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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 42 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -27 +11
Contract jobs citing AWS 18 17 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.96% 2.79% 8.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.38% 23.29% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 43
10th Percentile £361 £463 £410
25th Percentile £416 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £725
90th Percentile £685 £775 £768
East of England median daily rate £501 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -9.68% +0.91% +7.32%
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 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +9.24%

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 117 73 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 25.71% 11.99% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 44 122
10th Percentile £342 £230 £187
25th Percentile £456 £325 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £685 £738
East of England median daily rate £505 £423 £470
% change year-on-year +19.53% -10.11% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £19.62 - £19.65
25th Percentile £22.56 - £23.79
Median hourly rate £66.00 £14.41 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +358.02% -77.83% +122.22%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £30.03 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +84.23% -18.50% +29.03%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 - 9
Hemel Hempstead 0 2 £525 -12.50% 7
Watford -1 1 - - 9
Hertford - 1 £475 -
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Harpenden - 1 - - 1
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 7 (38.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) AWS IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
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 7 (38.89%) Big Data
1 7 (38.89%) Hadoop
1 7 (38.89%) Tableau
2 1 (5.56%) GIS
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Agriculture
3 1 (5.56%) Agrochemical
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Data Science Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Gen AI Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) QA Manager
5 1 (5.56%) QA Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Matplotlib
1 7 (38.89%) PyTorch
1 7 (38.89%) scikit-learn
1 7 (38.89%) Seaborn
1 7 (38.89%) TensorFlow
2 6 (33.33%) NumPy
2 6 (33.33%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Science
2 8 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 8 (44.44%) Visualisation
3 7 (38.89%) Data Analysis
3 7 (38.89%) Data Munging
3 7 (38.89%) Generative AI
3 7 (38.89%) LLM
3 7 (38.89%) Reinforcement Learning
4 6 (33.33%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
5 5 (27.78%) Feature Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Predictive Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Statistical Modelling
6 4 (22.22%) Data Analytics
6 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 4 (22.22%) Time Series Forecasting
7 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Use Case
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) R
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
1 6 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 6 (33.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) QA
2 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%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) HP
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Siemens
2 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
2 1 (5.56%) Veritas