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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 68 21 30
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.01% 13.13% 7.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.16% 44.68% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 16 22
10th Percentile £366 £293 £350
25th Percentile £456 £317 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £380 £483
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -21.24% -12.27%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £587
90th Percentile £640 £606 £613
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £380 £483
% change year-on-year +47.37% -21.24% -12.27%

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 183 47 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 24.24% 29.38% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 32 79
10th Percentile £393 £301 £223
25th Percentile £456 £325 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -6.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £518 £519
90th Percentile £638 £599 £593
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £469 £456
% change year-on-year +9.28% +2.79% -13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate - £15.50 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year - -20.65% +11.61%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.13
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £13.50 £19.53
% change year-on-year - -30.88% +7.03%

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 5 June 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 (1.47%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 57 (83.82%) Azure
2 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.82%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (8.82%) GCP
3 6 (8.82%) GitHub
3 6 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.41%) IaaS
6 3 (4.41%) PaaS
6 3 (4.41%) SaaS
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.94%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (2.94%) Figma
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.47%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) VSAN
2 8 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (11.76%) Firewall
3 6 (8.82%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (7.35%) WAN
4 5 (7.35%) Wireless
5 4 (5.88%) BGP
5 4 (5.88%) IPsec
5 4 (5.88%) LAN
5 4 (5.88%) Network Security
5 4 (5.88%) OSPF
6 3 (4.41%) BIG-IP
6 3 (4.41%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (4.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (4.41%) ICMP
6 3 (4.41%) NGFW
6 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.94%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.88%) MySQL
2 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.41%) DocumentDB
4 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.94%) Metadata
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) Jaeger
2 4 (5.88%) NUnit
3 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.94%) JUnit
5 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) Maven
5 1 (1.47%) Mockito
5 1 (1.47%) MSTest
5 1 (1.47%) Selenium
5 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.47%) Storybook
5 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (16.18%) Finance
2 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.82%) Retail
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Automotive
5 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Law
5 2 (2.94%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Architect
2 13 (19.12%) Senior
3 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Technical Architect
5 8 (11.76%) Network Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Citrix Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) .NET Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Architect
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Technical Architect
8 5 (7.35%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) DBA
9 4 (5.88%) SQL DBA
9 4 (5.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) .NET
2 9 (13.24%) React
3 8 (11.76%) REST
4 5 (7.35%) .NET Framework
4 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 5 (7.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 4 (5.88%) Loki
5 4 (5.88%) NHibernate
6 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.94%) Node.js
6 2 (2.94%) Spring
6 2 (2.94%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.47%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.47%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.47%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Public Cloud
2 10 (14.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (14.71%) PKI
3 6 (8.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.88%) Virtual Team
6 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.47%) Clustering
8 1 (1.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.47%) Replication
8 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.24%) Linux
2 13 (19.12%) Windows
3 6 (8.82%) Debian
4 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 23 (33.82%) DevOps
3 20 (29.41%) Agile
3 20 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (23.53%) Migration
5 15 (22.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (16.18%) High Availability
6 11 (16.18%) Microservices
7 10 (14.71%) ITIL
7 10 (14.71%) Test Automation
8 9 (13.24%) Incident Response
8 9 (13.24%) Technology Strategy
9 8 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (11.76%) Scrum
9 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (10.29%) Load Balancing
10 7 (10.29%) Network Monitoring
10 7 (10.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.53%) SQL
2 15 (22.06%) Python
3 10 (14.71%) PowerShell
4 9 (13.24%) Bash
5 7 (10.29%) C#
5 7 (10.29%) Go
5 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.82%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.88%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.41%) Bicep
8 3 (4.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 41 (60.29%) Security Cleared
2 35 (51.47%) SC Cleared
3 23 (33.82%) DV Cleared
4 11 (16.18%) CCNP
4 11 (16.18%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (7.35%) CCSE
6 5 (7.35%) CCSM
6 5 (7.35%) ISTQB
6 5 (7.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (7.35%) MCSE
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.47%) CCIE
8 1 (1.47%) CCIP
8 1 (1.47%) CCNA
8 1 (1.47%) Degree
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) NCSC
2 9 (13.24%) NIST
3 5 (7.35%) GDPR
3 5 (7.35%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.35%) SLA
4 4 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.88%) GRC
4 4 (5.88%) QA
5 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (22.06%) VMware NSX
3 11 (16.18%) Docker
4 7 (10.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (25.00%) Terraform
2 14 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.82%) Grafana
3 6 (8.82%) Prometheus
3 6 (8.82%) Rancher
4 4 (5.88%) Istio
5 2 (2.94%) Ansible
6 1 (1.47%) CASB
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (47.06%) VMware
2 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 17 (25.00%) Cisco
4 13 (19.12%) Palo Alto
5 9 (13.24%) Citrix
6 6 (8.82%) CheckPoint
6 6 (8.82%) Fortinet
7 4 (5.88%) Oracle
8 3 (4.41%) F5
9 2 (2.94%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.47%) Arista
10 1 (1.47%) Aruba
10 1 (1.47%) HP
10 1 (1.47%) Juniper
10 1 (1.47%) Meraki
10 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.47%) Zscaler