AWS Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring AWS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 37 25 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 45.12% 26.04% 51.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 78.72% 43.86% 75.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 61
10th Percentile £491 £396 £425
25th Percentile £511 £417 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% +2.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £710 £539 £600
90th Percentile £739 £595 £675
South London median daily rate £558 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +10.44% -3.81% -12.50%

All Cloud Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 47 57 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 57.32% 59.38% 67.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 87
10th Percentile £460 £380 £408
25th Percentile £481 £406 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £636 £540 £638
90th Percentile £738 £567 £675
South London median daily rate £506 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +6.42% -9.52% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Croydon

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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing AWS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Croydon over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 13 (35.14%) Confluence
2 11 (29.73%) nginx
3 2 (5.41%) SAS
4 1 (2.70%) IIS
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (48.65%) Amazon S3
3 17 (45.95%) Azure
4 13 (35.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (32.43%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (32.43%) Route 53
5 12 (32.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (29.73%) AWS KMS
7 10 (27.03%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (16.22%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (16.22%) Serverless
9 5 (13.51%) GCP
10 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (29.73%) DNS
1 11 (29.73%) Firewall
2 10 (27.03%) FTP
2 10 (27.03%) HTTP
2 10 (27.03%) IMAP
2 10 (27.03%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (27.03%) SMTP
2 10 (27.03%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (54.05%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (40.54%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (37.84%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) DataStage
6 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (51.35%) Jenkins
2 17 (45.95%) Git
3 14 (37.84%) JIRA
4 11 (29.73%) Vagrant
5 5 (13.51%) JUnit
5 5 (13.51%) Mockito
6 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
7 3 (8.11%) Maven
8 2 (5.41%) GitLab
8 2 (5.41%) JMeter
9 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.70%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.70%) jMock
9 1 (2.70%) Storybook
General
1 19 (51.35%) Public Sector
2 10 (27.03%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Military
3 1 (2.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Developer
2 12 (32.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (29.73%) Java Developer
4 10 (27.03%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (27.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (27.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 10 (27.03%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (24.32%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (21.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (21.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (18.92%) Lead
8 3 (8.11%) Architect
8 3 (8.11%) Senior
8 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) DevOps Specialist
9 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) Spring
2 11 (29.73%) LDAP
3 6 (16.22%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (16.22%) REST
3 6 (16.22%) Spring Boot
4 5 (13.51%) Hibernate
5 4 (10.81%) Kafka
6 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.11%) Bootstrap
6 3 (8.11%) JPA
6 3 (8.11%) Node.js
6 3 (8.11%) React
6 3 (8.11%) SOAP
6 3 (8.11%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (8.11%) Web Services
6 3 (8.11%) XML
7 2 (5.41%) HTML
7 2 (5.41%) jQuery
7 2 (5.41%) JSON
7 2 (5.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Replication
2 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) CSOC
4 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Linux
2 10 (27.03%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (27.03%) Ubuntu
2 10 (27.03%) VMS
2 10 (27.03%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 19 (51.35%) DevOps
3 17 (45.95%) Microservices
4 11 (29.73%) Cloud Security
4 11 (29.73%) Patch Management
4 11 (29.73%) TDD
5 10 (27.03%) Change Management
5 10 (27.03%) Configuration Management
5 10 (27.03%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (27.03%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (24.32%) Agile
6 9 (24.32%) Containerisation
7 7 (18.92%) Code Quality
8 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (13.51%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (13.51%) CQRS
9 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
9 5 (13.51%) Domain-Driven Design
9 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) SQL
3 14 (37.84%) Java
4 10 (27.03%) Groovy
4 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (89.19%) Security Cleared
2 31 (83.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (32.43%) AWS Certification
4 10 (27.03%) Azure Certification
4 10 (27.03%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 26 (70.27%) Docker
2 11 (29.73%) Postfix
3 10 (27.03%) DFS Replication
3 10 (27.03%) Dovecot
3 10 (27.03%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (56.76%) Kubernetes
2 14 (37.84%) Grafana
3 13 (35.14%) Prometheus
3 13 (35.14%) Terraform
4 10 (27.03%) Nessus
4 10 (27.03%) Proxmox
5 2 (5.41%) Ansible
5 2 (5.41%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (5.41%) Kibana
6 1 (2.70%) Ambari
6 1 (2.70%) Consul
6 1 (2.70%) Packer
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
6 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (27.03%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) Splunk
4 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle