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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 23 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 55 18 43
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.22% 7.66% 14.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.57% 22.22% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 11 32
10th Percentile £360 £286 £475
25th Percentile £431 £409 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £435 £540
Median % change year-on-year +28.74% -19.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £590 £544 £571
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £435 £530
% change year-on-year +28.74% -17.92% -11.67%

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 207 81 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 30.94% 34.47% 42.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 52 90
10th Percentile £400 £206 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £486
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -12.55% -7.43%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £547
90th Percentile £623 £624 £591
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £515 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +21.06% -11.46% -9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.78
25th Percentile - - £19.19
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £21.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.66%
75th Percentile - - £23.19
90th Percentile - - £23.53
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year +29.63% -36.47% +3.66%

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 22 September 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (1.82%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 50 (90.91%) Azure
2 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (9.09%) GCP
2 5 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (7.27%) Serverless
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.45%) GitHub
4 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.64%) IaaS
5 2 (3.64%) PaaS
5 2 (3.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.18%) Firewall
2 8 (14.55%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (14.55%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (12.73%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (12.73%) DNS
3 7 (12.73%) VPN
4 5 (9.09%) LAN
4 5 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 5 (9.09%) WAN
5 4 (7.27%) BGP
5 4 (7.27%) BIG-IP
5 4 (7.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (7.27%) IPsec
5 4 (7.27%) MPLS
5 4 (7.27%) OSPF
5 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.27%) VLAN
6 3 (5.45%) NGFW
6 3 (5.45%) VSAN
7 2 (3.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) DocumentDB
2 2 (3.64%) MySQL
2 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.82%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Git
2 3 (5.45%) NUnit
3 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.82%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.82%) MSTest
4 1 (1.82%) Selenium
4 1 (1.82%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.82%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.45%) Military
4 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Retail
4 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.64%) Automotive
5 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Architect
2 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Citrix Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 5 (9.09%) Test Manager
5 5 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Lead
6 4 (7.27%) Network Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.45%) NOC Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) QA Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (36.36%) Terraform
2 11 (20.00%) .NET
3 8 (14.55%) React
4 7 (12.73%) REST
5 6 (10.91%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (9.09%) .NET Framework
6 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET
6 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 5 (9.09%) Entity Framework
6 5 (9.09%) NHibernate
7 3 (5.45%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.64%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.82%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.82%) Flask
9 1 (1.82%) Loki
9 1 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.36%) Public Cloud
3 8 (14.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (12.73%) Data Centre
4 7 (12.73%) Private Cloud
5 6 (10.91%) PKI
6 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (5.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (5.45%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
8 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.82%) IoT
9 1 (1.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.64%) Linux
2 9 (16.36%) Windows
3 6 (10.91%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 22 (40.00%) Agile
3 19 (34.55%) DevOps
4 16 (29.09%) Cloud Security
5 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (21.82%) Zero Trust
7 11 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (18.18%) DevSecOps
9 9 (16.36%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (16.36%) ITIL
10 8 (14.55%) Migration
10 8 (14.55%) SOLID
10 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.55%) TOGAF
11 7 (12.73%) High Availability
12 6 (10.91%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (10.91%) Microservices
12 6 (10.91%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.09%) SQL
2 10 (18.18%) Python
3 8 (14.55%) C#
4 7 (12.73%) Bicep
4 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.27%) Bash
7 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.82%) Go
8 1 (1.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 36 (65.45%) Security Cleared
2 25 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 20 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 9 (16.36%) CCNP
4 9 (16.36%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (10.91%) ISTQB
5 6 (10.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
7 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (7.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.45%) CCSE
8 3 (5.45%) CCSM
8 3 (5.45%) Degree
9 2 (3.64%) CCIE
9 2 (3.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.00%) NCSC
2 5 (9.09%) QA
3 3 (5.45%) SLA
4 2 (3.64%) GDPR
4 2 (3.64%) NIST
5 1 (1.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.82%) GRC
5 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) VMware NSX
2 9 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.55%) Docker
4 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Istio
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.82%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (45.45%) VMware
2 20 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 13 (23.64%) Cisco
4 9 (16.36%) Citrix
5 8 (14.55%) Palo Alto
6 4 (7.27%) F5
6 4 (7.27%) Oracle
6 4 (7.27%) SolarWinds
7 3 (5.45%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.45%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.64%) Google