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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,334 3,645 6,706
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.35% 14.01% 17.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.54% 35.95% 41.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,806 2,741 5,228
10th Percentile £405 £450 £450
25th Percentile £488 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £800 £788
England median daily rate £563 £600 £589
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.91% +12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 8
10th Percentile £22.10 £61.25 £47.25
25th Percentile £23.43 £63.25 £56.81
Median hourly rate £43.25 £75.00 £75.38
Median % change year-on-year -42.33% -0.50% +58.68%
75th Percentile £68.38 £88.30 £83.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +18.64%

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 6,757 10,139 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.66% 38.97% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 7,439 12,131
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £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 68 80 78
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.89 £19.76
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.25 £23.49
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.47 £78.98
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -2 277 £550 -12.00% 121
South London 0 66 £513 +2.50% 20
West London -2 51 £500 -20.00% 32
East London 0 11 £581 +16.25% 345
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
1 268 (11.48%) Apache
2 251 (10.75%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (2.53%) Confluence
4 52 (2.23%) nginx
5 49 (2.10%) Apache Spark
6 35 (1.50%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 14 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.43%) CMS
9 10 (0.43%) IIS
9 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
10 9 (0.39%) JBoss
10 9 (0.39%) Site Server
11 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 5 (0.21%) WebLogic
15 4 (0.17%) CICS
15 4 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Sketch
6 1 (0.043%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.043%) InVision
6 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.043%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.51%) Endur
3 11 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.34%) Shopify
6 7 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
7 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.21%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
9 3 (0.13%) Magento
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.043%) Aareon QL
10 1 (0.043%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.043%) OPENHousing
10 1 (0.043%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.043%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.043%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.043%) SAP Hybris
10 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 779 (33.38%) Azure
2 533 (22.84%) GCP
3 290 (12.43%) Serverless
4 247 (10.58%) AWS Lambda
5 212 (9.08%) Amazon S3
6 180 (7.71%) Snowflake
7 152 (6.51%) dbt
8 146 (6.26%) Amazon EC2
9 125 (5.36%) GitHub
10 101 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
12 78 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 71 (3.04%) SaaS
14 69 (2.96%) Amazon Kinesis
15 62 (2.66%) Power Platform
15 62 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 55 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
16 55 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
17 54 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
18 53 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 109 (4.67%) Firewall
2 74 (3.17%) DNS
3 50 (2.14%) HTTP
4 42 (1.80%) DHCP
4 42 (1.80%) Network Security
5 40 (1.71%) VPN
6 39 (1.67%) LAN
7 31 (1.33%) WAN
8 30 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.29%) Wireless
9 27 (1.16%) BGP
9 27 (1.16%) OSPF
10 19 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
10 19 (0.81%) MPLS
11 17 (0.73%) IPsec
11 17 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.73%) VLAN
12 14 (0.60%) Internet
12 14 (0.60%) Kerberos
13 13 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
2 181 (7.75%) Apache Ignite
3 175 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
4 161 (6.90%) Data Lake
5 132 (5.66%) Apache Arrow
5 132 (5.66%) Dremio
6 130 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
6 130 (5.57%) NoSQL
7 104 (4.46%) SQL Server
8 95 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
9 92 (3.94%) Big Data
10 82 (3.51%) DynamoDB
11 80 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 79 (3.38%) Relational Database
13 67 (2.87%) MySQL
14 60 (2.57%) Power BI
15 51 (2.19%) Tableau
16 50 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
17 47 (2.01%) MongoDB
18 37 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 204 (8.74%) Jenkins
2 203 (8.70%) Git
3 108 (4.63%) JIRA
4 81 (3.47%) Cypress.io
5 79 (3.38%) GitLab
6 32 (1.37%) Selenium
7 31 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.16%) Maven
9 22 (0.94%) JMeter
10 20 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 19 (0.81%) JUnit
11 19 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.77%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.56%) Postman
14 12 (0.51%) Mockito
15 11 (0.47%) TestNG
16 10 (0.43%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
18 8 (0.34%) Burp Suite
18 8 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 653 (27.98%) Finance
2 353 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 316 (13.54%) Front Office
4 296 (12.68%) Banking
5 185 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 137 (5.87%) Investment Banking
7 136 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
8 54 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (1.76%) Retail
10 38 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.50%) Marketing
12 30 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.81%) Publishing
16 18 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.73%) Law
18 12 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (0.51%) Retail Banking
19 11 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 643 (27.55%) Developer
2 373 (15.98%) Architect
3 304 (13.02%) Senior
