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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 19 42
Rank change year-on-year -36 +23 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 16 27 32
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.88% 8.11% 3.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.09% 34.18% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 27
10th Percentile £425 £396 £420
25th Percentile £509 £525 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +30.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 - £738
East of England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -10.18%

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 106 79 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.43% 23.72% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 57 57
10th Percentile £296 £396 £270
25th Percentile £416 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £701 £760
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
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 29 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 29 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 -9 6 £638 - 6
Hatfield -16 4 £550 -29.03% 3
Hemel Hempstead -10 2 £488 -11.36% 2
Watford - 2 - - 11
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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
3 4 (25.00%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Boomi
5 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (6.25%) dbt
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) OCI
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Snyk
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Law
3 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Integration Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Splunk Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) eBPF
2 4 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) Blazor
5 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
5 1 (6.25%) JSON
5 1 (6.25%) Middleware
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) Spring
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.25%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.25%) Device Driver
3 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Robotics
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (31.25%) Use Case
3 5 (31.25%) User Experience
4 4 (25.00%) AI
4 4 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (25.00%) ITSM
4 4 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) SIEM
4 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
4 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Grafana
2 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Salesforce
1 5 (31.25%) Splunk
2 4 (25.00%) Cribl.io
2 4 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) New Relic
3 2 (12.50%) Pega
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) NVIDIA
4 1 (6.25%) Workday