AWS Specialist Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Specialist
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Specialist daily rate in England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 511 590
Rank change year-on-year -1 +79 +166
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 12 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.042% 0.038% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.041% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 3
10th Percentile £448 £180 £375
25th Percentile £503 £254 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £632 £684 £556
90th Percentile £653 £767 £575
UK median daily rate £544 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -5.48% +15.00% -4.76%

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 25,984 29,277 38,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 93.00% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,679 17,869 26,623
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
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 1,500 1,160 1,413
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -7.37% +58.64%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.86%

AWS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS Specialist job vacancy trend in England

AWS Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

AWS Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Specialist in England over the 6 months to 25 October 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 25 October 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 +4 6 £525 -26.96% 1
Midlands -32 2 £625 +246.26% 2
West Midlands - 2 £625 - 2
South West +9 1 £390 -32.17%
North of England - 1 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
AWS Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, AWS Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
3 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Python
4 5 (41.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 4 (33.33%) Serverless
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (25.00%) Azure
6 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (25.00%) Docker
6 3 (25.00%) High Availability
6 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (25.00%) Ping Identity
6 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (16.67%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) Ansible
7 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (16.67%) Bash
7 2 (16.67%) Business Case

AWS Specialist 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (41.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (33.33%) Serverless
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (8.33%) Datadog
7 1 (8.33%) GCP
7 1 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (8.33%) IaaS
7 1 (8.33%) PaaS
7 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) OpenID
1 2 (16.67%) SailPoint
1 2 (16.67%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Business Case
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) AI
5 1 (8.33%) Rapid Prototyping
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Ping Identity
2 2 (16.67%) Okta
3 1 (8.33%) CloudEndure
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) ForgeRock
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft