Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK

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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 5,011 10,841 13,454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.16% 14.12% 15.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.29% 37.63% 38.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,816 8,054 10,348
10th Percentile £400 £438 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -2.78% +3.85% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 28 35
10th Percentile - £23.50 £26.00
25th Percentile £46.18 £35.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £53.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +50.00%
75th Percentile £78.00 £65.63 £70.75
90th Percentile £86.25 £75.00 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.04% -8.33% +28.55%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,521 28,806 34,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.58% 37.52% 38.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,184 20,583 25,292
10th Percentile £300 £338 £345
25th Percentile £419 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £737 £744 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 409 496
10th Percentile £14.31 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.56 £15.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.16 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +5.52% -10.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £43.63 £46.50
90th Percentile £78.00 £70.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £19.21 £18.17
% change year-on-year +9.35% +5.73% -9.18%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
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 7 December 2023. 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 -4 4,249 £563 -6.25% 3,166
London -2 2,502 £575 -5.74% 1,644
Work from Home -1 2,223 £550 -4.35% 1,950
UK excluding London -1 1,797 £525 -2.78% 1,856
North of England -5 498 £510 -7.27% 560
South East -2 323 £570 +3.64% 554
South West +5 318 £600 +4.35% 232
North West -7 311 £500 -9.09% 326
Scotland -2 284 £500 - 105
Midlands +1 247 £500 -7.41% 204
Yorkshire -2 163 £550 - 166
West Midlands -12 143 £500 -7.41% 116
East of England -5 127 £519 -9.78% 133
East Midlands +16 104 £500 -11.11% 87
North East +1 28 £417 -30.50% 73
Wales +4 21 £388 -35.42% 60
Northern Ireland -9 1 £575 - 31

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 218 (4.35%) Confluence
2 201 (4.01%) Apache
3 128 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 113 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 95 (1.90%) nginx
6 39 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 33 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
8 23 (0.46%) Drupal
8 23 (0.46%) SAS
9 17 (0.34%) CMS
9 17 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 16 (0.32%) JBoss
10 16 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
12 12 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 12 (0.24%) IIS
13 10 (0.20%) WordPress
14 9 (0.18%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.16%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 27 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 14 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.14%) Trello
6 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.060%) CATIA
8 3 (0.060%) Weka
9 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 18 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (0.30%) Exstream
3 13 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 13 (0.26%) Magento
4 12 (0.24%) Shopify
5 11 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.12%) Avolution ABACUS
7 5 (0.100%) Endur
7 5 (0.100%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.080%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.060%) DELMIA
9 3 (0.060%) ENOVIA
9 3 (0.060%) GoldMine
9 3 (0.060%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.040%) assyst
10 2 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.040%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,809 (36.10%) Azure
2 899 (17.94%) GCP
3 576 (11.49%) Serverless
4 483 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
5 420 (8.38%) Amazon S3
6 326 (6.51%) GitHub
7 307 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 267 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
9 184 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
10 175 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 172 (3.43%) Snowflake
12 168 (3.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 164 (3.27%) SaaS
14 154 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
15 144 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
16 131 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
17 124 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
17 124 (2.47%) OpenShift
18 121 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
19 117 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 287 (5.73%) Firewall
2 234 (4.67%) DNS
3 140 (2.79%) Network Security
4 128 (2.55%) VPN
5 108 (2.16%) TCP/IP
6 96 (1.92%) WAN
7 90 (1.80%) HTTP
8 89 (1.78%) LAN
9 81 (1.62%) DHCP
10 72 (1.44%) Internet
11 68 (1.36%) SAN
12 61 (1.22%) SSL
13 47 (0.94%) VLAN
14 39 (0.78%) Wireless
15 38 (0.76%) IPv4
16 32 (0.64%) SD-WAN
17 27 (0.54%) Kerberos
17 27 (0.54%) NAS
18 24 (0.48%) SNMP
19 23 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 441 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
2 255 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
3 216 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 196 (3.91%) NoSQL
5 190 (3.79%) SQL Server
6 183 (3.65%) Relational Database
7 179 (3.57%) MySQL
8 173 (3.45%) Big Data
8 173 (3.45%) DynamoDB
9 169 (3.37%) MongoDB
10 135 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 121 (2.41%) Data Lake
12 105 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 96 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
14 89 (1.78%) Tableau
15 84 (1.68%) Power BI
16 81 (1.62%) Hadoop
17 78 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
18 75 (1.50%) RDBMS
19 69 (1.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 515 (10.28%) Jenkins
2 463 (9.24%) Git
3 313 (6.25%) JIRA
4 199 (3.97%) GitLab
5 129 (2.57%) Bitbucket
6 83 (1.66%) Cypress.io
7 80 (1.60%) Maven
8 79 (1.58%) Cucumber
9 70 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 60 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 58 (1.16%) JUnit
12 56 (1.12%) Selenium
12 56 (1.12%) TeamCity
13 55 (1.10%) Postman
13 55 (1.10%) SonarQube
14 39 (0.78%) JMeter
15 36 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
16 32 (0.64%) SoapUI
17 28 (0.56%) Gradle
18 27 (0.54%) Liquibase
General
1 989 (19.74%) Finance
2 852 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 541 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 336 (6.71%) Banking
5 329 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 170 (3.39%) Front Office
7 95 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 88 (1.76%) Marketing
9 86 (1.72%) Retail
10 77 (1.54%) Investment Banking
11 68 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 53 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 47 (0.94%) Law
15 45 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 43 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 42 (0.84%) Financial Institution
18 36 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (0.70%) Electronics
20 27 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,247 (24.89%) Developer
2 756 (15.09%) Architect
3 551 (11.00%) Senior
4 537 (10.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 528 (10.54%) AWS Engineer
6 331 (6.61%) Lead
7 322 (6.43%) Data Engineer
8 274 (5.47%) Software Engineer
9 260 (5.19%) Full Stack Developer
10 245 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
11 201 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
12 199 (3.97%) Java Developer
13 189 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
14 169 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 164 (3.27%) Python Developer
16 157 (3.13%) Analyst
17 156 (3.11%) AWS Architect
17 156 (3.11%) AWS Developer
18 147 (2.93%) React Developer
19 137 (2.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (9.56%) React
2 413 (8.24%) Node.js
3 314 (6.27%) .NET
4 283 (5.65%) Kafka
5 252 (5.03%) REST
6 225 (4.49%) RESTful
7 212 (4.23%) HTML
8 195 (3.89%) AngularJS
9 194 (3.87%) Spring
10 176 (3.51%) CSS
11 165 (3.29%) Spring Boot
12 143 (2.85%) Web Services
13 139 (2.77%) AWS CDK
14 127 (2.53%) JSON
15 119 (2.37%) OAuth
16 110 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
17 109 (2.18%) Redux
18 100 (2.00%) .NET Core
19 94 (1.88%) Pandas
20 91 (1.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 212 (4.23%) Cloud Native
2 204 (4.07%) Public Cloud
3 150 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 118 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 116 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 105 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 102 (2.04%) Fixed Income
8 101 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 90 (1.80%) Derivative
10 85 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 84 (1.68%) Hedge funds
12 82 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
13 68 (1.36%) PKI
14 67 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
15 59 (1.18%) Equities
16 58 (1.16%) Virtual Team
17 57 (1.14%) Mobile App
18 56 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 56 (1.12%) Management Information System
19 55 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 780 (15.57%) Linux
2 458 (9.14%) Windows
3 203 (4.05%) Unix
4 174 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 123 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 76 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 49 (0.98%) Debian
8 43 (0.86%) CentOS
9 39 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
10 33 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 28 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 24 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
13 22 (0.44%) AIX
13 22 (0.44%) Solaris
14 18 (0.36%) Apple iOS
14 18 (0.36%) VMS
15 16 (0.32%) Android
15 16 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
16 13 (0.26%) Windows 10
17 12 (0.24%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,473 (29.40%) Agile
2 1,420 (28.34%) DevOps
3 1,144 (22.83%) CI/CD
4 615 (12.27%) Software Engineering
5 555 (11.08%) Microservices
6 546 (10.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 502 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
8 481 (9.60%) Migration
9 422 (8.42%) Full Stack Development
10 385 (7.68%) Test Automation
11 341 (6.81%) Analytics
12 320 (6.39%) Scrum
13 317 (6.33%) Containerisation
14 315 (6.29%) Data Modelling
15 280 (5.59%) Roadmaps
16 273 (5.45%) ETL
17 270 (5.39%) Stakeholder Management
18 268 (5.35%) TDD
19 267 (5.33%) Mentoring
20 253 (5.05%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,583 (31.59%) Python
2 1,010 (20.16%) Java
3 868 (17.32%) SQL
4 741 (14.79%) JavaScript
5 540 (10.78%) TypeScript
6 337 (6.73%) Bash
7 299 (5.97%) PowerShell
8 267 (5.33%) C#
9 263 (5.25%) Go
10 150 (2.99%) Ruby
11 127 (2.53%) C++
12 113 (2.26%) PL/SQL
12 113 (2.26%) Scala
13 108 (2.16%) Perl
14 95 (1.90%) PHP
15 88 (1.76%) Shell Script
16 77 (1.54%) C
17 72 (1.44%) Kotlin
18 49 (0.98%) T-SQL
19 46 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 1,018 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 828 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 306 (6.11%) Degree
4 250 (4.99%) AWS Certification
5 167 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 142 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 115 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 90 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 65 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 57 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 56 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 51 (1.02%) CISSP
13 45 (0.90%) CCNP
13 45 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 36 (0.72%) CCNA
15 35 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 33 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 27 (0.54%) CISM
18 20 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 20 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (3.61%) QA
2 114 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 113 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 67 (1.34%) NIST
5 57 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (0.88%) GDPR
7 36 (0.72%) SLA
8 32 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.60%) NCSC
10 20 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
11 17 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 15 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.20%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 8 (0.16%) HL7
15 8 (0.16%) ISO 22301
15 8 (0.16%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 880 (17.56%) Docker
2 224 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 173 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 32 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (0.46%) NFS
8 20 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.40%) vSphere
9 18 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (0.34%) OpenAM
11 13 (0.26%) Varnish
12 12 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.18%) KVM
14 8 (0.16%) Squid
15 7 (0.14%) ProxySG
16 5 (0.100%) GPFS
17 4 (0.080%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 4 (0.080%) HDFS
17 4 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 989 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 984 (19.64%) Terraform
3 504 (10.06%) Ansible
4 175 (3.49%) Grafana
5 168 (3.35%) Puppet
6 127 (2.53%) Prometheus
7 110 (2.20%) Progress Chef
8 103 (2.06%) Packer
9 68 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 55 (1.10%) Consul
11 50 (1.00%) SCCM
12 45 (0.90%) Kibana
13 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
14 37 (0.74%) Nagios
14 37 (0.74%) ZABBIX
15 22 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 22 (0.44%) NetBackup
16 21 (0.42%) FortiGate
16 21 (0.42%) FreeIPA
16 21 (0.42%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 462 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 346 (6.90%) Oracle
3 292 (5.83%) Google
4 279 (5.57%) VMware
5 184 (3.67%) Splunk
6 159 (3.17%) Red Hat
7 145 (2.89%) Cisco
8 116 (2.31%) SAP
9 102 (2.04%) ServiceNow
10 95 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 81 (1.62%) IBM
12 71 (1.42%) MuleSoft
13 66 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 59 (1.18%) Dynatrace
15 58 (1.16%) Databricks
16 55 (1.10%) Atlassian
17 53 (1.06%) CyberArk
18 46 (0.92%) Informatica
18 46 (0.92%) TOWER Software
19 45 (0.90%) EMC