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 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 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,636 5,665 10,159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.85% 11.93% 14.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.80% 32.91% 37.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,789 4,304 7,753
10th Percentile £375 £428 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 39
10th Percentile £22.19 £35.00 £46.00
25th Percentile £25.41 £54.74 £51.50
Median hourly rate £50.59 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.55% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72.34 £78.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £88.30 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +13.00%

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 11,806 17,214 27,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.26% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,506 12,625 20,019
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 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 287 322
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.98 £18.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £38.75 £70.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
% change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in England

AWS
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 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
London +1 2,363 £575 -6.12% 1,237
North of England -4 438 £500 -9.09% 418
South East -4 294 £575 - 234
North West -1 266 £475 -13.64% 272
South West -13 194 £538 -6.52% 198
Yorkshire -4 150 £530 -3.64% 110
Midlands -7 131 £450 -14.29% 197
West Midlands -26 67 £450 -16.67% 121
East Midlands +6 66 £445 -19.09% 76
East of England -53 40 £550 -7.25% 78
North East -8 24 £575 -11.54% 36
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
1 310 (8.53%) Apache
2 285 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
3 112 (3.08%) Confluence
4 86 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 46 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 44 (1.21%) nginx
7 23 (0.63%) CMS
8 19 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.39%) JBoss
9 14 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 12 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.30%) IIS
12 10 (0.28%) SAS
13 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
13 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
13 8 (0.22%) Site Server
14 7 (0.19%) Drupal
14 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.19%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 28 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.083%) Trello
6 2 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.055%) Sketch
6 2 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.028%) InVision
Business Applications
1 19 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 13 (0.36%) Temenos T24
3 12 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.28%) Endur
6 8 (0.22%) Shopify
7 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
8 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.083%) Magento
11 3 (0.083%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 2 (0.055%) PeopleSoft HCM
12 2 (0.055%) SAP GRC
13 1 (0.028%) Aareon QL
13 1 (0.028%) MIS ActiveH
13 1 (0.028%) OPENHousing
13 1 (0.028%) R3 Corda
13 1 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,287 (35.40%) Azure
2 740 (20.35%) GCP
3 409 (11.25%) Serverless
4 329 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
5 322 (8.86%) Amazon S3
6 250 (6.88%) Snowflake
7 225 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
8 206 (5.67%) GitHub
9 181 (4.98%) dbt
10 145 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 134 (3.69%) SaaS
12 122 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 112 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 98 (2.70%) Power Platform
16 92 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
17 78 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
17 78 (2.15%) PaaS
18 77 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
19 76 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (4.90%) Firewall
2 116 (3.19%) DNS
3 99 (2.72%) VPN
4 86 (2.37%) Network Security
5 68 (1.87%) HTTP
6 64 (1.76%) SSL
7 62 (1.71%) LAN
8 60 (1.65%) TCP/IP
8 60 (1.65%) WAN
9 51 (1.40%) DHCP
10 49 (1.35%) Wireless
11 43 (1.18%) OSPF
12 36 (0.99%) BGP
13 29 (0.80%) MPLS
14 28 (0.77%) VLAN
15 27 (0.74%) SD-WAN
16 26 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
16 26 (0.72%) SAN
17 23 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
18 20 (0.55%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (5.89%) Amazon Athena
2 214 (5.89%) Data Lake
3 196 (5.39%) Apache Ignite
4 186 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
5 165 (4.54%) NoSQL
6 151 (4.15%) Dremio
6 151 (4.15%) SQL Server
7 149 (4.10%) Apache Arrow
8 140 (3.85%) Big Data
8 140 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
9 135 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 122 (3.36%) Relational Database
11 111 (3.05%) DynamoDB
12 110 (3.03%) MySQL
13 95 (2.61%) Power BI
14 90 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
15 86 (2.37%) MongoDB
16 72 (1.98%) Tableau
17 50 (1.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 346 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 321 (8.83%) Git
3 212 (5.83%) JIRA
4 193 (5.31%) GitLab
5 103 (2.83%) Cypress.io
6 57 (1.57%) Selenium
7 48 (1.32%) SonarQube
8 46 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 34 (0.94%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.88%) CircleCI
10 32 (0.88%) JMeter
10 32 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 29 (0.80%) Maven
12 26 (0.72%) JUnit
13 24 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
14 19 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 17 (0.47%) REST Assured
15 17 (0.47%) webpack
16 16 (0.44%) Artifactory
16 16 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 817 (22.47%) Finance
2 582 (16.01%) Social Skills
3 395 (10.86%) Banking
4 333 (9.16%) Front Office
5 267 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 235 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
7 155 (4.26%) Investment Banking
8 86 (2.37%) Retail
9 67 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 58 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 50 (1.38%) Marketing
12 39 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 32 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 30 (0.83%) Legal
16 29 (0.80%) Law
17 25 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.50%) Publishing
19 16 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 917 (25.22%) Developer
2 605 (16.64%) Architect
3 440 (12.10%) Senior
4 375 (10.31%) Software Engineer
5 369 (10.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 359 (9.87%) AWS Engineer
7 260 (7.15%) Lead
8 222 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
9 220 (6.05%) Data Engineer
10 201 (5.53%) Python Developer
11 175 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
12 165 (4.54%) Python Engineer
13 157 (4.32%) Java Developer
14 153 (4.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 142 (3.91%) AWS Architect
16 140 (3.85%) Python Software Engineer
17 139 (3.82%) React Developer
18 134 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
19 133 (3.66%) Analyst
20 117 (3.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (11.91%) React
2 309 (8.50%) Kafka
3 254 (6.99%) Node.js
4 241 (6.63%) gRPC
5 223 (6.13%) Protocol Buffers
6 215 (5.91%) .NET
7 180 (4.95%) RESTful
8 172 (4.73%) REST
9 168 (4.62%) Spring
10 161 (4.43%) Spring Boot
11 159 (4.37%) Pandas
12 149 (4.10%) Redux
13 148 (4.07%) NumPy
14 145 (3.99%) AngularJS
15 131 (3.60%) SciPy
16 116 (3.19%) HTML
17 107 (2.94%) Web Services
18 106 (2.92%) CSS
19 99 (2.72%) GraphQL
20 81 (2.23%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 297 (8.17%) Fixed Income
1 297 (8.17%) Hedge funds
2 224 (6.16%) Equities
3 208 (5.72%) Derivative
4 184 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 111 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 94 (2.59%) Cloud Native
7 86 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 82 (2.26%) PKI
9 76 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
10 68 (1.87%) Data Centre
11 64 (1.76%) Onboarding
12 56 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
13 54 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
14 48 (1.32%) Clustering
15 47 (1.29%) Algorithms
15 47 (1.29%) Management Information System
16 41 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
18 37 (1.02%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 401 (11.03%) Linux
2 226 (6.22%) Windows
3 109 (3.00%) Unix
4 86 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 61 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.63%) Android
8 17 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 16 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.25%) CentOS
11 9 (0.25%) Solaris
12 7 (0.19%) Kali Linux
12 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.19%) zOS
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.14%) VMS
14 4 (0.11%) Debian
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,048 (28.82%) Agile
2 997 (27.42%) DevOps
3 737 (20.27%) CI/CD
4 638 (17.55%) Software Engineering
5 396 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
6 366 (10.07%) Microservices
7 354 (9.74%) Full Stack Development
8 327 (8.99%) Asset Management
9 317 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 314 (8.64%) Containerisation
11 277 (7.62%) Migration
12 269 (7.40%) Investment Management
13 255 (7.01%) Analytics
14 248 (6.82%) Machine Learning
15 233 (6.41%) Test Automation
16 216 (5.94%) ETL
17 211 (5.80%) TDD
18 198 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence
19 189 (5.20%) Data Modelling
20 187 (5.14%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,253 (34.46%) Python
2 747 (20.54%) Java
3 647 (17.79%) SQL
4 558 (15.35%) JavaScript
5 478 (13.15%) TypeScript
6 200 (5.50%) C#
7 198 (5.45%) Go
8 195 (5.36%) Bash
9 190 (5.23%) PowerShell
10 112 (3.08%) Scala
11 83 (2.28%) C
12 74 (2.04%) C++
13 70 (1.93%) PHP
14 58 (1.60%) Ruby
15 53 (1.46%) Shell Script
16 35 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 33 (0.91%) PL/SQL
18 31 (0.85%) T-SQL
19 28 (0.77%) Perl
20 25 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 831 (22.85%) Security Cleared
2 665 (18.29%) SC Cleared
3 263 (7.23%) Degree
4 171 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 151 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 134 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (1.49%) CISSP
9 51 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 46 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 43 (1.18%) CCNP
11 43 (1.18%) CISM
12 34 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 31 (0.85%) CCNA
14 29 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 24 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
17 21 (0.58%) CISA
17 21 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.36%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (3.82%) QA
2 116 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 63 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (1.62%) NIST
5 48 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 44 (1.21%) GDPR
7 39 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.94%) SLA
9 33 (0.91%) NCSC
10 14 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.28%) MiFID
12 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
13 7 (0.19%) WCAG
14 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 598 (16.45%) Docker
2 193 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 113 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.55%) vSphere
7 14 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.22%) ACF2
9 8 (0.22%) IAG
9 8 (0.22%) RACF
9 8 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.19%) Firmware
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.14%) HDFS
12 5 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.11%) KVM
13 4 (0.11%) OpenAM
13 4 (0.11%) Shibboleth
13 4 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 785 (21.59%) Kubernetes
2 692 (19.03%) Terraform
3 307 (8.44%) Ansible
4 133 (3.66%) Prometheus
5 118 (3.25%) Grafana
6 78 (2.15%) Puppet
7 71 (1.95%) Progress Chef
8 43 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
9 33 (0.91%) SCCM
10 32 (0.88%) Packer
11 31 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (0.74%) Kibana
13 19 (0.52%) Podman
14 17 (0.47%) Rancher
15 14 (0.39%) Nagios
15 14 (0.39%) Nessus
16 13 (0.36%) Argo
16 13 (0.36%) Consul
16 13 (0.36%) Istio
16 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 290 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 243 (6.68%) Google
3 214 (5.89%) Oracle
4 159 (4.37%) VMware
5 118 (3.25%) Splunk
6 108 (2.97%) Cisco
7 73 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 68 (1.87%) SAP
9 58 (1.60%) Databricks
9 58 (1.60%) F5
10 51 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 49 (1.35%) CyberArk
11 49 (1.35%) Palo Alto
12 48 (1.32%) IBM
13 44 (1.21%) Red Hat
14 33 (0.91%) Juniper
15 31 (0.85%) Informatica
15 31 (0.85%) SolarWinds
16 28 (0.77%) Bloomberg
16 28 (0.77%) Talend