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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 37 41
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS 29 18 17
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.43% 4.01% 2.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.86% 15.13% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 11
10th Percentile - £363 £463
25th Percentile £410 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -15.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £552 £625 £638
90th Percentile £593 £675 £775
East of England median daily rate £510 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +1.49% -8.64% -

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 146 119 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 17.26% 26.50% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 76 42
10th Percentile £249 £350 £242
25th Percentile £406 £459 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £625
90th Percentile £649 £647 £695
East of England median daily rate £488 £505 £420
% change year-on-year -3.47% +20.24% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 1
10th Percentile £17.13 £18.06 -
25th Percentile £17.73 £21.12 -
Median hourly rate £19.23 £31.64 £14.41
Median % change year-on-year -39.24% +119.57% -66.27%
75th Percentile £20.98 £66.88 -
90th Percentile £21.74 £67.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £17.39 £27.10 £16.30
% change year-on-year -35.85% +66.26% -25.91%

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 8 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 8 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
Stevenage +4 7 £519 +2.72% 4
Watford +1 7 £600 - 5
Hatfield - 7 £550 -
Hemel Hempstead -14 3 £500 -9.09% 10
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%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) SaaS
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (17.24%) Serverless
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.90%) Boomi
6 2 (6.90%) iPaaS
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
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 6 (20.69%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Law
3 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.45%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Billing
7 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Electronics
7 1 (3.45%) Finance
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Consultant
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Lead
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Leader
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead Architect
4 3 (10.34%) SailPoint Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) SailPoint Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) eBPF
1 5 (17.24%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (17.24%) REST
1 5 (17.24%) SailPoint
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) SOAP
3 2 (6.90%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 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%) 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%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (3.45%) Mashup
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 11 (37.93%) DevOps
1 11 (37.93%) Migration
2 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
4 8 (27.59%) ETL
4 8 (27.59%) Performance Optimisation
4 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) Data Migration
5 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
5 7 (24.14%) User Experience
5 7 (24.14%) Validation
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
7 5 (17.24%) AI
7 5 (17.24%) Change Management
7 5 (17.24%) ITSM
7 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) Bash
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) C
5 1 (3.45%) C++
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 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 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) 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
2 5 (17.24%) Cribl.io
2 5 (17.24%) Splunk
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) MuleSoft
4 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.90%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) Adobe
6 1 (3.45%) Apple
6 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) Informatica
6 1 (3.45%) New Relic
6 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA
6 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) Pega
6 1 (3.45%) PTC
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.45%) Workday