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 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 25 | 22 | 12 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -3 | -10 | +6 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS | 45 | 18 | 47 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes | 7.46% | 6.82% | 15.61% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 22.61% | 18.37% | 33.10% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 37 | 11 | 34 |
| 10th Percentile | £349 | £413 | £475 |
| 25th Percentile | £415 | £424 | £505 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £514 | £525 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -2.10% | -4.55% | -7.17% |
| 75th Percentile | £588 | £663 | £616 |
| 90th Percentile | £698 | £675 | £656 |
| Buckinghamshire median daily rate | £502 | £525 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | -4.38% | -4.55% | -7.17% |
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.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 199 | 98 | 142 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes | 33.00% | 37.12% | 47.18% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 154 | 68 | 105 |
| 10th Percentile | £383 | £235 | £308 |
| 25th Percentile | £462 | £385 | £393 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £450 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +16.67% | -5.26% | -9.52% |
| 75th Percentile | £588 | £554 | £550 |
| 90th Percentile | £623 | £625 | £625 |
| Buckinghamshire median daily rate | £514 | £450 | £478 |
| % change year-on-year | +14.22% | -5.76% | -9.05% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | £13.30 |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £15.25 |
| Median hourly rate | £17.50 | - | £20.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | - | -2.44% |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £22.63 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | £23.30 |
| Buckinghamshire median hourly rate | £17.50 | £13.50 | £20.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +29.63% | -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 Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes
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 17 October 2026.
AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure | 91.1% | 41 |
| 2 | Azure Sentinel | 11.1% | 5 |
| 2 | GCP | 11.1% | 5 |
| 2 | Virtual Private Cloud | 11.1% | 5 |
| 5 | Serverless | 8.9% | 4 |
| 6 | Azure DevOps | 6.7% | 3 |
| 6 | Azure Functions | 6.7% | 3 |
| 6 | Azure Logic Apps | 6.7% | 3 |
| 6 | Entra ID | 6.7% | 3 |
| 6 | GitHub | 6.7% | 3 |
| 6 | GitHub Actions | 6.7% | 3 |
| 12 | Azure AKS | 4.4% | 2 |
| 13 | Amazon CloudWatch | 2.2% | 1 |
| 13 | Amazon EC2 | 2.2% | 1 |
| 13 | Amazon ECS | 2.2% | 1 |
| 13 | Amazon EKS | 2.2% | 1 |
| 13 | Amazon GuardDuty | 2.2% | 1 |
| 13 | Amazon S3 | 2.2% | 1 |
| 13 | AWS CloudTrail | 2.2% | 1 |
| 13 | AWS Lambda | 2.2% | 1 |