AWS Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 252 273
Rank change year-on-year -45 +21 -56
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 105 183 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.81% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.86% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 156 184
10th Percentile £368 £463 £425
25th Percentile £428 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England -7 37 £414 -19.66% 12
Scotland +58 25 £470 -10.48% 4
North West +5 24 £456 -8.75% 9
South East -21 19 £600 +2.13% 9
Yorkshire +3 13 £400 -33.33% 3
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
Wales - 2 £666 -
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (60.00%) DevOps
3 57 (54.29%) Terraform
4 53 (50.48%) Kubernetes
4 53 (50.48%) Python
5 40 (38.10%) Docker
6 38 (36.19%) CI/CD
7 34 (32.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (27.62%) Containerisation
9 25 (23.81%) Agile
10 24 (22.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (20.95%) Ansible
11 22 (20.95%) Java
11 22 (20.95%) Bash
11 22 (20.95%) Amazon S3
12 21 (20.00%) SQL
12 21 (20.00%) AWS Certification
13 20 (19.05%) Security Cleared
14 19 (18.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared
15 18 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (17.14%) Jenkins
16 17 (16.19%) GitLab
16 17 (16.19%) Social Skills
17 16 (15.24%) Snowflake
17 16 (15.24%) Serverless
18 15 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (14.29%) Azure
19 14 (13.33%) Linux
19 14 (13.33%) Platform Engineering

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (7.62%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (22.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 22 (20.95%) Amazon S3
4 18 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (15.24%) Serverless
5 16 (15.24%) Snowflake
6 15 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (14.29%) Azure
7 10 (9.52%) OpenShift
8 9 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (7.62%) AWS CodePipeline
10 7 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.71%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (3.81%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (3.81%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) Network Security
2 3 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (0.95%) DHCP
3 1 (0.95%) MPLS
3 1 (0.95%) VPN
3 1 (0.95%) WAN
3 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.48%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (6.67%) MySQL
4 6 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.81%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.81%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.90%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.90%) Tableau
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.95%) Informix
8 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.19%) GitLab
3 7 (6.67%) Git
4 6 (5.71%) Artifactory
4 6 (5.71%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.86%) JIRA
6 2 (1.90%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.95%) AppScan
7 1 (0.95%) JMeter
7 1 (0.95%) Maven
7 1 (0.95%) Selenium
7 1 (0.95%) Subversion
General
1 17 (16.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.57%) Finance
3 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.86%) Banking
6 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Retail
8 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) AWS CDK
2 5 (4.76%) REST
2 5 (4.76%) Spring
3 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.81%) CSS
3 4 (3.81%) HTML
3 4 (3.81%) JPA
3 4 (3.81%) RESTful
3 4 (3.81%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.90%) Node.js
5 2 (1.90%) PySpark
6 1 (0.95%) .NET
6 1 (0.95%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.95%) Kafka
6 1 (0.95%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.95%) Laravel
6 1 (0.95%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.90%) IVR
4 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.33%) Linux
2 7 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.71%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.76%) Windows
5 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.90%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (60.00%) DevOps
2 38 (36.19%) CI/CD
3 34 (32.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (27.62%) Containerisation
5 25 (23.81%) Agile
6 14 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (12.38%) High Availability
8 12 (11.43%) Data Engineering
8 12 (11.43%) ETL
9 11 (10.48%) Computer Science
9 11 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (10.48%) Software Delivery
10 10 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (8.57%) Configuration Management
12 8 (7.62%) DataOps
12 8 (7.62%) GitOps
12 8 (7.62%) MLOps
12 8 (7.62%) Software Engineering
13 7 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (50.48%) Python
2 22 (20.95%) Bash
2 22 (20.95%) Java
3 21 (20.00%) SQL
4 11 (10.48%) Scala
5 8 (7.62%) Groovy
6 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.76%) Go
8 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.81%) Ruby
9 3 (2.86%) C#
9 3 (2.86%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.90%) PHP
10 2 (1.90%) R
11 1 (0.95%) Bicep
11 1 (0.95%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 20 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 19 (18.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.86%) Degree
7 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.90%) IBM Certification
7 2 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.90%) SANS
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.95%) CCIE
8 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) QA
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.95%) NIST
4 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (38.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (54.29%) Terraform
2 53 (50.48%) Kubernetes
3 22 (20.95%) Ansible
4 9 (8.57%) Grafana
5 6 (5.71%) Kibana
6 5 (4.76%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.90%) Graylog
8 2 (1.90%) Nagios
8 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.95%) Nessus
9 1 (0.95%) Puppet
9 1 (0.95%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (8.57%) Databricks
2 6 (5.71%) Splunk
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.90%) Checkmarx
4 2 (1.90%) Cisco
4 2 (1.90%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.90%) IBM
5 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.95%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.95%) Citrix
5 1 (0.95%) F5
5 1 (0.95%) Google
5 1 (0.95%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle
5 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.95%) Veracode
5 1 (0.95%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.95%) VMware
5 1 (0.95%) Zscaler