AWS Contracts in Bedfordshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 +19
Contract jobs citing AWS 9 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.77% 4.88% 14.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.47% 26.09% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 20
10th Percentile £485 £263 £520
25th Percentile £500 £394 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.35%
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile £570 £625 £681
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £585
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.18% +16.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £200.00 £52.50 £24.62
% change year-on-year +280.95% +113.24% -62.79%

All Cloud Skills
Bedfordshire

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 34 46 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 21.79% 18.70% 37.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 53
10th Percentile £325 £229 £163
25th Percentile £500 £263 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £466 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% -10.34% +4.00%
75th Percentile £584 £569 £600
90th Percentile £610 £575 £630
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Bedfordshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Bedfordshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Luton -4 4 £525 -4.55% 89
Dunstable +4 1 £500 -
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (22.22%) AWS KMS
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
1 2 (22.22%) X.509
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Key Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
2 2 (22.22%) RBAC
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) NIST 800
1 2 (22.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk