AWS Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring AWS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS 18 42 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 7.47% 14.38% 8.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.22% 33.87% 36.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 47
10th Percentile £286 £475 £409
25th Percentile £408 £495 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% -8.33% +5.73%
75th Percentile £519 £576 £715
90th Percentile £563 £625 £807
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £430 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -20.37% -10.00% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 81 124 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 33.61% 42.47% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 90 125
10th Percentile £201 £348 £231
25th Percentile £325 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% -8.38% -
75th Percentile £522 £547 £625
90th Percentile £613 £625 £715
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £480 £531
% change year-on-year -11.46% -9.65% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.78 £16.85
25th Percentile - £19.19 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £21.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.66% +20.59%
75th Percentile - £23.19 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.53 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.50 £21.25 £20.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% +3.66% +20.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing AWS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (38.89%) Serverless
3 6 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (27.78%) ChatGPT
5 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) GitHub
6 3 (16.67%) GCP
7 2 (11.11%) Textract
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) NAS
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
1 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Big Data
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (16.67%) MySQL
3 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.56%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (5.56%) Metadata
5 1 (5.56%) OLAP
5 1 (5.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (5.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 4 (22.22%) General Ledger
4 3 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
1 5 (27.78%) Data Scientist
2 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Finance Modeller
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Hugging Face
1 5 (27.78%) NumPy
1 5 (27.78%) Pandas
1 5 (27.78%) PyTorch
1 5 (27.78%) scikit-learn
2 3 (16.67%) Django
2 3 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 3 (16.67%) Flask
2 3 (16.67%) Prophet
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Microservices
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (27.78%) Data Science
3 5 (27.78%) LLM
3 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) OCR
3 5 (27.78%) Time Series Forecasting
3 5 (27.78%) TOGAF
4 4 (22.22%) A/B Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Sage
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Isilon
3 1 (5.56%) JDA
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) NetApp
3 1 (5.56%) UiPath
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (5.56%) VMware