AWS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 240 289 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.99% 5.25% 7.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.70% 21.99% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 208 291
10th Percentile £393 £394 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £658
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - - £18.13
25th Percentile - - £20.83
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.00% +38.61%
75th Percentile - £37.63 £75.00
90th Percentile - £39.20 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +33.33%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 899 1,314 1,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.93% 23.87% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 902 1,242
10th Percentile £281 £251 £253
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 51 56
10th Percentile - £16.25 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.22 £23.08
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% +0.61% +8.46%
75th Percentile £47.15 £54.75 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

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 9 May 2025.

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 9 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
Thames Valley +20 145 £550 -5.98% 189
Berkshire +20 109 £538 -14.00% 109
Hampshire +8 64 £550 -8.33% 92
Buckinghamshire +11 30 £575 +27.78% 37
East Sussex -1 13 £450 -15.69% 15
Surrey -1 11 £500 -6.54% 41
Oxfordshire -2 8 £550 +10.00% 65
West Sussex +4 3 £550 +18.92% 20
Kent +5 1 £675 +35.00% 33
Home Counties +1 1 - -
Sussex - 1 - - 14
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 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.08%) Confluence
3 4 (1.67%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.67%) Mule
3 4 (1.67%) Mule ESB
4 3 (1.25%) Apache
4 3 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.83%) Camunda
5 2 (0.83%) IIS
5 2 (0.83%) JBoss
5 2 (0.83%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Avolution ABACUS
1 2 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.42%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 129 (53.75%) Azure
2 54 (22.50%) GCP
3 21 (8.75%) Serverless
4 20 (8.33%) GitHub
5 16 (6.67%) PaaS
6 14 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 11 (4.58%) OpenShift
8 11 (4.58%) SaaS
9 10 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.17%) IaaS
10 9 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.92%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.67%) Firewall
2 24 (10.00%) VPN
3 19 (7.92%) WAN
4 17 (7.08%) DNS
4 17 (7.08%) MPLS
5 15 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 13 (5.42%) LAN
7 11 (4.58%) BGP
7 11 (4.58%) DHCP
8 10 (4.17%) SD-WAN
9 9 (3.75%) Network Security
10 8 (3.33%) SMTP
10 8 (3.33%) VLAN
11 7 (2.92%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (2.92%) NGFW
11 7 (2.92%) SSL
11 7 (2.92%) Wireless
12 6 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (2.50%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.58%) Big Data
2 21 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (7.08%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (5.00%) MySQL
6 11 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.75%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.92%) Power BI
10 6 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.50%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.50%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.08%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.08%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.08%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.08%) Tableau
12 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database 11g
13 3 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 26 (10.83%) JIRA
3 23 (9.58%) Git
4 22 (9.17%) GitLab
5 13 (5.42%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.42%) REST Assured
5 13 (5.42%) Selenium
5 13 (5.42%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.67%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (1.25%) ERwin
7 3 (1.25%) JUnit
7 3 (1.25%) Mockito
8 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.83%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (0.83%) JMeter
8 2 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.83%) Subversion
8 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.83%) Terragrunt
General
1 92 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.92%) Finance
5 14 (5.83%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.75%) Law
7 5 (2.08%) Retail
8 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.67%) Police
9 3 (1.25%) Automotive
9 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.83%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.83%) Legal
10 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Electronics
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (23.33%) Architect
2 36 (15.00%) Developer
3 18 (7.50%) Senior
3 18 (7.50%) Software Engineer
4 17 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (6.67%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (4.58%) Java Developer
7 11 (4.58%) Support Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) .NET Developer
8 9 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) Java Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 8 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 8 (3.33%) Resilience Manager
9 8 (3.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.83%) REST
2 22 (9.17%) .NET
3 14 (5.83%) Java EE
3 14 (5.83%) JSON
4 12 (5.00%) Web Services
5 10 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 10 (4.17%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.75%) React
6 9 (3.75%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.75%) XML
7 8 (3.33%) .NET Framework
7 8 (3.33%) HTML
7 8 (3.33%) RESTful
8 7 (2.92%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.92%) Node.js
8 7 (2.92%) SOAP
9 6 (2.50%) CSS
10 5 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.67%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.50%) Public Cloud
2 17 (7.08%) PKI
3 12 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.33%) Clustering
6 8 (3.33%) IoT
7 6 (2.50%) Device Driver
7 6 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.58%) Linux
2 28 (11.67%) Windows
3 19 (7.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.50%) Unix
5 5 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.25%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.83%) Solaris
9 1 (0.42%) Android
9 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.08%) DevOps
2 71 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (26.25%) CI/CD
4 53 (22.08%) Agile
5 38 (15.83%) Migration
6 34 (14.17%) Containerisation
7 32 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 32 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 29 (12.08%) Microservices
9 27 (11.25%) Test Automation
10 22 (9.17%) Decision-Making
11 21 (8.75%) Configuration Management
11 21 (8.75%) Data Migration
12 19 (7.92%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (7.92%) High Availability
12 19 (7.92%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (7.08%) Roadmaps
14 17 (7.08%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 80 (33.33%) Python
2 54 (22.50%) SQL
3 35 (14.58%) Java
4 20 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.92%) C#
6 17 (7.08%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.25%) Bash
8 8 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.50%) Embedded C
9 6 (2.50%) Perl
9 6 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.50%) VB
10 5 (2.08%) C
11 4 (1.67%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.25%) PHP
12 3 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.83%) Go
14 1 (0.42%) C++
14 1 (0.42%) Ruby
14 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (34.17%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.25%) DV Cleared
4 25 (10.42%) Degree
5 21 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.83%) CCNP
7 9 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.33%) CISSP
8 8 (3.33%) MCSE
9 7 (2.92%) CCNA
9 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.08%) CCIE
10 5 (2.08%) CISM
10 5 (2.08%) PMI Certification
10 5 (2.08%) PMP
11 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.25%) CEH
12 3 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.83%) QA
2 13 (5.42%) NIST
3 11 (4.58%) GDPR
4 10 (4.17%) NCSC
5 6 (2.50%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.08%) SLA
7 4 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.25%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (21.25%) Docker
2 22 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (8.75%) Active Directory
4 11 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (4.17%) Hyper-V
6 8 (3.33%) BitLocker
6 8 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (3.33%) Terminal Services
7 7 (2.92%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.50%) Firmware
9 4 (1.67%) vSphere
10 1 (0.42%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.42%) Postfix
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 50 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 49 (20.42%) Ansible
3 46 (19.17%) Terraform
4 12 (5.00%) Puppet
5 9 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (3.75%) Podman
6 8 (3.33%) Nagios
6 8 (3.33%) vCenter Server
6 8 (3.33%) vMotion
7 6 (2.50%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.67%) CloudHub
9 4 (1.67%) Kibana
10 3 (1.25%) SCCM
11 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.83%) Grafana
11 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.83%) SELinux
12 1 (0.42%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 37 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.25%) VMware
3 26 (10.83%) Cisco
4 22 (9.17%) Google
5 19 (7.92%) Citrix
6 14 (5.83%) Oracle
7 11 (4.58%) F5
8 10 (4.17%) Symantec
9 9 (3.75%) Databricks
9 9 (3.75%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.33%) HP
10 8 (3.33%) Juniper
10 8 (3.33%) Splunk
11 5 (2.08%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.08%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.67%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.67%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.67%) SAP
12 4 (1.67%) SolarWinds