AWS Contracts in the East of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 57 20
Rank change year-on-year +28 -37 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 64 56 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.82% 2.93% 7.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.06% 19.38% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 43 114
10th Percentile £441 £353 £403
25th Percentile £500 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -10.18% +16.90%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile - £700 £788
England median daily rate £550 £553 £593
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.71% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £21.30
25th Percentile - £51.25 £21.31
Median hourly rate £200.00 £52.50 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +280.95% +113.24% -62.79%
75th Percentile - £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - £54.10
England median hourly rate £71.25 £53.75 £72.75
% change year-on-year +32.56% -26.12% +29.33%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 266 289 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.36% 15.14% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 167 344
10th Percentile £200 £214 £186
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £586
90th Percentile £675 £662 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 65 55
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%
75th Percentile £21.92 £21.37 £49.38
90th Percentile £37.46 £60.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the East of England

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the East of England

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East of England

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +25 27 £650 +30.00% 56
Cambridgeshire +24 16 £514 +328.13% 95
Bedfordshire -1 9 £525 -4.55% 26
Norfolk +5 6 £450 -14.29% 15
Suffolk -5 4 £594 -8.58% 11
Essex +11 2 - - 29
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (21.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.25%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.13%) Azure
2 12 (18.75%) GCP
2 12 (18.75%) SaaS
3 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.69%) Cloudflare
4 3 (4.69%) GitHub
4 3 (4.69%) Serverless
4 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (3.13%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
2 5 (7.81%) VPN
3 4 (6.25%) DNS
4 3 (4.69%) SSL
4 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.13%) BGP
5 2 (3.13%) LAN
5 2 (3.13%) OSPF
5 2 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.13%) WAN
5 2 (3.13%) X.509
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.56%) DMVPN
6 1 (1.56%) DWDM
6 1 (1.56%) GLBP
6 1 (1.56%) IGRP
6 1 (1.56%) Internet
6 1 (1.56%) Multicast
6 1 (1.56%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) Big Data
1 14 (21.88%) Hadoop
1 14 (21.88%) Tableau
2 7 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.69%) MySQL
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) JIRA
3 3 (4.69%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.69%) GitLab
4 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.56%) JMeter
5 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.56%) TestDirector
General
1 17 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Finance
4 4 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.69%) Aviation
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) Developer
2 16 (25.00%) Senior
3 12 (18.75%) Data Science Developer
3 12 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 9 (14.06%) Architect
5 6 (9.38%) Lead
6 5 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (6.25%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Environment Delivery Manager
8 3 (4.69%) Environment Manager
8 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Gen AI Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Python Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Security Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) Matplotlib
1 14 (21.88%) NumPy
1 14 (21.88%) Pandas
1 14 (21.88%) PyTorch
1 14 (21.88%) scikit-learn
1 14 (21.88%) Seaborn
1 14 (21.88%) TensorFlow
2 5 (7.81%) Alpine.js
2 5 (7.81%) CSS
2 5 (7.81%) Kafka
2 5 (7.81%) Laravel
2 5 (7.81%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (3.13%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.13%) HTML
3 2 (3.13%) XML
4 1 (1.56%) .NET
4 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.56%) Middleware
4 1 (1.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.38%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Culture of Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.13%) FMCG
5 2 (3.13%) PKI
5 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.56%) EPoS
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 16 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 14 (21.88%) Analytics
2 14 (21.88%) Data Analysis
2 14 (21.88%) Data Munging
2 14 (21.88%) Data Science
2 14 (21.88%) LLM
2 14 (21.88%) Machine Learning
2 14 (21.88%) Reinforcement Learning
2 14 (21.88%) Visualisation
3 13 (20.31%) Data Analytics
3 13 (20.31%) Decision-Making
4 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 12 (18.75%) Feature Engineering
4 12 (18.75%) Predictive Analytics
4 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (18.75%) Statistical Modelling
4 12 (18.75%) Time Series Forecasting
5 9 (14.06%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) Python
2 14 (21.88%) R
3 13 (20.31%) SQL
4 5 (7.81%) PHP
4 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.25%) Bash
5 4 (6.25%) Perl
6 3 (4.69%) Java
7 2 (3.13%) Go
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Degree
2 12 (18.75%) Master's Degree
2 12 (18.75%) PhD
3 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CCDP
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.13%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.13%) NIST
3 2 (3.13%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Terraform
2 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.81%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) logstash
4 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Google
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) IBM
3 3 (4.69%) Palo Alto
3 3 (4.69%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.69%) Splunk
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco
4 2 (3.13%) F5
4 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Arista
5 1 (1.56%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.56%) Citrix
5 1 (1.56%) Databricks
5 1 (1.56%) Juniper
5 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Riverbed
5 1 (1.56%) Spotify
5 1 (1.56%) Zscaler