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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 15 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing AWS 68 50 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 11.74% 12.05% 15.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.57% 35.71% 52.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 52
10th Percentile £319 £411 £550
25th Percentile £384 £446 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £540 £614 £675
90th Percentile £600 £642 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £473 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -10.85% -11.67% -6.25%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 181 140 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 31.26% 33.73% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 88 85
10th Percentile £305 £400 £450
25th Percentile £358 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £600 £650
90th Percentile £608 £640 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £507 £600
% change year-on-year -6.31% -15.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +10.26% +2.39%

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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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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Sheffield over the 6 months to 22 August 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 7 (10.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) CICS
2 2 (2.94%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.94%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (70.59%) GCP
2 38 (55.88%) Azure
3 15 (22.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (13.24%) Entra ID
5 9 (13.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (13.24%) SaaS
5 9 (13.24%) Serverless
6 8 (11.76%) Azure AKS
7 7 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (8.82%) GitHub
9 4 (5.88%) Akamai
9 4 (5.88%) IaaS
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.47%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) Firewall
2 2 (2.94%) HTTP
2 2 (2.94%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.94%) LAN
2 2 (2.94%) NAS
2 2 (2.94%) WAN
2 2 (2.94%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.47%) 4G
3 1 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.47%) FCoE
3 1 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.47%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.47%) ISDN
3 1 (1.47%) MPLS
3 1 (1.47%) Multicast
3 1 (1.47%) PSTN
3 1 (1.47%) SAN
3 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.41%) MySQL
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.47%) Power BI
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 16 (23.53%) JIRA
3 11 (16.18%) GitLab
4 10 (14.71%) Liquibase
5 8 (11.76%) Postman
5 8 (11.76%) SoapUI
6 4 (5.88%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (4.41%) Git
8 2 (2.94%) JUnit
8 2 (2.94%) Selenium
8 2 (2.94%) TestNG
9 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (48.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Finance
3 13 (19.12%) Banking
4 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.82%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.94%) Police
7 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (17.65%) Analyst
3 9 (13.24%) Business Analyst
3 9 (13.24%) Senior
4 7 (10.29%) Test Analyst
5 6 (8.82%) Architect
5 6 (8.82%) Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) JIRA Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Angular Developer
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (2.94%) QA Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.65%) RESTful
2 11 (16.18%) SAML
3 9 (13.24%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (13.24%) REST
4 8 (11.76%) OAuth
4 8 (11.76%) OpenID
5 7 (10.29%) JSON
6 6 (8.82%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.88%) CSS
7 4 (5.88%) HTML
7 4 (5.88%) LDAP
7 4 (5.88%) Middleware
8 3 (4.41%) React
9 2 (2.94%) CSS3
9 2 (2.94%) Express.js
9 2 (2.94%) HTML5
9 2 (2.94%) MEAN Stack
9 2 (2.94%) Node.js
9 2 (2.94%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (33.82%) Cloud Native
2 12 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 6 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.88%) Replication
5 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.94%) Clustering
6 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.94%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.47%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Windows
3 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Solaris
3 2 (2.94%) Unix
3 2 (2.94%) zOS
4 1 (1.47%) MVS
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) CI/CD
1 35 (51.47%) DevOps
2 25 (36.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (33.82%) Agile
4 17 (25.00%) Microservices
5 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (20.59%) DevSecOps
7 13 (19.12%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (17.65%) Cloud Security
8 12 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 11 (16.18%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (16.18%) Software Engineering
10 10 (14.71%) GAP Analysis
10 10 (14.71%) Identity Management
10 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (13.24%) Computer Science
11 9 (13.24%) Continuous Delivery
11 9 (13.24%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (13.24%) Privileged Access Management
11 9 (13.24%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) Python
2 19 (27.94%) Java
3 10 (14.71%) Go
4 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.88%) Groovy
5 4 (5.88%) SQL
5 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.41%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.94%) PHP
7 2 (2.94%) Ruby
8 1 (1.47%) Bash
8 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Degree
1 10 (14.71%) ISTQB
2 9 (13.24%) CISSP
2 9 (13.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (11.76%) CISM
3 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.82%) Master's Degree
5 5 (7.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (10.29%) NIST
2 7 (10.29%) PCI DSS
2 7 (10.29%) QA
3 6 (8.82%) GDPR
4 2 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Docker
2 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.94%) KVM
3 2 (2.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.47%) NFS
4 1 (1.47%) Snort
4 1 (1.47%) SRDF
4 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (48.53%) Terraform
2 32 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 15 (22.06%) Ansible
4 10 (14.71%) Grafana
4 10 (14.71%) Prometheus
5 9 (13.24%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.41%) CSIRT
7 2 (2.94%) Puppet
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.47%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.47%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.47%) SCOM
8 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) Google
2 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (16.18%) Splunk
4 9 (13.24%) F5
5 8 (11.76%) Alibaba
5 8 (11.76%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (11.76%) CyberArk
5 8 (11.76%) Thycotic
6 4 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.88%) Cisco
6 4 (5.88%) Oracle
7 3 (4.41%) NetApp
8 2 (2.94%) EMC
8 2 (2.94%) ForgeRock
8 2 (2.94%) IBM
8 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.94%) VMware
9 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.47%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft