AWS Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 11 23 30
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 30 32 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 12.71% 6.72% 5.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.46% 24.62% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 38
10th Percentile £304 £350 £425
25th Percentile £344 £373 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £613 £585
90th Percentile £743 £643 £695
South East median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 78 130 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 33.05% 27.31% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 92 192
10th Percentile £311 £204 £233
25th Percentile £394 £350 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.72% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £600
90th Percentile £710 £636 £675
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.85 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £19.53 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% - -
75th Percentile £15.75 £23.82 -
90th Percentile - £24.13 -
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Buckinghamshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Buckinghamshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Buckinghamshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +9 28 £575 +27.78% 100
Bletchley - 1 £350 - 2
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (6.67%) Camunda
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SAS
2 1 (3.33%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) GCP
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) BGP
1 5 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (16.67%) MPLS
1 5 (16.67%) NGFW
1 5 (16.67%) OSPF
1 5 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 5 (16.67%) VPN
1 5 (16.67%) WAN
2 4 (13.33%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) VLAN
2 4 (13.33%) VSAN
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (3.33%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) DocumentDB
4 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.33%) GIS
5 1 (3.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.67%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Technical Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Principal Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Python Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Technical Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Administrator
7 2 (6.67%) DBA
7 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Java Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Django
1 3 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (10.00%) Flask
1 3 (10.00%) RESTful
2 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (6.67%) Entity Framework
2 2 (6.67%) Kafka
2 2 (6.67%) Keycloak
2 2 (6.67%) NHibernate
2 2 (6.67%) OpenJDK
2 2 (6.67%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 6 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) PKI
5 2 (6.67%) Replication
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 15 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 14 (46.67%) Microservices
4 11 (36.67%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (30.00%) IT Strategy
5 9 (30.00%) ITIL
5 9 (30.00%) Migration
6 8 (26.67%) Agile
6 8 (26.67%) DevSecOps
6 8 (26.67%) Technology Strategy
7 7 (23.33%) Data Security
7 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (23.33%) Requirements Management
8 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 6 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
9 5 (16.67%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) Magik
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) MCSE
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (16.67%) CCNP
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (6.67%) Degree
8 1 (3.33%) CCNA
8 1 (3.33%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (3.33%) CISSP
8 1 (3.33%) CRISC
8 1 (3.33%) SnowPro
8 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) NCSC
2 8 (26.67%) NIST
3 5 (16.67%) GDPR
3 5 (16.67%) HIPAA
4 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) VMware
2 6 (20.00%) Cisco
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.33%) Remedy
4 1 (3.33%) Sparx