AWS Consultant Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Consultant
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 534 600
Rank change year-on-year -31 +66 +155
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Consultant 11 9 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.025% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.027% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £425 £416 -
25th Percentile £456 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -4.44%
75th Percentile £613 £553 £609
90th Percentile £650 £630 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -11.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 31,989 33,651 43,674
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.86% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,308 20,292 29,666
10th Percentile £279 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,833 1,257 1,539
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.10 £14.99
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +60.48%
75th Percentile £51.80 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.92 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +87.37%

AWS Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in the UK

AWS Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Consultant over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Consultant in the UK

AWS Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in the UK

AWS Consultant
Top 8 Contract Job 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 12 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
England -21 7 £575 -4.17% 6
Work from Home +6 6 £525 +5.00% 3
UK excluding London -29 5 £475 -9.52% 4
London +10 4 £575 -11.54% 3
Scotland - 2 £450 -
South West - 2 £550 - 1
North of England -42 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, AWS Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 5 (45.45%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Terraform
5 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (18.18%) DNS
5 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Validation
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
6 1 (9.09%) AI
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (9.09%) Ansible
6 1 (9.09%) API Testing

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
2 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
1 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 1 (9.09%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (9.09%) Coaching
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) ETL
4 1 (9.09%) Regression Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Groovy
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) ForgeRock
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle