AWS Contracts in Leeds

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 72 87 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 15.48% 10.89% 13.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.64% 34.25% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 67 157
10th Percentile £323 £313 £425
25th Percentile £425 £453 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £675
90th Percentile £728 £675 £705
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +0.46%

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 214 254 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.02% 31.79% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 179 366
10th Percentile £263 £295 £388
25th Percentile £375 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £618
90th Percentile £714 £670 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £31.64 - £54.80
25th Percentile £36.13 - £59.00
Median hourly rate £90.42 - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.04%
75th Percentile £100.28 - £74.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (6.94%) Confluence
1 5 (6.94%) nginx
1 5 (6.94%) Traefik
2 2 (2.78%) Apache
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) Azure
2 13 (18.06%) AWS CloudFormation
2 13 (18.06%) GCP
3 9 (12.50%) Serverless
4 8 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 8 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (9.72%) AWS Fargate
6 6 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) IaaS
8 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.17%) npm
9 3 (4.17%) PaaS
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.78%) HTTP
4 1 (1.39%) Firewall
4 1 (1.39%) LAN
4 1 (1.39%) SSL
4 1 (1.39%) VLAN
4 1 (1.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.94%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.39%) Big Data
5 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.39%) MySQL
5 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) GitLab
1 15 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 11 (15.28%) JIRA
3 8 (11.11%) Selenium
4 6 (8.33%) Git
4 6 (8.33%) Postman
5 4 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.56%) ScriptRunner
5 4 (5.56%) SoapUI
6 3 (4.17%) webpack
7 1 (1.39%) Babel
7 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.17%) Finance
4 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Military
5 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (27.78%) Senior
2 19 (26.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (20.83%) Developer
4 9 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (9.72%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (9.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Lead
5 7 (9.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) QA Tester
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Tester
8 3 (4.17%) Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) JIRA Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) React Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) cloud-init
2 7 (9.72%) Kafka
2 7 (9.72%) React
3 6 (8.33%) CSS
3 6 (8.33%) Keycloak
4 5 (6.94%) RESTful
5 4 (5.56%) HTML
5 4 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (4.17%) .NET
6 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.17%) Node.js
6 3 (4.17%) pytest
7 2 (2.78%) Flask
7 2 (2.78%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.78%) REST
7 2 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (2.78%) Web Services
8 1 (1.39%) D3.js
8 1 (1.39%) JWT
8 1 (1.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) PKI
2 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.39%) Linux
2 15 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (18.06%) CentOS
4 12 (16.67%) Unix
5 4 (5.56%) Windows
6 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.22%) DevOps
2 26 (36.11%) CI/CD
3 20 (27.78%) Agile
4 17 (23.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
6 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 8 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (9.72%) Incident Management
9 7 (9.72%) Secrets Management
10 6 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 6 (8.33%) Identity Management
10 6 (8.33%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.33%) Migration
10 6 (8.33%) Observability
10 6 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
11 5 (6.94%) ETL
11 5 (6.94%) Mobile Device Management
11 5 (6.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) Python
2 17 (23.61%) Bash
3 16 (22.22%) SQL
4 12 (16.67%) Go
5 7 (9.72%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.94%) Groovy
6 5 (6.94%) Java
7 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.39%) C#
8 1 (1.39%) PHP
8 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (48.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) QA
2 6 (8.33%) NCSC
3 5 (6.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (47.22%) Terraform
2 12 (16.67%) Packer
3 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.72%) Grafana
4 7 (9.72%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.33%) Consul
5 6 (8.33%) Istio
5 6 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (8.33%) linkerd
5 6 (8.33%) Rancher
5 6 (8.33%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.94%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.78%) Ansible
8 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Okta
1 6 (8.33%) Splunk
2 5 (6.94%) Apple
2 5 (6.94%) ESET
3 4 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.56%) Databricks
3 4 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.78%) Veeam
5 2 (2.78%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) Brio
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Xamarin