AWS Contracts in South Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 19 23 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 32 36 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 8.58% 7.88% 15.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.59% 29.51% 51.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 65
10th Percentile £351 £411 £500
25th Percentile £442 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £607 £700
90th Percentile £635 £643 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +2.33%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 122 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 31.10% 26.70% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 88 123
10th Percentile £185 £187 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £448 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -18.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £623 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £15.20 -
25th Percentile - £17.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.27%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in South Yorkshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in South Yorkshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in South Yorkshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield -3 25 £500 -4.76% 25
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 9
AWS
Yorkshire

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (15.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) GCP
3 4 (12.50%) IaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) CloudBees
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) HTTP
1 2 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 2 (6.25%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.13%) 4G
2 1 (3.13%) ISDN
2 1 (3.13%) LAN
2 1 (3.13%) MPLS
2 1 (3.13%) NAS
2 1 (3.13%) PSTN
2 1 (3.13%) SSH
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) Data Mining
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) GitLab
2 7 (21.88%) JIRA
3 4 (12.50%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.25%) Git
5 2 (6.25%) JMeter
5 2 (6.25%) LoadRunner
5 2 (6.25%) TestRail
6 1 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) JIRA Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.25%) LDAP Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Performance Tester
5 2 (6.25%) QA Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Tester
6 1 (3.13%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) LDAP
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
1 3 (9.38%) React
2 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.25%) CSS
2 2 (6.25%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) JWT
2 2 (6.25%) SAML
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
1 2 (6.25%) Replication
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) SCADA
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Unix
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
4 1 (3.13%) AIX
4 1 (3.13%) Solaris
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 9 (28.13%) Migration
4 8 (25.00%) Microservices
5 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.88%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (15.63%) Project Management
7 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (9.38%) LLM
9 2 (6.25%) Containerisation
9 2 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (6.25%) Generative AI
9 2 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) Groovy
4 3 (9.38%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) ActionScript
5 2 (6.25%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (6.25%) PHP
5 2 (6.25%) Ruby
5 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) Korn
6 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) IBM Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CISM
5 1 (3.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (3.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 11 (34.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Puppet
4 1 (3.13%) Nagios
4 1 (3.13%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (9.38%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 2 (6.25%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Centrify
4 1 (3.13%) Commvault
4 1 (3.13%) Confluent
4 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.13%) NetApp
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Thycotic
4 1 (3.13%) Veritas