3 (0.78%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.78%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.52%) Maven
8 2 (0.52%) Snyk
8 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.52%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.26%) Gradle
9 1 (0.26%) Selenium
9 1 (0.26%) VisualWorks
General
1 110 (28.42%) Finance
2 60 (15.50%) Front Office
3 57 (14.73%) Banking
4 51 (13.18%) Investment Banking
5 42 (10.85%) Social Skills
6 31 (8.01%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.33%) Law
8 8 (2.07%) Retail
9 6 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Czech Language
12 1 (0.26%) Marketing
12 1 (0.26%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (19.90%) gRPC
1 77 (19.90%) Protocol Buffers
2 64 (16.54%) Pandas
3 63 (16.28%) NumPy
4 59 (15.25%) SciPy
5 26 (6.72%) React
6 22 (5.68%) Kafka
7 19 (4.91%) .NET
8 18 (4.65%) Node.js
9 17 (4.39%) PySpark
10 12 (3.10%) .NET Core
11 11 (2.84%) CSS
11 11 (2.84%) Redux
11 11 (2.84%) Vue
12 10 (2.58%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.58%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.07%) Lambda Expressions
14 7 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
15 6 (1.55%) REST
16 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.05%) Hedge funds
2 59 (15.25%) Fixed Income
3 48 (12.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 46 (11.89%) Derivative
4 46 (11.89%) Equities
5 18 (4.65%) Clustering
6 16 (4.13%) Pricing Data
7 13 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.78%) Life Science
10 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.78%) PKI
10 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.52%) IVR
11 2 (0.52%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.47%) Linux
2 13 (3.36%) Windows
3 8 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.07%) Unix
4 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.52%) Debian
6 1 (0.26%) Android
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (46.51%) DevOps
2 114 (29.46%) CI/CD
3 99 (25.58%) Agile
4 83 (21.45%) Software Engineering
5 78 (20.16%) Asset Management
5 78 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (18.35%) Investment Management
7 46 (11.89%) Containerisation
8 35 (9.04%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (8.01%) Analytics
9 31 (8.01%) ETL
10 30 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (7.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (6.72%) Data Engineering
12 26 (6.72%) Greeks
12 26 (6.72%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (5.68%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (5.43%) Migration
15 20 (5.17%) Machine Learning
15 20 (5.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 222 (57.36%) Python
2 102 (26.36%) Java
3 101 (26.10%) JavaScript
4 82 (21.19%) TypeScript
5 64 (16.54%) SQL
6 41 (10.59%) Bash
7 35 (9.04%) Go
8 18 (4.65%) C#
9 11 (2.84%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.84%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.58%) C
10 10 (2.58%) C++
10 10 (2.58%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.81%) Ruby
12 6 (1.55%) PHP
13 5 (1.29%) Scala
14 4 (1.03%) Groovy
15 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.52%) R
16 1 (0.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 89 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 84 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.82%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 16 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.13%) Degree
6 14 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.78%) CISA
7 3 (0.78%) CISM
7 3 (0.78%) CISSP
7 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.52%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.26%) CCIE
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.03%) NIST
3 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.52%) GDPR
4 2 (0.52%) NCSC
5 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.26%) QA
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (19.64%) Docker
2 6 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 163 (42.12%) Terraform
2 123 (31.78%) Kubernetes
3 52 (13.44%) Ansible
4 27 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.84%) Grafana
6 8 (2.07%) Puppet
7 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.03%) Argo
8 4 (1.03%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.03%) Kibana
8 4 (1.03%) Packer
9 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.52%) Nagios
11 1 (0.26%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.26%) Consul
11 1 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.26%) Graylog
11 1 (0.26%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.26%) logstash
11 1 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (4.65%) Splunk
2 9 (2.33%) Databricks
2 9 (2.33%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.29%) Oracle
5 4 (1.03%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.03%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.03%) F5
5 4 (1.03%) Reuters
5 4 (1.03%) SAP
6 3 (0.78%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.78%) Cisco
6 3 (0.78%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.52%) IBM
7 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.52%) VMware
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.26%) Qualys
8 1 (0.26%) Zscaler