AWS Contracts in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 21 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing AWS 66 71 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.13% 7.13% 5.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.56% 24.65% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 57 61
10th Percentile £331 £440 £350
25th Percentile £384 £488 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £495 £700 £563
90th Percentile £575 - £688
England median daily rate £560 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.69% +12.38%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 216 288 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.60% 28.92% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 218 320
10th Percentile £163 £205 £157
25th Percentile £306 £325 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £515 £547 £525
90th Percentile £645 £700 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 14
10th Percentile - £13.16 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.76 £16.10
Median hourly rate £15.32 £20.00 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +1.91% +30.83%
75th Percentile £26.75 £26.48 £24.88
90th Percentile £27.50 £30.00 £32.44
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 East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Northamptonshire +19 32 £445 -15.24% 9
Nottinghamshire -1 23 £450 -35.71% 32
Leicestershire +8 5 £343 -31.50% 20
Derbyshire -5 5 £350 -34.88% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (7.58%) JBoss
2 4 (6.06%) Confluence
3 2 (3.03%) SAS
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) Azure
2 12 (18.18%) SaaS
3 10 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.06%) dbt
5 4 (6.06%) Fivetran
5 4 (6.06%) GitHub
5 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.06%) Serverless
5 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.03%) GCP
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) DHCP
2 1 (1.52%) DNS
2 1 (1.52%) LTE
2 1 (1.52%) SAN
2 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
2 5 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.58%) RDBMS
2 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.06%) DB2
3 4 (6.06%) Power BI
3 4 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (6.06%) Star Schema
3 4 (6.06%) Tableau
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.52%) Big Data
5 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) JIRA
2 11 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (15.15%) Git
4 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (7.58%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
4 5 (7.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (7.58%) TeamCity
5 4 (6.06%) JMeter
6 3 (4.55%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (33.33%) Finance
2 19 (28.79%) Banking
3 8 (12.12%) Legal
4 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.58%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Architect
2 17 (25.76%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (19.70%) Developer
4 10 (15.15%) IT Manager
5 8 (12.12%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.12%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.12%) IT Services Manager
5 8 (12.12%) Service Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.12%) Service Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) React Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior
8 3 (4.55%) Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Test Analyst
9 2 (3.03%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) React
2 9 (13.64%) .NET
2 9 (13.64%) RESTful
3 6 (9.09%) RAML
4 5 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.58%) OpenAPI
4 5 (7.58%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.58%) Swagger
5 4 (6.06%) LDAP
5 4 (6.06%) REST
6 3 (4.55%) D3.js
6 3 (4.55%) Highcharts JS
6 3 (4.55%) JSON
6 3 (4.55%) OAuth
6 3 (4.55%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.55%) OpenID
6 3 (4.55%) Redux
6 3 (4.55%) SAML
7 2 (3.03%) Jest
7 2 (3.03%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Credit Risk
1 5 (7.58%) Public Cloud
1 5 (7.58%) Virtual Team
2 4 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.06%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.18%) Apple iOS
2 11 (16.67%) Windows
3 8 (12.12%) Linux
4 6 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.06%) Android
6 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.52%) AIX
7 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) DevOps
2 16 (24.24%) Architectural Design
2 16 (24.24%) Migration
3 15 (22.73%) Microservices
4 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 11 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 9 (13.64%) Business Analysis
7 9 (13.64%) People Management
7 9 (13.64%) Service Management
8 8 (12.12%) Agile
8 8 (12.12%) Change Management
8 8 (12.12%) Information Security
8 8 (12.12%) IT Governance
8 8 (12.12%) ITSM
8 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.12%) Performance Metrics
8 8 (12.12%) Problem Management
8 8 (12.12%) Service Delivery Management
9 6 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.73%) Python
2 13 (19.70%) Java
3 11 (16.67%) C#
4 8 (12.12%) Swift
5 7 (10.61%) SQL
6 5 (7.58%) C
6 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.58%) Perl
7 3 (4.55%) BeanShell
7 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.52%) C++
8 1 (1.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Docker
2 6 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.55%) OpenAM
3 3 (4.55%) OpenIDM
4 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.58%) Ansible
3 5 (7.58%) Kibana
4 3 (4.55%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) PowerBroker
5 1 (1.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Okta
3 5 (7.58%) AppDynamics
3 5 (7.58%) Red Hat
3 5 (7.58%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.58%) Splunk
4 3 (4.55%) ForgeRock
5 2 (3.03%) VMware
6 1 (1.52%) Citrix
6 1 (1.52%) Google
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Sage
6 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds