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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 20 19
Rank change year-on-year -32 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 14 26 53
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.10% 6.68% 7.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.20% 33.77% 46.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 31
10th Percentile £395 £378 £463
25th Percentile £463 £396 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -28.57%
75th Percentile £525 £672 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -16.67%

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 125 77 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 18.71% 19.79% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 46 68
10th Percentile £263 £321 £363
25th Percentile £413 £396 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £581
90th Percentile £800 £788 £675
East of England median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £46.26 - -
25th Percentile £63.63 £66.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.50 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +233.33% -69.08%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £34.70
90th Percentile - - £54.42
East of England median hourly rate £24.02 £21.46 £19.00
% change year-on-year +11.91% +12.95% +16.92%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 - - 101
Watford -1 2 - - 95
Hemel Hempstead -2 2 £500 -4.76% 87
Harpenden - 1 - -
Hertford - 1 £475 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.14%) AWS IoT
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Modbus
1 1 (7.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Agriculture
4 1 (7.14%) Agrochemical
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Developer
1 2 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
2 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Programme Delivery Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (7.14%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) Blazor
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) IoT
1 2 (14.29%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 3 (21.43%) Analytics
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
2 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
2 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (21.43%) Presales
2 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (21.43%) Use Case
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) API Design
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Data Science
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 2 (14.29%) Pega
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Siemens
3 1 (7.14%) Veritas
3 1 (7.14%) VMware