AWS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 17 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing AWS 114 99 63
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.91% 7.64% 4.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.27% 27.73% 22.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 49 43
10th Percentile £407 £400 £306
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £555
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -9.46% +0.91%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 £101.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.34% - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -2.44% +55.37% -38.43%

All Cloud Computing 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 512 357 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.04% 27.55% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 201 158
10th Percentile £190 £220 £213
25th Percentile £348 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £505 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% +18.82% -8.85%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £563
90th Percentile £614 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 35 28
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.21 £31.64 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% +94.11% -24.19%
75th Percentile £25.50 £44.97 £21.37
90th Percentile £62.70 £67.00 £23.96
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

AWS job vacancy trend in the East of England

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS

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 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East of England

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS

AWS
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 13 September 2026. 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
Norfolk +2 39 £500 - 10
Hertfordshire -7 28 £525 +3.96% 40
Cambridgeshire -15 18 £510 +1.49% 84
Essex -13 12 £530 +15.85% 20
Bedfordshire 0 11 £525 +2.44% 12
Suffolk - 7 £437 - 13
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.51%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Mendix
3 1 (0.88%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.88%) Weka
1 1 (0.88%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) ResourceLink
1 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (48.25%) Azure
2 31 (27.19%) GCP
3 13 (11.40%) Serverless
4 10 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (8.77%) SaaS
5 9 (7.89%) Snowflake
6 8 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (6.14%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.14%) dbt
7 7 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (5.26%) GitHub
9 4 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.63%) IaaS
10 3 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.89%) Firewall
2 5 (4.39%) SNMP
3 4 (3.51%) WAN
4 3 (2.63%) Asterisk PBX
4 3 (2.63%) LAN
4 3 (2.63%) Network Security
4 3 (2.63%) RTCP
4 3 (2.63%) RTP
4 3 (2.63%) VoIP
5 2 (1.75%) DNS
5 2 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (1.75%) Internet
5 2 (1.75%) SSL
5 2 (1.75%) VPN
5 2 (1.75%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.88%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.88%) MQTT
6 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.39%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.51%) Metadata
4 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.75%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.75%) MySQL
6 2 (1.75%) Power BI
6 2 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.88%) Big Data
7 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.88%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.88%) Redis
7 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) Git
2 4 (3.51%) GitLab
2 4 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.51%) JIRA
3 2 (1.75%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 30 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.16%) Finance
3 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.65%) Banking
5 9 (7.89%) Law
6 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Retail
9 2 (1.75%) Billing
9 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.88%) Electronics
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (20.18%) Architect
2 16 (14.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (12.28%) Developer
5 12 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Data Engineer
7 10 (8.77%) Designer
7 10 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure Designer
9 8 (7.02%) Lead
10 7 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) AWS Architect
11 6 (5.26%) Consultant
11 6 (5.26%) Data Architect
11 6 (5.26%) Security Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) Senior
12 5 (4.39%) AWS Data Architect
12 5 (4.39%) GCP Developer
12 5 (4.39%) Network Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.30%) Terraform
2 13 (11.40%) REST
3 9 (7.89%) OAuth
4 8 (7.02%) OpenID
5 6 (5.26%) Kafka
5 6 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (4.39%) eBPF
6 5 (4.39%) JSON
6 5 (4.39%) Node.js
6 5 (4.39%) SailPoint
7 4 (3.51%) RESTful
7 4 (3.51%) SOAP
8 3 (2.63%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.63%) FreeSWITCH
8 3 (2.63%) PySpark
8 3 (2.63%) React
8 3 (2.63%) Servlets
9 2 (1.75%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.75%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.63%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.75%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.88%) CMDB
6 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Mashup
6 1 (0.88%) Robotics
6 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.04%) Linux
2 10 (8.77%) Windows
3 7 (6.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.51%) Android
5 3 (2.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.63%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.95%) DevOps
2 28 (24.56%) CI/CD
3 23 (20.18%) Microservices
4 22 (19.30%) Agile
5 20 (17.54%) AI
6 19 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 18 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
8 15 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 15 (13.16%) ETL
8 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (12.28%) Translating Business Requirements
10 13 (11.40%) Migration
10 13 (11.40%) Observability
10 13 (11.40%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (11.40%) Roadmaps
10 13 (11.40%) Software Engineering
10 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (10.53%) Analytics
11 12 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.95%) Python
2 18 (15.79%) SQL
3 16 (14.04%) Bash
3 16 (14.04%) Java
4 7 (6.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.63%) Ruby
6 2 (1.75%) C++
6 2 (1.75%) Groovy
6 2 (1.75%) Perl
6 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.88%) C
7 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.75%) CCSP
6 2 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CISM
7 1 (0.88%) CRISC
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.89%) GDPR
3 8 (7.02%) QA
4 7 (6.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.75%) NIST
6 2 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (7.89%) Docker
2 6 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.26%) VMware NSX
2 6 (5.26%) vSphere
3 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.75%) Squid
5 1 (0.88%) GPFS
5 1 (0.88%) Lustre
5 1 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (13.16%) Ansible
2 11 (9.65%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.02%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (6.14%) Grafana
4 7 (6.14%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.39%) Puppet
6 1 (0.88%) Consul
6 1 (0.88%) Istio
6 1 (0.88%) linkerd
6 1 (0.88%) Packer
6 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.88%) Salt
6 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (7.89%) VMware
2 6 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.39%) Cribl.io
3 5 (4.39%) Oracle
3 5 (4.39%) Splunk
4 4 (3.51%) Google
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.63%) Informatica
5 3 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.63%) NetApp
5 3 (2.63%) SAP
6 2 (1.75%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.75%) Cisco
6 2 (1.75%) F5
6 2 (1.75%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.75%) Talend
6 2 (1.75%) Trend Micro