AWS Consultant Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Consultant
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Consultant daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 509 570
Rank change year-on-year -25 +61 +139
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Consultant 7 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.024% 0.010% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.011% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £473 £530 £489
25th Percentile £506 £556 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.05% +3.26%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £622
90th Percentile £660 £680 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -6.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 27,086 28,497 37,380
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 92.97% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,407 17,403 25,898
10th Percentile £281 £300 £298
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,607 1,065 1,428
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.83 £21.05 £19.39
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +53.19%
75th Percentile £52.50 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +63.30%

AWS Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Consultant job vacancy trend in England

AWS Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in England

AWS Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Consultant in England over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Consultant in England

AWS Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 11 November 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
London +3 4 £575 -11.54% 3
South West - 2 £550 - 1
North of England -30 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
AWS Consultant
UK

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 November 2025, AWS Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring AWS Consultant in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Terraform
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (14.29%) Ansible
6 1 (14.29%) API Testing
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (14.29%) Change Data Capture
6 1 (14.29%) Coaching
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
6 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
6 1 (14.29%) Data Management
6 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 1 (14.29%) Database Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
6 1 (14.29%) Database Security

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Database Security
5 1 (14.29%) Database Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Fintech
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle