AWS Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,187 3,610 6,180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.09% 9.71% 12.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.17% 30.46% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,328 2,770 4,690
10th Percentile £400 £381 £431
25th Percentile £456 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £593
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -6.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 52
10th Percentile £37.40 £22.19 £21.95
25th Percentile £52.63 £28.38 £47.16
Median hourly rate £71.25 £53.75 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.56% -26.12% +29.33%
75th Percentile £93.44 £70.65 £78.00
90th Percentile £170.00 £72.50 £87.84
UK median hourly rate £75.60 £55.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +37.45% -24.66% +32.73%

All Cloud 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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in England

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in England

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in England

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 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 -1 2,031 £575 - 3,086
North of England +4 367 £475 -6.86% 868
South East +12 237 £550 -4.76% 1,027
North West +2 225 £475 -5.00% 584
South West +11 170 £575 +6.48% 347
Midlands +8 129 £500 - 375
Yorkshire +4 105 £500 -6.98% 202
West Midlands +15 80 £520 -5.45% 197
East of England +28 64 £550 +4.76% 261
East Midlands +4 48 £490 +8.89% 144
North East +11 46 £508 -11.74% 90
AWS
UK

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 185 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
2 154 (4.83%) Apache
3 132 (4.14%) Apache Spark
4 122 (3.83%) Confluence
5 43 (1.35%) nginx
6 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.69%) SharePoint
9 19 (0.60%) JBoss
10 18 (0.56%) CMS
11 16 (0.50%) SAS
12 14 (0.44%) WebSphere
13 12 (0.38%) Traefik
14 11 (0.35%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.25%) Camunda
16 7 (0.22%) IIS
16 7 (0.22%) WebLogic
17 6 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
17 6 (0.19%) WordPress
18 4 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 16 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.19%) Trello
6 5 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.22%) Endur
3 6 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.16%) Kondor
4 5 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.094%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.094%) Unica
7 2 (0.063%) assyst
7 2 (0.063%) Avolution ABACUS
7 2 (0.063%) Exstream
7 2 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.031%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.031%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.031%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,131 (35.49%) Azure
2 655 (20.55%) GCP
3 427 (13.40%) Serverless
4 351 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
5 335 (10.51%) Amazon S3
6 237 (7.44%) GitHub
7 228 (7.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 201 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
9 197 (6.18%) dbt
10 196 (6.15%) Snowflake
11 169 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
12 142 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
13 130 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 112 (3.51%) SaaS
15 105 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
16 103 (3.23%) OpenShift
17 99 (3.11%) Power Platform
18 93 (2.92%) PaaS
19 91 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
20 90 (2.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (6.12%) Firewall
2 152 (4.77%) DNS
3 121 (3.80%) VPN
4 103 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 86 (2.70%) Network Security
6 74 (2.32%) DHCP
6 74 (2.32%) WAN
7 67 (2.10%) HTTP
8 52 (1.63%) BGP
9 48 (1.51%) SD-WAN
10 43 (1.35%) MPLS
11 41 (1.29%) SSL
12 37 (1.16%) OSPF
13 34 (1.07%) LAN
13 34 (1.07%) VLAN
14 21 (0.66%) Wireless
15 19 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
16 17 (0.53%) SMTP
17 15 (0.47%) Internet
18 13 (0.41%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 192 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
3 179 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
4 172 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
5 149 (4.68%) Data Lake
6 135 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 132 (4.14%) MongoDB
8 124 (3.89%) Apache Iceberg
9 115 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 114 (3.58%) Relational Database
11 112 (3.51%) Big Data
12 111 (3.48%) Dremio
13 101 (3.17%) DynamoDB
14 100 (3.14%) Apache Arrow
15 99 (3.11%) SQL Server
16 91 (2.86%) MySQL
16 91 (2.86%) Power BI
17 81 (2.54%) Tableau
18 70 (2.20%) Hadoop
19 68 (2.13%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 337 (10.57%) Jenkins
2 254 (7.97%) GitLab
3 247 (7.75%) Git
4 218 (6.84%) JIRA
5 60 (1.88%) Selenium
5 60 (1.88%) SonarQube
6 56 (1.76%) Maven
7 53 (1.66%) Artifactory
7 53 (1.66%) Bitbucket
8 44 (1.38%) Cypress.io
9 43 (1.35%) JUnit
10 39 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 38 (1.19%) Postman
12 35 (1.10%) REST Assured
13 25 (0.78%) JMeter
14 22 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (0.63%) Gradle
16 19 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (0.60%) CircleCI
17 18 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 666 (20.90%) Finance
2 655 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 363 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 339 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (9.54%) Banking
6 198 (6.21%) Front Office
7 107 (3.36%) Investment Banking
8 56 (1.76%) Telecoms
9 55 (1.73%) Marketing
10 47 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 45 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (1.41%) Retail
12 33 (1.04%) Military
13 32 (1.00%) Legal
14 29 (0.91%) Law
15 28 (0.88%) Manufacturing
16 25 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (0.78%) Retail Banking
17 21 (0.66%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 734 (23.03%) Developer
2 521 (16.35%) Architect
3 493 (15.47%) Senior
4 392 (12.30%) AWS Engineer
5 330 (10.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 275 (8.63%) Data Engineer
7 242 (7.59%) Software Engineer
8 226 (7.09%) Lead
9 168 (5.27%) Python Engineer
10 156 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
11 149 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
12 146 (4.58%) Java Developer
13 138 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 132 (4.14%) AWS Developer
15 124 (3.89%) Python Developer
16 123 (3.86%) Senior Developer
17 119 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
18 107 (3.36%) AWS Architect
19 95 (2.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 91 (2.86%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (11.08%) React
2 320 (10.04%) Kafka
3 251 (7.88%) Node.js
4 156 (4.89%) REST
5 153 (4.80%) .NET
6 152 (4.77%) Spring
7 146 (4.58%) Spring Boot
8 124 (3.89%) Pandas
9 123 (3.86%) NumPy
9 123 (3.86%) RESTful
10 119 (3.73%) AngularJS
11 112 (3.51%) PySpark
12 99 (3.11%) HTML
13 91 (2.86%) CSS
14 87 (2.73%) SciPy
15 83 (2.60%) Redux
16 75 (2.35%) gRPC
17 66 (2.07%) Vue
18 65 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
19 62 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 135 (4.24%) Fixed Income
2 113 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 97 (3.04%) Public Cloud
4 95 (2.98%) Hedge funds
5 86 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 81 (2.54%) Equities
7 77 (2.42%) Derivative
8 73 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 70 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
10 68 (2.13%) PKI
11 65 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 65 (2.04%) Onboarding
12 59 (1.85%) Algorithms
13 58 (1.82%) Management Information System
13 58 (1.82%) Product Ownership
14 54 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 53 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
16 40 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
17 39 (1.22%) Mobile App
18 35 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 375 (11.77%) Linux
2 210 (6.59%) Windows
3 101 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 97 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 91 (2.86%) Unix
6 41 (1.29%) CentOS
7 19 (0.60%) Android
8 12 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.35%) Solaris
10 10 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.28%) AIX
12 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.22%) Rocky
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.094%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.063%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 891 (27.96%) CI/CD
2 885 (27.77%) DevOps
3 818 (25.67%) Agile
4 539 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
5 521 (16.35%) Software Engineering
6 409 (12.83%) Microservices
7 395 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 386 (12.11%) Containerisation
9 342 (10.73%) Migration
10 303 (9.51%) Analytics
11 232 (7.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 232 (7.28%) Test Automation
12 223 (7.00%) ETL
13 216 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 208 (6.53%) Asset Management
15 207 (6.50%) Data Pipeline
16 205 (6.43%) Continuous Integration
17 194 (6.09%) Data Modelling
18 192 (6.02%) Data Engineering
19 190 (5.96%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,284 (40.29%) Python
2 650 (20.40%) Java
3 621 (19.49%) SQL
4 463 (14.53%) JavaScript
5 323 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 183 (5.74%) Bash
7 173 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 160 (5.02%) Go
9 137 (4.30%) C#
10 53 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 48 (1.51%) C++
12 46 (1.44%) Scala
12 46 (1.44%) Shell Script
13 41 (1.29%) Perl
14 38 (1.19%) R
15 33 (1.04%) PHP
16 30 (0.94%) Kotlin
17 28 (0.88%) Ruby
18 26 (0.82%) C
19 25 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 884 (27.74%) Security Cleared
2 724 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 233 (7.31%) Degree
4 213 (6.68%) AWS Certification
5 148 (4.64%) DV Cleared
6 116 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 95 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 72 (2.26%) Azure Certification
9 61 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.54%) CISSP
11 47 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 40 (1.26%) CCNP
13 36 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
15 25 (0.78%) CISM
16 21 (0.66%) PhD
17 20 (0.63%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.63%) PMP
18 19 (0.60%) CCIE
18 19 (0.60%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (4.02%) QA
2 104 (3.26%) GDPR
3 103 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 78 (2.45%) NIST
5 68 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 36 (1.13%) NCSC
8 34 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 34 (1.07%) HIPAA
9 22 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.53%) SLA
11 12 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.31%) GRC
13 9 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 8 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.22%) Basel III
15 7 (0.22%) WCAG
16 6 (0.19%) MiFID
16 6 (0.19%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 622 (19.52%) Docker
2 112 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 94 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 33 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 14 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
10 10 (0.31%) Firmware
11 9 (0.28%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.28%) Terminal Services
11 9 (0.28%) vSphere
12 5 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 5 (0.16%) Postfix
13 4 (0.13%) Lustre
13 4 (0.13%) Platform Symphony
14 3 (0.094%) HDFS
14 3 (0.094%) NFS
14 3 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 783 (24.57%) Kubernetes
2 719 (22.56%) Terraform
3 291 (9.13%) Ansible
4 120 (3.77%) Grafana
5 109 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 94 (2.95%) Puppet
7 56 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.22%) Packer
9 35 (1.10%) Kibana
10 30 (0.94%) Istio
11 28 (0.88%) FortiGate
11 28 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
13 22 (0.69%) Nagios
13 22 (0.69%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.63%) Consul
14 20 (0.63%) SCCM
15 17 (0.53%) Argo
15 17 (0.53%) Podman
15 17 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 253 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 203 (6.37%) Google
3 188 (5.90%) Oracle
4 129 (4.05%) VMware
5 108 (3.39%) Databricks
6 103 (3.23%) Splunk
7 91 (2.86%) Cisco
8 75 (2.35%) Red Hat
9 53 (1.66%) IBM
10 45 (1.41%) F5
11 43 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 37 (1.16%) Fortinet
12 37 (1.16%) Okta
13 34 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 34 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 32 (1.00%) SAP
15 31 (0.97%) Citrix
16 29 (0.91%) MuleSoft
16 29 (0.91%) SolarWinds
17 24 (0.75%) CheckPoint