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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 72 25 36
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.28% 11.21% 11.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.62% 33.78% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 17 24
10th Percentile £363 £294 £464
25th Percentile £421 £321 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £519
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -18.07% -11.32%
75th Percentile £599 £550 £571
90th Percentile £643 £638 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +26.47% -17.07% -12.39%

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 208 74 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 26.80% 33.18% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 45 72
10th Percentile £400 £286 £350
25th Percentile £462 £325 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £480
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £590 £488 £541
90th Percentile £629 £625 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -9.52%
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% +21.43%
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% +11.84%

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 11 August 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 1 (1.39%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 64 (88.89%) Azure
2 9 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (8.33%) GitHub
3 6 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (6.94%) GCP
4 5 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.78%) IaaS
6 2 (2.78%) PaaS
6 2 (2.78%) SaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.39%) Figma
7 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.44%) Firewall
2 13 (18.06%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (13.89%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (12.50%) LAN
5 9 (12.50%) VSAN
5 9 (12.50%) WAN
6 8 (11.11%) VPN
7 7 (9.72%) BGP
7 7 (9.72%) BIG-IP
7 7 (9.72%) DNS
7 7 (9.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (9.72%) IPsec
7 7 (9.72%) OSPF
7 7 (9.72%) TCP/IP
8 6 (8.33%) Network Security
8 6 (8.33%) NGFW
8 6 (8.33%) SD-WAN
9 5 (6.94%) ICMP
9 5 (6.94%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.56%) DocumentDB
2 4 (5.56%) MySQL
2 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Git
2 4 (5.56%) Jaeger
2 4 (5.56%) NUnit
3 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.39%) MSTest
4 1 (1.39%) Selenium
4 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (16.67%) Finance
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.33%) Retail
4 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.78%) Automotive
6 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Local Government
7 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Architect
2 13 (18.06%) Senior
3 12 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (13.89%) Technical Architect
5 9 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (11.11%) Network Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Citrix Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) NOC Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Senior Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Test Manager
9 5 (6.94%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) .NET
2 9 (12.50%) React
3 8 (11.11%) REST
4 7 (9.72%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 6 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 6 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 5 (6.94%) Entity Framework
6 5 (6.94%) NHibernate
6 5 (6.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.56%) Loki
8 3 (4.17%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.39%) Flask
9 1 (1.39%) Node.js
9 1 (1.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (19.44%) Public Cloud
3 11 (15.28%) Cloud Native
4 10 (13.89%) PKI
5 9 (12.50%) Data Centre
6 7 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (9.72%) Onboarding
6 7 (9.72%) Private Cloud
7 4 (5.56%) Security Posture
7 4 (5.56%) Virtual Team
8 3 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.39%) Clustering
10 1 (1.39%) NHS
10 1 (1.39%) Replication
10 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.94%) Linux
2 11 (15.28%) Windows
3 6 (8.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (51.39%) CI/CD
2 25 (34.72%) Agile
3 22 (30.56%) DevOps
4 19 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (22.22%) Migration
6 13 (18.06%) Cloud Security
6 13 (18.06%) ITIL
7 12 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (15.28%) High Availability
8 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
8 11 (15.28%) Zero Trust
9 10 (13.89%) Microservices
10 9 (12.50%) Incident Response
10 9 (12.50%) SOLID
10 9 (12.50%) TOGAF
11 8 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.39%) SQL
2 14 (19.44%) Python
3 10 (13.89%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.50%) Bash
4 9 (12.50%) C#
5 7 (9.72%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.33%) Bicep
6 6 (8.33%) Go
7 4 (5.56%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (59.72%) Security Cleared
2 34 (47.22%) SC Cleared
3 26 (36.11%) DV Cleared
4 11 (15.28%) CCNP
4 11 (15.28%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 6 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Certification
6 5 (6.94%) CCSE
6 5 (6.94%) CCSM
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 4 (5.56%) Degree
7 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.78%) CCIE
9 2 (2.78%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) NCSC
2 6 (8.33%) NIST
3 5 (6.94%) GDPR
3 5 (6.94%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.94%) QA
3 5 (6.94%) SLA
4 4 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.56%) GRC
5 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (27.78%) VMware NSX
2 17 (23.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (15.28%) Docker
4 7 (9.72%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (30.56%) Terraform
2 17 (23.61%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.94%) Grafana
3 5 (6.94%) Prometheus
3 5 (6.94%) Rancher
4 4 (5.56%) Istio
5 3 (4.17%) Ansible
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (47.22%) VMware
2 25 (34.72%) Microsoft
3 22 (30.56%) Cisco
4 17 (23.61%) Palo Alto
5 9 (12.50%) Citrix
6 7 (9.72%) F5
7 5 (6.94%) CheckPoint
7 5 (6.94%) Fortinet
7 5 (6.94%) Oracle
8 4 (5.56%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.78%) Google
10 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow