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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 21 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 46 18 44
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.59% 7.14% 15.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.47% 20.22% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 11 32
10th Percentile £351 £286 £475
25th Percentile £416 £409 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £435 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.40% -20.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £588
90th Percentile £686 £675 £648
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £490 £435 £550
% change year-on-year +12.64% -20.91% -2.22%

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 89 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.34% 35.32% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 60 93
10th Percentile £400 £201 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £436 £482
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -9.49% -8.19%
75th Percentile £588 £536 £550
90th Percentile £623 £625 £618
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £514 £425 £482
% change year-on-year +20.94% -11.83% -8.19%
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 11 October 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 (2.17%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (2.17%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 42 (91.30%) Azure
2 5 (10.87%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (10.87%) GCP
2 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (8.70%) Serverless
4 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Functions
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) Firewall
2 8 (17.39%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (17.39%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (15.22%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (15.22%) VPN
4 6 (13.04%) DNS
5 5 (10.87%) LAN
5 5 (10.87%) SD-WAN
5 5 (10.87%) VLAN
5 5 (10.87%) WAN
6 4 (8.70%) BGP
6 4 (8.70%) BIG-IP
6 4 (8.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (8.70%) IPsec
6 4 (8.70%) MPLS
6 4 (8.70%) OSPF
6 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
7 3 (6.52%) NGFW
7 3 (6.52%) VSAN
8 2 (4.35%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) DocumentDB
1 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) NUnit
3 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.17%) MSTest
4 1 (2.17%) Selenium
4 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.17%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.70%) Military
5 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Retail
5 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.35%) Automotive
6 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Architect
2 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Citrix Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Test Manager
4 4 (8.70%) .NET Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Lead
4 4 (8.70%) Network Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Lead Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) NOC Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) QA Test Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Technical Leader
5 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) Terraform
2 11 (23.91%) .NET
3 8 (17.39%) React
4 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (15.22%) REST
5 4 (8.70%) .NET Framework
5 4 (8.70%) ASP.NET
5 4 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 4 (8.70%) Entity Framework
5 4 (8.70%) NHibernate
6 3 (6.52%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.35%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.17%) Flask
8 1 (2.17%) Loki
8 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Cloud Native
1 8 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
3 6 (13.04%) Private Cloud
4 4 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.70%) PKI
4 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.17%) IoT
7 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.17%) NHS
7 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Windows
3 4 (8.70%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) CI/CD
2 20 (43.48%) Agile
3 14 (30.43%) DevOps
4 11 (23.91%) Cloud Security
5 10 (21.74%) Zero Trust
6 9 (19.57%) Test Automation
7 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (17.39%) ITIL
7 8 (17.39%) Scrum
7 8 (17.39%) SOLID
8 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
8 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.22%) TDD
9 6 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (13.04%) Non-Functional Testing
9 6 (13.04%) Performance Testing
9 6 (13.04%) Test Management
9 6 (13.04%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) SQL
2 8 (17.39%) C#
2 8 (17.39%) Python
3 7 (15.22%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.87%) Bicep
4 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.52%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) Java
7 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 7 (15.22%) CCNP
4 7 (15.22%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (15.22%) ISTQB
5 6 (13.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
7 4 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.52%) CCSE
8 3 (6.52%) CCSM
8 3 (6.52%) Degree
9 2 (4.35%) CCIE
9 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) NCSC
2 5 (10.87%) QA
3 3 (6.52%) SLA
4 2 (4.35%) GDPR
5 1 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.17%) GRC
5 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) VMware NSX
2 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (19.57%) Docker
4 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
5 3 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Istio
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (45.65%) VMware
2 13 (28.26%) Cisco
2 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) Palo Alto
4 6 (13.04%) Citrix
5 4 (8.70%) F5
5 4 (8.70%) Oracle
5 4 (8.70%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.52%) CheckPoint
6 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.35%) Google
8 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow