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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 47 19 44
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.64% 7.48% 15.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.23% 20.65% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 12 32
10th Percentile £356 £298 £475
25th Percentile £417 £411 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £449 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.48% -18.36% -1.57%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £662 £673 £648
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £514 £449 £550
% change year-on-year +14.48% -18.36% -1.57%

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 194 92 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 31.54% 36.22% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 62 91
10th Percentile £400 £206 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £436 £482
Median % change year-on-year +17.82% -9.49% -8.19%
75th Percentile £588 £533 £550
90th Percentile £622 £624 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £430 £480
% change year-on-year +19.19% -10.42% -10.70%
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 4 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 (2.13%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (2.13%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 43 (91.49%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (10.64%) GCP
2 5 (10.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Serverless
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) Cisco Firepower
1 8 (17.02%) Cisco Nexus
1 8 (17.02%) Firewall
2 7 (14.89%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (14.89%) VPN
3 5 (10.64%) DNS
3 5 (10.64%) LAN
3 5 (10.64%) SD-WAN
3 5 (10.64%) WAN
4 4 (8.51%) BGP
4 4 (8.51%) BIG-IP
4 4 (8.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (8.51%) IPsec
4 4 (8.51%) MPLS
4 4 (8.51%) OSPF
4 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.51%) VLAN
5 3 (6.38%) NGFW
5 3 (6.38%) VSAN
6 2 (4.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) DocumentDB
1 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) MySQL
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) NUnit
3 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.13%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.13%) MSTest
4 1 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Military
4 3 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Retail
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.26%) Automotive
5 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Citrix Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Senior
4 5 (10.64%) Test Manager
5 4 (8.51%) .NET Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Lead
5 4 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Network Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.51%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Digital Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Digital Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.91%) Terraform
2 11 (23.40%) .NET
3 8 (17.02%) React
4 7 (14.89%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (14.89%) REST
5 4 (8.51%) .NET Framework
5 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET
5 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 4 (8.51%) Entity Framework
5 4 (8.51%) NHibernate
6 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.13%) Flask
8 1 (2.13%) Loki
8 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (14.89%) Data Centre
3 7 (14.89%) Private Cloud
4 5 (10.64%) PKI
5 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
5 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
6 3 (6.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (2.13%) IoT
8 1 (2.13%) NHS
8 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Windows
3 5 (10.64%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) CI/CD
2 19 (40.43%) Agile
3 15 (31.91%) DevOps
4 12 (25.53%) Cloud Security
5 10 (21.28%) Zero Trust
6 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
7 8 (17.02%) SOLID
8 7 (14.89%) DevSecOps
8 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.89%) ITIL
8 7 (14.89%) Scrum
8 7 (14.89%) TDD
9 6 (12.77%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (12.77%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (12.77%) Performance Testing
9 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.77%) Test Management
9 6 (12.77%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) SQL
2 9 (19.15%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) C#
4 7 (14.89%) TypeScript
5 6 (12.77%) PowerShell
6 5 (10.64%) Bicep
6 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.51%) Bash
8 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.13%) Go
9 1 (2.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (59.57%) Security Cleared
2 18 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 14 (29.79%) DV Cleared
4 7 (14.89%) CCNP
4 7 (14.89%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (12.77%) ISTQB
5 6 (12.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
6 5 (10.64%) Azure Certification
7 4 (8.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.38%) CCSE
8 3 (6.38%) CCSM
8 3 (6.38%) Degree
9 2 (4.26%) CCIE
9 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) NCSC
2 4 (8.51%) QA
3 3 (6.38%) SLA
4 2 (4.26%) GDPR
5 1 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.13%) GRC
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) VMware NSX
2 9 (19.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (17.02%) Docker
4 5 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
5 3 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Grafana
3 1 (2.13%) Istio
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (44.68%) VMware
2 15 (31.91%) Microsoft
3 13 (27.66%) Cisco
4 8 (17.02%) Palo Alto
5 7 (14.89%) Citrix
6 4 (8.51%) F5
6 4 (8.51%) Oracle
6 4 (8.51%) SolarWinds
7 3 (6.38%) CheckPoint
7 3 (6.38%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.26%) Google