AWS Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,616 6,224 10,378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.73% 12.28% 14.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.50% 33.56% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,722 7,919
10th Percentile £379 £431 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £591 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.21% +12.38%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 53 22
10th Percentile £22.17 £22.24 £46.25
25th Percentile £27.75 £39.60 £48.29
Median hourly rate £52.50 £72.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +28.89% -3.02%
75th Percentile £71.87 £78.00 £74.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £87.39 £82.30
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £72.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.12% +32.27% +32.53%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,854 18,544 27,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.89% 36.60% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,537 13,550 20,064
10th Percentile £288 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 320 351
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.86 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.38 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.62% +44.64% -2.33%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £41.88
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in England

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in England

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London 0 2,275 £575 -5.97% 1,166
North of England -3 454 £510 -7.27% 387
North West -1 305 £500 -9.09% 233
South East -1 292 £575 +0.98% 236
South West -10 196 £540 -6.09% 229
Midlands -4 136 £500 -7.41% 184
Yorkshire -9 130 £525 -4.55% 110
West Midlands -24 73 £538 -0.46% 111
East Midlands +17 63 £485 -20.82% 72
East of England -30 59 £525 -10.18% 116
North East -7 21 £575 -4.17% 46
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 245 (6.78%) Apache
2 199 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
3 113 (3.13%) Confluence
4 72 (1.99%) Apache Spark
5 51 (1.41%) nginx
6 47 (1.30%) SharePoint
7 22 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 20 (0.55%) CMS
9 17 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.41%) JBoss
11 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 11 (0.30%) Site Server
13 10 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
13 10 (0.28%) IIS
13 10 (0.28%) SAS
14 7 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 5 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.055%) Sketch
6 2 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.055%) Weka
7 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.028%) InVision
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.30%) Temenos T24
4 9 (0.25%) Endur
4 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.22%) Shopify
6 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.11%) Avolution ABACUS
8 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.083%) Magento
9 3 (0.083%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 3 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.083%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.055%) Oracle BPM
10 2 (0.055%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.055%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.055%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,251 (34.60%) Azure
2 669 (18.50%) GCP
3 427 (11.81%) Serverless
4 354 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
5 330 (9.13%) Amazon S3
6 239 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
7 195 (5.39%) GitHub
8 194 (5.37%) Snowflake
9 149 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 128 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 128 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
11 127 (3.51%) SaaS
12 119 (3.29%) dbt
12 119 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 92 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
14 87 (2.41%) Power Platform
15 85 (2.35%) PaaS
16 83 (2.30%) Amazon Kinesis
17 81 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
18 80 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 171 (4.73%) Firewall
2 129 (3.57%) DNS
3 104 (2.88%) VPN
4 85 (2.35%) Network Security
5 71 (1.96%) LAN
6 65 (1.80%) WAN
7 61 (1.69%) SSL
8 60 (1.66%) DHCP
9 55 (1.52%) TCP/IP
10 51 (1.41%) HTTP
11 44 (1.22%) Wireless
12 41 (1.13%) OSPF
13 36 (1.00%) BGP
14 27 (0.75%) SAN
14 27 (0.75%) VLAN
15 26 (0.72%) MPLS
16 22 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
17 21 (0.58%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
18 19 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (7.99%) PostgreSQL
2 186 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
3 172 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 162 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
5 151 (4.18%) Data Lake
6 145 (4.01%) SQL Server
7 144 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
8 139 (3.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 127 (3.51%) Big Data
10 125 (3.46%) Apache Ignite
10 125 (3.46%) Relational Database
11 113 (3.13%) DynamoDB
12 107 (2.96%) MongoDB
12 107 (2.96%) MySQL
13 92 (2.54%) Apache Arrow
13 92 (2.54%) Dremio
14 86 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
15 82 (2.27%) Power BI
16 65 (1.80%) Tableau
17 56 (1.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 339 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 302 (8.35%) Git
3 223 (6.17%) JIRA
4 188 (5.20%) GitLab
5 90 (2.49%) Cypress.io
6 62 (1.71%) Cucumber
7 60 (1.66%) Selenium
8 52 (1.44%) Maven
9 47 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 36 (1.00%) Bitbucket
11 30 (0.83%) JMeter
12 28 (0.77%) TeamCity
13 27 (0.75%) Postman
14 26 (0.72%) JUnit
15 25 (0.69%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.47%) REST Assured
16 17 (0.47%) webpack
17 16 (0.44%) Mockito
17 16 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
18 15 (0.41%) Burp Suite
General
1 723 (19.99%) Finance
2 606 (16.76%) Social Skills
3 310 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 280 (7.74%) Banking
5 252 (6.97%) Front Office
6 251 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
7 106 (2.93%) Investment Banking
8 84 (2.32%) Retail
9 73 (2.02%) Telecoms
10 57 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 57 (1.58%) Marketing
11 47 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 40 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (0.83%) Law
15 29 (0.80%) Legal
15 29 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 26 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (0.58%) Electronics
