AWS Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,596 5,856 10,364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.88% 12.09% 14.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.80% 33.11% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 4,454 7,918
10th Percentile £377 £431 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.91% +12.14%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £793 £788 £756
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 38
10th Percentile £22.19 £32.92 £46.25
25th Percentile £28.38 £60.70 £51.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +18.64%
75th Percentile £72.34 £78.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £88.30 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +48.95%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,675 17,684 27,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 36.49% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,429 12,966 20,152
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £417 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 288 339
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.81 £49.08
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in England

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in England

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +1 2,334 £575 -8.00% 1,575
North of England -2 423 £500 -9.09% 467
South East -4 285 £575 - 550
North West -2 260 £475 -13.64% 267
South West -12 193 £538 -6.52% 233
Yorkshire -5 144 £525 -4.55% 146
Midlands -11 127 £450 -16.67% 247
West Midlands -25 67 £500 -7.41% 163
East Midlands +11 62 £445 -25.05% 84
East of England -52 41 £550 -5.90% 132
North East -10 21 £575 -11.54% 54
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 299 (8.31%) Apache
2 263 (7.31%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (3.23%) Confluence
4 77 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 60 (1.67%) nginx
6 45 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.64%) CMS
8 19 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.42%) JBoss
10 15 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.28%) IIS
11 10 (0.28%) SAS
12 9 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (0.25%) Site Server
13 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.19%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 32 (0.89%) MS Visio
2 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.056%) Sketch
6 2 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.056%) Trello
7 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.028%) InVision
7 1 (0.028%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 13 (0.36%) Temenos T24
3 12 (0.33%) Endur
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.22%) Shopify
6 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
7 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.083%) Magento
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.056%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.056%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.028%) Maximo
11 1 (0.028%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.028%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,273 (35.40%) Azure
2 709 (19.72%) GCP
3 413 (11.48%) Serverless
4 336 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
5 317 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 228 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
6 228 (6.34%) Snowflake
7 193 (5.37%) GitHub
8 158 (4.39%) dbt
9 151 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 134 (3.73%) SaaS
11 129 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 125 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
13 117 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 91 (2.53%) Power Platform
15 89 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
16 84 (2.34%) PaaS
17 83 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
18 78 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
19 76 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 173 (4.81%) Firewall
2 117 (3.25%) DNS
3 95 (2.64%) VPN
4 82 (2.28%) Network Security
5 66 (1.84%) HTTP
6 64 (1.78%) SSL
7 63 (1.75%) LAN
8 58 (1.61%) TCP/IP
9 57 (1.59%) WAN
10 51 (1.42%) DHCP
11 44 (1.22%) Wireless
12 41 (1.14%) OSPF
13 34 (0.95%) BGP
14 27 (0.75%) MPLS
14 27 (0.75%) VLAN
15 26 (0.72%) SAN
16 24 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
17 22 (0.61%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
19 18 (0.50%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 201 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
3 195 (5.42%) Data Lake
4 184 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
5 181 (5.03%) Apache Ignite
6 166 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 149 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 137 (3.81%) Big Data
9 133 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
10 132 (3.67%) Apache Arrow
10 132 (3.67%) Dremio
11 129 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 117 (3.25%) Relational Database
13 109 (3.03%) MySQL
14 107 (2.98%) DynamoDB
15 87 (2.42%) Power BI
16 85 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
16 85 (2.36%) MongoDB
17 63 (1.75%) Tableau
18 51 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 340 (9.45%) Jenkins
2 317 (8.82%) Git
3 219 (6.09%) JIRA
4 181 (5.03%) GitLab
5 103 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 62 (1.72%) Selenium
7 55 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 49 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 38 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 35 (0.97%) Maven
11 33 (0.92%) JMeter
12 30 (0.83%) CircleCI
13 29 (0.81%) TeamCity
14 27 (0.75%) JUnit
15 21 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.50%) REST Assured
18 17 (0.47%) Postman
18 17 (0.47%) webpack
19 16 (0.44%) Travis CI
General
1 788 (21.91%) Finance
2 576 (16.02%) Social Skills
3 363 (10.09%) Banking
4 316 (8.79%) Front Office
5 281 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 237 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
7 138 (3.84%) Investment Banking
8 84 (2.34%) Retail
9 62 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 62 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 50 (1.39%) Marketing
11 37 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (0.78%) Law
14 28 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (0.72%) Legal
16 21 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.53%) Publishing
18 15 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 913 (25.39%) Developer
2 607 (16.88%) Architect
3 428 (11.90%) Senior
4 366 (10.18%) Software Engineer
5 361 (10.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 354 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
7 260 (7.23%) Lead
8 218 (6.06%) Data Engineer
9 215 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
10 191 (5.31%) Python Developer
11 190 (5.28%) Full Stack Developer
12 155 (4.31%) Python Engineer
13 154 (4.28%) Java Developer
14 153 (4.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 138 (3.84%) React Developer
16 137 (3.81%) AWS Architect
17 133 (3.70%) Python Software Engineer
18 132 (3.67%) Analyst
19 131 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
20 116 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (11.82%) React
2 294 (8.18%) Kafka
3 257 (7.15%) Node.js
4 220 (6.12%) gRPC
5 218 (6.06%) .NET
6 208 (5.78%) Protocol Buffers
7 174 (4.84%) REST
7 174 (4.84%) RESTful
8 169 (4.70%) Spring
9 155 (4.31%) Spring Boot
10 149 (4.14%) Redux
11 143 (3.98%) Pandas
12 139 (3.87%) AngularJS
13 132 (3.67%) NumPy
14 119 (3.31%) HTML
15 117 (3.25%) SciPy
16 113 (3.14%) Web Services
17 109 (3.03%) CSS
18 93 (2.59%) GraphQL
19 83 (2.31%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 278 (7.73%) Fixed Income
1 278 (7.73%) Hedge funds
2 209 (5.81%) Equities
3 192 (5.34%) Derivative
4 167 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 118 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 96 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 82 (2.28%) PKI
8 80 (2.22%) Product Ownership
9 74 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 68 (1.89%) Onboarding
11 67 (1.86%) Data Centre
12 55 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
13 50 (1.39%) Clustering
14 49 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 48 (1.33%) Algorithms
16 46 (1.28%) Management Information System
17 38 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (1.03%) Data Structures
19 35 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 414 (11.51%) Linux
2 240 (6.67%) Windows
3 107 (2.98%) Unix
4 93 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.67%) Android
8 21 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 14 (0.39%) CentOS
11 13 (0.36%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.28%) Solaris
12 10 (0.28%) VMS
13 7 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.19%) zOS
14 6 (0.17%) Debian
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,034 (28.75%) Agile
2 987 (27.45%) DevOps
3 748 (20.80%) CI/CD
4 610 (16.96%) Software Engineering
5 385 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 372 (10.34%) Microservices
7 367 (10.21%) Full Stack Development
8 317 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 313 (8.70%) Asset Management
10 298 (8.29%) Containerisation
11 256 (7.12%) Analytics
12 252 (7.01%) Investment Management
13 251 (6.98%) Migration
14 247 (6.87%) Test Automation
15 233 (6.48%) Machine Learning
16 220 (6.12%) ETL
17 207 (5.76%) TDD
18 191 (5.31%) Data Modelling
19 187 (5.20%) Stakeholder Management
20 186 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,233 (34.29%) Python
2 731 (20.33%) Java
3 645 (17.94%) SQL
4 552 (15.35%) JavaScript
5 461 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 206 (5.73%) C#
7 205 (5.70%) Go
8 193 (5.37%) Bash
9 181 (5.03%) PowerShell
10 107 (2.98%) Scala
11 76 (2.11%) PHP
12 74 (2.06%) C
13 67 (1.86%) C++
14 62 (1.72%) Ruby
15 50 (1.39%) Shell Script
16 34 (0.95%) PL/SQL
17 33 (0.92%) Kotlin
18 31 (0.86%) T-SQL
19 28 (0.78%) Perl
20 27 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 859 (23.89%) Security Cleared
2 689 (19.16%) SC Cleared
3 257 (7.15%) Degree
4 171 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 144 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 131 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (1.45%) CISSP
9 50 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 43 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 42 (1.17%) CISM
12 40 (1.11%) CCNP
13 28 (0.78%) CCNA
13 28 (0.78%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 26 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.58%) CISA
16 21 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.31%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (3.98%) QA
2 107 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 62 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (1.64%) NIST
5 45 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 41 (1.14%) GDPR
8 33 (0.92%) SLA
9 32 (0.89%) NCSC
10 13 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.28%) MiFID
12 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.19%) GRC
14 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.17%) WCAG
16 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
18 3 (0.083%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 572 (15.91%) Docker
2 190 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 106 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.47%) vSphere
7 12 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.22%) ACF2
8 8 (0.22%) IAG
8 8 (0.22%) RACF
8 8 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.19%) Firmware
10 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) HDFS
11 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) OpenAM
12 4 (0.11%) Shibboleth
13 3 (0.083%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.056%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 749 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 686 (19.08%) Terraform
3 308 (8.57%) Ansible
4 133 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 115 (3.20%) Grafana
6 82 (2.28%) Puppet
7 76 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
9 33 (0.92%) Packer
10 31 (0.86%) SCCM
10 31 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 30 (0.83%) Kibana
12 18 (0.50%) Consul
12 18 (0.50%) Podman
13 16 (0.44%) Rancher
14 15 (0.42%) Nagios
15 14 (0.39%) Istio
16 13 (0.36%) Argo
17 12 (0.33%) logstash
17 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 276 (7.68%) Microsoft
2 230 (6.40%) Google
3 216 (6.01%) Oracle
4 157 (4.37%) VMware
5 119 (3.31%) Splunk
6 104 (2.89%) Cisco
7 76 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 70 (1.95%) SAP
9 55 (1.53%) F5
10 52 (1.45%) IBM
11 51 (1.42%) Databricks
12 50 (1.39%) Red Hat
13 49 (1.36%) CyberArk
14 46 (1.28%) Salesforce
15 43 (1.20%) Palo Alto
16 34 (0.95%) Informatica
17 30 (0.83%) Bloomberg
18 29 (0.81%) Talend
19 28 (0.78%) SolarWinds
20 27 (0.75%) Juniper