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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 190 164
Rank change year-on-year -37 -26 +16
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 436 791 1,554
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.38% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.46% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 620 1,262
10th Percentile £413 £462 £463
25th Percentile £460 £506 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 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 20 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 -49 354 £573 -4.58% 107
London -10 274 £575 -8.00% 72
Work from Home -5 220 £600 -4.00% 84
UK excluding London -38 94 £500 -9.09% 52
North of England -2 31 £463 -11.90% 9
Scotland +47 26 £480 -16.52% 2
North West +11 26 £456 -8.75% 8
South East -6 19 £600 +2.13% 22
South West -22 9 £475 -17.39% 5
Midlands +12 5 £450 -25.00% 11
Yorkshire -3 5 £494 -17.71% 1
West Midlands +15 3 £488 -22.00% 8
East Midlands +17 2 £450 -14.29% 3
East of England +4 2 £625 +20.19% 3
Wales - 2 £666 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 436 (100.00%) AWS
2 233 (53.44%) Python
3 226 (51.83%) DevOps
4 189 (43.35%) Terraform
5 148 (33.94%) CI/CD
6 138 (31.65%) Kubernetes
7 111 (25.46%) Agile
8 106 (24.31%) Finance
9 100 (22.94%) Java
10 97 (22.25%) Security Cleared
11 89 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 87 (19.95%) Serverless
13 86 (19.72%) SC Cleared
14 84 (19.27%) Docker
15 83 (19.04%) JavaScript
16 82 (18.81%) Amazon S3
17 78 (17.89%) Amazon EC2
18 77 (17.66%) Apache Airflow
19 76 (17.43%) AWS Lambda
20 75 (17.20%) Amazon Athena
21 74 (16.97%) Snowflake
22 71 (16.28%) Linux
23 67 (15.37%) SQL
23 67 (15.37%) Software Engineering
23 67 (15.37%) Ansible
24 66 (15.14%) dbt
25 65 (14.91%) TypeScript
26 63 (14.45%) Data Lake
27 60 (13.76%) Asset Management
28 59 (13.53%) gRPC

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 77 (17.66%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (12.61%) Apache
3 8 (1.83%) Confluence
4 7 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.15%) nginx
6 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.23%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.23%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 436 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (19.95%) Serverless
3 82 (18.81%) Amazon S3
4 78 (17.89%) Amazon EC2
5 76 (17.43%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (16.97%) Snowflake
7 66 (15.14%) dbt
8 53 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (10.32%) Azure
10 42 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (8.72%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (8.26%) GitHub
14 32 (7.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (5.28%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (4.59%) GCP
18 18 (4.13%) AWS CodePipeline
18 18 (4.13%) Route 53
19 17 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.98%) Firewall
2 12 (2.75%) DNS
3 10 (2.29%) Network Security
4 4 (0.92%) DHCP
5 3 (0.69%) IPv4
5 3 (0.69%) LAN
5 3 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.69%) SMTP
5 3 (0.69%) VPN
5 3 (0.69%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (17.20%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (14.45%) Data Lake
3 59 (13.53%) Apache Arrow
3 59 (13.53%) Dremio
4 41 (9.40%) Apache Ignite
5 40 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (7.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (5.73%) Big Data
7 25 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.90%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.75%) MySQL
9 12 (2.75%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.61%) Flink
11 7 (1.61%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.15%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (13.30%) Jenkins
2 47 (10.78%) Git
3 38 (8.72%) GitLab
4 17 (3.90%) JIRA
5 8 (1.83%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.83%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.15%) Maven
7 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.92%) JMeter
8 3 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.69%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.69%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.46%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.46%) Snyk
9 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.46%) Subversion
9 2 (0.46%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.23%) Gatling
10 1 (0.23%) Storybook
10 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 106 (24.31%) Finance
2 49 (11.24%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.09%) Banking
4 42 (9.63%) Front Office
5 36 (8.26%) Investment Banking
6 28 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.06%) Law
8 8 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.61%) Retail
10 4 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Marketing
12 1 (0.23%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.53%) gRPC
1 59 (13.53%) Protocol Buffers
2 46 (10.55%) NumPy
2 46 (10.55%) Pandas
3 41 (9.40%) SciPy
4 24 (5.50%) Kafka
5 21 (4.82%) AWS CDK
6 20 (4.59%) React
7 18 (4.13%) PySpark
8 16 (3.67%) .NET
9 15 (3.44%) Node.js
10 14 (3.21%) REST
11 13 (2.98%) AngularJS
11 13 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.75%) CSS
13 9 (2.06%) Lambda Expressions
14 8 (1.83%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.83%) Redux
14 8 (1.83%) Spring Boot
14 8 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.01%) Hedge funds
2 38 (8.72%) Fixed Income
3 30 (6.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (6.42%) Derivative
4 28 (6.42%) Equities
5 19 (4.36%) Clustering
6 14 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.21%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.29%) Pricing Data
9 6 (1.38%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.15%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.92%) PKI
12 3 (0.69%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.69%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (16.28%) Linux
2 24 (5.50%) Windows
3 14 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.61%) Unix
7 3 (0.69%) Debian
8 2 (0.46%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) Android
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (51.83%) DevOps
2 148 (33.94%) CI/CD
3 111 (25.46%) Agile
4 89 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (15.37%) Software Engineering
6 60 (13.76%) Asset Management
7 54 (12.39%) Investment Management
8 51 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (11.24%) Containerisation
10 41 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (8.72%) Data Engineering
12 35 (8.03%) ETL
12 35 (8.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 34 (7.80%) Analytics
13 34 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (5.96%) Computer Science
16 24 (5.50%) Machine Learning
17 23 (5.28%) Migration
17 23 (5.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 233 (53.44%) Python
2 100 (22.94%) Java
3 83 (19.04%) JavaScript
4 67 (15.37%) SQL
5 65 (14.91%) TypeScript
6 52 (11.93%) Bash
7 36 (8.26%) Go
8 18 (4.13%) C#
9 16 (3.67%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.21%) Scala
11 13 (2.98%) PowerShell
12 11 (2.52%) Groovy
13 9 (2.06%) C
13 9 (2.06%) C++
13 9 (2.06%) Ruby
14 7 (1.61%) PHP
14 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.92%) Perl
15 4 (0.92%) R
16 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 97 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 86 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.80%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.28%) Degree
5 16 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.69%) CISA
9 3 (0.69%) CISM
9 3 (0.69%) CISSP
10 2 (0.46%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.46%) SANS
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CCIE
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.92%) NCSC
3 4 (0.92%) NIST
4 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) QA
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (19.27%) Docker
2 7 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 189 (43.35%) Terraform
2 138 (31.65%) Kubernetes
3 67 (15.37%) Ansible
4 33 (7.57%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.82%) Grafana
6 10 (2.29%) Kibana
6 10 (2.29%) Puppet
7 9 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.15%) Argo
8 5 (1.15%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.92%) Nagios
9 4 (0.92%) Packer
10 3 (0.69%) Consul
10 3 (0.69%) Graylog
10 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.46%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (5.73%) Splunk
2 18 (4.13%) Databricks
3 13 (2.98%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.06%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.83%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.38%) Oracle
7 4 (0.92%) F5
7 4 (0.92%) SAP
8 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.69%) Informatica
8 3 (0.69%) UiPath
8 3 (0.69%) VMware
9 2 (0.46%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco
9 2 (0.46%) IBM
9 2 (0.46%) MKS
9 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.23%) Meraki
10 1 (0.23%) Veracode