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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 151 110
Rank change year-on-year -17 -41 +52
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 257 474 978
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.46% 1.80% 2.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.89% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 374 839
10th Percentile £416 £464 £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 £778 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
England median daily rate £556 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.29% - +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 16,398 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £683
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 328 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

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 7 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 7 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 +17 27 £550 -12.00% 3
West London -5 8 £575 -4.17% 1
South London +6 5 £518 +3.50% 3
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 257 (100.00%) AWS
2 146 (56.81%) Python
3 120 (46.69%) DevOps
4 102 (39.69%) Terraform
5 84 (32.68%) CI/CD
6 82 (31.91%) Finance
7 77 (29.96%) Kubernetes
8 66 (25.68%) Java
9 65 (25.29%) Security Cleared
10 62 (24.12%) SC Cleared
11 61 (23.74%) JavaScript
12 60 (23.35%) Agile
13 56 (21.79%) Amazon Athena
14 55 (21.40%) Apache Airflow
15 53 (20.62%) Serverless
16 52 (20.23%) Amazon S3
17 51 (19.84%) Software Engineering
18 49 (19.07%) Asset Management
18 49 (19.07%) Apache
19 48 (18.68%) Protocol Buffers
19 48 (18.68%) gRPC
19 48 (18.68%) Apache Arrow
19 48 (18.68%) dbt
19 48 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
19 48 (18.68%) Dremio
20 47 (18.29%) Amazon EC2
21 46 (17.90%) Linux
21 46 (17.90%) TypeScript
22 44 (17.12%) AWS Lambda
23 43 (16.73%) Snowflake

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 55 (21.40%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (19.07%) Apache
3 6 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.56%) nginx
5 3 (1.17%) Confluence
5 3 (1.17%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.39%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 257 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (20.62%) Serverless
3 52 (20.23%) Amazon S3
4 48 (18.68%) dbt
5 47 (18.29%) Amazon EC2
6 44 (17.12%) AWS Lambda
7 43 (16.73%) Snowflake
8 24 (9.34%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (9.34%) Azure
9 22 (8.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (8.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (7.39%) GitHub
13 17 (6.61%) GCP
14 14 (5.45%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (4.67%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (4.28%) Route 53
18 10 (3.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.67%) Firewall
2 8 (3.11%) DNS
3 3 (1.17%) DHCP
3 3 (1.17%) IPv4
3 3 (1.17%) LAN
3 3 (1.17%) Network Security
3 3 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.17%) SMTP
3 3 (1.17%) WLAN
4 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.79%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (18.68%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (18.68%) Dremio
3 43 (16.73%) Data Lake
4 34 (13.23%) Apache Ignite
5 25 (9.73%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (7.78%) Big Data
7 18 (7.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.50%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.50%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.11%) Flink
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.95%) MySQL
13 3 (1.17%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.78%) Apache Hive
14 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (11.67%) Git
1 30 (11.67%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.00%) GitLab
3 6 (2.33%) JIRA
4 4 (1.56%) Maven
5 3 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.17%) JMeter
5 3 (1.17%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.17%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.78%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.39%) Ant
7 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.39%) Gatling
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) Subversion
7 1 (0.39%) VisualWorks
General
1 82 (31.91%) Finance
2 35 (13.62%) Banking
3 34 (13.23%) Front Office
4 30 (11.67%) Investment Banking
4 30 (11.67%) Social Skills
5 19 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.50%) Law
7 4 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.56%) Retail
8 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Marketing
9 1 (0.39%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (18.68%) gRPC
1 48 (18.68%) Protocol Buffers
2 38 (14.79%) NumPy
2 38 (14.79%) Pandas
3 34 (13.23%) SciPy
4 20 (7.78%) Kafka
5 16 (6.23%) React
6 12 (4.67%) .NET
6 12 (4.67%) AWS CDK
6 12 (4.67%) Node.js
7 10 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.50%) PySpark
9 7 (2.72%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.72%) Redux
9 7 (2.72%) Vue
10 6 (2.33%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.33%) CSS
10 6 (2.33%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (2.33%) REST
10 6 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.40%) Hedge funds
2 31 (12.06%) Fixed Income
3 24 (9.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (8.56%) Derivative
4 22 (8.56%) Equities
5 14 (5.45%) Clustering
6 12 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.33%) Pricing Data
7 6 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.56%) PKI
10 3 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.17%) Life Science
11 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.90%) Linux
2 11 (4.28%) Windows
3 7 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.33%) Unix
5 5 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.78%) VMS
7 1 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (46.69%) DevOps
2 84 (32.68%) CI/CD
3 60 (23.35%) Agile
4 51 (19.84%) Software Engineering
5 49 (19.07%) Asset Management
6 48 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (16.73%) Investment Management
8 28 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (8.95%) Data Engineering
11 22 (8.56%) Containerisation
12 21 (8.17%) Analytics
12 21 (8.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (6.61%) Microservices
13 17 (6.61%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (6.23%) Greeks
14 16 (6.23%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (5.45%) ETL
16 13 (5.06%) Fintech
16 13 (5.06%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 146 (56.81%) Python
2 66 (25.68%) Java
3 61 (23.74%) JavaScript
4 46 (17.90%) TypeScript
5 38 (14.79%) SQL
6 28 (10.89%) Bash
7 24 (9.34%) Go
8 15 (5.84%) C#
9 10 (3.89%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.11%) C++
11 7 (2.72%) C
11 7 (2.72%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.33%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.95%) PHP
14 3 (1.17%) Groovy
14 3 (1.17%) Perl
14 3 (1.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.78%) Scala
16 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.39%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 65 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 62 (24.12%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.61%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.67%) Degree
5 9 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.39%) CISA
8 1 (0.39%) CISM
8 1 (0.39%) CISSP
8 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.17%) NIST
4 1 (0.39%) NCSC
4 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 39 (15.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (39.69%) Terraform
2 77 (29.96%) Kubernetes
3 37 (14.40%) Ansible
4 23 (8.95%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.50%) Grafana
5 9 (3.50%) Puppet
6 5 (1.95%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.56%) Argo
7 4 (1.56%) Kibana
8 3 (1.17%) Consul
8 3 (1.17%) Packer
8 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.39%) Graylog
9 1 (0.39%) logstash
9 1 (0.39%) Nagios
9 1 (0.39%) Podman
9 1 (0.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (3.89%) Red Hat
2 9 (3.50%) Splunk
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle
4 4 (1.56%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.56%) SAP
5 3 (1.17%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.17%) Databricks
5 3 (1.17%) F5
6 2 (0.78%) MKS
6 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.39%) Brio
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco
7 1 (0.39%) Google
7 1 (0.39%) Meraki
7 1 (0.39%) New Relic
7 1 (0.39%) Qualys
7 1 (0.39%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.39%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.39%) VMware