AWS Specialist Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Specialist
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Specialist daily rate in the UK is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 550 647
Rank change year-on-year -8 +97 +166
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 16 14 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.038% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.041% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 3
10th Percentile £408 £180 £375
25th Percentile £503 £254 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £684 £556
90th Percentile £668 £767 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £340 £575
% change year-on-year +61.65% -40.83% +9.52%

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 30,556 34,341 44,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.89% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,309 20,704 30,643
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,701 1,344 1,531
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.04 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% -9.09% +91.30%

AWS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Specialist over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Specialist in the UK

AWS Specialist
Top 9 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 25 October 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 -1 12 £538 -6.52% 3
Work from Home +19 10 £525 +190.86% 3
London +4 6 £525 -26.96% 1
UK excluding London -25 4 £550 +61.65% 2
Midlands -32 2 £625 +246.26% 2
West Midlands - 2 £625 - 2
South West +9 1 £390 -32.17%
North of England - 1 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, AWS Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) Terraform
4 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Ping Identity
4 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
5 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (31.25%) Identity Management
5 5 (31.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (31.25%) OpenID
5 5 (31.25%) SAML
5 5 (31.25%) Serverless
5 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (25.00%) Azure
6 4 (25.00%) OAuth
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (18.75%) Docker
7 3 (18.75%) Entra ID

AWS Specialist 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.25%) IaaS
7 1 (6.25%) PaaS
7 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) OpenID
1 5 (31.25%) SAML
2 4 (25.00%) OAuth
3 3 (18.75%) SailPoint
4 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) IVR
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Identity Management
3 5 (31.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 3 (18.75%) High Availability
5 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (12.50%) Agile
6 2 (12.50%) Business Case
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
7 1 (6.25%) Clean Code
7 1 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) Ansible
5 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Ping Identity
2 3 (18.75%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) CloudEndure
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft