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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS 75 23 36
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.82% 12.85% 10.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.86% 38.33% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 17 27
10th Percentile £378 £294 £350
25th Percentile £456 £321 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% -11.31%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £588
90th Percentile £643 £605 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £400 £490
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% -10.91%

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 193 60 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.26% 33.52% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 37 80
10th Percentile £400 £286 £225
25th Percentile £462 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £469
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -20.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £596 £538 £531
90th Percentile £639 £605 £614
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £463 £469
% change year-on-year +13.51% -1.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -31.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.07
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.63% -40.00% +18.42%

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 26 June 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 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 64 (85.33%) Azure
2 8 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (10.67%) GCP
3 6 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (8.00%) GitHub
3 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.00%) IaaS
6 3 (4.00%) PaaS
6 3 (4.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.67%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.67%) Figma
8 1 (1.33%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 13 (17.33%) Firewall
2 12 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (14.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (13.33%) WAN
5 9 (12.00%) LAN
5 9 (12.00%) VSAN
6 8 (10.67%) BGP
6 8 (10.67%) IPsec
6 8 (10.67%) OSPF
7 7 (9.33%) BIG-IP
7 7 (9.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (9.33%) SD-WAN
7 7 (9.33%) TCP/IP
7 7 (9.33%) VPN
8 6 (8.00%) DNS
8 6 (8.00%) MPLS
8 6 (8.00%) Network Security
8 6 (8.00%) NGFW
9 5 (6.67%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.33%) MySQL
2 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.00%) DocumentDB
4 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.33%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) Jaeger
2 4 (5.33%) NUnit
3 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.67%) JUnit
5 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.33%) Maven
5 1 (1.33%) Mockito
5 1 (1.33%) MSTest
5 1 (1.33%) Selenium
5 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.33%) Storybook
5 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (16.00%) Finance
2 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.00%) Retail
4 5 (6.67%) Banking
5 4 (5.33%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.67%) Automotive
7 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Architect
2 14 (18.67%) Senior
3 13 (17.33%) Technical Architect
4 12 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) Network Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Citrix Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior Architect
8 5 (6.67%) .NET Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Lead
8 5 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Network Architect
8 5 (6.67%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Technical Architect
8 5 (6.67%) Test Manager
8 5 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) .NET
2 9 (12.00%) React
3 8 (10.67%) REST
4 5 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 5 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (5.33%) Entity Framework
5 4 (5.33%) Loki
5 4 (5.33%) NHibernate
6 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.67%) Node.js
6 2 (2.67%) Spring
6 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.33%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.33%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Public Cloud
2 15 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 10 (13.33%) PKI
4 9 (12.00%) Cloud Native
5 8 (10.67%) Private Cloud
6 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
6 4 (5.33%) Virtual Team
7 3 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.67%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.33%) Clustering
9 1 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.33%) Replication
9 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (34.67%) Linux
2 13 (17.33%) Windows
3 6 (8.00%) Debian
4 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (30.67%) Agile
2 23 (30.67%) DevOps
3 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (22.67%) Migration
5 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (18.67%) ITIL
7 13 (17.33%) TOGAF
8 12 (16.00%) Cloud Security
8 12 (16.00%) Microservices
9 11 (14.67%) High Availability
9 11 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.33%) DevSecOps
10 10 (13.33%) Zero Trust
11 9 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
11 9 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (12.00%) Incident Response
12 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (10.67%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.67%) Python
1 17 (22.67%) SQL
2 10 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.00%) Bash
4 7 (9.33%) C#
4 7 (9.33%) Go
4 7 (9.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.33%) Bicep
6 4 (5.33%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 47 (62.67%) Security Cleared
2 36 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 28 (37.33%) DV Cleared
4 15 (20.00%) CCNP
4 15 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (8.00%) ISTQB
6 6 (8.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 5 (6.67%) CCSE
7 5 (6.67%) CCSM
7 5 (6.67%) MCSE
8 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
8 4 (5.33%) Degree
8 4 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
9 3 (4.00%) CCIE
10 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.33%) CCIP
11 1 (1.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.67%) NCSC
2 9 (12.00%) NIST
3 5 (6.67%) GDPR
3 5 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.67%) QA
3 5 (6.67%) SLA
4 4 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.33%) GRC
5 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.33%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (26.67%) VMware NSX
2 18 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (14.67%) Docker
4 7 (9.33%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (26.67%) Terraform
2 14 (18.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.00%) Grafana
3 6 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (8.00%) Rancher
4 4 (5.33%) Ansible
4 4 (5.33%) Istio
5 1 (1.33%) CASB
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (50.67%) VMware
2 24 (32.00%) Microsoft
3 23 (30.67%) Cisco
4 18 (24.00%) Palo Alto
5 9 (12.00%) Citrix
6 7 (9.33%) F5
7 6 (8.00%) CheckPoint
7 6 (8.00%) Fortinet
8 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
9 4 (5.33%) Oracle
10 2 (2.67%) Google
10 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
11 1 (1.33%) Arista
11 1 (1.33%) Aruba
11 1 (1.33%) HP
11 1 (1.33%) Juniper
11 1 (1.33%) Meraki
11 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.33%) Zscaler