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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 674 828
Rank change year-on-year +103 +154 -107
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 8 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.018% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.019% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 11
10th Percentile - £557 £463
25th Percentile £525 £563 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £622
90th Percentile £601 £678 £750
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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £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 2 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
Work from Home +112 6 £550 -8.33% 1
UK excluding London +48 4 £550 -8.33%
Scotland - 4 £550 -
London +100 3 £550 -4.35% 1
England +90 3 £550 -8.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Operations
3 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (50.00%) Cost Control
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) Python
6 2 (25.00%) Terraform
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
7 1 (12.50%) CI/CD

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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Route 53
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 1 (12.50%) Database Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft