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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 25 53
Rank change year-on-year -31 +28 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS 15 22 22
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.78% 6.49% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.15% 22.68% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 20
10th Percentile £425 £525 £406
25th Percentile £509 £625 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +10.64% -9.62%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £659
90th Percentile £738 - £719
East of England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.90%

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 99 97 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 11.74% 28.61% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 72 48
10th Percentile £205 £428 £258
25th Percentile £406 £479 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% +11.39% +23.44%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £675 £758
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 4
10th Percentile £17.38 - £15.19
25th Percentile £18.36 £16.95 £16.35
Median hourly rate £20.31 £21.28 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +18.22% -72.52%
75th Percentile £23.05 £28.15 £20.19
90th Percentile £23.09 £31.64 £22.33
East of England median hourly rate £21.36 £17.80 £16.30
% change year-on-year +19.99% +9.20% -20.10%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -10 5 £638 - 7
Hatfield -14 4 £550 -29.03% 2
Hemel Hempstead -12 2 £488 -11.36% 1
Watford - 2 - - 5
Welwyn Garden City +2 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (26.67%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (20.00%) SaaS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Boomi
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (6.67%) dbt
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) iPaaS
6 1 (6.67%) OCI
6 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Snyk
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Integration Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) eBPF
1 4 (26.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (13.33%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) Blazor
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.67%) Device Driver
3 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Robotics
3 1 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (33.33%) Use Case
3 5 (33.33%) User Experience
4 4 (26.67%) AI
4 4 (26.67%) AIOps
4 4 (26.67%) Anomaly Detection
4 4 (26.67%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (26.67%) ITSM
4 4 (26.67%) Observability
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) SIEM
4 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) C
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Grafana
2 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 4 (26.67%) Cribl.io
2 4 (26.67%) Dynatrace
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (20.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (13.33%) New Relic
5 1 (6.67%) Informatica
5 1 (6.67%) NVIDIA
5 1 (6.67%) Pega
5 1 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) Workday