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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 61 18 42
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.74% 7.47% 14.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.91% 21.95% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 10 31
10th Percentile £363 £286 £475
25th Percentile £431 £408 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £430 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% -21.82% -7.17%
75th Percentile £605 £519 £576
90th Percentile £648 £563 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £430 £540
% change year-on-year +30.23% -20.37% -8.86%

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 211 82 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 30.23% 34.02% 42.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 51 89
10th Percentile £406 £201 £346
25th Percentile £462 £325 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £482
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -11.83% -8.19%
75th Percentile £588 £522 £550
90th Percentile £624 £613 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +23.53% -11.46% -10.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.78
25th Percentile - £15.25 £19.19
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -27.06% +3.66%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £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 13 September 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:

Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (1.64%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 56 (91.80%) Azure
2 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (9.84%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (8.20%) GCP
3 5 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (6.56%) GitHub
4 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (6.56%) Serverless
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.28%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.28%) IaaS
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.28%) PaaS
6 2 (3.28%) SaaS
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.03%) Firewall
2 9 (14.75%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (14.75%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (13.11%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (11.48%) DNS
4 7 (11.48%) VPN
5 6 (9.84%) VSAN
6 5 (8.20%) LAN
6 5 (8.20%) SD-WAN
6 5 (8.20%) WAN
7 4 (6.56%) BGP
7 4 (6.56%) BIG-IP
7 4 (6.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (6.56%) IPsec
7 4 (6.56%) MPLS
7 4 (6.56%) OSPF
7 4 (6.56%) TCP/IP
7 4 (6.56%) VLAN
8 3 (4.92%) NGFW
9 2 (3.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) DocumentDB
2 2 (3.28%) MySQL
2 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) NUnit
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.64%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.64%) MSTest
4 1 (1.64%) Selenium
4 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.20%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Retail
6 3 (4.92%) Military
6 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.28%) Automotive
7 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Architect
2 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Senior
4 7 (11.48%) Citrix Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Technical Architect
5 5 (8.20%) .NET Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Test Manager
5 5 (8.20%) VMware Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 4 (6.56%) Network Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) NOC Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (34.43%) Terraform
2 11 (18.03%) .NET
3 8 (13.11%) React
4 7 (11.48%) REST
5 6 (9.84%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (8.20%) .NET Framework
6 5 (8.20%) ASP.NET
6 5 (8.20%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 5 (8.20%) Entity Framework
6 5 (8.20%) NHibernate
7 3 (4.92%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.64%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.64%) Flask
9 1 (1.64%) Loki
9 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (1.64%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Public Cloud
2 12 (19.67%) Cloud Native
3 10 (16.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
4 8 (13.11%) PKI
5 7 (11.48%) Private Cloud
6 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
6 4 (6.56%) Virtual Team
7 3 (4.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (4.92%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.64%) IoT
9 1 (1.64%) NHS
9 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Linux
2 10 (16.39%) Windows
3 6 (9.84%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (54.10%) CI/CD
2 25 (40.98%) Agile
3 20 (32.79%) DevOps
4 17 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (26.23%) Cloud Security
6 15 (24.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (21.31%) Zero Trust
8 12 (19.67%) DevSecOps
8 12 (19.67%) Migration
9 11 (18.03%) Test Automation
10 10 (16.39%) ITIL
10 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (14.75%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (13.11%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (13.11%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (13.11%) High Availability
12 8 (13.11%) Microservices
12 8 (13.11%) SOLID
12 8 (13.11%) TOGAF
13 6 (9.84%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) SQL
2 10 (16.39%) Python
3 8 (13.11%) Bicep
3 8 (13.11%) C#
4 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.56%) Bash
7 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.64%) Go
8 1 (1.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (65.57%) Security Cleared
2 29 (47.54%) SC Cleared
3 22 (36.07%) DV Cleared
4 10 (16.39%) CCNP
4 10 (16.39%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.84%) ISTQB
5 6 (9.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
6 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
7 4 (6.56%) CCSE
7 4 (6.56%) CCSM
7 4 (6.56%) Degree
7 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (6.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.28%) CCIE
9 2 (3.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) NCSC
2 5 (8.20%) QA
3 4 (6.56%) NIST
3 4 (6.56%) SLA
4 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.64%) GRC
5 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) VMware NSX
2 12 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.75%) Docker
4 6 (9.84%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.64%) Istio
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.64%) Rancher
3 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (45.90%) VMware
2 24 (39.34%) Microsoft
3 16 (26.23%) Cisco
4 11 (18.03%) Palo Alto
5 9 (14.75%) Citrix
6 4 (6.56%) CheckPoint
6 4 (6.56%) F5
6 4 (6.56%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.56%) Oracle
6 4 (6.56%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.28%) Google