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 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 22 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,347 2,185 3,052
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.47% 9.59% 10.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.11% 29.32% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 1,683 2,303
10th Percentile £350 £413 £410
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.95%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 34 29
10th Percentile - £24.62 £44.35
25th Percentile £35.00 £41.25 £50.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £71.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.79% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71.87 £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +13.00%

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 5,364 7,452 9,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.75% 32.72% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,791 5,492 7,388
10th Percentile £215 £243 £208
25th Percentile £375 £405 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 220 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.79 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £32.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.53 £63.40
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
% change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
North of England -4 438 £500 -9.09% 421
South East -4 294 £575 - 237
North West -1 266 £475 -13.64% 274
Scotland -3 244 £475 -4.04% 103
South West -13 194 £538 -6.52% 202
Yorkshire -4 150 £530 -3.64% 111
Midlands -7 131 £450 -14.29% 196
West Midlands -26 67 £450 -16.67% 119
East Midlands +6 66 £445 -19.09% 77
East of England -53 40 £550 -7.25% 79
North East -8 24 £575 -11.54% 36
Wales +2 16 £558 -2.19% 38
Northern Ireland -2 5 £675 +8.00% 53
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 56 (4.16%) Confluence
2 42 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.30%) Apache
4 30 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.74%) CMS
7 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.52%) JBoss
8 7 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.52%) SAS
9 6 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.30%) Mule
11 4 (0.30%) nginx
12 3 (0.22%) WordPress
13 2 (0.15%) Drupal
13 2 (0.15%) Traefik
14 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Trello
5 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.074%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.074%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 528 (39.20%) Azure
2 184 (13.66%) GCP
3 172 (12.77%) Amazon S3
4 169 (12.55%) Serverless
5 134 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
6 104 (7.72%) Amazon EC2
7 101 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 81 (6.01%) OpenShift
9 67 (4.97%) GitHub
10 59 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 57 (4.23%) SaaS
12 56 (4.16%) Snowflake
13 49 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
16 37 (2.75%) Power Platform
17 35 (2.60%) PaaS
18 30 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
19 28 (2.08%) Entra ID
20 27 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.12%) Firewall
2 53 (3.93%) VPN
3 51 (3.79%) SSL
4 41 (3.04%) Network Security
5 40 (2.97%) DNS
6 33 (2.45%) TCP/IP
7 24 (1.78%) WAN
8 20 (1.48%) LAN
9 17 (1.26%) Wireless
10 16 (1.19%) HTTP
10 16 (1.19%) SAN
11 15 (1.11%) OSPF
12 10 (0.74%) PBX
12 10 (0.74%) VLAN
13 9 (0.67%) MPLS
13 9 (0.67%) VoIP
13 9 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.59%) BGP
14 8 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (3.93%) MySQL
3 53 (3.93%) Relational Database
4 51 (3.79%) MongoDB
5 48 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (3.41%) Big Data
6 46 (3.41%) SQL Server
7 44 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (3.04%) Oracle Database
9 40 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
11 35 (2.60%) NoSQL
12 32 (2.38%) Data Lake
12 32 (2.38%) Power BI
13 28 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
14 23 (1.71%) Hadoop
15 18 (1.34%) DynamoDB
16 16 (1.19%) InfluxDB
17 14 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 162 (12.03%) Jenkins
2 129 (9.58%) Git
3 115 (8.54%) GitLab
4 112 (8.31%) JIRA
5 40 (2.97%) SonarQube
6 34 (2.52%) Selenium
7 26 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 26 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.19%) Maven
10 15 (1.11%) webpack
11 13 (0.97%) Artifactory
12 12 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.89%) JMeter
12 12 (0.89%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.82%) JUnit
13 11 (0.82%) Travis CI
14 10 (0.74%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 233 (17.30%) Social Skills
2 137 (10.17%) Finance
3 127 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 103 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.35%) Banking
6 35 (2.60%) Retail
7 24 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 18 (1.34%) Legal
10 13 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 13 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (0.82%) Back Office
11 11 (0.82%) Law
12 9 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (0.67%) Marketing
13 8 (0.59%) Police
14 7 (0.52%) Digital Economy
14 7 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.45%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 361 (26.80%) Developer
2 226 (16.78%) Architect
3 144 (10.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 106 (7.87%) Senior
5 98 (7.28%) Java Developer
6 93 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 79 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 78 (5.79%) Lead
