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 during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 121 96
Rank change year-on-year +13 -25 +23
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 22 51 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.01% 1.44% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.51% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 36 84
10th Percentile £418 £481 £463
25th Percentile £500 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £596
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.95% -0.75%
75th Percentile £638 £717 £688
90th Percentile £693 £781 £775
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £596
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.95% +3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,072 3,370 3,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 95.04% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,287 3,013
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.73% +8.10%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £594 £560
% change year-on-year -7.37% +6.03% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 53
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 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 City of London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (50.00%) Terraform
5 10 (45.45%) Python
6 7 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (31.82%) Finance
6 7 (31.82%) Docker
6 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
7 6 (27.27%) Ansible
7 6 (27.27%) AWS Certification
7 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
7 6 (27.27%) Bash
7 6 (27.27%) Linux
7 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
8 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
8 5 (22.73%) Microservices
9 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (18.18%) GitLab
9 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (18.18%) Serverless
9 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
9 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
9 4 (18.18%) Git
9 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 4 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (13.64%) Incident Response

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 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.55%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (9.09%) Azure
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) IaaS
6 2 (9.09%) PaaS
6 2 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) Parquet
3 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) Sisense
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Laravel
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) Nuxt
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) PKI
1 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Microservices
5 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) SDLC
7 2 (9.09%) Agile
7 2 (9.09%) Analytics
7 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
7 2 (9.09%) ETL
7 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (9.09%) Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (27.27%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.09%) Consul
5 2 (9.09%) Puppet
6 1 (4.55%) Grafana
6 1 (4.55%) Graylog
6 1 (4.55%) Nagios
6 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) MKS
1 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk