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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 28 20
Rank change year-on-year +24 -8 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS 24 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 19.20% 0.99% 5.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 7.69% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 9
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £588
90th Percentile £631 - £628
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £503 £323 £475
% change year-on-year +55.81% -32.11% +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 48 26 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 38.40% 12.87% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 37
10th Percentile £403 £225 £192
25th Percentile £500 £312 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -8.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £430 £525
90th Percentile £700 £541 £580
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £514 £420 £435
% change year-on-year +22.32% -3.45% +0.58%
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 £15.14 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +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 31 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 4 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (12.50%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (20.83%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) Cloudflare
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Route 53
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) DNS
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 3 (12.50%) SAN
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) JIRA
2 7 (29.17%) GitLab
3 5 (20.83%) TeamCity
4 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Administrator
2 6 (25.00%) AWS Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Python Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Integration Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Lead
7 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) AWS Amplify
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) CentOS
2 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (20.83%) ITSM
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (12.50%) Data Science
4 3 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (12.50%) Workload Management
4 3 (12.50%) Zero Trust
5 2 (8.33%) API Integration
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) Bash
3 3 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) Puppet
4 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
3 4 (16.67%) Google
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk