AWS Engineer Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 148 111
Rank change year-on-year -27 -37 +46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 251 486 995
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.41% 1.80% 2.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.89% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 384 849
10th Percentile £415 £464 £481
25th Percentile £478 £517 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £764 £708 £700
90th Percentile £850 £805 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,628 25,761 37,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,029 18,663 27,061
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £798 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +13 26 £550 -12.00% 1
West London -8 7 £581 -3.13% 1
South London +9 5 £518 +0.98% 1
East London -4 1 - -
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 251 (100.00%) AWS
2 139 (55.38%) Python
3 116 (46.22%) DevOps
4 98 (39.04%) Terraform
5 80 (31.87%) CI/CD
6 77 (30.68%) Finance
7 71 (28.29%) Kubernetes
8 67 (26.69%) Security Cleared
9 64 (25.50%) SC Cleared
10 59 (23.51%) Java
11 56 (22.31%) Agile
12 55 (21.91%) Serverless
13 54 (21.51%) JavaScript
14 53 (21.12%) Amazon S3
15 50 (19.92%) Amazon Athena
16 49 (19.52%) Software Engineering
17 48 (19.12%) Amazon EC2
17 48 (19.12%) Apache Airflow
18 47 (18.73%) AWS Lambda
19 46 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
20 45 (17.93%) Asset Management
20 45 (17.93%) Apache
21 44 (17.53%) Linux
22 42 (16.73%) Protocol Buffers
22 42 (16.73%) Apache Arrow
22 42 (16.73%) dbt
22 42 (16.73%) Dremio
22 42 (16.73%) gRPC
23 41 (16.33%) TypeScript
24 40 (15.94%) Docker

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 48 (19.12%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (17.93%) Apache
3 5 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.59%) Confluence
4 4 (1.59%) nginx
5 3 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 251 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (21.91%) Serverless
3 53 (21.12%) Amazon S3
4 48 (19.12%) Amazon EC2
5 47 (18.73%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (16.73%) dbt
7 34 (13.55%) Snowflake
8 25 (9.96%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (9.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (9.56%) Azure
10 21 (8.37%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (8.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (7.97%) GCP
11 20 (7.97%) GitHub
12 14 (5.58%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (4.78%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (4.78%) AWS CloudTrail
14 11 (4.38%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.98%) Firewall
2 8 (3.19%) DNS
3 3 (1.20%) DHCP
3 3 (1.20%) IPv4
3 3 (1.20%) LAN
3 3 (1.20%) Network Security
3 3 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.20%) SMTP
3 3 (1.20%) WLAN
4 2 (0.80%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.92%) Amazon Athena
2 42 (16.73%) Apache Arrow
2 42 (16.73%) Dremio
3 36 (14.34%) Data Lake
4 30 (11.95%) Apache Ignite
5 26 (10.36%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (7.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (7.17%) Big Data
8 15 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.98%) DynamoDB
10 9 (3.59%) Flink
10 9 (3.59%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.39%) MySQL
12 2 (0.80%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.80%) Parquet
12 2 (0.80%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 28 (11.16%) Git
2 27 (10.76%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.17%) GitLab
4 6 (2.39%) JIRA
5 3 (1.20%) JMeter
5 3 (1.20%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.20%) Maven
5 3 (1.20%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.80%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.80%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) Gatling
7 1 (0.40%) Gradle
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.40%) Subversion
7 1 (0.40%) VisualWorks
General
1 77 (30.68%) Finance
2 33 (13.15%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.35%) Banking
3 31 (12.35%) Front Office
4 27 (10.76%) Investment Banking
5 20 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.19%) Law
7 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.59%) Retail
8 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.80%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Back Office
10 1 (0.40%) Electronics
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.73%) gRPC
1 42 (16.73%) Protocol Buffers
2 34 (13.55%) NumPy
2 34 (13.55%) Pandas
3 30 (11.95%) SciPy
4 20 (7.97%) Kafka
5 14 (5.58%) React
6 12 (4.78%) Node.js
7 11 (4.38%) AWS CDK
8 10 (3.98%) .NET
9 9 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.59%) PySpark
10 7 (2.79%) REST
10 7 (2.79%) Vue
11 6 (2.39%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.39%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (2.39%) Redux
11 6 (2.39%) YAML
12 5 (1.99%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.59%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.55%) Hedge funds
2 24 (9.56%) Fixed Income
3 18 (7.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (6.37%) Derivative
4 16 (6.37%) Equities
5 12 (4.78%) Clustering
5 12 (4.78%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.59%) PKI
7 4 (1.59%) Pricing Data
8 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.20%) Life Science
9 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.80%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.53%) Linux
2 11 (4.38%) Windows
3 6 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.39%) Unix
4 5 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.80%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (46.22%) DevOps
2 80 (31.87%) CI/CD
3 56 (22.31%) Agile
4 49 (19.52%) Software Engineering
5 46 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (17.93%) Asset Management
7 34 (13.55%) Investment Management
8 26 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (9.96%) Data Engineering
9 25 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (9.16%) Containerisation
11 21 (8.37%) Analytics
12 19 (7.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 18 (7.17%) Microservices
14 17 (6.77%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (5.98%) ETL
16 13 (5.18%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (4.78%) Greeks
18 11 (4.38%) Computer Science
18 11 (4.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 139 (55.38%) Python
2 59 (23.51%) Java
3 54 (21.51%) JavaScript
4 41 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 37 (14.74%) SQL
6 27 (10.76%) Bash
7 22 (8.76%) Go
8 14 (5.58%) C#
9 10 (3.98%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.79%) C++
11 6 (2.39%) C
12 5 (1.99%) PHP
12 5 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.59%) Ruby
13 4 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.20%) Perl
14 3 (1.20%) Scala
15 2 (0.80%) Groovy
16 1 (0.40%) Rust
16 1 (0.40%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 67 (26.69%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.17%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.78%) Degree
5 9 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.59%) NIST
3 1 (0.40%) GDPR
3 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.40%) NCSC
3 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 40 (15.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 98 (39.04%) Terraform
2 71 (28.29%) Kubernetes
3 34 (13.55%) Ansible
4 20 (7.97%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.38%) Grafana
6 8 (3.19%) Puppet
7 5 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.59%) Argo
8 4 (1.59%) Kibana
9 3 (1.20%) Consul
9 3 (1.20%) Packer
10 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.40%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.40%) Graylog
11 1 (0.40%) logstash
11 1 (0.40%) Nagios
11 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (3.59%) Red Hat
1 9 (3.59%) Splunk
2 6 (2.39%) Oracle
3 5 (1.99%) SAP
4 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.20%) Databricks
4 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.20%) F5
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.80%) Google
5 2 (0.80%) MKS
5 2 (0.80%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.40%) BMC
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco
6 1 (0.40%) Cylance
6 1 (0.40%) Qualys
6 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.40%) UiPath
6 1 (0.40%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.40%) VMware