AWS Consultant Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 361 405
Rank change year-on-year -29 +44 +88
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Consultant 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.006% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.007% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £415 - £418
25th Percentile £438 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £694
90th Percentile £630 - £743
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -4.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,399 15,261 19,412
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.68% 92.18% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,542 8,762 12,856
10th Percentile £208 £220 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,500 1,046 1,262
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.08 £19.59 £18.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +87.37%
75th Percentile £51.02 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £73.41 £77.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +60.48%

AWS Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AWS Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

AWS Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Consultant in the UK excluding London

AWS Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
South West - 2 £550 - 1
Scotland - 2 £450 -
North of England -42 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
AWS Consultant
UK

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, AWS Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring AWS Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Terraform
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) CISSP
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Database Security
5 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) Degree
5 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Fintech

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Database Security
4 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Fintech
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle