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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -38 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 13 29 44
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.77% 7.86% 5.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.02% 40.85% 51.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 28
10th Percentile £569 - £425
25th Percentile £675 £396 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +30.00% -31.97%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £631
90th Percentile £756 - £679
East of England median daily rate £531 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -3.41% +7.32% -14.58%

All Cloud Computing 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 118 71 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 16.05% 19.24% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 52 56
10th Percentile £263 £341 £331
25th Percentile £425 £441 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £713 £675 £616
90th Percentile £800 £784 £706
East of England median daily rate £500 £467 £475
% change year-on-year +7.18% -1.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £19.18 £18.49 -
25th Percentile £19.60 £20.81 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.72 £24.66 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +21.78% -69.08%
75th Percentile £23.08 £46.71 £34.70
90th Percentile £23.10 £59.93 £54.42
East of England median hourly rate £21.72 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.19% +7.30% +17.65%

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 27 February 2026.

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 27 February 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
Stevenage - 6 £725 - 2
Welwyn Garden City -2 1 £675 - 1
Hemel Hempstead -3 1 £500 -9.09% 1
Harpenden - 1 - -
Watford - 1 - - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) GIS
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Snyk
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Law
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Agriculture
4 1 (7.69%) Agrochemical
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Blazor
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
3 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Presales
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) API Design
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) R
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
4 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Salesforce
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
4 2 (15.38%) Pega
4 2 (15.38%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Databricks
5 1 (7.69%) New Relic
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk