AWS Contracts

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,954 4,347 7,587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 9.96% 12.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.74% 30.86% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,892 3,300 5,684
10th Percentile £400 £381 £428
25th Percentile £454 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.13%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 27 62
10th Percentile £39.00 £22.21 £24.62
25th Percentile £54.38 £29.00 £46.17
Median hourly rate £75.60 £55.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year +37.45% -24.40% +32.27%
75th Percentile £93.13 £71.87 £78.00
90th Percentile £150.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.60 £49.34 £62.85
% change year-on-year +63.36% -21.50% +20.55%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS 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 11,063 14,087 22,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.66% 32.28% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,697 10,007 15,984
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £735 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 347 360
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.06 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.75 £35.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £76.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £24.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% -26.17% +28.00%

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 26 April 2025.

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 26 April 2025.

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 26 April 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 +2 3,198 £550 - 6,955
London -1 2,044 £575 - 4,791
Work from Home +1 1,562 £550 - 3,527
UK excluding London +5 1,194 £500 -2.44% 2,699
North of England +4 360 £475 -6.86% 800
South East +11 234 £550 -5.17% 633
North West +1 213 £475 -5.00% 553
Scotland -6 211 £494 +4.00% 263
South West +12 172 £575 +6.98% 347
Midlands +8 129 £500 - 343
Yorkshire +3 107 £500 -4.76% 159
West Midlands +17 82 £525 -2.33% 206
East of England +22 66 £550 +4.76% 201
North East +10 49 £480 -16.52% 93
East Midlands +1 46 £488 +0.52% 122
Wales +15 33 £461 -17.40% 63
Northern Ireland -4 6 £475 -29.63% 96

