AWS Contracts in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 29 25
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 64 61 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.38% 5.95% 5.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.62% 20.47% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 52 69
10th Percentile £356 £425 £358
25th Percentile £406 £486 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £611 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% +22.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £575
90th Percentile £708 - £638
England median daily rate £550 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -7.56% +1.28% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.75 £71.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year -24.56% +26.67% -3.02%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 209 298 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.36% 29.04% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 225 303
10th Percentile £166 £181 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £519
90th Percentile £665 £700 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 17
10th Percentile - £15.03 £14.40
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.17 £18.86 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +10.26% +14.03%
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.43 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.53 £26.48 £26.90
England median hourly rate £20.97 £29.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -28.92% +40.48% -2.33%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the East Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Northamptonshire +26 26 £489 -11.09% 6
Nottinghamshire +1 24 £450 -35.71% 30
Leicestershire +20 12 £500 +25.00% 15
Lincolnshire +11 1 - - 5
Derbyshire -7 1 £500 -4.76% 18
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (7.81%) JBoss
2 4 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.13%) Azure
2 11 (17.19%) SaaS
3 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 5 (7.81%) GCP
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.69%) Serverless
6 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.13%) GitHub
7 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.94%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.81%) MySQL
3 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.69%) Big Data
5 3 (4.69%) Pentaho
5 3 (4.69%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.56%) Power BI
6 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (7.81%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (7.81%) Git
2 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
2 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (7.81%) TeamCity
3 4 (6.25%) JMeter
4 3 (4.69%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.13%) JUnit
General
1 15 (23.44%) Finance
2 10 (15.63%) Banking
3 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Legal
5 5 (7.81%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) Architect
2 13 (20.31%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (18.75%) Developer
4 9 (14.06%) IT Manager
5 8 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.50%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
5 8 (12.50%) Service Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.50%) Service Manager
6 6 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Salesforce Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 5 (7.81%) AWS Architect
7 5 (7.81%) AWS Solution Architect
7 5 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Support Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) RESTful
2 6 (9.38%) RAML
3 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.81%) OpenAPI
3 5 (7.81%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.81%) Swagger
4 4 (6.25%) LDAP
4 4 (6.25%) REST
5 3 (4.69%) JSON
5 3 (4.69%) OAuth
5 3 (4.69%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.69%) OpenID
5 3 (4.69%) React
5 3 (4.69%) SAML
6 2 (3.13%) CSS3
6 2 (3.13%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.13%) Jest
6 2 (3.13%) RxJS
6 2 (3.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (3.13%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Virtual Team
2 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.13%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.75%) Windows
2 9 (14.06%) Linux
3 8 (12.50%) Apple iOS
4 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Migration
2 15 (23.44%) DevOps
2 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (18.75%) Architectural Design
3 12 (18.75%) Service Delivery
4 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
5 9 (14.06%) Business Analysis
5 9 (14.06%) People Management
5 9 (14.06%) Service Management
6 8 (12.50%) Change Management
6 8 (12.50%) Information Security
6 8 (12.50%) IT Governance
6 8 (12.50%) ITSM
6 8 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
6 8 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 8 (12.50%) Service Delivery Management
7 7 (10.94%) API Design
7 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.38%) Mentoring
8 6 (9.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.69%) Python
2 17 (26.56%) Java
3 8 (12.50%) Swift
3 8 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.94%) SQL
5 6 (9.38%) C#
6 5 (7.81%) Perl
7 4 (6.25%) Scala
8 3 (4.69%) BeanShell
8 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.13%) PHP
10 1 (1.56%) C
10 1 (1.56%) C++
10 1 (1.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) AWS Certification
2 7 (10.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (9.38%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Degree
5 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) GDPR
1 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) OpenAM
3 3 (4.69%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (20.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) Terraform
3 5 (7.81%) Kibana
3 5 (7.81%) Progress Chef
4 4 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 8 (12.50%) Okta
2 6 (9.38%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.81%) AppDynamics
3 5 (7.81%) Red Hat
3 5 (7.81%) Splunk
4 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.69%) Informatica
4 3 (4.69%) Talend
5 2 (3.13%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) JDA
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) VMware