AWS Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 29 53 27
Rank change year-on-year +24 -26 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS 16 2 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.80% 0.40% 5.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.39% 2.30% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 23
10th Percentile - - £333
25th Percentile £500 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £120 £475
Median % change year-on-year +328.13% -74.74% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 - £550
90th Percentile £676 - £608
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £585
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.18% +16.90%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 87 87 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 31.52% 17.58% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 93
10th Percentile £338 £210 £206
25th Percentile £425 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -8.33% +1.12%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £525
90th Percentile £650 £563 £574
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 51 26
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £17.40 £21.37 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.46 £21.46 £18.50
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge +26 15 £503 - 155
AWS
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (18.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) Cloudflare
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Artifactory
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
1 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (18.75%) Workload Management
2 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
3 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (12.50%) Case Management
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 2 (12.50%) SOAR
3 2 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) VMware