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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,329 3,685 5,650
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.68% 9.89% 11.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.26% 30.89% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,397 2,804 4,293
10th Percentile £380 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% +1.69%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 57
10th Percentile £36.25 £22.19 £35.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £25.41 £55.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.59 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.37% -30.70% +4.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.34 £78.00
90th Percentile £140.00 £73.50 £88.30
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +31.82% -24.66% +11.38%

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 9,181 11,930 17,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 32.03% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,270 8,558 12,585
10th Percentile £312 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 327 283
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.00 £18.72
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.46 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -38.69% +62.79%
75th Percentile £37.75 £43.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £21.50 £38.78
% change year-on-year +32.14% -44.55% +76.25%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 2,059 £575 - 3,931
North of England +5 398 £475 -5.00% 1,287
North West +5 255 £475 -2.86% 821
South East +12 234 £501 -12.96% 1,907
Midlands +16 188 £475 +5.56% 469
South West +13 182 £565 +5.12% 486
Yorkshire -3 109 £500 -2.91% 325
West Midlands +27 101 £505 +6.32% 231
East of England +57 86 £525 -4.55% 287
East Midlands +9 84 £450 +1.12% 223
North East +7 44 £500 -13.04% 143
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
1 190 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 146 (4.39%) Apache
3 142 (4.27%) Confluence
4 131 (3.94%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.93%) nginx
6 30 (0.90%) JBoss
7 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 24 (0.72%) Tomcat
9 23 (0.69%) CMS
10 22 (0.66%) SharePoint
11 17 (0.51%) OpenStack
12 16 (0.48%) SAS
13 15 (0.45%) WebSphere
14 12 (0.36%) Camunda
14 12 (0.36%) Jupyter
15 10 (0.30%) Headless CMS
16 9 (0.27%) WebLogic
17 6 (0.18%) IIS
17 6 (0.18%) WordPress
18 5 (0.15%) CICS
Applications
1 13 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.18%) Trello
5 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.12%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.030%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (0.51%) Endur
2 11 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.15%) Kondor
6 5 (0.15%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.12%) Avolution ABACUS
7 4 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.090%) Magento
8 3 (0.090%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.060%) Actimize
9 2 (0.060%) assyst
9 2 (0.060%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.060%) Shopify
9 2 (0.060%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.030%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.030%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.030%) Oracle TCA
10 1 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,223 (36.74%) Azure
2 713 (21.42%) GCP
3 456 (13.70%) Serverless
4 379 (11.38%) Amazon S3
5 359 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
6 290 (8.71%) GitHub
7 217 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
8 201 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 198 (5.95%) Snowflake
10 190 (5.71%) dbt
11 154 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
12 134 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 128 (3.84%) SaaS
14 125 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
15 113 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
16 110 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
17 107 (3.21%) OpenShift
18 95 (2.85%) Power Platform
19 90 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
20 70 (2.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 214 (6.43%) Firewall
2 148 (4.45%) DNS
3 127 (3.81%) VPN
4 92 (2.76%) Network Security
5 75 (2.25%) HTTP
6 74 (2.22%) WAN
7 73 (2.19%) DHCP
7 73 (2.19%) TCP/IP
8 55 (1.65%) BGP
9 44 (1.32%) OSPF
9 44 (1.32%) SD-WAN
10 43 (1.29%) LAN
11 37 (1.11%) MPLS
12 36 (1.08%) SSL
13 34 (1.02%) VLAN
14 21 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
14 21 (0.63%) Internet
15 20 (0.60%) IPsec
15 20 (0.60%) Wireless
16 19 (0.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 196 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
3 190 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 167 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
5 151 (4.54%) NoSQL
6 137 (4.12%) DynamoDB
7 133 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 128 (3.84%) Data Lake
9 119 (3.57%) MongoDB
10 115 (3.45%) Big Data
11 112 (3.36%) Apache Iceberg
12 111 (3.33%) MySQL
13 102 (3.06%) Dremio
14 96 (2.88%) Apache Arrow
15 90 (2.70%) SQL Server
16 87 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
16 87 (2.61%) Power BI
17 74 (2.22%) Tableau
18 73 (2.19%) Hadoop
19 57 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 354 (10.63%) Jenkins
2 314 (9.43%) Git
3 254 (7.63%) GitLab
4 249 (7.48%) JIRA
5 84 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 82 (2.46%) Maven
7 62 (1.86%) Selenium
8 61 (1.83%) JUnit
9 53 (1.59%) Bitbucket
10 50 (1.50%) Artifactory
11 44 (1.32%) Cucumber
12 42 (1.26%) Cypress.io
13 41 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 36 (1.08%) REST Assured
15 30 (0.90%) Gradle
16 29 (0.87%) Postman
17 27 (0.81%) TeamCity
18 26 (0.78%) CircleCI
19 25 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
20 23 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 762 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 688 (20.67%) Finance
3 364 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 357 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 330 (9.91%) Banking
6 181 (5.44%) Front Office
7 115 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 59 (1.77%) Telecoms
9 55 (1.65%) Retail
10 50 (1.50%) Marketing
11 48 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 45 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (1.17%) Military
14 35 (1.05%) Legal
15 30 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (0.84%) Manufacturing
17 27 (0.81%) Law
18 26 (0.78%) Financial Institution
19 22 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 791 (23.76%) Developer
2 575 (17.27%) Architect
3 486 (14.60%) Senior
4 367 (11.02%) AWS Engineer
5 280 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 259 (7.78%) Data Engineer
