AWS Contracts in Hampshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 33 48
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 -16
Contract jobs citing AWS 61 86 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.57% 4.85% 4.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.97% 31.05% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 69 37
10th Percentile £450 £460 £412
25th Percentile £469 £513 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £715 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +57.89%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -53.33% +57.89%

All Cloud Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 185 277 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 22.95% 15.61% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 173 176
10th Percentile £288 £320 £263
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £646
90th Percentile £689 £669 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 23
10th Percentile £16.88 - £15.27
25th Percentile £27.00 - £17.30
Median hourly rate £61.25 £17.69 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +246.24% -69.23% +277.05%
75th Percentile £73.13 £26.35 £72.50
90th Percentile £74.38 £35.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Hampshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Hampshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Hampshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Hampshire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Hampshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Basingstoke +11 20 £575 -8.00% 43
Southampton +11 8 £500 -15.18% 40
Portsmouth +20 5 £735 +16.67% 37
Fleet +5 5 £402 -15.37% 3
Eastleigh +2 4 £500 - 5
Havant -3 4 £600 -16.08%
Winchester +5 3 £498 -17.08% 3
Aldershot +7 1 £525 -8.70% 1
Farnborough +5 1 £500 -18.37% 8
Fareham -2 1 £455 +21.33% 2
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) Anypoint
2 4 (6.56%) Mule
2 4 (6.56%) Mule ESB
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 2 (3.28%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.82%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) GCP
3 10 (16.39%) OpenShift
4 8 (13.11%) IaaS
4 8 (13.11%) PaaS
5 6 (9.84%) Amazon S3
5 6 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (9.84%) Serverless
6 4 (6.56%) Cloudflare
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.92%) AWS KMS
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.92%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.64%) OCI
8 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) VPN
2 13 (21.31%) Firewall
3 11 (18.03%) LAN
4 8 (13.11%) DHCP
4 8 (13.11%) DNS
4 8 (13.11%) SMTP
4 8 (13.11%) WAN
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco IOS
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (11.48%) Junos
6 5 (8.20%) Wireless
7 4 (6.56%) MPLS
8 3 (4.92%) SSL
9 1 (1.64%) Network Security
9 1 (1.64%) NX-OS
9 1 (1.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) Relational Database
2 11 (18.03%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (16.39%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (13.11%) Big Data
5 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (4.92%) MySQL
6 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.56%) JIRA
3 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (3.28%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (3.28%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.64%) GitLab
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Banking
4 2 (3.28%) Finance
4 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.28%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Advertising
5 1 (1.64%) Automotive
5 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.64%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Marketing
5 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Network Engineer
2 13 (21.31%) Architect
2 13 (21.31%) Developer
3 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Support Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.48%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Senior
6 4 (6.56%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) MuleSoft Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) .NET
2 6 (9.84%) Web Services
3 5 (8.20%) RESTful
3 5 (8.20%) SOAP
4 4 (6.56%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.56%) CSS
4 4 (6.56%) HTML
4 4 (6.56%) JSON
4 4 (6.56%) RAML
4 4 (6.56%) REST
4 4 (6.56%) XML
5 3 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.92%) Kafka
5 3 (4.92%) React
6 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.28%) Node.js
6 2 (3.28%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.28%) Vue
7 1 (1.64%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) PKI
2 8 (13.11%) Clustering
2 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) IoT
4 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.28%) Device Driver
5 2 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) IVR
6 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.64%) SCADA
6 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Linux
2 11 (18.03%) Windows
3 8 (13.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Agile
1 19 (31.15%) DevOps
1 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (26.23%) CI/CD
3 10 (16.39%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
4 8 (13.11%) Machine Learning
4 8 (13.11%) OO
4 8 (13.11%) Software Deployment
5 7 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (11.48%) Load Balancing
5 7 (11.48%) Microservices
6 6 (9.84%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (9.84%) Mentoring
6 6 (9.84%) Multithreading
6 6 (9.84%) Preventative Maintenance
6 6 (9.84%) Test Automation
7 5 (8.20%) API Development
7 5 (8.20%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) Python
2 16 (26.23%) SQL
3 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
5 8 (13.11%) C#
6 7 (11.48%) Java
6 7 (11.48%) VB
7 4 (6.56%) DataWeave
8 3 (4.92%) Ruby
8 3 (4.92%) Scala
9 2 (3.28%) C
9 2 (3.28%) Embedded C
9 2 (3.28%) Perl
10 1 (1.64%) Bash
10 1 (1.64%) C++
10 1 (1.64%) Go
10 1 (1.64%) PHP
10 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (44.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.51%) DV Cleared
3 14 (22.95%) Degree
4 9 (14.75%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.20%) CCIE
7 4 (6.56%) CCNA
7 4 (6.56%) CCNP
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) SLA
2 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (32.79%) Docker
2 13 (21.31%) Active Directory
3 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (13.11%) BitLocker
4 8 (13.11%) Hyper-V
4 8 (13.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (13.11%) Terminal Services
4 8 (13.11%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (36.07%) Ansible
2 20 (32.79%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.03%) Terraform
4 9 (14.75%) Puppet
5 8 (13.11%) Nagios
5 8 (13.11%) vCenter Server
5 8 (13.11%) vMotion
6 7 (11.48%) FortiGate
7 4 (6.56%) CloudHub
8 3 (4.92%) Progress Chef
9 2 (3.28%) Kibana
10 1 (1.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (1.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (31.15%) Citrix
2 16 (26.23%) Cisco
3 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
4 11 (18.03%) F5
4 11 (18.03%) Google
5 9 (14.75%) Juniper
5 9 (14.75%) VMware
6 8 (13.11%) HP
6 8 (13.11%) Symantec
7 4 (6.56%) CheckPoint
7 4 (6.56%) Fortinet
7 4 (6.56%) MuleSoft
7 4 (6.56%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.92%) Thales
9 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
9 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
9 2 (3.28%) Oracle
9 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.28%) Splunk
10 1 (1.64%) Salesforce