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 25 June 2022 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.
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
31,445
22,957
12,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
35.90%
35.88%
30.93%
Number of daily rates quoted
22,854
16,353
9,019
10th Percentile
£340
£325
£306
25th Percentile
£450
£413
£400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£550
£500
£500
Median % change year-on-year
+10.00%
-
-
75th Percentile
£650
£600
£594
90th Percentile
£745
£675
£675
UK excluding London median daily rate
£500
£463
£463
% change year-on-year
+8.11%
-
+2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted
365
369
190
10th Percentile
£13.45
£12.09
£12.75
25th Percentile
£15.25
£14.50
£16.31
Median hourly rate
£21.50
£21.50
£20.00
Median % change year-on-year
-
+7.50%
-2.44%
75th Percentile
£53.75
£42.25
£32.88
90th Percentile
£70.80
£64.60
£55.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£18.95
£20.00
£19.69
% change year-on-year
-5.25%
+1.57%
+9.39%
AWS Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
AWS Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS.
AWS Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 25 June 2022.
AWS Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS.
AWS Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 25 June 2022.
AWS Top 18 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 25 June 2022. 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
For the 6 months to 25 June 2022, 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.
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:
