AWS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 19 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 112 66 52
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 10.75% 11.68% 12.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.72% 36.87% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 46 37
10th Percentile £419 £319 £411
25th Percentile £476 £384 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £673 £540 £615
90th Percentile £691 £600 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £475 £530
% change year-on-year +9.43% -10.38% -11.67%

All Cloud Computing 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 404 179 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.77% 31.68% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 137 89
10th Percentile £367 £305 £398
25th Percentile £450 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -8.65% -13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £611 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +8.28% -5.94% -15.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - +10.26%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Sheffield over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Sheffield

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 17 (15.18%) Confluence
2 3 (2.68%) Apache
2 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.68%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 87 (77.68%) GCP
2 68 (60.71%) Azure
3 19 (16.96%) GitHub
4 8 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (6.25%) OCI
6 5 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (4.46%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.57%) Serverless
8 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.68%) LangSmith
8 3 (2.68%) Stackdriver
9 2 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.79%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.79%) IaaS
10 1 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.89%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.86%) Network Security
2 3 (2.68%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.68%) SAN
3 2 (1.79%) BGP
3 2 (1.79%) LAN
3 2 (1.79%) Multicast
3 2 (1.79%) WAN
4 1 (0.89%) Calico
4 1 (0.89%) DNS
4 1 (0.89%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.89%) HTTP
4 1 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) NaaS
4 1 (0.89%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.25%) Metadata
3 6 (5.36%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.57%) Neo4j
4 4 (3.57%) Redis
5 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.68%) Trino
6 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.89%) Big Data
7 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (25.89%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.75%) JIRA
3 9 (8.04%) GitLab
4 7 (6.25%) Maven
4 7 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.36%) Git
5 6 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.89%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.89%) Gatling
7 1 (0.89%) JMeter
7 1 (0.89%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.89%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.89%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.89%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 46 (41.07%) Finance
3 22 (19.64%) Banking
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.25%) Publishing
6 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Law
8 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.79%) Billing
10 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (24.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (16.07%) Consultant
3 17 (15.18%) Developer
3 17 (15.18%) Lead
4 14 (12.50%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 10 (8.93%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.93%) Senior
6 9 (8.04%) Architect
7 8 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Security Consultant
10 4 (3.57%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 3 (2.68%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.29%) REST
2 11 (9.82%) SLSA
3 10 (8.93%) JSON
4 9 (8.04%) Spring
5 8 (7.14%) Kafka
6 7 (6.25%) .NET
6 7 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.25%) Node.js
6 7 (6.25%) React
6 7 (6.25%) YAML
7 6 (5.36%) .NET Core
7 6 (5.36%) ASP.NET
7 6 (5.36%) SailPoint
7 6 (5.36%) Spring Boot
7 6 (5.36%) Web Services
8 4 (3.57%) LDAP
8 4 (3.57%) OAuth
8 4 (3.57%) OpenID
9 3 (2.68%) HTML
9 3 (2.68%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.32%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (9.82%) Security Posture
5 9 (8.04%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.25%) Onboarding
7 6 (5.36%) AI Agents
7 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
7 6 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (5.36%) Public Cloud
8 5 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (2.68%) Autonomous Agent
10 3 (2.68%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (2.68%) FlexPod
11 2 (1.79%) Clustering
11 2 (1.79%) PKI
11 2 (1.79%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.79%) Replication
12 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.18%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) CoreOS
2 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.57%) VMS
3 3 (2.68%) AIX
3 3 (2.68%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.79%) Windows
5 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 57 (50.89%) DevOps
3 43 (38.39%) DevSecOps
4 32 (28.57%) Observability
5 29 (25.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (22.32%) Cloud Security
8 24 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 22 (19.64%) Microservices
9 22 (19.64%) SBOM
10 21 (18.75%) AI
11 20 (17.86%) Data Protection
12 19 (16.96%) Agile
12 19 (16.96%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (16.96%) Software Engineering
13 18 (16.07%) Architectural Patterns
13 18 (16.07%) Containerisation
13 18 (16.07%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (16.07%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (29.46%) Java
2 31 (27.68%) Python
3 19 (16.96%) SQL
4 10 (8.93%) Groovy
5 9 (8.04%) Bash
6 7 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.46%) Go
8 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.89%) C
11 1 (0.89%) C#
11 1 (0.89%) Cypher
11 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) CISSP
2 16 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 16 (14.29%) CCSP
2 16 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (13.39%) CISM
4 9 (8.04%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.46%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.57%) CCSK
6 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.68%) OCP
7 3 (2.68%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.79%) Degree
9 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.89%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.89%) GIAC
9 1 (0.89%) GSEC
9 1 (0.89%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) NIST
2 5 (4.46%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) GRC
4 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (25.89%) Docker
2 11 (9.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.57%) vSphere
5 3 (2.68%) NFS
6 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.89%) Ceph
6 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.89%) KVM
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (58.93%) Kubernetes
2 39 (34.82%) Terraform
3 23 (20.54%) Ansible
4 12 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 11 (9.82%) Grafana
6 6 (5.36%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.68%) SnapMirror
8 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.89%) Argo
9 1 (0.89%) Cilium
9 1 (0.89%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.89%) Istio
9 1 (0.89%) Packer
9 1 (0.89%) QRadar
9 1 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.50%) Google
3 7 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.25%) Sonatype
4 5 (4.46%) Centrify
4 5 (4.46%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.46%) VMware
5 4 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.57%) Splunk
6 3 (2.68%) NetApp
6 3 (2.68%) Oracle
7 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.79%) IBM
7 2 (1.79%) Okta
7 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.79%) Thales
8 1 (0.89%) Arista
8 1 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.89%) Databricks
8 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace