AWS Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 105 129
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 -33
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 16 22 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 1.00% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.05% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 35
10th Percentile £399 £411 £489
25th Percentile £450 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +5.40%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £722
90th Percentile £731 £693 £783
Central London median daily rate £588 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +6.82% -12.00% +4.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the City of London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the City of London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the City of London

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (62.50%) Python
3 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
4 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (50.00%) Finance
5 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
6 6 (37.50%) Terraform
6 6 (37.50%) Docker
7 5 (31.25%) GitLab
7 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (31.25%) SQL
7 5 (31.25%) Banking
7 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
8 4 (25.00%) Bash
8 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
8 4 (25.00%) Retail
8 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
8 4 (25.00%) ETL
8 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (25.00%) Serverless
8 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
8 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
8 4 (25.00%) Ansible
8 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 3 (18.75%) PySpark
9 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (25.00%) Serverless
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.25%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) Datadog
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) GitLab
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Liquibase
2 1 (6.25%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Retail
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Blockchain
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Equities
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) ETL
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Economics
6 3 (18.75%) Financial Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Observability
6 3 (18.75%) Predictive Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Pricing Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Wealth Management
7 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) Bicep
6 1 (6.25%) DAML
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) Ruby
6 1 (6.25%) Scala
6 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.25%) Argo
5 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) TOWER Software