AWS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 31 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 288 392 601
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.21% 6.99% 7.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.83% 23.31% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 282 422
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £478 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year - +5.50% +9.00%
75th Percentile £643 £674 £625
90th Percentile £688 £714 £688
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile - £50.25 £45.50
25th Percentile - £68.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +57.89% -27.53%
75th Percentile £37.63 - £55.25
90th Percentile £39.20 - £61.42
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,319 1,682 2,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.86% 30.00% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 1,225 1,783
10th Percentile £263 £250 £208
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 51 56
10th Percentile £16.54 £15.21 £13.36
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £24.43 £23.30 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% +10.82% -0.12%
75th Percentile £59.95 £68.13 £24.81
90th Percentile £61.58 £75.00 £55.13
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South East over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 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
Thames Valley -1 130 £575 +4.55% 80
Hampshire +10 85 £613 +11.36% 56
Berkshire -6 83 £613 +11.36% 46
Buckinghamshire +11 34 £500 -9.09% 18
Surrey -20 27 £535 -10.83% 24
West Sussex +3 15 £450 -23.21% 14
Oxfordshire +6 13 £500 -16.67% 17
Middlesex +7 11 £600 +33.33% 1
East Sussex -2 9 £534 -23.75% 26
Kent +4 2 £500 +2.56% 17
Home Counties +3 1 £475 -26.92%
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (5.21%) Confluence
2 5 (1.74%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.39%) Apache
3 4 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 148 (51.39%) Azure
2 27 (9.38%) GCP
3 24 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 18 (6.25%) Serverless
5 16 (5.56%) SaaS
6 15 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.82%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.47%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.13%) PaaS
11 8 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.78%) Datadog
11 8 (2.78%) GitHub
11 8 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.43%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.43%) IaaS
13 6 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.58%) SSL
2 19 (6.60%) Firewall
3 13 (4.51%) DNS
4 12 (4.17%) Network Security
5 11 (3.82%) VPN
6 7 (2.43%) SAN
6 7 (2.43%) WAN
7 6 (2.08%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.39%) LAN
8 4 (1.39%) MPLS
8 4 (1.39%) Wireless
9 3 (1.04%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.69%) DMVPN
10 2 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.69%) NAS
10 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.51%) Oracle Database
2 13 (4.51%) Oracle Database 11g
3 12 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (3.47%) Big Data
5 9 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.39%) GIS
9 4 (1.39%) Impala
9 4 (1.39%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.39%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.39%) Tableau
10 3 (1.04%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.04%) MySQL
10 3 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.07%) JIRA
3 26 (9.03%) GitLab
4 19 (6.60%) Git
5 17 (5.90%) Selenium
6 13 (4.51%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.51%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.17%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.04%) JMeter
9 3 (1.04%) JUnit
9 3 (1.04%) Subversion
9 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.69%) ERwin
10 2 (0.69%) kappa
11 1 (0.35%) Maven
11 1 (0.35%) NUnit
11 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.35%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.35%) Travis CI
General
1 63 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (6.94%) Finance
4 11 (3.82%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.13%) Law
5 9 (3.13%) Retail
6 8 (2.78%) Police
7 7 (2.43%) Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.39%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.04%) Automotive
10 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.69%) Aviation
11 2 (0.69%) Back Office
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (22.57%) Architect
2 58 (20.14%) Developer
3 33 (11.46%) Senior
4 28 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (5.56%) Analyst
6 16 (5.56%) Lead
7 15 (5.21%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.51%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 11 (3.82%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (3.82%) Network Engineer
9 11 (3.82%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.13%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.13%) Consultant
11 9 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.43%) Full Stack Developer
13 7 (2.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.67%) Web Services
2 21 (7.29%) REST
3 16 (5.56%) .NET
3 16 (5.56%) Node.js
3 16 (5.56%) React
4 15 (5.21%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.51%) ARM Templates
5 13 (4.51%) Java EE
6 12 (4.17%) CSS
6 12 (4.17%) Spring Boot
7 10 (3.47%) HTML
8 9 (3.13%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.13%) Kafka
9 8 (2.78%) ADO
9 8 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.78%) RESTful
9 8 (2.78%) Spring
10 6 (2.08%) J2EE
10 6 (2.08%) Laravel
10 6 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.58%) PKI
2 17 (5.90%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.82%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.74%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.39%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.39%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.69%) IVR
10 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.35%) Clustering
11 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.35%) Life Science
11 1 (0.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.79%) Linux
2 30 (10.42%) Windows
3 16 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.78%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.78%) Unix
5 6 (2.08%) Debian
6 3 (1.04%) Solaris
6 3 (1.04%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.25%) DevOps
2 47 (16.32%) Agile
3 45 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (14.93%) Cryptography
5 41 (14.24%) Key Management
6 37 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.15%) Containerisation
8 33 (11.46%) Software Engineering
9 29 (10.07%) Migration
9 29 (10.07%) Test Automation
10 28 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
11 27 (9.38%) CI/CD
12 24 (8.33%) Configuration Management
12 24 (8.33%) Decision-Making
13 19 (6.60%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
15 17 (5.90%) Microservices
16 16 (5.56%) Analytics
16 16 (5.56%) Data Migration
17 15 (5.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (16.67%) Python
2 45 (15.63%) Java
3 43 (14.93%) SQL
4 24 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 22 (7.64%) Bash
6 17 (5.90%) PL/SQL
7 14 (4.86%) C#
7 14 (4.86%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.17%) C++
9 10 (3.47%) C
10 9 (3.13%) Ruby
10 9 (3.13%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.43%) Scala
11 7 (2.43%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.74%) Perl
12 5 (1.74%) PHP
13 4 (1.39%) Go
14 2 (0.69%) Groovy
15 1 (0.35%) R
15 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 99 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.74%) SC Cleared
3 62 (21.53%) Degree
4 30 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.47%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.78%) CCNP
10 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.39%) CISSP
12 3 (1.04%) CCNA
12 3 (1.04%) CEH
12 3 (1.04%) CISM
12 3 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.04%) MCSE
13 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.69%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.74%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.74%) NIST
2 4 (1.39%) GDPR
2 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.39%) NCSC
3 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.69%) QA
3 2 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (23.96%) Active Directory
2 48 (16.67%) Docker
3 23 (7.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.82%) vSphere
5 7 (2.43%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.69%) HDFS
9 2 (0.69%) Varnish
9 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 56 (19.44%) Terraform
3 41 (14.24%) Ansible
4 12 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (4.17%) Podman
5 10 (3.47%) Rancher
6 7 (2.43%) Istio
6 7 (2.43%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.43%) Puppet
7 6 (2.08%) SCCM
8 5 (1.74%) Nagios
9 4 (1.39%) Grafana
9 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.39%) WSUS
10 3 (1.04%) SELinux
11 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.69%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.69%) Nessus
11 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (12.85%) VMware
2 23 (7.99%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.99%) Oracle
3 16 (5.56%) Cisco
4 14 (4.86%) Google
5 12 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.47%) SolarWinds
7 9 (3.13%) F5
7 9 (3.13%) Splunk
8 6 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.74%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.74%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.39%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.39%) Informatica
10 4 (1.39%) SAP
10 4 (1.39%) Veritas
11 3 (1.04%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.04%) Dell
11 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow