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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 9 April 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) UK |
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6 months to
9 Apr 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
12 |
12 |
22 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
0 |
+10 |
+21 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS |
6,146 |
9,540 |
7,643 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK |
10.15% |
9.85% |
7.57% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category |
33.64% |
36.29% |
37.48% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
4,416 |
6,887 |
5,566 |
| Median daily rate |
£533 |
£525 |
£525 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+1.43% |
- |
+5.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£396 |
£393 |
£380 |
| 90th Percentile |
£700 |
£675 |
£665 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£500 |
£500 |
£475 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
+1.06% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
50 |
37 |
21 |
| Median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£35.00 |
£42.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
-17.65% |
+3.03% |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£35.00 |
£45.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
-22.22% |
+5.88% |
AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.
| All Cloud Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills |
18,269 |
26,287 |
20,391 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
30.16% |
27.15% |
20.20% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
12,180 |
18,097 |
13,984 |
| Median daily rate |
£500 |
£500 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£281 |
£313 |
£300 |
| 90th Percentile |
£675 |
£650 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£438 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+2.86% |
+2.94% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
377 |
300 |
270 |
| Median hourly rate |
£24.00 |
£19.13 |
£20.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+25.49% |
-4.38% |
+11.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£14.00 |
£12.25 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£57.50 |
£63.75 |
£48.30 |
| Median hourly rate |
£21.00 |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+20.00% |
- |
+1.60% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS.
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Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS.
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Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
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Top 17 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK over the 6 months to 9 April 2020. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 9 April 2020, IT contractor jobs citing AWS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for AWS.
| 1 |
2,509 (40.82%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,496 (40.61%) |
Azure |
| 3 |
2,118 (34.46%) |
DevOps |
| 4 |
1,818 (29.58%) |
Python |
| 5 |
1,664 (27.07%) |
Java |
| 6 |
1,433 (23.32%) |
Docker |
| 7 |
1,304 (21.22%) |
Kubernetes |
| 8 |
1,250 (20.34%) |
Terraform |
| 9 |
1,105 (17.98%) |
Jenkins |
| 10 |
1,093 (17.78%) |
Microservices |
| 11 |
1,081 (17.59%) |
Finance |
| 12 |
1,044 (16.99%) |
GCP |
| 13 |
1,042 (16.95%) |
Linux |
| 14 |
1,024 (16.66%) |
Web Services |
| 15 |
1,006 (16.37%) |
SQL |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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