AWS Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,597 5,936 10,360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.84% 12.07% 14.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.83% 33.02% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,756 4,508 7,922
10th Percentile £379 £436 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 54 37
10th Percentile £22.19 £22.54 £46.25
25th Percentile £28.38 £52.21 £51.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £74.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.68% +5.71% +18.64%
75th Percentile £72.34 £78.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £88.30 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £74.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -25.68% +12.91% +48.95%

All Cloud Skills
England

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,669 17,979 27,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.92% 36.55% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,417 13,172 20,060
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 304 350
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 2,322 £575 -6.50% 1,272
North of England -2 429 £510 -7.27% 412
South East -3 292 £575 - 246
North West -1 279 £490 -10.91% 248
South West -10 188 £538 -6.52% 236
Yorkshire -9 131 £550 - 121
Midlands -12 121 £475 -12.04% 242
West Midlands -25 66 £550 +1.85% 149
East Midlands +10 55 £450 -26.53% 93
East of England -47 43 £550 -5.66% 114
North East -10 21 £575 -11.54% 43
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
1 284 (7.90%) Apache
2 245 (6.81%) Apache Airflow
3 118 (3.28%) Confluence
4 71 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 60 (1.67%) nginx
6 43 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 21 (0.58%) CMS
8 20 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.44%) JBoss
10 15 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
12 10 (0.28%) IIS
13 9 (0.25%) SAS
14 8 (0.22%) Site Server
14 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.19%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.19%) WordPress
16 6 (0.17%) Drupal
17 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.056%) Sketch
6 2 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.056%) Weka
7 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.028%) InVision
7 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.31%) Endur
3 11 (0.31%) Temenos T24
4 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.22%) Shopify
6 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
7 5 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 3 (0.083%) Magento
8 3 (0.083%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.083%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.056%) Avolution ABACUS
9 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.028%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.028%) SAP Hybris
10 1 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,260 (35.03%) Azure
2 686 (19.07%) GCP
3 418 (11.62%) Serverless
4 344 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
5 316 (8.79%) Amazon S3
6 232 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
7 222 (6.17%) Snowflake
8 191 (5.31%) GitHub
9 154 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 146 (4.06%) dbt
11 136 (3.78%) SaaS
12 128 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 125 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
14 119 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 87 (2.42%) PaaS
15 87 (2.42%) Power Platform
16 84 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
17 83 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
18 81 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
19 77 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 181 (5.03%) Firewall
2 118 (3.28%) DNS
3 99 (2.75%) VPN
4 81 (2.25%) Network Security
5 66 (1.83%) LAN
6 64 (1.78%) SSL
7 62 (1.72%) HTTP
8 60 (1.67%) WAN
9 57 (1.58%) TCP/IP
10 53 (1.47%) DHCP
11 48 (1.33%) Wireless
12 42 (1.17%) OSPF
13 37 (1.03%) BGP
14 28 (0.78%) SAN
14 28 (0.78%) VLAN
15 27 (0.75%) MPLS
16 24 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
17 21 (0.58%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
18 19 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
2 182 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
3 180 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 174 (4.84%) Data Lake
5 169 (4.70%) NoSQL
6 166 (4.61%) Apache Ignite
7 149 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 135 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
9 128 (3.56%) Big Data
10 124 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 118 (3.28%) Apache Arrow
11 118 (3.28%) Dremio
12 117 (3.25%) Relational Database
13 111 (3.09%) DynamoDB
14 109 (3.03%) MySQL
15 100 (2.78%) MongoDB
16 83 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
16 83 (2.31%) Power BI
17 57 (1.58%) Tableau
18 55 (1.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 329 (9.15%) Jenkins
2 295 (8.20%) Git
3 217 (6.03%) JIRA
4 194 (5.39%) GitLab
5 106 (2.95%) Cypress.io
6 63 (1.75%) Selenium
7 59 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 49 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 40 (1.11%) Maven
10 38 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 35 (0.97%) JMeter
12 30 (0.83%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.78%) CircleCI
14 27 (0.75%) JUnit
15 19 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (0.50%) REST Assured
17 17 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 17 (0.47%) webpack
18 16 (0.44%) Mockito
18 16 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 775 (21.55%) Finance
2 590 (16.40%) Social Skills
3 329 (9.15%) Banking
4 294 (8.17%) Front Office
5 290 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 246 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
7 127 (3.53%) Investment Banking
8 83 (2.31%) Retail
9 68 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 64 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 54 (1.50%) Marketing
12 41 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (0.78%) Law
15 28 (0.78%) Legal
16 27 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.50%) Publishing
19 17 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 911 (25.33%) Developer
2 595 (16.54%) Architect
3 431 (11.98%) Senior
4 359 (9.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 359 (9.98%) Software Engineer
5 348 (9.67%) AWS Engineer
