AWS Contract Job Trends in Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 22 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing AWS 4 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 3.31% 1.60% 3.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.09% 8.82% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £374 £378 £361
25th Percentile £391 £419 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -6.67% -4.26%
75th Percentile £409 £619 £588
90th Percentile £426 £653 -
South East median daily rate £496 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.77% -4.35% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 44 34 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 36.36% 18.09% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 20 46
10th Percentile £153 £299 £221
25th Percentile £319 £470 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £568 £523
Median % change year-on-year -25.11% +8.61% +43.15%
75th Percentile £563 £623 £539
90th Percentile £622 £676 £613
South East median daily rate £488 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.00 - -
Median hourly rate £37.00 - -
75th Percentile £39.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -55.72% +57.41% +28.57%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent.

AWS job vacancy trend in Kent

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Kent region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Chatham - 1 £425 -
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Collibra
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) DAO
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
2 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
2 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) OneTrust
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware