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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,585 5,755 10,256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.84% 12.03% 14.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.65% 33.11% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,761 4,368 7,841
10th Percentile £377 £432 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £579
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.69% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 52 37
10th Percentile £22.17 £35.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £27.75 £60.48 £51.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.70 £89.83 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +37.98%

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 11,696 17,384 26,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.11% 36.33% 38.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 12,744 19,978
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £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 320 288 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £34.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.87% +59.99% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £69.63 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.18 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -1.12%

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 23 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

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 23 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 23 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 2,328 £575 -8.00% 1,769
North of England -4 424 £500 -9.09% 427
South East -4 288 £575 - 837
North West -1 259 £475 -13.64% 266
South West -12 191 £538 -6.52% 216
Yorkshire -4 144 £525 -4.55% 116
Midlands -6 128 £450 -16.67% 216
West Midlands -24 67 £475 -13.64% 135
East Midlands +8 63 £445 -20.89% 80
East of England -48 41 £550 -5.66% 128
North East -9 23 £575 -8.00% 45
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
1 306 (8.54%) Apache
2 272 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
3 109 (3.04%) Confluence
4 78 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 59 (1.65%) nginx
6 45 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.64%) CMS
8 19 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 14 (0.39%) JBoss
10 14 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.28%) IIS
12 9 (0.25%) Site Server
13 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
13 8 (0.22%) SAS
13 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.20%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.20%) Drupal
14 7 (0.20%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 28 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.056%) Sketch
5 2 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.056%) Trello
6 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.028%) InVision
6 1 (0.028%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 13 (0.36%) Temenos T24
3 11 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.28%) Endur
5 8 (0.22%) Shopify
6 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
7 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.084%) Magento
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
12 1 (0.028%) Aareon QL
12 1 (0.028%) Maximo
12 1 (0.028%) NetSuite
12 1 (0.028%) SAP ERP
12 1 (0.028%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,269 (35.40%) Azure
2 717 (20.00%) GCP
3 406 (11.32%) Serverless
4 331 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
5 314 (8.76%) Amazon S3
6 241 (6.72%) Snowflake
7 222 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
8 198 (5.52%) GitHub
9 168 (4.69%) dbt
10 144 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 134 (3.74%) SaaS
12 126 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 119 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
14 115 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 95 (2.65%) Power Platform
16 88 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
17 83 (2.32%) PaaS
18 81 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
19 78 (2.18%) Amazon Kinesis
20 76 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 174 (4.85%) Firewall
2 118 (3.29%) DNS
3 95 (2.65%) VPN
4 82 (2.29%) Network Security
5 66 (1.84%) HTTP
6 63 (1.76%) LAN
6 63 (1.76%) SSL
7 61 (1.70%) TCP/IP
8 59 (1.65%) WAN
9 53 (1.48%) DHCP
10 45 (1.26%) Wireless
11 41 (1.14%) OSPF
12 34 (0.95%) BGP
13 28 (0.78%) MPLS
14 27 (0.75%) VLAN
15 26 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
16 24 (0.67%) SAN
16 24 (0.67%) SD-WAN
17 22 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
18 19 (0.53%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 206 (5.75%) Amazon Athena
3 201 (5.61%) Data Lake
4 188 (5.24%) Apache Ignite
5 182 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
6 167 (4.66%) NoSQL
7 151 (4.21%) SQL Server
8 140 (3.91%) Dremio
9 139 (3.88%) Apache Arrow
10 138 (3.85%) Big Data
11 136 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
12 130 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 115 (3.21%) MySQL
14 114 (3.18%) Relational Database
15 110 (3.07%) DynamoDB
16 91 (2.54%) Power BI
17 85 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
18 84 (2.34%) MongoDB
19 66 (1.84%) Tableau
20 49 (1.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 339 (9.46%) Jenkins
2 317 (8.84%) Git
3 209 (5.83%) JIRA
4 182 (5.08%) GitLab
5 105 (2.93%) Cypress.io
6 60 (1.67%) Selenium
7 51 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 49 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 35 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 33 (0.92%) JMeter
11 32 (0.89%) Maven
12 30 (0.84%) CircleCI
13 29 (0.81%) TeamCity
14 27 (0.75%) JUnit
15 23 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
16 19 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.50%) REST Assured
18 17 (0.47%) Postman
18 17 (0.47%) webpack
19 16 (0.45%) Mockito
General
1 792 (22.09%) Finance
2 574 (16.01%) Social Skills
3 372 (10.38%) Banking
4 323 (9.01%) Front Office
5 273 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 231 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 146 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 85 (2.37%) Retail
9 65 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 50 (1.39%) Marketing
12 37 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 33 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (0.78%) Law
16 27 (0.75%) Legal
17 26 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.53%) Publishing
20 16 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 917 (25.58%) Developer
2 592 (16.51%) Architect
3 423 (11.80%) Senior
4 370 (10.32%) Software Engineer
5 360 (10.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 354 (9.87%) AWS Engineer
7 257 (7.17%) Lead
8 218 (6.08%) Data Engineer
9 214 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
10 194 (5.41%) Python Developer
11 187 (5.22%) Full Stack Developer
12 160 (4.46%) Python Engineer
13 154 (4.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 153 (4.27%) Java Developer
15 140 (3.91%) React Developer
16 137 (3.82%) Python Software Engineer
17 133 (3.71%) AWS Architect
18 132 (3.68%) Analyst
19 129 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
20 116 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (12.05%) React
2 296 (8.26%) Kafka
3 253 (7.06%) Node.js
4 229 (6.39%) gRPC
5 216 (6.03%) .NET
6 215 (6.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 173 (4.83%) RESTful
8 169 (4.71%) REST
9 168 (4.69%) Spring
10 159 (4.44%) Spring Boot
11 151 (4.21%) Pandas
12 150 (4.18%) Redux
13 142 (3.96%) AngularJS
14 139 (3.88%) NumPy
15 124 (3.46%) SciPy
16 121 (3.38%) HTML
17 111 (3.10%) Web Services
18 110 (3.07%) CSS
19 94 (2.62%) GraphQL
20 82 (2.29%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 285 (7.95%) Fixed Income
1 285 (7.95%) Hedge funds
2 213 (5.94%) Equities
3 197 (5.50%) Derivative
4 173 (4.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 116 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 96 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 81 (2.26%) PKI
8 79 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 74 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 67 (1.87%) Data Centre
11 66 (1.84%) Onboarding
12 57 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
13 53 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
14 49 (1.37%) Clustering
15 45 (1.26%) Algorithms
15 45 (1.26%) Management Information System
16 40 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
18 37 (1.03%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 411 (11.46%) Linux
2 237 (6.61%) Windows
3 112 (3.12%) Unix
4 91 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.64%) Android
8 21 (0.59%) 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 (0.20%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.20%) zOS
14 6 (0.17%) Debian
14 6 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.084%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (28.59%) Agile
2 982 (27.39%) DevOps
3 733 (20.45%) CI/CD
4 618 (17.24%) Software Engineering
5 383 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
6 365 (10.18%) Full Stack Development
7 363 (10.13%) Microservices
8 321 (8.95%) Asset Management
9 316 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 297 (8.28%) Containerisation
11 260 (7.25%) Investment Management
11 260 (7.25%) Migration
12 249 (6.95%) Analytics
13 242 (6.75%) Test Automation
14 232 (6.47%) Machine Learning
15 218 (6.08%) ETL
16 209 (5.83%) TDD
17 191 (5.33%) Data Modelling
18 185 (5.16%) Artificial Intelligence
19 183 (5.10%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,243 (34.67%) Python
2 732 (20.42%) Java
3 643 (17.94%) SQL
4 556 (15.51%) JavaScript
5 467 (13.03%) TypeScript
6 203 (5.66%) C#
6 203 (5.66%) Go
7 196 (5.47%) Bash
8 182 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 106 (2.96%) Scala
10 78 (2.18%) PHP
11 77 (2.15%) C
12 69 (1.92%) C++
13 60 (1.67%) Ruby
14 51 (1.42%) Shell Script
15 34 (0.95%) Kotlin
16 33 (0.92%) PL/SQL
17 30 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 28 (0.78%) Perl
19 25 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 829 (23.12%) Security Cleared
2 659 (18.38%) SC Cleared
3 261 (7.28%) Degree
4 172 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 146 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 132 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (1.42%) CISSP
9 50 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 42 (1.17%) CCNP
11 42 (1.17%) CISM
12 29 (0.81%) CCNA
12 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.78%) Master's Degree
14 25 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 24 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.59%) CISA
16 21 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.33%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (3.91%) QA
2 112 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 60 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (1.62%) NIST
5 45 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.23%) 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 (0.20%) GRC
14 7 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.17%) WCAG
16 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 576 (16.07%) Docker
2 191 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 106 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.50%) 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 (0.20%) Firmware
9 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.14%) HDFS
11 4 (0.11%) KVM
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.11%) OpenAM
11 4 (0.11%) Shibboleth
11 4 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 751 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 688 (19.19%) Terraform
3 304 (8.48%) Ansible
4 132 (3.68%) Prometheus
5 118 (3.29%) Grafana
6 80 (2.23%) Puppet
7 72 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
9 31 (0.86%) Packer
9 31 (0.86%) SCCM
9 31 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (0.81%) Kibana
11 19 (0.53%) Podman
12 16 (0.45%) Rancher
13 15 (0.42%) Consul
14 14 (0.39%) Argo
14 14 (0.39%) Istio
14 14 (0.39%) Nagios
15 12 (0.33%) logstash
15 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 278 (7.75%) Microsoft
2 233 (6.50%) Google
3 210 (5.86%) Oracle
4 154 (4.30%) VMware
5 117 (3.26%) Splunk
6 107 (2.98%) Cisco
7 72 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 69 (1.92%) SAP
9 58 (1.62%) F5
10 54 (1.51%) Databricks
11 52 (1.45%) IBM
12 49 (1.37%) CyberArk
13 48 (1.34%) Red Hat
13 48 (1.34%) Salesforce
14 47 (1.31%) Palo Alto
15 34 (0.95%) Informatica
16 31 (0.86%) Juniper
17 29 (0.81%) Bloomberg
17 29 (0.81%) Talend
18 28 (0.78%) SolarWinds