AWS Contracts in Leicestershire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS 4 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 3.10% 2.13% 7.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.76% 10.71% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile £495 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% -30.00% +24.22%
75th Percentile £585 £375 £546
90th Percentile - - £563
East Midlands median daily rate £442 £445 £500
% change year-on-year -0.76% -11.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 34 28 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 26.36% 19.86% 37.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 55
10th Percentile £250 £282 £271
25th Percentile £306 £319 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £388 £420
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% -7.74% +4.35%
75th Percentile £481 £434 £459
90th Percentile £512 £584 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £449 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +0.79% -1.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £18.94 £22.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.75 £25.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +72.41% -27.50%
75th Percentile £20.44 £27.50 £17.19
90th Percentile £20.63 - £21.13
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.95 £15.32 £26.48
% change year-on-year +36.76% -42.16% +37.56%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Leicestershire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Leicestershire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Leicester +2 4 £540 +54.29% 27
AWS
East Midlands

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Anthos
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) R
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce