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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing AWS 33 26 41
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.33% 12.38% 8.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.40% 27.37% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 32
10th Percentile £399 £341 £350
25th Percentile £463 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +33.33% -10.89%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £592
90th Percentile £658 £743 £739
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £600 £463
% change year-on-year -6.67% +29.73% -15.91%

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 141 95 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 31.33% 45.24% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 75 96
10th Percentile £375 £248 £192
25th Percentile £413 £355 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £550
90th Percentile £639 £668 £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £484 £501 £450
% change year-on-year -3.30% +11.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile - - £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%

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 24 February 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 (6.06%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) GCP
3 7 (21.21%) GitHub
4 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) Figma
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) SAN
1 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) MPLS
2 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 2 (6.06%) VSAN
2 2 (6.06%) WAN
2 2 (6.06%) Wireless
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.03%) DHCP
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.03%) IPsec
3 1 (3.03%) IPv6
3 1 (3.03%) Multicast
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) SNMP
3 1 (3.03%) VXLAN
3 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.15%) MySQL
3 3 (9.09%) Big Data
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
4 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 2 (6.06%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
1 5 (15.15%) JUnit
2 4 (12.12%) Storybook
3 2 (6.06%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) Jaeger
4 1 (3.03%) Maven
4 1 (3.03%) Mockito
4 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
1 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Banking
3 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Electronics
4 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.09%) Marketing
5 2 (6.06%) Law
6 1 (3.03%) Billing
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Architect
2 7 (21.21%) Technical Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.06%) DBA
6 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) React
1 5 (15.15%) Spring
1 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
2 4 (12.12%) CSS
2 4 (12.12%) HTML
2 4 (12.12%) Vitest
3 3 (9.09%) .NET
3 3 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (9.09%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) RESTful
4 2 (6.06%) Loki
4 2 (6.06%) SOAP
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.03%) Middleware
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) OpenID
5 1 (3.03%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.09%) PKI
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.03%) Clustering
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (3.03%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Debian
3 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Agile
1 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
1 13 (39.39%) DevOps
2 10 (30.30%) Microservices
3 9 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 7 (21.21%) AI
4 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.21%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (15.15%) Analytics
5 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
5 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
5 5 (15.15%) ITIL
5 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.15%) TOGAF
6 4 (12.12%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 4 (12.12%) Migration
6 4 (12.12%) Problem Management
6 4 (12.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
3 5 (15.15%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) Go
4 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.06%) R
5 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.03%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (57.58%) Security Cleared
2 16 (48.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) CCNP
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (9.09%) MCSE
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.03%) CCDA
7 1 (3.03%) CCDP
7 1 (3.03%) CCIE
7 1 (3.03%) CCIP
7 1 (3.03%) CCNA
7 1 (3.03%) Degree
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (3.03%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) NCSC
1 6 (18.18%) NIST
2 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 4 (12.12%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (6.06%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) ISO 20022
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.03%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Grafana
2 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
2 4 (12.12%) Rancher
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Istio
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) CASB
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) VMware
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco
3 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 3 (9.09%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) Arista
5 1 (3.03%) Aruba
5 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.03%) HP
5 1 (3.03%) Juniper
5 1 (3.03%) Meraki
5 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Zscaler