AWS Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 198 350 665
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 9.43% 12.00% 14.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.00% 28.97% 40.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 246 523
10th Percentile £425 £409 £450
25th Percentile £501 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £618
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% -4.53% +2.92%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £725
90th Percentile £848 £813 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.15% +3.25%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +57.14%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 825 1,208 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.29% 41.43% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 822 1,229
10th Percentile £393 £326 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -4.30% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £786 £775
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 14
10th Percentile - £14.63 £16.20
25th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.00 £20.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -8.79% +10.98%
75th Percentile £59.75 £34.44 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.40 £45.25 £57.50
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £20.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year +68.67% -8.79% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the City of London

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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 9 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.53%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.52%) Confluence
4 2 (1.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.01%) nginx
4 2 (1.01%) SAS
4 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.01%) Site Server
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.51%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 72 (36.36%) Azure
2 42 (21.21%) GCP
3 32 (16.16%) Amazon S3
4 20 (10.10%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (10.10%) Serverless
5 16 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (6.57%) GitHub
7 11 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 8 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.54%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.02%) CloudFront
12 4 (2.02%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.02%) IaaS
12 4 (2.02%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.56%) Firewall
2 6 (3.03%) DNS
3 5 (2.53%) SD-WAN
3 5 (2.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.02%) DHCP
4 4 (2.02%) HTTP
4 4 (2.02%) Network Security
4 4 (2.02%) VPN
4 4 (2.02%) WAN
5 3 (1.52%) BGP
5 3 (1.52%) LAN
5 3 (1.52%) OSPF
5 3 (1.52%) Wireless
6 2 (1.01%) CTI
6 2 (1.01%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.01%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.01%) Modbus
6 2 (1.01%) MQTT
6 2 (1.01%) SSL
6 2 (1.01%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (6.57%) Big Data
3 13 (6.57%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.57%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.06%) MySQL
5 11 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.05%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.54%) Hadoop
8 6 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.03%) Power BI
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.02%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.61%) Git
2 17 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.07%) GitLab
4 4 (2.02%) JIRA
4 4 (2.02%) PHPUnit
5 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.01%) JUnit
6 2 (1.01%) Maven
6 2 (1.01%) MSI
6 2 (1.01%) Postman
6 2 (1.01%) Selenium
6 2 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.51%) Ant
7 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.51%) RStudio
7 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) Subversion
7 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 56 (28.28%) Finance
2 46 (23.23%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.64%) Banking
4 21 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.57%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.55%) Front Office
8 8 (4.04%) Retail
9 7 (3.54%) Marketing
9 7 (3.54%) Retail Banking
10 4 (2.02%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.52%) Advertising
11 3 (1.52%) Law
12 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Publishing
12 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 59 (29.80%) Developer
2 31 (15.66%) Architect
3 26 (13.13%) Senior
4 20 (10.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (8.59%) Data Engineer
6 16 (8.08%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (8.08%) Lead
7 14 (7.07%) Python Developer
8 11 (5.56%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (4.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.54%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.03%) Analyst
12 6 (3.03%) AWS Architect
12 6 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.03%) Network Engineer
13 5 (2.53%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.10%) Kafka
2 18 (9.09%) React
3 15 (7.58%) RESTful
4 14 (7.07%) Spring
5 13 (6.57%) REST
6 12 (6.06%) Node.js
7 11 (5.56%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.05%) .NET
8 10 (5.05%) CSS
9 9 (4.55%) HTML
10 6 (3.03%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.03%) GraphQL
10 6 (3.03%) Laravel
10 6 (3.03%) Pandas
11 5 (2.53%) Django
11 5 (2.53%) PyTorch
11 5 (2.53%) Web Services
12 4 (2.02%) JSON
12 4 (2.02%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.04%) Public Cloud
2 6 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.02%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.52%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.01%) IVR
6 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.01%) NFT
6 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.01%) Tandem
6 2 (1.01%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.60%) Linux
2 16 (8.08%) Windows
3 4 (2.02%) Unix
4 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Solaris
6 1 (0.51%) VMS
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (27.78%) DevOps
2 42 (21.21%) Agile
3 41 (20.71%) CI/CD
4 30 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (12.12%) Containerisation
6 22 (11.11%) ETL
6 22 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (10.10%) Migration
9 18 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 17 (8.59%) Computer Science
10 17 (8.59%) Software Engineering
11 16 (8.08%) Microservices
12 14 (7.07%) Analytics
13 12 (6.06%) TDD
14 11 (5.56%) API Development
14 11 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (5.56%) Unit Testing
15 10 (5.05%) BDD
15 10 (5.05%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (39.39%) Python
2 48 (24.24%) SQL
3 38 (19.19%) Java
4 27 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.06%) C#
7 10 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.54%) Bash
9 6 (3.03%) Go
10 5 (2.53%) C++
10 5 (2.53%) PHP
11 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.52%) Ruby
11 3 (1.52%) Scala
11 3 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.01%) Korn
12 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.01%) R
12 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.58%) AWS Certification
4 14 (7.07%) Degree
5 9 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.52%) CCNP
6 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.01%) CCIE
7 2 (1.01%) CISSP
7 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.51%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.53%) GDPR
1 5 (2.53%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (2.02%) QA
3 3 (1.52%) NIST
4 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.01%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.51%) GLBA
5 1 (0.51%) MiFID
5 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (21.72%) Docker
2 7 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 35 (17.68%) Terraform
3 16 (8.08%) Ansible
4 11 (5.56%) Grafana
4 11 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.53%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.53%) Puppet
6 4 (2.02%) Packer
7 2 (1.01%) Consul
7 2 (1.01%) Kibana
7 2 (1.01%) logstash
7 2 (1.01%) Salt
7 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.51%) Argo
8 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.51%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.51%) Pingdom
8 1 (0.51%) Rancher
8 1 (0.51%) SCCM
8 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (10.10%) Oracle
2 19 (9.60%) Google
3 18 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.56%) Databricks
5 8 (4.04%) Splunk
6 6 (3.03%) Cisco
6 6 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.02%) VMware
8 3 (1.52%) Confluent
8 3 (1.52%) ESRI
8 3 (1.52%) IBM
8 3 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.52%) SAP
9 2 (1.01%) Avaya
9 2 (1.01%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.01%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.01%) Genesys
9 2 (1.01%) Meraki
9 2 (1.01%) New Relic