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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS 55 26 37
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.51% 12.87% 8.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.13% 36.11% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 24 29
10th Percentile £395 £326 £350
25th Percentile £463 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £579 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +28.61% -18.18%
75th Percentile £623 £668 £613
90th Percentile £643 £743 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £579 £450
% change year-on-year -3.24% +28.61% -18.18%

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 166 72 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.70% 35.64% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 56 90
10th Percentile £391 £267 £198
25th Percentile £425 £350 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +11.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £550
90th Percentile £640 £689 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £12.33 -
25th Percentile - £12.81 £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £13.75 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year +161.82% -29.60% -
75th Percentile - £14.81 £23.82
90th Percentile - £15.38 £24.13
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £13.75 £19.53
% change year-on-year +161.82% -29.60% -

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 3 April 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 (3.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 38 (69.09%) Azure
2 9 (16.36%) GCP
2 9 (16.36%) GitHub
3 8 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.45%) IaaS
7 3 (5.45%) PaaS
7 3 (5.45%) SaaS
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.64%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (3.64%) Figma
8 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.82%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) Firewall
2 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
2 6 (10.91%) VSAN
3 5 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (9.09%) WAN
3 5 (9.09%) Wireless
4 4 (7.27%) BGP
4 4 (7.27%) IPsec
4 4 (7.27%) LAN
4 4 (7.27%) Network Security
4 4 (7.27%) OSPF
5 3 (5.45%) BIG-IP
5 3 (5.45%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (5.45%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (5.45%) DNS
5 3 (5.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (5.45%) ICMP
5 3 (5.45%) NGFW
5 3 (5.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.09%) MySQL
3 3 (5.45%) Big Data
3 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.64%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.64%) Metadata
4 2 (3.64%) Power BI
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.82%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 5 (9.09%) JUnit
2 4 (7.27%) Storybook
3 3 (5.45%) Git
3 3 (5.45%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.82%) Maven
4 1 (1.82%) Mockito
4 1 (1.82%) NUnit
4 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (25.45%) Finance
2 12 (21.82%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.91%) Banking
3 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Electronics
6 3 (5.45%) Marketing
6 3 (5.45%) Retail
7 2 (3.64%) Law
8 1 (1.82%) Automotive
8 1 (1.82%) Billing
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Architect
2 10 (18.18%) Senior
2 10 (18.18%) Technical Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 5 (9.09%) Senior Technical Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.45%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) React
2 6 (10.91%) .NET
3 5 (9.09%) Spring
3 5 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.27%) CSS
4 4 (7.27%) HTML
4 4 (7.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (7.27%) REST
4 4 (7.27%) RESTful
4 4 (7.27%) Vitest
5 3 (5.45%) Loki
6 2 (3.64%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.64%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (3.64%) Node.js
7 1 (1.82%) NHibernate
7 1 (1.82%) SOAP
7 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Public Cloud
2 10 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.91%) PKI
4 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.45%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Replication
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.82%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.91%) Linux
2 6 (10.91%) Windows
3 3 (5.45%) Debian
4 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.82%) VMS
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
2 22 (40.00%) Agile
3 20 (36.36%) DevOps
4 18 (32.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (27.27%) Migration
6 14 (25.45%) Microservices
7 10 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 10 (18.18%) ITIL
7 10 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
8 8 (14.55%) AI
8 8 (14.55%) High Availability
8 8 (14.55%) Incident Response
8 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (14.55%) TOGAF
9 7 (12.73%) Containerisation
9 7 (12.73%) DevSecOps
9 7 (12.73%) IT Strategy
10 6 (10.91%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Python
2 9 (16.36%) SQL
3 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.91%) Bash
4 6 (10.91%) Go
5 5 (9.09%) Java
5 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.45%) Bicep
6 3 (5.45%) C#
7 2 (3.64%) R
7 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 30 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 19 (34.55%) DV Cleared
4 8 (14.55%) CCNP
4 8 (14.55%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (9.09%) MCSE
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.64%) CCSE
7 2 (3.64%) CCSM
7 2 (3.64%) Degree
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.82%) CCDA
8 1 (1.82%) CCDP
8 1 (1.82%) CCIE
8 1 (1.82%) CCIP
8 1 (1.82%) CCNA
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.82%) NCSC
2 10 (18.18%) NIST
3 4 (7.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (7.27%) GDPR
3 4 (7.27%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.45%) GRC
5 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.64%) SLA
6 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.82%) QA
6 1 (1.82%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (14.55%) VMware NSX
3 7 (12.73%) Docker
4 4 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Terraform
2 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.09%) Grafana
3 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.09%) Rancher
4 3 (5.45%) Istio
5 2 (3.64%) Ansible
6 1 (1.82%) CASB
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (34.55%) VMware
2 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.18%) Cisco
3 10 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.45%) CheckPoint
4 3 (5.45%) F5
4 3 (5.45%) Fortinet
4 3 (5.45%) SAP
5 2 (3.64%) Citrix
5 2 (3.64%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.82%) Arista
6 1 (1.82%) HP
6 1 (1.82%) Juniper
6 1 (1.82%) Meraki
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.82%) Zscaler