AWS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,389 2,156 3,057
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.51% 9.50% 10.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.41% 29.09% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,656 2,312
10th Percentile £350 £413 £410
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 41 29
10th Percentile - £24.62 £44.35
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.60 £50.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +8.95%
75th Percentile £71.87 £76.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £50.59 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -30.22% +10.62% +10.15%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
North of England -1 456 £500 -9.09% 445
South East -3 299 £575 - 256
North West -2 273 £489 -11.09% 288
Scotland -3 241 £475 -4.04% 111
South West -12 197 £538 -6.52% 213
Yorkshire -4 159 £507 -7.82% 117
Midlands -5 142 £450 -14.29% 222
West Midlands -20 75 £503 -6.94% 138
East Midlands +4 69 £445 -15.24% 82
East of England -54 40 £550 -5.01% 98
North East -8 27 £575 -11.54% 40
Wales +4 17 £558 +1.36% 51
Northern Ireland -3 8 £675 +3.85% 63
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 58 (4.18%) Confluence
2 48 (3.46%) Apache Spark
3 33 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (2.30%) Apache
5 11 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.72%) CMS
7 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.50%) JBoss
8 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.36%) SAS
11 4 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.29%) Mule
12 3 (0.22%) nginx
13 2 (0.14%) WordPress
14 1 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.072%) Alfresco
14 1 (0.072%) Drupal
14 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Trello
5 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.072%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.072%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 558 (40.17%) Azure
2 191 (13.75%) GCP
3 180 (12.96%) Serverless
4 179 (12.89%) Amazon S3
5 138 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
6 106 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
7 102 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 82 (5.90%) OpenShift
9 66 (4.75%) GitHub
10 62 (4.46%) SaaS
11 61 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 58 (4.18%) Snowflake
13 51 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
14 42 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
14 42 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 38 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
15 38 (2.74%) Power Platform
16 35 (2.52%) PaaS
17 27 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
17 27 (1.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.90%) Firewall
2 52 (3.74%) VPN
3 51 (3.67%) SSL
4 40 (2.88%) Network Security
5 35 (2.52%) DNS
6 28 (2.02%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.66%) WAN
8 20 (1.44%) Wireless
9 19 (1.37%) LAN
10 17 (1.22%) OSPF
11 16 (1.15%) HTTP
12 14 (1.01%) SAN
13 10 (0.72%) BGP
13 10 (0.72%) PBX
14 9 (0.65%) MPLS
14 9 (0.65%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.65%) VoIP
15 8 (0.58%) AMQP
15 8 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (3.96%) MongoDB
3 55 (3.96%) MySQL
4 54 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 54 (3.89%) Relational Database
5 52 (3.74%) Big Data
6 47 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (3.17%) SQL Server
8 42 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (2.74%) Oracle Database
11 35 (2.52%) NoSQL
12 34 (2.45%) Data Lake
13 33 (2.38%) Power BI
14 31 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (2.02%) Hadoop
16 19 (1.37%) DynamoDB
17 17 (1.22%) InfluxDB
18 15 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 177 (12.74%) Jenkins
2 135 (9.72%) Git
3 118 (8.50%) GitLab
3 118 (8.50%) JIRA
4 41 (2.95%) SonarQube
5 35 (2.52%) Selenium
6 28 (2.02%) Cypress.io
7 26 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.51%) Maven
9 18 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.08%) Artifactory
11 14 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 14 (1.01%) JUnit
11 14 (1.01%) webpack
12 13 (0.94%) Gradle
13 12 (0.86%) JMeter
13 12 (0.86%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.72%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.72%) Travis CI
General
1 242 (17.42%) Social Skills
2 153 (11.02%) Finance
3 132 (9.50%) Public Sector
4 118 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (5.40%) Banking
6 32 (2.30%) Retail
7 28 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (1.51%) Legal
8 21 (1.51%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 11 (0.79%) Law
12 10 (0.72%) Back Office
13 8 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.58%) Marketing
13 8 (0.58%) Police
13 8 (0.58%) Publishing
14 7 (0.50%) Digital Economy
14 7 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 353 (25.41%) Developer
2 234 (16.85%) Architect
3 156 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 107 (7.70%) Senior
5 105 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
6 100 (7.20%) Java Developer
7 82 (5.90%) Solutions Architect
8 78 (5.62%) Lead
9 68 (4.90%) Data Engineer
10 67 (4.82%) Software Engineer
11 54 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 52 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
13 47 (3.38%) AWS Architect
13 47 (3.38%) Full Stack Developer
14 46 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 44 (3.17%) Analyst
15 44 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 35 (2.52%) Consultant
17 32 (2.30%) Security Engineer
18 31 (2.23%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (10.73%) React
2 112 (8.06%) Spring
3 108 (7.78%) Spring Boot
4 103 (7.42%) REST
5 97 (6.98%) Node.js
6 90 (6.48%) Kafka
7 78 (5.62%) RESTful
8 77 (5.54%) Web Services
9 72 (5.18%) AWS CDK
10 64 (4.61%) CSS
11 63 (4.54%) AngularJS
12 59 (4.25%) HTML
13 57 (4.10%) .NET
14 41 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
15 38 (2.74%) GraphQL
16 35 (2.52%) OAuth
17 29 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
18 27 (1.94%) JSON
19 25 (1.80%) SOAP
19 25 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (5.83%) Public Cloud
2 60 (4.32%) PKI
3 51 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 37 (2.66%) Data Structures
4 37 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 25 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 20 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 19 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.08%) Replication
11 15 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.94%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.86%) Management Information System
14 11 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.79%) Onboarding
14 11 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 195 (14.04%) Linux
2 103 (7.42%) Windows
3 54 (3.89%) Unix
4 36 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (1.87%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.01%) Android
9 7 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.43%) CentOS
11 4 (0.29%) Solaris
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.22%) VMS
12 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.14%) Debian
13 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (28.22%) DevOps
2 341 (24.55%) Agile
3 337 (24.26%) CI/CD
4 194 (13.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 183 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (11.88%) Containerisation
7 159 (11.45%) Software Engineering
8 146 (10.51%) Microservices
9 125 (9.00%) Test Automation
10 121 (8.71%) Migration
11 112 (8.06%) Full Stack Development
12 111 (7.99%) Scrum
13 93 (6.70%) Roadmaps
14 89 (6.41%) Continuous Integration
15 87 (6.26%) ETL
16 84 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 83 (5.98%) Data Modelling
17 83 (5.98%) SDLC
18 80 (5.76%) Analytics
19 76 (5.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 387 (27.86%) Python
2 335 (24.12%) Java
3 224 (16.13%) SQL
4 138 (9.94%) JavaScript
5 137 (9.86%) TypeScript
6 114 (8.21%) Bash
7 86 (6.19%) PowerShell
8 58 (4.18%) C#
9 48 (3.46%) Scala
10 40 (2.88%) C
11 38 (2.74%) Go
12 34 (2.45%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.94%) PHP
14 21 (1.51%) C++
14 21 (1.51%) Groovy
14 21 (1.51%) PL/SQL
15 20 (1.44%) Ruby
16 17 (1.22%) Perl
17 11 (0.79%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 319 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 220 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.00%) Degree
4 105 (7.56%) DV Cleared
5 64 (4.61%) AWS Certification
6 41 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 22 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.22%) CCNP
12 16 (1.15%) CCNA
13 15 (1.08%) CISSP
14 11 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.72%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.58%) CISM
18 7 (0.50%) HND
19 6 (0.43%) CCIE
19 6 (0.43%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.74%) QA
2 41 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.66%) NIST
6 18 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 16 (1.15%) GDPR
8 13 (0.94%) NCSC
9 11 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.43%) SLA
12 5 (0.36%) WCAG
13 4 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) PMO
16 1 (0.072%) GRC
16 1 (0.072%) SOC 2
System Software
1 282 (20.30%) Docker
2 113 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 60 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.22%) vSphere
6 10 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.50%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.43%) HDFS
9 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.22%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.22%) OpenIDM
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.072%) ACF2
13 1 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.072%) Firmware
13 1 (0.072%) IAG
13 1 (0.072%) KVM
13 1 (0.072%) RACF
Systems Management
1 326 (23.47%) Kubernetes
2 285 (20.52%) Terraform
3 173 (12.46%) Ansible
4 102 (7.34%) Grafana
5 66 (4.75%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.53%) Progress Chef
7 37 (2.66%) Docker Swarm
8 30 (2.16%) Puppet
9 26 (1.87%) Kibana
10 16 (1.15%) Rancher
11 14 (1.01%) Nagios
11 14 (1.01%) Podman
12 13 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.86%) Istio
13 12 (0.86%) Nessus
13 12 (0.86%) SCCM
14 11 (0.79%) HP Fortify
14 11 (0.79%) Packer
15 10 (0.72%) Graylog
15 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 149 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.98%) Oracle
3 86 (6.19%) VMware
4 85 (6.12%) Google
5 71 (5.11%) Splunk
6 48 (3.46%) Cisco
7 24 (1.73%) IBM
7 24 (1.73%) Red Hat
8 23 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.51%) Databricks
10 20 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.37%) F5
12 18 (1.30%) SolarWinds
13 16 (1.15%) Informatica
13 16 (1.15%) Zscaler
14 15 (1.08%) Atlassian
15 14 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.94%) Avaya
17 12 (0.86%) Juniper
18 10 (0.72%) SAP