AWS Contracts in Essex

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 30 21
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 -18
Contract jobs citing AWS 5 2 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 5.68% 0.89% 8.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.23% 4.55% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £458 £363 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £375 £533
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -29.58% +1.79%
75th Percentile £473 £388 £583
90th Percentile - - £605
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.25% +13.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.96
25th Percentile - - £22.96
Median hourly rate £200.00 - £24.62
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £200.00 - £24.62
% change year-on-year - - -62.79%

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 26 44 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 29.55% 19.56% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 57
10th Percentile £181 £205 £209
25th Percentile £273 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -36.31% -4.40% +5.87%
75th Percentile £474 £556 £583
90th Percentile £482 £650 £649
East of England median daily rate £501 £453 £450
% change year-on-year +10.77% +0.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £64.00 £23.18 £22.30
25th Percentile £115.00 £33.99 £23.79
Median hourly rate £200.00 £51.99 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +284.69% +111.17% -61.30%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £36.03
90th Percentile - £80.80 £56.57
East of England median hourly rate £17.80 £16.30 £21.66
% change year-on-year +9.20% -24.73% +39.71%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Essex.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Essex

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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 31 May 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 - 3 £465 - 6
Southend-on-Sea - 2 - - 1
AWS
East of England

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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 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) dbt
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (20.00%) Next.js
1 1 (20.00%) OSGi
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Personalization
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI