AWS Contracts in Suffolk

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 17 12 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 4 2 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 5.41% 3.28% 16.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.12% 10.00% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 23
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £511 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% -7.14% +47.37%
75th Percentile £674 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £585
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.18% +16.90%

All Cloud Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 20 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 44.59% 32.79% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 36
10th Percentile £171 £176 £213
25th Percentile £184 £199 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £278 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.52% -60.36% +64.71%
75th Percentile £316 £563 -
90th Percentile £443 £644 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £46.18 £11.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +301.57% -30.30% +6.45%
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Suffolk

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Suffolk

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Suffolk

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich - 4 £594 - 89
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) FMCG
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) logstash
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware