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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 13 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 4.44% 6.36% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.94% 24.14% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile £305 £451 £398
25th Percentile £373 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £458 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% -16.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £554 £467 £650
90th Percentile £564 £470 £703
East of England median daily rate £525 £525 £553
% change year-on-year - -4.98% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £200.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £81.00 £151.50 -
% change year-on-year -46.53% - -

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 87 29 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 29.69% 26.36% 19.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 19 29
10th Percentile £307 £220 £190
25th Percentile £363 £228 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £318 £485
Median % change year-on-year +57.01% -34.34% -3.00%
75th Percentile £558 £425 £550
90th Percentile £600 £478 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 3
10th Percentile £15.25 - £16.78
25th Percentile £15.56 - £17.99
Median hourly rate £17.50 £200.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -91.25% +900.00% -18.77%
75th Percentile £46.69 - £54.00
90th Percentile £55.35 - £74.40
East of England median hourly rate £27.00 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +43.46% +15.46% -25.91%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -5 10 £530 +15.85% 4
Grays - 1 £525 - 1
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 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) Snowflake
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 2 (15.38%) dbt
5 2 (15.38%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (15.38%) TestFlight
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Android Studio
2 2 (15.38%) Appium
2 2 (15.38%) Postman
2 2 (15.38%) Sourcetree
2 2 (15.38%) Xcode
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Hudson
3 1 (7.69%) JMeter
3 1 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Developer
3 2 (15.38%) IAM Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
2 4 (30.77%) OpenID
3 2 (15.38%) pytest
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) JWT
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) React
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Thymeleaf
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) CMDB
4 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) Microservices
1 5 (38.46%) TDD
2 4 (30.77%) Customer Experience
2 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (30.77%) SDLC
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) API Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Black-Box Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Fintech
4 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) PgMP
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (7.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Kibana
2 2 (15.38%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) Cadence
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) StreamSets