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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,365 2,165 3,075
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.47% 9.53% 10.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.26% 29.18% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,668 2,325
10th Percentile £350 £413 £410
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £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 38 29
10th Percentile - £24.62 £44.35
25th Percentile £35.00 £47.05 £50.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +8.95%
75th Percentile £71.87 £75.88 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -24.14% +10.62% +10.15%

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 5,404 7,420 10,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.62% 32.67% 32.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,777 5,466 7,428
10th Percentile £220 £240 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 215 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.75 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -3 453 £500 -9.09% 428
South East -4 296 £575 - 228
North West -1 275 £490 -11.00% 282
Scotland -3 243 £472 -4.60% 102
South West -12 193 £538 -6.52% 206
Yorkshire -3 154 £510 -7.27% 110
Midlands -7 136 £450 -14.29% 197
West Midlands -25 71 £505 -6.48% 114
East Midlands +5 67 £445 -15.24% 83
East of England -58 37 £550 -5.90% 82
North East -5 27 £575 -11.54% 36
Wales +1 16 £558 +1.36% 44
Northern Ireland +1 7 £675 +3.85% 60
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 58 (4.25%) Confluence
2 46 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 32 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (2.27%) Apache
5 10 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.66%) CMS
6 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.51%) JBoss
7 7 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.37%) SAS
10 4 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.29%) Mule
11 3 (0.22%) nginx
12 2 (0.15%) WordPress
13 1 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.073%) Alfresco
13 1 (0.073%) Drupal
13 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Trello
5 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Temenos T24
2 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.073%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.073%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.073%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 544 (39.85%) Azure
2 186 (13.63%) GCP
3 176 (12.89%) Serverless
4 173 (12.67%) Amazon S3
5 137 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
6 105 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 102 (7.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 82 (6.01%) OpenShift
9 65 (4.76%) GitHub
10 63 (4.62%) SaaS
11 60 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 59 (4.32%) Snowflake
13 52 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
15 42 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 37 (2.71%) Power Platform
17 35 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
17 35 (2.56%) PaaS
18 27 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
18 27 (1.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.98%) Firewall
2 52 (3.81%) VPN
3 51 (3.74%) SSL
4 40 (2.93%) Network Security
5 35 (2.56%) DNS
6 29 (2.12%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.68%) WAN
8 19 (1.39%) LAN
9 18 (1.32%) Wireless
10 16 (1.17%) HTTP
11 15 (1.10%) OSPF
12 14 (1.03%) SAN
13 10 (0.73%) PBX
14 9 (0.66%) MPLS
14 9 (0.66%) VoIP
15 8 (0.59%) AMQP
15 8 (0.59%) BGP
15 8 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.59%) VLAN
15 8 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (3.96%) MongoDB
3 54 (3.96%) MySQL
4 53 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 50 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (3.66%) Big Data
6 45 (3.30%) SQL Server
7 44 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (2.78%) Oracle Database
11 35 (2.56%) NoSQL
12 33 (2.42%) Data Lake
13 32 (2.34%) Power BI
14 29 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (1.83%) Hadoop
16 19 (1.39%) DynamoDB
17 17 (1.25%) InfluxDB
18 14 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 171 (12.53%) Jenkins
2 134 (9.82%) Git
3 117 (8.57%) GitLab
4 116 (8.50%) JIRA
5 41 (3.00%) SonarQube
6 34 (2.49%) Selenium
7 28 (2.05%) Cypress.io
8 26 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.47%) Maven
10 18 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.10%) Artifactory
11 15 (1.10%) webpack
12 13 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.88%) JMeter
13 12 (0.88%) JUnit
13 12 (0.88%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.81%) Gradle
14 11 (0.81%) Travis CI
15 10 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 237 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 149 (10.92%) Finance
3 129 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 116 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (5.35%) Banking
6 34 (2.49%) Retail
7 27 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.47%) Legal
8 20 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 12 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (0.81%) Law
12 10 (0.73%) Back Office
13 8 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.59%) Marketing
13 8 (0.59%) Police
14 7 (0.51%) Digital Economy
14 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.44%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 354 (25.93%) Developer
2 230 (16.85%) Architect
3 154 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 105 (7.69%) Senior
5 100 (7.33%) Java Developer
6 99 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
7 80 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 78 (5.71%) Lead
9 65 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 63 (4.62%) Data Engineer
11 52 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
12 51 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 45 (3.30%) AWS Architect
13 45 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 45 (3.30%) Full Stack Developer
14 44 (3.22%) Analyst
15 42 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.49%) Consultant
17 29 (2.12%) Network Engineer
18 27 (1.98%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (10.99%) React
2 113 (8.28%) Spring
3 108 (7.91%) Spring Boot
4 105 (7.69%) REST
5 99 (7.25%) Node.js
6 86 (6.30%) Kafka
7 76 (5.57%) Web Services
8 75 (5.49%) RESTful
9 72 (5.27%) AWS CDK
10 64 (4.69%) CSS
11 62 (4.54%) AngularJS
12 59 (4.32%) HTML
13 58 (4.25%) .NET
14 41 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
15 38 (2.78%) GraphQL
16 35 (2.56%) OAuth
17 29 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (1.90%) JSON
19 25 (1.83%) SOAP
19 25 (1.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.86%) Public Cloud
2 60 (4.40%) PKI
3 51 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 37 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 35 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 24 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 19 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 18 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.10%) Replication
11 15 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 11 (0.81%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.81%) Onboarding
13 11 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.73%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 195 (14.29%) Linux
2 101 (7.40%) Windows
3 54 (3.96%) Unix
4 36 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.95%) Android
9 7 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.44%) CentOS
11 4 (0.29%) Solaris
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.22%) VMS
12 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.15%) Debian
13 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (28.50%) DevOps
2 339 (24.84%) Agile
3 334 (24.47%) CI/CD
4 189 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 177 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (11.87%) Containerisation
7 156 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 147 (10.77%) Microservices
9 121 (8.86%) Test Automation
10 120 (8.79%) Migration
11 111 (8.13%) Full Stack Development
12 109 (7.99%) Scrum
13 91 (6.67%) Roadmaps
14 87 (6.37%) Continuous Integration
15 85 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
16 84 (6.15%) SDLC
17 80 (5.86%) ETL
18 79 (5.79%) Data Modelling
19 74 (5.42%) Decision-Making
20 73 (5.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 379 (27.77%) Python
2 329 (24.10%) Java
3 216 (15.82%) SQL
4 138 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 136 (9.96%) JavaScript
6 116 (8.50%) Bash
7 83 (6.08%) PowerShell
8 56 (4.10%) C#
9 46 (3.37%) Scala
10 39 (2.86%) C
11 37 (2.71%) Go
12 34 (2.49%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.98%) PHP
14 21 (1.54%) PL/SQL
15 20 (1.47%) C++
15 20 (1.47%) Ruby
16 19 (1.39%) Groovy
17 17 (1.25%) Perl
18 11 (0.81%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 310 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 213 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 119 (8.72%) Degree
4 103 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 61 (4.47%) AWS Certification
6 37 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.17%) CCNA
11 15 (1.10%) CCNP
12 14 (1.03%) CISSP
13 11 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.59%) CISM
16 7 (0.51%) HND
17 6 (0.44%) CCIE
17 6 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.66%) QA
2 42 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.76%) NIST
6 18 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
7 16 (1.17%) GDPR
8 15 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.95%) NCSC
10 8 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.44%) SLA
13 5 (0.37%) WCAG
14 4 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
17 1 (0.073%) GRC
17 1 (0.073%) PMO
17 1 (0.073%) SOC 2
System Software
1 278 (20.37%) Docker
2 110 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 57 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.17%) vSphere
6 10 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.44%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.37%) HDFS
10 3 (0.22%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.22%) OpenIDM
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.073%) ACF2
12 1 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.073%) Firmware
12 1 (0.073%) IAG
12 1 (0.073%) KVM
12 1 (0.073%) RACF
Systems Management
1 322 (23.59%) Kubernetes
2 288 (21.10%) Terraform
3 173 (12.67%) Ansible
4 101 (7.40%) Grafana
5 66 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.59%) Progress Chef
7 37 (2.71%) Docker Swarm
8 30 (2.20%) Puppet
9 26 (1.90%) Kibana
10 16 (1.17%) Rancher
11 14 (1.03%) Nagios
11 14 (1.03%) Podman
12 13 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.88%) Istio
13 12 (0.88%) SCCM
14 11 (0.81%) HP Fortify
14 11 (0.81%) Nessus
15 10 (0.73%) Graylog
15 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.73%) Packer
Vendors
1 143 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.11%) Oracle
3 84 (6.15%) Google
4 83 (6.08%) VMware
5 71 (5.20%) Splunk
6 46 (3.37%) Cisco
7 24 (1.76%) IBM
8 23 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 23 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 20 (1.47%) Databricks
9 20 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.39%) F5
11 16 (1.17%) Informatica
11 16 (1.17%) SolarWinds
11 16 (1.17%) Zscaler
12 14 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 13 (0.95%) Avaya
14 12 (0.88%) Juniper
15 10 (0.73%) SAP