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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,603 5,946 10,240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.79% 12.12% 14.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.72% 33.12% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 4,514 7,822
10th Percentile £380 £431 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 53 24
10th Percentile £22.19 £22.24 £45.38
25th Percentile £28.38 £59.80 £47.23
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +33.33% -3.02%
75th Percentile £72.34 £78.00 £75.21
90th Percentile £73.50 £88.30 £81.90
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +27.91%

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 11,728 17,953 26,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.60% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 13,134 19,834
10th Percentile £300 £325 £336
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 318 305 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%
75th Percentile £32.69 £65.75 £43.80
90th Percentile £62.50 £78.00 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 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
London +1 2,325 £575 -6.12% 1,142
North of England -4 431 £510 -7.27% 375
South East -4 289 £575 - 236
North West -1 282 £497 -9.59% 219
South West -11 187 £550 -4.35% 228
Yorkshire -9 130 £538 -2.27% 118
Midlands -9 124 £482 -10.74% 208
West Midlands -29 67 £550 +1.85% 127
East Midlands +12 57 £450 -24.21% 81
East of England -46 45 £550 -5.90% 124
North East -10 21 £575 -8.00% 38
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
1 272 (7.55%) Apache
2 234 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (3.30%) Confluence
4 71 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 60 (1.67%) nginx
6 44 (1.22%) SharePoint
7 21 (0.58%) CMS
8 20 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.44%) JBoss
10 15 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
12 10 (0.28%) IIS
13 9 (0.25%) SAS
13 9 (0.25%) Site Server
14 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.19%) WordPress
16 6 (0.17%) Drupal
17 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.083%) 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 19 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.31%) Endur
3 11 (0.31%) Temenos T24
4 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.22%) Shopify
6 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
7 5 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 3 (0.083%) Magento
8 3 (0.083%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.083%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.056%) Avolution ABACUS
9 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.056%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.028%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.028%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,254 (34.80%) Azure
2 682 (18.93%) GCP
3 423 (11.74%) Serverless
4 350 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
5 325 (9.02%) Amazon S3
6 234 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
7 218 (6.05%) Snowflake
8 189 (5.25%) GitHub
9 155 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 140 (3.89%) dbt
11 138 (3.83%) SaaS
12 129 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 127 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
14 119 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 87 (2.41%) PaaS
15 87 (2.41%) Power Platform
16 86 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
17 84 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
18 83 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
19 80 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 176 (4.88%) Firewall
2 118 (3.28%) DNS
3 97 (2.69%) VPN
4 80 (2.22%) Network Security
5 68 (1.89%) LAN
6 62 (1.72%) SSL
6 62 (1.72%) WAN
7 55 (1.53%) DHCP
7 55 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 53 (1.47%) HTTP
9 46 (1.28%) Wireless
10 42 (1.17%) OSPF
11 37 (1.03%) BGP
12 28 (0.78%) SAN
12 28 (0.78%) VLAN
13 27 (0.75%) MPLS
14 23 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
15 21 (0.58%) SD-WAN
15 21 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
16 19 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 182 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
3 176 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
4 171 (4.75%) NoSQL
5 170 (4.72%) Data Lake
6 158 (4.39%) Apache Ignite
7 150 (4.16%) SQL Server
8 135 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
9 127 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 127 (3.52%) Big Data
10 121 (3.36%) Relational Database
11 112 (3.11%) Apache Arrow
11 112 (3.11%) Dremio
11 112 (3.11%) DynamoDB
12 109 (3.03%) MySQL
13 101 (2.80%) MongoDB
14 83 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 83 (2.30%) Power BI
15 57 (1.58%) RDBMS
15 57 (1.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 328 (9.10%) Jenkins
2 295 (8.19%) Git
3 218 (6.05%) JIRA
4 190 (5.27%) GitLab
5 102 (2.83%) Cypress.io
6 63 (1.75%) Selenium
7 60 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 49 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 43 (1.19%) Maven
10 38 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 34 (0.94%) JMeter
12 28 (0.78%) JUnit
12 28 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 27 (0.75%) CircleCI
14 18 (0.50%) REST Assured
14 18 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
15 17 (0.47%) Mockito
15 17 (0.47%) Postman
15 17 (0.47%) webpack
16 16 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 765 (21.23%) Finance
2 584 (16.21%) Social Skills
3 318 (8.83%) Banking
4 293 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 285 (7.91%) Front Office
6 245 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
7 124 (3.44%) Investment Banking
8 83 (2.30%) Retail
9 68 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 64 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 54 (1.50%) Marketing
12 41 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
15 29 (0.80%) Law
16 28 (0.78%) Legal
16 28 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.50%) Publishing
19 17 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 920 (25.53%) Developer
2 591 (16.40%) Architect
3 439 (12.18%) Senior
4 354 (9.83%) Software Engineer
5 348 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
5 348 (9.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 264 (7.33%) Lead
7 232 (6.44%) Data Engineer
8 197 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
9 190 (5.27%) Full Stack Developer
10 181 (5.02%) Python Developer
11 161 (4.47%) Java Developer
12 142 (3.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 141 (3.91%) AWS Architect
13 141 (3.91%) Python Engineer
14 131 (3.64%) React Developer
15 130 (3.61%) Analyst
16 129 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
17 122 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
18 118 (3.28%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (11.74%) React
2 280 (7.77%) Node.js
3 274 (7.60%) Kafka
4 213 (5.91%) .NET
5 190 (5.27%) RESTful
6 189 (5.25%) gRPC
7 181 (5.02%) Protocol Buffers
8 175 (4.86%) REST
9 168 (4.66%) Spring
10 149 (4.14%) Spring Boot
11 140 (3.89%) AngularJS
11 140 (3.89%) Redux
12 131 (3.64%) Pandas
13 119 (3.30%) NumPy
14 114 (3.16%) Web Services
15 109 (3.03%) HTML
16 104 (2.89%) SciPy
17 101 (2.80%) CSS
18 82 (2.28%) GraphQL
19 78 (2.16%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 258 (7.16%) Fixed Income
2 251 (6.97%) Hedge funds
3 187 (5.19%) Equities
4 180 (5.00%) Derivative
5 153 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 121 (3.36%) Public Cloud
7 100 (2.78%) Cloud Native
8 88 (2.44%) PKI
9 80 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 77 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 67 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 66 (1.83%) Data Centre
13 54 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
14 47 (1.30%) Algorithms
14 47 (1.30%) Clustering
14 47 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
15 44 (1.22%) Management Information System
16 36 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 416 (11.55%) Linux
2 254 (7.05%) Windows
3 108 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 101 (2.80%) Unix
5 61 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.69%) Android
8 23 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.47%) CentOS
9 17 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.33%) Solaris
11 10 (0.28%) VMS
12 9 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.19%) zOS
14 6 (0.17%) Debian
14 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,042 (28.92%) Agile
2 956 (26.53%) DevOps
3 750 (20.82%) CI/CD
4 596 (16.54%) Software Engineering
5 386 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 385 (10.69%) Microservices
7 363 (10.07%) Full Stack Development
8 310 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 292 (8.10%) Asset Management
10 273 (7.58%) Containerisation
11 260 (7.22%) Migration
12 251 (6.97%) Test Automation
13 249 (6.91%) Analytics
14 236 (6.55%) Investment Management
15 218 (6.05%) Machine Learning
16 212 (5.88%) ETL
17 208 (5.77%) TDD
18 190 (5.27%) Data Pipeline
19 181 (5.02%) Artificial Intelligence
20 178 (4.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,192 (33.08%) Python
2 714 (19.82%) Java
3 647 (17.96%) SQL
4 535 (14.85%) JavaScript
5 447 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 205 (5.69%) C#
7 200 (5.55%) Go
8 194 (5.38%) Bash
9 177 (4.91%) PowerShell
10 110 (3.05%) Scala
11 77 (2.14%) PHP
12 65 (1.80%) C
13 63 (1.75%) Ruby
14 58 (1.61%) C++
15 51 (1.42%) Shell Script
16 39 (1.08%) PL/SQL
17 34 (0.94%) Kotlin
17 34 (0.94%) T-SQL
18 31 (0.86%) Perl
19 29 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 878 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 705 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 251 (6.97%) Degree
4 166 (4.61%) DV Cleared
5 147 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 123 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.30%) CISSP
10 43 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 41 (1.14%) CCNP
12 35 (0.97%) CISM
13 30 (0.83%) Master's Degree
14 29 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 28 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.75%) CCNA
17 26 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 22 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
19 15 (0.42%) CISA
20 11 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (4.00%) QA
2 102 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 66 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 60 (1.67%) NIST
5 47 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 41 (1.14%) GDPR
8 34 (0.94%) SLA
9 33 (0.92%) NCSC
10 11 (0.31%) MiFID
11 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 9 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
13 7 (0.19%) WCAG
14 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
17 3 (0.083%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 547 (15.18%) Docker
2 195 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 110 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.44%) vSphere
7 12 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.22%) ACF2
9 8 (0.22%) IAG
9 8 (0.22%) RACF
10 7 (0.19%) Firmware
11 5 (0.14%) HDFS
11 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) NFS
12 4 (0.11%) OpenAM
12 4 (0.11%) Shibboleth
13 3 (0.083%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 736 (20.43%) Kubernetes
2 689 (19.12%) Terraform
3 308 (8.55%) Ansible
4 124 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 110 (3.05%) Grafana
6 81 (2.25%) Puppet
7 66 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
9 32 (0.89%) Packer
10 30 (0.83%) SCCM
11 29 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (0.75%) Kibana
13 18 (0.50%) Consul
14 16 (0.44%) Nagios
14 16 (0.44%) Podman
15 14 (0.39%) Istio
15 14 (0.39%) Rancher
16 12 (0.33%) Argo
17 11 (0.31%) HP Fortify
17 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 273 (7.58%) Microsoft
2 216 (6.00%) Oracle
3 214 (5.94%) Google
4 161 (4.47%) VMware
5 116 (3.22%) Splunk
6 108 (3.00%) Cisco
7 78 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 75 (2.08%) SAP
9 55 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 53 (1.47%) Databricks
10 53 (1.47%) IBM
11 51 (1.42%) F5
12 50 (1.39%) CyberArk
13 44 (1.22%) Palo Alto
14 41 (1.14%) Salesforce
15 39 (1.08%) Informatica
16 35 (0.97%) Talend
17 29 (0.80%) Bloomberg
17 29 (0.80%) SolarWinds
18 25 (0.69%) Juniper