AWS Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 438 502
Rank change year-on-year +52 +64 -76
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 4 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.021% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.023% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile - £574 £417
25th Percentile £525 £591 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £485
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.71% -
75th Percentile £596 £609 £538
90th Percentile £609 £626 £556
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -19.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured AWS Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Specialist in the UK excluding London

AWS Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Specialist in the UK excluding London

AWS Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Scotland - 4 £550 -
AWS Specialist
UK

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, AWS Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring AWS Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Control
4 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) PKI

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft