AWS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,339 2,264 3,032
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.60% 9.84% 9.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.41% 29.72% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 1,752 2,276
10th Percentile £350 £413 £408
25th Percentile £425 £474 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 27
10th Percentile £29.20 £24.32 £45.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.21 £51.26
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.82% -3.21% +18.64%
75th Percentile £71.87 £75.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,269 7,619 9,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.96% 33.11% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,741 5,627 7,276
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 220 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.26
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +34.38% -3.76%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.63 £30.60
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.92
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -2 243 £475 -3.55% 125
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
Wales 0 18 £515 -10.43% 51
Northern Ireland -3 4 £675 +12.50% 78
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 56 (4.18%) Confluence
2 39 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.32%) Apache
4 29 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.82%) CMS
6 9 (0.67%) SAS
6 9 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.52%) JBoss
9 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.37%) nginx
11 4 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.30%) Mule
12 3 (0.22%) WordPress
13 2 (0.15%) Drupal
13 2 (0.15%) Traefik
14 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.075%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 512 (38.24%) Azure
2 177 (13.22%) GCP
3 173 (12.92%) Serverless
4 166 (12.40%) Amazon S3
5 138 (10.31%) AWS Lambda
6 104 (7.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 101 (7.54%) Amazon EC2
8 79 (5.90%) OpenShift
9 64 (4.78%) GitHub
10 61 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 57 (4.26%) SaaS
12 52 (3.88%) Snowflake
13 51 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
15 34 (2.54%) PaaS
15 34 (2.54%) Power Platform
16 30 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
17 26 (1.94%) Entra ID
17 26 (1.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.85%) Firewall
2 52 (3.88%) SSL
3 51 (3.81%) VPN
4 43 (3.21%) DNS
5 38 (2.84%) Network Security
6 32 (2.39%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.57%) WAN
8 20 (1.49%) LAN
9 16 (1.19%) HTTP
9 16 (1.19%) SAN
10 14 (1.05%) Wireless
11 13 (0.97%) OSPF
12 10 (0.75%) PBX
12 10 (0.75%) VLAN
13 9 (0.67%) DHCP
13 9 (0.67%) VoIP
14 7 (0.52%) AMQP
14 7 (0.52%) Ethernet
14 7 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.52%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
3 64 (4.78%) MongoDB
4 53 (3.96%) MySQL
5 51 (3.81%) Relational Database
6 45 (3.36%) Big Data
7 44 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 44 (3.29%) SQL Server
8 43 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (2.76%) Oracle Database
11 35 (2.61%) NoSQL
12 33 (2.46%) Data Lake
13 28 (2.09%) Power BI
14 24 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
15 22 (1.64%) Hadoop
16 20 (1.49%) DynamoDB
17 15 (1.12%) InfluxDB
18 14 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 160 (11.95%) Jenkins
2 126 (9.41%) GitLab
3 124 (9.26%) Git
4 113 (8.44%) JIRA
5 40 (2.99%) SonarQube
6 35 (2.61%) Selenium
7 27 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 26 (1.94%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.19%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.12%) Maven
10 15 (1.12%) webpack
11 13 (0.97%) Artifactory
12 12 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.90%) JMeter
12 12 (0.90%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.82%) JUnit
13 11 (0.82%) Travis CI
14 10 (0.75%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 226 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 133 (9.93%) Finance
3 126 (9.41%) Public Sector
4 103 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.38%) Banking
6 36 (2.69%) Retail
7 20 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.27%) Legal
10 14 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 12 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.82%) Back Office
12 11 (0.82%) Marketing
13 10 (0.75%) Law
14 8 (0.60%) Automotive
14 8 (0.60%) Police
15 7 (0.52%) Digital Economy
15 7 (0.52%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 362 (27.04%) Developer
2 216 (16.13%) Architect
3 141 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 116 (8.66%) Senior
5 98 (7.32%) Java Developer
6 94 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
7 79 (5.90%) Solutions Architect
8 76 (5.68%) Lead
9 70 (5.23%) Software Engineer
10 61 (4.56%) Data Engineer
11 57 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (3.44%) Full Stack Developer
13 45 (3.36%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (3.29%) Analyst
14 44 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 37 (2.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 36 (2.69%) AWS Architect
17 31 (2.32%) Network Engineer
18 30 (2.24%) Platform Engineer
19 27 (2.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (11.13%) React
2 117 (8.74%) Node.js
2 117 (8.74%) Spring
3 105 (7.84%) Spring Boot
4 104 (7.77%) REST
5 97 (7.24%) RESTful
6 81 (6.05%) Web Services
7 77 (5.75%) Kafka
8 74 (5.53%) AWS CDK
9 67 (5.00%) AngularJS
10 63 (4.71%) CSS
11 60 (4.48%) .NET
12 57 (4.26%) HTML
13 40 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
14 35 (2.61%) OAuth
15 34 (2.54%) GraphQL
16 29 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (1.94%) JSON
17 26 (1.94%) SOAP
18 23 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (5.83%) Public Cloud
2 59 (4.41%) PKI
3 54 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 36 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 27 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 20 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.12%) Replication
12 15 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.75%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.75%) Credit Risk
15 10 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 192 (14.34%) Linux
2 108 (8.07%) Windows
3 47 (3.51%) Unix
4 40 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 39 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.72%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.97%) Android
9 7 (0.52%) CentOS
9 7 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.45%) Debian
11 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.30%) Solaris
13 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.22%) VMS
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (27.93%) DevOps
2 355 (26.51%) Agile
3 332 (24.79%) CI/CD
4 178 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 170 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
6 160 (11.95%) Software Engineering
7 159 (11.87%) Microservices
8 154 (11.50%) Containerisation
9 119 (8.89%) Migration
10 114 (8.51%) Scrum
11 112 (8.36%) Full Stack Development
12 109 (8.14%) Test Automation
13 91 (6.80%) SDLC
14 85 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
15 82 (6.12%) Roadmaps
16 81 (6.05%) ETL
17 77 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
18 75 (5.60%) Data Modelling
19 72 (5.38%) Analytics
20 70 (5.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 372 (27.78%) Python
2 324 (24.20%) Java
3 206 (15.38%) SQL
4 144 (10.75%) TypeScript
5 143 (10.68%) JavaScript
6 112 (8.36%) Bash
7 77 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 54 (4.03%) C#
9 43 (3.21%) Scala
10 41 (3.06%) Go
11 36 (2.69%) C
12 33 (2.46%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.09%) PHP
14 24 (1.79%) Ruby
15 23 (1.72%) Perl
16 20 (1.49%) PL/SQL
17 15 (1.12%) Groovy
18 12 (0.90%) Kotlin
19 11 (0.82%) C++
20 8 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 310 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 211 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.14%) Degree
4 105 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 53 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 36 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.27%) CCNP
10 15 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.05%) CCNA
12 13 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.60%) CISSP
15 7 (0.52%) HND
15 7 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.45%) CISM
16 6 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.03%) QA
2 43 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 22 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.49%) NIST
6 18 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 17 (1.27%) NCSC
8 13 (0.97%) GDPR
8 13 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.60%) SLA
10 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.45%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
14 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.075%) GRC
15 1 (0.075%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.075%) PMO
15 1 (0.075%) SOC 2
System Software
1 262 (19.57%) Docker
2 104 (7.77%) Active Directory
3 53 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.05%) vSphere
6 9 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.52%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.37%) HDFS
9 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.30%) GPFS
10 4 (0.30%) NFS
11 3 (0.22%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.22%) OpenIDM
12 2 (0.15%) Varnish
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.075%) ACF2
13 1 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.075%) Firmware
13 1 (0.075%) RACF
Systems Management
1 313 (23.38%) Kubernetes
2 292 (21.81%) Terraform
3 166 (12.40%) Ansible
4 96 (7.17%) Grafana
5 65 (4.85%) Prometheus
6 50 (3.73%) Progress Chef
7 35 (2.61%) Docker Swarm
8 33 (2.46%) Puppet
9 27 (2.02%) Kibana
10 15 (1.12%) Rancher
11 14 (1.05%) Podman
12 13 (0.97%) Nagios
12 13 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.90%) Istio
14 11 (0.82%) HP Fortify
14 11 (0.82%) Packer
15 10 (0.75%) Graylog
15 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.75%) SCCM
16 9 (0.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 123 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.95%) Oracle
3 82 (6.12%) VMware
4 77 (5.75%) Google
5 70 (5.23%) Splunk
6 44 (3.29%) Cisco
7 28 (2.09%) IBM
8 24 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.57%) Databricks
10 17 (1.27%) F5
10 17 (1.27%) Informatica
11 15 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.05%) SolarWinds
13 12 (0.90%) Avaya
13 12 (0.90%) Palo Alto
13 12 (0.90%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.90%) SAP
14 11 (0.82%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.75%) Juniper
16 9 (0.67%) Ericsson