AWS Engineer Contracts in Hillingdon

Amazon Web Services Engineer
West London > Hillingdon

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Hillingdon is £565, 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 10 18 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 3 1 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 6.38% 1.00% 13.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.14% 1.10% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 25
10th Percentile - - £540
25th Percentile £558 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £600
75th Percentile £573 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
West London median daily rate £478 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -17.83% -3.13% -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hillingdon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hillingdon. 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 Hillingdon with a recognized job title 42 91 201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.36% 91.00% 98.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 61 181
10th Percentile £172 £215 £450
25th Percentile £240 £270 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -17.39% +58.62%
75th Percentile £459 £575 £638
90th Percentile £475 £627 £700
West London median daily rate £400 £456 £550
% change year-on-year -12.33% -17.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
10th Percentile - £15.80 -
25th Percentile - £16.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £19.20 £23.83 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% -13.35% +30.95%
75th Percentile - £30.16 £28.75
90th Percentile - £47.60 -
West London median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -31.48% -49.22% +197.67%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Hillingdon

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in Hillingdon.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Hillingdon

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Heathrow - 2 - -
AWS Engineer
West London

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Git

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Confluent