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
1 189 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 168 (4.25%) Apache
3 157 (3.97%) Confluence
4 141 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 48 (1.21%) nginx
6 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 23 (0.58%) CMS
9 22 (0.56%) JBoss
9 22 (0.56%) SharePoint
10 20 (0.51%) SAS
11 14 (0.35%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.33%) Camunda
12 13 (0.33%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.30%) Traefik
14 10 (0.25%) Anypoint
14 10 (0.25%) Mule
14 10 (0.25%) WordPress
15 9 (0.23%) WebLogic
16 8 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 18 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.23%) Trello
6 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.15%) Sketch
8 1 (0.025%) Notion
8 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.20%) Endur
4 7 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.13%) Kondor
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.10%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.10%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.10%) Unica
8 3 (0.076%) SAP FSCM
9 2 (0.051%) assyst
9 2 (0.051%) Exstream
9 2 (0.051%) Oracle BPM
9 2 (0.051%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.051%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.025%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.025%) Odoo
10 1 (0.025%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1,408 (35.61%) Azure
2 805 (20.36%) GCP
3 562 (14.21%) Serverless
4 458 (11.58%) Amazon S3
5 457 (11.56%) AWS Lambda
6 309 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 308 (7.79%) GitHub
8 264 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
9 220 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
10 215 (5.44%) Snowflake
11 196 (4.96%) dbt
12 176 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
13 168 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 159 (4.02%) SaaS
15 141 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
16 138 (3.49%) PaaS
17 131 (3.31%) OpenShift
18 127 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
19 120 (3.03%) IaaS
20 117 (2.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 231 (5.84%) Firewall
2 190 (4.81%) DNS
3 137 (3.46%) VPN
4 127 (3.21%) TCP/IP
5 101 (2.55%) DHCP
6 100 (2.53%) Network Security
7 91 (2.30%) HTTP
8 88 (2.23%) WAN
9 78 (1.97%) BGP
10 62 (1.57%) OSPF
11 56 (1.42%) SD-WAN
12 52 (1.32%) SSL
13 46 (1.16%) MPLS
14 41 (1.04%) LAN
15 36 (0.91%) VLAN
16 31 (0.78%) Wireless
17 29 (0.73%) HTTPS
18 21 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
19 20 (0.51%) IPsec
20 18 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 253 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
3 220 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 194 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
5 186 (4.70%) NoSQL
6 180 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 161 (4.07%) Data Lake
8 141 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 140 (3.54%) Relational Database
10 135 (3.41%) MySQL
11 134 (3.39%) DynamoDB
12 128 (3.24%) Big Data
13 125 (3.16%) SQL Server
14 124 (3.14%) Apache Iceberg
15 111 (2.81%) Dremio
16 99 (2.50%) Apache Arrow
17 98 (2.48%) Power BI
18 84 (2.12%) Tableau
19 83 (2.10%) Hadoop
20 76 (1.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 414 (10.47%) Jenkins
2 324 (8.19%) GitLab
3 314 (7.94%) Git
4 273 (6.90%) JIRA
5 75 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 69 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 68 (1.72%) Maven
8 66 (1.67%) Selenium
9 64 (1.62%) Artifactory
10 56 (1.42%) JUnit
11 52 (1.32%) Cypress.io
12 44 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 43 (1.09%) Postman
13 43 (1.09%) REST Assured
14 31 (0.78%) JMeter
15 25 (0.63%) Gradle
15 25 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 21 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
16 21 (0.53%) CircleCI
General
1 812 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 753 (19.04%) Finance
3 470 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 397 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (8.45%) Banking
6 200 (5.06%) Front Office
7 112 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 65 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 63 (1.59%) Marketing
10 54 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 53 (1.34%) Retail
12 43 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 39 (0.99%) Legal
16 33 (0.83%) Law
16 33 (0.83%) Military
17 29 (0.73%) Retail Banking
18 23 (0.58%) Financial Institution
19 22 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 944 (23.87%) Developer
2 658 (16.64%) Architect
3 563 (14.24%) Senior
4 456 (11.53%) AWS Engineer
5 411 (10.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 332 (8.40%) Data Engineer
7 273 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 272 (6.88%) Lead
9 187 (4.73%) Python Engineer
10 185 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
11 184 (4.65%) Java Developer
12 179 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
13 166 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 160 (4.05%) Python Developer
15 154 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
16 151 (3.82%) AWS Developer
17 143 (3.62%) AWS Architect
18 142 (3.59%) Senior Developer
19 117 (2.96%) Analyst
20 111 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (11.03%) React
2 373 (9.43%) Kafka
3 299 (7.56%) Node.js
4 230 (5.82%) Spring
5 220 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 187 (4.73%) .NET
7 182 (4.60%) REST
7 182 (4.60%) RESTful
8 146 (3.69%) Pandas
9 135 (3.41%) AngularJS
10 134 (3.39%) HTML
11 132 (3.34%) PySpark
12 130 (3.29%) NumPy
13 126 (3.19%) CSS
14 102 (2.58%) AWS CDK
15 90 (2.28%) Redux
16 89 (2.25%) SciPy
17 79 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
17 79 (2.00%) GraphQL
18 75 (1.90%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 193 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 134 (3.39%) Fixed Income
3 126 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 93 (2.35%) Hedge funds
5 84 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
6 83 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 80 (2.02%) PKI
8 78 (1.97%) Derivative
8 78 (1.97%) Equities
8 78 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 76 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 74 (1.87%) Data Centre
11 73 (1.85%) Product Ownership
12 70 (1.77%) Management Information System
13 68 (1.72%) Algorithms
14 67 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
15 65 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
16 61 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
17 48 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
17 48 (1.21%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 462 (11.68%) Linux
2 265 (6.70%) Windows
3 127 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 119 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 114 (2.88%) Unix
6 46 (1.16%) CentOS
7 27 (0.68%) Android
8 19 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 15 (0.38%) AIX
10 14 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.30%) Solaris
12 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
13 8 (0.20%) Rocky
14 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,148 (29.03%) CI/CD
2 1,116 (28.22%) DevOps
3 996 (25.19%) Agile
4 678 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
5 578 (14.62%) Software Engineering
6 522 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 519 (13.13%) Microservices
8 484 (12.24%) Containerisation
9 408 (10.32%) Migration
10 356 (9.00%) Analytics
11 313 (7.92%) Test Automation
12 297 (7.51%) Full-Stack Development
13 276 (6.98%) ETL
14 260 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 252 (6.37%) Data Pipeline
16 247 (6.25%) Computer Science
17 242 (6.12%) Continuous Integration
18 230 (5.82%) Artificial Intelligence
19 225 (5.69%) Data Engineering
19 225 (5.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,589 (40.19%) Python
2 808 (20.44%) Java
3 743 (18.79%) SQL
4 556 (14.06%) JavaScript
5 380 (9.61%) TypeScript
6 220 (5.56%) Bash
7 203 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 191 (4.83%) Go
9 166 (4.20%) C#
10 61 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 58 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.44%) C++
13 48 (1.21%) Perl
14 46 (1.16%) Scala
15 43 (1.09%) PHP
15 43 (1.09%) Ruby
16 41 (1.04%) R
17 39 (0.99%) Kotlin
18 36 (0.91%) Bicep
19 32 (0.81%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,072 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 893 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 316 (7.99%) Degree
4 300 (7.59%) AWS Certification
5 168 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 152 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 127 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 113 (2.86%) Azure Certification
9 75 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 68 (1.72%) CISSP
11 62 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 50 (1.26%) CCNP
13 49 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
15 31 (0.78%) CISM
16 26 (0.66%) PMI Certification
17 25 (0.63%) PMP
18 24 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
19 22 (0.56%) CEH
20 21 (0.53%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (4.02%) QA
2 131 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 117 (2.96%) GDPR
4 95 (2.40%) NIST
5 74 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 60 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 52 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 43 (1.09%) HIPAA
9 37 (0.94%) NCSC
10 25 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.51%) SLA
12 15 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
14 11 (0.28%) GRC
14 11 (0.28%) WCAG
15 9 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.18%) Basel III
17 6 (0.15%) MiFID
17 6 (0.15%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 761 (19.25%) Docker
2 131 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 110 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 35 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 11 (0.28%) Firmware
11 10 (0.25%) vSphere
12 9 (0.23%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.23%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.13%) Postfix
16 4 (0.10%) HDFS
16 4 (0.10%) Lustre
16 4 (0.10%) NFS
16 4 (0.10%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 972 (24.58%) Kubernetes
2 938 (23.72%) Terraform
3 359 (9.08%) Ansible
4 156 (3.95%) Grafana
5 136 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 109 (2.76%) Puppet
7 74 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 49 (1.24%) Packer
9 46 (1.16%) Kibana
10 40 (1.01%) Istio
11 39 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 33 (0.83%) FortiGate
13 32 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
14 27 (0.68%) Argo
14 27 (0.68%) SCCM
15 24 (0.61%) Consul
16 23 (0.58%) Nagios
17 22 (0.56%) ZABBIX
18 18 (0.46%) Podman
18 18 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 326 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 251 (6.35%) Google
2 251 (6.35%) Oracle
3 153 (3.87%) VMware
4 133 (3.36%) Databricks
5 121 (3.06%) Cisco
6 115 (2.91%) Splunk
7 90 (2.28%) Red Hat
8 66 (1.67%) SAP
9 65 (1.64%) IBM
10 62 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 60 (1.52%) ServiceNow
12 57 (1.44%) Fortinet
13 49 (1.24%) F5
14 45 (1.14%) Atlassian
15 44 (1.11%) CheckPoint
16 43 (1.09%) MuleSoft
17 40 (1.01%) Okta
18 36 (0.91%) Salesforce
19 34 (0.86%) Citrix