AWS Engineer Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > South East

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the South East is £600, 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 181 160 208
Rank change year-on-year -21 +48 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 19 55 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.97% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 1.03% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 53 20
10th Percentile £475 £481 £475
25th Percentile £513 £513 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £573
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +2.62% +20.53%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £603
90th Percentile £702 £645 £641
England median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +11.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,301 5,353 7,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 94.53% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 3,704 5,019
10th Percentile £243 £213 £211
25th Percentile £400 £387 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 234 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.33 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.82 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%
75th Percentile £66.74 £66.21 £47.44
90th Percentile £79.88 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the South East

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the South East

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the South East

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +13 7 £600 +14.29% 3
Berkshire -4 6 £600 -14.29% 1
Hampshire -10 4 £563 +13.92% 1
Surrey -24 4 £663 +10.42% 2
Kent - 2 £500 -
East Sussex - 2 £538 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £475 - 1
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Ansible
3 5 (26.32%) Terraform
4 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.79%) Azure
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
5 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
5 3 (15.79%) Linux
5 3 (15.79%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) DNS
5 3 (15.79%) Finance
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (10.53%) Windows
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.53%) Datadog
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) DHCP
3 1 (5.26%) MPLS
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) IVR
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Debian
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps
2 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps
4 2 (10.53%) ETL
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.26%) Network Architecture
5 1 (5.26%) Resource Management
5 1 (5.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) Groovy
2 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.26%) C
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
1 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) CCIE
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco
1 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Citrix
2 1 (5.26%) F5
2 1 (5.26%) Guidewire
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Virgin Media
2 1 (5.26%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Zscaler