AWS Engineer Contracts in Central London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
London > Central London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Central London is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 123 99
Rank change year-on-year +15 -24 +17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 28 52 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.16% 1.37% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.44% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 87
10th Percentile £419 £474 £463
25th Percentile £472 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £596
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.95% +3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £688
90th Percentile £699 £780 £775
London median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,310 3,622 4,282
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 95.14% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 2,481 3,265
10th Percentile £339 £325 £361
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +5.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £795 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 54
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.31
90th Percentile £40.38 £86.98 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Central London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Central London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Central London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in Central London

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +14 22 £588 -6.00% 2
Camden - 2 £450 -
West End of London - 1 £450 -
City of Westminster - 1 £725 -
AWS Engineer
London

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) DevOps
3 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 12 (42.86%) Terraform
5 11 (39.29%) Python
5 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (32.14%) Linux
6 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
7 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (28.57%) Finance
8 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 7 (25.00%) Docker
9 6 (21.43%) Ansible
9 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
9 6 (21.43%) AWS Certification
9 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
9 6 (21.43%) Bash
9 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
10 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
10 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
10 5 (17.86%) GitLab
10 5 (17.86%) Microservices
10 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (14.29%) SaaS
11 4 (14.29%) Git
11 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
11 4 (14.29%) Serverless

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.57%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.29%) SaaS
4 4 (14.29%) Serverless
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (10.71%) Azure
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) IaaS
6 2 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) IPv4
1 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.57%) Parquet
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Sisense
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) GitLab
3 4 (14.29%) Git
4 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.14%) Maven
5 1 (3.57%) JMeter
5 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.57%) NeoLoad
5 1 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) Laravel
3 1 (3.57%) Middleware
3 1 (3.57%) Nuxt
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.57%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
1 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
1 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.57%) PKI
1 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) DevOps
2 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (10.71%) Incident Response
8 3 (10.71%) ITIL
8 3 (10.71%) SDLC
8 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (7.14%) Agile
9 2 (7.14%) Analytics
9 2 (7.14%) Auto-Scaling
9 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
9 2 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (7.14%) ETL
9 2 (7.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) C
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) C++
4 1 (3.57%) Groovy
4 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.57%) PHP
4 1 (3.57%) Ruby
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Terraform
2 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (21.43%) Ansible
4 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Consul
5 2 (7.14%) Grafana
5 2 (7.14%) Nagios
5 2 (7.14%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) Graylog
6 1 (3.57%) Kibana
6 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Splunk
2 2 (7.14%) MKS
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Meraki
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto