AWS Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 11 2 18
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 39.29% 28.57% 25.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 73.33% 33.33% 56.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 17
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile £591 £385 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £390 £525
Median % change year-on-year +60.26% -25.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £395 £580
90th Percentile - - £590
West London median daily rate £603 £559 £550
% change year-on-year +7.78% +1.64% -

All Cloud Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15 6 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 53.57% 85.71% 45.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 31
10th Percentile £468 - £300
25th Percentile £571 £188 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £390 £525
Median % change year-on-year +54.49% -25.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £573 £601
90th Percentile - - £621
West London median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing AWS

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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 10 (90.91%) Apache Spark
2 6 (54.55%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
1 10 (90.91%) GCP
2 7 (63.64%) Power Platform
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (54.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (54.55%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (63.64%) Mixpanel
2 7 (63.64%) Power BI
3 6 (54.55%) BigQuery
3 6 (54.55%) OLAP
3 6 (54.55%) OLTP
4 5 (45.45%) Metadata
General
1 4 (36.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 11 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 11 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Principal Data Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Software Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Software Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Kafka
2 6 (54.55%) Great Expectations
3 5 (45.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Analytics
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) Data Architecture
2 10 (90.91%) Observability
3 7 (63.64%) AI
3 7 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (63.64%) Data Analytics
3 7 (63.64%) Data Governance
3 7 (63.64%) LLM
4 6 (54.55%) Batch Processing
4 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
4 6 (54.55%) Data Privacy
4 6 (54.55%) DevOps
4 6 (54.55%) Dimensional Modelling
4 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (54.55%) ETL
4 6 (54.55%) Machine Learning
4 6 (54.55%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) Data Quality
2 6 (54.55%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Databricks
2 6 (54.55%) Google