AWS Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 9 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 5,291 3,661 3,747
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.76% 13.45% 10.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.61% 35.93% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,667 2,594 2,815
10th Percentile £400 £375 £381
25th Percentile £459 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £568
Median % change year-on-year +2.52% -5.46% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 23 25
10th Percentile £31.25 £37.00 £22.90
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £30.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%
75th Percentile £81.25 £91.88 £71.87
90th Percentile £95.00 £104.40 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -21.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,743 10,190 11,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.43% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,552 6,893 8,511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £312
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 268 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS job vacancy trend in England

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
London -1 2,856 £563 -2.17% 863
North of England +2 889 £525 +10.53% 346
North West -1 457 £563 +19.05% 210
South East -6 453 £541 +5.61% 343
Midlands -4 443 £475 - 141
West Midlands +7 374 £475 -5.00% 86
South West +3 368 £550 - 149
Yorkshire 0 316 £514 +2.86% 76
North East +1 141 £453 -9.50% 65
East of England -10 119 £525 +4.22% 55
East Midlands -19 65 £447 +1.71% 55
AWS
UK

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 235 (4.44%) Confluence
2 221 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 208 (3.93%) Apache Spark
4 140 (2.65%) Apache
5 71 (1.34%) SAS
6 65 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.57%) nginx
8 27 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.43%) CMS
10 20 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 18 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 17 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 16 (0.30%) IIS
14 14 (0.26%) WebLogic
15 13 (0.25%) Tomcat
16 12 (0.23%) Camunda
17 11 (0.21%) CICS
18 8 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
19 7 (0.13%) Tuxedo
19 7 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 54 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.15%) Revit
9 5 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.076%) CPLEX
11 3 (0.057%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.038%) Houdini
12 2 (0.038%) NUKE
12 2 (0.038%) PlantUML
12 2 (0.038%) Trello
13 1 (0.019%) Sketch
13 1 (0.019%) Weka
Business Applications
1 26 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 12 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.15%) Magento
7 5 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.095%) R3 Corda
7 5 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.076%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.076%) Quorum
8 4 (0.076%) Remedy AR System
8 4 (0.076%) Ripple
9 3 (0.057%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.057%) Avolution ABACUS
9 3 (0.057%) Endur
9 3 (0.057%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.057%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.038%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 2,471 (46.70%) Azure
2 1,202 (22.72%) GCP
3 674 (12.74%) Serverless
4 625 (11.81%) Amazon S3
5 605 (11.43%) GitHub
6 538 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
7 395 (7.47%) GitHub Actions
8 299 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
9 282 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 280 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
11 278 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 263 (4.97%) Snowflake
13 245 (4.63%) Power Platform
14 211 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
15 207 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 206 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
17 197 (3.72%) SaaS
18 156 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
19 152 (2.87%) dbt
20 145 (2.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (5.25%) Firewall
2 176 (3.33%) DNS
3 175 (3.31%) Network Security
4 125 (2.36%) VPN
5 113 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 112 (2.12%) WAN
7 89 (1.68%) BGP
8 74 (1.40%) DHCP
9 71 (1.34%) OSPF
10 59 (1.12%) LAN
10 59 (1.12%) SD-WAN
11 49 (0.93%) HTTP
12 41 (0.77%) VXLAN
13 38 (0.72%) VLAN
14 35 (0.66%) SAN
15 34 (0.64%) SSL
16 33 (0.62%) BIG-IP
17 31 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 29 (0.55%) VSAN
19 27 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
2 246 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 226 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
4 222 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 209 (3.95%) Power BI
6 198 (3.74%) NoSQL
7 177 (3.35%) DynamoDB
8 172 (3.25%) Data Lake
9 160 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 149 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 143 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
12 126 (2.38%) Metadata
13 123 (2.32%) MongoDB
14 120 (2.27%) Big Data
15 101 (1.91%) Tableau
16 91 (1.72%) MySQL
17 69 (1.30%) Oracle Database
18 63 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
19 62 (1.17%) BigQuery
20 58 (1.10%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 537 (10.15%) GitLab
2 515 (9.73%) Git
3 503 (9.51%) Jenkins
4 344 (6.50%) JIRA
5 94 (1.78%) JUnit
6 87 (1.64%) Selenium
7 70 (1.32%) Maven
8 67 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 65 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 61 (1.15%) JMeter
11 53 (1.00%) Mockito
11 53 (1.00%) Postman
12 46 (0.87%) Gatling
13 44 (0.83%) Bitbucket
13 44 (0.83%) MLflow
14 42 (0.79%) REST Assured
15 38 (0.72%) Cypress.io
16 35 (0.66%) Artifactory
17 32 (0.60%) Gradle
17 32 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 1,253 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 984 (18.60%) Finance
3 800 (15.12%) Public Sector
4 484 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 347 (6.56%) Banking
6 126 (2.38%) Retail
7 125 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 88 (1.66%) Front Office
9 79 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 75 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 64 (1.21%) Investment Banking
12 61 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (1.10%) Military
14 55 (1.04%) Legal
15 49 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 49 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 48 (0.91%) Marketing
17 44 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
18 35 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,025 (19.37%) Architect
2 760 (14.36%) Senior
3 743 (14.04%) Developer
4 542 (10.24%) Lead
5 493 (9.32%) Data Engineer
6 455 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
7 405 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 279 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
9 263 (4.97%) Software Engineer
10 235 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 227 (4.29%) Java Developer
12 191 (3.61%) Analyst
13 186 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
14 172 (3.25%) Technical Architect
15 171 (3.23%) AWS Architect
16 159 (3.01%) Senior Developer
17 150 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
18 141 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
19 137 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 133 (2.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (9.39%) Kafka
2 406 (7.67%) React
3 404 (7.64%) REST
4 368 (6.96%) Spring
5 346 (6.54%) Node.js
6 326 (6.16%) Spring Boot
7 236 (4.46%) RESTful
8 180 (3.40%) .NET
9 154 (2.91%) OAuth
10 146 (2.76%) PySpark
11 136 (2.57%) GraphQL
12 130 (2.46%) AngularJS
13 96 (1.81%) HTML
13 96 (1.81%) JSON
13 96 (1.81%) OpenID
14 95 (1.80%) SOAP
15 89 (1.68%) AWS CDK
16 85 (1.61%) Redux
17 84 (1.59%) OAuth2
18 83 (1.57%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 895 (16.92%) Cloud Native
2 324 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 205 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 190 (3.59%) Data Centre
5 181 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 174 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 170 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
8 133 (2.51%) AI Agents
9 123 (2.32%) Security Posture
10 108 (2.04%) Public Cloud
11 96 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 86 (1.63%) Management Information System
13 78 (1.47%) Fixed Income
14 69 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 67 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
16 64 (1.21%) PKI
16 64 (1.21%) Replication
17 58 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
18 57 (1.08%) Data Structures
19 53 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 527 (9.96%) Linux
2 290 (5.48%) Windows
3 101 (1.91%) Unix
4 92 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 82 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.60%) Android
6 32 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.51%) AIX
8 26 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.23%) CentOS
12 11 (0.21%) VMS
13 10 (0.19%) Debian
13 10 (0.19%) Solaris
14 8 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
15 7 (0.13%) zOS
16 6 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
16 6 (0.11%) CoreOS
17 5 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,139 (40.43%) CI/CD
2 1,672 (31.60%) DevOps
3 1,514 (28.61%) Agile
4 1,117 (21.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 900 (17.01%) AI
6 816 (15.42%) Microservices
7 759 (14.35%) Containerisation
8 713 (13.48%) Migration
9 694 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
10 649 (12.27%) Analytics
11 626 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 624 (11.79%) Software Engineering
13 604 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 584 (11.04%) Observability
15 565 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
16 554 (10.47%) Roadmaps
17 546 (10.32%) Test Automation
18 535 (10.11%) Data Modelling
19 528 (9.98%) Data Engineering
20 501 (9.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,809 (34.19%) Python
2 1,049 (19.83%) SQL
3 932 (17.61%) Java
4 411 (7.77%) TypeScript
5 398 (7.52%) JavaScript
6 322 (6.09%) Bash
7 285 (5.39%) PowerShell
8 177 (3.35%) C#
9 151 (2.85%) Go
10 81 (1.53%) Scala
11 65 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 63 (1.19%) Bicep
13 51 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 43 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 42 (0.79%) Groovy
16 41 (0.77%) R
17 35 (0.66%) Ruby
18 25 (0.47%) T-SQL
19 23 (0.43%) C++
20 19 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,639 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 1,364 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 287 (5.42%) AWS Certification
3 287 (5.42%) Degree
4 219 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.67%) CISSP
6 147 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
7 139 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 135 (2.55%) Azure Certification
9 103 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 96 (1.81%) CISM
11 71 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 65 (1.23%) CCNP
13 62 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 49 (0.93%) Master's Degree
15 44 (0.83%) CCSP
16 40 (0.76%) ISTQB
17 38 (0.72%) PMI Certification
18 37 (0.70%) PMP
19 32 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 278 (5.25%) QA
3 199 (3.76%) GDPR
4 177 (3.35%) NIST
5 160 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 111 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 72 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 61 (1.15%) NCSC
9 48 (0.91%) GRC
10 46 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 44 (0.83%) SLA
12 34 (0.64%) WCAG
13 31 (0.59%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 22 (0.42%) PMO
15 20 (0.38%) NIST 800
16 17 (0.32%) SOC 2
17 14 (0.26%) SEPA
18 13 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 13 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 1,008 (19.05%) Docker
2 185 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 124 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.06%) vSphere
5 45 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 42 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 37 (0.70%) Hyper-V
9 27 (0.51%) NFS
10 22 (0.42%) Squid
11 20 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
12 14 (0.26%) Postfix
12 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
13 13 (0.25%) GPFS
14 12 (0.23%) IAG
15 8 (0.15%) Firmware
16 6 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
18 4 (0.076%) HDFS
18 4 (0.076%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1,303 (24.63%) Terraform
2 1,161 (21.94%) Kubernetes
3 404 (7.64%) Ansible
4 360 (6.80%) Grafana
5 288 (5.44%) Prometheus
6 73 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 57 (1.08%) Argo
8 52 (0.98%) Puppet
9 48 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 42 (0.79%) Kibana
10 42 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.45%) Istio
11 24 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
12 23 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 23 (0.43%) Packer
13 19 (0.36%) Data Guard
14 16 (0.30%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
16 14 (0.26%) Consul
16 14 (0.26%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 523 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 322 (6.09%) Oracle
3 261 (4.93%) Google
4 238 (4.50%) Databricks
5 229 (4.33%) ServiceNow
6 176 (3.33%) VMware
7 159 (3.01%) Splunk
8 132 (2.49%) Cisco
9 103 (1.95%) Palo Alto
10 100 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 86 (1.63%) CyberArk
12 79 (1.49%) Red Hat
13 78 (1.47%) SAP
14 76 (1.44%) OpenAI
15 72 (1.36%) Dynatrace
16 71 (1.34%) Informatica
17 66 (1.25%) Talend
18 62 (1.17%) IBM
19 54 (1.02%) Foundry
20 50 (0.95%) F5