AWS Contracts in Northamptonshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 3 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 22 26 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 15.07% 13.27% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.83% 43.33% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 3
10th Percentile £347 £356 £463
25th Percentile £363 £388 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £467 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -11.05% +8.25%
75th Percentile £480 £516 £556
90th Percentile £537 £525 £568
East Midlands median daily rate £490 £450 £613
% change year-on-year +8.89% -26.53% +22.50%

All Cloud Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 46 60 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 31.51% 30.61% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 41 35
10th Percentile £322 £173 £172
25th Percentile £358 £356 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £445 £330
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +34.85% -21.19%
75th Percentile £497 £500 £500
90th Percentile £537 £525 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £11.90
25th Percentile £13.75 - £12.89
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% -15.11%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £16.12
90th Percentile - - £17.08
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £16.63 £18.86
% change year-on-year -9.26% -11.82% +10.26%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Northamptonshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Northamptonshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Northamptonshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton -2 20 £450 +1.12% 94
AWS
East Midlands

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 2 (9.09%) JBoss
1 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon Kinesis
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (22.73%) Serverless
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) Apigee
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.55%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.64%) Hadoop
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (9.09%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (9.09%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) Delta Lake
3 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (9.09%) Flink
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) Parquet
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Aerospike
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Introscope
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
2 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.55%) Maven
General
1 11 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Architect
2 9 (40.91%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Architect
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Solution Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Python Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Java Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Scala Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Junior
7 1 (4.55%) Junior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Kafka
2 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (13.64%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) Apache Avro
4 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) J2EE
4 2 (9.09%) JSON
4 2 (9.09%) Spring
4 2 (9.09%) Web Services
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth
5 1 (4.55%) OpenID
5 1 (4.55%) RAML
5 1 (4.55%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 4 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) AIX
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) ETL
3 6 (27.27%) Microservices
4 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
4 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
4 5 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
4 5 (22.73%) Migration
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Scrum
5 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 4 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Budget Control
6 3 (13.64%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (13.64%) IT Governance
6 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
6 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) Scala
5 2 (9.09%) C
5 2 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) CA Wily
2 2 (9.09%) Kibana
2 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Splunk
2 4 (18.18%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Veracode