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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 195 165
Rank change year-on-year -43 -30 +10
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 435 780 1,553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.37% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.45% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 613 1,267
10th Percentile £414 £456 £463
25th Percentile £461 £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 £505 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -10.22% +2.27% +10.28%
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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 16 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 16 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 -57 353 £573 -4.58% 75
London -13 272 £575 -8.00% 44
Work from Home -10 216 £600 -4.00% 63
UK excluding London -22 95 £505 -10.22% 34
North of England -2 31 £463 -15.91% 11
Scotland +41 26 £480 -16.52% 2
North West +17 26 £456 -8.75% 9
South East -12 19 £600 +2.13% 6
South West -19 9 £475 -17.39% 2
Midlands +22 6 £450 -25.00% 11
Yorkshire -7 5 £494 -17.71% 2
West Midlands +20 3 £488 -22.00% 8
East Midlands +14 3 £450 -14.29% 3
East of England +3 2 £625 +20.19% 1
Wales - 2 £666 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 435 (100.00%) AWS
2 232 (53.33%) Python
3 222 (51.03%) DevOps
4 186 (42.76%) Terraform
5 148 (34.02%) CI/CD
6 136 (31.26%) Kubernetes
7 111 (25.52%) Agile
8 104 (23.91%) Finance
9 100 (22.99%) Java
10 98 (22.53%) Security Cleared
11 89 (20.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 87 (20.00%) Serverless
12 87 (20.00%) SC Cleared
13 83 (19.08%) Docker
14 82 (18.85%) JavaScript
15 81 (18.62%) Amazon S3
16 77 (17.70%) Amazon EC2
17 76 (17.47%) AWS Lambda
18 75 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
19 73 (16.78%) Amazon Athena
19 73 (16.78%) Snowflake
20 70 (16.09%) Linux
21 69 (15.86%) SQL
22 67 (15.40%) Software Engineering
23 66 (15.17%) Ansible
24 65 (14.94%) TypeScript
25 64 (14.71%) dbt
26 62 (14.25%) Data Lake
27 58 (13.33%) Asset Management
28 57 (13.10%) 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 75 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (12.87%) Apache
3 8 (1.84%) 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
1 435 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (20.00%) Serverless
3 81 (18.62%) Amazon S3
4 77 (17.70%) Amazon EC2
5 76 (17.47%) AWS Lambda
6 73 (16.78%) Snowflake
7 64 (14.71%) dbt
8 53 (12.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (10.34%) Azure
10 41 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (8.74%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (8.28%) GitHub
14 32 (7.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (5.29%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (4.60%) GCP
18 18 (4.14%) AWS CodePipeline
18 18 (4.14%) Route 53
19 17 (3.91%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.99%) Firewall
2 12 (2.76%) DNS
3 10 (2.30%) 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 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.23%) MPLS
6 1 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.23%) SSL
6 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (16.78%) Amazon Athena
2 62 (14.25%) Data Lake
3 57 (13.10%) Apache Arrow
3 57 (13.10%) Dremio
4 41 (9.43%) Apache Ignite
5 40 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (5.29%) Big Data
9 17 (3.91%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (2.76%) MySQL
10 12 (2.76%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.84%) Flink
11 8 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.61%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.15%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 47 (10.80%) Git
3 38 (8.74%) GitLab
4 17 (3.91%) JIRA
5 8 (1.84%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.84%) 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%) Ant
10 1 (0.23%) AppScan
10 1 (0.23%) VisualWorks
General
1 104 (23.91%) Finance
2 49 (11.26%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.11%) Banking
4 42 (9.66%) Front Office
5 36 (8.28%) Investment Banking
6 27 (6.21%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.07%) Law
9 8 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.61%) Retail
11 4 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.10%) gRPC
1 57 (13.10%) Protocol Buffers
2 46 (10.57%) NumPy
2 46 (10.57%) Pandas
3 41 (9.43%) SciPy
4 24 (5.52%) Kafka
5 21 (4.83%) AWS CDK
5 21 (4.83%) React
6 18 (4.14%) PySpark
7 16 (3.68%) .NET
8 15 (3.45%) Node.js
9 14 (3.22%) REST
10 13 (2.99%) AngularJS
10 13 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (2.76%) CSS
12 9 (2.07%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (1.84%) .NET Core
13 8 (1.84%) Redux
13 8 (1.84%) Spring Boot
13 8 (1.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.57%) Hedge funds
2 38 (8.74%) Fixed Income
3 30 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (6.44%) Derivative
4 28 (6.44%) Equities
5 17 (3.91%) Clustering
6 14 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.22%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.30%) 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%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.09%) Linux
2 24 (5.52%) Windows
3 13 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.84%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.38%) 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
1 222 (51.03%) DevOps
2 148 (34.02%) CI/CD
3 111 (25.52%) Agile
4 89 (20.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (15.40%) Software Engineering
6 58 (13.33%) Asset Management
7 52 (11.95%) Investment Management
8 51 (11.72%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (11.26%) Containerisation
10 41 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
11 40 (9.20%) Data Engineering
12 36 (8.28%) ETL
13 34 (7.82%) Analytics
13 34 (7.82%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 26 (5.98%) Computer Science
17 24 (5.52%) Machine Learning
18 23 (5.29%) Migration
18 23 (5.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 232 (53.33%) Python
2 100 (22.99%) Java
3 82 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 69 (15.86%) SQL
5 65 (14.94%) TypeScript
6 52 (11.95%) Bash
7 34 (7.82%) Go
8 18 (4.14%) C#
9 15 (3.45%) Scala
9 15 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 13 (2.99%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.53%) Groovy
12 9 (2.07%) C
12 9 (2.07%) C++
12 9 (2.07%) Ruby
13 7 (1.61%) PHP
13 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.92%) Perl
14 4 (0.92%) R
15 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 98 (22.53%) Security Cleared
2 87 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.82%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.29%) Degree
5 16 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (2.76%) 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 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.92%) NCSC
3 4 (0.92%) NIST
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.46%) GDPR
4 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.46%) QA
5 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (19.08%) Docker
2 6 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 186 (42.76%) Terraform
2 136 (31.26%) Kubernetes
3 66 (15.17%) Ansible
4 30 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.60%) Grafana
6 10 (2.30%) Kibana
6 10 (2.30%) Puppet
7 9 (2.07%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.15%) Argo
8 5 (1.15%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.92%) Nagios
10 3 (0.69%) Consul
10 3 (0.69%) Graylog
10 3 (0.69%) Packer
10 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.23%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.23%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 25 (5.75%) Splunk
2 18 (4.14%) Databricks
3 12 (2.76%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.07%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.84%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.61%) Oracle
7 4 (0.92%) F5
7 4 (0.92%) Informatica
7 4 (0.92%) SAP
8 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
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%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.23%) Talend