AWS Engineer Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 144 114
Rank change year-on-year -11 -30 +39
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 283 486 944
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.62% 1.91% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.01% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 386 801
10th Percentile £413 £475 £475
25th Percentile £478 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £806 £722 £700
90th Percentile £850 £863 £788
England median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +8 25 £588 -5.24% 1
West London -8 10 £575 -4.17% 2
South London +2 5 £518 +0.98% 1
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 283 (100.00%) AWS
2 169 (59.72%) Python
3 130 (45.94%) DevOps
4 110 (38.87%) Terraform
5 99 (34.98%) Finance
6 85 (30.04%) Kubernetes
7 83 (29.33%) JavaScript
8 82 (28.98%) CI/CD
9 80 (28.27%) Java
10 78 (27.56%) Apache Airflow
11 74 (26.15%) Agile
12 73 (25.80%) Amazon Athena
13 67 (23.67%) Asset Management
14 66 (23.32%) Protocol Buffers
14 66 (23.32%) Security Cleared
14 66 (23.32%) Dremio
14 66 (23.32%) dbt
14 66 (23.32%) Apache Arrow
14 66 (23.32%) gRPC
15 65 (22.97%) Software Engineering
16 64 (22.61%) Investment Management
16 64 (22.61%) TypeScript
17 63 (22.26%) SC Cleared
18 62 (21.91%) Apache
19 61 (21.55%) Snowflake
20 60 (21.20%) Data Lake
21 56 (19.79%) Hedge funds
22 53 (18.73%) Pandas
22 53 (18.73%) Amazon S3
23 52 (18.37%) NumPy

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 78 (27.56%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (21.91%) Apache
3 11 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.06%) Confluence
4 3 (1.06%) nginx
4 3 (1.06%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 283 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (23.32%) dbt
3 61 (21.55%) Snowflake
4 53 (18.73%) Amazon S3
5 50 (17.67%) Serverless
6 46 (16.25%) Amazon EC2
7 41 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (9.19%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (7.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (7.42%) GitHub
11 20 (7.07%) Azure
11 20 (7.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (5.65%) GCP
13 15 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.89%) AWS Control Tower
14 11 (3.89%) Route 53
15 9 (3.18%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (3.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.89%) Firewall
2 8 (2.83%) DNS
3 4 (1.41%) Network Security
4 3 (1.06%) DHCP
4 3 (1.06%) IPv4
4 3 (1.06%) LAN
4 3 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.06%) SMTP
4 3 (1.06%) WLAN
5 2 (0.71%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.71%) SSL
6 1 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (25.80%) Amazon Athena
2 66 (23.32%) Apache Arrow
2 66 (23.32%) Dremio
3 60 (21.20%) Data Lake
4 48 (16.96%) Apache Ignite
5 28 (9.89%) Big Data
6 26 (9.19%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.18%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.47%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.77%) Flink
12 5 (1.77%) MySQL
13 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.41%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.06%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.71%) Apache Hive
15 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (12.01%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.60%) Git
3 20 (7.07%) GitLab
4 6 (2.12%) JIRA
5 3 (1.06%) JMeter
5 3 (1.06%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.06%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.71%) Maven
6 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.71%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.35%) Gradle
7 1 (0.35%) Storybook
7 1 (0.35%) Subversion
7 1 (0.35%) VisualWorks
General
1 99 (34.98%) Finance
2 49 (17.31%) Front Office
3 47 (16.61%) Banking
4 41 (14.49%) Investment Banking
5 28 (9.89%) Social Skills
6 26 (9.19%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.18%) Law
8 4 (1.41%) Retail
9 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (23.32%) gRPC
1 66 (23.32%) Protocol Buffers
2 53 (18.73%) Pandas
3 52 (18.37%) NumPy
4 48 (16.96%) SciPy
5 20 (7.07%) React
6 19 (6.71%) Kafka
7 15 (5.30%) .NET
7 15 (5.30%) Node.js
8 10 (3.53%) AWS CDK
8 10 (3.53%) Redux
8 10 (3.53%) Vue
9 9 (3.18%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.18%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.18%) PySpark
10 8 (2.83%) CSS
11 7 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (2.12%) Lambda Expressions
12 6 (2.12%) REST
13 4 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.79%) Hedge funds
2 48 (16.96%) Fixed Income
3 38 (13.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (12.72%) Derivative
4 36 (12.72%) Equities
5 18 (6.36%) Clustering
6 14 (4.95%) Pricing Data
7 12 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.06%) Life Science
9 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) PKI
10 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.35%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.96%) Linux
2 8 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (2.83%) Windows
3 7 (2.47%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (45.94%) DevOps
2 82 (28.98%) CI/CD
3 74 (26.15%) Agile
4 67 (23.67%) Asset Management
5 65 (22.97%) Software Engineering
6 64 (22.61%) Investment Management
7 44 (15.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (10.25%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (8.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 22 (7.77%) Greeks
12 21 (7.42%) Containerisation
12 21 (7.42%) Data Engineering
13 19 (6.71%) Analytics
13 19 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (6.01%) Microservices
15 16 (5.65%) ETL
15 16 (5.65%) Fintech
15 16 (5.65%) Platform Engineering
16 15 (5.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 169 (59.72%) Python
2 83 (29.33%) JavaScript
3 80 (28.27%) Java
4 64 (22.61%) TypeScript
5 41 (14.49%) SQL
6 30 (10.60%) Go
7 26 (9.19%) Bash
8 15 (5.30%) C#
9 10 (3.53%) C++
10 9 (3.18%) C
10 9 (3.18%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.83%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.47%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.77%) PHP
14 4 (1.41%) Ruby
15 3 (1.06%) Perl
16 2 (0.71%) Groovy
17 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.35%) Rust
17 1 (0.35%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 66 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 63 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.36%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.59%) Degree
5 11 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.06%) CISA
8 3 (1.06%) CISM
8 3 (1.06%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.06%) NIST
3 2 (0.71%) NCSC
3 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 43 (15.19%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (38.87%) Terraform
2 85 (30.04%) Kubernetes
3 39 (13.78%) Ansible
4 27 (9.54%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.89%) Grafana
6 8 (2.83%) Puppet
7 4 (1.41%) Argo
7 4 (1.41%) Kibana
7 4 (1.41%) Packer
7 4 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.71%) Nagios
10 1 (0.35%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.35%) Consul
10 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.35%) Graylog
10 1 (0.35%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (4.95%) Splunk
2 7 (2.47%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.12%) Databricks
4 5 (1.77%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.77%) Oracle
5 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.41%) SAP
6 3 (1.06%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.06%) F5
7 2 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.35%) Brio
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco
8 1 (0.35%) Confluent
8 1 (0.35%) Meraki
8 1 (0.35%) New Relic
8 1 (0.35%) Qualys
8 1 (0.35%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.35%) VMware