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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing AWS 20 48 46
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.80% 15.89% 8.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.18% 33.80% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 43
10th Percentile £409 £470 £400
25th Percentile £424 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £653 £747
90th Percentile £675 £743 £836
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.17% +7.73%

All Cloud 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 110 142 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 37.41% 47.02% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 103 108
10th Percentile £262 £308 £199
25th Percentile £405 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £565 £560 £653
90th Percentile £618 £656 £745
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.66% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £13.30 -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £20.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -2.44% -
75th Percentile - £22.63 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.30 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £24.75 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +23.75% -2.44% -

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 18 November 2025.

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 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Amazon S3
2 7 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (35.00%) Serverless
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 6 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) ChatGPT
4 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.00%) Textract
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) NAS
1 1 (5.00%) SAN
1 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Big Data
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL
3 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) JUnit
2 3 (15.00%) Storybook
3 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Electronics
4 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Data Scientist
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 5 (25.00%) NumPy
1 5 (25.00%) Pandas
1 5 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) Prophet
2 3 (15.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.00%) Vitest
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (35.00%) Microservices
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Data Science
4 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (25.00%) AI
5 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) LLM
5 5 (25.00%) OCR
5 5 (25.00%) Time Series Forecasting
6 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (20.00%) Data Privacy
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (20.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 4 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Sage
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Isilon
3 1 (5.00%) JDA
3 1 (5.00%) NetApp
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) UiPath
3 1 (5.00%) Veeam
3 1 (5.00%) VMware