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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 527 921
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 10.85% 13.60% 20.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.73% 35.39% 46.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 356 776
10th Percentile £413 £456 £463
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £620
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £713
90th Percentile £786 £825 £794
London median daily rate £575 £612 £600
% change year-on-year -5.97% +1.92% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £75.00 £77.88
% change year-on-year -40.67% -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 963 1,489 1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.15% 38.44% 43.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 1,021 1,598
10th Percentile £350 £313 £400
25th Percentile £429 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £680
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 10 10 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £20.48 -
25th Percentile £18.93 £27.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £52.60 - £47.78
London median hourly rate £25.00 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.48% +10.71% +6.54%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 £551 -11.92% 91
City of Westminster -1 7 £750 +20.00% 2
West End of London -4 5 £500 -16.67% 2
Camden -3 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 9 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.62%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (2.25%) Apache
3 6 (2.25%) nginx
4 5 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.87%) Site Server
4 5 (1.87%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.75%) Confluence
7 2 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.37%) CICS
8 1 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.37%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.75%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 100 (37.45%) Azure
2 39 (14.61%) Serverless
3 37 (13.86%) Amazon S3
3 37 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (12.36%) GCP
5 22 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (7.87%) GitHub
7 15 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.12%) SaaS
9 10 (3.75%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.75%) IaaS
10 9 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.37%) Azure Storage
11 8 (3.00%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.00%) DNS
2 6 (2.25%) DHCP
2 6 (2.25%) Firewall
3 4 (1.50%) LAN
4 2 (0.75%) Network Security
4 2 (0.75%) SSL
4 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.75%) WAN
4 2 (0.75%) Wireless
5 1 (0.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) Internet
5 1 (0.37%) IPv4
5 1 (0.37%) MPLS
5 1 (0.37%) MQTT
5 1 (0.37%) Multicast
5 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.37%) VLAN
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.49%) NoSQL
1 28 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.74%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (7.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (5.99%) DynamoDB
4 16 (5.99%) MySQL
4 16 (5.99%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.24%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.87%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (3.75%) Parquet
9 9 (3.37%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.25%) Big Data
11 6 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.25%) GIS
11 6 (2.25%) Tableau
12 5 (1.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (7.87%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.37%) Git
3 13 (4.87%) GitLab
4 9 (3.37%) Selenium
5 7 (2.62%) Maven
6 6 (2.25%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.50%) JIRA
8 4 (1.50%) JMeter
8 4 (1.50%) JUnit
8 4 (1.50%) Mercurial
8 4 (1.50%) Postman
8 4 (1.50%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.50%) TestNG
9 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.12%) Gradle
9 3 (1.12%) Mockito
10 2 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 58 (21.72%) Finance
2 42 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.61%) Banking
5 12 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.00%) Local Government
6 8 (3.00%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.62%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.62%) Retail
8 5 (1.87%) Front Office
9 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Back Office
10 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (26.22%) Developer
2 47 (17.60%) Senior
3 34 (12.73%) Architect
4 27 (10.11%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (9.74%) Data Engineer
6 18 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 16 (5.99%) Full Stack Developer
8 15 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.24%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.49%) Lead
12 10 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.75%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.37%) Analyst
13 9 (3.37%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.37%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.37%) Consultant
14 8 (3.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.99%) Kafka
2 22 (8.24%) .NET
2 22 (8.24%) REST
3 20 (7.49%) React
4 16 (5.99%) Spring
4 16 (5.99%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.24%) RESTful
6 13 (4.87%) AngularJS
7 10 (3.75%) .NET Core
7 10 (3.75%) JSON
8 9 (3.37%) Apache Avro
8 9 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.37%) GraphQL
9 7 (2.62%) Middleware
10 6 (2.25%) Blazor
10 6 (2.25%) CSS
10 6 (2.25%) HTML
10 6 (2.25%) Node.js
10 6 (2.25%) Web Services
11 5 (1.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.99%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.87%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.62%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.87%) Derivative
7 4 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.50%) PKI
8 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.12%) 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 24 (8.99%) Windows
2 23 (8.61%) Linux
3 7 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.12%) 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%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.97%) DevOps
2 50 (18.73%) Agile
2 50 (18.73%) CI/CD
3 44 (16.48%) Microservices
4 34 (12.73%) ETL
5 28 (10.49%) Software Engineering
6 27 (10.11%) Full Stack Development
6 27 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (9.74%) Data Pipeline
8 24 (8.99%) Test Automation
9 23 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (7.49%) Front End Development
11 19 (7.12%) Data Modelling
11 19 (7.12%) SDLC
12 18 (6.74%) Migration
13 17 (6.37%) Mentoring
13 17 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (5.99%) Containerisation
15 13 (4.87%) Computer Science
15 13 (4.87%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 96 (35.96%) Python
2 65 (24.34%) SQL
3 53 (19.85%) Java
4 26 (9.74%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.99%) C#
5 16 (5.99%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.62%) C++
6 15 (5.62%) Go
6 15 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.12%) Bash
8 9 (3.37%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.25%) PHP
9 6 (2.25%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.87%) Korn
10 5 (1.87%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.50%) C
11 4 (1.50%) Rust
11 4 (1.50%) Scala
11 4 (1.50%) Swift
12 2 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (18.73%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.62%) Degree
4 13 (4.87%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.12%) CISM
7 3 (1.12%) CISSP
7 3 (1.12%) CRISC
8 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.75%) SANS
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.87%) NIST
2 5 (1.87%) QA
3 3 (1.12%) ISO 31000
3 3 (1.12%) NIST 800
3 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) NCSC
4 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (13.86%) Docker
2 10 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.37%) Ceph
6 1 (0.37%) Lustre
6 1 (0.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 54 (20.22%) Kubernetes
2 50 (18.73%) Terraform
3 18 (6.74%) Ansible
4 9 (3.37%) Puppet
5 7 (2.62%) Grafana
5 7 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.25%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.50%) Consul
8 3 (1.12%) Nagios
8 3 (1.12%) Packer
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%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.75%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.37%) Argo
10 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.37%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.37%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 30 (11.24%) Oracle
2 18 (6.74%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.12%) Google
4 10 (3.75%) IBM
5 7 (2.62%) Splunk
5 7 (2.62%) VMware
6 6 (2.25%) ESRI
6 6 (2.25%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.25%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.50%) Databricks
8 3 (1.12%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.12%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.12%) Informatica
8 3 (1.12%) New Relic
8 3 (1.12%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.12%) SAP
8 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.75%) Charles River
9 2 (0.75%) MKS
9 2 (0.75%) PagerDuty