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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 4,325 7,181 12,746
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 12.40% 14.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.04% 33.70% 37.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,270 5,384 9,688
10th Percentile £381 £425 £425
25th Percentile £457 £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 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 63 47
10th Percentile £22.21 £24.62 £45.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £52.34 £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +52.42%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.30 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +18.64%

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 13,934 21,306 33,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.80% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,402 24,532
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 £633 £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 345 346 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.09% +23.10% -

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 3,608 £563 -6.25% 2,267
London +1 2,322 £575 -6.50% 1,107
Work from Home 0 1,777 £568 -1.30% 1,531
UK excluding London -8 1,333 £525 -4.55% 1,301
North of England -3 432 £510 -7.27% 357
South East -1 293 £575 - 230
North West -4 280 £492 -10.50% 209
Scotland -3 235 £475 -3.06% 108
South West -10 191 £543 -5.65% 214
Yorkshire -9 133 £550 - 111
Midlands -10 124 £482 -10.74% 192
West Midlands -30 67 £550 +1.85% 118
East Midlands +9 57 £450 -26.53% 74
East of England -42 45 £550 -5.66% 109
North East -8 21 £575 -8.00% 37
Wales +1 20 £558 -3.04% 39
Northern Ireland -2 4 £675 +12.50% 66
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
1 287 (6.64%) Apache
2 263 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
3 137 (3.17%) Confluence
4 93 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 70 (1.62%) nginx
6 46 (1.06%) 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 8 (0.18%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.18%) Site Server
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 (0.092%) 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 (0.18%) 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%) Avolution ABACUS
11 2 (0.046%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,515 (35.03%) Azure
2 807 (18.66%) GCP
3 528 (12.21%) Serverless
4 447 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 419 (9.69%) Amazon S3
6 285 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
7 250 (5.78%) GitHub
8 244 (5.64%) Snowflake
9 223 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 177 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
11 174 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 169 (3.91%) SaaS
13 157 (3.63%) dbt
14 136 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 116 (2.68%) OpenShift
16 112 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
16 112 (2.59%) Power Platform
17 105 (2.43%) PaaS
18 103 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
19 101 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (4.83%) Firewall
2 135 (3.12%) DNS
3 112 (2.59%) VPN
4 95 (2.20%) Network Security
5 71 (1.64%) LAN
6 68 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.57%) WAN
7 67 (1.55%) HTTP
8 66 (1.53%) SSL
9 59 (1.36%) DHCP
10 48 (1.11%) Wireless
11 43 (0.99%) OSPF
12 40 (0.92%) 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
1 354 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 223 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
3 190 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
4 185 (4.28%) Data Lake
5 183 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 172 (3.98%) SQL Server
7 170 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
8 158 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
9 154 (3.56%) Relational Database
10 150 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 148 (3.42%) Big Data
12 135 (3.12%) MySQL
13 123 (2.84%) DynamoDB
14 122 (2.82%) MongoDB
15 112 (2.59%) Apache Arrow
15 112 (2.59%) Dremio
16 98 (2.27%) Power BI
17 87 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
18 79 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
19 71 (1.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 404 (9.34%) Jenkins
2 364 (8.42%) Git
3 264 (6.10%) JIRA
4 236 (5.46%) GitLab
5 113 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 77 (1.78%) Selenium
7 68 (1.57%) Cucumber
8 63 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 57 (1.32%) Maven
10 46 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 39 (0.90%) JMeter
12 36 (0.83%) JUnit
13 33 (0.76%) TeamCity
14 31 (0.72%) CircleCI
15 23 (0.53%) Artifactory
15 23 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 23 (0.53%) webpack
16 22 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (0.49%) Postman
18 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 833 (19.26%) Finance
2 721 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 369 (8.53%) Public Sector
4 354 (8.18%) Banking
5 293 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 286 (6.61%) Front Office
7 129 (2.98%) Investment Banking
8 87 (2.01%) Retail
9 81 (1.87%) 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 34 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
15 32 (0.74%) Legal
16 31 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (0.65%) Law
18 25 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
19 22 (0.51%) Electronics
20 20 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,148 (26.54%) Developer
2 694 (16.05%) Architect
3 482 (11.14%) Senior
4 441 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 429 (9.92%) AWS Engineer
6 372 (8.60%) Software Engineer
7 303 (7.01%) Lead
8 288 (6.66%) Data Engineer
9 246 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
10 231 (5.34%) Java Developer
11 222 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
12 203 (4.69%) Python Developer
13 164 (3.79%) AWS Architect
13 164 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
14 158 (3.65%) Python Engineer
15 151 (3.49%) Analyst
16 147 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
17 146 (3.38%) React Developer
18 145 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 142 (3.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (11.49%) React
2 332 (7.68%) Node.js
3 323 (7.47%) Kafka
4 254 (5.87%) REST
5 249 (5.76%) Spring
6 234 (5.41%) .NET
7 232 (5.36%) RESTful
8 225 (5.20%) Spring Boot
9 189 (4.37%) gRPC
10 181 (4.18%) Protocol Buffers
11 176 (4.07%) AngularJS
12 162 (3.75%) HTML
13 151 (3.49%) CSS
14 142 (3.28%) Redux
15 136 (3.14%) Pandas
16 127 (2.94%) Web Services
17 120 (2.77%) NumPy
18 114 (2.64%) GraphQL
19 107 (2.47%) AWS CDK
20 105 (2.43%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 260 (6.01%) Fixed Income
2 252 (5.83%) Hedge funds
3 188 (4.35%) Equities
4 181 (4.18%) Derivative
5 154 (3.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 149 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 134 (3.10%) Cloud Native
8 96 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 95 (2.20%) PKI
10 93 (2.15%) 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 66 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
16 57 (1.32%) Algorithms
17 56 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
18 53 (1.23%) Data Structures
19 50 (1.16%) Clustering
20 45 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 503 (11.63%) Linux
2 302 (6.98%) Windows
3 139 (3.21%) Unix
4 127 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 83 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 31 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.62%) Android
9 20 (0.46%) CentOS
10 18 (0.42%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.39%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.28%) Solaris
13 10 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.23%) VMS
14 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.16%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.16%) zOS
16 6 (0.14%) Debian
16 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,256 (29.04%) Agile
2 1,202 (27.79%) DevOps
3 930 (21.50%) CI/CD
4 676 (15.63%) Software Engineering
5 512 (11.84%) Microservices
6 469 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
7 421 (9.73%) Full Stack Development
8 411 (9.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 351 (8.12%) Containerisation
10 333 (7.70%) Test Automation
11 331 (7.65%) Migration
12 318 (7.35%) Analytics
13 296 (6.84%) Asset Management
14 268 (6.20%) Machine Learning
15 258 (5.97%) ETL
16 250 (5.78%) TDD
17 243 (5.62%) Investment Management
18 238 (5.50%) Scrum
19 234 (5.41%) Data Pipeline
20 230 (5.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,400 (32.37%) Python
2 892 (20.62%) Java
3 795 (18.38%) SQL
4 625 (14.45%) JavaScript
5 544 (12.58%) TypeScript
6 244 (5.64%) Bash
7 230 (5.32%) Go
8 221 (5.11%) C#
9 198 (4.58%) PowerShell
10 144 (3.33%) Scala
11 101 (2.34%) PHP
12 79 (1.83%) Ruby
13 77 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 73 (1.69%) C
15 62 (1.43%) C++
16 51 (1.18%) Perl
17 47 (1.09%) Kotlin
18 45 (1.04%) PL/SQL
19 36 (0.83%) R
20 35 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,006 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 815 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 314 (7.26%) Degree
4 178 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 168 (3.88%) AWS Certification
6 165 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 65 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 49 (1.13%) CISSP
11 45 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 44 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 42 (0.97%) CCNP
14 35 (0.81%) CISM
15 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 27 (0.62%) CCNA
17 23 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 15 (0.35%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (4.16%) QA
2 113 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 73 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 70 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (1.43%) NIST
6 52 (1.20%) NCSC
7 48 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 46 (1.06%) GDPR
9 36 (0.83%) SLA
10 18 (0.42%) 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 7 (0.16%) GRC
16 5 (0.12%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.12%) WCAG
17 4 (0.092%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 689 (15.93%) Docker
2 217 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 120 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (1.13%) 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 (0.092%) GPFS
14 4 (0.092%) OpenAM
14 4 (0.092%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 898 (20.76%) Kubernetes
2 850 (19.65%) Terraform
3 380 (8.79%) Ansible
4 165 (3.82%) Grafana
5 150 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 94 (2.17%) Puppet
7 77 (1.78%) Progress Chef
8 43 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
9 40 (0.92%) Kibana
9 40 (0.92%) Packer
10 35 (0.81%) SCCM
10 35 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (0.58%) Nagios
12 21 (0.49%) Consul
13 16 (0.37%) Podman
13 16 (0.37%) Rancher
14 15 (0.35%) Istio
15 14 (0.32%) Argo
15 14 (0.32%) Graylog
15 14 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 351 (8.12%) Microsoft
2 286 (6.61%) Oracle
3 260 (6.01%) Google
4 177 (4.09%) VMware
5 145 (3.35%) Splunk
6 119 (2.75%) Cisco
7 100 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.97%) SAP
9 79 (1.83%) Databricks
10 70 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 65 (1.50%) Red Hat
12 64 (1.48%) IBM
13 54 (1.25%) F5
13 54 (1.25%) Salesforce
14 48 (1.11%) Palo Alto
15 42 (0.97%) Informatica
16 38 (0.88%) BeyondTrust
16 38 (0.88%) Talend
17 35 (0.81%) Dynatrace
18 31 (0.72%) Bloomberg