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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,895 4,415 8,110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 13.39% 10.00% 12.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.13% 30.76% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 3,347 6,050
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% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -3.29% -6.00% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 60
10th Percentile £46.50 £22.28 £24.32
25th Percentile £58.88 £35.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £53.75 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% -21.53% +19.65%
75th Percentile £92.50 £71.87 £78.00
90th Percentile £158.00 £72.50 £85.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £48.62 £62.85
% change year-on-year +61.88% -22.65% +26.92%

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 11,086 14,353 23,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.11% 32.51% 37.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,775 10,163 16,734
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.84% -1.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 343 385
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.00 £15.17
25th Percentile £19.61 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -23.64% +30.24%
75th Percentile £42.49 £35.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.44 £61.58 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £17.72 £22.29
% change year-on-year +29.80% -20.48% +20.46%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3,163 £550 - 6,576
London 0 2,008 £585 +1.74% 4,545
Work from Home 0 1,511 £550 - 3,225
UK excluding London +5 1,188 £500 -3.29% 2,527
North of England +4 358 £480 -4.00% 693
South East +6 218 £550 -1.35% 712
Scotland -4 210 £475 -1.04% 218
North West 0 209 £475 -5.00% 454
South West +9 189 £600 +9.09% 309
Midlands +7 129 £500 - 307
Yorkshire +5 106 £500 - 160
West Midlands +20 84 £514 +0.20% 190
East of England +15 65 £550 +10.00% 201
North East +19 46 £475 -15.56% 80
East Midlands -1 44 £470 -2.19% 111
Wales +10 28 £530 -0.47% 46
Northern Ireland +2 7 £475 -29.63% 65

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
1 166 (4.26%) Apache
2 165 (4.24%) Confluence
3 159 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 141 (3.62%) Apache Spark
5 56 (1.44%) nginx
6 28 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.67%) SAS
8 23 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 23 (0.59%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.54%) JBoss
10 20 (0.51%) CMS
11 13 (0.33%) Camunda
12 12 (0.31%) Traefik
12 12 (0.31%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.26%) Anypoint
15 9 (0.23%) Mule
15 9 (0.23%) WordPress
16 8 (0.21%) IIS
17 6 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 18 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.18%) Trello
6 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.15%) Sketch
7 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.26%) Endur
1 10 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.10%) Kondor
4 4 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.10%) Unica
5 3 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.077%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.051%) assyst
6 2 (0.051%) Exstream
6 2 (0.051%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.051%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.026%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.026%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.026%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,377 (35.35%) Azure
2 790 (20.28%) GCP
3 566 (14.53%) Serverless
4 485 (12.45%) Amazon S3
5 469 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
6 326 (8.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 293 (7.52%) GitHub
8 289 (7.42%) Amazon EC2
9 221 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
10 186 (4.78%) Snowflake
11 184 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
12 177 (4.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 177 (4.54%) dbt
13 152 (3.90%) SaaS
14 138 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
14 138 (3.54%) OpenShift
15 132 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
16 127 (3.26%) PaaS
17 114 (2.93%) Power Platform
18 98 (2.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 213 (5.47%) Firewall
2 180 (4.62%) DNS
3 130 (3.34%) VPN
4 127 (3.26%) TCP/IP
5 102 (2.62%) DHCP
6 94 (2.41%) Network Security
7 89 (2.28%) WAN
8 84 (2.16%) HTTP
9 82 (2.11%) BGP
10 63 (1.62%) OSPF
11 56 (1.44%) SD-WAN
12 49 (1.26%) SSL
13 46 (1.18%) MPLS
14 44 (1.13%) LAN
15 40 (1.03%) VLAN
16 34 (0.87%) Wireless
17 27 (0.69%) HTTPS
18 21 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
19 19 (0.49%) IPsec
20 18 (0.46%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 373 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
2 277 (7.11%) Amazon RDS
3 218 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
4 192 (4.93%) Amazon Athena
5 181 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 180 (4.62%) MongoDB
7 166 (4.26%) Data Lake
8 162 (4.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 147 (3.77%) Relational Database
10 143 (3.67%) MySQL
11 129 (3.31%) DynamoDB
12 128 (3.29%) Big Data
13 122 (3.13%) SQL Server
14 116 (2.98%) Apache Iceberg
15 103 (2.64%) Dremio
16 102 (2.62%) Power BI
17 87 (2.23%) Apache Arrow
18 82 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
19 80 (2.05%) Hadoop
20 79 (2.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 427 (10.96%) Jenkins
2 336 (8.63%) GitLab
3 316 (8.11%) Git
4 266 (6.83%) JIRA
5 84 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 75 (1.93%) Maven
7 69 (1.77%) Artifactory
8 64 (1.64%) Selenium
9 63 (1.62%) SonarQube
10 59 (1.51%) JUnit
11 57 (1.46%) Cypress.io
12 46 (1.18%) Cucumber
13 43 (1.10%) Postman
14 37 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 32 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
16 29 (0.74%) JMeter
17 25 (0.64%) CircleCI
17 25 (0.64%) Gradle
18 24 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 22 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 773 (19.85%) Finance
2 771 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 459 (11.78%) Public Sector
4 394 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 317 (8.14%) Banking
6 194 (4.98%) Front Office
7 96 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 71 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 58 (1.49%) Marketing
10 52 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 50 (1.28%) Retail
12 43 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (0.98%) Military
15 36 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 35 (0.90%) Legal
17 31 (0.80%) Law
18 28 (0.72%) Retail Banking
19 26 (0.67%) Financial Institution
20 23 (0.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 907 (23.29%) Developer
2 652 (16.74%) Architect
3 540 (13.86%) Senior
4 453 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
5 450 (11.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 331 (8.50%) Data Engineer
7 279 (7.16%) Lead
8 252 (6.47%) Software Engineer
9 198 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
10 185 (4.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 182 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
12 181 (4.65%) Python Engineer
13 172 (4.42%) Java Developer
14 154 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
15 150 (3.85%) Python Developer
16 141 (3.62%) AWS Architect
17 137 (3.52%) AWS Developer
18 133 (3.41%) Senior Developer
19 116 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
20 103 (2.64%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (10.60%) React
2 378 (9.70%) Kafka
3 295 (7.57%) Node.js
4 239 (6.14%) Spring
5 227 (5.83%) Spring Boot
6 185 (4.75%) RESTful
7 179 (4.60%) .NET
8 164 (4.21%) REST
9 150 (3.85%) PySpark
10 134 (3.44%) HTML
10 134 (3.44%) Pandas
11 128 (3.29%) AngularJS
12 126 (3.23%) CSS
13 116 (2.98%) NumPy
14 96 (2.46%) AWS CDK
15 83 (2.13%) SciPy
16 82 (2.11%) Redux
17 74 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
18 72 (1.85%) GraphQL
19 71 (1.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 179 (4.60%) Cloud Native
2 135 (3.47%) Public Cloud
3 117 (3.00%) Fixed Income
4 88 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 81 (2.08%) Hedge funds
6 75 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 73 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 72 (1.85%) Derivative
9 69 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 68 (1.75%) PKI
10 68 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 66 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 63 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 59 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 58 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
14 58 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
15 57 (1.46%) Algorithms
16 54 (1.39%) Equities
17 47 (1.21%) Mobile App
18 46 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 484 (12.43%) Linux
2 261 (6.70%) Windows
3 125 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 119 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 117 (3.00%) Unix
6 49 (1.26%) CentOS
7 28 (0.72%) Android
8 22 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 16 (0.41%) AIX
9 16 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 15 (0.39%) Solaris
11 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.21%) Rocky
13 7 (0.18%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.10%) VMS
15 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (30.37%) DevOps
2 1,179 (30.27%) CI/CD
3 954 (24.49%) Agile
4 645 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
5 575 (14.76%) Software Engineering
6 510 (13.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 489 (12.55%) Microservices
8 485 (12.45%) Containerisation
9 402 (10.32%) Migration
10 338 (8.68%) Analytics
11 319 (8.19%) Test Automation
12 291 (7.47%) Full-Stack Development
13 284 (7.29%) ETL
14 254 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
15 245 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 240 (6.16%) Continuous Integration
17 239 (6.14%) Computer Science
18 227 (5.83%) Data Engineering
19 225 (5.78%) Mentoring
20 215 (5.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,567 (40.23%) Python
2 858 (22.03%) Java
3 700 (17.97%) SQL
4 515 (13.22%) JavaScript
5 354 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 224 (5.75%) Bash
7 200 (5.13%) Go
8 189 (4.85%) PowerShell
9 155 (3.98%) C#
10 62 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 61 (1.57%) C++
12 59 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 55 (1.41%) Perl
14 54 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 54 (1.39%) Scala
15 52 (1.34%) Ruby
16 43 (1.10%) PHP
17 37 (0.95%) C
18 31 (0.80%) Bicep
19 29 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 1,062 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 889 (22.82%) SC Cleared
3 304 (7.80%) Degree
4 302 (7.75%) AWS Certification
5 167 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 162 (4.16%) DV Cleared
7 127 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 106 (2.72%) Azure Certification
9 72 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 65 (1.67%) CISSP
11 54 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (1.16%) CCNP
14 37 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
15 33 (0.85%) CISM
16 24 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (0.56%) PMI Certification
18 21 (0.54%) PMP
18 21 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
19 20 (0.51%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (4.01%) QA
2 120 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 101 (2.59%) GDPR
4 80 (2.05%) NIST
5 66 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 41 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.92%) NCSC
9 34 (0.87%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (0.49%) SLA
12 14 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
13 12 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.26%) GRC
14 10 (0.26%) WCAG
15 8 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.15%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.13%) COBIT
17 5 (0.13%) MiFID
18 4 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 780 (20.03%) Docker
2 127 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 126 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 36 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.28%) Firmware
10 10 (0.26%) vSphere
11 9 (0.23%) HDFS
11 9 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.15%) Lustre
13 5 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 5 (0.13%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.13%) NFS
13 5 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.13%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.10%) Platform Symphony
15 3 (0.077%) KVM
Systems Management
1 991 (25.44%) Kubernetes
2 953 (24.47%) Terraform
3 366 (9.40%) Ansible
4 173 (4.44%) Grafana
5 146 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 104 (2.67%) Puppet
7 69 (1.77%) Progress Chef
8 60 (1.54%) Packer
9 48 (1.23%) Istio
10 45 (1.16%) Kibana
11 38 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 33 (0.85%) Consul
13 32 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 31 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
15 28 (0.72%) Argo
16 26 (0.67%) SCCM
17 22 (0.56%) ZABBIX
18 19 (0.49%) Nagios
19 18 (0.46%) Rancher
20 16 (0.41%) linkerd
Vendors
1 320 (8.22%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.55%) Oracle
3 233 (5.98%) Google
4 172 (4.42%) VMware
5 124 (3.18%) Databricks
6 122 (3.13%) Splunk
7 117 (3.00%) Cisco
8 102 (2.62%) Red Hat
9 64 (1.64%) IBM
10 61 (1.57%) Fortinet
10 61 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 60 (1.54%) SAP
12 58 (1.49%) ServiceNow
13 48 (1.23%) F5
14 44 (1.13%) CheckPoint
15 40 (1.03%) MuleSoft
16 39 (1.00%) Salesforce
17 36 (0.92%) Okta
18 35 (0.90%) SolarWinds
19 32 (0.82%) Informatica