AWS Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,363 3,564 6,569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.49% 14.01% 16.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.68% 35.89% 41.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,835 2,686 5,112
10th Percentile £400 £450 £450
25th Percentile £481 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £744 £725 £713
90th Percentile £850 £800 £794
England median daily rate £560 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 9
10th Percentile £22.10 £40.15 £49.00
25th Percentile £23.43 £62.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £27.65 £75.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.13% +4.17% +36.99%
75th Percentile £68.38 £88.30 £82.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £50.59 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -32.55% +7.14% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
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 London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,813 9,929 15,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.91% 39.04% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,022 7,303 12,008
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 78 66
10th Percentile £17.16 £19.68 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +28.05% +3.80%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.50 £90.00 £80.63
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
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 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 -3 269 £550 -12.00% 103
South London 0 57 £513 +2.50% 6
West London -2 55 £500 -20.00% 19
East London -6 10 £581 +16.25% 19
North London 0 1 £550 -8.33% 7
AWS
England

AWS
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
1 280 (11.85%) Apache
2 273 (11.55%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 54 (2.29%) Confluence
5 37 (1.57%) nginx
6 34 (1.44%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.47%) CMS
7 11 (0.47%) IIS
7 11 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.34%) Anypoint
9 8 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
9 8 (0.34%) JBoss
9 8 (0.34%) Site Server
10 7 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 5 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 21 (0.89%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.085%) Sketch
6 1 (0.042%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.042%) InVision
6 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.80%) Aladdin
2 11 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.42%) Endur
3 10 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.34%) Shopify
5 7 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
6 6 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.21%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.13%) Magento
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.042%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.042%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.042%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.042%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.042%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 779 (32.97%) Azure
2 556 (23.53%) GCP
3 285 (12.06%) Serverless
4 242 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
5 216 (9.14%) Amazon S3
6 198 (8.38%) Snowflake
7 170 (7.19%) dbt
8 144 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
9 136 (5.76%) GitHub
10 98 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 71 (3.00%) SaaS
14 65 (2.75%) Power Platform
15 62 (2.62%) Amazon Kinesis
16 60 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 56 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
18 55 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
19 54 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
19 54 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.70%) Firewall
2 74 (3.13%) DNS
3 52 (2.20%) HTTP
4 43 (1.82%) Network Security
5 42 (1.78%) DHCP
6 40 (1.69%) LAN
6 40 (1.69%) VPN
7 32 (1.35%) WAN
7 32 (1.35%) Wireless
8 29 (1.23%) TCP/IP
9 27 (1.14%) BGP
9 27 (1.14%) OSPF
10 21 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
11 19 (0.80%) MPLS
11 19 (0.80%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.76%) Internet
13 17 (0.72%) IPsec
13 17 (0.72%) VLAN
14 16 (0.68%) Kerberos
15 14 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 196 (8.29%) Apache Ignite
3 188 (7.96%) Amazon Athena
4 181 (7.66%) Data Lake
5 151 (6.39%) Dremio
6 149 (6.31%) Apache Arrow
7 132 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
8 130 (5.50%) NoSQL
9 103 (4.36%) SQL Server
10 98 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
11 95 (4.02%) Big Data
12 88 (3.72%) DynamoDB
13 83 (3.51%) Relational Database
14 81 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 70 (2.96%) MySQL
16 64 (2.71%) Power BI
17 57 (2.41%) Tableau
18 53 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
19 48 (2.03%) MongoDB
20 37 (1.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 210 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 203 (8.59%) Git
3 101 (4.27%) JIRA
4 88 (3.72%) GitLab
5 83 (3.51%) Cypress.io
6 29 (1.23%) Selenium
7 24 (1.02%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.93%) JMeter
8 22 (0.93%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.85%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.85%) Maven
10 18 (0.76%) JUnit
11 15 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.55%) Postman
13 12 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.42%) Mockito
15 9 (0.38%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.38%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.34%) Artifactory
16 8 (0.34%) Burp Suite
General
1 680 (28.78%) Finance
2 358 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 333 (14.09%) Front Office
4 331 (14.01%) Banking
5 175 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 154 (6.52%) Investment Banking
7 133 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
8 55 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (1.90%) Retail
10 37 (1.57%) Marketing
11 33 (1.40%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 22 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (0.76%) Publishing
16 17 (0.72%) Law
17 15 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.55%) Retail Banking
19 12 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
20 11 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 648 (27.42%) Developer
2 359 (15.19%) Architect
3 318 (13.46%) Senior
4 283 (11.98%) AWS Engineer
4 283 (11.98%) Software Engineer
5 224 (9.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 176 (7.45%) Lead
7 171 (7.24%) Python Developer
8 164 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 154 (6.52%) Python Engineer
10 152 (6.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 136 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
12 135 (5.71%) Full Stack Developer
13 134 (5.67%) Python Software Engineer
14 118 (4.99%) React Developer
15 110 (4.66%) Java Developer
16 96 (4.06%) AWS Architect
17 95 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
18 93 (3.94%) Analyst
19 85 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (13.03%) React
2 233 (9.86%) gRPC
3 223 (9.44%) Protocol Buffers
4 222 (9.39%) Kafka
5 160 (6.77%) Node.js
6 157 (6.64%) Pandas
7 154 (6.52%) .NET
8 146 (6.18%) NumPy
9 131 (5.54%) Redux
9 131 (5.54%) SciPy
10 122 (5.16%) RESTful
11 113 (4.78%) REST
12 108 (4.57%) Spring
13 99 (4.19%) Spring Boot
14 94 (3.98%) AngularJS
15 86 (3.64%) HTML
16 80 (3.39%) Material-UI
17 75 (3.17%) CSS
18 64 (2.71%) GraphQL
19 62 (2.62%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 297 (12.57%) Fixed Income
1 297 (12.57%) Hedge funds
2 224 (9.48%) Equities
3 208 (8.80%) Derivative
4 184 (7.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 71 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 61 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
8 49 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 47 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 45 (1.90%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.82%) Clustering
12 40 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
13 39 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
14 38 (1.61%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.35%) Management Information System
16 27 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (1.06%) PKI
18 23 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 232 (9.82%) Linux
2 131 (5.54%) Windows
3 74 (3.13%) Unix
4 44 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 40 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.25%) Android
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.21%) Solaris
9 5 (0.21%) zOS
10 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.085%) CentOS
11 2 (0.085%) VMS
11 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (33.05%) Agile
2 640 (27.08%) DevOps
3 476 (20.14%) Software Engineering
4 455 (19.26%) CI/CD
5 321 (13.58%) Asset Management
6 274 (11.60%) Microservices
7 269 (11.38%) Investment Management
8 262 (11.09%) Full Stack Development
9 237 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
10 208 (8.80%) Machine Learning
11 186 (7.87%) Analytics
12 178 (7.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 165 (6.98%) Containerisation
13 165 (6.98%) Migration
14 164 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence
15 160 (6.77%) TDD
16 145 (6.14%) Test Automation
17 141 (5.97%) Data Pipeline
18 135 (5.71%) ETL
19 133 (5.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 917 (38.81%) Python
2 507 (21.46%) Java
3 475 (20.10%) SQL
4 436 (18.45%) JavaScript
5 392 (16.59%) TypeScript
6 140 (5.92%) C#
7 124 (5.25%) Go
8 104 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 93 (3.94%) Bash
10 87 (3.68%) Scala
11 55 (2.33%) C++
12 45 (1.90%) PHP
13 41 (1.74%) Ruby
14 40 (1.69%) Shell Script
15 38 (1.61%) C
16 32 (1.35%) Kotlin
17 27 (1.14%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.76%) R
19 15 (0.63%) Groovy
20 13 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 500 (21.16%) Security Cleared
2 431 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 153 (6.47%) Degree
4 97 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 64 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 36 (1.52%) CISSP
8 35 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.35%) CISM
10 27 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.02%) CCNP
11 24 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.85%) CISA
13 16 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.55%) CCNA
16 10 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 8 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.55%) QA
3 35 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.40%) NIST
5 28 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 26 (1.10%) GDPR
6 26 (1.10%) SLA
7 21 (0.89%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.76%) NCSC
9 10 (0.42%) MiFID
10 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.25%) GRC
11 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.17%) WCAG
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) GPG13
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 338 (14.30%) Docker
2 88 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 55 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.30%) ACF2
6 7 (0.30%) IAG
6 7 (0.30%) RACF
7 6 (0.25%) Firmware
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.17%) KVM
9 4 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 3 (0.13%) XenApp
10 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.085%) NFS
11 2 (0.085%) Squid
Systems Management
1 473 (20.02%) Kubernetes
2 432 (18.28%) Terraform
3 164 (6.94%) Ansible
4 76 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 63 (2.67%) Grafana
6 46 (1.95%) Puppet
7 25 (1.06%) SCCM
8 24 (1.02%) Packer
9 20 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.47%) Consul
12 10 (0.42%) Kibana
13 8 (0.34%) Argo
13 8 (0.34%) Opsgenie
13 8 (0.34%) SCOM
13 8 (0.34%) SCVMM
14 7 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (0.30%) WSUS
15 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.21%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 168 (7.11%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.81%) Google
3 159 (6.73%) Oracle
4 70 (2.96%) VMware
5 56 (2.37%) Cisco
5 56 (2.37%) SAP
6 52 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 50 (2.12%) Databricks
7 50 (2.12%) Splunk
8 41 (1.74%) CyberArk
9 37 (1.57%) F5
10 34 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 32 (1.35%) Palo Alto
12 28 (1.18%) Bloomberg
13 26 (1.10%) IBM
14 24 (1.02%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.89%) Juniper
15 21 (0.89%) Typelevel
16 20 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
16 20 (0.85%) Talend