AWS Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 229 498 855
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 10.40% 13.69% 20.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.72% 36.01% 46.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 333 716
10th Percentile £413 £457 £463
25th Percentile £475 £525 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +1.63% +11.82%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £713
90th Percentile £788 £845 £794
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
Central London median hourly rate - £84.09 -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,383 1,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.92% 38.03% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 935 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £314 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £29.23 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +383.78% -7.43%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £57.30 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
% change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (3.06%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (2.18%) nginx
2 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.18%) Site Server
2 5 (2.18%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.75%) Apache
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.75%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.31%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.87%) Confluence
5 2 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.44%) CICS
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.87%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 88 (38.43%) Azure
2 38 (16.59%) Serverless
3 36 (15.72%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (14.85%) Amazon S3
5 30 (13.10%) GCP
6 21 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (9.17%) GitHub
7 14 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.93%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (3.93%) IaaS
11 7 (3.06%) Amazon MSK
11 7 (3.06%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.06%) SaaS
11 7 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.62%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (2.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.18%) Firewall
2 4 (1.75%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) DHCP
3 2 (0.87%) Network Security
3 2 (0.87%) SSL
3 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) IPv4
4 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) MPLS
4 1 (0.44%) MQTT
4 1 (0.44%) Multicast
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.92%) NoSQL
2 24 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (10.04%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (6.11%) DynamoDB
5 14 (6.11%) MySQL
5 14 (6.11%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.24%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.37%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.93%) Parquet
10 8 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (3.49%) RDBMS
11 7 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.62%) Big Data
12 6 (2.62%) GIS
13 5 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (2.18%) Tableau
14 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.99%) Git
3 13 (5.68%) GitLab
4 9 (3.93%) Selenium
5 7 (3.06%) Maven
6 6 (2.62%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.62%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.18%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.75%) JIRA
8 4 (1.75%) JUnit
8 4 (1.75%) Mercurial
8 4 (1.75%) Postman
8 4 (1.75%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.75%) TestNG
9 3 (1.31%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.31%) Gradle
9 3 (1.31%) JMeter
9 3 (1.31%) Mockito
10 2 (0.87%) RStudio
General
1 53 (23.14%) Finance
2 38 (16.59%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.61%) Banking
5 10 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.06%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.06%) Retail
6 7 (3.06%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.18%) Front Office
8 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Back Office
9 2 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (27.07%) Developer
2 34 (14.85%) Senior
3 30 (13.10%) Architect
4 22 (9.61%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (9.17%) Data Engineer
6 15 (6.55%) Full Stack Developer
7 14 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.80%) Lead
8 11 (4.80%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.37%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.37%) Software Developer
10 9 (3.93%) Analyst
10 9 (3.93%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Consultant
10 9 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.49%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.49%) Technical Architect
12 7 (3.06%) DBA
12 7 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.23%) Kafka
2 16 (6.99%) REST
3 14 (6.11%) RESTful
4 13 (5.68%) .NET
5 12 (5.24%) Spring
6 11 (4.80%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.80%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.37%) React
8 9 (3.93%) GraphQL
8 9 (3.93%) JSON
9 8 (3.49%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.49%) Apache Avro
9 8 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.62%) Blazor
10 6 (2.62%) CSS
10 6 (2.62%) HTML
10 6 (2.62%) Middleware
10 6 (2.62%) Web Services
11 5 (2.18%) Node.js
11 5 (2.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.80%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.18%) Derivative
7 4 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.75%) PKI
8 3 (1.31%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.87%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.87%) Video on Demand
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.17%) Linux
2 20 (8.73%) Windows
3 6 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.07%) DevOps
2 45 (19.65%) Agile
3 44 (19.21%) CI/CD
4 34 (14.85%) Microservices
5 29 (12.66%) ETL
6 25 (10.92%) Full Stack Development
6 25 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (10.48%) Test Automation
8 23 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (8.73%) Software Engineering
11 18 (7.86%) SDLC
12 17 (7.42%) Data Modelling
12 17 (7.42%) Migration
13 15 (6.55%) Containerisation
14 13 (5.68%) Front End Development
15 12 (5.24%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (4.80%) Computer Science
17 10 (4.37%) Business Intelligence
17 10 (4.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.74%) Python
2 57 (24.89%) SQL
3 44 (19.21%) Java
4 24 (10.48%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.55%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.11%) C++
6 14 (6.11%) Go
6 14 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.37%) Bash
8 7 (3.06%) C#
8 7 (3.06%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.62%) PHP
9 6 (2.62%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.18%) Korn
10 5 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.75%) Rust
12 3 (1.31%) C
12 3 (1.31%) Scala
13 2 (0.87%) Ruby
14 1 (0.44%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 48 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.68%) AWS Certification
3 13 (5.68%) Degree
4 10 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.31%) CISM
6 3 (1.31%) CISSP
6 3 (1.31%) CRISC
7 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.87%) SANS
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.18%) NIST
2 5 (2.18%) QA
3 3 (1.31%) ISO 31000
3 3 (1.31%) NIST 800
3 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) NCSC
4 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.72%) Docker
2 6 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Ceph
5 1 (0.44%) Lustre
5 1 (0.44%) NFS
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (23.14%) Kubernetes
2 45 (19.65%) Terraform
3 17 (7.42%) Ansible
4 9 (3.93%) Puppet
5 6 (2.62%) Grafana
5 6 (2.62%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.75%) Consul
7 3 (1.31%) Nagios
7 3 (1.31%) Packer
8 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.87%) Graylog
8 2 (0.87%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.44%) Argo
9 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.44%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 28 (12.23%) Oracle
2 15 (6.55%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.37%) IBM
4 9 (3.93%) Google
5 6 (2.62%) ESRI
5 6 (2.62%) MuleSoft
5 6 (2.62%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.62%) Splunk
6 3 (1.31%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.31%) Databricks
6 3 (1.31%) New Relic
6 3 (1.31%) SAP
6 3 (1.31%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.31%) VMware
7 2 (0.87%) Adobe
7 2 (0.87%) Embarcadero
7 2 (0.87%) Informatica
7 2 (0.87%) MKS
7 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.87%) Temenos