AWS IoT Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS IoT
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS IoT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 363 419
Rank change year-on-year -25 +56 +86
Contract jobs citing AWS IoT 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.054% 0.020% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £330 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £340 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £335 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -33.00% +16.28% -21.82%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

AWS IoT 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,547 4,922 6,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.27% 29.41% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,763 3,153 4,772
10th Percentile £230 £255 £225
25th Percentile £375 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 119 235
10th Percentile £13.01 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.93 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.11% +50.80% +16.70%
75th Percentile £41.25 £66.74 £49.38
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +45.00%

AWS IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS IoT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AWS IoT job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS IoT
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS IoT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS IoT

AWS IoT
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 IoT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Wales - 2 £335 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 7
AWS IoT
UK

AWS IoT
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Modbus
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) MQTT
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) IoT
2 2 (66.67%) 3D Printing
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Enablement
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Siemens