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 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 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,255 3,828 6,751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.73% 14.14% 17.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.78% 36.23% 41.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 2,858 5,252
10th Percentile £413 £450 £454
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £550 £590 £590
% change year-on-year -6.78% - +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 8
10th Percentile £22.10 £42.88 £47.25
25th Percentile £23.43 £62.00 £56.81
Median hourly rate £44.50 £75.00 £77.88
Median % change year-on-year -40.67% -3.69% +63.95%
75th Percentile £63.63 £84.89 £83.13
90th Percentile £71.95 £88.30 £85.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £72.75 £56.25
% change year-on-year -27.84% +29.33% -3.02%

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 6,676 10,565 16,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.70% 39.02% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,924 7,715 12,114
10th Percentile £341 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £481
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 £780 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 91 86
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.06 £24.00 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%
75th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £62.13 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 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 -3 264 £550 -12.00% 105
South London 0 69 £513 -4.65% 6
West London -2 48 £475 -24.00% 24
East London -3 11 £563 +12.50% 33
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
1 214 (9.49%) Apache
2 186 (8.25%) Apache Airflow
3 61 (2.71%) Confluence
4 46 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 40 (1.77%) nginx
6 35 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 19 (0.84%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
9 10 (0.44%) IIS
9 10 (0.44%) Site Server
10 9 (0.40%) JBoss
10 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.31%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.31%) CMS
11 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.18%) CICS
14 3 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.089%) Sketch
5 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.044%) InVision
5 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.044%) Trello
5 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.40%) Endur
4 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.35%) Shopify
5 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 2 (0.089%) Magento
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.089%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.044%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.044%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.044%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.044%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 762 (33.79%) Azure
2 498 (22.08%) GCP
3 302 (13.39%) Serverless
4 255 (11.31%) AWS Lambda
5 219 (9.71%) Amazon S3
6 149 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
7 140 (6.21%) Snowflake
8 132 (5.85%) GitHub
9 113 (5.01%) dbt
10 95 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 92 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 71 (3.15%) Amazon Kinesis
13 71 (3.15%) SaaS
14 66 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
15 65 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 61 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
17 59 (2.62%) Power Platform
18 56 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
19 54 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (4.39%) Firewall
2 81 (3.59%) DNS
3 46 (2.04%) DHCP
4 43 (1.91%) HTTP
4 43 (1.91%) LAN
4 43 (1.91%) VPN
5 41 (1.82%) Network Security
6 35 (1.55%) WAN
7 30 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 30 (1.33%) Wireless
8 29 (1.29%) BGP
9 27 (1.20%) OSPF
10 19 (0.84%) MPLS
10 19 (0.84%) VLAN
11 17 (0.75%) IPsec
12 16 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
12 16 (0.71%) SD-WAN
13 14 (0.62%) Internet
13 14 (0.62%) SAN
13 14 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
3 136 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
4 131 (5.81%) NoSQL
5 126 (5.59%) Data Lake
6 125 (5.54%) Apache Ignite
7 105 (4.66%) SQL Server
8 98 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
9 94 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 92 (4.08%) Apache Arrow
10 92 (4.08%) Dremio
11 84 (3.73%) Big Data
11 84 (3.73%) DynamoDB
12 78 (3.46%) Relational Database
13 66 (2.93%) MySQL
14 57 (2.53%) Power BI
15 53 (2.35%) MongoDB
16 52 (2.31%) Tableau
17 50 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
18 41 (1.82%) Flink
Development Applications
1 210 (9.31%) Jenkins
2 202 (8.96%) Git
3 109 (4.83%) JIRA
4 76 (3.37%) GitLab
5 68 (3.02%) Cypress.io
6 39 (1.73%) Maven
7 31 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.33%) Selenium
9 22 (0.98%) Postman
10 20 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.89%) JMeter
11 19 (0.84%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.80%) JUnit
13 16 (0.71%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.53%) Mockito
15 10 (0.44%) SoapUI
15 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio
16 9 (0.40%) TestNG
17 8 (0.35%) Burp Suite
17 8 (0.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 573 (25.41%) Finance
2 363 (16.10%) Social Skills
3 251 (11.13%) Front Office
4 231 (10.24%) Banking
5 195 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 143 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
7 106 (4.70%) Investment Banking
8 48 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (1.86%) Retail
10 41 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.64%) Marketing
12 34 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (0.75%) Law
17 16 (0.71%) Publishing
18 14 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
19 12 (0.53%) Electronics
20 11 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 633 (28.07%) Developer
2 347 (15.39%) Architect
3 299 (13.26%) Senior
4 248 (11.00%) AWS Engineer
