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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 68 90 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 14.66% 11.41% 14.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.50% 37.04% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 70 156
10th Percentile £320 £350 £425
25th Percentile £411 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -1.14% +2.33%
75th Percentile £538 £615 £650
90th Percentile £585 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -8.05% -1.14% +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 203 243 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 43.75% 30.80% 34.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 174 339
10th Percentile £263 £300 £363
25th Percentile £375 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £599 £631
90th Percentile £600 £673 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £31.59 - £54.80
25th Percentile £31.76 - £59.00
Median hourly rate £91.69 - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.04%
75th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
90th Percentile - - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £62.40 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +316.00% -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 19 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 (7.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.47%) nginx
2 1 (1.47%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) Azure
2 13 (19.12%) Serverless
3 12 (17.65%) GCP
4 10 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 9 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) GitHub
7 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.88%) IaaS
7 4 (5.88%) npm
7 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.41%) PaaS
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) HTTP
1 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.94%) DNS
2 2 (2.94%) SSL
3 1 (1.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.47%) LAN
3 1 (1.47%) VLAN
3 1 (1.47%) VPN
3 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.82%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.88%) Power BI
4 3 (4.41%) Big Data
4 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.41%) MySQL
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) JIRA
2 11 (16.18%) Jenkins
3 10 (14.71%) GitLab
4 9 (13.24%) Git
5 7 (10.29%) Selenium
6 6 (8.82%) Postman
7 4 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 4 (5.88%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (5.88%) SoapUI
7 4 (5.88%) webpack
8 1 (1.47%) Babel
8 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Finance
4 2 (2.94%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Developer
1 18 (26.47%) Senior
2 17 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (10.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Lead
7 5 (7.35%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.88%) QA Tester
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Tester
9 3 (4.41%) Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Angular Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) JIRA Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) React
2 7 (10.29%) CSS
3 6 (8.82%) RESTful
4 5 (7.35%) cloud-init
4 5 (7.35%) HTML
4 5 (7.35%) Node.js
5 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.88%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (5.88%) pytest
6 3 (4.41%) .NET
6 3 (4.41%) Flask
6 3 (4.41%) REST
6 3 (4.41%) Web Services
7 2 (2.94%) PySpark
7 2 (2.94%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (1.47%) JWT
8 1 (1.47%) Keycloak
8 1 (1.47%) Next.js
8 1 (1.47%) React Native
8 1 (1.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) NHS
2 3 (4.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.47%) PKI
4 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.65%) Linux
2 8 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (8.82%) CentOS
4 5 (7.35%) Unix
5 4 (5.88%) Windows
6 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.18%) DevOps
2 24 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 19 (27.94%) Agile
4 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (10.29%) Incident Management
8 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
8 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (8.82%) Migration
8 6 (8.82%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.35%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.35%) ETL
9 5 (7.35%) Test Scripting
9 5 (7.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 4 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (5.88%) Manual Testing
10 4 (5.88%) OWASP
10 4 (5.88%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (48.53%) Python
2 16 (23.53%) SQL
3 12 (17.65%) Bash
4 9 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.35%) Go
6 5 (7.35%) Groovy
7 4 (5.88%) Java
7 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.47%) C#
8 1 (1.47%) PHP
8 1 (1.47%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (48.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.47%) NCSC
4 1 (1.47%) NIST
4 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (44.12%) Terraform
2 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.35%) Ansible
3 5 (7.35%) Packer
4 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.47%) Consul
6 1 (1.47%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.47%) Istio
6 1 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.47%) linkerd
6 1 (1.47%) Rancher
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.47%) vRealize
6 1 (1.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) Atlassian
1 4 (5.88%) Databricks
1 4 (5.88%) Google
2 3 (4.41%) Brio
2 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Splunk
3 2 (2.94%) Veeam
3 2 (2.94%) VMware
4 1 (1.47%) Apple
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco
4 1 (1.47%) ESET
4 1 (1.47%) Okta
4 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.47%) Xamarin