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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,891 4,429 8,186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 13.38% 10.02% 12.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.13% 30.77% 34.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,854 3,366 6,117
10th Percentile £400 £381 £429
25th Percentile £454 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £671 £688
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £522 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.09% +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 11,077 14,394 23,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.10% 32.56% 37.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,768 10,193 16,888
10th Percentile £313 £294 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £501
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.10% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 347 388
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.00 £15.21
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 £41.74 £35.25 £65.19
90th Percentile £76.44 £61.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £17.72 £22.16
% change year-on-year +29.80% -20.04% +19.78%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3,162 £550 - 6,333
London 0 2,016 £583 +1.36% 4,388
Work from Home +1 1,512 £550 - 3,187
UK excluding London +5 1,182 £500 -4.21% 2,455
North of England +2 352 £486 -2.80% 670
South East +5 218 £550 - 707
Scotland -4 209 £475 -1.35% 215
North West -2 204 £475 -5.00% 442
South West +7 190 £600 +9.09% 301
Midlands +6 126 £500 - 279
Yorkshire +6 105 £500 - 150
West Midlands +15 81 £514 +2.70% 172
East of England +14 66 £550 +10.00% 199
North East +18 46 £470 -16.44% 78
East Midlands -1 44 £470 -2.19% 102
Wales +13 30 £530 -1.85% 43
Northern Ireland +1 7 £475 -29.63% 61

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
1 167 (4.29%) Confluence
2 165 (4.24%) Apache
3 159 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
4 142 (3.65%) Apache Spark
5 55 (1.41%) nginx
6 27 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.67%) SAS
8 23 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 19 (0.49%) JBoss
9 19 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.39%) CMS
11 13 (0.33%) Camunda
12 12 (0.31%) Traefik
13 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.26%) Anypoint
14 10 (0.26%) WebSphere
15 9 (0.23%) Mule
16 8 (0.21%) IIS
17 6 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
18 4 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.23%) 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
6 2 (0.051%) assyst
6 2 (0.051%) Exstream
6 2 (0.051%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.051%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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 (35.39%) Azure
2 791 (20.33%) GCP
3 562 (14.44%) Serverless
4 480 (12.34%) Amazon S3
5 468 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
6 326 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 293 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
8 292 (7.50%) GitHub
9 222 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 187 (4.81%) Snowflake
11 181 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
12 180 (4.63%) dbt
13 169 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 152 (3.91%) SaaS
15 139 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
16 137 (3.52%) OpenShift
17 131 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
18 126 (3.24%) PaaS
19 117 (3.01%) Power Platform
20 97 (2.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 212 (5.45%) Firewall
2 180 (4.63%) DNS
3 128 (3.29%) TCP/IP
3 128 (3.29%) VPN
4 100 (2.57%) DHCP
5 93 (2.39%) Network Security
6 89 (2.29%) WAN
7 84 (2.16%) HTTP
8 82 (2.11%) BGP
9 63 (1.62%) OSPF
10 56 (1.44%) SD-WAN
11 49 (1.26%) SSL
12 46 (1.18%) MPLS
13 44 (1.13%) LAN
14 40 (1.03%) VLAN
15 34 (0.87%) Wireless
16 27 (0.69%) HTTPS
17 21 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
18 19 (0.49%) IPsec
19 18 (0.46%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 373 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
2 278 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 218 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
4 194 (4.99%) Amazon Athena
5 180 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 179 (4.60%) MongoDB
7 166 (4.27%) Data Lake
8 163 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 147 (3.78%) Relational Database
10 138 (3.55%) MySQL
11 127 (3.26%) Big Data
12 125 (3.21%) DynamoDB
13 119 (3.06%) SQL Server
14 116 (2.98%) Apache Iceberg
15 106 (2.72%) Power BI
16 103 (2.65%) Dremio
17 87 (2.24%) Apache Arrow
18 83 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
19 80 (2.06%) Hadoop
20 79 (2.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 429 (11.03%) Jenkins
2 341 (8.76%) GitLab
3 314 (8.07%) Git
4 267 (6.86%) JIRA
5 80 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 76 (1.95%) Maven
7 71 (1.82%) Artifactory
8 66 (1.70%) SonarQube
9 64 (1.64%) Selenium
10 59 (1.52%) JUnit
11 55 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 47 (1.21%) Cucumber
13 41 (1.05%) Postman
14 37 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 33 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
16 29 (0.75%) JMeter
17 26 (0.67%) CircleCI
18 25 (0.64%) Gradle
19 24 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 22 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 774 (19.89%) Finance
2 771 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 461 (11.85%) Public Sector
4 396 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 318 (8.17%) Banking
6 195 (5.01%) Front Office
7 97 (2.49%) Investment Banking
8 71 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 60 (1.54%) Marketing
10 52 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 51 (1.31%) Retail
12 43 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.05%) Military
14 40 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (0.93%) Legal
16 31 (0.80%) Law
17 29 (0.75%) Retail Banking
18 26 (0.67%) Financial Institution
19 23 (0.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 902 (23.18%) Developer
2 654 (16.81%) Architect
3 545 (14.01%) Senior
4 455 (11.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 452 (11.62%) AWS Engineer
6 331 (8.51%) Data Engineer
7 284 (7.30%) Lead
8 249 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 198 (5.09%) AWS DevOps
10 185 (4.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 183 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
12 182 (4.68%) Python Engineer
13 172 (4.42%) Java Developer
14 151 (3.88%) Python Developer
15 150 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
16 141 (3.62%) AWS Architect
17 135 (3.47%) AWS Developer
18 133 (3.42%) Senior Developer
19 116 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
20 102 (2.62%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (10.54%) React
2 380 (9.77%) Kafka
3 289 (7.43%) Node.js
4 239 (6.14%) Spring
5 227 (5.83%) Spring Boot
6 185 (4.75%) RESTful
7 177 (4.55%) .NET
8 160 (4.11%) REST
9 151 (3.88%) PySpark
10 134 (3.44%) Pandas
11 132 (3.39%) HTML
12 126 (3.24%) AngularJS
13 124 (3.19%) CSS
14 116 (2.98%) NumPy
15 93 (2.39%) AWS CDK
16 83 (2.13%) Redux
16 83 (2.13%) SciPy
17 77 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
18 73 (1.88%) JSON
19 70 (1.80%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 178 (4.57%) Cloud Native
2 136 (3.50%) Public Cloud
3 117 (3.01%) Fixed Income
4 88 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 80 (2.06%) Hedge funds
6 73 (1.88%) Data Centre
7 72 (1.85%) Derivative
7 72 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 68 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 66 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (1.70%) PKI
9 66 (1.70%) Product Ownership
10 61 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 59 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 58 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
13 57 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 55 (1.41%) Algorithms
15 52 (1.34%) Equities
16 44 (1.13%) Mobile App
17 43 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 484 (12.44%) Linux
2 257 (6.60%) Windows
3 124 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 116 (2.98%) Unix
5 115 (2.96%) Windows Server
6 50 (1.29%) CentOS
7 28 (0.72%) Android
8 22 (0.57%) 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 1,178 (30.27%) DevOps
2 1,177 (30.25%) CI/CD
3 957 (24.60%) Agile
4 645 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
5 574 (14.75%) Software Engineering
6 511 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 488 (12.54%) Microservices
8 484 (12.44%) Containerisation
9 401 (10.31%) Migration
10 339 (8.71%) Analytics
11 319 (8.20%) Test Automation
12 287 (7.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 282 (7.25%) ETL
14 255 (6.55%) Data Pipeline
15 245 (6.30%) Continuous Integration
16 242 (6.22%) Computer Science
17 240 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
18 228 (5.86%) Data Engineering
19 227 (5.83%) Mentoring
20 214 (5.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,570 (40.35%) Python
2 862 (22.15%) Java
3 699 (17.96%) SQL
4 513 (13.18%) JavaScript
5 355 (9.12%) TypeScript
6 224 (5.76%) Bash
7 200 (5.14%) Go
8 186 (4.78%) PowerShell
9 155 (3.98%) C#
10 62 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 61 (1.57%) C++
12 59 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 57 (1.46%) Perl
14 55 (1.41%) Scala
15 53 (1.36%) Kotlin
15 53 (1.36%) Ruby
16 38 (0.98%) PHP
17 37 (0.95%) C
18 32 (0.82%) R
19 31 (0.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,062 (27.29%) Security Cleared
2 890 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 305 (7.84%) Degree
4 301 (7.74%) AWS Certification
5 169 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 161 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 127 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 105 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 71 (1.82%) 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 23 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (0.57%) 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 99 (2.54%) GDPR
4 78 (2.00%) NIST
5 65 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 40 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.93%) 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
1 785 (20.17%) Docker
2 125 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 35 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.57%) 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
12 8 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.15%) Lustre
14 5 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 5 (0.13%) NFS
14 5 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.10%) BitLocker
15 4 (0.10%) Platform Symphony
15 4 (0.10%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.077%) RACF
Systems Management
1 997 (25.62%) Kubernetes
2 956 (24.57%) Terraform
3 370 (9.51%) Ansible
4 178 (4.57%) Grafana
5 151 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 107 (2.75%) Puppet
7 71 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 62 (1.59%) Packer
9 49 (1.26%) Istio
10 45 (1.16%) Kibana
11 38 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 33 (0.85%) Consul
13 32 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 30 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
15 28 (0.72%) Argo
16 26 (0.67%) SCCM
17 22 (0.57%) ZABBIX
18 19 (0.49%) Rancher
19 18 (0.46%) Nagios
20 16 (0.41%) linkerd
Vendors
1 318 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 252 (6.48%) Oracle
3 234 (6.01%) Google
4 170 (4.37%) VMware
5 126 (3.24%) Databricks
6 122 (3.14%) Splunk
7 117 (3.01%) Cisco
8 105 (2.70%) 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 (0.93%) Okta
18 35 (0.90%) SolarWinds
19 32 (0.82%) Informatica