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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 20 38
Rank change year-on-year -29 +18 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS 19 27 33
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.25% 8.04% 4.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.12% 34.18% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 28
10th Percentile £425 £396 £421
25th Percentile £509 £525 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +30.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 - £731
East of England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -10.41%

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 111 79 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.17% 23.51% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 57 57
10th Percentile £296 £396 £285
25th Percentile £416 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £701 £760
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 4
10th Percentile £17.38 - £15.19
25th Percentile £18.36 £16.95 £16.35
Median hourly rate £20.31 £22.97 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +27.61% -72.52%
75th Percentile £23.05 £31.64 £20.19
90th Percentile £23.09 £35.35 £22.33
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +11.58% +15.46% -14.21%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 9 £638 - 8
Hatfield -16 4 £550 -29.03% 4
Hemel Hempstead -8 2 £488 -11.36% 4
Watford - 2 - - 8
Welwyn Garden City -3 1 £675 -
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 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (26.32%) SaaS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.53%) Boomi
5 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.26%) dbt
6 1 (5.26%) iPaaS
6 1 (5.26%) OCI
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) Metadata
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (5.26%) Star Schema
1 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Snyk
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Integration Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) REST
2 4 (21.05%) eBPF
2 4 (21.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (15.79%) SOAP
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.26%) Blazor
5 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) Middleware
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) React
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) Spring
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.26%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.26%) Device Driver
3 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Robotics
3 1 (5.26%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
2 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
2 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (26.32%) ITSM
3 5 (26.32%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (26.32%) Use Case
3 5 (26.32%) User Experience
4 4 (21.05%) AIOps
4 4 (21.05%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
4 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (21.05%) Observability
4 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) C
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) Degree
3 6 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Grafana
2 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Salesforce
1 5 (26.32%) Splunk
2 4 (21.05%) Cribl.io
2 4 (21.05%) Dynatrace
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) MuleSoft
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.53%) New Relic
4 2 (10.53%) Pega
4 2 (10.53%) SAP
5 1 (5.26%) Informatica
5 1 (5.26%) NVIDIA
5 1 (5.26%) Workday