AWK Contract Job Trends in London

AWK
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring AWK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 376 406
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +156
Contract jobs citing AWK 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.006% 0.015%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.037% 0.017% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £301
25th Percentile £625 - £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £310
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.74%
75th Percentile £675 - £401
90th Percentile - - £453
England median daily rate £650 - £310
% change year-on-year - - -34.74%

All Programming Languages
London

AWK falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,407 6,025 7,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.82% 38.62% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,634 4,097 5,349
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 40 69
10th Percentile £25.40 £35.68 £26.15
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £51.44 £51.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £97.50 £73.92
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWK job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWK

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWK

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWK within the London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Central London - 2 £650 -
AWK
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Database Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) sed
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) GPFS
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat