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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -18
Contract jobs citing AWS 9 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.09% 3.01% 4.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.03% 14.81% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £451 £476 £467
25th Percentile £452 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £588 £523
Median % change year-on-year -22.13% +12.33% +4.60%
75th Percentile £467 £666 £530
90th Percentile £470 £709 £620
East of England median daily rate £501 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -9.28% +0.45% +7.32%

All Cloud 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 29 27 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 22.83% 20.30% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 54
10th Percentile £225 £171 £224
25th Percentile £230 £188 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £250 £507
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -50.69% +2.42%
75th Percentile £475 £331 £598
90th Percentile £502 £528 £649
East of England median daily rate £505 £420 £470
% change year-on-year +20.24% -10.64% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £16.38 £72.02
25th Percentile - £16.99 £74.93
Median hourly rate - £17.99 £79.81
Median % change year-on-year - -77.46% +11.81%
75th Percentile - £19.00 £84.65
90th Percentile - £19.60 £87.52
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.11% -18.50% +29.03%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS 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
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 17 September 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
Basildon +9 9 £458 +1.67% 11
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 5 (55.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon S3
1 8 (88.89%) AWS Lambda
1 8 (88.89%) dbt
1 8 (88.89%) Serverless
1 8 (88.89%) Snowflake
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle Database
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Architect
2 8 (88.89%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSR 170
1 1 (11.11%) Next.js
1 1 (11.11%) OSGi
1 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Migration
2 8 (88.89%) Data Migration
2 8 (88.89%) Data Modelling
2 8 (88.89%) ETL
3 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Data Integration
4 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
4 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (44.44%) High Availability
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 1 (11.11%) Personalization
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) StreamSets
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) OpenAI