AWS Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £550, 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 558 683 804
Rank change year-on-year +125 +121 -96
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 26 14 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.025% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.027% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 30
10th Percentile £416 £480 £497
25th Percentile £506 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £725 £605
90th Percentile £638 £800 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £538 £350
% change year-on-year +11.63% +53.57% -32.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer within the UK 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
England +101 26 £550 +4.76% 3
London +98 24 £535 +7.00%
Work from Home +117 9 £600 +20.00% 2
UK excluding London +28 2 £600 +11.63% 4
South East - 2 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) AWS
1 26 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (57.69%) DevOps
3 12 (46.15%) Terraform
3 12 (46.15%) Linux
4 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
5 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (23.08%) Finance
5 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
6 5 (19.23%) Git
6 5 (19.23%) Python
6 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
7 4 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
7 4 (15.38%) B2C
7 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
7 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
7 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 4 (15.38%) SaaS
7 4 (15.38%) PaaS
7 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
7 4 (15.38%) SDLC
8 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
8 3 (11.54%) Microservices
8 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud

AWS Infrastructure 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 3 (11.54%) Apache
1 3 (11.54%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 4 (15.38%) PaaS
3 4 (15.38%) SaaS
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (11.54%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (11.54%) Azure
4 3 (11.54%) Cloudflare
4 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
1 3 (11.54%) SMTP
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Sisense
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) VisualWorks
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) AWS CDK
2 2 (7.69%) J2EE
2 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (57.69%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (15.38%) B2C
5 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 4 (15.38%) SDLC
6 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (11.54%) Incident Response
6 3 (11.54%) ITIL
6 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
6 3 (11.54%) Microservices
6 3 (11.54%) Migration
6 3 (11.54%) Workflow
7 2 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.69%) Visualisation
8 1 (3.85%) Decision-Making
8 1 (3.85%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) PHP
2 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) C
3 2 (7.69%) C++
3 2 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.54%) Puppet
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) F5
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) SAP