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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 233 477 854
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 10.81% 13.51% 20.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.35% 35.46% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 314 714
10th Percentile £413 £459 £463
25th Percentile £475 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £713
90th Percentile £795 £843 £796
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +13.64%
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 852 1,345 1,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.54% 38.10% 42.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 901 1,459
10th Percentile £363 £313 £400
25th Percentile £444 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -23.48%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £38.63 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £20.19
% change year-on-year -72.99% +312.66% -12.14%

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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 14 May 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 (3.00%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (2.58%) nginx
3 5 (2.15%) Apache
3 5 (2.15%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.72%) Site Server
4 4 (1.72%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.29%) Confluence
5 3 (1.29%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.86%) JBoss
6 2 (0.86%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.86%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 87 (37.34%) Azure
2 36 (15.45%) Serverless
3 34 (14.59%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (13.73%) Amazon S3
5 31 (13.30%) GCP
6 22 (9.44%) GitHub
7 21 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.43%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (3.43%) IaaS
12 7 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.00%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (3.00%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.00%) SaaS
12 7 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.58%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.00%) Firewall
2 4 (1.72%) DNS
3 3 (1.29%) SSL
4 2 (0.86%) CTI
4 2 (0.86%) DHCP
4 2 (0.86%) HTTP
4 2 (0.86%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.86%) LAN
4 2 (0.86%) Network Security
4 2 (0.86%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.86%) VoIP
4 2 (0.86%) VPN
4 2 (0.86%) WAN
4 2 (0.86%) Wireless
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) Multicast
5 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.43%) SSH
5 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.73%) NoSQL
2 23 (9.87%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (6.01%) MySQL
3 14 (6.01%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.58%) DynamoDB
5 12 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.15%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.15%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.86%) Parquet
7 8 (3.43%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.58%) Big Data
10 5 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.15%) GIS
11 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (9.01%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.30%) Git
3 13 (5.58%) GitLab
4 9 (3.86%) Selenium
5 7 (3.00%) Maven
6 6 (2.58%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.58%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.15%) JIRA
8 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.72%) JUnit
8 4 (1.72%) Mercurial
8 4 (1.72%) Postman
8 4 (1.72%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.72%) TestNG
9 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.29%) Gradle
9 3 (1.29%) JMeter
9 3 (1.29%) Mockito
9 3 (1.29%) PHPUnit
General
1 55 (23.61%) Finance
2 40 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.45%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.87%) Banking
5 10 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.86%) Retail
6 9 (3.86%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.43%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.58%) Front Office
9 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.29%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.86%) Back Office
11 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (27.47%) Developer
2 32 (13.73%) Senior
3 31 (13.30%) Architect
4 21 (9.01%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (9.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (8.15%) Data Engineer
6 15 (6.44%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (5.58%) Lead
8 11 (4.72%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.29%) Analyst
9 10 (4.29%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.29%) Software Developer
10 9 (3.86%) Consultant
11 8 (3.43%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.43%) AWS Developer
11 8 (3.43%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.43%) Technical Architect
12 7 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.88%) Kafka
2 16 (6.87%) REST
3 15 (6.44%) RESTful
4 13 (5.58%) .NET
5 12 (5.15%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.15%) Spring
6 11 (4.72%) React
6 11 (4.72%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.29%) GraphQL
8 9 (3.86%) JSON
9 8 (3.43%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.43%) Apache Avro
9 8 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (3.43%) Web Services
10 7 (3.00%) CSS
10 7 (3.00%) HTML
10 7 (3.00%) Middleware
11 6 (2.58%) Blazor
11 6 (2.58%) Laravel
12 5 (2.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.72%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.72%) Derivative
8 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) IVR
8 3 (1.29%) PKI
8 3 (1.29%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.86%) Clustering
9 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.86%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.86%) Video on Demand
9 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.73%) Linux
2 23 (9.87%) Windows
3 7 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.18%) DevOps
2 45 (19.31%) CI/CD
3 44 (18.88%) Agile
4 34 (14.59%) Microservices
5 26 (11.16%) Full Stack Development
6 25 (10.73%) ETL
6 25 (10.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (10.73%) Test Automation
7 21 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (9.01%) Software Engineering
8 19 (8.15%) SDLC
9 17 (7.30%) Containerisation
10 16 (6.87%) Data Modelling
10 16 (6.87%) Migration
11 13 (5.58%) Front End Development
12 12 (5.15%) Computer Science
12 12 (5.15%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (4.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (4.72%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.06%) Python
2 59 (25.32%) SQL
3 45 (19.31%) Java
4 25 (10.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.87%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.01%) C++
6 14 (6.01%) Go
6 14 (6.01%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.29%) Bash
8 9 (3.86%) C#
9 7 (3.00%) PHP
9 7 (3.00%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.58%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.72%) C
11 4 (1.72%) Korn
11 4 (1.72%) Rust
12 3 (1.29%) Scala
13 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 45 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.01%) Degree
4 13 (5.58%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.29%) CISM
8 3 (1.29%) CISSP
8 3 (1.29%) CRISC
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.86%) SANS
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.58%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.58%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.15%) NIST
2 5 (2.15%) QA
3 3 (1.29%) ISO 31000
3 3 (1.29%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.86%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.86%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (18.03%) Docker
2 9 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) Ceph
5 1 (0.43%) Lustre
5 1 (0.43%) NFS
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (24.03%) Kubernetes
2 46 (19.74%) Terraform
3 20 (8.58%) Ansible
4 9 (3.86%) Puppet
5 8 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.00%) Grafana
6 7 (3.00%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.15%) Consul
7 5 (2.15%) Packer
8 3 (1.29%) Nagios
8 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.86%) Graylog
9 2 (0.86%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.86%) SCCM
10 1 (0.43%) Argo
10 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.43%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 27 (11.59%) Oracle
2 17 (7.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.29%) Google
4 9 (3.86%) IBM
4 9 (3.86%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.58%) MuleSoft
5 6 (2.58%) Splunk
6 5 (2.15%) ESRI
6 5 (2.15%) VMware
7 4 (1.72%) Cisco
8 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.29%) Genesys
8 3 (1.29%) New Relic
8 3 (1.29%) SAP
9 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.86%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.86%) Databricks
9 2 (0.86%) eFront
9 2 (0.86%) Okta
9 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow