AWS Contracts in Hertfordshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 43 30
Rank change year-on-year +25 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 27 32 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.41% 3.84% 5.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.18% 42.67% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 29
10th Percentile £396 £420 £360
25th Percentile £525 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £788
90th Percentile - £738 £970
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £585
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.18% +16.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £200.00 £52.50 £24.62
% change year-on-year +280.95% +113.24% -62.79%

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 79 75 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 24.61% 8.99% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 56 100
10th Percentile £396 £268 £169
25th Percentile £463 £413 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £614
90th Percentile £701 £763 £788
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 21
10th Percentile - £15.19 -
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.35 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.97 £18.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.61% -72.52% +167.35%
75th Percentile £31.64 £20.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £35.35 £22.33 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Hertfordshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Hertfordshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Hertfordshire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Hertfordshire

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 1 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
Hemel Hempstead +7 1 £550 -4.35% 96
Hatfield +2 1 £775 +55.00%
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Stevenage - 1 - - 94
Rickmansworth - 1 - -
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 14 (51.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) SaaS
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Akamai
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) BGP
1 1 (3.70%) DHCP
1 1 (3.70%) DMVPN
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) DWDM
1 1 (3.70%) GLBP
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
1 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.70%) IGRP
1 1 (3.70%) Internet
1 1 (3.70%) LAN
1 1 (3.70%) MPLS
1 1 (3.70%) Multicast
1 1 (3.70%) NetScaler
1 1 (3.70%) OSPF
1 1 (3.70%) SNMP
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) Big Data
1 14 (51.85%) Hadoop
1 14 (51.85%) Tableau
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) JMeter
2 1 (3.70%) TestDirector
General
1 14 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Aviation
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
2 12 (44.44%) Data Science Developer
2 12 (44.44%) Senior
3 10 (37.04%) Senior Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Lead
5 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Environment Delivery Manager
6 3 (11.11%) Environment Manager
7 2 (7.41%) Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) DBA
8 1 (3.70%) MySQL DBA
8 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Technical Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Matplotlib
1 14 (51.85%) NumPy
1 14 (51.85%) Pandas
1 14 (51.85%) PyTorch
1 14 (51.85%) scikit-learn
1 14 (51.85%) Seaborn
1 14 (51.85%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (51.85%) Algorithms
2 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.70%) EPoS
4 1 (3.70%) FMCG
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Artificial Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) Data Analysis
1 14 (51.85%) Data Munging
1 14 (51.85%) Data Science
1 14 (51.85%) Generative AI
1 14 (51.85%) LLM
1 14 (51.85%) Machine Learning
1 14 (51.85%) Reinforcement Learning
1 14 (51.85%) Visualisation
2 13 (48.15%) Analytics
2 13 (48.15%) Decision-Making
3 12 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 12 (44.44%) Data Analytics
3 12 (44.44%) Feature Engineering
3 12 (44.44%) Predictive Analytics
3 12 (44.44%) Statistical Modelling
3 12 (44.44%) Time Series Forecasting
4 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (7.41%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
1 14 (51.85%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Degree
1 12 (44.44%) Master's Degree
1 12 (44.44%) PhD
2 1 (3.70%) CCDP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (51.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Arista
1 1 (3.70%) Blue Coat
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco
1 1 (3.70%) Citrix
1 1 (3.70%) Databricks
1 1 (3.70%) F5
1 1 (3.70%) Juniper
1 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
1 1 (3.70%) Riverbed
1 1 (3.70%) Spotify
1 1 (3.70%) Zscaler