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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 49 25
Rank change year-on-year +32 -24 -13
Contract jobs citing AWS 31 7 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.66% 1.43% 4.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.81% 7.07% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 22
10th Percentile £350 £159 £368
25th Percentile £501 £218 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £375 £463
Median % change year-on-year +37.00% -18.92% +8.82%
75th Percentile £556 £509 £534
90th Percentile £688 £526 £586
East of England median daily rate £525 £553 £575
% change year-on-year -4.98% -3.91% +9.91%

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 104 99 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 32.40% 20.20% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 36 75
10th Percentile £239 £225 £213
25th Percentile £422 £366 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £641 £488 £488
90th Percentile £700 £544 £568
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 42 12
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.72 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £17.20 £21.37 £15.75
90th Percentile £43.75 - £20.48
East of England median hourly rate £19.27 £16.30 £22.00
% change year-on-year +18.22% -25.91% +41.94%

AWS
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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +24 30 £503 -4.29% 63
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 5 (16.13%) OpenStack
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) GCP
3 8 (25.81%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (12.90%) Serverless
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) iSCSI
2 4 (12.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) GitLab
1 11 (35.48%) JIRA
2 8 (25.81%) TeamCity
3 3 (9.68%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.23%) Selenium
4 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 9 (29.03%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Administrator
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) AWS Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (12.90%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (12.90%) Python Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Security Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Integration Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Administrator
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Administrator
8 1 (3.23%) Data Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) AWS Amplify
1 2 (6.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) Celery
2 1 (3.23%) D3.js
2 1 (3.23%) Django
2 1 (3.23%) Middleware
2 1 (3.23%) React
2 1 (3.23%) Sass
2 1 (3.23%) Vue
2 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (12.90%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.45%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.23%) Life Science
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) CentOS
2 4 (12.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Containerisation
2 9 (29.03%) Computer Science
3 8 (25.81%) ITSM
4 6 (19.35%) Migration
4 6 (19.35%) Task Automation
4 6 (19.35%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (12.90%) Case Management
6 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.90%) Cloud Security
6 4 (12.90%) Cyber Intelligence
6 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.90%) Data Enrichment
6 4 (12.90%) Incident Response
6 4 (12.90%) Security Operations
6 4 (12.90%) SIEM
6 4 (12.90%) SOAR
6 4 (12.90%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) Shell Script
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 3 (9.68%) Perl
6 1 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) IFRS
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
1 5 (16.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Ansible
2 9 (29.03%) Terraform
3 5 (16.13%) Puppet
4 4 (12.90%) Progress Chef
4 4 (12.90%) Salt
5 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) ServiceNow
3 7 (22.58%) Google
4 6 (19.35%) VMware
5 4 (12.90%) IBM
5 4 (12.90%) Palo Alto
5 4 (12.90%) Splunk
6 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.45%) Oracle