AWS Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,426 3,524 6,506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.72% 14.01% 16.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.11% 35.69% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,879 2,672 5,053
10th Percentile £400 £450 £450
25th Percentile £475 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £713
90th Percentile £850 £812 £800
England median daily rate £560 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 10
10th Percentile £22.08 £41.38 £44.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £62.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £77.50 £66.75
Median % change year-on-year -69.29% +16.10% +6.75%
75th Percentile £62.25 £88.30 £81.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £46.18 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -36.30% +3.57% +11.11%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,910 9,873 15,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.08% 39.26% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,084 7,274 11,930
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 £780 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 77 63
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.57 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +32.53% +23.88%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £56.50 £88.98 £81.75
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +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 12 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 12 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 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
Central London -2 273 £550 -12.00% 145
West London -2 58 £575 -8.00% 39
South London -1 56 £513 +2.50% 18
East London -8 7 £500 - 43
North London 0 1 £550 -8.33% 12
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
1 308 (12.70%) Apache
2 302 (12.45%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 55 (2.27%) Confluence
5 37 (1.53%) nginx
6 34 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.45%) CMS
8 11 (0.45%) IIS
8 11 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.33%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.33%) Site Server
11 7 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
11 7 (0.29%) JBoss
11 7 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
12 6 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 4 (0.16%) CICS
Applications
1 17 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.082%) Sketch
5 1 (0.041%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.041%) InVision
5 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 11 (0.45%) Endur
2 11 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.33%) Shopify
5 7 (0.29%) 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 (0.12%) Magento
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.041%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.041%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.041%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.041%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.041%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.041%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.041%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 786 (32.40%) Azure
2 581 (23.95%) GCP
3 283 (11.67%) Serverless
4 238 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
5 225 (9.27%) Snowflake
6 220 (9.07%) Amazon S3
7 200 (8.24%) dbt
8 152 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
9 140 (5.77%) GitHub
10 99 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 98 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 73 (3.01%) SaaS
14 69 (2.84%) Power Platform
15 65 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
16 62 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
17 58 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 55 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
18 55 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 113 (4.66%) Firewall
2 71 (2.93%) DNS
3 54 (2.23%) HTTP
4 42 (1.73%) Network Security
5 40 (1.65%) DHCP
6 37 (1.53%) LAN
6 37 (1.53%) VPN
7 31 (1.28%) Wireless
8 30 (1.24%) TCP/IP
9 29 (1.20%) WAN
10 27 (1.11%) BGP
11 26 (1.07%) OSPF
12 21 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (0.70%) Internet
13 17 (0.70%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.70%) SD-WAN
13 17 (0.70%) VLAN
14 16 (0.66%) IPsec
14 16 (0.66%) MPLS
15 14 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
2 222 (9.15%) Apache Ignite
3 216 (8.90%) Amazon Athena
4 215 (8.86%) Data Lake
5 180 (7.42%) Dremio
6 176 (7.25%) Apache Arrow
7 132 (5.44%) NoSQL
8 130 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
9 109 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
10 105 (4.33%) Big Data
10 105 (4.33%) SQL Server
11 93 (3.83%) DynamoDB
12 86 (3.54%) Relational Database
13 80 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
14 71 (2.93%) MySQL
15 68 (2.80%) Power BI
16 66 (2.72%) Tableau
17 52 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
18 47 (1.94%) MongoDB
19 38 (1.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 218 (8.99%) Jenkins
2 212 (8.74%) Git
3 102 (4.20%) JIRA
4 90 (3.71%) GitLab
5 82 (3.38%) Cypress.io
6 30 (1.24%) Selenium
7 23 (0.95%) Cucumber
7 23 (0.95%) JMeter
7 23 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 20 (0.82%) CircleCI
8 20 (0.82%) JUnit
8 20 (0.82%) Maven
9 15 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.54%) Postman
10 13 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.41%) Artifactory
12 10 (0.41%) LoadRunner
13 9 (0.37%) Mockito
14 8 (0.33%) Gradle
General
1 719 (29.64%) Finance
2 365 (15.05%) Social Skills
3 364 (15.00%) Banking
4 363 (14.96%) Front Office
5 181 (7.46%) Investment Banking
6 171 (7.05%) Public Sector
7 129 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
8 53 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (2.10%) Retail
10 41 (1.69%) Marketing
11 35 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (0.78%) Publishing
16 17 (0.70%) Law
17 16 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.54%) Retail Banking
19 12 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
20 10 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 661 (27.25%) Developer
2 371 (15.29%) Architect
3 336 (13.85%) Senior
4 301 (12.41%) Software Engineer
5 298 (12.28%) AWS Engineer
6 227 (9.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 189 (7.79%) Lead
8 177 (7.30%) Python Developer
9 172 (7.09%) Data Engineer
10 166 (6.84%) Python Engineer
11 159 (6.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 144 (5.94%) Python Software Engineer
13 142 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
14 133 (5.48%) Full Stack Developer
15 119 (4.91%) React Developer
16 116 (4.78%) Java Developer
17 101 (4.16%) AWS Architect
18 98 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
19 89 (3.67%) Analyst
20 88 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (13.15%) React
2 260 (10.72%) gRPC
3 250 (10.31%) Protocol Buffers
4 230 (9.48%) Kafka
5 186 (7.67%) Pandas
6 173 (7.13%) NumPy
7 160 (6.60%) Node.js
8 158 (6.51%) SciPy
9 154 (6.35%) .NET
10 131 (5.40%) Redux
11 129 (5.32%) RESTful
12 114 (4.70%) REST
13 109 (4.49%) Spring
14 106 (4.37%) Spring Boot
15 96 (3.96%) AngularJS
16 87 (3.59%) HTML
17 79 (3.26%) CSS
17 79 (3.26%) Material-UI
18 66 (2.72%) GraphQL
19 64 (2.64%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 321 (13.23%) Fixed Income
1 321 (13.23%) Hedge funds
2 248 (10.22%) Equities
3 231 (9.52%) Derivative
4 210 (8.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 74 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 62 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 48 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 47 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 45 (1.85%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.77%) Clustering
12 41 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
13 36 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.32%) Management Information System
15 27 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (0.99%) Replication
17 22 (0.91%) PKI
18 20 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 231 (9.52%) Linux
2 128 (5.28%) Windows
3 73 (3.01%) Unix
4 44 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.33%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.21%) Solaris
9 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.21%) zOS
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.082%) CentOS
11 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.041%) VMS
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (33.39%) Agile
2 659 (27.16%) DevOps
3 513 (21.15%) Software Engineering
4 464 (19.13%) CI/CD
5 346 (14.26%) Asset Management
6 280 (11.54%) Investment Management
6 280 (11.54%) Microservices
7 267 (11.01%) Full Stack Development
8 245 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
9 217 (8.94%) Machine Learning
10 203 (8.37%) Analytics
11 178 (7.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 169 (6.97%) Artificial Intelligence
12 169 (6.97%) Migration
13 165 (6.80%) Containerisation
14 162 (6.68%) TDD
15 152 (6.27%) Test Automation
16 144 (5.94%) ETL
17 143 (5.89%) Data Pipeline
18 142 (5.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 969 (39.94%) Python
2 549 (22.63%) Java
3 503 (20.73%) SQL
4 467 (19.25%) JavaScript
5 432 (17.81%) TypeScript
6 141 (5.81%) C#
7 117 (4.82%) Go
8 108 (4.45%) PowerShell
9 100 (4.12%) Bash
10 92 (3.79%) Scala
11 51 (2.10%) C++
12 44 (1.81%) PHP
13 41 (1.69%) Ruby
14 40 (1.65%) Shell Script
15 37 (1.53%) C
16 34 (1.40%) Kotlin
17 28 (1.15%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.74%) R
19 17 (0.70%) Groovy
19 17 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 503 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 433 (17.85%) SC Cleared
3 163 (6.72%) Degree
4 102 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 91 (3.75%) AWS Certification
6 66 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 37 (1.53%) CISSP
8 36 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 35 (1.44%) CISM
10 29 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 26 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.95%) CCNP
14 20 (0.82%) CISA
15 15 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.49%) CCNA
18 11 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 11 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 86 (3.54%) QA
3 41 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (1.48%) NIST
5 28 (1.15%) GDPR
5 28 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 26 (1.07%) SLA
7 22 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.74%) NCSC
9 10 (0.41%) MiFID
10 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.25%) GRC
10 6 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.21%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.16%) WCAG
13 3 (0.12%) GPG13
13 3 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.12%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 349 (14.39%) Docker
2 84 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.29%) ACF2
6 7 (0.29%) IAG
6 7 (0.29%) RACF
7 6 (0.25%) Firmware
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.16%) KVM
9 4 (0.16%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.12%) XenApp
10 3 (0.12%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.082%) Ceph
11 2 (0.082%) Snort
11 2 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 484 (19.95%) Kubernetes
2 439 (18.10%) Terraform
3 172 (7.09%) Ansible
4 78 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 63 (2.60%) Grafana
6 45 (1.85%) Puppet
7 25 (1.03%) Packer
7 25 (1.03%) SCCM
8 19 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.45%) Consul
11 10 (0.41%) Kibana
12 9 (0.37%) Argo
13 8 (0.33%) Opsgenie
13 8 (0.33%) SCOM
13 8 (0.33%) SCVMM
14 7 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.29%) WSUS
15 5 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 171 (7.05%) Microsoft
2 168 (6.92%) Google
3 149 (6.14%) Oracle
4 72 (2.97%) VMware
5 60 (2.47%) Databricks
6 55 (2.27%) Cisco
6 55 (2.27%) SAP
7 52 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.10%) Splunk
9 38 (1.57%) CyberArk
10 36 (1.48%) Bloomberg
11 34 (1.40%) F5
12 33 (1.36%) Salesforce
13 31 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.24%) Red Hat
15 25 (1.03%) IBM
16 22 (0.91%) Typelevel
17 21 (0.87%) Juniper
18 20 (0.82%) Talend
19 19 (0.78%) Dynatrace