AWS Specialist Contracts

Amazon Web Services Specialist
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Specialist daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 674 833
Rank change year-on-year +108 +159 -165
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 10 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.018% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.019% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 14
10th Percentile £519 £557 £414
25th Percentile £525 £563 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £633
90th Percentile £596 £678 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £485
% change year-on-year -8.33% +23.71% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

AWS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Specialist in the UK

AWS Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Specialist in the UK

AWS Specialist
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
Work from Home +125 8 £550 -8.33%
UK excluding London +54 4 £550 -8.33%
Scotland - 4 £550 -
England +107 3 £550 -8.33%
London +103 3 £550 -4.35%

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, AWS Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (60.00%) Oracle
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 5 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
5 4 (40.00%) Python
5 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (40.00%) Cost Control
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Terraform
6 3 (30.00%) Docker
7 2 (20.00%) DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Route 53
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Control
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science
4 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Groovy
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Ariba
3 1 (10.00%) ICL
3 1 (10.00%) SAP