AWS Contracts in Milton Keynes

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 16 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 28 30 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 16.18% 7.69% 6.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.12% 25.64% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 33
10th Percentile £303 £350 £425
25th Percentile £350 £370 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £630 £606 £625
90th Percentile £743 £643 £695
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% -4.35%

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 57 117 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.95% 30.00% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 82 142
10th Percentile £311 £213 £275
25th Percentile £371 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £616 £550 £611
90th Percentile £727 £643 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £516 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +14.72% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.85 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £19.53 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% - -
75th Percentile £15.75 £23.82 -
90th Percentile - £24.13 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.50 £19.53 -
% change year-on-year -20.65% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Milton Keynes

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Camunda
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) SAS
2 1 (3.57%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 22 (78.57%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) GCP
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) Snowflake
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) BGP
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (14.29%) MPLS
1 4 (14.29%) NGFW
1 4 (14.29%) OSPF
1 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 4 (14.29%) VPN
1 4 (14.29%) WAN
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) VLAN
2 3 (10.71%) VSAN
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.14%) Big Data
4 2 (7.14%) DocumentDB
5 1 (3.57%) GIS
5 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 2 (7.14%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Architect
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Technical Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Principal Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Java Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Principal Enterprise Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Principal Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Django
1 3 (10.71%) FastAPI
1 3 (10.71%) Flask
1 3 (10.71%) RESTful
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (7.14%) Entity Framework
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) Keycloak
2 2 (7.14%) NHibernate
2 2 (7.14%) OpenJDK
2 2 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Public Cloud
2 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) PKI
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Replication
5 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 14 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 13 (46.43%) Microservices
4 10 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 8 (28.57%) IT Strategy
5 8 (28.57%) Migration
6 7 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 7 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (25.00%) ITIL
6 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (21.43%) Data Security
7 6 (21.43%) DevOps
7 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (21.43%) Requirements Management
8 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Deployment
8 5 (17.86%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Magik
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (21.43%) MCSE
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (17.86%) CCNP
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) Degree
6 2 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (3.57%) CCNA
7 1 (3.57%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (3.57%) CISSP
7 1 (3.57%) CRISC
7 1 (3.57%) SnowPro
7 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) NCSC
2 7 (25.00%) NIST
3 5 (17.86%) GDPR
3 5 (17.86%) HIPAA
4 3 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (17.86%) VMware NSX
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) VMware
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Palo Alto
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.57%) Sparx