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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS 18 44 54
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.14% 15.38% 8.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.22% 34.65% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 32 45
10th Percentile £286 £475 £406
25th Percentile £409 £504 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £715
90th Percentile £675 £648 £821
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -20.91% -2.22% +2.27%

All Cloud 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 89 127 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 35.32% 44.41% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 93 117
10th Percentile £201 £350 £205
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £482 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% -8.19% +4.58%
75th Percentile £536 £550 £625
90th Percentile £625 £618 £715
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £482 £525
% change year-on-year -11.83% -8.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.78 £16.85
25th Percentile - £19.19 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £21.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.66% -
75th Percentile - £23.19 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.53 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.50 £21.25 £20.50
% change year-on-year -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 11 October 2025.

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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (38.89%) Serverless
3 6 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (27.78%) ChatGPT
5 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) GCP
6 3 (16.67%) GitHub
7 2 (11.11%) Textract
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) NAS
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
1 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Big Data
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) OLAP
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 4 (22.22%) General Ledger
4 3 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Data Scientist
2 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.56%) Finance Modeller
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Hugging Face
1 5 (27.78%) NumPy
1 5 (27.78%) Pandas
1 5 (27.78%) PyTorch
1 5 (27.78%) scikit-learn
2 3 (16.67%) Prophet
3 2 (11.11%) Django
3 2 (11.11%) FastAPI
3 2 (11.11%) Flask
3 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Microservices
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (27.78%) Data Science
3 5 (27.78%) LLM
3 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) OCR
3 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 5 (27.78%) Time Series Forecasting
3 5 (27.78%) TOGAF
4 4 (22.22%) A/B Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) ArchiMate
4 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Sage
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Isilon
3 1 (5.56%) JDA
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) NetApp
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) UiPath
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (5.56%) VMware