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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 18 21 65
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.33% 4.46% 8.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.16% 26.92% 43.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 40
10th Percentile £360 £354 £424
25th Percentile £400 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £704
90th Percentile £595 £659 £726
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.50
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.50
East of England median hourly rate £101.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +0.84%

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 148 78 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 27.36% 16.56% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 47 101
10th Percentile £270 £216 £275
25th Percentile £420 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £769 £678 £725
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £19.62 - £33.81
25th Percentile £22.56 £66.25 £47.43
Median hourly rate £66.00 £67.50 £63.78
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +5.83% +21.49%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.75 £68.17
90th Percentile - - £69.27
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.73 £20.00
% change year-on-year +45.74% +28.65% +29.03%

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 November 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 8 November 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 - 5 £505 - 22
Hemel Hempstead -1 3 £500 -9.09% 5
Watford -3 1 - - 33
Hertford - 1 £475 -
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Harpenden - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) AWS IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.56%) dbt
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) BGP
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) OSPF
1 2 (11.11%) VLAN
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.56%) Modbus
2 1 (5.56%) MQTT
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
1 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 2 (11.11%) Tableau
2 1 (5.56%) GIS
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Law
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Agriculture
4 1 (5.56%) Agrochemical
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Administrator
2 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Data Science Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Network Administrator
2 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (5.56%) Programme Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Matplotlib
1 2 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 2 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 2 (11.11%) Seaborn
1 2 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) NumPy
2 1 (5.56%) Pandas
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 4 (22.22%) Analytics
2 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 4 (22.22%) Data Science
3 3 (16.67%) AI
3 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (16.67%) Presales
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 3 (16.67%) Use Case
3 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Predictive Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (11.11%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) R
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 3 (16.67%) PhD
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
1 2 (11.11%) Huawei
1 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) HP
2 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.56%) Pega
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Siemens
2 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
2 1 (5.56%) Veritas