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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing AWS 75 29 44
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.73% 12.89% 13.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.27% 38.67% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 21 25
10th Percentile £364 £300 £385
25th Percentile £424 £338 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £505
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.84% -9.01%
75th Percentile £605 £550 £560
90th Percentile £643 £613 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £425 £503
% change year-on-year +29.41% -15.42% -9.46%

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 196 75 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.42% 33.33% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 46 82
10th Percentile £394 £293 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -13.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £599 £484 £534
90th Percentile £638 £619 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -12.84%
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 30 July 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 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 66 (88.00%) Azure
2 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (9.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (9.33%) GCP
4 6 (8.00%) GitHub
4 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.00%) IaaS
7 3 (4.00%) PaaS
7 3 (4.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.67%) Azure AI
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (2.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.67%) Figma
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.00%) Firewall
2 13 (17.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (14.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (13.33%) WAN
6 9 (12.00%) LAN
6 9 (12.00%) VPN
6 9 (12.00%) VSAN
7 8 (10.67%) BGP
7 8 (10.67%) IPsec
7 8 (10.67%) OSPF
8 7 (9.33%) BIG-IP
8 7 (9.33%) DNS
8 7 (9.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (9.33%) SD-WAN
8 7 (9.33%) TCP/IP
9 6 (8.00%) MPLS
9 6 (8.00%) Network Security
9 6 (8.00%) NGFW
10 5 (6.67%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.33%) DocumentDB
2 4 (5.33%) MySQL
2 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) Jaeger
2 4 (5.33%) NUnit
3 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.33%) JUnit
5 1 (1.33%) Maven
5 1 (1.33%) Mockito
5 1 (1.33%) MSTest
5 1 (1.33%) Selenium
5 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (16.00%) Finance
2 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.00%) Retail
4 3 (4.00%) Banking
4 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.67%) Automotive
5 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Local Government
6 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Architect
2 13 (17.33%) Senior
3 12 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Technical Architect
5 9 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Network Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Citrix Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Developer
8 6 (8.00%) .NET Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Network Architect
9 5 (6.67%) NOC Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Architect
9 5 (6.67%) Test Manager
9 5 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) .NET
2 10 (13.33%) React
3 9 (12.00%) REST
4 7 (9.33%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (8.00%) .NET Framework
5 6 (8.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 5 (6.67%) Entity Framework
6 5 (6.67%) NHibernate
6 5 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.33%) Loki
8 3 (4.00%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.67%) Node.js
10 1 (1.33%) Flask
10 1 (1.33%) JPA
10 1 (1.33%) RESTful
10 1 (1.33%) SOAP
10 1 (1.33%) Spring
10 1 (1.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (18.67%) Public Cloud
3 10 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 10 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 10 (13.33%) PKI
4 7 (9.33%) Private Cloud
5 6 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (8.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
6 4 (5.33%) Virtual Team
7 3 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.67%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.33%) Clustering
9 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.33%) NHS
9 1 (1.33%) Replication
9 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (33.33%) Linux
2 12 (16.00%) Windows
3 6 (8.00%) Debian
4 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.67%) CI/CD
2 26 (34.67%) Agile
3 24 (32.00%) DevOps
4 20 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (22.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (22.67%) Migration
6 14 (18.67%) Cloud Security
7 13 (17.33%) ITIL
8 12 (16.00%) DevSecOps
8 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (16.00%) Zero Trust
9 11 (14.67%) High Availability
9 11 (14.67%) Microservices
9 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.33%) Incident Response
10 10 (13.33%) TOGAF
11 9 (12.00%) SOLID
12 8 (10.67%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (10.67%) Scrum
12 8 (10.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.33%) SQL
2 16 (21.33%) Python
3 10 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.00%) Bash
4 9 (12.00%) C#
5 7 (9.33%) Go
5 7 (9.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.33%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.00%) Bicep
7 4 (5.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 46 (61.33%) Security Cleared
2 35 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 28 (37.33%) DV Cleared
4 13 (17.33%) CCNP
4 13 (17.33%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 6 (8.00%) ISTQB
5 6 (8.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 5 (6.67%) CCSE
6 5 (6.67%) CCSM
6 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (5.33%) Degree
7 4 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.00%) CCIE
8 3 (4.00%) MCSE
9 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.33%) CCIP
10 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.33%) NCSC
2 7 (9.33%) NIST
3 5 (6.67%) GDPR
3 5 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.67%) QA
3 5 (6.67%) SLA
4 4 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.33%) GRC
5 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (26.67%) VMware NSX
2 18 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (17.33%) Docker
4 7 (9.33%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.00%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (30.67%) Terraform
2 18 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.00%) Grafana
3 6 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (8.00%) Rancher
4 4 (5.33%) Ansible
4 4 (5.33%) Istio
5 1 (1.33%) CASB
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (48.00%) VMware
2 26 (34.67%) Microsoft
3 23 (30.67%) Cisco
4 18 (24.00%) Palo Alto
5 9 (12.00%) Citrix
6 7 (9.33%) F5
7 6 (8.00%) CheckPoint
7 6 (8.00%) Fortinet
8 5 (6.67%) Oracle
8 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.67%) Google
9 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.33%) Arista
10 1 (1.33%) Aruba
10 1 (1.33%) HP
10 1 (1.33%) Juniper
10 1 (1.33%) Meraki
10 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.33%) Zscaler