18 16 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 941 (26.02%) Developer
2 574 (15.87%) Architect
3 447 (12.36%) Senior
4 345 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
5 332 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 325 (8.99%) Software Engineer
7 259 (7.16%) Data Engineer
8 255 (7.05%) Lead
9 193 (5.34%) Full Stack Developer
10 191 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
11 163 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 163 (4.51%) Python Developer
12 136 (3.76%) AWS Architect
13 127 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
13 127 (3.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 124 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
15 121 (3.35%) Analyst
15 121 (3.35%) Python Engineer
16 119 (3.29%) React Developer
17 110 (3.04%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (10.98%) React
2 287 (7.94%) Node.js
3 272 (7.52%) Kafka
4 201 (5.56%) .NET
5 198 (5.48%) RESTful
6 180 (4.98%) REST
7 162 (4.48%) Spring
8 152 (4.20%) gRPC
9 145 (4.01%) Protocol Buffers
10 144 (3.98%) AngularJS
10 144 (3.98%) Spring Boot
11 125 (3.46%) Redux
12 120 (3.32%) Pandas
13 110 (3.04%) HTML
13 110 (3.04%) Web Services
14 105 (2.90%) NumPy
15 102 (2.82%) CSS
16 89 (2.46%) SciPy
17 87 (2.41%) GraphQL
18 75 (2.07%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 226 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 206 (5.70%) Hedge funds
3 165 (4.56%) Derivative
4 159 (4.40%) Equities
5 138 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 118 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 104 (2.88%) Cloud Native
8 93 (2.57%) PKI
9 77 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 77 (2.13%) Product Ownership
10 65 (1.80%) Data Centre
11 61 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 53 (1.47%) Algorithms
13 52 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
14 46 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
15 40 (1.11%) Clustering
16 39 (1.08%) Management Information System
17 36 (1.00%) Replication
17 36 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 402 (11.12%) Linux
2 255 (7.05%) Windows
3 114 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.65%) Unix
5 53 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 20 (0.55%) Android
9 17 (0.47%) CentOS
10 15 (0.41%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.36%) Solaris
12 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.33%) VMS
13 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.19%) zOS
15 6 (0.17%) Debian
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
17 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,031 (28.51%) Agile
2 959 (26.52%) DevOps
3 755 (20.88%) CI/CD
4 558 (15.43%) Software Engineering
5 400 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
6 383 (10.59%) Microservices
7 356 (9.85%) Full Stack Development
8 328 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 285 (7.88%) Containerisation
10 264 (7.30%) Asset Management
11 262 (7.25%) Migration
12 256 (7.08%) Test Automation
13 238 (6.58%) Analytics
14 225 (6.22%) ETL
15 207 (5.72%) TDD
16 205 (5.67%) Investment Management
17 200 (5.53%) Data Pipeline
18 197 (5.45%) Scrum
19 194 (5.37%) Machine Learning
20 186 (5.14%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,171 (32.38%) Python
2 688 (19.03%) Java
3 641 (17.73%) SQL
4 526 (14.55%) JavaScript
5 406 (11.23%) TypeScript
6 199 (5.50%) C#
7 191 (5.28%) Go
8 187 (5.17%) Bash
9 174 (4.81%) PowerShell
10 103 (2.85%) Scala
11 81 (2.24%) PHP
12 66 (1.83%) Ruby
13 57 (1.58%) C++
14 55 (1.52%) C
15 50 (1.38%) Shell Script
16 39 (1.08%) PL/SQL
17 34 (0.94%) Kotlin
18 31 (0.86%) Perl
19 30 (0.83%) R
19 30 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 887 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 712 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 243 (6.72%) Degree
4 169 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 160 (4.42%) AWS Certification
6 115 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (1.24%) CISSP
11 41 (1.13%) CCNP
12 35 (0.97%) CISM
13 31 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.77%) CCNA
16 27 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 27 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (0.69%) Master's Degree
18 13 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 12 (0.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (4.07%) QA
2 104 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 65 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (1.69%) NIST
5 47 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 36 (1.00%) GDPR
8 34 (0.94%) SLA
9 33 (0.91%) NCSC
10 12 (0.33%) MiFID
11 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 9 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
13 7 (0.19%) WCAG
14 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.17%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.11%) ISO 31000
16 3 (0.083%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 534 (14.77%) Docker
2 190 (5.25%) Active Directory
3 109 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 30 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.44%) vSphere
7 11 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.22%) ACF2
8 8 (0.22%) IAG
8 8 (0.22%) RACF
9 6 (0.17%) Firmware
9 6 (0.17%) HDFS
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.11%) KVM
11 4 (0.11%) NFS
11 4 (0.11%) OpenAM
11 4 (0.11%) Shibboleth
12 3 (0.083%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 706 (19.52%) Kubernetes
2 695 (19.22%) Terraform
3 315 (8.71%) Ansible
4 113 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 111 (3.07%) Grafana
6 89 (2.46%) Puppet
7 73 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
9 29 (0.80%) Kibana
9 29 (0.80%) SCCM
10 25 (0.69%) Packer
10 25 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.44%) Nagios
12 15 (0.41%) Podman
13 14 (0.39%) Istio
14 13 (0.36%) Consul
14 13 (0.36%) Rancher
15 12 (0.33%) Argo
16 11 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.30%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 268 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 217 (6.00%) Oracle
3 196 (5.42%) Google
4 163 (4.51%) VMware
5 114 (3.15%) Splunk
6 99 (2.74%) Cisco
7 83 (2.30%) SAP
8 78 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.55%) Databricks
10 53 (1.47%) IBM
10 53 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 52 (1.44%) F5
12 49 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 46 (1.27%) CyberArk
13 46 (1.27%) Informatica
14 43 (1.19%) Salesforce
15 36 (1.00%) Talend
16 28 (0.77%) Bloomberg
16 28 (0.77%) SolarWinds
17 25 (0.69%) Juniper