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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 17 36 34
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.61% 14.29% 7.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.17% 28.57% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 32
10th Percentile £431 £518 £376
25th Percentile £467 £535 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £574 £574
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% - +4.32%
75th Percentile £588 £656 £745
90th Percentile £663 £743 £775
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £574 £583
% change year-on-year -2.40% -1.50% +5.91%

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 120 126 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.52% 50.00% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 90 83
10th Percentile £312 £260 £185
25th Percentile £412 £383 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% +11.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £560 £584 £625
90th Percentile £589 £658 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £507 £450
% change year-on-year -6.27% +12.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £12.65 -
25th Percentile - £13.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £21.86
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -26.80% -8.93%
75th Percentile - £19.13 £23.82
90th Percentile - £20.55 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £21.86
% change year-on-year +125.00% -26.80% -8.93%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Milton Keynes

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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 (11.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) SAN
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Big Data
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
2 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.76%) Metadata
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) JUnit
1 3 (17.65%) Storybook
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
4 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
5 3 (17.65%) Electronics
5 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
5 3 (17.65%) Marketing
6 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (11.76%) Banking
6 2 (11.76%) Law
7 1 (5.88%) Billing
7 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) CSS
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
1 3 (17.65%) React
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
1 3 (17.65%) Spring
1 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
1 3 (17.65%) Vitest
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Debian
2 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Data Modelling
3 5 (29.41%) AI
3 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) API Development
5 3 (17.65%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 3 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
5 3 (17.65%) Secure Coding
5 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
5 3 (17.65%) User Experience
5 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.76%) R
5 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) PHP
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk