AWS Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester 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 12 17 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +23
Contract jobs citing AWS 4 1 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 5.00% 1.15% 20.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.05% 4.17% 56.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 20
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile - £325 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £375 £538
90th Percentile - - £563
Leicestershire median daily rate £500 £181 £500
% change year-on-year +177.01% -63.90% +2.56%

All Cloud Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21 24 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 26.25% 27.59% 35.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 34
10th Percentile £250 £297 £313
25th Percentile £366 £344 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% -0.55%
75th Percentile £475 £480 £530
90th Percentile £494 £555 £563
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +15.63% -5.88% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.15
25th Percentile - - £12.38
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.92%
75th Percentile - - £19.00
90th Percentile - - £21.85
Leicestershire median hourly rate £19.75 - £14.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Leicester

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing AWS

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (25.00%) Power Query
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) R
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google