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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 270 512 909
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 11.24% 13.45% 19.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.24% 34.97% 45.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 340 765
10th Percentile £417 £457 £463
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £678 £750 £713
90th Percentile £790 £851 £800
London median daily rate £575 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
London median hourly rate £43.25 £75.00 £77.00
% change year-on-year -42.33% -2.60% +62.11%

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 956 1,464 1,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.80% 38.46% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 995 1,601
10th Percentile £350 £305 £375
25th Percentile £426 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
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 7 8 13
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +312.66% -12.14%
75th Percentile £25.38 £88.30 £27.75
90th Percentile £36.30 - £48.30
London median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year -49.00% +24.22% +13.38%

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 13 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 13 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 -3 232 £560 -10.40% 107
City of Westminster +3 9 £725 +16.00% 4
West End of London +1 5 £500 -16.67% 5
Camden -4 3 £450 -16.67% 5
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 8 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.59%) Apache
2 7 (2.59%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (2.59%) nginx
3 6 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.85%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.48%) Site Server
5 4 (1.48%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.11%) Confluence
6 3 (1.11%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.74%) JBoss
7 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.37%) CICS
8 1 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.37%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 99 (36.67%) Azure
2 37 (13.70%) Serverless
3 35 (12.96%) Amazon S3
3 35 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (12.59%) GCP
5 23 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (8.15%) GitHub
7 16 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (4.44%) SaaS
9 11 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.33%) Azure Storage
11 9 (3.33%) IaaS
12 8 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.96%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.96%) DNS
2 7 (2.59%) Firewall
3 6 (2.22%) DHCP
4 4 (1.48%) LAN
5 3 (1.11%) SSL
5 3 (1.11%) Wireless
6 2 (0.74%) CTI
6 2 (0.74%) HTTP
6 2 (0.74%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.74%) Network Security
6 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) VoIP
6 2 (0.74%) VPN
6 2 (0.74%) WAN
7 1 (0.37%) Internet
7 1 (0.37%) IPv4
7 1 (0.37%) MPLS
7 1 (0.37%) MQTT
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.37%) NoSQL
2 27 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (9.63%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (5.93%) MySQL
4 16 (5.93%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.19%) DynamoDB
6 14 (5.19%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.70%) Parquet
8 9 (3.33%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.59%) Big Data
11 6 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.22%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.85%) GIS
13 4 (1.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (8.15%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.67%) Git
3 14 (5.19%) GitLab
4 9 (3.33%) Selenium
5 7 (2.59%) Maven
6 6 (2.22%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.85%) JIRA
8 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.48%) JMeter
8 4 (1.48%) JUnit
8 4 (1.48%) Mercurial
8 4 (1.48%) Postman
8 4 (1.48%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.48%) TestNG
9 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.11%) Gradle
9 3 (1.11%) Mockito
9 3 (1.11%) PHPUnit
General
1 61 (22.59%) Finance
2 41 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.74%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.52%) Banking
5 11 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.33%) Retail
8 8 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.96%) Local Government
9 7 (2.59%) Front Office
10 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.11%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Back Office
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.37%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (26.67%) Developer
2 44 (16.30%) Senior
3 35 (12.96%) Architect
4 28 (10.37%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.78%) Data Engineer
7 18 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.93%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (5.19%) Java Developer
9 14 (5.19%) Lead
10 11 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.70%) Analyst
11 10 (3.70%) AWS Developer
11 10 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (3.70%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.33%) Consultant
12 9 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.96%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.59%) Kafka
2 22 (8.15%) .NET
2 22 (8.15%) REST
3 21 (7.78%) React
4 16 (5.93%) Spring
4 16 (5.93%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.19%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.19%) RESTful
6 10 (3.70%) .NET Core
6 10 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 10 (3.70%) JSON
7 9 (3.33%) Apache Avro
7 9 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.96%) Middleware
8 8 (2.96%) Web Services
9 7 (2.59%) CSS
9 7 (2.59%) HTML
10 6 (2.22%) Blazor
10 6 (2.22%) Laravel
10 6 (2.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.81%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.33%) Hedge funds
4 8 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.48%) Derivative
7 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.48%) PKI
8 3 (1.11%) IVR
8 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.11%) Linux
2 27 (10.00%) Windows
3 8 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.30%) DevOps
2 52 (19.26%) CI/CD
3 49 (18.15%) Agile
4 44 (16.30%) Microservices
5 29 (10.74%) ETL
5 29 (10.74%) Software Engineering
6 28 (10.37%) Full Stack Development
7 27 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (9.26%) Test Automation
9 24 (8.89%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (7.41%) Front End Development
11 20 (7.41%) SDLC
12 19 (7.04%) Containerisation
13 18 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (6.30%) Data Modelling
14 17 (6.30%) Migration
15 16 (5.93%) Mentoring
16 14 (5.19%) Analytics
16 14 (5.19%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 97 (35.93%) Python
2 65 (24.07%) SQL
3 55 (20.37%) Java
4 27 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.04%) C#
6 17 (6.30%) PowerShell
7 15 (5.56%) C++
7 15 (5.56%) Go
7 15 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.07%) Bash
9 9 (3.33%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.59%) PHP
11 6 (2.22%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.22%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.85%) C
12 5 (1.85%) Scala
13 4 (1.48%) Korn
13 4 (1.48%) Rust
13 4 (1.48%) Swift
14 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 53 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.19%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.19%) Degree
4 9 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.11%) CISM
8 3 (1.11%) CISSP
8 3 (1.11%) CRISC
8 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.74%) SANS
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.85%) NIST
3 5 (1.85%) QA
4 3 (1.11%) GDPR
4 3 (1.11%) ISO 31000
4 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (15.93%) Docker
2 13 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.37%) Ceph
6 1 (0.37%) Lustre
6 1 (0.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 59 (21.85%) Kubernetes
2 51 (18.89%) Terraform
3 21 (7.78%) Ansible
4 10 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.33%) Grafana
5 9 (3.33%) Puppet
6 7 (2.59%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.85%) Consul
7 5 (1.85%) Packer
8 4 (1.48%) Nagios
9 3 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.74%) Graylog
10 2 (0.74%) Kibana
10 2 (0.74%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.74%) SCCM
10 2 (0.74%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.37%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.37%) Mesos
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 29 (10.74%) Oracle
2 20 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.81%) Google
4 9 (3.33%) IBM
4 9 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.33%) VMware
5 8 (2.96%) Splunk
6 6 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.85%) Cisco
7 5 (1.85%) ESRI
8 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.11%) Databricks
8 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.11%) Genesys
8 3 (1.11%) New Relic
8 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.11%) SAP
9 2 (0.74%) eFront
9 2 (0.74%) Okta
9 2 (0.74%) PagerDuty