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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 4,002 5,011 10,841
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 11.16% 14.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.69% 31.85% 37.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 3,816 8,054
10th Percentile £395 £400 £438
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £799 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.14% -2.78% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 53 28
10th Percentile £24.19 - £23.50
25th Percentile £34.13 £46.18 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £57.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% +6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £62.25 £78.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £76.25 £86.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -16.04% -8.33%

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 12,629 15,735 29,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.01% 35.06% 37.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,372 11,267 20,762
10th Percentile £313 £300 £338
25th Percentile £418 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £735 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £503
% change year-on-year - -0.50% +5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 288 409
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.33 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £17.67 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.19 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% +13.67% +5.52%
75th Percentile £46.18 £55.63 £43.63
90th Percentile £69.85 £78.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £21.00 £19.21
% change year-on-year +29.17% +9.35% +5.73%

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 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 2024. 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 -3 3,371 £575 +2.22% 2,339
London -1 2,095 £600 +4.35% 1,434
Work from Home 0 1,638 £575 +4.55% 2,098
UK excluding London -6 1,294 £514 -2.14% 1,055
North of England -1 384 £485 -4.90% 356
South East +2 270 £575 +0.88% 187
South West -4 215 £600 - 153
Scotland -3 201 £474 -5.25% 97
North West -7 180 £475 -5.00% 234
Yorkshire +8 160 £498 -9.55% 84
Midlands -18 129 £476 -4.80% 122
East of England +4 89 £538 +3.61% 81
West Midlands -17 82 £490 -2.00% 91
North East 0 52 £475 +13.91% 39
East Midlands -12 46 £435 -13.10% 31
Wales -4 17 £570 +47.10% 39
Northern Ireland +1 4 - - 42

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
1 215 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
2 193 (4.82%) Apache
3 175 (4.37%) Confluence
4 142 (3.55%) Apache Spark
5 49 (1.22%) nginx
6 41 (1.02%) SAS
7 26 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 21 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.45%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.37%) CMS
11 13 (0.32%) MQSeries
12 12 (0.30%) Traefik
13 11 (0.27%) ArcGIS
13 11 (0.27%) JBoss
13 11 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.22%) Drupal
15 8 (0.20%) IIS
15 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 8 (0.20%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 5 (0.12%) Sketch
6 3 (0.075%) Trello
7 1 (0.025%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.025%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.025%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 31 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.17%) Endur
4 6 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.100%) Unica
6 3 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.075%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.050%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.050%) Exstream
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.050%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.050%) Shopify
8 1 (0.025%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.025%) Quorum
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.025%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,314 (32.83%) Azure
2 827 (20.66%) GCP
3 488 (12.19%) Serverless
4 439 (10.97%) Amazon S3
5 410 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
6 337 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
7 279 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 270 (6.75%) GitHub
9 246 (6.15%) dbt
10 245 (6.12%) Snowflake
11 194 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
12 193 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
13 159 (3.97%) SaaS
14 158 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 132 (3.30%) OpenShift
16 131 (3.27%) Power Platform
17 122 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
18 112 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
19 106 (2.65%) PaaS
20 103 (2.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 183 (4.57%) Firewall
2 134 (3.35%) DNS
3 114 (2.85%) TCP/IP
4 95 (2.37%) VPN
5 79 (1.97%) BGP
6 78 (1.95%) DHCP
7 64 (1.60%) WAN
8 63 (1.57%) HTTP
9 60 (1.50%) Network Security
9 60 (1.50%) OSPF
10 53 (1.32%) SSL
11 49 (1.22%) VLAN
12 44 (1.10%) LAN
13 38 (0.95%) SD-WAN
14 37 (0.92%) Wireless
15 33 (0.82%) MPLS
16 29 (0.72%) HTTPS
17 26 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
18 25 (0.62%) NGFW
19 22 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
2 225 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
2 225 (5.62%) Data Lake
3 215 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
4 197 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
5 167 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 157 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 150 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 148 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
9 146 (3.65%) Big Data
10 145 (3.62%) Dremio
11 125 (3.12%) MySQL
11 125 (3.12%) SQL Server
12 120 (3.00%) Apache Arrow
13 119 (2.97%) Relational Database
14 116 (2.90%) Power BI
15 110 (2.75%) Apache Ignite
16 102 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
17 101 (2.52%) DynamoDB
18 94 (2.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 471 (11.77%) Jenkins
2 348 (8.70%) Git
3 333 (8.32%) GitLab
4 250 (6.25%) JIRA
5 79 (1.97%) Artifactory
6 74 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 61 (1.52%) Maven
8 58 (1.45%) Selenium
9 46 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 44 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 44 (1.10%) JUnit
11 43 (1.07%) CircleCI
12 42 (1.05%) JMeter
13 37 (0.92%) SonarQube
14 32 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 29 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
16 28 (0.70%) Postman
17 23 (0.57%) Liquibase
17 23 (0.57%) TeamCity
18 20 (0.50%) Gradle
General
1 864 (21.59%) Finance
2 700 (17.49%) Social Skills
3 433 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 407 (10.17%) Banking
5 299 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 258 (6.45%) Front Office
7 181 (4.52%) Investment Banking
8 75 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 69 (1.72%) Marketing
10 59 (1.47%) Retail
11 55 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 48 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 44 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 38 (0.95%) Electronics
16 37 (0.92%) Legal
16 37 (0.92%) Military
17 32 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 29 (0.72%) Law
19 28 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 920 (22.99%) Developer
2 645 (16.12%) Senior
3 640 (15.99%) Architect
4 492 (12.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 448 (11.19%) AWS Engineer
6 321 (8.02%) Lead
7 303 (7.57%) Data Engineer
8 263 (6.57%) Software Engineer
9 201 (5.02%) Java Developer
10 197 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
11 190 (4.75%) Python Engineer
12 189 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
13 178 (4.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 162 (4.05%) Python Developer
15 141 (3.52%) Senior Developer
16 140 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
17 134 (3.35%) Analyst
18 132 (3.30%) AWS Architect
19 115 (2.87%) Senior DevOps
20 113 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (10.07%) Kafka
2 374 (9.35%) React
3 234 (5.85%) Spring
4 221 (5.52%) Node.js
5 204 (5.10%) Spring Boot
6 194 (4.85%) REST
7 163 (4.07%) Pandas
8 161 (4.02%) PySpark
9 153 (3.82%) .NET
10 150 (3.75%) NumPy
11 148 (3.70%) RESTful
12 136 (3.40%) SciPy
13 135 (3.37%) gRPC
14 132 (3.30%) AngularJS
15 126 (3.15%) CSS
16 124 (3.10%) HTML
17 103 (2.57%) Protocol Buffers
18 98 (2.45%) AWS CDK
19 68 (1.70%) JSON
20 65 (1.62%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 196 (4.90%) Public Cloud
2 191 (4.77%) Fixed Income
3 152 (3.80%) Derivative
3 152 (3.80%) Hedge funds
4 145 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 144 (3.60%) Equities
5 144 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 105 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 85 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 80 (2.00%) Replication
9 68 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 65 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 64 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 64 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 64 (1.60%) Onboarding
12 59 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
13 58 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
13 58 (1.45%) PKI
14 57 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
15 53 (1.32%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 496 (12.39%) Linux
2 237 (5.92%) Windows
3 151 (3.77%) Unix
4 113 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 83 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 46 (1.15%) CentOS
7 24 (0.60%) Android
8 21 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 20 (0.50%) Windows 10
10 18 (0.45%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.35%) Solaris
12 9 (0.22%) AIX
13 8 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.15%) SUSE
14 6 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.100%) Check Point GAiA
16 4 (0.100%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.100%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,207 (30.16%) DevOps
2 1,128 (28.19%) CI/CD
3 1,029 (25.71%) Agile
4 642 (16.04%) Software Engineering
5 530 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
6 477 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 468 (11.69%) Microservices
8 459 (11.47%) Migration
9 411 (10.27%) Containerisation
10 329 (8.22%) Test Automation
11 310 (7.75%) Analytics
12 306 (7.65%) Full-Stack Development
13 285 (7.12%) Asset Management
14 246 (6.15%) Computer Science
15 243 (6.07%) Data Modelling
16 241 (6.02%) ETL
17 227 (5.67%) Mentoring
18 226 (5.65%) Machine Learning
19 225 (5.62%) Data Pipeline
20 213 (5.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,554 (38.83%) Python
2 997 (24.91%) Java
3 820 (20.49%) SQL
4 560 (13.99%) JavaScript
5 454 (11.34%) TypeScript
6 217 (5.42%) Bash
7 212 (5.30%) Go
8 186 (4.65%) PowerShell
9 132 (3.30%) C#
10 96 (2.40%) Scala
11 79 (1.97%) Perl
11 79 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 74 (1.85%) PL/SQL
13 73 (1.82%) C++
14 65 (1.62%) Ruby
15 59 (1.47%) PHP
16 54 (1.35%) C
17 48 (1.20%) Kotlin
18 40 (1.00%) Groovy
19 37 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 1,023 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 897 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 312 (7.80%) Degree
4 255 (6.37%) AWS Certification
5 169 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 168 (4.20%) DV Cleared
7 74 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 66 (1.65%) CISSP
9 52 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 47 (1.17%) CISM
13 38 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 35 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.82%) CCNP
16 32 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
17 26 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.50%) CEH
18 20 (0.50%) MCSE
19 18 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (3.65%) QA
2 140 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 78 (1.95%) NIST
4 70 (1.75%) GDPR
5 61 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.10%) NCSC
7 40 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 13 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.30%) GRC
13 11 (0.27%) SLA
14 10 (0.25%) WCAG
15 8 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.17%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.15%) COBIT
17 6 (0.15%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 779 (19.47%) Docker
2 152 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 152 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 30 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 29 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (0.57%) vSphere
7 18 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.32%) NFS
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
10 9 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (0.20%) Lustre
12 7 (0.17%) XenApp
13 6 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 6 (0.15%) XenDesktop
14 5 (0.12%) Veritas File System
14 5 (0.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
15 4 (0.100%) Firmware
15 4 (0.100%) KVM
Systems Management
1 944 (23.59%) Kubernetes
2 845 (21.11%) Terraform
3 345 (8.62%) Ansible
4 194 (4.85%) Grafana
5 149 (3.72%) Prometheus
6 54 (1.35%) Puppet
7 49 (1.22%) Packer
8 40 (1.00%) Argo
9 39 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 38 (0.95%) Istio
11 34 (0.85%) Kibana
11 34 (0.85%) SCCM
12 32 (0.80%) Rancher
13 29 (0.72%) Consul
14 26 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
15 23 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
16 22 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 17 (0.42%) ZABBIX
18 16 (0.40%) HAProxy
18 16 (0.40%) logstash
Vendors
1 373 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 281 (7.02%) Oracle
3 267 (6.67%) Google
4 204 (5.10%) VMware
5 136 (3.40%) Cisco
6 123 (3.07%) Splunk
7 113 (2.82%) Databricks
8 94 (2.35%) Red Hat
9 89 (2.22%) SAP
10 88 (2.20%) Palo Alto
11 78 (1.95%) IBM
12 75 (1.87%) ServiceNow
13 63 (1.57%) Fortinet
14 58 (1.45%) Salesforce
15 53 (1.32%) CheckPoint
15 53 (1.32%) Confluent
16 50 (1.25%) Bloomberg
17 46 (1.15%) CyberArk
17 46 (1.15%) Informatica
18 42 (1.05%) Dynatrace