AWS Contracts in Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 16 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 106 131 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.36% 7.77% 12.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.82% 27.99% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 105 229
10th Percentile £316 £374 £445
25th Percentile £422 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £638
90th Percentile £669 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £558 £593
% change year-on-year -1.35% -5.91% +0.42%

All Cloud Skills
Yorkshire

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 in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 381 468 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.24% 27.77% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 327 592
10th Percentile £242 £240 £256
25th Percentile £360 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £640 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £29.90 £13.43 £21.63
25th Percentile £31.69 £14.63 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%
75th Percentile £99.42 £17.31 £62.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £22.00 £72.80
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Yorkshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Yorkshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Yorkshire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Yorkshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
West Yorkshire +2 75 £500 -9.09% 133
South Yorkshire +4 32 £525 - 40
North Yorkshire +10 2 £356 -32.14% 20
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 6 (5.66%) Confluence
2 5 (4.72%) nginx
2 5 (4.72%) Traefik
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.85%) Azure
2 28 (26.42%) GCP
3 13 (12.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (9.43%) Serverless
5 8 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (7.55%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.55%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (6.60%) AWS Fargate
7 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.77%) GitHub
9 4 (3.77%) IaaS
9 4 (3.77%) npm
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.83%) PaaS
11 2 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.60%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.66%) DNS
3 5 (4.72%) HTTP
4 3 (2.83%) Firewall
5 2 (1.89%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.89%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.89%) LAN
5 2 (1.89%) VPN
5 2 (1.89%) WAN
6 1 (0.94%) 4G
6 1 (0.94%) ISDN
6 1 (0.94%) MPLS
6 1 (0.94%) NAS
6 1 (0.94%) PSTN
6 1 (0.94%) SSH
6 1 (0.94%) SSL
6 1 (0.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.49%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.72%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.72%) MySQL
3 5 (4.72%) Power BI
4 2 (1.89%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.94%) Big Data
5 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (22.64%) GitLab
2 18 (16.98%) Jenkins
3 16 (15.09%) JIRA
4 9 (8.49%) Git
5 8 (7.55%) Selenium
6 6 (5.66%) Postman
7 4 (3.77%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.77%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (3.77%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.77%) webpack
8 2 (1.89%) JMeter
8 2 (1.89%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.89%) TestRail
9 1 (0.94%) Babel
9 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.94%) Subversion
9 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.60%) Finance
4 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.89%) Banking
5 2 (1.89%) Military
6 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (27.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (22.64%) Senior
3 22 (20.75%) Developer
4 12 (11.32%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Lead
7 8 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (7.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Architect
9 6 (5.66%) Analyst
9 6 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Tester
10 4 (3.77%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.77%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.77%) QA Tester
10 4 (3.77%) React Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) cloud-init
2 10 (9.43%) React
3 9 (8.49%) CSS
4 8 (7.55%) Kafka
4 8 (7.55%) RESTful
5 7 (6.60%) HTML
6 6 (5.66%) .NET
6 6 (5.66%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.66%) Keycloak
7 5 (4.72%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (3.77%) pytest
9 3 (2.83%) Flask
9 3 (2.83%) JWT
9 3 (2.83%) LDAP
9 3 (2.83%) Middleware
9 3 (2.83%) Node.js
9 3 (2.83%) REST
9 3 (2.83%) Web Services
10 2 (1.89%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) PKI
2 3 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.83%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.83%) Replication
3 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.89%) NHS
3 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.94%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.94%) SCADA
4 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (32.08%) Linux
2 17 (16.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (15.09%) Unix
4 13 (12.26%) CentOS
5 6 (5.66%) Windows
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.94%) AIX
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.94%) Solaris
7 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (46.23%) DevOps
2 40 (37.74%) CI/CD
3 29 (27.36%) Agile
4 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (13.21%) Microservices
7 12 (11.32%) Migration
7 12 (11.32%) Test Automation
8 9 (8.49%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (8.49%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (8.49%) Project Management
9 8 (7.55%) Cloud Security
9 8 (7.55%) Identity Management
9 8 (7.55%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.60%) Containerisation
10 7 (6.60%) ETL
10 7 (6.60%) Incident Management
10 7 (6.60%) Secrets Management
10 7 (6.60%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 53 (50.00%) Python
2 20 (18.87%) JavaScript
3 19 (17.92%) Bash
3 19 (17.92%) SQL
4 12 (11.32%) Go
5 8 (7.55%) Java
6 7 (6.60%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.72%) Groovy
7 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.77%) PHP
9 2 (1.89%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.89%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (1.89%) C#
9 2 (1.89%) Ruby
9 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.94%) Korn
10 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.94%) Perl
10 1 (0.94%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (36.79%) Security Cleared
2 36 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.66%) Degree
5 4 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.89%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.94%) CISM
7 1 (0.94%) CISSP
7 1 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) QA
2 6 (5.66%) NCSC
3 5 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.94%) NIST
5 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 45 (42.45%) Terraform
2 27 (25.47%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.32%) Packer
4 7 (6.60%) Grafana
4 7 (6.60%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.66%) Consul
5 6 (5.66%) Istio
5 6 (5.66%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (5.66%) linkerd
5 6 (5.66%) Rancher
5 6 (5.66%) ZABBIX
6 5 (4.72%) HAProxy
7 4 (3.77%) Ansible
8 2 (1.89%) Puppet
8 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.94%) NetApp OnCommand
9 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.94%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (6.60%) Red Hat
1 7 (6.60%) Splunk
2 6 (5.66%) Google
2 6 (5.66%) Okta
3 5 (4.72%) Apple
3 5 (4.72%) ESET
4 4 (3.77%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.77%) Databricks
5 3 (2.83%) IBM
6 2 (1.89%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.89%) IBM Sterling
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle
6 2 (1.89%) Veeam
6 2 (1.89%) VMware
7 1 (0.94%) Centrify
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco
7 1 (0.94%) Confluent
7 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.94%) Thycotic