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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 296 386 597
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.20% 6.83% 7.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.37% 23.41% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 282 424
10th Percentile £400 £413 £405
25th Percentile £460 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £645 £674 £625
90th Percentile £688 £715 £688
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile - £58.42 £45.50
25th Percentile - £70.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.72% +52.63% -27.53%
75th Percentile £37.63 £75.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £39.20 - £61.42
England median hourly rate £50.59 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -30.22% +3.57% +11.11%

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 1,323 1,649 2,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.23% 29.16% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 1,196 1,809
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £613
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 48 54
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.94 £13.56
25th Percentile £18.33 £18.50 £14.06
Median hourly rate £27.22 £30.23 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.97% +47.46% -2.61%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £23.56
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.23 £54.43
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

AWS
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 9 June 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 9 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
Thames Valley +1 129 £550 - 76
Hampshire +8 85 £613 +13.95% 48
Berkshire -2 81 £600 +9.09% 36
Buckinghamshire +9 35 £490 -10.91% 17
Surrey -19 32 £530 -11.67% 23
Middlesex +6 16 £625 +38.89% 2
West Sussex +4 14 £450 -28.29% 18
Oxfordshire +4 13 £500 -16.67% 23
East Sussex 0 8 £475 -32.14% 17
Kent +4 2 £500 +2.56% 14
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 16 (5.41%) Confluence
2 6 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.69%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.68%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 151 (51.01%) Azure
2 26 (8.78%) GCP
3 20 (6.76%) Amazon S3
4 19 (6.42%) Serverless
5 16 (5.41%) SaaS
6 15 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (4.05%) OpenShift
9 12 (4.05%) Snowflake
10 10 (3.38%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.04%) PaaS
12 7 (2.36%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.36%) GitHub
12 7 (2.36%) IaaS
13 6 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.03%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.69%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.19%) SSL
2 22 (7.43%) Firewall
3 13 (4.39%) Network Security
4 12 (4.05%) VPN
5 10 (3.38%) DNS
6 8 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.70%) Wireless
7 7 (2.36%) SAN
7 7 (2.36%) WAN
8 4 (1.35%) LAN
8 4 (1.35%) MPLS
8 4 (1.35%) VLAN
9 3 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.68%) DMVPN
10 2 (0.68%) IPsec
10 2 (0.68%) NAS
10 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.68%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
2 12 (4.05%) Big Data
3 11 (3.72%) Oracle Database
3 11 (3.72%) Oracle Database 11g
4 9 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.03%) Impala
6 6 (2.03%) Tableau
7 5 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.35%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.35%) GIS
8 4 (1.35%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.35%) Power BI
8 4 (1.35%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.01%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (11.49%) JIRA
2 32 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.12%) GitLab
4 19 (6.42%) Git
5 17 (5.74%) Selenium
6 13 (4.39%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.39%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.05%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.01%) JMeter
8 3 (1.01%) JUnit
8 3 (1.01%) Maven
8 3 (1.01%) Subversion
8 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.68%) ERwin
9 2 (0.68%) kappa
10 1 (0.34%) Appium
10 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 65 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (9.12%) Finance
4 11 (3.72%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.38%) Retail
6 9 (3.04%) Law
7 8 (2.70%) Banking
7 8 (2.70%) Police
8 5 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.35%) Aviation
9 4 (1.35%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.01%) Automotive
10 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Back Office
11 2 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (22.64%) Architect
2 59 (19.93%) Developer
3 32 (10.81%) Senior
4 27 (9.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (6.76%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (6.42%) Lead
7 16 (5.41%) Analyst
8 12 (4.05%) Network Engineer
9 11 (3.72%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 11 (3.72%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.04%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (3.04%) Consultant
11 9 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.36%) Full Stack Developer
12 7 (2.36%) Java Engineer
12 7 (2.36%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (2.36%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 7 (2.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.22%) Web Services
2 21 (7.09%) REST
3 17 (5.74%) Spring Boot
4 16 (5.41%) Node.js
5 15 (5.07%) .NET
5 15 (5.07%) AngularJS
5 15 (5.07%) React
6 13 (4.39%) ARM Templates
6 13 (4.39%) Java EE
7 12 (4.05%) Kafka
8 11 (3.72%) J2EE
8 11 (3.72%) Spring
9 10 (3.38%) CSS
10 9 (3.04%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.70%) ADO
11 8 (2.70%) HTML
11 8 (2.70%) RESTful
12 6 (2.03%) Tailwind CSS
13 5 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.53%) PKI
2 15 (5.07%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.69%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.35%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.35%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.68%) IVR
11 1 (0.34%) Clustering
11 1 (0.34%) Life Science
11 1 (0.34%) Replication
11 1 (0.34%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.92%) Linux
2 31 (10.47%) Windows
3 17 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.38%) Unix
5 8 (2.70%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.01%) Solaris
7 3 (1.01%) VMS
7 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.68%) Debian
8 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.73%) DevOps
2 43 (14.53%) Agile
2 43 (14.53%) Cryptography
3 42 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (13.85%) Key Management
5 40 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (11.49%) Containerisation
7 31 (10.47%) Software Engineering
7 31 (10.47%) Test Automation
8 30 (10.14%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (9.46%) Migration
10 27 (9.12%) CI/CD
11 25 (8.45%) Configuration Management
11 25 (8.45%) Decision-Making
12 19 (6.42%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (6.08%) Microservices
14 17 (5.74%) Full Stack Development
15 16 (5.41%) Analytics
15 16 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (18.58%) Java
2 54 (18.24%) Python
3 43 (14.53%) SQL
4 26 (8.78%) PowerShell
5 19 (6.42%) Bash
6 17 (5.74%) C++
7 15 (5.07%) C
7 15 (5.07%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.73%) C#
9 11 (3.72%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.04%) Ruby
10 9 (3.04%) Scala
11 8 (2.70%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.69%) Perl
13 4 (1.35%) Go
13 4 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.01%) PHP
15 2 (0.68%) Groovy
15 2 (0.68%) R
16 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 96 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 73 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 61 (20.61%) Degree
4 29 (9.80%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.72%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.03%) CISSP
10 5 (1.69%) CCNP
11 4 (1.35%) CISM
12 3 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.01%) CCNA
12 3 (1.01%) CCSP
12 3 (1.01%) CEH
12 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.68%) PhD
13 2 (0.68%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.03%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.35%) GDPR
3 3 (1.01%) NIST
4 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) QA
4 2 (0.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) COBIT
5 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 49 (16.55%) Docker
3 27 (9.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.39%) vSphere
5 7 (2.36%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.68%) HDFS
7 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.34%) Firmware
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 60 (20.27%) Terraform
3 39 (13.18%) Ansible
4 12 (4.05%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (4.05%) Podman
5 11 (3.72%) Rancher
6 8 (2.70%) SCCM
7 7 (2.36%) Istio
7 7 (2.36%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.36%) Puppet
8 6 (2.03%) Nagios
8 6 (2.03%) WSUS
9 5 (1.69%) Nessus
10 4 (1.35%) Grafana
10 4 (1.35%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.01%) SELinux
12 2 (0.68%) Control-M
12 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (12.84%) VMware
2 26 (8.78%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.76%) Oracle
4 16 (5.41%) Cisco
5 14 (4.73%) Google
6 11 (3.72%) SolarWinds
7 10 (3.38%) Splunk
8 9 (3.04%) F5
8 9 (3.04%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.03%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.69%) Informatica
10 5 (1.69%) Qualys
10 5 (1.69%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.35%) Apple
11 4 (1.35%) Avaya
11 4 (1.35%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.35%) Dell
11 4 (1.35%) Veritas