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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 26 46
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS 24 22 20
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.84% 5.23% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.90% 19.30% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 18
10th Percentile £443 £441 £394
25th Percentile £513 £525 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +10.64% -16.07%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 - £731
East of England median daily rate £525 £525 £553
% change year-on-year - -4.98% -3.91%

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 127 114 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.01% 27.08% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 71 58
10th Percentile £225 £375 £252
25th Percentile £406 £463 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £714 £675 £704
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 1
10th Percentile £17.16 - -
25th Percentile £17.81 £16.95 -
Median hourly rate £18.90 £24.66 £14.41
Median % change year-on-year -23.36% +71.13% -43.38%
75th Percentile £21.01 £65.25 -
90th Percentile £22.28 £67.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £27.00 £19.27 £16.30
% change year-on-year +40.11% +18.22% -25.91%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -3 7 £638 +26.24% 6
Hatfield -5 7 £550 -29.03% 2
Watford -1 6 £563 - 3
Hemel Hempstead -11 2 £488 -11.36% 3
Welwyn Garden City 0 1 £675 -
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 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.17%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) SaaS
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (20.83%) Serverless
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.33%) Boomi
6 2 (8.33%) iPaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) SNMP
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Snyk
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Law
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Billing
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Consultant
2 6 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Technical Leader
4 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) SailPoint Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Security Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) eBPF
1 5 (20.83%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (20.83%) SailPoint
2 4 (16.67%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) SOAP
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (4.17%) JSON
5 1 (4.17%) Middleware
5 1 (4.17%) Node.js
5 1 (4.17%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Device Driver
4 1 (4.17%) e-Learning
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Robotics
4 1 (4.17%) TM Forum
4 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (29.17%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (29.17%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (29.17%) User Experience
5 6 (25.00%) AI
5 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (25.00%) Use Case
6 5 (20.83%) AIOps
6 5 (20.83%) Anomaly Detection
6 5 (20.83%) Change Management
6 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
6 5 (20.83%) ITSM
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) Observability
6 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) C
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.17%) CCSP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (8.33%) QA
4 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 5 (20.83%) Grafana
2 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (25.00%) Splunk
2 5 (20.83%) Cribl.io
2 5 (20.83%) Dynatrace
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
4 3 (12.50%) MuleSoft
5 2 (8.33%) New Relic
5 2 (8.33%) SAP
5 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.17%) Adobe
6 1 (4.17%) Apple
6 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Informatica
6 1 (4.17%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
6 1 (4.17%) Pega
6 1 (4.17%) Workday