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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 294 390 587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.21% 6.91% 7.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.12% 23.35% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 283 414
10th Percentile £400 £413 £407
25th Percentile £460 £481 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +6.73% +7.75%
75th Percentile £643 £665 £629
90th Percentile £688 £715 £688
England median daily rate £560 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile - £50.25 £45.50
25th Percentile - £68.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +57.89% -27.50%
75th Percentile £37.63 - £55.25
90th Percentile £39.20 - £61.42
England median hourly rate £50.59 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -32.55% +7.14% +16.67%

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 1,329 1,670 2,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.55% 29.60% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,215 1,796
10th Percentile £263 £252 £207
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 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 47 55
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.21 £13.36
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% -2.44%
75th Percentile £59.95 £69.38 £24.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.30 £54.15
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +2 128 £575 +4.55% 76
Hampshire +8 85 £613 +11.36% 41
Berkshire -4 81 £613 +11.36% 41
Buckinghamshire +13 34 £500 -9.09% 20
Surrey -24 30 £530 -11.67% 27
West Sussex +5 15 £450 -28.29% 20
Middlesex +7 14 £625 +38.89% 2
Oxfordshire +5 13 £500 -16.67% 15
East Sussex 0 10 £475 -32.14% 21
Kent +4 2 £500 +2.56% 20
Home Counties +3 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 15 (5.10%) Confluence
2 5 (1.70%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.70%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.68%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 152 (51.70%) Azure
2 27 (9.18%) GCP
3 22 (7.48%) Amazon S3
4 18 (6.12%) Serverless
5 16 (5.44%) SaaS
6 14 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.74%) OpenShift
8 11 (3.74%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.40%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.06%) PaaS
11 7 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (2.38%) GitHub
11 7 (2.38%) IaaS
11 7 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.04%) Datadog
12 6 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.29%) SSL
2 21 (7.14%) Firewall
3 13 (4.42%) Network Security
4 11 (3.74%) DNS
4 11 (3.74%) VPN
5 8 (2.72%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.38%) SAN
6 7 (2.38%) WAN
6 7 (2.38%) Wireless
7 4 (1.36%) LAN
7 4 (1.36%) MPLS
7 4 (1.36%) VLAN
8 3 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.68%) DMVPN
9 2 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.68%) NAS
9 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 12 (4.08%) Oracle Database
2 12 (4.08%) Oracle Database 11g
3 11 (3.74%) Big Data
4 9 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.72%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.70%) Impala
7 5 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.70%) Tableau
8 4 (1.36%) GIS
8 4 (1.36%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.36%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.36%) Power BI
8 4 (1.36%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.02%) MySQL
9 3 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (10.54%) Jenkins
1 31 (10.54%) JIRA
2 27 (9.18%) GitLab
3 20 (6.80%) Git
4 17 (5.78%) Selenium
5 13 (4.42%) Cucumber
5 13 (4.42%) SonarQube
6 12 (4.08%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.02%) JMeter
7 3 (1.02%) JUnit
7 3 (1.02%) Subversion
7 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.68%) ERwin
8 2 (0.68%) kappa
8 2 (0.68%) Maven
9 1 (0.34%) NUnit
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.34%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 64 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.50%) Finance
4 10 (3.40%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.06%) Law
5 9 (3.06%) Retail
6 8 (2.72%) Police
7 7 (2.38%) Banking
8 5 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.36%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.02%) Automotive
10 3 (1.02%) Aviation
11 2 (0.68%) Back Office
11 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (22.79%) Architect
2 59 (20.07%) Developer
3 34 (11.56%) Senior
4 28 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (6.46%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (6.12%) Java Developer
6 18 (6.12%) Lead
7 15 (5.10%) Analyst
8 12 (4.08%) Network Engineer
8 12 (4.08%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 11 (3.74%) Software Engineer
9 11 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.06%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (3.06%) Consultant
10 9 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.06%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.38%) Java Engineer
12 7 (2.38%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (2.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.33%) Web Services
2 21 (7.14%) REST
3 15 (5.10%) .NET
3 15 (5.10%) Node.js
3 15 (5.10%) React
3 15 (5.10%) Spring Boot
4 14 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.42%) ARM Templates
5 13 (4.42%) Java EE
6 11 (3.74%) CSS
6 11 (3.74%) Kafka
7 10 (3.40%) Spring
8 9 (3.06%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.06%) HTML
8 9 (3.06%) J2EE
9 8 (2.72%) ADO
9 8 (2.72%) RESTful
10 6 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.63%) PKI
2 17 (5.78%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.74%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.70%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.36%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.36%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.68%) IVR
10 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.34%) Clustering
11 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.34%) IoT
11 1 (0.34%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.39%) Linux
2 30 (10.20%) Windows
3 16 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.06%) Unix
5 8 (2.72%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.36%) Debian
8 3 (1.02%) Solaris
8 3 (1.02%) VMS
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.95%) DevOps
2 45 (15.31%) Agile
3 43 (14.63%) Cryptography
3 43 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (13.95%) Key Management
5 40 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (11.90%) Containerisation
7 32 (10.88%) Software Engineering
8 31 (10.54%) Test Automation
9 29 (9.86%) CI/CD
9 29 (9.86%) Migration
9 29 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (8.50%) Configuration Management
10 25 (8.50%) Decision-Making
11 20 (6.80%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (6.12%) Microservices
13 17 (5.78%) Full Stack Development
14 16 (5.44%) Analytics
15 15 (5.10%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (5.10%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.35%) Java
2 50 (17.01%) Python
3 43 (14.63%) SQL
4 25 (8.50%) PowerShell
5 20 (6.80%) Bash
6 16 (5.44%) PL/SQL
7 15 (5.10%) C++
8 14 (4.76%) C#
9 13 (4.42%) C
9 13 (4.42%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.06%) Ruby
11 8 (2.72%) Scala
11 8 (2.72%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.70%) Go
12 5 (1.70%) Perl
12 5 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.36%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) Groovy
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 99 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 61 (20.75%) Degree
4 30 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.42%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.74%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.72%) CCNP
10 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.70%) CISSP
13 3 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.02%) CCNA
13 3 (1.02%) CCSP
13 3 (1.02%) CEH
13 3 (1.02%) CISM
13 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.02%) MCSE
14 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.70%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.70%) NIST
2 4 (1.36%) GDPR
2 4 (1.36%) NCSC
3 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.68%) QA
3 2 (0.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 71 (24.15%) Active Directory
2 49 (16.67%) Docker
3 26 (8.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.42%) vSphere
5 7 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.68%) HDFS
8 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.34%) Firmware
9 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 70 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 59 (20.07%) Terraform
3 41 (13.95%) Ansible
4 12 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (4.08%) Podman
5 11 (3.74%) Rancher
6 7 (2.38%) Istio
6 7 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.38%) Puppet
6 7 (2.38%) SCCM
7 6 (2.04%) Nagios
8 5 (1.70%) Nessus
8 5 (1.70%) WSUS
9 4 (1.36%) Grafana
9 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.02%) SELinux
11 2 (0.68%) Argo
11 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 40 (13.61%) VMware
2 25 (8.50%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.14%) Oracle
4 16 (5.44%) Cisco
5 14 (4.76%) Google
6 11 (3.74%) SolarWinds
7 10 (3.40%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.40%) Splunk
8 9 (3.06%) F5
9 6 (2.04%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.04%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.70%) Qualys
10 5 (1.70%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.36%) Avaya
11 4 (1.36%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.36%) Informatica
11 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.36%) Veritas
12 3 (1.02%) OpenAI