AWS Contracts in Hertfordshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 49 23
Rank change year-on-year +27 -26 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 22 20 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 6.01% 2.36% 7.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.57% 28.99% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 40
10th Percentile £451 £394 £409
25th Percentile £525 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £588 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -16.07% +16.67%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £738
90th Percentile - £731 £950
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +13.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.00
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £73.00
East of England median hourly rate £151.50 - £24.62
% change year-on-year - - -62.79%

All Cloud 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 102 69 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 27.87% 8.15% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 59 115
10th Percentile £398 £254 £174
25th Percentile £463 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +3.45% -19.07%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £681
90th Percentile £675 £703 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.95 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.28 £14.41 £25.45
Median % change year-on-year +47.68% -43.38% -12.99%
75th Percentile £26.41 - £70.00
90th Percentile £31.64 - -
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £22.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -25.91% +41.94%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Hertfordshire

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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 2 July 2025. 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 £505 - 57
Hemel Hempstead +3 2 £550 -8.33% 65
Welwyn Garden City -1 1 - - 3
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Hatfield - 1 £775 - 5
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (54.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (9.09%) SaaS
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Akamai
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) BGP
1 3 (13.64%) OSPF
1 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 2 (9.09%) VLAN
2 2 (9.09%) WAN
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) DWDM
3 1 (4.55%) HTTP
3 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.55%) IGRP
3 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.55%) IPsec
3 1 (4.55%) LAN
3 1 (4.55%) MPLS
3 1 (4.55%) SNMP
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Big Data
1 12 (54.55%) Hadoop
1 12 (54.55%) Tableau
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Aviation
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (36.36%) Senior
4 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Senior Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Administrator
7 2 (9.09%) Architect
7 2 (9.09%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Network Administrator
7 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Lead
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Manager
8 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Matplotlib
1 12 (54.55%) PyTorch
1 12 (54.55%) scikit-learn
1 12 (54.55%) Seaborn
1 12 (54.55%) TensorFlow
2 11 (50.00%) NumPy
2 11 (50.00%) Pandas
3 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) EPoS
3 1 (4.55%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Data Analysis
1 12 (54.55%) Data Munging
1 12 (54.55%) Data Science
1 12 (54.55%) Generative AI
1 12 (54.55%) LLM
1 12 (54.55%) Machine Learning
1 12 (54.55%) Reinforcement Learning
1 12 (54.55%) Visualisation
2 10 (45.45%) Analytics
2 10 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 10 (45.45%) Feature Engineering
2 10 (45.45%) Statistical Modelling
3 9 (40.91%) Data Analytics
3 9 (40.91%) Decision-Making
3 9 (40.91%) Predictive Analytics
3 9 (40.91%) Time Series Forecasting
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) R
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Degree
1 10 (45.45%) Master's Degree
1 10 (45.45%) PhD
2 1 (4.55%) CCDP
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
1 2 (9.09%) Huawei
2 1 (4.55%) Arista
2 1 (4.55%) Blue Coat
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) Citrix
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) F5
2 1 (4.55%) Juniper
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.55%) Riverbed
2 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
2 1 (4.55%) Spotify
2 1 (4.55%) VMware
2 1 (4.55%) Zscaler