AWS Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 16 20 62
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.14% 3.93% 8.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.76% 26.67% 42.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 37
10th Percentile £360 £396 £413
25th Percentile £400 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £704
90th Percentile £595 £645 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.50
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.50
East of England median hourly rate £101.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +9.24%

All Cloud Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 136 75 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 26.67% 14.73% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 45 98
10th Percentile £263 £212 £270
25th Percentile £419 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -15.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £680 £725
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £473
% change year-on-year +19.05% -11.11% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £19.62 - £33.81
25th Percentile £22.56 - £47.43
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £63.78
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.49%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £68.17
90th Percentile - - £69.27
East of England median hourly rate £31.25 £20.69 £20.00
% change year-on-year +51.08% +3.43% +29.03%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

AWS job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Hertfordshire

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Hemel Hempstead -1 3 £500 -13.04% 4
Stevenage - 3 £505 - 14
Watford -2 1 - - 13
Hertford - 1 £475 -
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Harpenden - 1 - -
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) AWS IoT
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) BGP
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) OSPF
1 2 (12.50%) VLAN
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.25%) Modbus
2 1 (6.25%) MQTT
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Big Data
1 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
1 3 (18.75%) Tableau
2 1 (6.25%) GIS
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Agriculture
3 1 (6.25%) Agrochemical
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Data Science Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Matplotlib
1 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
1 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
1 3 (18.75%) Seaborn
1 3 (18.75%) TensorFlow
2 2 (12.50%) NumPy
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Analytics
1 5 (31.25%) Data Science
2 4 (25.00%) AI
2 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Data Munging
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Feature Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
3 3 (18.75%) LLM
3 3 (18.75%) Predictive Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) Reinforcement Learning
3 3 (18.75%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Use Case
4 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) R
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) PHP
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (25.00%) PhD
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
1 2 (12.50%) Huawei
1 2 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) HP
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Pega
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Siemens
2 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
2 1 (6.25%) Veritas