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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing AWS 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 4.59% 3.30% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.32% 7.14% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £300
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +50.00% -40.24%
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -17.70%

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 19 42 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 17.43% 46.15% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 46
10th Percentile - £180 £194
25th Percentile £185 £213 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £275 £480
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -42.71% -4.00%
75th Percentile £425 £320 £580
90th Percentile £491 £489 £649
East of England median daily rate £495 £471 £475
% change year-on-year +5.15% -0.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £88.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.91% +351.28%
East of England median hourly rate £17.78 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year -17.17% +7.30% +26.98%

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
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 27 January 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 +2 4 - - 5
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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EMR
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) dbt
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
1 4 (80.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Snowflake Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) BCP
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Key Management
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) RBAC
5 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle