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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 17 32
Rank change year-on-year -38 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 13 30 40
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.63% 8.11% 5.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.30% 39.47% 50.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 26 29
10th Percentile £519 £396 £423
25th Percentile £588 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £625
90th Percentile - - £690
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 115 76 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 14.38% 20.54% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 54 55
10th Percentile £263 £360 £299
25th Percentile £419 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £631
90th Percentile £775 £741 £708
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -
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 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -2.14% +31.66% -6.86%

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 March 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 March 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 - 7 £725 - 5
Hemel Hempstead -7 2 £538 -2.27% 4
Welwyn Garden City -3 1 £675 -
Watford - 1 - - 6
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (30.77%) SaaS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.69%) Boomi
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) iPaaS
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Snyk
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Law
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Integration Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Blazor
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Presales
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) API Design
4 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Salesforce
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) MuleSoft
3 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (15.38%) New Relic
4 2 (15.38%) Pega
4 2 (15.38%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk
5 1 (7.69%) Workday