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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS 17 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 4.74% 7.56% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.67% 37.50% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £380 £451 £476
25th Percentile £500 £452 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £458 £588
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -22.13% +12.33%
75th Percentile £558 £467 £666
90th Percentile £565 £470 £709
East of England median daily rate £510 £500 £555
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.91% +0.91%

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 102 24 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 28.41% 20.17% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 13 18
10th Percentile £263 - £171
25th Percentile £375 £225 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £338 £250
Median % change year-on-year +49.63% +35.00% -52.52%
75th Percentile £588 £450 £331
90th Percentile £600 £495 £528
East of England median daily rate £495 £510 £420
% change year-on-year -2.94% +21.43% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £15.25 - £16.38
25th Percentile £15.38 - £16.99
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £17.99
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.46%
75th Percentile £18.25 - £19.00
90th Percentile £23.55 - £19.60
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £31.25 £16.30
% change year-on-year -44.00% +91.72% -18.50%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 14 £530 +15.85% 9
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
2 8 (47.06%) Snowflake
3 7 (41.18%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Banking
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 9 (52.94%) Java Developer
3 5 (29.41%) GCP Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Architect
5 3 (17.65%) AWS Architect
5 3 (17.65%) AWS Data Architect
5 3 (17.65%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
5 3 (17.65%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (11.76%) IAM Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) OAuth
2 8 (47.06%) OpenID
3 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) Jest
3 1 (5.88%) JWT
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Microservices
1 9 (52.94%) TDD
2 8 (47.06%) Customer Experience
2 8 (47.06%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (47.06%) SDLC
2 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (5.88%) API Development
6 1 (5.88%) Feature Engineering
6 1 (5.88%) Generative AI
6 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) SAP