AWS IoT Contract Job Trends

AWS IoT
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AWS IoT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 550 628
Rank change year-on-year -9 +78 +200
Contract jobs citing AWS IoT 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.030% 0.008% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile £330 - £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +16.28% -21.82%
75th Percentile £340 - £570
90th Percentile - - £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £335 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -33.00% +16.28% -14.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS IoT 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,246 12,843 16,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.70% 35.14% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 8,466 11,925
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 169 326
10th Percentile £15.06 £18.44 £14.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +45.00%
75th Percentile £46.43 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.62 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.93 £22.50
% change year-on-year -38.11% +50.80% +16.70%

AWS IoT
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS IoT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS IoT job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS IoT
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS IoT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS IoT

AWS IoT
Top 4 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 IoT within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London -25 3 £335 -33.00% 28
Wales - 2 £335 - 3
England - 2 - - 28
East of England - 1 - - 7

AWS IoT
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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Akamai
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Modbus
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) MQTT
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) IoT
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (50.00%) 3D Printing
4 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Enablement
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Twin
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler