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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,586 6,203 10,375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.70% 12.27% 14.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.46% 33.51% 37.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 4,713 7,908
10th Percentile £379 £429 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% - +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 52 22
10th Percentile £22.17 £21.95 £46.25
25th Percentile £27.75 £47.16 £48.29
Median hourly rate £52.50 £72.75 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% +29.33% -3.02%
75th Percentile £71.87 £78.00 £74.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £87.84 £82.30
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% +32.73% +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 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £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 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

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 27 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

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
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 27 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 2,255 £575 -5.66% 1,114
North of England -3 453 £510 -7.27% 375
North West -1 305 £500 -9.09% 224
South East -3 291 £578 +0.43% 233
South West -10 196 £540 -6.09% 223
Midlands -7 131 £500 -7.41% 180
Yorkshire -9 129 £525 -4.55% 108
West Midlands -21 73 £538 -0.46% 108
East Midlands +14 58 £475 -22.45% 71
East of England -36 57 £525 -10.41% 114
North East -8 21 £575 -4.17% 45
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
1 242 (6.75%) Apache
2 198 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
3 112 (3.12%) Confluence
4 70 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 50 (1.39%) nginx
6 47 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 22 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 20 (0.56%) CMS
9 17 (0.47%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.42%) JBoss
11 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 11 (0.31%) Site Server
13 10 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
13 10 (0.28%) IIS
13 10 (0.28%) SAS
14 7 (0.20%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.20%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.17%) WordPress
16 5 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.056%) Sketch
6 2 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.056%) 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 (0.31%) 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 (0.084%) Magento
9 3 (0.084%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.084%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 3 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.084%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.056%) Oracle BPM
10 2 (0.056%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,246 (34.75%) Azure
2 667 (18.60%) GCP
3 426 (11.88%) Serverless
4 353 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
5 328 (9.15%) Amazon S3
6 239 (6.66%) Amazon EC2
7 194 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 193 (5.38%) GitHub
9 146 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 127 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 127 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
11 126 (3.51%) SaaS
12 119 (3.32%) dbt
12 119 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 90 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
14 86 (2.40%) Power Platform
15 85 (2.37%) PaaS
16 81 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
17 80 (2.23%) Amazon Kinesis
17 80 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 171 (4.77%) Firewall
2 127 (3.54%) DNS
3 104 (2.90%) VPN
4 85 (2.37%) Network Security
5 71 (1.98%) LAN
6 65 (1.81%) WAN
7 61 (1.70%) SSL
8 60 (1.67%) DHCP
9 55 (1.53%) TCP/IP
10 51 (1.42%) HTTP
11 44 (1.23%) Wireless
12 41 (1.14%) OSPF
13 36 (1.00%) BGP
14 27 (0.75%) SAN
14 27 (0.75%) VLAN
15 26 (0.73%) MPLS
16 22 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
17 21 (0.59%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
18 19 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 185 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
3 172 (4.80%) NoSQL
4 158 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
5 150 (4.18%) Data Lake
6 144 (4.02%) SQL Server
7 141 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
8 137 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 125 (3.49%) Apache Ignite
9 125 (3.49%) Big Data
10 123 (3.43%) Relational Database
11 111 (3.10%) DynamoDB
12 106 (2.96%) MongoDB
12 106 (2.96%) MySQL
13 92 (2.57%) Apache Arrow
13 92 (2.57%) Dremio
14 86 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
15 81 (2.26%) Power BI
16 64 (1.78%) Tableau
17 56 (1.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 337 (9.40%) Jenkins
2 297 (8.28%) Git
3 221 (6.16%) JIRA
4 187 (5.21%) GitLab
5 90 (2.51%) Cypress.io
6 62 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 60 (1.67%) Selenium
8 52 (1.45%) Maven
9 47 (1.31%) SonarQube
10 36 (1.00%) Bitbucket
11 30 (0.84%) JMeter
12 28 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 27 (0.75%) Postman
14 26 (0.73%) JUnit
15 25 (0.70%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.47%) REST Assured
16 17 (0.47%) webpack
17 16 (0.45%) Mockito
17 16 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
18 15 (0.42%) Burp Suite
General
1 720 (20.08%) Finance
2 601 (16.76%) Social Skills
3 307 (8.56%) Public Sector
4 275 (7.67%) Banking
5 251 (7.00%) Front Office
6 248 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
7 106 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 83 (2.31%) Retail
9 73 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 57 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 57 (1.59%) Marketing
11 47 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 39 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (0.84%) Law
15 29 (0.81%) Legal
15 29 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (0.59%) Electronics
18 16 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 935 (26.07%) Developer
2 569 (15.87%) Architect
3 445 (12.41%) Senior
4 338 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
5 328 (9.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 325 (9.06%) Software Engineer
7 252 (7.03%) Data Engineer
7 252 (7.03%) Lead
8 190 (5.30%) Full Stack Developer
9 186 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
10 163 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 163 (4.55%) Python Developer
11 136 (3.79%) AWS Architect
12 127 (3.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 126 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
14 122 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
15 121 (3.37%) Analyst
16 120 (3.35%) Python Engineer
17 117 (3.26%) React Developer
18 109 (3.04%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (10.96%) React
2 285 (7.95%) Node.js
3 270 (7.53%) Kafka
4 198 (5.52%) .NET
5 196 (5.47%) RESTful
6 180 (5.02%) REST
7 162 (4.52%) Spring
8 151 (4.21%) gRPC
9 145 (4.04%) Protocol Buffers
10 144 (4.02%) Spring Boot
11 141 (3.93%) AngularJS
12 125 (3.49%) Redux
13 120 (3.35%) Pandas
14 110 (3.07%) HTML
14 110 (3.07%) Web Services
15 105 (2.93%) NumPy
16 102 (2.84%) CSS
17 89 (2.48%) SciPy
18 86 (2.40%) GraphQL
19 74 (2.06%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 226 (6.30%) Fixed Income
2 206 (5.74%) Hedge funds
3 165 (4.60%) Derivative
4 159 (4.43%) Equities
5 138 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 118 (3.29%) Public Cloud
7 102 (2.84%) Cloud Native
8 92 (2.57%) PKI
9 77 (2.15%) Product Ownership
10 75 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
11 65 (1.81%) Data Centre
12 60 (1.67%) Onboarding
13 53 (1.48%) Algorithms
14 52 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
15 46 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
16 40 (1.12%) Clustering
17 39 (1.09%) Management Information System
18 36 (1.00%) Replication
18 36 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 34 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 400 (11.15%) Linux
2 254 (7.08%) Windows
3 113 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.68%) Unix
5 53 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 20 (0.56%) Android
9 17 (0.47%) CentOS
10 15 (0.42%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.36%) Solaris
12 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.31%) VMS
14 10 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.20%) zOS
16 6 (0.17%) Debian
17 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
18 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,021 (28.47%) Agile
2 951 (26.52%) DevOps
3 746 (20.80%) CI/CD
4 557 (15.53%) Software Engineering
5 392 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
6 381 (10.62%) Microservices
7 353 (9.84%) Full Stack Development
8 323 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 281 (7.84%) Containerisation
10 264 (7.36%) Asset Management
11 260 (7.25%) Migration
12 253 (7.06%) Test Automation
13 238 (6.64%) Analytics
14 221 (6.16%) ETL
15 205 (5.72%) Investment Management
15 205 (5.72%) TDD
16 197 (5.49%) Data Pipeline
16 197 (5.49%) Scrum
17 194 (5.41%) Machine Learning
18 182 (5.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,162 (32.40%) Python
2 683 (19.05%) Java
3 636 (17.74%) SQL
4 524 (14.61%) JavaScript
5 405 (11.29%) TypeScript
6 195 (5.44%) C#
7 191 (5.33%) Go
8 186 (5.19%) Bash
9 172 (4.80%) PowerShell
10 103 (2.87%) Scala
11 80 (2.23%) PHP
12 66 (1.84%) Ruby
13 57 (1.59%) C++
14 55 (1.53%) C
15 50 (1.39%) Shell Script
16 39 (1.09%) PL/SQL
17 34 (0.95%) Kotlin
18 31 (0.86%) Perl
19 30 (0.84%) R
19 30 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 881 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 707 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 239 (6.66%) Degree
4 168 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 149 (4.16%) AWS Certification
6 111 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.25%) CISSP
10 42 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 41 (1.14%) CCNP
12 35 (0.98%) CISM
13 31 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 30 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.78%) CCNA
16 27 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 25 (0.70%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
19 13 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 12 (0.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (4.04%) QA
2 101 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 65 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (1.70%) NIST
5 47 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 36 (1.00%) GDPR
8 34 (0.95%) SLA
9 33 (0.92%) 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 (0.20%) GRC
13 7 (0.20%) 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 (0.084%) GPG13
System Software
1 530 (14.78%) Docker
2 188 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 109 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 30 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.45%) vSphere
7 11 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.31%) 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 (0.084%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 702 (19.58%) Kubernetes
2 686 (19.13%) Terraform
3 315 (8.78%) Ansible
4 112 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 110 (3.07%) Grafana
6 89 (2.48%) Puppet
7 73 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
9 29 (0.81%) Kibana
10 28 (0.78%) SCCM
11 25 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (0.67%) Packer
13 16 (0.45%) Nagios
14 15 (0.42%) Podman
15 14 (0.39%) Istio
16 13 (0.36%) Rancher
17 12 (0.33%) Argo
17 12 (0.33%) Consul
18 11 (0.31%) HP Fortify
19 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 267 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 215 (6.00%) Oracle
3 195 (5.44%) Google
4 162 (4.52%) VMware
5 114 (3.18%) Splunk
6 99 (2.76%) Cisco
7 82 (2.29%) SAP
8 78 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.53%) Databricks
10 53 (1.48%) IBM
10 53 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 52 (1.45%) F5
12 49 (1.37%) Palo Alto
13 46 (1.28%) CyberArk
14 45 (1.25%) Informatica
15 39 (1.09%) Salesforce
16 36 (1.00%) Talend
17 28 (0.78%) Bloomberg
17 28 (0.78%) SolarWinds
18 25 (0.70%) Juniper