AWS Contracts in Sheffield

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 25 22 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 25 35 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.84% 9.23% 17.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.27% 37.63% 56.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 65
10th Percentile £338 £411 £500
25th Percentile £358 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £550 £609 £700
90th Percentile £620 £645 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 103 93 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 32.29% 24.54% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 113
10th Percentile £294 £191 £450
25th Percentile £400 £411 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -11.49% +11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £653 £638 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £448 £550
% change year-on-year +11.73% -18.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +22.14%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.27%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) IaaS
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) CloudBees
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
1 2 (8.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (8.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.00%) 4G
2 1 (4.00%) ISDN
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) MPLS
2 1 (4.00%) NAS
2 1 (4.00%) PSTN
2 1 (4.00%) SSH
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) JMeter
3 2 (8.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (8.00%) TestRail
4 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Architect
1 4 (16.00%) Developer
1 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (16.00%) Senior
1 4 (16.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (8.00%) LDAP Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Performance Tester
3 2 (8.00%) QA Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Tester
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) LDAP
1 3 (12.00%) Middleware
1 3 (12.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) JWT
2 2 (8.00%) SAML
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (8.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) SCADA
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Windows
4 1 (4.00%) AIX
4 1 (4.00%) Solaris
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Migration
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (12.00%) LLM
7 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (8.00%) Generative AI
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.00%) Microservices
7 2 (8.00%) Performance Testing
7 2 (8.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) Groovy
4 3 (12.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.00%) ActionScript
5 2 (8.00%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (8.00%) PHP
5 2 (8.00%) Ruby
5 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) Korn
6 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) Degree
3 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.00%) IBM Certification
6 1 (4.00%) CISM
6 1 (4.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Puppet
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Nagios
4 1 (4.00%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.00%) IBM
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) ForgeRock
3 2 (8.00%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Centrify
4 1 (4.00%) Commvault
4 1 (4.00%) Confluent
4 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.00%) NetApp
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Thycotic
4 1 (4.00%) Veritas