6 268 (7.45%) Lead
7 229 (6.37%) Data Engineer
8 199 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
9 190 (5.28%) Full Stack Developer
10 183 (5.09%) Python Developer
11 162 (4.50%) Java Developer
12 147 (4.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 146 (4.06%) Python Engineer
14 140 (3.89%) AWS Architect
15 134 (3.73%) React Developer
16 130 (3.61%) Analyst
17 129 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
18 123 (3.42%) Python Software Engineer
19 119 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (11.68%) React
2 281 (7.81%) Kafka
3 277 (7.70%) Node.js
4 215 (5.98%) .NET
5 199 (5.53%) gRPC
6 191 (5.31%) Protocol Buffers
6 191 (5.31%) RESTful
7 174 (4.84%) REST
8 164 (4.56%) Spring
9 149 (4.14%) Spring Boot
10 143 (3.98%) Redux
11 138 (3.84%) AngularJS
12 135 (3.75%) Pandas
13 122 (3.39%) NumPy
14 115 (3.20%) Web Services
15 111 (3.09%) HTML
16 108 (3.00%) SciPy
17 102 (2.84%) CSS
18 88 (2.45%) GraphQL
19 80 (2.22%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 265 (7.37%) Fixed Income
2 261 (7.26%) Hedge funds
3 195 (5.42%) Equities
4 183 (5.09%) Derivative
5 157 (4.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 120 (3.34%) Public Cloud
7 100 (2.78%) Cloud Native
8 88 (2.45%) PKI
9 81 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 76 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
11 66 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 65 (1.81%) Data Centre
13 55 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
14 49 (1.36%) Clustering
15 47 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
16 46 (1.28%) Algorithms
17 44 (1.22%) Management Information System
18 37 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 35 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
19 35 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 420 (11.68%) Linux
2 251 (6.98%) Windows
3 105 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 104 (2.89%) Unix
5 60 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.70%) Android
8 23 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 19 (0.53%) Windows 10
10 17 (0.47%) CentOS
11 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.33%) Solaris
12 10 (0.28%) VMS
13 9 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.19%) zOS
15 6 (0.17%) Debian
15 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,041 (28.94%) Agile
2 969 (26.94%) DevOps
3 753 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 604 (16.79%) Software Engineering
5 385 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
6 384 (10.68%) Microservices
7 362 (10.06%) Full Stack Development
8 311 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 300 (8.34%) Asset Management
10 282 (7.84%) Containerisation
11 257 (7.14%) Migration
12 250 (6.95%) Test Automation
13 249 (6.92%) Analytics
14 241 (6.70%) Investment Management
15 223 (6.20%) Machine Learning
16 209 (5.81%) ETL
17 205 (5.70%) TDD
18 188 (5.23%) Data Pipeline
19 186 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence
20 183 (5.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,195 (33.22%) Python
2 717 (19.93%) Java
3 641 (17.82%) SQL
4 538 (14.96%) JavaScript
5 453 (12.59%) TypeScript
6 204 (5.67%) C#
7 203 (5.64%) Go
8 192 (5.34%) Bash
9 179 (4.98%) PowerShell
10 110 (3.06%) Scala
11 77 (2.14%) PHP
12 68 (1.89%) C
13 62 (1.72%) C++
14 61 (1.70%) Ruby
15 50 (1.39%) Shell Script
16 39 (1.08%) PL/SQL
17 35 (0.97%) Kotlin
18 34 (0.95%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.83%) Perl
20 28 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 875 (24.33%) Security Cleared
2 703 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 254 (7.06%) Degree
4 165 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 146 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 127 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.36%) CISSP
10 42 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 41 (1.14%) CCNP
12 37 (1.03%) CISM
13 30 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 29 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 27 (0.75%) CCNA
16 26 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 26 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
17 22 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
18 18 (0.50%) CISA
19 11 (0.31%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (4.00%) QA
2 102 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 66 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (1.64%) NIST
5 44 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 41 (1.14%) GDPR
8 34 (0.95%) SLA
9 33 (0.92%) NCSC
10 11 (0.31%) MiFID
11 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 9 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
14 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
16 4 (0.11%) WCAG
17 3 (0.083%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 559 (15.54%) Docker
2 195 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 110 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.44%) vSphere
7 12 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.22%) ACF2
9 8 (0.22%) IAG
9 8 (0.22%) RACF
10 7 (0.19%) Firmware
11 5 (0.14%) HDFS
11 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) NFS
12 4 (0.11%) OpenAM
12 4 (0.11%) Shibboleth
13 3 (0.083%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 743 (20.66%) Kubernetes
2 694 (19.29%) Terraform
3 312 (8.67%) Ansible
4 127 (3.53%) Prometheus
5 112 (3.11%) Grafana
6 84 (2.34%) Puppet
7 69 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 41 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
9 32 (0.89%) Packer
9 32 (0.89%) SCCM
10 29 (0.81%) Kibana
11 28 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.50%) Consul
13 16 (0.44%) Nagios
13 16 (0.44%) Podman
13 16 (0.44%) Rancher
14 14 (0.39%) Istio
15 13 (0.36%) WSUS
16 12 (0.33%) Argo
17 11 (0.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 272 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 218 (6.06%) Google
3 214 (5.95%) Oracle
4 163 (4.53%) VMware
5 118 (3.28%) Splunk
6 109 (3.03%) Cisco
7 78 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 74 (2.06%) SAP
9 54 (1.50%) F5
10 53 (1.47%) Databricks
10 53 (1.47%) IBM
10 53 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 50 (1.39%) CyberArk
12 45 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 42 (1.17%) Salesforce
14 38 (1.06%) Informatica
15 34 (0.95%) Talend
16 29 (0.81%) Bloomberg
16 29 (0.81%) SolarWinds
17 26 (0.72%) Juniper