AWS Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 18 51 54
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 5.42% 13.60% 7.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.52% 34.00% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 33 45
10th Percentile £286 £475 £406
25th Percentile £409 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £715
90th Percentile £675 £645 £821
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +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 116 150 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 34.94% 40.00% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 109 125
10th Percentile £199 £346 £206
25th Percentile £325 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £482 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -8.19% -
75th Percentile £526 £550 £625
90th Percentile £615 £625 £715
South East median daily rate £480 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -6.34% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile - £18.78 £17.15
25th Percentile £13.25 £19.19 £18.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +3.66% -
75th Percentile £13.75 £23.19 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.53 £22.95
South East median hourly rate £18.16 £47.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -61.77% +75.93% +28.57%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

AWS job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Buckinghamshire

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing AWS

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 11 October 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 -11 18 £435 -20.91% 27
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (38.89%) Serverless
3 6 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (27.78%) ChatGPT
5 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) GCP
6 3 (16.67%) GitHub
7 2 (11.11%) Textract
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) NAS
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
1 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Big Data
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) OLAP
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 4 (22.22%) General Ledger
4 3 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Data Scientist
2 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.56%) Finance Modeller
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Hugging Face
1 5 (27.78%) NumPy
1 5 (27.78%) Pandas
1 5 (27.78%) PyTorch
1 5 (27.78%) scikit-learn
2 3 (16.67%) Prophet
3 2 (11.11%) Django
3 2 (11.11%) FastAPI
3 2 (11.11%) Flask
3 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Microservices
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (27.78%) Data Science
3 5 (27.78%) LLM
3 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) OCR
3 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 5 (27.78%) Time Series Forecasting
3 5 (27.78%) TOGAF
4 4 (22.22%) A/B Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) ArchiMate
4 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Sage
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Isilon
3 1 (5.56%) JDA
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) NetApp
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) UiPath
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (5.56%) VMware