Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK

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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 4,317 7,216 12,713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 12.44% 14.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.01% 33.77% 37.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 5,403 9,679
10th Percentile £381 £425 £425
25th Percentile £460 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 63 33
10th Percentile £22.21 £24.62 £42.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £52.34 £47.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +27.91%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.30 £80.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -15.38% +28.03% -13.95%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,922 21,371 33,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.33% 36.84% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,900 15,444 24,526
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 346 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.54
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.83
90th Percentile £62.45 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England -3 3,603 £563 -6.25% 2,374
London +1 2,325 £575 -6.12% 1,142
Work from Home 0 1,766 £573 -0.43% 1,461
UK excluding London -9 1,321 £525 -4.55% 1,392
North of England -4 431 £510 -7.27% 375
South East -4 289 £575 - 236
North West -1 282 £497 -9.59% 219
Scotland -3 232 £475 -3.06% 117
South West -11 187 £550 -4.35% 228
Yorkshire -9 130 £538 -2.27% 118
Midlands -9 124 £482 -10.74% 208
West Midlands -29 67 £550 +1.85% 127
East Midlands +12 57 £450 -24.21% 81
East of England -46 45 £550 -5.90% 124
North East -10 21 £575 -8.00% 38
Wales +3 20 £558 -3.04% 45
Northern Ireland -3 4 £675 +12.50% 72
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 281 (6.51%) Apache
2 262 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
3 136 (3.15%) Confluence
4 91 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 69 (1.60%) nginx
6 47 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
8 26 (0.60%) OpenStack
9 20 (0.46%) JBoss
10 19 (0.44%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.35%) SAS
11 15 (0.35%) WordPress
12 14 (0.32%) Drupal
12 14 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
13 11 (0.25%) WebSphere
14 10 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
14 10 (0.23%) IIS
15 9 (0.21%) Site Server
16 8 (0.19%) Anypoint
Applications
1 34 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 18 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.16%) Trello
5 5 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.069%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.046%) Sketch
8 2 (0.046%) Weka
9 1 (0.023%) InVision
9 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 15 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.32%) Temenos T24
4 11 (0.25%) Endur
5 10 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.19%) Shopify
7 7 (0.16%) Magento
7 7 (0.16%) NEC Housing
8 6 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 3 (0.069%) Dynamics CRM
10 3 (0.069%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.069%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 3 (0.069%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.046%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,507 (34.91%) Azure
2 807 (18.69%) GCP
3 530 (12.28%) Serverless
4 449 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
5 424 (9.82%) Amazon S3
6 286 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
7 247 (5.72%) GitHub
8 244 (5.65%) Snowflake
9 222 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 178 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
11 174 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 169 (3.91%) SaaS
13 157 (3.64%) dbt
14 136 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 112 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
15 112 (2.59%) Power Platform
16 110 (2.55%) OpenShift
17 105 (2.43%) PaaS
18 103 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
18 103 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 206 (4.77%) Firewall
2 133 (3.08%) DNS
3 109 (2.52%) VPN
4 95 (2.20%) Network Security
5 71 (1.64%) LAN
6 68 (1.58%) WAN
7 66 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 64 (1.48%) SSL
9 59 (1.37%) DHCP
9 59 (1.37%) HTTP
10 47 (1.09%) Wireless
11 43 (1.00%) OSPF
12 40 (0.93%) BGP
13 32 (0.74%) SAN
14 31 (0.72%) MPLS
15 30 (0.69%) VLAN
16 23 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
16 23 (0.53%) SD-WAN
17 22 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (8.32%) PostgreSQL
2 224 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
3 189 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
4 185 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 184 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 172 (3.98%) SQL Server
7 169 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
8 158 (3.66%) Apache Ignite
9 154 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 150 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 147 (3.41%) Big Data
12 133 (3.08%) MySQL
13 123 (2.85%) DynamoDB
13 123 (2.85%) MongoDB
14 112 (2.59%) Apache Arrow
14 112 (2.59%) Dremio
15 98 (2.27%) Power BI
16 87 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
17 79 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
18 71 (1.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 400 (9.27%) Jenkins
2 361 (8.36%) Git
3 263 (6.09%) JIRA
4 230 (5.33%) GitLab
5 113 (2.62%) Cypress.io
6 75 (1.74%) Selenium
7 67 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 63 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 59 (1.37%) Maven
10 46 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 38 (0.88%) JMeter
12 37 (0.86%) JUnit
13 31 (0.72%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.69%) CircleCI
15 23 (0.53%) webpack
16 22 (0.51%) Postman
16 22 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (0.49%) Artifactory
17 21 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 833 (19.30%) Finance
2 709 (16.42%) Social Skills
3 369 (8.55%) Public Sector
4 355 (8.22%) Banking
5 293 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 285 (6.60%) Front Office
7 130 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 88 (2.04%) Retail
9 81 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 79 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 57 (1.32%) Marketing
12 48 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 35 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
15 32 (0.74%) Legal
16 31 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 29 (0.67%) Law
18 25 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
19 22 (0.51%) Electronics
20 20 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,157 (26.80%) Developer
2 692 (16.03%) Architect
3 487 (11.28%) Senior
4 429 (9.94%) AWS Engineer
5 428 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 372 (8.62%) Software Engineer
7 302 (7.00%) Lead
8 287 (6.65%) Data Engineer
9 245 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
10 231 (5.35%) Java Developer
11 224 (5.19%) Full Stack Developer
12 204 (4.73%) Python Developer
13 164 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
14 163 (3.78%) AWS Architect
15 158 (3.66%) Python Engineer
16 150 (3.47%) Analyst
17 148 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
18 146 (3.38%) React Developer
19 145 (3.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 142 (3.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (11.56%) React
2 333 (7.71%) Node.js
3 317 (7.34%) Kafka
4 251 (5.81%) REST
5 250 (5.79%) Spring
6 233 (5.40%) .NET
7 232 (5.37%) RESTful
8 223 (5.17%) Spring Boot
9 189 (4.38%) gRPC
10 181 (4.19%) Protocol Buffers
11 177 (4.10%) AngularJS
12 160 (3.71%) HTML
13 150 (3.47%) CSS
14 142 (3.29%) Redux
15 135 (3.13%) Pandas
16 128 (2.97%) Web Services
17 120 (2.78%) NumPy
18 108 (2.50%) AWS CDK
18 108 (2.50%) GraphQL
19 105 (2.43%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 259 (6.00%) Fixed Income
2 251 (5.81%) Hedge funds
3 187 (4.33%) Equities
4 180 (4.17%) Derivative
5 153 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 149 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 134 (3.10%) Cloud Native
8 97 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 94 (2.18%) PKI
10 92 (2.13%) Product Ownership
11 86 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 80 (1.85%) Data Centre
13 76 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
14 70 (1.62%) Management Information System
15 65 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
16 57 (1.32%) Algorithms
17 56 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
18 51 (1.18%) Data Structures
19 50 (1.16%) Clustering
20 45 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 494 (11.44%) Linux
2 302 (7.00%) Windows
3 135 (3.13%) Unix
4 127 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 84 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 31 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.63%) Android
9 20 (0.46%) CentOS
10 17 (0.39%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.39%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.28%) Solaris
12 10 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.23%) VMS
13 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.16%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.16%) zOS
15 6 (0.14%) Debian
15 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,256 (29.09%) Agile
2 1,186 (27.47%) DevOps
3 925 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 676 (15.66%) Software Engineering
5 516 (11.95%) Microservices
6 467 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
7 424 (9.82%) Full Stack Development
8 406 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 342 (7.92%) Containerisation
10 333 (7.71%) Migration
11 332 (7.69%) Test Automation
12 316 (7.32%) Analytics
13 296 (6.86%) Asset Management
14 266 (6.16%) Machine Learning
15 258 (5.98%) ETL
16 252 (5.84%) TDD
17 242 (5.61%) Investment Management
18 237 (5.49%) Scrum
19 233 (5.40%) Data Pipeline
20 226 (5.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,398 (32.38%) Python
2 888 (20.57%) Java
3 794 (18.39%) SQL
4 623 (14.43%) JavaScript
5 543 (12.58%) TypeScript
6 246 (5.70%) Bash
7 229 (5.30%) Go
8 220 (5.10%) C#
9 195 (4.52%) PowerShell
10 144 (3.34%) Scala
11 101 (2.34%) PHP
12 81 (1.88%) Ruby
13 77 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 69 (1.60%) C
15 58 (1.34%) C++
16 52 (1.20%) Perl
17 46 (1.07%) Kotlin
18 45 (1.04%) PL/SQL
19 36 (0.83%) R
20 35 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 999 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 809 (18.74%) SC Cleared
3 310 (7.18%) Degree
4 178 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 170 (3.94%) AWS Certification
6 162 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 65 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 49 (1.14%) CISSP
11 44 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 42 (0.97%) CCNP
13 35 (0.81%) CISM
14 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 27 (0.63%) CCNA
16 23 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 15 (0.35%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (4.15%) QA
2 112 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 76 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 69 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (1.44%) NIST
6 52 (1.20%) NCSC
7 48 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 46 (1.07%) GDPR
9 36 (0.83%) SLA
10 16 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 13 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.25%) MiFID
13 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.19%) WCAG
16 7 (0.16%) GRC
17 5 (0.12%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.093%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 674 (15.61%) Docker
2 216 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 119 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 38 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.42%) vSphere
7 17 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.30%) ACF2
9 13 (0.30%) IAG
9 13 (0.30%) RACF
10 9 (0.21%) NFS
11 7 (0.16%) Firmware
12 6 (0.14%) HDFS
12 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.12%) KVM
14 4 (0.093%) GPFS
14 4 (0.093%) OpenAM
14 4 (0.093%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 890 (20.62%) Kubernetes
2 840 (19.46%) Terraform
3 376 (8.71%) Ansible
4 163 (3.78%) Grafana
5 149 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 91 (2.11%) Puppet
7 73 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
9 39 (0.90%) Packer
10 38 (0.88%) Kibana
11 35 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
12 34 (0.79%) SCCM
13 25 (0.58%) Nagios
14 20 (0.46%) Consul
15 16 (0.37%) Podman
16 15 (0.35%) Istio
17 14 (0.32%) Argo
17 14 (0.32%) Graylog
17 14 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
17 14 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 350 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 287 (6.65%) Oracle
3 259 (6.00%) Google
4 174 (4.03%) VMware
5 143 (3.31%) Splunk
6 119 (2.76%) Cisco
7 100 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.97%) SAP
9 78 (1.81%) Databricks
10 70 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 66 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 64 (1.48%) IBM
13 54 (1.25%) Salesforce
14 52 (1.20%) F5
15 48 (1.11%) Palo Alto
16 42 (0.97%) Informatica
17 38 (0.88%) BeyondTrust
17 38 (0.88%) Talend
18 35 (0.81%) Dynatrace
19 31 (0.72%) Bloomberg