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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 73 20
Rank change year-on-year +57 -53 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 85 40 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.89% 2.08% 7.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.69% 15.09% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 33 109
10th Percentile £450 £353 £395
25th Percentile £500 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.14% +12.02%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile - £698 £738
England median daily rate £545 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -2.90% -6.46% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £21.30
25th Percentile - - £21.31
Median hourly rate £200.00 - £24.62
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £54.10
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +7.14%

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 307 265 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.11% 13.79% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 154 323
10th Percentile £206 £220 £186
25th Percentile £413 £303 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 60 39
10th Percentile - £14.00 £15.05
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.05 £16.30 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -23.51% +37.48%
75th Percentile £22.08 £21.37 £64.75
90th Percentile £31.64 £65.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.26 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -38.94% +62.79%

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

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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 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East of England

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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 30 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
Cambridgeshire +34 25 £503 +55.81% 481
Hertfordshire +27 21 £650 +8.33% 672
Norfolk +7 16 £450 -14.29% 215
Bedfordshire +5 16 £525 -5.83% 432
Essex +16 5 £465 +24.00% 637
Suffolk -11 2 £594 -8.58% 210
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 12 (14.12%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.71%) Confluence
2 4 (4.71%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.35%) IIS
4 1 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.18%) CMS
4 1 (1.18%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.12%) Azure
2 13 (15.29%) Amazon S3
2 13 (15.29%) Serverless
3 12 (14.12%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (12.94%) GCP
4 11 (12.94%) SaaS
5 8 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (9.41%) Snowflake
6 7 (8.24%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (4.71%) IaaS
9 4 (4.71%) PaaS
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.53%) Cloudflare
10 3 (3.53%) GitHub
11 2 (2.35%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) DNS
2 8 (9.41%) Firewall
3 7 (8.24%) VPN
4 4 (4.71%) BGP
4 4 (4.71%) OSPF
5 3 (3.53%) iSCSI
5 3 (3.53%) SAN
5 3 (3.53%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.53%) SSL
5 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.53%) WAN
6 2 (2.35%) LAN
6 2 (2.35%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (2.35%) VLAN
6 2 (2.35%) X.509
7 1 (1.18%) IGRP
7 1 (1.18%) Internet
7 1 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.18%) IPsec
7 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.65%) Hadoop
2 13 (15.29%) Big Data
3 12 (14.12%) Tableau
4 9 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (8.24%) DynamoDB
5 7 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.71%) MySQL
7 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.53%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (3.53%) Sqoop
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.35%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.35%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) JIRA
2 8 (9.41%) GitLab
3 7 (8.24%) Git
4 5 (5.88%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.53%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.59%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (4.71%) Finance
4 3 (3.53%) Aviation
5 1 (1.18%) Marketing
5 1 (1.18%) Retail
5 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (30.59%) Developer
2 19 (22.35%) Architect
3 13 (15.29%) Senior
4 11 (12.94%) Administrator
5 10 (11.76%) Data Science Developer
6 9 (10.59%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.41%) AWS Architect
7 8 (9.41%) AWS Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Lead
8 5 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.71%) DBA
9 4 (4.71%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (4.71%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Informatica Administrator
10 3 (3.53%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.12%) Matplotlib
1 12 (14.12%) NumPy
1 12 (14.12%) Pandas
1 12 (14.12%) PyTorch
1 12 (14.12%) scikit-learn
1 12 (14.12%) Seaborn
1 12 (14.12%) TensorFlow
2 5 (5.88%) Alpine.js
2 5 (5.88%) CSS
2 5 (5.88%) Laravel
2 5 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (3.53%) Kafka
3 3 (3.53%) REST
3 3 (3.53%) SOAP
4 2 (2.35%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.35%) HTML
4 2 (2.35%) XML
5 1 (1.18%) .NET
5 1 (1.18%) Middleware
5 1 (1.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.71%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.71%) Replication
4 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.35%) FMCG
5 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) PKI
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.18%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.18%) EPoS
6 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) CentOS
2 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (21.18%) Computer Science
3 16 (18.82%) CI/CD
4 15 (17.65%) Analytics
4 15 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 15 (17.65%) Data Science
4 15 (17.65%) Generative AI
5 13 (15.29%) Machine Learning
6 12 (14.12%) Data Munging
6 12 (14.12%) Decision-Making
6 12 (14.12%) LLM
6 12 (14.12%) Reinforcement Learning
6 12 (14.12%) Visualisation
7 11 (12.94%) Data Analytics
8 10 (11.76%) DevOps
8 10 (11.76%) Migration
8 10 (11.76%) Predictive Analytics
8 10 (11.76%) Statistical Modelling
8 10 (11.76%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 41 (48.24%) Python
2 25 (29.41%) SQL
3 12 (14.12%) R
4 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.06%) Bash
6 5 (5.88%) PHP
6 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.71%) Perl
8 1 (1.18%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.18%) Bicep
8 1 (1.18%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) Degree
2 10 (11.76%) Master's Degree
2 10 (11.76%) PhD
3 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.18%) CCDP
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.71%) QA
4 3 (3.53%) GDPR
4 3 (3.53%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.35%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.35%) NIST
5 2 (2.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.06%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.71%) Docker
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (18.82%) Terraform
2 12 (14.12%) Ansible
3 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.53%) Puppet
5 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.35%) Salt
6 1 (1.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) Informatica
2 6 (7.06%) VMware
3 5 (5.88%) Google
3 5 (5.88%) Oracle
3 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.53%) IBM
4 3 (3.53%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.53%) Splunk
4 3 (3.53%) Teradata
5 2 (2.35%) Cisco
5 2 (2.35%) F5
5 2 (2.35%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.35%) Huawei
5 2 (2.35%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.35%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.18%) Arista
6 1 (1.18%) Databricks
6 1 (1.18%) Zscaler