AWS Administrator Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services Administrator
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Administrator daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 - 371
Rank change year-on-year - - +87
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Administrator 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% - 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £617
25th Percentile - - £626
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £655
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.38%
75th Percentile - - £696
90th Percentile - - £714
England median daily rate £550 £325 £610
% change year-on-year +69.23% -46.72% +20.49%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 18,869 12,708 15,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 92.98% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,304 8,601 10,765
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -16.11%
75th Percentile £58.92 £49.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.61 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +72.35% -43.78% +5.88%

AWS Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

AWS Administrator job vacancy trend in London

AWS Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Administrator job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Administrator job vacancies in London

AWS Administrator
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 AWS Administrator within the London region over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. 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
South London - 1 £550 - 2
AWS Administrator
England

AWS Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 August 2026, AWS Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring AWS Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Database Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

AWS Administrator Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Database Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform