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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 21 September 2019 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
21 Sep 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
12 |
13 |
37 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+1 |
+24 |
+20 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS |
8,644 |
8,687 |
5,376 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
9.83% |
8.45% |
5.44% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category |
34.19% |
37.43% |
35.08% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,978 |
6,349 |
3,961 |
| UK median daily rate |
£550 |
£525 |
£500 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+4.76% |
+5.00% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£400 |
£375 |
£363 |
| 90th Percentile |
£690 |
£675 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£460 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+3.26% |
+2.22% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
30 |
13 |
12 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£35.00 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
-12.50% |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£24.63 |
£22.70 |
£26.08 |
| 90th Percentile |
£70.00 |
£76.50 |
£58.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£25.25 |
£37.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+38.61% |
-32.67% |
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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 |
25,282 |
23,209 |
15,327 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
28.75% |
22.59% |
15.51% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
17,223 |
15,967 |
10,532 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£458 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+3.83% |
+1.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£300 |
£275 |
| 90th Percentile |
£656 |
£638 |
£619 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£438 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.86% |
+2.94% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
407 |
348 |
223 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£22.00 |
£18.13 |
£20.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+21.38% |
-9.38% |
+6.54% |
| 10th Percentile |
£13.65 |
£11.25 |
£11.05 |
| 90th Percentile |
£78.75 |
£63.26 |
£63.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£22.34 |
£17.50 |
£18.96 |
| % change year-on-year |
+27.63% |
-7.70% |
+11.53% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing AWS as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing AWS.
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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 21 September 2019.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 21 September 2019.
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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 21 September 2019. 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 21 September 2019, 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 |
3,577 (41.38%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,504 (40.54%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
3,363 (38.91%) |
Azure |
| 4 |
2,691 (31.13%) |
Python |
| 5 |
2,472 (28.60%) |
Java |
| 6 |
2,351 (27.20%) |
Docker |
| 7 |
2,060 (23.83%) |
Linux |
| 8 |
1,965 (22.73%) |
Kubernetes |
| 9 |
1,841 (21.30%) |
Terraform |
| 10 |
1,763 (20.40%) |
Jenkins |
| 11 |
1,666 (19.27%) |
Finance |
| 12 |
1,605 (18.57%) |
Microservices |
| 13 |
1,533 (17.73%) |
Ansible |
| 14 |
1,383 (16.00%) |
Web Services |
| 15 |
1,327 (15.35%) |
Git (software) |
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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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