AWS Contract Job Trends in Merton

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merton requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merton 11.43% 3.85% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £334 £388 -
90th Percentile £396 - -
South London median daily rate £519 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +5.82% -10.91% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Merton

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 22.86% 7.69% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £185 £373 £423
25th Percentile £214 £388 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -10.05% +158.90%
75th Percentile - £463 £499
90th Percentile £369 £478 £512
South London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.37% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - -
Median hourly rate £58.94 - -
75th Percentile £63.32 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £34.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +73.34% +65.85% -8.89%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Merton

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Merton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Merton region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Wimbledon - 3 £300 -
Morden - 1 £425 - 1
AWS
South London

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DKIM
1 1 (25.00%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Database Security
1 3 (75.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Proofpoint