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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 23 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS 64 69 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.31% 6.82% 5.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.77% 23.55% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 60
10th Percentile £356 £438 £349
25th Percentile £384 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £594 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +18.75% +15.94%
75th Percentile £495 £700 £566
90th Percentile £593 - £689
England median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.21% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +20.69%

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 208 293 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.01% 28.95% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 223 308
10th Percentile £163 £205 £163
25th Percentile £302 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £558 £520
90th Percentile £646 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 16
10th Percentile - £14.19 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.06 £16.20
Median hourly rate £16.63 £18.86 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -0.08% +25.83%
75th Percentile £27.50 £25.80 £24.13
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.83 £31.57
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

AWS
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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 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 18 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
Northamptonshire +23 31 £445 -15.24% 7
Nottinghamshire -1 21 £450 -35.71% 34
Leicestershire +11 6 £350 -30.00% 11
Derbyshire -4 4 £369 -31.40% 14
Lincolnshire +11 1 - - 5
AWS
England

AWS
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 (7.81%) JBoss
2 4 (6.25%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
4 1 (1.56%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 12 (18.75%) SaaS
3 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.25%) Serverless
6 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.69%) GCP
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.38%) Data Lake
2 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.25%) Big Data
4 4 (6.25%) DB2
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.56%) Power BI
6 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (21.88%) JIRA
2 11 (17.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (15.63%) Git
4 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (7.81%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
4 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (7.81%) TeamCity
5 4 (6.25%) JMeter
6 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (35.94%) Finance
2 18 (28.13%) Banking
3 8 (12.50%) Legal
4 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Architect
2 18 (28.13%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (18.75%) Developer
4 9 (14.06%) IT Manager
5 8 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.50%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
5 8 (12.50%) Service Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.50%) Service Manager
6 5 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (6.25%) React Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior
8 3 (4.69%) Test Analyst
9 2 (3.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) React
2 9 (14.06%) RESTful
3 8 (12.50%) .NET
4 6 (9.38%) RAML
5 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.81%) OpenAPI
5 5 (7.81%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.81%) Swagger
6 4 (6.25%) LDAP
6 4 (6.25%) REST
7 3 (4.69%) JSON
7 3 (4.69%) OAuth
7 3 (4.69%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.69%) OpenID
7 3 (4.69%) Redux
7 3 (4.69%) SAML
8 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.13%) Jest
8 2 (3.13%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Credit Risk
1 5 (7.81%) Public Cloud
1 5 (7.81%) Virtual Team
2 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.75%) Apple iOS
1 12 (18.75%) Windows
2 10 (15.63%) Linux
3 6 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.25%) Android
5 1 (1.56%) AIX
5 1 (1.56%) Unix
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) DevOps
2 17 (26.56%) Migration
3 16 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.88%) Microservices
5 12 (18.75%) Service Delivery
6 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
7 9 (14.06%) Agile
7 9 (14.06%) Business Analysis
7 9 (14.06%) People Management
7 9 (14.06%) Service Management
8 8 (12.50%) Change Management
8 8 (12.50%) Information Security
8 8 (12.50%) IT Governance
8 8 (12.50%) ITSM
8 8 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
8 8 (12.50%) Problem Management
8 8 (12.50%) Service Delivery Management
9 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) Python
2 14 (21.88%) Java
3 10 (15.63%) C#
4 8 (12.50%) Swift
5 5 (7.81%) C
5 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.81%) Perl
6 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.69%) BeanShell
7 3 (4.69%) SQL
8 1 (1.56%) C++
8 1 (1.56%) Rust
8 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) GDPR
1 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) OpenAM
3 3 (4.69%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) Progress Chef
2 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.81%) Ansible
3 5 (7.81%) Kibana
4 4 (6.25%) Terraform
5 1 (1.56%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 8 (12.50%) Okta
2 5 (7.81%) AppDynamics
2 5 (7.81%) Red Hat
2 5 (7.81%) Splunk
3 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.13%) Databricks
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Sage
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) VMware