AWS Engineer Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 152 114
Rank change year-on-year -15 -38 +43
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 264 479 963
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.50% 1.83% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.92% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 380 829
10th Percentile £415 £463 £481
25th Percentile £488 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £788 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £837 £800
England median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,468 24,945 36,702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 18,104 26,876
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 282 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.79 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.64%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £79.80 £68.19
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 +23 28 £563 -10.00% 2
West London 0 9 £575 -4.17% 1
South London +3 5 £518 +3.50% 2
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 264 (100.00%) AWS
2 150 (56.82%) Python
3 121 (45.83%) DevOps
4 102 (38.64%) Terraform
5 86 (32.58%) CI/CD
5 86 (32.58%) Finance
6 79 (29.92%) Kubernetes
7 68 (25.76%) Java
8 65 (24.62%) Security Cleared
9 64 (24.24%) JavaScript
10 62 (23.48%) Agile
10 62 (23.48%) SC Cleared
11 58 (21.97%) Apache Airflow
11 58 (21.97%) Amazon Athena
12 54 (20.45%) Software Engineering
13 53 (20.08%) Serverless
14 52 (19.70%) Amazon S3
15 51 (19.32%) Asset Management
15 51 (19.32%) Apache
16 50 (18.94%) gRPC
16 50 (18.94%) Apache Arrow
16 50 (18.94%) dbt
16 50 (18.94%) Dremio
16 50 (18.94%) Protocol Buffers
17 49 (18.56%) TypeScript
18 48 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
19 47 (17.80%) Linux
19 47 (17.80%) Amazon EC2
20 46 (17.42%) Snowflake
21 45 (17.05%) Data Lake

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 58 (21.97%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (19.32%) Apache
3 7 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.52%) nginx
5 3 (1.14%) Confluence
5 3 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 264 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (20.08%) Serverless
3 52 (19.70%) Amazon S3
4 50 (18.94%) dbt
5 47 (17.80%) Amazon EC2
6 46 (17.42%) Snowflake
7 44 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (9.09%) Azure
10 22 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (7.20%) GitHub
14 17 (6.44%) GCP
15 14 (5.30%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
18 11 (4.17%) Route 53
19 10 (3.79%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.55%) Firewall
2 8 (3.03%) DNS
3 4 (1.52%) Network Security
4 3 (1.14%) DHCP
4 3 (1.14%) IPv4
4 3 (1.14%) LAN
4 3 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.14%) SMTP
4 3 (1.14%) WLAN
5 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (21.97%) Amazon Athena
2 50 (18.94%) Apache Arrow
2 50 (18.94%) Dremio
3 45 (17.05%) Data Lake
4 36 (13.64%) Apache Ignite
5 25 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (7.58%) Big Data
7 18 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.41%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.41%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.03%) Flink
11 6 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.89%) MySQL
13 3 (1.14%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.76%) Apache Hive
14 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (11.74%) Git
1 31 (11.74%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.20%) GitLab
3 6 (2.27%) JIRA
4 4 (1.52%) Maven
5 3 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.14%) JMeter
5 3 (1.14%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.14%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.76%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.38%) Gatling
7 1 (0.38%) Gradle
7 1 (0.38%) Storybook
7 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (32.58%) Finance
2 37 (14.02%) Banking
2 37 (14.02%) Front Office
3 32 (12.12%) Investment Banking
4 30 (11.36%) Social Skills
5 19 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.41%) Law
7 4 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.52%) Retail
8 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Marketing
9 1 (0.38%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.94%) gRPC
1 50 (18.94%) Protocol Buffers
2 41 (15.53%) Pandas
3 40 (15.15%) NumPy
4 36 (13.64%) SciPy
5 22 (8.33%) Kafka
6 17 (6.44%) React
7 14 (5.30%) .NET
8 12 (4.55%) AWS CDK
8 12 (4.55%) Node.js
9 10 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.41%) PySpark
11 8 (3.03%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.65%) CSS
12 7 (2.65%) Redux
12 7 (2.65%) Vue
13 6 (2.27%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.27%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (2.27%) REST
13 6 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.15%) Hedge funds
2 33 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 26 (9.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (9.09%) Derivative
4 24 (9.09%) Equities
5 14 (5.30%) Clustering
6 12 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.03%) Pricing Data
8 6 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.52%) PKI
11 3 (1.14%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.14%) Life Science
12 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.80%) Linux
2 11 (4.17%) Windows
3 7 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.27%) Unix
5 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.76%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (45.83%) DevOps
2 86 (32.58%) CI/CD
3 62 (23.48%) Agile
4 54 (20.45%) Software Engineering
5 51 (19.32%) Asset Management
6 48 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (17.05%) Investment Management
8 28 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (8.71%) Data Engineering
11 22 (8.33%) Analytics
11 22 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 22 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (6.44%) Microservices
12 17 (6.44%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (6.44%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (6.06%) Greeks
14 15 (5.68%) ETL
14 15 (5.68%) Machine Learning
15 13 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 150 (56.82%) Python
2 68 (25.76%) Java
3 64 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 49 (18.56%) TypeScript
5 40 (15.15%) SQL
6 28 (10.61%) Bash
7 24 (9.09%) Go
8 16 (6.06%) C#
9 10 (3.79%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.03%) C++
11 7 (2.65%) C
11 7 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.65%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.89%) PHP
13 3 (1.14%) Groovy
13 3 (1.14%) Perl
13 3 (1.14%) Ruby
14 2 (0.76%) Scala
15 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.92%) Degree
5 10 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.76%) CISA
8 2 (0.76%) CISM
8 2 (0.76%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
4 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 40 (15.15%) Docker
2 4 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (38.64%) Terraform
2 79 (29.92%) Kubernetes
3 37 (14.02%) Ansible
4 24 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.79%) Grafana
6 9 (3.41%) Puppet
7 5 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.52%) Argo
8 4 (1.52%) Kibana
9 3 (1.14%) Consul
9 3 (1.14%) Packer
9 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.76%) Nagios
11 1 (0.38%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.38%) Graylog
11 1 (0.38%) logstash
11 1 (0.38%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (3.79%) Red Hat
1 10 (3.79%) Splunk
2 6 (2.27%) Oracle
3 4 (1.52%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.52%) SAP
4 3 (1.14%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.14%) Databricks
4 3 (1.14%) F5
5 2 (0.76%) MKS
5 2 (0.76%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.38%) Brio
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco
6 1 (0.38%) Google
6 1 (0.38%) Meraki
6 1 (0.38%) New Relic
6 1 (0.38%) Qualys
6 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.38%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.38%) VMware