5 230 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 203 (9.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 178 (7.89%) Data Engineer
8 164 (7.27%) Lead
9 138 (6.12%) Full Stack Developer
10 136 (6.03%) Python Developer
11 126 (5.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 124 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
13 114 (5.06%) Java Developer
14 107 (4.75%) Python Engineer
15 97 (4.30%) AWS Architect
16 91 (4.04%) React Developer
17 88 (3.90%) Python Software Engineer
18 84 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
19 83 (3.68%) Senior Developer
20 80 (3.55%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (11.84%) React
2 201 (8.91%) Kafka
3 170 (7.54%) Node.js
4 152 (6.74%) .NET
5 150 (6.65%) gRPC
6 145 (6.43%) Protocol Buffers
7 121 (5.37%) REST
8 117 (5.19%) Pandas
9 109 (4.83%) Redux
10 107 (4.75%) Spring
11 105 (4.66%) RESTful
12 102 (4.52%) NumPy
13 95 (4.21%) Spring Boot
14 89 (3.95%) SciPy
15 88 (3.90%) AngularJS
16 84 (3.73%) HTML
17 73 (3.24%) CSS
18 61 (2.71%) GraphQL
18 61 (2.71%) Material-UI
19 59 (2.62%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 226 (10.02%) Fixed Income
2 206 (9.14%) Hedge funds
3 165 (7.32%) Derivative
4 159 (7.05%) Equities
5 138 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 69 (3.06%) Cloud Native
7 61 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
8 59 (2.62%) Product Ownership
9 51 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 47 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 44 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 37 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
13 34 (1.51%) Clustering
13 34 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
14 29 (1.29%) Management Information System
14 29 (1.29%) PKI
15 27 (1.20%) Replication
16 24 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 230 (10.20%) Linux
2 141 (6.25%) Windows
3 69 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 64 (2.84%) Unix
5 30 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.40%) CentOS
8 9 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.35%) Android
9 8 (0.35%) Solaris
10 7 (0.31%) VMS
11 5 (0.22%) zOS
12 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.044%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (31.97%) Agile
2 616 (27.32%) DevOps
3 464 (20.58%) CI/CD
4 382 (16.94%) Software Engineering
5 279 (12.37%) Microservices
6 255 (11.31%) Asset Management
7 248 (11.00%) Full Stack Development
8 229 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
9 205 (9.09%) Investment Management
10 184 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 169 (7.49%) Analytics
12 165 (7.32%) Containerisation
13 164 (7.27%) Machine Learning
13 164 (7.27%) Test Automation
14 161 (7.14%) TDD
15 153 (6.78%) Data Pipeline
16 140 (6.21%) ETL
17 137 (6.08%) Migration
18 120 (5.32%) Artificial Intelligence
19 118 (5.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 840 (37.25%) Python
2 449 (19.91%) Java
3 444 (19.69%) SQL
4 401 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 313 (13.88%) TypeScript
6 144 (6.39%) C#
7 116 (5.14%) Go
8 101 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 99 (4.39%) Bash
10 73 (3.24%) Scala
11 48 (2.13%) C++
11 48 (2.13%) PHP
12 41 (1.82%) Ruby
13 35 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 29 (1.29%) Kotlin
15 27 (1.20%) C
15 27 (1.20%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.93%) R
17 15 (0.67%) Perl
18 14 (0.62%) Korn
Qualifications
1 526 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 457 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 136 (6.03%) Degree
4 87 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 83 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 33 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.33%) CISSP
9 26 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (1.11%) CISM
11 22 (0.98%) CCNP
12 19 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (0.53%) CISA
15 11 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.49%) CCNA
16 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.40%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (3.68%) QA
2 69 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 35 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (1.55%) NIST
4 26 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.11%) SLA
6 24 (1.06%) GDPR
6 24 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.80%) NCSC
8 10 (0.44%) MiFID
9 8 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.27%) GRC
11 5 (0.22%) WCAG
12 4 (0.18%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.13%) GPG13
14 2 (0.089%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.044%) GxP
System Software
1 304 (13.48%) Docker
2 77 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 55 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.31%) ACF2
6 7 (0.31%) IAG
6 7 (0.31%) RACF
7 6 (0.27%) Firmware
8 5 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.18%) KVM
9 4 (0.18%) NFS
9 4 (0.18%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.18%) vSphere
10 2 (0.089%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.089%) Ceph
10 2 (0.089%) Lustre
10 2 (0.089%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 429 (19.02%) Kubernetes
2 418 (18.54%) Terraform
3 167 (7.41%) Ansible
4 63 (2.79%) Prometheus
5 61 (2.71%) Grafana
6 54 (2.39%) Puppet
7 28 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.93%) SCCM
9 16 (0.71%) Packer
10 12 (0.53%) Kibana
10 12 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.44%) Consul
12 9 (0.40%) Argo
12 9 (0.40%) SCOM
13 8 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.35%) Netcool
13 8 (0.35%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (0.31%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 154 (6.83%) Oracle
2 153 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 129 (5.72%) Google
4 75 (3.33%) VMware
5 55 (2.44%) SAP
6 53 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 52 (2.31%) Splunk
8 49 (2.17%) Cisco
9 41 (1.82%) Databricks
10 37 (1.64%) CyberArk
11 34 (1.51%) IBM
12 28 (1.24%) Bloomberg
12 28 (1.24%) F5
12 28 (1.24%) Palo Alto
12 28 (1.24%) Red Hat
13 26 (1.15%) Salesforce
14 22 (0.98%) BeyondTrust
14 22 (0.98%) Talend
15 21 (0.93%) Informatica
16 18 (0.80%) Adobe