AWS Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,322 3,670 6,652
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.16% 14.01% 17.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.21% 35.92% 41.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,783 2,748 5,191
10th Percentile £406 £450 £450
25th Percentile £479 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £788
England median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 9
10th Percentile £22.10 £61.25 £49.00
25th Percentile £23.43 £64.50 £58.25
Median hourly rate £43.25 £75.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.33% -2.60% +62.11%
75th Percentile £68.38 £88.30 £82.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £74.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.68% +5.71% +18.64%

All Cloud Skills
London

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,788 10,216 15,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.47% 39.00% 41.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,992 7,489 11,997
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £769
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 84 83
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £19.74
25th Percentile £22.00 £25.00 £23.74
Median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.00% +25.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £62.75
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.35
England median hourly rate £21.00 £33.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.84% +54.65% -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
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 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 -2 270 £550 -12.00% 110
South London 0 72 £512 -0.15% 7
West London -3 50 £500 -20.00% 30
East London -1 10 £563 +12.50% 33
North London +1 1 £550 -8.33% 6
AWS
England

AWS
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
1 247 (10.64%) Apache
2 223 (9.60%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (2.80%) Confluence
4 52 (2.24%) nginx
5 51 (2.20%) Apache Spark
6 33 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 14 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
9 10 (0.43%) IIS
9 10 (0.43%) JBoss
10 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.34%) CMS
11 8 (0.34%) Site Server
11 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.17%) CICS
14 4 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Sketch
6 1 (0.043%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.043%) InVision
6 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.043%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.47%) Endur
4 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.34%) Shopify
5 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.13%) Magento
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.043%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.043%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.043%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.043%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.043%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.043%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.043%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 783 (33.72%) Azure
2 517 (22.27%) GCP
3 299 (12.88%) Serverless
4 254 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
5 215 (9.26%) Amazon S3
6 165 (7.11%) Snowflake
7 146 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
8 134 (5.77%) dbt
9 127 (5.47%) GitHub
10 104 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 75 (3.23%) SaaS
14 70 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
15 63 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 62 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (2.54%) Power Platform
18 56 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
18 56 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
19 53 (2.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.82%) Firewall
2 77 (3.32%) DNS
3 48 (2.07%) HTTP
4 45 (1.94%) DHCP
5 43 (1.85%) VPN
6 42 (1.81%) LAN
7 41 (1.77%) Network Security
8 34 (1.46%) WAN
9 32 (1.38%) Wireless
10 31 (1.34%) TCP/IP
11 29 (1.25%) BGP
12 27 (1.16%) OSPF
13 19 (0.82%) MPLS
13 19 (0.82%) VLAN
14 17 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
14 17 (0.73%) IPsec
15 16 (0.69%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.65%) Kerberos
17 14 (0.60%) SAN
17 14 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (6.80%) Apache Ignite
3 157 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
4 146 (6.29%) Data Lake
5 134 (5.77%) NoSQL
6 132 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
7 112 (4.82%) Apache Arrow
7 112 (4.82%) Dremio
8 106 (4.57%) SQL Server
9 95 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
10 87 (3.75%) Big Data
10 87 (3.75%) DynamoDB
11 85 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 79 (3.40%) Relational Database
13 67 (2.89%) MySQL
14 57 (2.45%) Power BI
15 49 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
15 49 (2.11%) MongoDB
16 46 (1.98%) Tableau
17 41 (1.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 208 (8.96%) Jenkins
2 202 (8.70%) Git
3 112 (4.82%) JIRA
4 80 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 79 (3.40%) GitLab
6 33 (1.42%) Selenium
7 32 (1.38%) Cucumber
7 32 (1.38%) Maven
8 24 (1.03%) JMeter
9 21 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.86%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.82%) JUnit
12 17 (0.73%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.52%) Mockito
13 12 (0.52%) Postman
14 11 (0.47%) TestNG
15 10 (0.43%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.39%) LoadRunner
17 8 (0.34%) Burp Suite
17 8 (0.34%) Protractor
General
1 623 (26.83%) Finance
2 363 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 286 (12.32%) Front Office
4 267 (11.50%) Banking
5 192 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 145 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
7 122 (5.25%) Investment Banking
8 55 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (1.77%) Retail
10 39 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.51%) Marketing
12 32 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.78%) Publishing
16 17 (0.73%) Law
17 12 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.52%) Retail Banking
18 11 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 632 (27.22%) Developer
2 369 (15.89%) Architect
3 299 (12.88%) Senior
4 264 (11.37%) AWS Engineer
5 255 (10.98%) Software Engineer
6 221 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 177 (7.62%) Lead
8 169 (7.28%) Data Engineer
9 155 (6.68%) Python Developer
10 146 (6.29%) Full Stack Developer
11 141 (6.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 131 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
13 129 (5.56%) Python Engineer
14 111 (4.78%) Java Developer
14 111 (4.78%) Python Software Engineer
15 110 (4.74%) React Developer
16 104 (4.48%) AWS Architect
17 89 (3.83%) Analyst
17 89 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
18 79 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (12.70%) React
2 211 (9.09%) Kafka
3 188 (8.10%) gRPC
4 181 (7.80%) Protocol Buffers
5 165 (7.11%) Node.js
6 156 (6.72%) .NET
7 130 (5.60%) Pandas
8 124 (5.34%) Redux
9 117 (5.04%) NumPy
9 117 (5.04%) REST
10 110 (4.74%) RESTful
11 109 (4.69%) Spring
12 104 (4.48%) SciPy
13 99 (4.26%) Spring Boot
14 88 (3.79%) AngularJS
15 85 (3.66%) HTML
16 75 (3.23%) Material-UI
17 74 (3.19%) CSS
18 63 (2.71%) .NET Core
19 60 (2.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 259 (11.15%) Fixed Income
2 252 (10.85%) Hedge funds
3 188 (8.10%) Equities
4 181 (7.80%) Derivative
5 154 (6.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 67 (2.89%) Cloud Native
7 65 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 64 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
9 52 (2.24%) Public Cloud
10 51 (2.20%) Onboarding
11 47 (2.02%) Data Centre
12 41 (1.77%) Clustering
13 39 (1.68%) Algorithms
14 38 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
15 35 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
16 32 (1.38%) Management Information System
17 29 (1.25%) PKI
18 26 (1.12%) Replication
19 24 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
20 23 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 249 (10.72%) Linux
2 149 (6.42%) Windows
3 71 (3.06%) Unix
4 66 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 13 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.39%) CentOS
7 9 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (0.34%) Android
8 8 (0.34%) Solaris
9 7 (0.30%) VMS
10 5 (0.22%) zOS
11 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.043%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (32.30%) Agile
2 629 (27.09%) DevOps
3 467 (20.11%) CI/CD
4 422 (18.17%) Software Engineering
5 283 (12.19%) Asset Management
6 280 (12.06%) Microservices
7 268 (11.54%) Full Stack Development
8 237 (10.21%) Investment Management
9 232 (9.99%) Problem-Solving
10 187 (8.05%) Machine Learning
11 181 (7.80%) Analytics
11 181 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 163 (7.02%) Test Automation
13 160 (6.89%) TDD
14 152 (6.55%) Artificial Intelligence
15 151 (6.50%) Data Pipeline
16 150 (6.46%) Containerisation
17 138 (5.94%) Migration
18 137 (5.90%) ETL
19 119 (5.12%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 874 (37.64%) Python
2 481 (20.71%) Java
3 466 (20.07%) SQL
4 413 (17.79%) JavaScript
5 354 (15.25%) TypeScript
6 149 (6.42%) C#
7 126 (5.43%) Go
8 103 (4.44%) PowerShell
9 98 (4.22%) Bash
10 82 (3.53%) Scala
11 52 (2.24%) C++
12 51 (2.20%) PHP
13 41 (1.77%) Ruby
14 36 (1.55%) Shell Script
15 34 (1.46%) C
16 31 (1.34%) Kotlin
17 30 (1.29%) T-SQL
18 21 (0.90%) R
19 15 (0.65%) Perl
19 15 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 541 (23.30%) Security Cleared
2 473 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 143 (6.16%) Degree
4 90 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 89 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 36 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.46%) CISSP
9 27 (1.16%) CISM
10 26 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (0.95%) CCNP
13 21 (0.90%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (0.65%) CISA
15 11 (0.47%) CCNA
15 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.39%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (3.75%) QA
2 75 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (1.46%) NIST
5 27 (1.16%) GDPR
6 25 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.08%) SLA
7 24 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.78%) NCSC
9 10 (0.43%) MiFID
10 8 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.26%) GRC
12 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.13%) GPG13
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.086%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.086%) WCAG
System Software
1 320 (13.78%) Docker
2 89 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 57 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.30%) ACF2
6 7 (0.30%) IAG
6 7 (0.30%) RACF
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
8 5 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.17%) KVM
9 4 (0.17%) NFS
9 4 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.086%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.086%) Ceph
10 2 (0.086%) Lustre
10 2 (0.086%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 453 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 436 (18.78%) Terraform
3 168 (7.24%) Ansible
4 71 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 60 (2.58%) Grafana
6 51 (2.20%) Puppet
7 26 (1.12%) Progress Chef
8 24 (1.03%) Packer
8 24 (1.03%) SCCM
9 16 (0.69%) Consul
10 15 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.52%) Kibana
12 9 (0.39%) Argo
13 8 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.34%) Netcool
13 8 (0.34%) Opsgenie
13 8 (0.34%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.34%) WSUS
14 7 (0.30%) Nagios
Vendors
1 162 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 156 (6.72%) Oracle
3 145 (6.24%) Google
4 78 (3.36%) VMware
5 56 (2.41%) Cisco
6 55 (2.37%) SAP
7 53 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.28%) Splunk
8 41 (1.77%) CyberArk
9 40 (1.72%) Databricks
10 33 (1.42%) IBM
11 32 (1.38%) F5
12 30 (1.29%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.25%) Bloomberg
13 29 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.25%) Salesforce
14 23 (0.99%) Talend
15 20 (0.86%) BeyondTrust
16 19 (0.82%) Dynatrace
16 19 (0.82%) MuleSoft