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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing AWS 61 27 31
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.48% 16.07% 7.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.15% 52.94% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 24 23
10th Percentile £381 £302 £350
25th Percentile £456 £347 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £605 £648 £600
90th Percentile £640 £743 £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -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 184 51 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.59% 30.36% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 40 86
10th Percentile £393 £306 £213
25th Percentile £456 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.18%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £738 £640
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £508 £450
% change year-on-year -1.48% +12.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £15.50 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year +132.26% -20.65% +11.61%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.13
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £15.50 £19.53
% change year-on-year +132.26% -20.65% +11.61%

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 6 May 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 (3.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 45 (73.77%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.84%) GitHub
3 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.20%) GCP
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (4.92%) IaaS
6 3 (4.92%) PaaS
6 3 (4.92%) SaaS
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.28%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (3.28%) Figma
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.64%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Firewall
2 7 (11.48%) VSAN
3 6 (9.84%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (9.84%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (9.84%) TCP/IP
4 5 (8.20%) WAN
4 5 (8.20%) Wireless
5 4 (6.56%) BGP
5 4 (6.56%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (6.56%) IPsec
5 4 (6.56%) LAN
5 4 (6.56%) Network Security
5 4 (6.56%) OSPF
6 3 (4.92%) BIG-IP
6 3 (4.92%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (4.92%) DNS
6 3 (4.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (4.92%) ICMP
6 3 (4.92%) NGFW
6 3 (4.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.56%) MySQL
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.28%) DocumentDB
5 2 (3.28%) Metadata
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.64%) Big Data
6 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.64%) Power BI
6 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) Jaeger
3 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.28%) JUnit
4 2 (3.28%) NUnit
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.64%) Maven
5 1 (1.64%) Mockito
5 1 (1.64%) MSTest
5 1 (1.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.64%) Storybook
5 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (18.03%) Finance
2 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.20%) Banking
4 4 (6.56%) Retail
5 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.92%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Automotive
7 1 (1.64%) Billing
7 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Architect
2 11 (18.03%) Senior
3 10 (16.39%) Technical Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Technical Architect
6 4 (6.56%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) DBA
6 4 (6.56%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.56%) SQL DBA
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) NOC Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) .NET
2 6 (9.84%) React
2 6 (9.84%) REST
3 5 (8.20%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (6.56%) Loki
5 3 (4.92%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.92%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.28%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.28%) NHibernate
6 2 (3.28%) Node.js
6 2 (3.28%) Spring
6 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.64%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.64%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Public Cloud
2 10 (16.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.48%) PKI
4 6 (9.84%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
5 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.56%) Security Posture
5 4 (6.56%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Clustering
7 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.64%) Replication
7 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.64%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.79%) Linux
2 8 (13.11%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Debian
4 2 (3.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.64%) VMS
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) CI/CD
2 21 (34.43%) DevOps
3 20 (32.79%) Agile
3 20 (32.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (26.23%) Migration
5 11 (18.03%) ITIL
5 11 (18.03%) Microservices
6 10 (16.39%) Technology Strategy
7 9 (14.75%) High Availability
7 9 (14.75%) Incident Response
7 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (13.11%) TOGAF
9 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
9 7 (11.48%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (11.48%) DevSecOps
9 7 (11.48%) IT Strategy
9 7 (11.48%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.84%) Cloud Security
10 6 (9.84%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) Python
2 13 (21.31%) SQL
3 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
4 9 (14.75%) Bash
5 7 (11.48%) Go
6 6 (9.84%) C#
7 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.56%) T-SQL
8 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.92%) Bicep
9 3 (4.92%) Java
10 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.64%) PHP
11 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (60.66%) Security Cleared
2 31 (50.82%) SC Cleared
3 23 (37.70%) DV Cleared
4 9 (14.75%) CCNP
4 9 (14.75%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (8.20%) MCSE
7 3 (4.92%) CCSE
7 3 (4.92%) CCSM
7 3 (4.92%) ISTQB
7 3 (4.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.64%) CCIE
9 1 (1.64%) CCIP
9 1 (1.64%) CCNA
9 1 (1.64%) Degree
9 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) NCSC
2 9 (14.75%) NIST
3 5 (8.20%) GDPR
3 5 (8.20%) PCI DSS
4 4 (6.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (6.56%) GRC
5 3 (4.92%) SLA
6 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (3.28%) QA
7 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.64%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (14.75%) Docker
2 9 (14.75%) VMware NSX
3 5 (8.20%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Terraform
2 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.84%) Grafana
3 6 (9.84%) Prometheus
3 6 (9.84%) Rancher
4 4 (6.56%) Istio
5 2 (3.28%) Ansible
6 1 (1.64%) CASB
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) VMware
2 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
3 14 (22.95%) Cisco
4 11 (18.03%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.56%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.56%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.92%) Citrix
6 3 (4.92%) F5
7 2 (3.28%) OpenAI
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle
7 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.64%) Arista
8 1 (1.64%) Aruba
8 1 (1.64%) HP
8 1 (1.64%) Juniper
8 1 (1.64%) Meraki
8 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.64%) Zscaler