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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing AWS 21 26 45
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 5.21% 12.26% 8.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.79% 26.26% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 24 43
10th Percentile £456 £515 £354
25th Percentile £520 £535 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +6.28%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £643
90th Percentile £678 £743 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 133 99 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 33.00% 46.70% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 76 103
10th Percentile £358 £248 £185
25th Percentile £413 £405 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +11.72% -6.98%
75th Percentile £564 £606 £585
90th Percentile £613 £675 £672
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -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 30 January 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 (9.52%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) GCP
3 5 (23.81%) GitHub
4 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SAN
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Big Data
2 3 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
3 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
3 2 (9.52%) Metadata
3 2 (9.52%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
1 4 (19.05%) JUnit
1 4 (19.05%) Storybook
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
5 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Electronics
5 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 3 (14.29%) Marketing
6 2 (9.52%) Law
7 1 (4.76%) Billing
7 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Technical Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Payments Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) CSS
1 4 (19.05%) HTML
1 4 (19.05%) React
1 4 (19.05%) Spring
1 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
1 4 (19.05%) Vitest
2 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.76%) Middleware
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.76%) OpenID
4 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.76%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Debian
2 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Microservices
5 6 (28.57%) AI
5 6 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (23.81%) ITIL
7 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (19.05%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 4 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
7 4 (19.05%) User Experience
8 3 (14.29%) API Development
8 3 (14.29%) Data Analytics
8 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
8 3 (14.29%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) R
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) CCNP
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (9.52%) MCSE
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (4.76%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) ISO 20022
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) VMware
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk