AWS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,318 2,242 3,020
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.45% 9.79% 9.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.95% 29.67% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 1,725 2,267
10th Percentile £350 £413 £408
25th Percentile £425 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 31 28
10th Percentile £29.20 £24.62 £45.88
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.68 £51.51
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% -6.43% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71.87 £75.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,283 7,556 9,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.86% 33.00% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,751 5,566 7,298
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 221 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +32.40% +1.27%
75th Percentile £32.69 £63.75 £31.69
90th Percentile £66.05 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.19
% change year-on-year -41.45% +64.49% +0.86%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England -3 424 £500 -9.09% 441
South East -3 288 £575 - 842
North West -1 258 £475 -13.64% 275
Scotland -3 240 £475 -4.04% 128
South West -10 193 £538 -6.52% 215
Yorkshire -5 145 £525 -4.55% 122
Midlands -6 127 £450 -16.67% 217
East Midlands +11 65 £445 -20.89% 80
West Midlands -29 64 £450 -18.18% 136
East of England -47 41 £550 -6.14% 130
North East -10 23 £575 -8.00% 44
Wales 0 16 £558 -3.04% 54
Northern Ireland -3 4 £675 +12.50% 83
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 54 (4.10%) Confluence
2 38 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.35%) Apache
4 29 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.83%) CMS
6 9 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.61%) SAS
8 7 (0.53%) JBoss
8 7 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.38%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.38%) nginx
11 4 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.30%) Mule
12 3 (0.23%) WordPress
13 2 (0.15%) Drupal
13 2 (0.15%) Traefik
14 1 (0.076%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.076%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.076%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.076%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 517 (39.23%) Azure
2 178 (13.51%) GCP
3 167 (12.67%) Amazon S3
4 166 (12.59%) Serverless
5 132 (10.02%) AWS Lambda
6 102 (7.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 101 (7.66%) Amazon EC2
8 79 (5.99%) OpenShift
9 68 (5.16%) GitHub
10 60 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 57 (4.32%) SaaS
12 55 (4.17%) Snowflake
13 49 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 43 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
16 38 (2.88%) Power Platform
17 33 (2.50%) PaaS
18 30 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
19 28 (2.12%) Entra ID
20 27 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.08%) Firewall
2 52 (3.95%) VPN
3 51 (3.87%) SSL
4 42 (3.19%) DNS
5 40 (3.03%) Network Security
6 32 (2.43%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.75%) WAN
8 20 (1.52%) LAN
9 16 (1.21%) HTTP
9 16 (1.21%) SAN
10 15 (1.14%) OSPF
11 14 (1.06%) Wireless
12 10 (0.76%) PBX
13 9 (0.68%) MPLS
13 9 (0.68%) VLAN
13 9 (0.68%) VoIP
13 9 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.61%) BGP
14 8 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (0.61%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (3.95%) MySQL
4 51 (3.87%) Relational Database
5 49 (3.72%) MongoDB
6 47 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 43 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (3.19%) Big Data
9 40 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (2.96%) Oracle Database
11 33 (2.50%) NoSQL
11 33 (2.50%) Power BI
12 32 (2.43%) Data Lake
13 24 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.59%) Hadoop
15 19 (1.44%) DynamoDB
16 15 (1.14%) InfluxDB
17 14 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 158 (11.99%) Jenkins
2 124 (9.41%) Git
3 112 (8.50%) GitLab
4 109 (8.27%) JIRA
5 40 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 35 (2.66%) Selenium
7 28 (2.12%) Cypress.io
8 26 (1.97%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.14%) Maven
9 15 (1.14%) webpack
10 13 (0.99%) Artifactory
11 12 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 12 (0.91%) JMeter
11 12 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 12 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.83%) JUnit
12 11 (0.83%) Travis CI
13 10 (0.76%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
General
1 229 (17.37%) Social Skills
2 125 (9.48%) Finance
2 125 (9.48%) Public Sector
3 102 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (5.31%) Banking
5 35 (2.66%) Retail
6 22 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (1.37%) Telecoms
8 17 (1.29%) Legal
9 13 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 12 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (0.83%) Back Office
12 10 (0.76%) Law
13 9 (0.68%) Marketing
14 8 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.61%) Police
15 7 (0.53%) Digital Economy
15 7 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.53%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 355 (26.93%) Developer
2 212 (16.08%) Architect
3 139 (10.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 106 (8.04%) Senior
5 95 (7.21%) Java Developer
6 92 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
7 75 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
8 74 (5.61%) Lead
9 63 (4.78%) Data Engineer
10 61 (4.63%) Software Engineer
11 55 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 52 (3.95%) Full Stack Developer
13 44 (3.34%) Analyst
13 44 (3.34%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 35 (2.66%) AWS Architect
17 31 (2.35%) Network Engineer
18 30 (2.28%) Platform Engineer
19 27 (2.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (11.76%) React
2 120 (9.10%) Spring
3 109 (8.27%) Spring Boot
4 104 (7.89%) REST
5 100 (7.59%) Node.js
6 79 (5.99%) Kafka
6 79 (5.99%) Web Services
7 76 (5.77%) RESTful
8 71 (5.39%) AWS CDK
9 69 (5.24%) AngularJS
10 65 (4.93%) CSS
11 60 (4.55%) HTML
12 57 (4.32%) .NET
13 40 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
14 35 (2.66%) GraphQL
14 35 (2.66%) OAuth
15 29 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (1.97%) SOAP
17 25 (1.90%) JSON
18 23 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (5.77%) Public Cloud
2 57 (4.32%) PKI
3 54 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 37 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (2.66%) Data Structures
6 32 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.29%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.14%) Replication
13 14 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.76%) Management Information System
15 10 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 191 (14.49%) Linux
2 102 (7.74%) Windows
3 50 (3.79%) Unix
4 39 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.99%) Android
8 7 (0.53%) CentOS
8 7 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.46%) Debian
10 4 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.30%) Solaris
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.23%) VMS
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (28.30%) DevOps
2 341 (25.87%) Agile
3 316 (23.98%) CI/CD
4 177 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 169 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (11.31%) Software Engineering
7 148 (11.23%) Containerisation
8 145 (11.00%) Microservices
9 120 (9.10%) Full Stack Development
10 118 (8.95%) Migration
11 111 (8.42%) Test Automation
12 109 (8.27%) Scrum
13 89 (6.75%) SDLC
14 84 (6.37%) Continuous Integration
15 82 (6.22%) Roadmaps
16 79 (5.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 78 (5.92%) ETL
18 77 (5.84%) Data Modelling
19 71 (5.39%) Decision-Making
20 69 (5.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 370 (28.07%) Python
2 324 (24.58%) Java
3 207 (15.71%) SQL
4 146 (11.08%) JavaScript
5 140 (10.62%) TypeScript
6 113 (8.57%) Bash
7 77 (5.84%) PowerShell
8 54 (4.10%) C#
9 42 (3.19%) Scala
10 40 (3.03%) Go
11 39 (2.96%) C
12 33 (2.50%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.12%) PHP
14 22 (1.67%) Perl
15 21 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.59%) Ruby
16 15 (1.14%) Groovy
17 14 (1.06%) C++
18 11 (0.83%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 303 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 210 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.27%) Degree
4 104 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 50 (3.79%) AWS Certification
6 36 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.44%) CCNP
10 16 (1.21%) CCNA
11 14 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.76%) CISSP
14 7 (0.53%) CISM
14 7 (0.53%) HND
14 7 (0.53%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.10%) QA
2 44 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.59%) NIST
6 17 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
6 17 (1.29%) NCSC
7 13 (0.99%) GDPR
7 13 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (0.53%) SLA
9 6 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.23%) WCAG
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.076%) GRC
13 1 (0.076%) PMO
13 1 (0.076%) SOC 2
System Software
1 261 (19.80%) Docker
2 104 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 51 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 15 (1.14%) vSphere
6 8 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.38%) HDFS
8 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.30%) GPFS
9 4 (0.30%) NFS
10 3 (0.23%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.23%) OpenIDM
10 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.15%) Varnish
12 1 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.076%) IAG
12 1 (0.076%) KVM
12 1 (0.076%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 305 (23.14%) Kubernetes
2 271 (20.56%) Terraform
3 165 (12.52%) Ansible
4 96 (7.28%) Grafana
5 65 (4.93%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.64%) Progress Chef
7 35 (2.66%) Docker Swarm
8 31 (2.35%) Puppet
9 27 (2.05%) Kibana
10 15 (1.14%) Rancher
11 14 (1.06%) Podman
12 13 (0.99%) Nagios
12 13 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.91%) Istio
14 11 (0.83%) HP Fortify
14 11 (0.83%) Packer
15 10 (0.76%) Graylog
15 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.76%) SCCM
16 9 (0.68%) Nessus
Vendors
1 122 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.98%) Oracle
3 79 (5.99%) VMware
4 76 (5.77%) Google
5 71 (5.39%) Splunk
6 46 (3.49%) Cisco
7 28 (2.12%) IBM
8 24 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 19 (1.44%) Databricks
9 19 (1.44%) F5
10 16 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.14%) Informatica
11 15 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.06%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.06%) SolarWinds
13 12 (0.91%) Juniper
14 11 (0.83%) Avaya
14 11 (0.83%) SAP
15 10 (0.76%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.76%) Zscaler