9 63 (4.68%) Software Engineer
10 62 (4.60%) Data Engineer
11 54 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
12 50 (3.71%) Full Stack Developer
13 45 (3.34%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (3.27%) Analyst
14 44 (3.27%) AWS Architect
15 41 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 38 (2.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 31 (2.30%) Network Engineer
18 28 (2.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 27 (2.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (11.51%) React
2 120 (8.91%) Spring
3 110 (8.17%) Spring Boot
4 107 (7.94%) REST
5 100 (7.42%) Node.js
6 84 (6.24%) Kafka
7 77 (5.72%) Web Services
8 75 (5.57%) RESTful
9 71 (5.27%) AWS CDK
10 67 (4.97%) AngularJS
11 65 (4.83%) CSS
12 60 (4.45%) HTML
13 58 (4.31%) .NET
14 41 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
15 36 (2.67%) GraphQL
16 34 (2.52%) OAuth
17 30 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (1.93%) JSON
18 26 (1.93%) SOAP
19 24 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (5.72%) Public Cloud
2 61 (4.53%) PKI
3 52 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 37 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 32 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 20 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.41%) Product Ownership
11 18 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.11%) Replication
13 15 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.82%) Management Information System
14 11 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.74%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 192 (14.25%) Linux
2 101 (7.50%) Windows
3 53 (3.93%) Unix
4 38 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 36 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.97%) Android
9 7 (0.52%) CentOS
9 7 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.30%) Debian
11 4 (0.30%) Solaris
11 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.22%) VMS
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (28.51%) DevOps
2 344 (25.54%) Agile
3 330 (24.50%) CI/CD
4 181 (13.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 174 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
6 154 (11.43%) Containerisation
7 153 (11.36%) Software Engineering
8 147 (10.91%) Microservices
9 121 (8.98%) Migration
10 118 (8.76%) Full Stack Development
11 112 (8.31%) Test Automation
12 107 (7.94%) Scrum
13 89 (6.61%) SDLC
14 87 (6.46%) Continuous Integration
15 86 (6.38%) Roadmaps
16 85 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 79 (5.86%) Data Modelling
17 79 (5.86%) ETL
18 74 (5.49%) Decision-Making
19 70 (5.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 379 (28.14%) Python
2 328 (24.35%) Java
3 215 (15.96%) SQL
4 145 (10.76%) JavaScript
5 139 (10.32%) TypeScript
6 115 (8.54%) Bash
7 82 (6.09%) PowerShell
8 54 (4.01%) C#
9 44 (3.27%) Scala
10 43 (3.19%) C
11 41 (3.04%) Go
12 34 (2.52%) Shell Script
13 27 (2.00%) PHP
14 22 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.56%) Ruby
16 20 (1.48%) Perl
17 17 (1.26%) C++
18 15 (1.11%) Groovy
19 11 (0.82%) Kotlin
20 8 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 310 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 214 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 110 (8.17%) Degree
4 105 (7.80%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 36 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.34%) CCNP
10 16 (1.19%) CCNA
11 15 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.89%) CISSP
13 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.52%) CISM
15 7 (0.52%) HND
16 6 (0.45%) CCIE
16 6 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.01%) QA
2 41 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 21 (1.56%) NIST
6 18 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 17 (1.26%) NCSC
8 15 (1.11%) GDPR
8 15 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 7 (0.52%) SLA
10 4 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.30%) WCAG
11 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.074%) GRC
13 1 (0.074%) PMO
13 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
System Software
1 268 (19.90%) Docker
2 107 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 57 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.26%) vSphere
6 10 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.37%) HDFS
10 4 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.22%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.22%) OpenIDM
12 2 (0.15%) GPFS
12 2 (0.15%) NFS
13 1 (0.074%) ACF2
13 1 (0.074%) Firmware
13 1 (0.074%) IAG
13 1 (0.074%) KVM
13 1 (0.074%) RACF
Systems Management
1 314 (23.31%) Kubernetes
2 281 (20.86%) Terraform
3 170 (12.62%) Ansible
4 98 (7.28%) Grafana
5 67 (4.97%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.64%) Progress Chef
7 36 (2.67%) Docker Swarm
8 31 (2.30%) Puppet
9 27 (2.00%) Kibana
10 16 (1.19%) Rancher
11 14 (1.04%) Nagios
11 14 (1.04%) Podman
12 13 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.89%) Istio
13 12 (0.89%) Nessus
14 11 (0.82%) HP Fortify
14 11 (0.82%) Packer
14 11 (0.82%) SCCM
15 10 (0.74%) Graylog
15 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 131 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.13%) Oracle
3 86 (6.38%) VMware
4 81 (6.01%) Google
5 73 (5.42%) Splunk
6 47 (3.49%) Cisco
7 26 (1.93%) IBM
8 22 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 19 (1.41%) Databricks
9 19 (1.41%) F5
10 17 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.19%) SolarWinds
12 15 (1.11%) Informatica
13 14 (1.04%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.97%) Avaya
15 12 (0.89%) Juniper
16 10 (0.74%) SAP
16 10 (0.74%) Zscaler