AWS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 32 29 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 291 413 628
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.25% 7.17% 8.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.57% 24.19% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 297 436
10th Percentile £394 £413 £405
25th Percentile £463 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.11%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £556 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -7.29% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile - £18.13 £45.63
25th Percentile - £20.83 £46.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +38.61% -22.92%
75th Percentile £37.63 £75.00 £62.94
90th Percentile £39.20 - £65.52
England median hourly rate £46.18 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.59% +34.55% -5.17%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,349 1,707 2,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.32% 29.63% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,249 1,802
10th Percentile £250 £252 £203
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £636 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 53 61
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%
75th Percentile £54.75 £67.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.02
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.66% -2.23%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the South East 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
Thames Valley -4 137 £585 +6.36% 75
Hampshire +12 94 £599 +5.15% 58
Berkshire -3 91 £625 +19.05% 48
Buckinghamshire +12 33 £450 -18.18% 14
Surrey -26 25 £530 -9.79% 26
Oxfordshire +2 13 £500 -16.67% 13
West Sussex +3 10 £463 -20.26% 15
East Sussex +1 9 £534 -23.75% 13
Middlesex +6 5 £275 -38.89% 2
Kent +1 2 £500 +2.56% 17
Home Counties +4 1 £475 -26.92%
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (5.84%) Confluence
2 8 (2.75%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.37%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) GemFire
5 2 (0.69%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 141 (48.45%) Azure
2 27 (9.28%) Amazon S3
3 25 (8.59%) GCP
4 20 (6.87%) Serverless
5 16 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (4.47%) SaaS
7 12 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.78%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.44%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.09%) GitHub
11 8 (2.75%) Datadog
11 8 (2.75%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.41%) IaaS
12 7 (2.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (15.12%) SSL
2 18 (6.19%) Firewall
3 14 (4.81%) DNS
4 11 (3.78%) VPN
5 9 (3.09%) Network Security
6 7 (2.41%) SAN
7 6 (2.06%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.06%) WAN
8 5 (1.72%) LAN
9 4 (1.37%) Wireless
10 3 (1.03%) DHCP
10 3 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.69%) MPLS
11 2 (0.69%) NAS
12 1 (0.34%) BGP
12 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.34%) DMZ
12 1 (0.34%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.40%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.19%) Oracle Database
2 18 (6.19%) Oracle Database 11g
3 12 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.44%) Big Data
5 9 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.06%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.37%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.37%) GIS
9 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.37%) Impala
9 4 (1.37%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.37%) MySQL
9 4 (1.37%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.00%) JIRA
2 31 (10.65%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.28%) GitLab
4 20 (6.87%) Git
5 17 (5.84%) Selenium
6 13 (4.47%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.47%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.12%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.06%) JUnit
9 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.03%) JMeter
10 3 (1.03%) Subversion
11 2 (0.69%) ERwin
11 2 (0.69%) kappa
12 1 (0.34%) Appium
12 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.34%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 59 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.59%) Finance
4 9 (3.09%) Law
4 9 (3.09%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.09%) Retail
5 8 (2.75%) Police
6 7 (2.41%) Banking
7 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Digital Healthcare
8 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Automotive
10 2 (0.69%) Back Office
10 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (24.74%) Architect
2 61 (20.96%) Developer
3 29 (9.97%) Senior
4 22 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (5.84%) Analyst
5 17 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (5.84%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.15%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 12 (4.12%) Network Engineer
8 11 (3.78%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (3.78%) Software Engineer
8 11 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.44%) Lead
10 9 (3.09%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (3.09%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.75%) Consultant
11 8 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.41%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.87%) Web Services
2 25 (8.59%) REST
3 19 (6.53%) .NET
4 18 (6.19%) AngularJS
4 18 (6.19%) Node.js
5 15 (5.15%) React
6 13 (4.47%) ARM Templates
6 13 (4.47%) Java EE
7 12 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (3.78%) CSS
8 11 (3.78%) RESTful
8 11 (3.78%) Spring
9 10 (3.44%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.09%) HTML
10 9 (3.09%) Kafka
10 9 (3.09%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.75%) ADO
12 6 (2.06%) Laravel
12 6 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.81%) PKI
2 19 (6.53%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.78%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.37%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Life Science
10 1 (0.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (17.53%) Linux
2 26 (8.93%) Windows
3 15 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.75%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.06%) Debian
6 3 (1.03%) Solaris
6 3 (1.03%) VMS
7 2 (0.69%) Unix
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (29.21%) DevOps
2 51 (17.53%) Agile
3 47 (16.15%) Cryptography
4 43 (14.78%) Key Management
5 42 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (13.06%) Software Engineering
7 35 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (11.34%) Migration
9 31 (10.65%) Test Automation
10 30 (10.31%) Containerisation
11 28 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (9.28%) Decision-Making
13 25 (8.59%) Microservices
14 24 (8.25%) CI/CD
14 24 (8.25%) Data Migration
15 22 (7.56%) Configuration Management
16 21 (7.22%) Unit Testing
17 20 (6.87%) Architectural Design
17 20 (6.87%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (6.87%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.53%) SQL
2 39 (13.40%) Java
3 37 (12.71%) Python
4 23 (7.90%) PL/SQL
5 21 (7.22%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.53%) Bash
7 17 (5.84%) C#
7 17 (5.84%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.09%) Ruby
8 9 (3.09%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.75%) Scala
10 7 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.06%) C++
12 5 (1.72%) Perl
12 5 (1.72%) PHP
13 4 (1.37%) C
13 4 (1.37%) Go
14 2 (0.69%) Groovy
15 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 113 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 88 (30.24%) SC Cleared
3 61 (20.96%) Degree
4 30 (10.31%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.47%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.78%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.41%) CCNP
8 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.03%) CEH
10 3 (1.03%) CISSP
10 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.03%) MCSE
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.69%) CCSK
11 2 (0.69%) CCSP
11 2 (0.69%) CISM
11 2 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.72%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.72%) NIST
1 5 (1.72%) QA
2 4 (1.37%) GDPR
2 4 (1.37%) NCSC
3 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.69%) SLA
4 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.34%) FATCA
4 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 71 (24.40%) Active Directory
2 45 (15.46%) Docker
3 23 (7.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.44%) vSphere
5 7 (2.41%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.69%) HDFS
9 2 (0.69%) Varnish
10 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 50 (17.18%) Terraform
3 43 (14.78%) Ansible
4 12 (4.12%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (4.12%) Podman
5 10 (3.44%) Rancher
6 7 (2.41%) Istio
6 7 (2.41%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.41%) Puppet
7 6 (2.06%) Nagios
8 5 (1.72%) SCCM
9 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.03%) Grafana
10 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.03%) SELinux
10 3 (1.03%) WSUS
11 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.69%) Graylog
11 2 (0.69%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (12.71%) VMware
2 30 (10.31%) Oracle
3 23 (7.90%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.15%) Cisco
4 15 (5.15%) Google
5 13 (4.47%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.44%) SolarWinds
6 10 (3.44%) Splunk
7 8 (2.75%) F5
8 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.72%) SAP
9 4 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.37%) Informatica
9 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.37%) Veritas
10 3 (1.03%) Dell
10 3 (1.03%) Foundry
10 3 (1.03%) New Relic
10 3 (1.03%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.03%) Zscaler