AWS Contracts in Central London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 266 516 912
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 10.96% 13.39% 20.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.71% 34.84% 45.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 343 766
10th Percentile £418 £459 £463
25th Percentile £475 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £623
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.40% +13.18%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £713
90th Percentile £791 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
London median hourly rate £31.50 £75.00 £77.88
% change year-on-year -58.00% -3.69% +63.95%

All Cloud Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 960 1,481 1,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.57% 38.42% 43.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 1,007 1,594
10th Percentile £350 £313 £388
25th Percentile £430 £456 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £679
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.20 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £35.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +379.16% -26.58%
75th Percentile £24.56 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £33.98 - £47.78
London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.25 £37.25
% change year-on-year -37.89% +8.05% +4.93%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Central London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Central London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Central London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Central London

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London -3 229 £565 -9.60% 86
City of Westminster +2 8 £700 +12.00% 3
West End of London 0 5 £500 -18.37% 6
Camden -3 3 £450 -16.67% 3
AWS
London

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 9 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.63%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (2.63%) nginx
3 6 (2.26%) Apache
3 6 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.88%) Site Server
4 5 (1.88%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.13%) Confluence
6 3 (1.13%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.38%) CICS
8 1 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.75%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 98 (36.84%) Azure
2 37 (13.91%) Amazon S3
2 37 (13.91%) Serverless
3 35 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (12.41%) GCP
5 23 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (7.52%) GitHub
7 16 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (4.51%) SaaS
9 11 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.76%) IaaS
11 9 (3.38%) Azure Storage
12 8 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.01%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (3.01%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.01%) DNS
2 6 (2.26%) DHCP
2 6 (2.26%) Firewall
3 4 (1.50%) LAN
4 3 (1.13%) SSL
5 2 (0.75%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.75%) Network Security
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) Wireless
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) IPv4
6 1 (0.38%) MQTT
6 1 (0.38%) Multicast
6 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.38%) VLAN
6 1 (0.38%) VPN
6 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 27 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (9.77%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.64%) MySQL
6 14 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.26%) DynamoDB
6 14 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.89%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.76%) Parquet
9 9 (3.38%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.63%) Big Data
12 6 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.26%) Data Lake
12 6 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.26%) GIS
13 4 (1.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.77%) Git
3 12 (4.51%) GitLab
4 9 (3.38%) Selenium
5 7 (2.63%) Maven
6 6 (2.26%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.26%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.26%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.50%) JIRA
7 4 (1.50%) JMeter
7 4 (1.50%) JUnit
7 4 (1.50%) Mercurial
7 4 (1.50%) Postman
7 4 (1.50%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.50%) TestNG
8 3 (1.13%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.13%) Gradle
8 3 (1.13%) Mockito
8 3 (1.13%) PHPUnit
General
1 58 (21.80%) Finance
2 39 (14.66%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.65%) Banking
5 11 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.01%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.01%) Local Government
6 8 (3.01%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.63%) Retail
8 5 (1.88%) Front Office
9 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Back Office
11 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (27.07%) Developer
2 46 (17.29%) Senior
3 34 (12.78%) Architect
4 26 (9.77%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 18 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.77%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.02%) Full Stack Developer
8 14 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.26%) Lead
9 11 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) AWS Developer
10 10 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.38%) Analyst
11 9 (3.38%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.38%) Consultant
12 8 (3.01%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.03%) Kafka
2 22 (8.27%) .NET
2 22 (8.27%) REST
3 21 (7.89%) React
4 16 (6.02%) Spring
4 16 (6.02%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.26%) RESTful
6 10 (3.76%) .NET Core
6 10 (3.76%) JSON
7 9 (3.38%) Apache Avro
7 9 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.38%) GraphQL
8 6 (2.26%) Blazor
8 6 (2.26%) CSS
8 6 (2.26%) HTML
8 6 (2.26%) Laravel
8 6 (2.26%) Middleware
8 6 (2.26%) Node.js
8 6 (2.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.89%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.01%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.50%) Derivative
7 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.50%) PKI
8 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.13%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.75%) Video on Demand
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.77%) Linux
2 25 (9.40%) Windows
3 7 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.19%) DevOps
2 49 (18.42%) Agile
3 48 (18.05%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.54%) Microservices
5 31 (11.65%) ETL
6 28 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
6 28 (10.53%) Software Engineering
7 26 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (9.40%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (9.02%) Test Automation
10 21 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (7.52%) Front End Development
12 19 (7.14%) SDLC
13 17 (6.39%) Containerisation
13 17 (6.39%) Data Modelling
13 17 (6.39%) Migration
14 16 (6.02%) Mentoring
14 16 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (4.89%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (4.89%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (35.71%) Python
2 64 (24.06%) SQL
3 54 (20.30%) Java
4 26 (9.77%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.77%) C#
6 16 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 15 (5.64%) C++
7 15 (5.64%) Go
7 15 (5.64%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.14%) Bash
9 9 (3.38%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.63%) PHP
11 6 (2.26%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.26%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.88%) Korn
12 5 (1.88%) Scala
13 4 (1.50%) C
13 4 (1.50%) Rust
13 4 (1.50%) Swift
14 2 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (19.17%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.29%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.89%) Degree
4 12 (4.51%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.13%) CISM
7 3 (1.13%) CISSP
7 3 (1.13%) CRISC
8 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.75%) SANS
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.88%) NIST
2 5 (1.88%) QA
3 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.13%) ISO 31000
4 3 (1.13%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NCSC
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (15.04%) Docker
2 11 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) Ceph
6 1 (0.38%) Lustre
6 1 (0.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 56 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 51 (19.17%) Terraform
3 19 (7.14%) Ansible
4 9 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.01%) Grafana
5 8 (3.01%) Puppet
6 6 (2.26%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.88%) Consul
7 5 (1.88%) Packer
8 3 (1.13%) Nagios
8 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.75%) Graylog
9 2 (0.75%) Kibana
9 2 (0.75%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.75%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.38%) Argo
10 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.38%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 29 (10.90%) Oracle
2 18 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.14%) Google
4 9 (3.38%) IBM
5 8 (3.01%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.63%) Splunk
6 7 (2.63%) VMware
7 6 (2.26%) ESRI
7 6 (2.26%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.50%) Databricks
9 3 (1.13%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.13%) New Relic
9 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.13%) SAP
10 2 (0.75%) Adobe
10 2 (0.75%) Charles River
10 2 (0.75%) Cisco
10 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.75%) Temenos