AWS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 23 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,295 1,338 2,187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.94% 6.44% 9.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.10% 25.13% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 996 1,681
10th Percentile £358 £350 £413
25th Percentile £425 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -7.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 35
10th Percentile £68.38 - £24.62
25th Percentile £74.38 £35.00 £42.89
Median hourly rate £88.75 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.36% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £125.00 £71.87 £77.00
90th Percentile £200.00 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +31.82% -25.68% +12.91%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,164 5,325 7,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.96% 25.64% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,756 5,470
10th Percentile £250 £215 £242
25th Percentile £380 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £573 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 260 217
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.41 £16.62
Median hourly rate £19.62 £17.80 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -35.27% +44.05%
75th Percentile £34.38 £35.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.46 £37.25
% change year-on-year +29.92% -42.39% +69.32%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
North of England +4 393 £475 -5.00% 3,977
North West +5 252 £475 - 1,996
South East +11 231 £501 -12.96% 4,985
Scotland -6 207 £487 +2.53% 810
Midlands +16 186 £475 +5.56% 3,017
South West +12 178 £575 +6.98% 2,018
Yorkshire -4 107 £500 -5.66% 1,488
West Midlands +26 101 £505 +6.32% 1,618
East of England +58 86 £525 -4.55% 2,379
East Midlands +8 82 £450 +1.12% 1,211
North East +6 44 £500 -13.04% 499
Wales +16 29 £446 -20.00% 439
Northern Ireland -7 7 £475 -29.63% 317
AWS
UK

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 61 (4.71%) Confluence
2 35 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (1.78%) JBoss
5 19 (1.47%) Tomcat
6 17 (1.31%) Apache
7 15 (1.16%) WebSphere
8 13 (1.00%) WebLogic
9 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.69%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.62%) Anypoint
11 8 (0.62%) Camunda
11 8 (0.62%) Mule
11 8 (0.62%) nginx
12 7 (0.54%) SAS
13 5 (0.39%) CMS
13 5 (0.39%) IIS
13 5 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
14 4 (0.31%) Mule ESB
14 4 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.31%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.077%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.077%) Sketch
5 1 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.39%) Kondor
2 5 (0.39%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.31%) Avolution ABACUS
3 4 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.077%) Magento
6 1 (0.077%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.077%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 498 (38.46%) Azure
2 241 (18.61%) GCP
3 190 (14.67%) Serverless
4 170 (13.13%) Amazon S3
5 142 (10.97%) AWS Lambda
6 117 (9.03%) GitHub
7 97 (7.49%) Amazon EC2
8 70 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 65 (5.02%) OpenShift
11 63 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (4.79%) Snowflake
13 49 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (3.47%) SaaS
15 44 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
18 34 (2.63%) PaaS
19 33 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
20 29 (2.24%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (6.18%) Firewall
2 66 (5.10%) DNS
3 48 (3.71%) VPN
4 42 (3.24%) Network Security
5 38 (2.93%) DHCP
6 35 (2.70%) HTTP
7 30 (2.32%) TCP/IP
8 26 (2.01%) WAN
9 21 (1.62%) BGP
10 20 (1.54%) OSPF
10 20 (1.54%) SD-WAN
11 18 (1.39%) LAN
11 18 (1.39%) SSL
11 18 (1.39%) Wireless
12 16 (1.24%) MPLS
13 15 (1.16%) SAN
14 13 (1.00%) VLAN
15 12 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
15 12 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
16 11 (0.85%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.49%) Relational Database
3 82 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
5 72 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 64 (4.94%) MySQL
7 62 (4.79%) DynamoDB
8 59 (4.56%) Big Data
9 51 (3.94%) NoSQL
10 44 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 44 (3.40%) SQL Server
11 40 (3.09%) Hadoop
12 38 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (2.32%) RDBMS
15 26 (2.01%) Data Lake
16 23 (1.78%) Tableau
17 22 (1.70%) Oracle Database
17 22 (1.70%) Power BI
18 19 (1.47%) DB2
Development Applications
1 191 (14.75%) Jenkins
2 158 (12.20%) Git
3 135 (10.42%) GitLab
4 133 (10.27%) JIRA
5 44 (3.40%) Bitbucket
5 44 (3.40%) Maven
5 44 (3.40%) SonarQube
6 34 (2.63%) JUnit
7 28 (2.16%) Selenium
8 25 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
10 20 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 20 (1.54%) Mockito
11 19 (1.47%) REST Assured
12 18 (1.39%) Artifactory
12 18 (1.39%) Cucumber
13 17 (1.31%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.93%) Gradle
15 10 (0.77%) CA Release Automation
15 10 (0.77%) Storybook
General
1 354 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 192 (14.83%) Finance
3 170 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (12.66%) Public Sector
5 84 (6.49%) Banking
6 36 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 29 (2.24%) Retail
8 22 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 21 (1.62%) Marketing
10 19 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.47%) Legal
11 15 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.08%) Law
13 13 (1.00%) Electronics
13 13 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.62%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.54%) Military
17 6 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 303 (23.40%) Developer
2 222 (17.14%) Architect
3 140 (10.81%) Senior
4 106 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 95 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
6 93 (7.18%) Solutions Architect
7 77 (5.95%) Data Engineer
7 77 (5.95%) Lead
8 68 (5.25%) Java Developer
9 56 (4.32%) Software Engineer
10 53 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.02%) Senior Developer
12 47 (3.63%) AWS Developer
13 46 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (3.01%) AWS Architect
16 38 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 38 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
17 36 (2.78%) Analyst
18 34 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (8.19%) REST
2 101 (7.80%) React
3 97 (7.49%) Spring
3 97 (7.49%) Spring Boot
4 92 (7.10%) Node.js
5 77 (5.95%) RESTful
6 71 (5.48%) Kafka
7 61 (4.71%) .NET
8 57 (4.40%) AngularJS
9 55 (4.25%) CSS
10 52 (4.02%) HTML
11 50 (3.86%) SOAP
11 50 (3.86%) Web Services
12 43 (3.32%) AWS CDK
13 39 (3.01%) Hibernate
14 32 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
14 32 (2.47%) JSON
15 30 (2.32%) OAuth
16 23 (1.78%) ActiveMQ
16 23 (1.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (5.64%) Cloud Native
2 46 (3.55%) Product Ownership
3 36 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 36 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 32 (2.47%) Data Centre
5 29 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.78%) PKI
9 22 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.31%) Replication
13 16 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.08%) Security Posture
15 13 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
16 12 (0.93%) Clustering
16 12 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 202 (15.60%) Linux
2 114 (8.80%) Windows
3 63 (4.86%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (3.86%) Unix
5 16 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.85%) CentOS
7 10 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.54%) Android
9 6 (0.46%) AIX
9 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.46%) Solaris
10 5 (0.39%) VMS
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.15%) Debian
13 2 (0.15%) HPUX
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (30.73%) CI/CD
2 335 (25.87%) DevOps
3 315 (24.32%) Agile
4 289 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (14.75%) Containerisation
6 173 (13.36%) Microservices
7 162 (12.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 144 (11.12%) Migration
9 127 (9.81%) Software Engineering
10 122 (9.42%) ETL
11 111 (8.57%) Test Automation
12 106 (8.19%) Analytics
13 101 (7.80%) Computer Science
13 101 (7.80%) Scrum
14 100 (7.72%) Continuous Integration
15 88 (6.80%) Full-Stack Development
16 87 (6.72%) Data Pipeline
17 82 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
18 79 (6.10%) Cloud Security
19 77 (5.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 443 (34.21%) Python
2 280 (21.62%) SQL
3 267 (20.62%) Java
4 155 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 96 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 90 (6.95%) Bash
7 70 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 44 (3.40%) C#
9 35 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 31 (2.39%) Perl
11 18 (1.39%) R
12 16 (1.24%) Groovy
13 15 (1.16%) PHP
13 15 (1.16%) Scala
14 13 (1.00%) Go
15 10 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.62%) DataWeave
16 8 (0.62%) VB
17 7 (0.54%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 305 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 202 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 126 (9.73%) Degree
4 106 (8.19%) AWS Certification
5 86 (6.64%) DV Cleared
6 76 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 46 (3.55%) Azure Certification
9 34 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (2.32%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.78%) CCNP
12 19 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.24%) CISSP
14 14 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.93%) CCIE
16 10 (0.77%) PhD
17 9 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
18 8 (0.62%) CCNA
19 6 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.25%) QA
2 57 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.55%) GDPR
4 27 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (2.08%) NIST
5 21 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.08%) HIPAA
8 13 (1.00%) SLA
9 9 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
10 8 (0.62%) Basel III
11 6 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.46%) NCSC
11 6 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.39%) GRC
12 5 (0.39%) MiFID
12 5 (0.39%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.23%) IFRS
13 3 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 256 (19.77%) Docker
2 58 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 49 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.77%) Postfix
7 9 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.69%) vSphere
8 8 (0.62%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.62%) Terminal Services
9 6 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.31%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.23%) Firmware
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.15%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.15%) KVM
12 2 (0.15%) NFS
13 1 (0.077%) GPFS
13 1 (0.077%) LXC
Systems Management
1 277 (21.39%) Terraform
2 274 (21.16%) Kubernetes
3 152 (11.74%) Ansible
4 55 (4.25%) Grafana
5 54 (4.17%) Puppet
6 43 (3.32%) Prometheus
7 25 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 23 (1.78%) Kibana
9 16 (1.24%) Nagios
10 13 (1.00%) Podman
11 12 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.85%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.85%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
14 9 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
15 8 (0.62%) Istio
15 8 (0.62%) Tivoli Identity Manager
15 8 (0.62%) vMotion
16 7 (0.54%) NetBackup
17 6 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 118 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.10%) Google
2 92 (7.10%) Oracle
3 68 (5.25%) VMware
4 55 (4.25%) Cisco
5 52 (4.02%) Red Hat
6 50 (3.86%) IBM
7 47 (3.63%) Splunk
8 31 (2.39%) Databricks
9 28 (2.16%) Atlassian
10 25 (1.93%) Citrix
10 25 (1.93%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.70%) AppDynamics
11 22 (1.70%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.62%) F5
13 20 (1.54%) SAP
14 17 (1.31%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 14 (1.08%) Juniper
16 14 (1.08%) Symantec