AWS Expert Contracts

Amazon Web Services Expert
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Expert daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 - 847
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Expert 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily 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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +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 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

AWS Expert
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Expert in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Expert in the UK

AWS Expert
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Expert in the UK

AWS Expert
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Expert within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 £550 -
England - 1 £550 -

AWS Expert Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, AWS Expert 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 Expert in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Artefact Management
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

AWS Expert 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artefact Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform