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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,325 3,680 6,634
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.15% 14.01% 17.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.22% 35.94% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,792 2,754 5,171
10th Percentile £407 £450 £450
25th Percentile £487 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £788
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 9
10th Percentile £22.10 £61.25 £49.00
25th Percentile £23.43 £64.50 £58.25
Median hourly rate £43.25 £75.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.33% -2.60% +62.11%
75th Percentile £68.38 £88.30 £82.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -26.67% +33.33% -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 6,795 10,239 15,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.43% 38.99% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,005 7,493 11,935
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £767
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 84 85
10th Percentile £17.16 £20.00 £19.75
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.88 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +23.46% +8.00%
75th Percentile £38.44 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £88.30 £79.20
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -2 272 £550 -12.00% 111
South London 0 73 £513 -2.38% 19
West London -3 49 £500 -20.00% 42
East London -3 10 £563 +12.50% 49
North London +1 1 £550 -8.33% 11
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
1 245 (10.54%) Apache
2 222 (9.55%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.88%) Confluence
4 52 (2.24%) nginx
5 50 (2.15%) Apache Spark
6 34 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 14 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
9 10 (0.43%) IIS
9 10 (0.43%) JBoss
10 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.39%) Site Server
11 8 (0.34%) CMS
11 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.17%) CICS
14 4 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) 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%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.043%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.47%) Endur
4 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.34%) Shopify
5 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.13%) Magento
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
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
Cloud Services
1 786 (33.81%) Azure
2 518 (22.28%) GCP
3 301 (12.95%) Serverless
4 255 (10.97%) AWS Lambda
5 219 (9.42%) Amazon S3
6 164 (7.05%) Snowflake
7 146 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
8 134 (5.76%) dbt
9 130 (5.59%) GitHub
10 104 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 75 (3.23%) SaaS
14 71 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
15 63 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
15 63 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 59 (2.54%) Power Platform
17 58 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
19 54 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.77%) Firewall
2 77 (3.31%) DNS
3 45 (1.94%) DHCP
3 45 (1.94%) HTTP
4 42 (1.81%) LAN
4 42 (1.81%) VPN
5 41 (1.76%) Network Security
6 34 (1.46%) WAN
7 31 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 31 (1.33%) Wireless
8 29 (1.25%) BGP
9 27 (1.16%) OSPF
10 19 (0.82%) MPLS
10 19 (0.82%) VLAN
11 17 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (0.73%) IPsec
12 16 (0.69%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.65%) Kerberos
14 14 (0.60%) SAN
14 14 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (6.80%) Apache Ignite
3 157 (6.75%) Amazon Athena
4 146 (6.28%) Data Lake
5 135 (5.81%) NoSQL
6 134 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
7 112 (4.82%) Apache Arrow
7 112 (4.82%) Dremio
8 106 (4.56%) SQL Server
9 94 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
10 87 (3.74%) Big Data
10 87 (3.74%) DynamoDB
11 85 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 79 (3.40%) Relational Database
13 67 (2.88%) MySQL
14 57 (2.45%) Power BI
15 50 (2.15%) MongoDB
16 49 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
17 46 (1.98%) Tableau
18 41 (1.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 208 (8.95%) Jenkins
2 203 (8.73%) Git
3 114 (4.90%) JIRA
4 80 (3.44%) Cypress.io
5 79 (3.40%) GitLab
6 33 (1.42%) Maven
6 33 (1.42%) Selenium
7 32 (1.38%) Cucumber
8 24 (1.03%) JMeter
9 21 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.82%) JUnit
10 19 (0.82%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.77%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.56%) Postman
13 12 (0.52%) Mockito
14 11 (0.47%) TestNG
15 10 (0.43%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.39%) LoadRunner
16 9 (0.39%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.34%) Burp Suite
General
1 622 (26.75%) Finance
2 359 (15.44%) Social Skills
3 285 (12.26%) Front Office
4 268 (11.53%) Banking
5 195 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 146 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
7 123 (5.29%) Investment Banking
8 55 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (1.76%) Retail
10 39 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.51%) Marketing
12 32 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 18 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.77%) Law
15 18 (0.77%) Publishing
16 13 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.52%) Retail Banking
18 11 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 638 (27.44%) Developer
2 368 (15.83%) Architect
3 303 (13.03%) Senior
4 263 (11.31%) AWS Engineer
5 255 (10.97%) Software Engineer
6 219 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 178 (7.66%) Lead
8 167 (7.18%) Data Engineer
9 156 (6.71%) Python Developer
10 146 (6.28%) Full Stack Developer
