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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS 23 49 42
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.08% 17.25% 7.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.33% 35.00% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 39
10th Percentile £406 £495 £380
25th Percentile £429 £521 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% -6.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £747
90th Percentile £675 £743 £792
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -4.02% -6.67% +9.09%

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 119 140 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 36.62% 49.30% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 101 98
10th Percentile £270 £308 £182
25th Percentile £406 £400 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -4.27% +5.50%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £643
90th Percentile £613 £675 £745
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £12.65 -
25th Percentile - £13.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -21.95% -
75th Percentile - £19.13 £21.75
90th Percentile - £20.55 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +125.00% -21.95% -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

AWS job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

AWS
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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Milton Keynes

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
2 7 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (30.43%) Serverless
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon SageMaker
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) ChatGPT
4 5 (21.74%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) GitHub
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.70%) Textract
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) SAN
2 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.35%) DHCP
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) NAS
3 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Big Data
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (13.04%) MySQL
3 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
4 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.70%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) Metadata
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.04%) JUnit
2 3 (13.04%) Storybook
3 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Electronics
4 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 3 (13.04%) Marketing
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Billing
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Data Scientist
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Presales Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Hugging Face
1 5 (21.74%) NumPy
1 5 (21.74%) Pandas
1 5 (21.74%) PyTorch
1 5 (21.74%) scikit-learn
2 3 (13.04%) CSS
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) Prophet
2 3 (13.04%) React
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) Spring
2 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
2 3 (13.04%) Vitest
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Debian
2 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
1 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Data Science
3 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
4 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (21.74%) AI
4 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (21.74%) LLM
4 5 (21.74%) Microservices
4 5 (21.74%) OCR
4 5 (21.74%) Time Series Forecasting
5 4 (17.39%) A/B Testing
5 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (17.39%) Statistical Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) R
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Sage
1 3 (13.04%) SAP
1 3 (13.04%) VMware
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Dell
3 1 (4.35%) F5
3 1 (4.35%) Isilon
3 1 (4.35%) JDA
3 1 (4.35%) NetApp
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) UiPath
3 1 (4.35%) Veeam