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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 31 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 293 401 606
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.31% 7.07% 7.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.16% 23.62% 25.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 287 417
10th Percentile £396 £413 £406
25th Percentile £462 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +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 £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +20.69%

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 1,322 1,698 2,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.95% 29.94% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,238 1,758
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 £631 £613
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 51 56 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.51 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £22.88 £21.28
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +7.52% +1.07%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +1.84%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -4 135 £585 +6.36% 82
Hampshire +14 91 £600 +7.20% 51
Berkshire -4 90 £625 +19.05% 52
Buckinghamshire +11 32 £450 -18.18% 13
Surrey -24 27 £535 -8.94% 26
West Sussex +4 15 £450 -22.41% 17
Oxfordshire +5 13 £500 -16.67% 17
East Sussex 0 9 £534 -23.75% 17
Middlesex +5 5 £275 -38.89% 2
Kent +2 2 £500 +2.56% 15
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 (5.46%) Confluence
2 6 (2.05%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.37%) Apache
5 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) GemFire
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 146 (49.83%) Azure
2 26 (8.87%) Amazon S3
3 24 (8.19%) GCP
4 19 (6.48%) Serverless
5 16 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (5.12%) SaaS
7 13 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.75%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.41%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.73%) Datadog
11 8 (2.73%) GitHub
11 8 (2.73%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.39%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.39%) IaaS
12 7 (2.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.36%) SSL
2 19 (6.48%) Firewall
3 13 (4.44%) DNS
4 12 (4.10%) VPN
5 9 (3.07%) Network Security
6 7 (2.39%) SAN
7 6 (2.05%) WAN
8 5 (1.71%) LAN
8 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.71%) Wireless
9 3 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.68%) DHCP
10 2 (0.68%) MPLS
10 2 (0.68%) NAS
10 2 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.34%) BGP
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.34%) OSPF
11 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.46%) Oracle Database
2 16 (5.46%) Oracle Database 11g
3 12 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (3.41%) Big Data
4 10 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.05%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.05%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.37%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.37%) GIS
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 (1.02%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (10.92%) JIRA
2 29 (9.90%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.22%) GitLab
4 18 (6.14%) Git
5 17 (5.80%) Selenium
6 13 (4.44%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.10%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.37%) JUnit
8 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.02%) JMeter
9 3 (1.02%) Subversion
10 2 (0.68%) ERwin
10 2 (0.68%) kappa
11 1 (0.34%) Maven
11 1 (0.34%) NUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.34%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 57 (19.45%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.19%) Finance
4 9 (3.07%) Law
4 9 (3.07%) Retail
5 8 (2.73%) Police
5 8 (2.73%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.39%) Banking
7 4 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (1.37%) Digital Healthcare
7 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.02%) Automotive
9 2 (0.68%) Back Office
9 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (24.23%) Architect
2 59 (20.14%) Developer
3 32 (10.92%) Senior
4 26 (8.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (5.46%) Analyst
6 16 (5.46%) Java Developer
7 14 (4.78%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 12 (4.10%) Lead
8 12 (4.10%) Network Engineer
9 11 (3.75%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (3.75%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.07%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.73%) Consultant
12 8 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.39%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.39%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.41%) Web Services
2 23 (7.85%) REST
3 19 (6.48%) .NET
4 16 (5.46%) AngularJS
4 16 (5.46%) Node.js
5 15 (5.12%) React
6 13 (4.44%) ARM Templates
6 13 (4.44%) Java EE
7 11 (3.75%) CSS
8 10 (3.41%) .NET Core
8 10 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.07%) HTML
9 9 (3.07%) Kafka
9 9 (3.07%) RESTful
9 9 (3.07%) Spring
10 8 (2.73%) ADO
11 7 (2.39%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.05%) Laravel
12 6 (2.05%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (2.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.04%) PKI
2 19 (6.48%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.71%) Private Cloud
5 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.37%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.68%) IVR
8 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.68%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.34%) Life Science
9 1 (0.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.11%) Linux
2 29 (9.90%) Windows
3 16 (5.46%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.73%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.39%) Unix
6 6 (2.05%) Debian
7 3 (1.02%) Solaris
7 3 (1.02%) VMS
8 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (29.35%) DevOps
2 50 (17.06%) Agile
3 48 (16.38%) Cryptography
4 44 (15.02%) Key Management
5 42 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (12.29%) Software Engineering
7 35 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (11.60%) Containerisation
9 31 (10.58%) Migration
10 30 (10.24%) Test Automation
11 28 (9.56%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (8.53%) Decision-Making
13 24 (8.19%) CI/CD
14 23 (7.85%) Microservices
15 22 (7.51%) Configuration Management
16 21 (7.17%) Data Migration
17 20 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
18 19 (6.48%) Unit Testing
19 18 (6.14%) Architectural Design
19 18 (6.14%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 49 (16.72%) SQL
2 38 (12.97%) Java
2 38 (12.97%) Python
3 22 (7.51%) PowerShell
4 21 (7.17%) PL/SQL
5 19 (6.48%) Bash
6 17 (5.80%) C#
7 15 (5.12%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.07%) Ruby
8 9 (3.07%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.73%) Scala
10 7 (2.39%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.05%) C++
12 5 (1.71%) Perl
12 5 (1.71%) PHP
13 4 (1.37%) C
13 4 (1.37%) Go
14 2 (0.68%) Groovy
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 108 (36.86%) Security Cleared
2 83 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 66 (22.53%) Degree
4 29 (9.90%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.41%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.39%) CCNP
10 6 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.02%) CEH
11 3 (1.02%) CISSP
11 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.02%) MCSE
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.68%) CCSP
12 2 (0.68%) CISM
12 2 (0.68%) PhD
12 2 (0.68%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.71%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.71%) NIST
2 4 (1.37%) GDPR
2 4 (1.37%) NCSC
2 4 (1.37%) QA
3 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.34%) FATCA
4 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 72 (24.57%) Active Directory
2 48 (16.38%) Docker
3 24 (8.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.41%) vSphere
5 7 (2.39%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.02%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.68%) HDFS
9 2 (0.68%) Varnish
10 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (22.18%) Kubernetes
2 50 (17.06%) Terraform
3 41 (13.99%) Ansible
4 12 (4.10%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (4.10%) Podman
5 10 (3.41%) Rancher
6 7 (2.39%) Istio
6 7 (2.39%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.39%) Puppet
7 6 (2.05%) Nagios
7 6 (2.05%) SCCM
8 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.37%) WSUS
9 3 (1.02%) Grafana
9 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.02%) SELinux
10 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.68%) Graylog
10 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (12.97%) VMware
2 27 (9.22%) Oracle
3 24 (8.19%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.12%) Cisco
5 14 (4.78%) Google
6 13 (4.44%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.41%) SolarWinds
7 10 (3.41%) Splunk
8 8 (2.73%) F5
9 5 (1.71%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.71%) SAP
10 4 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.37%) Informatica
10 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.37%) Veritas
11 3 (1.02%) Apple
11 3 (1.02%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.02%) Dell
11 3 (1.02%) New Relic
11 3 (1.02%) Zscaler