AWS Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 34 16 25
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 15.32% 14.16% 26.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.46% 53.33% 39.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 22
10th Percentile £362 £314 £480
25th Percentile £401 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £356 £532
Median % change year-on-year +21.84% -33.08% -4.14%
75th Percentile £484 £422 £534
90th Percentile £558 £519 £535
Northamptonshire median daily rate £434 £356 £514
% change year-on-year +21.84% -30.71% -8.26%

All Cloud Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 82 30 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 36.94% 26.55% 67.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 21 56
10th Percentile £340 £340 £303
25th Percentile £371 £356 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £400 £489
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -18.20% -4.59%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £526
90th Percentile £539 £700 £534
Northamptonshire median daily rate £437 £401 £481
% change year-on-year +9.11% -16.65% -3.90%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

AWS job vacancy trend in Northampton

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Northampton over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Northampton

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 7 (20.59%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) Azure
2 18 (52.94%) GCP
3 8 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 7 (20.59%) Entra ID
4 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (14.71%) Serverless
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (11.76%) GitHub
6 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (14.71%) Big Data
2 5 (14.71%) DynamoDB
3 4 (11.76%) Aerospike
3 4 (11.76%) Metadata
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.88%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.88%) Redis
5 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) GitLab
1 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JUnit
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Banking
3 5 (14.71%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Lead
3 4 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Data Scientist
3 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Ab Initio Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Gen AI Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Payments Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Programme Director
6 1 (2.94%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) Node.js
2 4 (11.76%) REST
3 3 (8.82%) Pandas
3 3 (8.82%) PySpark
3 3 (8.82%) pytest
3 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (8.82%) scikit-learn
3 3 (8.82%) Spring
3 3 (8.82%) TensorFlow
4 2 (5.88%) FastAPI
4 2 (5.88%) Flask
4 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.88%) LDAP
4 2 (5.88%) OAuth
4 2 (5.88%) OpenID
4 2 (5.88%) SAML
5 1 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (2.94%) CrewAI
5 1 (2.94%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Mac OS
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) ETL
1 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 11 (32.35%) Agile
3 11 (32.35%) Analytics
4 10 (29.41%) Data Engineering
4 10 (29.41%) Data Protection
4 10 (29.41%) Enterprise Architecture
4 10 (29.41%) Roadmaps
5 9 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (26.47%) Data Science
6 8 (23.53%) Business Strategy
6 8 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.59%) Data Governance
7 7 (20.59%) Microservices
7 7 (20.59%) Strategic Roadmap
7 7 (20.59%) Thought Leadership
7 7 (20.59%) User Experience
7 7 (20.59%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 8 (23.53%) Java
4 7 (20.59%) Bash
4 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.82%) R
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) GDPR
2 7 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
4 3 (8.82%) PCI DSS
5 2 (5.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
1 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (20.59%) SCCM
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Citrix
2 7 (20.59%) Databricks
2 7 (20.59%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) Google
4 3 (8.82%) Informatica
4 3 (8.82%) Talend
5 2 (5.88%) Ab Initio
5 2 (5.88%) IBM
5 2 (5.88%) Ping Identity