4 274 (11.74%) AWS Engineer
5 272 (11.65%) Software Engineer
6 220 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 175 (7.50%) Lead
8 166 (7.11%) Python Developer
9 160 (6.86%) Data Engineer
10 152 (6.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 147 (6.30%) Full Stack Developer
12 143 (6.13%) Python Engineer
13 132 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
14 126 (5.40%) Python Software Engineer
15 117 (5.01%) React Developer
16 110 (4.71%) Java Developer
17 101 (4.33%) AWS Architect
18 91 (3.90%) Analyst
18 91 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
19 82 (3.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (12.94%) React
2 215 (9.21%) gRPC
3 212 (9.08%) Kafka
4 208 (8.91%) Protocol Buffers
5 160 (6.86%) Node.js
6 157 (6.73%) .NET
7 141 (6.04%) Pandas
8 131 (5.61%) Redux
9 130 (5.57%) NumPy
10 117 (5.01%) SciPy
11 113 (4.84%) RESTful
12 112 (4.80%) REST
13 107 (4.58%) Spring
14 97 (4.16%) Spring Boot
15 90 (3.86%) HTML
16 87 (3.73%) AngularJS
17 82 (3.51%) Material-UI
18 78 (3.34%) CSS
19 62 (2.66%) .NET Core
20 59 (2.53%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 278 (11.91%) Fixed Income
1 278 (11.91%) Hedge funds
2 209 (8.95%) Equities
3 192 (8.23%) Derivative
4 167 (7.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 66 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 60 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 53 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 50 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 46 (1.97%) Data Centre
11 44 (1.89%) Clustering
12 39 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
13 37 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
14 33 (1.41%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.11%) PKI
15 26 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
16 23 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 245 (10.50%) Linux
2 139 (5.96%) Windows
3 75 (3.21%) Unix
4 52 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.30%) Android
9 7 (0.30%) CentOS
9 7 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (0.30%) VMS
10 6 (0.26%) Solaris
11 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.21%) zOS
12 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.043%) tvOS
14 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (32.78%) Agile
2 629 (26.95%) DevOps
3 467 (20.01%) CI/CD
4 448 (19.19%) Software Engineering
5 307 (13.15%) Asset Management
6 280 (12.00%) Microservices
7 273 (11.70%) Full Stack Development
8 252 (10.80%) Investment Management
9 230 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
10 198 (8.48%) Machine Learning
11 185 (7.93%) Analytics
12 177 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 160 (6.86%) TDD
13 160 (6.86%) Test Automation
14 159 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
15 152 (6.51%) Containerisation
16 145 (6.21%) Migration
17 143 (6.13%) Data Pipeline
18 140 (6.00%) ETL
19 126 (5.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 902 (38.65%) Python
2 493 (21.12%) Java
3 473 (20.27%) SQL
4 428 (18.34%) JavaScript
5 372 (15.94%) TypeScript
6 146 (6.26%) C#
7 130 (5.57%) Go
8 101 (4.33%) PowerShell
9 96 (4.11%) Bash
10 83 (3.56%) Scala
11 54 (2.31%) C++
12 50 (2.14%) PHP
13 43 (1.84%) Ruby
14 36 (1.54%) C
14 36 (1.54%) Shell Script
15 29 (1.24%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.16%) T-SQL
17 19 (0.81%) R
18 14 (0.60%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 527 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 458 (19.62%) SC Cleared
3 148 (6.34%) Degree
4 94 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 91 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 64 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 36 (1.54%) CISSP
8 34 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.33%) CISM
10 25 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (0.94%) CCNP
12 20 (0.86%) CISA
12 20 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.51%) CCNA
14 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.39%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (3.77%) QA
2 80 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 36 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.41%) NIST
5 25 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.07%) GDPR
5 25 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 25 (1.07%) SLA
6 17 (0.73%) NCSC
7 10 (0.43%) MiFID
8 6 (0.26%) GRC
8 6 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.17%) WCAG
11 3 (0.13%) GPG13
11 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.13%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 317 (13.58%) Docker
2 86 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 53 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.30%) ACF2
6 7 (0.30%) IAG
6 7 (0.30%) RACF
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
8 5 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.17%) KVM
9 4 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.13%) vSphere
11 2 (0.086%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.086%) Ceph
11 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.086%) NFS
11 2 (0.086%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.086%) Squid
Systems Management
1 447 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 436 (18.68%) Terraform
3 166 (7.11%) Ansible
4 77 (3.30%) Prometheus
5 61 (2.61%) Grafana
6 49 (2.10%) Puppet
7 25 (1.07%) Packer
7 25 (1.07%) Progress Chef
8 24 (1.03%) SCCM
9 16 (0.69%) Consul
9 16 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.51%) Kibana
11 8 (0.34%) Argo
11 8 (0.34%) Opsgenie
11 8 (0.34%) WSUS
12 7 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (0.30%) Nagios
12 7 (0.30%) SCOM
12 7 (0.30%) SCVMM
12 7 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 162 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.81%) Oracle
3 151 (6.47%) Google
4 71 (3.04%) VMware
5 56 (2.40%) SAP
6 54 (2.31%) Splunk
7 53 (2.27%) Cisco
7 53 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 41 (1.76%) CyberArk
8 41 (1.76%) Databricks
9 34 (1.46%) F5
10 33 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 30 (1.29%) Bloomberg
11 30 (1.29%) IBM
12 29 (1.24%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.20%) Red Hat
14 21 (0.90%) Talend
15 20 (0.86%) BeyondTrust
15 20 (0.86%) Typelevel
16 19 (0.81%) Dynatrace