AWS Contract Job Trends in Heathrow

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hillingdon > Heathrow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Heathrow requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 5 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Heathrow 50.00% 25.00% 14.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 83.33% 66.67% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile - £525 £558
25th Percentile - £531 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £375 £589 £591
90th Percentile £390 £594 £619
Hillingdon median daily rate £400 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -27.23% -4.35% -

All Cloud Skills
Heathrow

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 Heathrow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Heathrow 60.00% 37.50% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £350 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £381 £575 £575
90th Percentile £393 £594 £606
Hillingdon median daily rate £400 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -21.95% +2.50% +205.34%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Heathrow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Heathrow.

AWS job vacancy trend in Heathrow

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Heathrow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing AWS

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Heathrow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) DMZ
3 1 (20.00%) SSH
3 1 (20.00%) Telnet
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) CentOS
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scorecard
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) RHCE
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) Tenable
3 1 (20.00%) New Relic