11 141 (6.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 130 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
13 129 (5.55%) Python Engineer
14 111 (4.77%) Java Developer
14 111 (4.77%) Python Software Engineer
15 110 (4.73%) React Developer
16 105 (4.52%) AWS Architect
17 89 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
18 88 (3.78%) Analyst
19 79 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (12.82%) React
2 208 (8.95%) Kafka
3 188 (8.09%) gRPC
4 181 (7.78%) Protocol Buffers
5 166 (7.14%) Node.js
6 156 (6.71%) .NET
7 129 (5.55%) Pandas
8 124 (5.33%) Redux
9 117 (5.03%) NumPy
9 117 (5.03%) REST
10 110 (4.73%) Spring
11 109 (4.69%) RESTful
12 104 (4.47%) SciPy
13 97 (4.17%) Spring Boot
14 88 (3.78%) AngularJS
15 87 (3.74%) HTML
16 76 (3.27%) CSS
17 75 (3.23%) Material-UI
18 63 (2.71%) .NET Core
19 58 (2.49%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 258 (11.10%) Fixed Income
2 251 (10.80%) Hedge funds
3 187 (8.04%) Equities
4 180 (7.74%) Derivative
5 153 (6.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 67 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 64 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
7 64 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 52 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 51 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 47 (2.02%) Data Centre
11 41 (1.76%) Clustering
12 39 (1.68%) Algorithms
13 38 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
15 32 (1.38%) Management Information System
16 29 (1.25%) PKI
17 26 (1.12%) Replication
18 24 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 23 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 251 (10.80%) Linux
2 150 (6.45%) Windows
3 73 (3.14%) Unix
4 67 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.39%) CentOS
8 9 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.34%) Android
9 8 (0.34%) Solaris
10 7 (0.30%) VMS
11 5 (0.22%) zOS
12 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.043%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (32.43%) Agile
2 627 (26.97%) DevOps
3 467 (20.09%) CI/CD
4 421 (18.11%) Software Engineering
5 283 (12.17%) Asset Management
6 282 (12.13%) Microservices
7 268 (11.53%) Full Stack Development
8 236 (10.15%) Investment Management
9 233 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
10 185 (7.96%) Machine Learning
11 181 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 180 (7.74%) Analytics
13 164 (7.05%) Test Automation
14 161 (6.92%) TDD
15 154 (6.62%) Containerisation
16 150 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence
16 150 (6.45%) Data Pipeline
17 138 (5.94%) Migration
18 137 (5.89%) ETL
19 121 (5.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 876 (37.68%) Python
2 479 (20.60%) Java
3 467 (20.09%) SQL
4 416 (17.89%) JavaScript
5 354 (15.23%) TypeScript
6 149 (6.41%) C#
7 125 (5.38%) Go
8 103 (4.43%) PowerShell
9 101 (4.34%) Bash
10 81 (3.48%) Scala
11 51 (2.19%) PHP
12 49 (2.11%) C++
13 43 (1.85%) Ruby
14 36 (1.55%) Shell Script
15 31 (1.33%) C
16 30 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 30 (1.29%) T-SQL
17 21 (0.90%) R
18 16 (0.69%) Perl
19 15 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 539 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 471 (20.26%) SC Cleared
3 144 (6.19%) Degree
4 92 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 91 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 36 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.46%) CISSP
9 27 (1.16%) CISM
10 26 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (0.95%) CCNP
12 21 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.65%) CISA
14 11 (0.47%) CCNA
14 11 (0.47%) 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 (3.78%) QA
2 74 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (1.46%) NIST
5 27 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.16%) GDPR
6 25 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.08%) SLA
7 18 (0.77%) NCSC
8 10 (0.43%) MiFID
9 8 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.26%) GRC
11 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.22%) WCAG
12 3 (0.13%) GPG13
12 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.13%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.086%) SOC 2
System Software
1 318 (13.68%) Docker
2 88 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.30%) ACF2
6 7 (0.30%) IAG
6 7 (0.30%) RACF
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
8 5 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.17%) KVM
9 4 (0.17%) NFS
9 4 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.086%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.086%) Ceph
10 2 (0.086%) Lustre
10 2 (0.086%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 455 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 432 (18.58%) Terraform
3 168 (7.23%) Ansible
4 71 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 60 (2.58%) Grafana
6 51 (2.19%) Puppet
7 25 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 24 (1.03%) Packer
9 23 (0.99%) SCCM
10 16 (0.69%) Consul
11 15 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.52%) Kibana
13 9 (0.39%) Argo
13 9 (0.39%) SCOM
14 8 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.34%) Netcool
14 8 (0.34%) Opsgenie
14 8 (0.34%) Tivoli
14 8 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 7 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 162 (6.97%) Microsoft
2 157 (6.75%) Oracle
3 145 (6.24%) Google
4 76 (3.27%) VMware
5 56 (2.41%) Cisco
6 55 (2.37%) SAP
7 53 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.28%) Splunk
8 41 (1.76%) CyberArk
9 39 (1.68%) Databricks
10 33 (1.42%) IBM
11 32 (1.38%) F5
12 31 (1.33%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.25%) Bloomberg
13 29 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.25%) Salesforce
14 23 (0.99%) Talend
15 20 (0.86%) BeyondTrust
16 19 (0.82%) Dynatrace
16 19 (0.82%) MuleSoft