AWS Consultant Contracts

Amazon Web Services Consultant
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Consultant daily rate in the UK is £551 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 690 741
Rank change year-on-year +120 +51 -113
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Consultant 16 32 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.053% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.056% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 58
10th Percentile £406 £515 £463
25th Percentile £500 £540 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -7.69% +11.11%
75th Percentile £747 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £715 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £538 £663
% change year-on-year +30.23% -18.87% +23.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

AWS Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Consultant in the UK

AWS Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Consultant.

Daily rate trend for AWS Consultant in the UK

AWS Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Consultant over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Consultant in the UK

AWS Consultant
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +104 10 £650 +8.33% 3
Work from Home +126 9 £500 -7.41% 2
UK excluding London +74 8 £700 +30.23% 3
North of England - 6 £700 - 1
North West - 6 £700 - 1
London +85 1 £400 -33.33%
South East +11 1 £600 +7.87% 1
East Midlands - 1 £725 -
Midlands - 1 £725 -

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, AWS Consultant 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 featuring AWS Consultant in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (50.00%) Terraform
3 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (37.50%) Docker
3 6 (37.50%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Network Security
5 4 (25.00%) Git
5 4 (25.00%) Bash
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Serverless
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
6 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (18.75%) VMware
6 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
6 3 (18.75%) Presales
6 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
2 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
1 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Presales
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (6.25%) Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Capacity Management
6 1 (6.25%) Cost Management
6 1 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
6 1 (6.25%) Security Hardening
6 1 (6.25%) Server Management
6 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (6.25%) Workflow
6 1 (6.25%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) SCOM
3 1 (6.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow