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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,391 3,543 6,578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.62% 14.04% 16.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.87% 35.82% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,848 2,677 5,106
10th Percentile £400 £450 £450
25th Percentile £481 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £713
90th Percentile £850 £810 £800
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 10
10th Percentile £22.10 £40.15 £44.00
25th Percentile £23.43 £62.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £27.65 £75.00 £66.75
Median % change year-on-year -63.13% +12.36% +6.75%
75th Percentile £68.38 £88.30 £81.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £50.59 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -30.22% +3.57% +13.82%

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 6,856 9,890 15,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.06% 39.18% 41.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,043 7,271 12,077
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 66 77 65
10th Percentile £17.01 £19.57 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +26.51% +10.67%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £88.98 £81.00
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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -2 271 £550 -12.00% 108
South London 0 56 £513 +2.50% 9
West London -2 56 £500 -20.00% 28
East London -4 9 £563 +12.50% 16
North London 0 1 £550 -8.33% 6
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
1 296 (12.38%) Apache
2 288 (12.05%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 55 (2.30%) Confluence
5 37 (1.55%) nginx
6 34 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.46%) CMS
8 11 (0.46%) IIS
9 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.33%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.33%) Site Server
10 8 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
11 7 (0.29%) JBoss
12 6 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
12 6 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 17 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.084%) Sketch
5 1 (0.042%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.042%) InVision
5 1 (0.042%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 11 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.42%) Endur
3 10 (0.42%) 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 (0.13%) 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
1 773 (32.33%) Azure
2 565 (23.63%) GCP
3 280 (11.71%) Serverless
4 237 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
5 217 (9.08%) Amazon S3
6 212 (8.87%) Snowflake
7 187 (7.82%) dbt
8 148 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
9 139 (5.81%) GitHub
10 99 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 93 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 72 (3.01%) SaaS
14 68 (2.84%) Power Platform
15 65 (2.72%) Amazon Kinesis
16 59 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 58 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
18 55 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
19 54 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
20 53 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 109 (4.56%) Firewall
2 72 (3.01%) DNS
3 53 (2.22%) HTTP
4 41 (1.71%) Network Security
5 40 (1.67%) DHCP
6 38 (1.59%) VPN
7 37 (1.55%) LAN
8 31 (1.30%) Wireless
9 29 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 29 (1.21%) WAN
10 27 (1.13%) BGP
11 26 (1.09%) OSPF
12 20 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (0.71%) Internet
13 17 (0.71%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.71%) MPLS
13 17 (0.71%) SD-WAN
13 17 (0.71%) VLAN
14 16 (0.67%) IPsec
15 14 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
2 211 (8.82%) Apache Ignite
3 205 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
4 197 (8.24%) Data Lake
5 168 (7.03%) Dremio
6 165 (6.90%) Apache Arrow
7 130 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
8 129 (5.40%) NoSQL
9 104 (4.35%) SQL Server
10 101 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
11 100 (4.18%) Big Data
12 92 (3.85%) DynamoDB
13 86 (3.60%) Relational Database
14 79 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
15 69 (2.89%) MySQL
16 67 (2.80%) Power BI
17 60 (2.51%) Tableau
18 53 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
19 45 (1.88%) MongoDB
20 38 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 211 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 208 (8.70%) Git
3 102 (4.27%) JIRA
4 88 (3.68%) GitLab
5 82 (3.43%) Cypress.io
6 29 (1.21%) Selenium
7 23 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 23 (0.96%) JMeter
8 22 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.84%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.84%) JUnit
10 18 (0.75%) Maven
11 14 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.54%) Postman
13 12 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.42%) LoadRunner
14 10 (0.42%) Mockito
14 10 (0.42%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.38%) Artifactory
16 8 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 704 (29.44%) Finance
2 356 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 352 (14.72%) Front Office
4 350 (14.64%) Banking
5 172 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 169 (7.07%) Investment Banking
7 129 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
8 54 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (1.97%) Retail
10 38 (1.59%) Marketing
11 34 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (0.75%) Publishing
16 17 (0.71%) Law
17 15 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.54%) Retail Banking
19 12 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
20 11 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 654 (27.35%) Developer
2 364 (15.22%) Architect
3 330 (13.80%) Senior
4 296 (12.38%) Software Engineer
5 291 (12.17%) AWS Engineer
6 229 (9.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 180 (7.53%) Lead
8 176 (7.36%) Python Developer
9 165 (6.90%) Data Engineer
10 161 (6.73%) Python Engineer
11 156 (6.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 141 (5.90%) Python Software Engineer
13 140 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
14 133 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
15 117 (4.89%) React Developer
16 112 (4.68%) Java Developer
17 98 (4.10%) AWS Architect
18 97 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
19 89 (3.72%) Analyst
20 88 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (13.13%) React
2 249 (10.41%) gRPC
3 238 (9.95%) Protocol Buffers
4 226 (9.45%) Kafka
5 173 (7.24%) Pandas
6 161 (6.73%) NumPy
7 160 (6.69%) Node.js
8 153 (6.40%) .NET
9 146 (6.11%) SciPy
10 131 (5.48%) Redux
11 126 (5.27%) RESTful
12 113 (4.73%) REST
13 108 (4.52%) Spring
14 101 (4.22%) Spring Boot
15 97 (4.06%) AngularJS
16 88 (3.68%) HTML
17 79 (3.30%) Material-UI
18 78 (3.26%) CSS
19 66 (2.76%) GraphQL
20 61 (2.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 313 (13.09%) Fixed Income
2 311 (13.01%) Hedge funds
3 239 (10.00%) Equities
4 223 (9.33%) Derivative
5 200 (8.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 73 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 61 (2.55%) Cloud Native
7 61 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
8 49 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 48 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 45 (1.88%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.80%) Clustering
12 41 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
13 40 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.34%) Management Information System
15 25 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.00%) Replication
17 23 (0.96%) PKI
18 20 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 231 (9.66%) Linux
2 127 (5.31%) Windows
3 75 (3.14%) Unix
4 44 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 41 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.29%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.21%) Solaris
9 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.21%) zOS
10 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.084%) CentOS
11 2 (0.084%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.084%) VMS
11 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (33.17%) Agile
2 652 (27.27%) DevOps
3 497 (20.79%) Software Engineering
4 454 (18.99%) CI/CD
5 336 (14.05%) Asset Management
6 278 (11.63%) Investment Management
7 270 (11.29%) Microservices
8 265 (11.08%) Full Stack Development
9 238 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
10 212 (8.87%) Machine Learning
11 190 (7.95%) Analytics
12 175 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 169 (7.07%) Migration
14 166 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence
15 165 (6.90%) Containerisation
16 163 (6.82%) TDD
17 149 (6.23%) Test Automation
18 139 (5.81%) Data Pipeline
19 137 (5.73%) ETL
20 136 (5.69%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 936 (39.15%) Python
2 523 (21.87%) Java
3 487 (20.37%) SQL
4 453 (18.95%) JavaScript
5 417 (17.44%) TypeScript
6 140 (5.86%) C#
7 118 (4.94%) Go
8 104 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 94 (3.93%) Bash
10 89 (3.72%) Scala
11 53 (2.22%) C++
12 45 (1.88%) PHP
13 42 (1.76%) Shell Script
14 40 (1.67%) Ruby
15 38 (1.59%) C
16 32 (1.34%) Kotlin
17 26 (1.09%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.71%) R
19 16 (0.67%) Groovy
20 12 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 496 (20.74%) Security Cleared
2 427 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 158 (6.61%) Degree
4 99 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 64 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 36 (1.51%) CISSP
8 35 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.34%) CISM
10 29 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.96%) CCNP
13 20 (0.84%) CISA
14 16 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.50%) CCNA
17 11 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 8 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.55%) QA
3 36 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.38%) NIST
5 27 (1.13%) GDPR
5 27 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 26 (1.09%) SLA
7 21 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.75%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.17%) WCAG
13 3 (0.13%) GPG13
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.084%) SOC 2
System Software
1 338 (14.14%) Docker
2 86 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 55 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.63%) 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 (0.17%) KVM
9 4 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.13%) XenApp
10 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.084%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.084%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 472 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 434 (18.15%) Terraform
3 163 (6.82%) Ansible
4 77 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 62 (2.59%) Grafana
6 44 (1.84%) Puppet
7 25 (1.05%) Packer
7 25 (1.05%) SCCM
8 19 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.46%) Consul
11 10 (0.42%) Kibana
12 9 (0.38%) 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%) WSUS
15 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.21%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 167 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.78%) Google
3 156 (6.52%) Oracle
4 70 (2.93%) VMware
5 55 (2.30%) SAP
6 54 (2.26%) Cisco
7 53 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.17%) Databricks
9 49 (2.05%) Splunk
10 41 (1.71%) CyberArk
11 34 (1.42%) F5
12 33 (1.38%) Salesforce
13 32 (1.34%) Bloomberg
14 31 (1.30%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.09%) IBM
16 25 (1.05%) Red Hat
17 22 (0.92%) Typelevel
18 21 (0.88%) Juniper
19 20 (0.84%) BeyondTrust
19 20 (0.84%) Talend