boto Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS SDK for Python (Boto3, Boto)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring boto skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing boto 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £497 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile £555 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £323 £625
% change year-on-year +70.54% -48.40% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

boto falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,857 3,040 3,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.76% 17.11% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,887 1,907 2,755
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 160 126
10th Percentile £31.67 £27.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.52
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.22% -4.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.45 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -

boto
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for boto in the UK excluding London

boto
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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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 boto within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Scotland - 8 £534 - 9
boto
UK

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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 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (75.00%) Serverless
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Pandas
1 8 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 8 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 7 (87.50%) Hugging Face
2 7 (87.50%) NumPy
2 7 (87.50%) OpenCV
3 6 (75.00%) AWS CDK
4 5 (62.50%) FastAPI
5 4 (50.00%) JWT
5 4 (50.00%) OAuth
5 4 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (62.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) LLM
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) OOP
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) OCR
3 6 (75.00%) API Development
3 6 (75.00%) OO
4 5 (62.50%) Async-Await
4 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
4 5 (62.50%) Community of Practice
4 5 (62.50%) Computer Vision
4 5 (62.50%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (62.50%) Deep Learning
4 5 (62.50%) ETL
4 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (50.00%) Kanban
5 4 (50.00%) Scrum
5 4 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes