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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 34 41
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -22
Contract jobs citing AWS 29 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.08% 4.01% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.76% 15.00% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 10
10th Percentile - £361 £485
25th Percentile £410 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -16.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £644
90th Percentile £571 £685 £786
East of England median daily rate £510 £501 £559
% change year-on-year +1.75% -10.29% +1.59%

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 173 120 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 18.35% 26.73% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 83 43
10th Percentile £200 £350 £228
25th Percentile £400 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +22.22% -12.62%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £788 £675 £760
East of England median daily rate £488 £518 £420
% change year-on-year -5.80% +23.21% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £19.62 -
25th Percentile £20.75 £22.56 -
Median hourly rate £21.50 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.42% - -
75th Percentile £22.25 £67.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £16.30
% change year-on-year -30.00% +53.37% -18.50%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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
Watford 0 7 £600 - 11
Stevenage -12 7 £550 +8.91% 3
Hatfield - 7 £550 -
Hemel Hempstead -12 2 £450 -14.29% 9
Welwyn Garden City - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Mendix
1 1 (3.45%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.45%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) SaaS
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.34%) Serverless
6 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.45%) Boomi
7 1 (3.45%) Figma
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) iPaaS
7 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) SNMP
2 4 (13.79%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) LAN
3 1 (3.45%) MQTT
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (3.45%) WAN
3 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Metadata
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
2 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Law
3 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Billing
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Consultant
2 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Lead
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Leader
4 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Lead Architect
4 3 (10.34%) SailPoint Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) SailPoint Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) DBA
6 1 (3.45%) Security Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) SailPoint
2 5 (17.24%) eBPF
2 5 (17.24%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (17.24%) REST
2 5 (17.24%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) SOAP
4 2 (6.90%) JSON
5 1 (3.45%) LDAP
5 1 (3.45%) OAuth
5 1 (3.45%) PySpark
5 1 (3.45%) Web Services
5 1 (3.45%) XML
5 1 (3.45%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Low-Code
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Device Driver
4 1 (3.45%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (3.45%) Mashup
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Robotics
4 1 (3.45%) TM Forum
4 1 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Migration
2 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps
2 10 (34.48%) Roadmaps
3 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) ETL
4 8 (27.59%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (24.14%) Data Migration
5 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
5 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (24.14%) Validation
6 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
6 6 (20.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 6 (20.69%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (20.69%) Use Case
6 6 (20.69%) User Experience
7 5 (17.24%) ITSM
7 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) Bash
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) BeanShell
5 1 (3.45%) C
5 1 (3.45%) C++
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.45%) CCSP
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 4 (13.79%) GDPR
3 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (10.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (6.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Ansible
1 5 (17.24%) Grafana
1 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Dynatrace
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Cribl.io
2 5 (17.24%) Splunk
3 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) Adobe
5 1 (3.45%) Apple
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Informatica
5 1 (3.45%) Kepware
5 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Pega
5 1 (3.45%) PTC
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce