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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 19 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 64 19 41
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.50% 8.33% 13.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.77% 25.00% 38.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 11 30
10th Percentile £360 £286 £466
25th Percentile £431 £409 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £435 £528
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -17.54% -12.08%
75th Percentile £596 £544 £564
90th Percentile £643 £675 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +26.44% -17.14% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing 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 208 76 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.62% 33.33% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 46 76
10th Percentile £413 £199 £351
25th Percentile £462 £325 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £423 £490
Median % change year-on-year +24.26% -13.78% -6.67%
75th Percentile £590 £511 £550
90th Percentile £625 £625 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +23.53% -11.46% -10.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.78
25th Percentile - £15.25 £19.19
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -27.06% +21.43%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.19
90th Percentile - - £23.53
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year +29.63% -36.47% +11.84%

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 26 August 2026.

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 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 56 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (6.25%) GCP
5 4 (6.25%) GitHub
5 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.13%) IaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.13%) PaaS
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.31%) Cisco Firepower
1 13 (20.31%) Firewall
2 12 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
3 10 (15.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (12.50%) LAN
4 8 (12.50%) WAN
5 7 (10.94%) BGP
5 7 (10.94%) BIG-IP
5 7 (10.94%) DNS
5 7 (10.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (10.94%) IPsec
5 7 (10.94%) OSPF
5 7 (10.94%) TCP/IP
5 7 (10.94%) VPN
5 7 (10.94%) VSAN
6 6 (9.38%) NGFW
7 5 (7.81%) ICMP
7 5 (7.81%) Network Security
7 5 (7.81%) SD-WAN
8 4 (6.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) DocumentDB
2 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) MySQL
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) NUnit
3 2 (3.13%) Jaeger
3 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.56%) MSTest
4 1 (1.56%) Selenium
4 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.56%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (18.75%) Finance
2 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Manufacturing
3 6 (9.38%) Retail
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.13%) Automotive
6 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Architect
2 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Senior
4 9 (14.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Network Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Citrix Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Technical Architect
7 6 (9.38%) .NET Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.81%) Test Manager
8 5 (7.81%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Lead
9 4 (6.25%) Network Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.69%) Terraform
2 13 (20.31%) .NET
3 9 (14.06%) React
4 8 (12.50%) REST
5 7 (10.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (9.38%) .NET Framework
6 6 (9.38%) ASP.NET
6 6 (9.38%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 5 (7.81%) Entity Framework
7 5 (7.81%) NHibernate
8 3 (4.69%) .NET Core
9 2 (3.13%) Loki
9 2 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
10 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
10 1 (1.56%) Flask
10 1 (1.56%) Node.js
10 1 (1.56%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 11 (17.19%) Cloud Native
3 10 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (14.06%) Data Centre
5 8 (12.50%) PKI
6 7 (10.94%) Private Cloud
7 6 (9.38%) Onboarding
8 5 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (6.25%) Virtual Team
10 3 (4.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
12 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (1.56%) NHS
12 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.13%) Linux
2 11 (17.19%) Windows
3 6 (9.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (39.06%) Agile
3 19 (29.69%) DevOps
4 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (21.88%) Migration
6 13 (20.31%) Cloud Security
6 13 (20.31%) ITIL
7 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
8 11 (17.19%) Zero Trust
9 10 (15.63%) DevSecOps
9 10 (15.63%) High Availability
10 9 (14.06%) Microservices
10 9 (14.06%) SOLID
10 9 (14.06%) TOGAF
11 8 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
12 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (10.94%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.56%) SQL
2 9 (14.06%) C#
2 9 (14.06%) Python
3 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.94%) TypeScript
4 6 (9.38%) Bicep
4 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.25%) Bash
6 3 (4.69%) Go
7 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 39 (60.94%) Security Cleared
2 30 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (39.06%) DV Cleared
4 11 (17.19%) CCNP
4 11 (17.19%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.38%) ISTQB
5 6 (9.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
6 5 (7.81%) CCSE
6 5 (7.81%) CCSM
7 4 (6.25%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.25%) Degree
7 4 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.13%) CCIE
9 2 (3.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) NCSC
2 5 (7.81%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) SLA
3 4 (6.25%) NIST
4 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.13%) GDPR
4 2 (3.13%) GRC
4 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (28.13%) VMware NSX
2 16 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (17.19%) Docker
4 7 (10.94%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (7.81%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Grafana
3 2 (3.13%) Istio
3 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.13%) Rancher
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (50.00%) VMware
2 21 (32.81%) Microsoft
3 20 (31.25%) Cisco
4 15 (23.44%) Palo Alto
5 9 (14.06%) Citrix
6 7 (10.94%) F5
7 5 (7.81%) CheckPoint
7 5 (7.81%) Fortinet
7 5 (7.81%) Oracle
8 4 (6.25%) SolarWinds
9 2 (3.13%) Google
10 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow