AWS Contract Job Trends in Essex

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 28
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing AWS 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 3.80% 2.60% 2.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.95% 6.67% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £300 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.40%
75th Percentile £525 - £344
90th Percentile £542 - £370
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £200.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £81.00 £200.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -59.50% +280.95% +113.24%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 43 30 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 27.22% 38.96% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 47
10th Percentile £191 £181 £213
25th Percentile £300 £243 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £318 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.84% -33.01% -5.00%
75th Percentile £441 £478 £553
90th Percentile £514 £546 £649
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.50% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £64.00 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £115.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £200.00 £88.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.75% +127.27% +283.28%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -2.14% +31.66% -5.51%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Essex

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Essex over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Essex

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Essex region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Basildon - 4 £300 - 2
Grays - 1 £525 -
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (33.33%) TestFlight
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Android Studio
2 2 (33.33%) Appium
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (33.33%) Sourcetree
2 2 (33.33%) Xcode
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Hudson
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Serenity BDD
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer in Test
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
1 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Fintech
3 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) White-Box Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Post-Merger Integration
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
4 1 (16.67%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) PgMP
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Cadence
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) StreamSets