AWS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,360 2,433 3,056
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.58% 10.17% 9.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.34% 30.58% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 1,892 2,285
10th Percentile £350 £413 £408
25th Percentile £425 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.74%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 13
10th Percentile £27.75 £21.30 £42.40
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +28.03% -13.95%
75th Percentile £71.87 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £65.53
UK median hourly rate £50.59 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.64% +34.55% +27.91%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,368 7,955 9,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.97% 33.27% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,804 5,903 7,308
10th Percentile £213 £248 £206
25th Percentile £370 £409 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 227 287
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England -3 443 £500 -9.09% 367
North West -1 292 £492 -10.50% 216
South East -3 291 £575 - 225
Scotland -3 242 £480 -2.29% 122
South West -9 191 £550 -4.35% 228
Yorkshire -8 132 £525 -4.55% 107
Midlands -6 128 £500 -7.41% 198
West Midlands -27 70 £550 +1.85% 120
East Midlands +13 58 £450 -26.53% 77
East of England -41 52 £538 -8.04% 118
North East -10 21 £575 -4.17% 45
Wales +3 20 £558 -3.04% 39
Northern Ireland +3 4 £675 +12.50% 64
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 50 (3.68%) Confluence
2 32 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.21%) Apache
5 11 (0.81%) CMS
6 10 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.66%) SAS
8 7 (0.51%) JBoss
9 5 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
9 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.37%) nginx
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.29%) Mule
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) Drupal
12 2 (0.15%) GemFire
12 2 (0.15%) Traefik
13 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.15%) Avolution ABACUS
3 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.074%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 490 (36.03%) Azure
2 177 (13.01%) Serverless
3 167 (12.28%) Amazon S3
4 160 (11.76%) GCP
5 144 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
6 108 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 107 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
8 75 (5.51%) OpenShift
9 64 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (4.26%) GitHub
11 57 (4.19%) Snowflake
12 55 (4.04%) SaaS
13 53 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 51 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
16 33 (2.43%) Power Platform
17 32 (2.35%) PaaS
18 30 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
20 27 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.07%) Firewall
2 56 (4.12%) VPN
3 51 (3.75%) SSL
4 46 (3.38%) DNS
5 40 (2.94%) Network Security
6 31 (2.28%) TCP/IP
7 25 (1.84%) WAN
8 24 (1.76%) LAN
9 16 (1.18%) SAN
10 14 (1.03%) DHCP
10 14 (1.03%) OSPF
10 14 (1.03%) Wireless
11 10 (0.74%) PBX
11 10 (0.74%) VoIP
12 9 (0.66%) HTTP
12 9 (0.66%) VLAN
13 7 (0.51%) BGP
13 7 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.51%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
3 63 (4.63%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.49%) Relational Database
5 55 (4.04%) MySQL
6 49 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 47 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 42 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (3.09%) Oracle Database
9 38 (2.79%) Big Data
10 37 (2.72%) NoSQL
11 36 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
12 34 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (1.91%) Power BI
14 22 (1.62%) Data Lake
15 20 (1.47%) DynamoDB
16 19 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.32%) Hadoop
17 18 (1.32%) Oracle Database 11g
17 18 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 159 (11.69%) Jenkins
2 121 (8.90%) GitLab
3 112 (8.24%) Git
4 105 (7.72%) JIRA
5 40 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 33 (2.43%) Cypress.io
6 33 (2.43%) Selenium
7 30 (2.21%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.47%) Maven
9 15 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.10%) JUnit
9 15 (1.10%) webpack
10 13 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 12 (0.88%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.81%) JMeter
13 9 (0.66%) Burp Suite
13 9 (0.66%) Gradle
13 9 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 240 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 139 (10.22%) Finance
3 131 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 105 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (3.90%) Banking
6 37 (2.72%) Retail
7 24 (1.76%) Telecoms
8 21 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.32%) Legal
10 16 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.03%) Marketing
12 12 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.81%) Back Office
14 10 (0.74%) Law
15 9 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.59%) Police
16 8 (0.59%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.51%) Digital Economy
17 7 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 369 (27.13%) Developer
2 208 (15.29%) Architect
3 129 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 121 (8.90%) Senior
5 95 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
5 95 (6.99%) Java Developer
6 85 (6.25%) Lead
7 68 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 64 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 58 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