7 244 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 227 (6.82%) Lead
9 178 (5.35%) Java Developer
10 171 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
11 161 (4.84%) AWS Developer
12 155 (4.66%) Python Engineer
13 134 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
14 128 (3.84%) AWS Architect
14 128 (3.84%) Python Developer
15 125 (3.75%) Senior Developer
16 122 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
17 116 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 107 (3.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 100 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (11.11%) React
2 298 (8.95%) Kafka
3 284 (8.53%) Node.js
4 206 (6.19%) REST
5 176 (5.29%) Spring
6 163 (4.90%) AngularJS
6 163 (4.90%) Spring Boot
7 150 (4.51%) .NET
8 140 (4.21%) RESTful
9 125 (3.75%) NumPy
9 125 (3.75%) Pandas
10 106 (3.18%) HTML
11 90 (2.70%) CSS
12 89 (2.67%) PySpark
12 89 (2.67%) SciPy
13 88 (2.64%) Redux
14 86 (2.58%) Vue
15 84 (2.52%) GraphQL
16 75 (2.25%) gRPC
17 74 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 158 (4.75%) Cloud Native
2 143 (4.30%) Fixed Income
3 110 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 103 (3.09%) Hedge funds
5 97 (2.91%) Equities
6 89 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 86 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
7 86 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 77 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 77 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 76 (2.28%) Data Centre
10 72 (2.16%) Derivative
11 59 (1.77%) Management Information System
12 56 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 56 (1.68%) PKI
13 55 (1.65%) Algorithms
14 51 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
15 43 (1.29%) Mobile App
16 38 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
16 38 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 387 (11.63%) Linux
2 197 (5.92%) Windows
3 88 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 82 (2.46%) Unix
5 76 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.57%) Android
6 19 (0.57%) CentOS
7 17 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.33%) Solaris
9 10 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.21%) AIX
12 6 (0.18%) Rocky
13 5 (0.15%) VMS
13 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.090%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (26.98%) CI/CD
2 883 (26.52%) DevOps
3 866 (26.01%) Agile
4 592 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 503 (15.11%) Software Engineering
6 445 (13.37%) Microservices
7 413 (12.41%) Containerisation
8 400 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 324 (9.73%) Migration
10 321 (9.64%) Analytics
11 256 (7.69%) ETL
12 245 (7.36%) Full-Stack Development
13 243 (7.30%) Test Automation
14 236 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 224 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence
16 219 (6.58%) Data Pipeline
17 217 (6.52%) Mentoring
18 213 (6.40%) TDD
19 212 (6.37%) Data Modelling
20 207 (6.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,303 (39.14%) Python
2 699 (21.00%) Java
3 638 (19.16%) SQL
4 476 (14.30%) JavaScript
5 362 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 196 (5.89%) PowerShell
7 195 (5.86%) Bash
8 137 (4.12%) C#
9 128 (3.84%) Go
10 65 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 56 (1.68%) C++
12 50 (1.50%) Perl
13 47 (1.41%) Scala
14 39 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 38 (1.14%) Kotlin
16 35 (1.05%) R
17 34 (1.02%) Groovy
18 31 (0.93%) PHP
19 28 (0.84%) Ruby
20 26 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 855 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 692 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 237 (7.12%) Degree
4 205 (6.16%) AWS Certification
5 137 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 116 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 93 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 72 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 65 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 58 (1.74%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.50%) CISSP
12 41 (1.23%) CCNP
13 31 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
14 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
15 22 (0.66%) PhD
16 21 (0.63%) CISM
17 20 (0.60%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.60%) PMP
18 19 (0.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (4.27%) QA
2 124 (3.72%) GDPR
3 111 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 87 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 83 (2.49%) NIST
6 42 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 41 (1.23%) HIPAA
8 39 (1.17%) Accessibility
9 24 (0.72%) NCSC
10 22 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.63%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.57%) SLA
13 13 (0.39%) GRC
14 10 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.30%) MiFID
15 8 (0.24%) Basel III
15 8 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.21%) WCAG
17 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
18 5 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 631 (18.95%) Docker
2 122 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 73 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
7 12 (0.36%) Firmware
7 12 (0.36%) vSphere
8 10 (0.30%) Postfix
8 10 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.27%) BitLocker
9 9 (0.27%) Terminal Services
10 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 4 (0.12%) Platform Symphony
13 3 (0.090%) HDFS
13 3 (0.090%) iptables
13 3 (0.090%) NFS
13 3 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 777 (23.34%) Kubernetes
2 691 (20.76%) Terraform
3 337 (10.12%) Ansible
4 130 (3.91%) Grafana
5 116 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 106 (3.18%) Puppet
7 59 (1.77%) Progress Chef
8 41 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.20%) Kibana
10 27 (0.81%) FortiGate
11 25 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.75%) Packer
12 24 (0.72%) Nagios
13 19 (0.57%) Podman
14 17 (0.51%) Argo
15 14 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
15 14 (0.42%) SCCM
16 13 (0.39%) Consul
16 13 (0.39%) vCenter Server
17 10 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 272 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 211 (6.34%) Google
3 179 (5.38%) Oracle
4 116 (3.48%) Splunk
5 105 (3.15%) Databricks
6 104 (3.12%) Cisco
7 103 (3.09%) VMware
8 76 (2.28%) Red Hat
9 69 (2.07%) IBM
10 58 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 46 (1.38%) F5
12 45 (1.35%) Atlassian
13 40 (1.20%) Fortinet
14 32 (0.96%) Citrix
14 32 (0.96%) Palo Alto
15 31 (0.93%) SAP
16 30 (0.90%) Salesforce
17 29 (0.87%) CyberArk
18 28 (0.84%) Juniper
19 27 (0.81%) Informatica