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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 28
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 46 32 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 24.34% 14.04% 3.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 63.89% 48.48% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 25 6
10th Percentile £343 £356 £425
25th Percentile £365 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -15.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £490 £489 £566
90th Percentile £500 £514 £581
East Midlands median daily rate £464 £445 £594
% change year-on-year +4.21% -25.05% +18.75%

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 72 66 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 38.10% 28.95% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 37
10th Percentile £326 £176 £176
25th Percentile £363 £356 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £365
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +21.92% -8.75%
75th Percentile £490 £485 £538
90th Percentile £525 £513 £580
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £445
% change year-on-year +5.88% -4.49% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £16.04 - £11.90
25th Percentile £19.48 - £12.89
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% -15.11%
75th Percentile - - £16.12
90th Percentile - - £17.08
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £16.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.62% -16.85% +5.96%

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 23 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 23 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 0 44 £429 -3.60% 228
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 3 (6.52%) JBoss
1 3 (6.52%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) CICS
3 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) GCP
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
3 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (10.87%) Serverless
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.17%) Apigee
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) DMZ
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
1 2 (4.35%) HTTP
1 2 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.35%) Big Data
4 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.35%) DB2
4 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.35%) Flink
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.35%) Parquet
4 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) Git
3 4 (8.70%) Maven
4 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (4.35%) GitLab
5 2 (4.35%) Gradle
5 2 (4.35%) IntelliJ
5 2 (4.35%) Introscope
5 2 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) LoadRunner
5 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.17%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 20 (43.48%) Banking
2 16 (34.78%) Finance
3 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
4 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Architect
2 16 (34.78%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (10.87%) AWS Architect
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Solution Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Developer
6 2 (4.35%) DevOps Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Payments Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.35%) Scala Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) LDAP
2 9 (19.57%) Kafka
3 7 (15.22%) Spring
4 6 (13.04%) OAuth
4 6 (13.04%) OpenID
5 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
5 5 (10.87%) REST
5 5 (10.87%) RESTful
5 5 (10.87%) SAML
5 5 (10.87%) Web Services
6 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.52%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (4.35%) .NET
8 2 (4.35%) Apache Avro
8 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (4.35%) FIDO
8 2 (4.35%) HTML
8 2 (4.35%) J2EE
8 2 (4.35%) JSON
8 2 (4.35%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) AIX
2 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (30.43%) Agile
4 12 (26.09%) Scrum
5 10 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (21.74%) Microservices
6 9 (19.57%) Migration
7 8 (17.39%) DevOps
7 8 (17.39%) ETL
7 8 (17.39%) SDLC
8 7 (15.22%) Architectural Design
8 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
8 7 (15.22%) Digital Identity
8 7 (15.22%) TOGAF
9 6 (13.04%) Domain-Driven Design
9 6 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
10 5 (10.87%) Requirements Management
10 5 (10.87%) Service Delivery
10 5 (10.87%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) Java
2 12 (26.09%) SQL
3 10 (21.74%) Python
4 4 (8.70%) Scala
5 2 (4.35%) C
5 2 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) COBOL
6 1 (2.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
1 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) GDPR
2 4 (8.70%) NIST
3 3 (6.52%) HIPAA
3 3 (6.52%) QA
4 2 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (4.35%) CA Wily
3 2 (4.35%) Kibana
3 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) IBM
2 5 (10.87%) Ping Identity
2 5 (10.87%) Splunk
3 4 (8.70%) AppDynamics
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Databricks
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) HP
5 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.17%) Veracode