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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS 19 49 46
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.55% 15.96% 8.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.59% 34.03% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 42
10th Percentile £408 £471 £400
25th Percentile £418 £504 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £631 £631 £736
90th Percentile £675 £723 £843
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -2.27% -5.98% +6.36%

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 108 144 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 37.24% 46.91% 23.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 105 108
10th Percentile £260 £308 £199
25th Percentile £404 £400 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £560 £650
90th Percentile £619 £654 £730
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £13.30 -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile - £22.63 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.30 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -2.44% -

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 15 November 2025.

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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
2 7 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (36.84%) Serverless
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon SageMaker
3 6 (31.58%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) ChatGPT
4 5 (26.32%) GCP
4 5 (26.32%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.53%) Textract
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) NAS
1 1 (5.26%) SAN
1 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Big Data
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (15.79%) MySQL
3 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.26%) Metadata
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) JUnit
2 3 (15.79%) Storybook
3 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Electronics
4 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.79%) Marketing
4 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
5 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.53%) General Ledger
5 2 (10.53%) Retail
6 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Data Scientist
2 5 (26.32%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Hugging Face
1 5 (26.32%) NumPy
1 5 (26.32%) Pandas
1 5 (26.32%) PyTorch
1 5 (26.32%) scikit-learn
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) Prophet
2 3 (15.79%) React
2 3 (15.79%) RESTful
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.79%) Vitest
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Microservices
4 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
4 6 (31.58%) Data Science
4 6 (31.58%) Machine Learning
5 5 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (26.32%) AI
5 5 (26.32%) LLM
5 5 (26.32%) OCR
5 5 (26.32%) Time Series Forecasting
6 4 (21.05%) A/B Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Clean Code
6 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) Data Privacy
6 4 (21.05%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (21.05%) Statistical Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Sage
1 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) Isilon
3 1 (5.26%) JDA
3 1 (5.26%) NetApp
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) UiPath
3 1 (5.26%) Veeam
3 1 (5.26%) VMware