AWS Contracts in Central London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 218 458 747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.57% 13.56% 15.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.77% 32.12% 39.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 333 598
10th Percentile £425 £415 £450
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile £698 £700 £725
90th Percentile £828 £825 £788
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +57.14%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £30.65 £85.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -63.94% +54.55% +57.14%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 917 1,426 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.24% 42.21% 38.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 980 1,431
10th Percentile £392 £325 £325
25th Percentile £475 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £755
London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 15
10th Percentile - £14.95 £16.95
25th Percentile £27.00 £19.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.25 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -27.11% +88.64%
75th Percentile £49.38 £41.63 £56.63
90th Percentile £75.25 £48.15 £57.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £47.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +26.67% +44.23%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -5 200 £575 -4.17% 71
West End of London -1 6 £425 -35.26% 2
Camden +1 4 £450 -34.59% 2
City of Westminster -2 3 £650 +4.00% 2
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 11 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.29%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.83%) Confluence
3 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) Site Server
5 2 (0.92%) Apache
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.92%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.92%) nginx
5 2 (0.92%) SAS
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.46%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.78%) Azure
2 41 (18.81%) GCP
3 39 (17.89%) Amazon S3
4 24 (11.01%) Serverless
5 22 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (7.34%) GitHub
8 12 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.59%) SaaS
9 10 (4.59%) Snowflake
10 9 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.21%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.29%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.29%) IaaS
12 5 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.13%) Firewall
2 5 (2.29%) LAN
3 4 (1.83%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.83%) VPN
3 4 (1.83%) WAN
4 3 (1.38%) DNS
4 3 (1.38%) Kerberos
4 3 (1.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.92%) CTI
5 2 (0.92%) DHCP
5 2 (0.92%) HTTP
5 2 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.92%) SSL
5 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.92%) VoIP
5 2 (0.92%) Wireless
6 1 (0.46%) BGP
6 1 (0.46%) NAS
6 1 (0.46%) OSPF
6 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.80%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 15 (6.88%) MySQL
5 14 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (5.96%) Relational Database
7 12 (5.50%) Big Data
8 9 (4.13%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.67%) Data Lake
9 8 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.75%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.75%) Power BI
11 5 (2.29%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.29%) Tableau
12 4 (1.83%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.83%) GIS
12 4 (1.83%) Redis
13 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (10.09%) Git
2 21 (9.63%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.34%) GitLab
4 5 (2.29%) PHPUnit
5 4 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.83%) JIRA
6 3 (1.38%) Maven
6 3 (1.38%) Postman
6 3 (1.38%) Selenium
6 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.38%) Subversion
7 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.92%) Gradle
7 2 (0.92%) JUnit
7 2 (0.92%) Mockito
7 2 (0.92%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.46%) RStudio
General
1 59 (27.06%) Finance
2 46 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.84%) Banking
4 25 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.42%) Investment Banking
6 11 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.05%) Retail
7 8 (3.67%) Front Office
8 7 (3.21%) Marketing
8 7 (3.21%) Retail Banking
9 5 (2.29%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.38%) Advertising
11 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.92%) Back Office
12 2 (0.92%) Law
12 2 (0.92%) Publishing
12 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 61 (27.98%) Developer
2 31 (14.22%) Senior
3 30 (13.76%) Architect
4 22 (10.09%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (10.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (8.72%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.42%) Lead
7 13 (5.96%) Python Developer
8 12 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Analyst
10 9 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.67%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.21%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.75%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.93%) Kafka
2 21 (9.63%) React
3 15 (6.88%) REST
3 15 (6.88%) RESTful
4 11 (5.05%) .NET
4 11 (5.05%) Node.js
4 11 (5.05%) Spring
5 10 (4.59%) CSS
5 10 (4.59%) Laravel
5 10 (4.59%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.13%) HTML
7 7 (3.21%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.75%) GraphQL
8 6 (2.75%) Pandas
9 5 (2.29%) Django
9 5 (2.29%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.29%) Symfony
9 5 (2.29%) Web Services
9 5 (2.29%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.96%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.67%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.75%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.83%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.38%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.38%) Web3
9 2 (0.92%) Clustering
9 2 (0.92%) IVR
9 2 (0.92%) NFT
9 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.93%) Linux
2 21 (9.63%) Windows
3 5 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.52%) DevOps
2 47 (21.56%) CI/CD
3 39 (17.89%) Agile
4 29 (13.30%) Containerisation
5 26 (11.93%) Migration
6 25 (11.47%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (11.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (11.01%) ETL
7 24 (11.01%) Microservices
8 20 (9.17%) Test Automation
9 18 (8.26%) Analytics
9 18 (8.26%) Computer Science
10 16 (7.34%) Software Engineering
11 14 (6.42%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (6.42%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (5.96%) Unit Testing
13 11 (5.05%) API Development
13 11 (5.05%) Data Engineering
13 11 (5.05%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 91 (41.74%) Python
2 54 (24.77%) SQL
3 34 (15.60%) Java
4 30 (13.76%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.63%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.42%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.50%) C#
8 10 (4.59%) Bash
9 9 (4.13%) PHP
10 5 (2.29%) C++
10 5 (2.29%) Go
10 5 (2.29%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.83%) Scala
12 3 (1.38%) Korn
12 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.92%) C
13 2 (0.92%) Ruby
13 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 36 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.34%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.88%) Degree
5 10 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.92%) CCIE
8 2 (0.92%) CCNP
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.46%) CCNA
9 1 (0.46%) CISM
9 1 (0.46%) CISSP
9 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.75%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.75%) GDPR
2 5 (2.29%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.29%) QA
3 4 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.92%) NIST
5 2 (0.92%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.46%) GLBA
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (22.02%) Docker
2 11 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.46%) HDFS
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (27.98%) Kubernetes
2 45 (20.64%) Terraform
3 20 (9.17%) Ansible
4 13 (5.96%) Grafana
4 13 (5.96%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.21%) Puppet
6 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.83%) Packer
8 3 (1.38%) Consul
8 3 (1.38%) Nagios
9 2 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.92%) Graylog
9 2 (0.92%) Kibana
9 2 (0.92%) logstash
9 2 (0.92%) Salt
9 2 (0.92%) SCCM
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.46%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (9.63%) Microsoft
1 21 (9.63%) Oracle
2 18 (8.26%) Google
3 12 (5.50%) Databricks
4 9 (4.13%) Splunk
5 7 (3.21%) VMware
6 5 (2.29%) Cisco
6 5 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.83%) ESRI
7 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.38%) Confluent
8 3 (1.38%) IBM
8 3 (1.38%) SAP
9 2 (0.92%) Avaya
9 2 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.92%) Genesys
9 2 (0.92%) Juniper
9 2 (0.92%) Meraki
9 2 (0.92%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.92%) New Relic