AWS Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,594 6,133 10,406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.70% 12.24% 14.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.42% 33.45% 38.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 4,657 7,940
10th Percentile £381 £431 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 54 23
10th Percentile £22.12 £22.54 £45.25
25th Percentile £25.78 £52.21 £47.16
Median hourly rate £46.18 £74.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.59% +34.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £71.87 £78.00 £71.43
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.30 £82.10
UK median hourly rate £50.59 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.64% +34.55% +27.91%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,816 18,334 27,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.88% 36.59% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,539 13,417 20,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 307 344
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.02
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.66% -2.23%
75th Percentile £32.31 £65.88 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.72 £78.00 £64.93
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in England

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in England

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in England

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
London 0 2,287 £575 -6.12% 1,130
North of England -3 443 £500 -9.09% 371
North West -1 292 £492 -10.50% 219
South East -3 291 £575 - 227
South West -9 191 £550 -4.35% 227
Yorkshire -8 132 £525 -4.55% 108
Midlands -6 128 £500 -7.41% 196
West Midlands -27 70 £550 +1.85% 121
East Midlands +13 58 £450 -26.53% 74
East of England -41 52 £538 -8.04% 119
North East -10 21 £575 -4.17% 45
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 256 (7.12%) Apache
2 214 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (3.34%) Confluence
4 72 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 58 (1.61%) nginx
6 46 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 22 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 21 (0.58%) CMS
9 16 (0.45%) JBoss
9 16 (0.45%) Tomcat
10 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
11 10 (0.28%) IIS
11 10 (0.28%) Site Server
12 9 (0.25%) SAS
13 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.19%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) Drupal
16 5 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 30 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.056%) Sketch
6 2 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.056%) Weka
7 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.028%) InVision
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.31%) Temenos T24
4 10 (0.28%) Endur
5 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.22%) Shopify
7 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
9 4 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 3 (0.083%) Magento
10 3 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 3 (0.083%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.056%) Avolution ABACUS
11 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 2 (0.056%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,250 (34.78%) Azure
2 668 (18.59%) GCP
3 423 (11.77%) Serverless
4 350 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
5 325 (9.04%) Amazon S3
6 238 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
7 204 (5.68%) Snowflake
8 193 (5.37%) GitHub
9 152 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 134 (3.73%) SaaS
11 130 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
12 127 (3.53%) dbt
13 126 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 122 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 88 (2.45%) PaaS
16 87 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
16 87 (2.42%) Power Platform
17 84 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
18 80 (2.23%) Amazon Kinesis
19 79 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 173 (4.81%) Firewall
2 124 (3.45%) DNS
3 102 (2.84%) VPN
4 82 (2.28%) Network Security
5 71 (1.98%) LAN
6 65 (1.81%) WAN
7 61 (1.70%) SSL
8 59 (1.64%) DHCP
9 56 (1.56%) TCP/IP
10 52 (1.45%) HTTP
11 44 (1.22%) Wireless
12 42 (1.17%) OSPF
13 37 (1.03%) BGP
14 28 (0.78%) SAN
14 28 (0.78%) VLAN
15 27 (0.75%) MPLS
16 23 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
17 21 (0.58%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
18 19 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 183 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
3 172 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 164 (4.56%) Amazon Athena
5 159 (4.42%) Data Lake
6 151 (4.20%) SQL Server
7 139 (3.87%) Apache Ignite
8 137 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
9 130 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 130 (3.62%) Big Data
10 120 (3.34%) Relational Database
11 110 (3.06%) DynamoDB
12 109 (3.03%) MySQL
13 103 (2.87%) MongoDB
14 100 (2.78%) Apache Arrow
14 100 (2.78%) Dremio
15 85 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
16 82 (2.28%) Power BI
17 61 (1.70%) Tableau
18 55 (1.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 338 (9.40%) Jenkins
2 305 (8.49%) Git
3 224 (6.23%) JIRA
4 189 (5.26%) GitLab
5 97 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 61 (1.70%) Cucumber
6 61 (1.70%) Selenium
7 50 (1.39%) Maven
8 49 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 37 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.89%) JMeter
11 28 (0.78%) JUnit
11 28 (0.78%) TeamCity
12 25 (0.70%) CircleCI
13 22 (0.61%) Postman
14 18 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
15 17 (0.47%) Mockito
15 17 (0.47%) REST Assured
15 17 (0.47%) webpack
16 16 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 739 (20.56%) Finance
2 598 (16.64%) Social Skills
3 301 (8.38%) Public Sector
4 300 (8.35%) Banking
5 262 (7.29%) Front Office
6 249 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
7 116 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 84 (2.34%) Retail
9 67 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 60 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 56 (1.56%) Marketing
12 45 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 38 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
16 29 (0.81%) Law
17 28 (0.78%) Legal
18 21 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.53%) Electronics
20 17 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 929 (25.85%) Developer
2 583 (16.22%) Architect
3 438 (12.19%) Senior
4 342 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 337 (9.38%) Software Engineer
6 336 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 263 (7.32%) Lead
8 238 (6.62%) Data Engineer
9 191 (5.31%) Full Stack Developer
9 191 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
10 171 (4.76%) Python Developer
11 164 (4.56%) Java Developer
12 140 (3.90%) AWS Architect
13 131 (3.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 131 (3.64%) Python Engineer
14 125 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
15 124 (3.45%) Analyst
15 124 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
16 122 (3.39%) React Developer
17 108 (3.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 409 (11.38%) React
2 283 (7.87%) Node.js
3 269 (7.48%) Kafka
4 207 (5.76%) .NET
5 191 (5.31%) RESTful
6 180 (5.01%) REST
7 167 (4.65%) gRPC
7 167 (4.65%) Spring
8 160 (4.45%) Protocol Buffers
9 148 (4.12%) Spring Boot
10 143 (3.98%) AngularJS
11 131 (3.64%) Redux
12 125 (3.48%) Pandas
13 112 (3.12%) Web Services
14 111 (3.09%) NumPy
15 109 (3.03%) HTML
16 102 (2.84%) CSS
17 95 (2.64%) SciPy
18 85 (2.37%) GraphQL
19 77 (2.14%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.68%) Fixed Income
2 230 (6.40%) Hedge funds
3 173 (4.81%) Derivative
3 173 (4.81%) Equities
4 146 (4.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 123 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 103 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 88 (2.45%) PKI
8 76 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 75 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
10 66 (1.84%) Data Centre
11 60 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 55 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
13 47 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 47 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
14 43 (1.20%) Clustering
15 41 (1.14%) Management Information System
16 37 (1.03%) Replication
17 36 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 408 (11.35%) Linux
2 253 (7.04%) Windows
3 111 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 99 (2.75%) Unix
5 58 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.70%) Android
8 23 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.47%) CentOS
10 15 (0.42%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.33%) Solaris
12 10 (0.28%) VMS
13 9 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.19%) zOS
15 6 (0.17%) Debian
15 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (28.71%) Agile
2 954 (26.54%) DevOps
3 743 (20.67%) CI/CD
4 570 (15.86%) Software Engineering
5 387 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
6 385 (10.71%) Microservices
7 357 (9.93%) Full Stack Development
8 311 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 276 (7.68%) Containerisation
10 275 (7.65%) Asset Management
11 263 (7.32%) Migration
12 250 (6.96%) Test Automation
13 242 (6.73%) Analytics
14 220 (6.12%) Investment Management
15 217 (6.04%) ETL
16 207 (5.76%) TDD
17 205 (5.70%) Machine Learning
18 194 (5.40%) Data Pipeline
19 188 (5.23%) Scrum
20 179 (4.98%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,172 (32.61%) Python
2 703 (19.56%) Java
3 646 (17.97%) SQL
4 530 (14.75%) JavaScript
5 420 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 202 (5.62%) C#
7 198 (5.51%) Go
8 193 (5.37%) Bash
9 172 (4.79%) PowerShell
10 106 (2.95%) Scala
11 81 (2.25%) PHP
12 63 (1.75%) C
12 63 (1.75%) Ruby
13 56 (1.56%) C++
14 51 (1.42%) Shell Script
15 41 (1.14%) PL/SQL
16 34 (0.95%) Kotlin
17 33 (0.92%) T-SQL
18 31 (0.86%) Perl
19 30 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 890 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 713 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 242 (6.73%) Degree
4 170 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 142 (3.95%) AWS Certification
6 117 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.25%) CISSP
10 40 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 40 (1.11%) CCNP
11 34 (0.95%) CISM
12 30 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.78%) CCNA
14 26 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 22 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.33%) CISA
18 11 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (3.98%) QA
2 100 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 65 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (1.64%) NIST
5 46 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 40 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.03%) GDPR
8 34 (0.95%) SLA
9 33 (0.92%) NCSC
10 11 (0.31%) MiFID
11 9 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 9 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.19%) GRC
12 7 (0.19%) WCAG
13 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.083%) ISO 31000
16 3 (0.083%) SOC 2
System Software
1 542 (15.08%) Docker
2 189 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 111 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 32 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.45%) vSphere
7 11 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.22%) ACF2
8 8 (0.22%) IAG
8 8 (0.22%) RACF
9 7 (0.19%) Firmware
10 6 (0.17%) HDFS
11 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) NFS
12 4 (0.11%) OpenAM
12 4 (0.11%) Shibboleth
13 3 (0.083%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 723 (20.12%) Kubernetes
2 693 (19.28%) Terraform
3 314 (8.74%) Ansible
4 119 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 111 (3.09%) Grafana
6 85 (2.37%) Puppet
7 69 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
9 33 (0.92%) Packer
10 28 (0.78%) SCCM
10 28 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.72%) Kibana
12 19 (0.53%) Consul
13 16 (0.45%) Podman
14 15 (0.42%) Nagios
15 14 (0.39%) Istio
15 14 (0.39%) Rancher
16 12 (0.33%) Argo
17 11 (0.31%) HP Fortify
17 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 271 (7.54%) Microsoft
2 213 (5.93%) Oracle
3 207 (5.76%) Google
4 162 (4.51%) VMware
5 115 (3.20%) Splunk
6 102 (2.84%) Cisco
7 80 (2.23%) SAP
8 76 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.50%) Databricks
11 52 (1.45%) F5
11 52 (1.45%) IBM
12 47 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 46 (1.28%) Informatica
14 45 (1.25%) CyberArk
15 39 (1.09%) Salesforce
16 37 (1.03%) Talend
17 29 (0.81%) Bloomberg
17 29 (0.81%) SolarWinds
18 26 (0.72%) Juniper