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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing AWS 25 31 48
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.08% 14.35% 9.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.23% 30.39% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 40
10th Percentile £463 £356 £350
25th Percentile £519 £510 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +6.48% +5.37%
75th Percentile £634 £656 £620
90th Percentile £673 £743 £753
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 130 102 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 31.63% 47.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 81 105
10th Percentile £373 £250 £200
25th Percentile £413 £372 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £565 £599 £575
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -6.83% +13.30% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile - - £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%

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 14 February 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 2 (8.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Figma
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
6 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) SAN
1 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) BGP
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) IPsec
2 1 (4.00%) IPv6
2 1 (4.00%) MPLS
2 1 (4.00%) Multicast
2 1 (4.00%) OSPF
2 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.00%) SNMP
2 1 (4.00%) VoIP
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
2 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Big Data
2 3 (12.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.00%) Metadata
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (20.00%) JUnit
2 4 (16.00%) Storybook
3 2 (8.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Mockito
4 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
1 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Electronics
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.00%) Marketing
5 2 (8.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Billing
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Payments Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) React
1 5 (20.00%) Spring
1 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (16.00%) CSS
2 4 (16.00%) HTML
2 4 (16.00%) Vitest
3 3 (12.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) SOAP
5 1 (4.00%) .NET
5 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.00%) JPA
5 1 (4.00%) Middleware
5 1 (4.00%) Node.js
5 1 (4.00%) OAuth
5 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.00%) OpenID
5 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) Debian
3 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.00%) VMS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (36.00%) Microservices
4 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (28.00%) AI
6 6 (24.00%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (20.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (20.00%) ITIL
7 5 (20.00%) TOGAF
8 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
8 4 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) User Experience
9 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
9 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (12.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) Java
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) R
4 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) CCNP
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (12.00%) MCSE
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.00%) CCDA
7 1 (4.00%) CCDP
7 1 (4.00%) CCIE
7 1 (4.00%) CCIP
7 1 (4.00%) CCNA
7 1 (4.00%) Degree
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (4.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) NCSC
1 4 (16.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) CASB
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.00%) Rancher
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) VMware
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Arista
4 1 (4.00%) Aruba
4 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.00%) HP
4 1 (4.00%) Juniper
4 1 (4.00%) Meraki
4 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Zscaler