AWS Specialist Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Specialist
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Specialist daily rate in England is £582, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 539 643
Rank change year-on-year +67 +104 +124
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 13 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.008% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.009% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £470 - £557
25th Percentile £552 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £675
90th Percentile £690 - £678
UK median daily rate £582 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +5.73% -8.33% +14.29%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured AWS Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Specialist in England

AWS Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Specialist in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Specialist in England

AWS Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Specialist in England

AWS Specialist
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 Specialist within the 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
London +38 3 £675 +22.73% 12
AWS Specialist
UK

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring AWS Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 9 (69.23%) Python
4 8 (61.54%) Task Automation
5 7 (53.85%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (53.85%) Ping Identity
5 7 (53.85%) Regulatory Compliance
5 7 (53.85%) GDPR
5 7 (53.85%) Okta
5 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (53.85%) Entra ID
5 7 (53.85%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (53.85%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (53.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 7 (53.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (53.85%) SAML
5 7 (53.85%) SailPoint
5 7 (53.85%) OpenID
5 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
5 7 (53.85%) HIPAA
5 7 (53.85%) Azure
5 7 (53.85%) Identity Management
6 5 (38.46%) OAuth
7 3 (23.08%) Windows
8 2 (15.38%) Linux
8 2 (15.38%) Java
8 2 (15.38%) Unix
8 2 (15.38%) Shell Script

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) OpenID
1 7 (53.85%) SailPoint
1 7 (53.85%) SAML
2 5 (38.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Task Automation
3 7 (53.85%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (53.85%) Identity Management
3 7 (53.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 7 (53.85%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Log Aggregation
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) GDPR
1 7 (53.85%) HIPAA
1 7 (53.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Okta
1 7 (53.85%) Ping Identity