11 57 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (3.38%) Analyst
13 45 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 37 (2.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.50%) AWS Architect
16 34 (2.50%) Network Engineer
17 33 (2.43%) Platform Engineer
18 28 (2.06%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (11.69%) React
2 123 (9.04%) Node.js
3 112 (8.24%) Spring
4 109 (8.01%) REST
5 102 (7.50%) RESTful
6 99 (7.28%) Spring Boot
7 86 (6.32%) Web Services
8 74 (5.44%) AWS CDK
9 72 (5.29%) AngularJS
10 68 (5.00%) CSS
11 62 (4.56%) HTML
12 55 (4.04%) Kafka
13 52 (3.82%) .NET
14 41 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
14 41 (3.01%) OAuth
15 27 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (1.91%) JSON
17 25 (1.84%) OAuth2
17 25 (1.84%) OpenID
17 25 (1.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.03%) Public Cloud
2 63 (4.63%) PKI
3 56 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 38 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (1.76%) Data Structures
8 21 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 20 (1.47%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.10%) Replication
11 15 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.74%) Mainframe
15 10 (0.74%) Mobile App
15 10 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (14.04%) Linux
2 115 (8.46%) Windows
3 45 (3.31%) Unix
4 44 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 40 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.69%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.96%) Android
9 7 (0.51%) CentOS
9 7 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.44%) Debian
11 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.29%) Solaris
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.22%) VMS
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (27.21%) Agile
2 363 (26.69%) DevOps
3 325 (23.90%) CI/CD
4 174 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
5 172 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 164 (12.06%) Microservices
7 158 (11.62%) Software Engineering
8 134 (9.85%) Migration
9 129 (9.49%) Containerisation
10 125 (9.19%) Full Stack Development
11 117 (8.60%) Test Automation
12 112 (8.24%) Scrum
13 92 (6.76%) Roadmaps
14 87 (6.40%) Continuous Integration
15 84 (6.18%) SDLC
16 73 (5.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 72 (5.29%) Analytics
17 72 (5.29%) Decision-Making
17 72 (5.29%) ETL
18 70 (5.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 357 (26.25%) Python
2 323 (23.75%) Java
3 224 (16.47%) SQL
4 153 (11.25%) JavaScript
5 150 (11.03%) TypeScript
6 109 (8.01%) Bash
7 71 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 49 (3.60%) C#
9 46 (3.38%) Scala
10 41 (3.01%) Go
11 35 (2.57%) Shell Script
12 33 (2.43%) C
12 33 (2.43%) PHP
13 26 (1.91%) Ruby
14 25 (1.84%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.69%) Perl
16 17 (1.25%) Groovy
17 10 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.59%) Swift
19 7 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 329 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 225 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 107 (7.87%) Degree
4 105 (7.72%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.32%) CCNP
10 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.10%) CCNA
12 14 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.59%) CISSP
16 7 (0.51%) HND
16 7 (0.51%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.41%) QA
2 52 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 28 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.62%) NIST
6 18 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
7 17 (1.25%) NCSC
8 13 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.81%) GDPR
10 8 (0.59%) SLA
11 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
14 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.074%) FATCA
15 1 (0.074%) ISO 8583
15 1 (0.074%) MiFID
15 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 234 (17.21%) Docker
2 110 (8.09%) Active Directory
3 55 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.03%) vSphere
6 10 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.51%) HDFS
7 7 (0.51%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.29%) GPFS
10 4 (0.29%) NFS
11 3 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.22%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.22%) OpenIDM
12 2 (0.15%) Varnish
13 1 (0.074%) ACF2
13 1 (0.074%) IAG
13 1 (0.074%) KVM
13 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 286 (21.03%) Terraform
2 282 (20.74%) Kubernetes
3 172 (12.65%) Ansible
4 91 (6.69%) Grafana
5 59 (4.34%) Prometheus
6 41 (3.01%) Progress Chef
7 32 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
7 32 (2.35%) Puppet
8 24 (1.76%) Kibana
9 15 (1.10%) Nagios
10 14 (1.03%) Podman
10 14 (1.03%) Rancher
11 12 (0.88%) Istio
11 12 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.81%) Graylog
12 11 (0.81%) HP Fortify
12 11 (0.81%) Packer
13 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.66%) SCCM
15 7 (0.51%) Nessus
Vendors
1 125 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.84%) Oracle
3 85 (6.25%) VMware
4 68 (5.00%) Google
5 67 (4.93%) Splunk
6 45 (3.31%) Cisco
7 26 (1.91%) IBM
8 25 (1.84%) Informatica
8 25 (1.84%) Red Hat
9 23 (1.69%) Databricks
10 21 (1.54%) SAP
11 18 (1.32%) F5
12 17 (1.25%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.18%) Palo Alto
14 14 (1.03%) SolarWinds
15 13 (0.96%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.88%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.88%) Talend
17 11 (0.81%) Avaya
17 11 (0.81%) Veritas