AWS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 31 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 291 415 617
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.27% 7.12% 7.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.06% 24.33% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 299 430
10th Percentile £393 £413 £404
25th Percentile £463 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +4.55% +10.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £590 £590
% change year-on-year -6.78% - +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile - £18.13 £45.63
25th Percentile - £20.83 £46.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +38.61% -22.90%
75th Percentile £37.63 £75.00 £62.94
90th Percentile £39.20 - £65.52
England median hourly rate £52.50 £72.75 £56.25
% change year-on-year -27.84% +29.33% -3.02%

All Cloud Skills
South East

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 1,706 2,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.01% 29.27% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,250 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £252 £204
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £601
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley -4 140 £588 +6.82% 75
Berkshire -1 93 £625 +19.05% 42
Hampshire +8 92 £599 +5.15% 57
Buckinghamshire +8 34 £470 -14.55% 17
Surrey -27 24 £525 -10.64% 31
Oxfordshire +2 13 £500 -16.67% 16
West Sussex 0 10 £463 -20.26% 16
East Sussex -1 9 £534 -23.75% 12
Middlesex +6 5 £275 -38.89% 1
Kent -1 2 £500 -11.31% 18
Home Counties +4 1 £475 -26.92%
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (5.50%) Confluence
2 8 (2.75%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.37%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) GemFire
5 2 (0.69%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Site Server
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 140 (48.11%) Azure
2 27 (9.28%) Amazon S3
3 23 (7.90%) GCP
4 19 (6.53%) Serverless
5 17 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (4.12%) SaaS
8 11 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.78%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.09%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.09%) GitHub
11 8 (2.75%) Datadog
11 8 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.75%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (15.12%) SSL
2 18 (6.19%) Firewall
3 15 (5.15%) DNS
4 10 (3.44%) VPN
5 7 (2.41%) Network Security
5 7 (2.41%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.06%) SAN
6 6 (2.06%) WAN
7 5 (1.72%) LAN
8 4 (1.37%) DHCP
8 4 (1.37%) Wireless
9 3 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.69%) DMZ
10 2 (0.69%) MPLS
10 2 (0.69%) NAS
11 1 (0.34%) BGP
11 1 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.34%) OSPF
11 1 (0.34%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.19%) Oracle Database
2 18 (6.19%) Oracle Database 11g
3 12 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.44%) Big Data
5 9 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.06%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.72%) GIS
9 4 (1.37%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.37%) Impala
9 4 (1.37%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.37%) MySQL
9 4 (1.37%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.03%) Redis
10 3 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (10.65%) JIRA
2 30 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.93%) GitLab
4 20 (6.87%) Git
5 17 (5.84%) Selenium
6 13 (4.47%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.47%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.12%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.06%) JUnit
9 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.03%) JMeter
10 3 (1.03%) Subversion
10 3 (1.03%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.69%) ERwin
11 2 (0.69%) kappa
12 1 (0.34%) Maven
12 1 (0.34%) NUnit
12 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.34%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 59 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (9.28%) Finance
3 10 (3.44%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.09%) Law
4 9 (3.09%) Retail
5 8 (2.75%) Police
6 7 (2.41%) Banking
7 6 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Digital Healthcare
8 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Automotive
9 3 (1.03%) Legal
10 2 (0.69%) Back Office
10 2 (0.69%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (25.43%) Architect
2 60 (20.62%) Developer
3 30 (10.31%) Senior
4 20 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (5.84%) Analyst
6 16 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (5.50%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.15%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 12 (4.12%) Network Engineer
9 11 (3.78%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (3.78%) Software Engineer
9 11 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.09%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (3.09%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (3.09%) Lead
10 9 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.75%) Consultant
11 8 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.41%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.41%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.53%) Web Services
2 26 (8.93%) REST
3 18 (6.19%) .NET
3 18 (6.19%) AngularJS
3 18 (6.19%) Node.js
4 15 (5.15%) React
5 13 (4.47%) ARM Templates
5 13 (4.47%) Java EE
6 11 (3.78%) CSS
6 11 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.78%) RESTful
6 11 (3.78%) Spring
7 10 (3.44%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.09%) HTML
8 9 (3.09%) Kafka
8 9 (3.09%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.75%) ADO
10 6 (2.06%) Laravel
10 6 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.81%) PKI
2 18 (6.19%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.37%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.34%) Life Science
11 1 (0.34%) Smart Meter
11 1 (0.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.18%) Linux
2 25 (8.59%) Windows
3 15 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.75%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.06%) Debian
6 3 (1.03%) Solaris
6 3 (1.03%) VMS
7 2 (0.69%) Unix
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (28.52%) DevOps
2 52 (17.87%) Agile
3 46 (15.81%) Cryptography
4 42 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (14.43%) Key Management
5 38 (13.06%) Software Engineering
6 34 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (11.00%) Migration
8 31 (10.65%) Test Automation
9 30 (10.31%) Containerisation
10 28 (9.62%) Decision-Making
10 28 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
11 27 (9.28%) Microservices
12 24 (8.25%) Data Migration
13 22 (7.56%) CI/CD
14 21 (7.22%) Configuration Management
14 21 (7.22%) Unit Testing
15 20 (6.87%) Architectural Design
15 20 (6.87%) Full Stack Development
16 19 (6.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.53%) SQL
2 38 (13.06%) Java
3 36 (12.37%) Python
4 23 (7.90%) PL/SQL
5 22 (7.56%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.53%) Bash
7 18 (6.19%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.50%) C#
9 9 (3.09%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.75%) Ruby
10 8 (2.75%) Scala
11 7 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.06%) C++
13 5 (1.72%) Perl
14 4 (1.37%) C
14 4 (1.37%) PHP
15 3 (1.03%) Go
16 1 (0.34%) Groovy
16 1 (0.34%) R
16 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 112 (38.49%) Security Cleared
2 87 (29.90%) SC Cleared
3 61 (20.96%) Degree
4 30 (10.31%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.47%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.12%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.41%) CCNP
10 6 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.03%) CEH
11 3 (1.03%) CISSP
11 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.03%) MCSE
12 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.69%) CCSP
12 2 (0.69%) CISM
12 2 (0.69%) PhD
12 2 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.41%) QA
2 5 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.72%) NIST
3 4 (1.37%) GDPR
3 4 (1.37%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) FATCA
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.69%) MiFID
4 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.69%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 71 (24.40%) Active Directory
2 44 (15.12%) Docker
3 21 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.44%) vSphere
5 6 (2.06%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.69%) HDFS
9 2 (0.69%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 58 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 48 (16.49%) Terraform
3 42 (14.43%) Ansible
4 12 (4.12%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (4.12%) Podman
5 9 (3.09%) Rancher
6 7 (2.41%) Istio
6 7 (2.41%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.41%) Puppet
7 6 (2.06%) Nagios
8 5 (1.72%) SCCM
9 3 (1.03%) Grafana
9 3 (1.03%) Kibana
9 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.03%) SELinux
9 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.03%) WSUS
10 2 (0.69%) Graylog
10 2 (0.69%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (12.03%) VMware
2 31 (10.65%) Oracle
3 23 (7.90%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.15%) Cisco
5 14 (4.81%) Google
6 13 (4.47%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.44%) SolarWinds
7 10 (3.44%) Splunk
8 8 (2.75%) F5
9 6 (2.06%) SAP
10 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.37%) Informatica
11 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.03%) Foundry
12 3 (1.03%) New Relic
12 3 (1.03%) Palantir
12 3 (1.03%) Veritas