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 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 13 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 3,616 5,816 10,281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.93% 12.07% 14.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.94% 33.10% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 4,422 7,849
10th Percentile £380 £430 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £756
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 37
10th Percentile £22.19 £32.92 £46.25
25th Percentile £28.38 £60.70 £51.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +20.69%
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% +52.42%

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 11,687 17,571 27,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.09% 36.46% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,435 12,880 19,964
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £742
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 289 332
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.64
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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 18 May 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 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in England

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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 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
London +1 2,331 £575 -8.00% 1,448
North of England -2 441 £507 -7.82% 418
South East 0 285 £580 +0.87% 504
North West -2 277 £489 -11.09% 241
South West -12 190 £538 -6.52% 212
Yorkshire -6 145 £525 -4.55% 131
Midlands -7 131 £450 -16.67% 216
West Midlands -23 69 £525 -2.78% 144
East Midlands +9 64 £450 -24.21% 72
East of England -49 42 £550 -5.90% 121
North East -10 21 £575 -11.54% 46
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
1 292 (8.08%) Apache
2 253 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
3 118 (3.26%) Confluence
4 77 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 60 (1.66%) nginx
6 44 (1.22%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.64%) CMS
8 20 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.41%) JBoss
10 15 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
12 10 (0.28%) IIS
12 10 (0.28%) SAS
13 8 (0.22%) Site Server
13 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.19%) WordPress
15 6 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 32 (0.88%) MS Visio
2 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.055%) Sketch
6 2 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.055%) Trello
7 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.028%) InVision
7 1 (0.028%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 13 (0.36%) Temenos T24
3 12 (0.33%) Endur
4 11 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.22%) Shopify
7 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
8 6 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 3 (0.083%) Magento
10 3 (0.083%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 3 (0.083%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.055%) SAP GRC
12 1 (0.028%) Maximo
12 1 (0.028%) NetSuite
12 1 (0.028%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,279 (35.37%) Azure
2 702 (19.41%) GCP
3 415 (11.48%) Serverless
4 338 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
5 314 (8.68%) Amazon S3
6 230 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
7 222 (6.14%) Snowflake
8 192 (5.31%) GitHub
9 152 (4.20%) dbt
10 151 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 134 (3.71%) SaaS
12 128 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 125 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
14 119 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 90 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
15 90 (2.49%) Power Platform
16 86 (2.38%) PaaS
17 83 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
18 78 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
18 78 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 173 (4.78%) Firewall
2 117 (3.24%) DNS
3 95 (2.63%) VPN
4 82 (2.27%) Network Security
5 66 (1.83%) HTTP
6 63 (1.74%) LAN
6 63 (1.74%) SSL
7 58 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 57 (1.58%) WAN
9 51 (1.41%) DHCP
10 44 (1.22%) Wireless
11 41 (1.13%) OSPF
12 34 (0.94%) BGP
13 27 (0.75%) MPLS
13 27 (0.75%) VLAN
14 26 (0.72%) SAN
15 24 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
16 22 (0.61%) SD-WAN
17 20 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
18 18 (0.50%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 195 (5.39%) Amazon Athena
3 190 (5.25%) Data Lake
4 184 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
5 173 (4.78%) Apache Ignite
6 166 (4.59%) NoSQL
7 149 (4.12%) SQL Server
8 137 (3.79%) Big Data
9 133 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
10 129 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 126 (3.48%) Apache Arrow
11 126 (3.48%) Dremio
12 117 (3.24%) Relational Database
13 110 (3.04%) MySQL
14 106 (2.93%) DynamoDB
15 102 (2.82%) MongoDB
16 86 (2.38%) Power BI
17 85 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
18 60 (1.66%) Tableau
19 51 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 342 (9.46%) Jenkins
2 318 (8.79%) Git
3 220 (6.08%) JIRA
4 195 (5.39%) GitLab
5 99 (2.74%) Cypress.io
6 62 (1.71%) Selenium
7 56 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 49 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 38 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 35 (0.97%) Maven
11 34 (0.94%) JMeter
12 30 (0.83%) CircleCI
13 29 (0.80%) TeamCity
14 27 (0.75%) JUnit
15 21 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
16 20 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.50%) REST Assured
18 17 (0.47%) webpack
19 16 (0.44%) Mockito
19 16 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 784 (21.68%) Finance
2 574 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 353 (9.76%) Banking
4 307 (8.49%) Front Office
5 289 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 239 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
7 134 (3.71%) Investment Banking
8 84 (2.32%) Retail
9 66 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 62 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 53 (1.47%) Marketing
12 40 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (0.77%) Law
16 27 (0.75%) Legal
17 26 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.53%) Publishing
20 15 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 920 (25.44%) Developer
2 610 (16.87%) Architect
3 440 (12.17%) Senior
4 370 (10.23%) Software Engineer
5 361 (9.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 352 (9.73%) AWS Engineer
7 264 (7.30%) Lead
8 219 (6.06%) Data Engineer
9 217 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
10 191 (5.28%) Full Stack Developer
11 187 (5.17%) Python Developer
12 159 (4.40%) Java Developer
13 150 (4.15%) Python Engineer
14 148 (4.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 143 (3.95%) AWS Architect
16 136 (3.76%) React Developer
17 132 (3.65%) Analyst
18 129 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
19 128 (3.54%) Python Software Engineer
20 117 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 424 (11.73%) React
2 295 (8.16%) Kafka
3 271 (7.49%) Node.js
4 222 (6.14%) .NET
5 210 (5.81%) gRPC
6 198 (5.48%) Protocol Buffers
7 192 (5.31%) RESTful
8 173 (4.78%) REST
9 169 (4.67%) Spring
10 156 (4.31%) Spring Boot
11 146 (4.04%) Redux
12 139 (3.84%) Pandas
13 138 (3.82%) AngularJS
14 128 (3.54%) NumPy
15 119 (3.29%) HTML
16 113 (3.13%) SciPy
16 113 (3.13%) Web Services
17 109 (3.01%) CSS
18 92 (2.54%) GraphQL
19 80 (2.21%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 273 (7.55%) Fixed Income
2 268 (7.41%) Hedge funds
3 202 (5.59%) Equities
4 190 (5.25%) Derivative
5 164 (4.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 116 (3.21%) Public Cloud
7 97 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 82 (2.27%) PKI
9 81 (2.24%) Product Ownership
10 75 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 69 (1.91%) Onboarding
12 67 (1.85%) Data Centre
13 55 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
14 49 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 48 (1.33%) Algorithms
15 48 (1.33%) Clustering
16 46 (1.27%) Management Information System
17 38 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (1.02%) Data Structures
18 37 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 414 (11.45%) Linux
2 245 (6.78%) Windows
3 106 (2.93%) Unix
4 94 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.69%) Android
8 21 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.50%) Windows 10
10 14 (0.39%) CentOS
10 14 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.28%) Solaris
11 10 (0.28%) VMS
12 7 (0.19%) Kali Linux
12 7 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.19%) zOS
13 6 (0.17%) Debian
14 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (28.73%) Agile
2 985 (27.24%) DevOps
3 765 (21.16%) CI/CD
4 614 (16.98%) Software Engineering
5 391 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 390 (10.79%) Microservices
7 367 (10.15%) Full Stack Development
8 312 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 304 (8.41%) Asset Management
10 298 (8.24%) Containerisation
11 260 (7.19%) Analytics
12 251 (6.94%) Migration
13 249 (6.89%) Test Automation
14 248 (6.86%) Investment Management
15 230 (6.36%) Machine Learning
16 220 (6.08%) ETL
17 210 (5.81%) TDD
18 191 (5.28%) Data Modelling
19 185 (5.12%) Artificial Intelligence
19 185 (5.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,227 (33.93%) Python
2 735 (20.33%) Java
3 648 (17.92%) SQL
4 551 (15.24%) JavaScript
5 455 (12.58%) TypeScript
6 207 (5.72%) C#
7 205 (5.67%) Go
8 193 (5.34%) Bash
9 179 (4.95%) PowerShell
10 107 (2.96%) Scala
11 76 (2.10%) PHP
12 74 (2.05%) C
13 68 (1.88%) C++
14 62 (1.71%) Ruby
15 50 (1.38%) Shell Script
16 37 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 33 (0.91%) Kotlin
17 33 (0.91%) T-SQL
18 29 (0.80%) Perl
19 28 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 869 (24.03%) Security Cleared
2 696 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 257 (7.11%) Degree
4 172 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 148 (4.09%) AWS Certification
6 131 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.38%) CISSP
10 43 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.11%) CCNP
12 39 (1.08%) CISM
13 31 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 28 (0.77%) CCNA
14 28 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 27 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 26 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 21 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
18 18 (0.50%) CISA
19 12 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (3.95%) QA
2 106 (2.93%) Data Quality
3 61 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (1.60%) NIST
5 45 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 41 (1.13%) GDPR
8 33 (0.91%) SLA
9 32 (0.88%) NCSC
10 13 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.28%) MiFID
12 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.19%) GRC
14 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.17%) WCAG
16 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
18 3 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 570 (15.76%) Docker
2 189 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 107 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.24%) Hyper-V
5 32 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.47%) vSphere
7 12 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.22%) ACF2
8 8 (0.22%) IAG
8 8 (0.22%) RACF
8 8 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.19%) Firmware
10 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) HDFS
11 5 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.11%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) OpenAM
12 4 (0.11%) Shibboleth
13 3 (0.083%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.055%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 756 (20.91%) Kubernetes
2 702 (19.41%) Terraform
3 308 (8.52%) Ansible
4 128 (3.54%) Prometheus
5 112 (3.10%) Grafana
6 82 (2.27%) Puppet
7 76 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
9 32 (0.88%) Packer
9 32 (0.88%) SCCM
10 31 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 30 (0.83%) Kibana
12 18 (0.50%) Consul
13 17 (0.47%) Podman
14 16 (0.44%) Rancher
15 15 (0.41%) Nagios
16 14 (0.39%) Istio
17 13 (0.36%) Argo
18 12 (0.33%) logstash
18 12 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 278 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 227 (6.28%) Google
3 216 (5.97%) Oracle
4 159 (4.40%) VMware
5 120 (3.32%) Splunk
6 104 (2.88%) Cisco
7 75 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 73 (2.02%) SAP
9 55 (1.52%) F5
10 53 (1.47%) Databricks
11 52 (1.44%) IBM
12 49 (1.36%) CyberArk
12 49 (1.36%) Red Hat
13 44 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 43 (1.19%) Palo Alto
15 34 (0.94%) Informatica
16 30 (0.83%) Bloomberg
17 29 (0.80%) Talend
18 28 (0.77%) SolarWinds
19 27 (0.75%) Juniper