AWS Contracts in Cambridge

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 5 31 16
Rank change year-on-year +26 -15 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 15 1 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 13.16% 0.52% 6.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.45% 4.76% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 13
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile £500 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 - £525
75th Percentile £544 - £588
90th Percentile £575 - £621
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £514 £120 £475
% change year-on-year +328.13% -74.74% +11.76%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 21 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 28.95% 10.82% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 43
10th Percentile £425 £225 £200
25th Percentile £478 £312 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.56% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £450 £544
90th Percentile £605 £559 £574
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £503 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +21.82% -8.33% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £15.28 £19.99 -
25th Percentile £15.70 £27.28 -
Median hourly rate £16.90 £41.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.15% - -
75th Percentile £17.60 £57.28 -
90th Percentile £17.72 £65.66 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Integration Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Agile
1 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (20.00%) Workload Management
1 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Security Patching
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (6.67%) Commercialisation
3 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (6.67%) SOAR
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) VMware