AWS Engineer Contracts in South London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
London > South London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in South London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 37 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -1
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 6 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.24% 2.07% 2.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.51% 2.12% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile £381 £407 £498
25th Percentile £409 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £518 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +0.98% -10.87%
75th Percentile £509 £556 £616
90th Percentile £534 £613 £704
London median daily rate £675 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 171 236 355
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 97.52% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 157 278
10th Percentile £224 £202 £213
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £749 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 14
10th Percentile £22.49 £17.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.41 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%
75th Percentile £30.80 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £32.72 £83.75 £52.21
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in South London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in South London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in South London

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Croydon +7 4 - -
Merton - 1 £375 -
AWS Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 South London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Grafana
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
3 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 4 (66.67%) IaaS
3 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (66.67%) GitLab
3 4 (66.67%) Git
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Refactoring
3 4 (66.67%) PaaS
3 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) IaaS
2 4 (66.67%) PaaS
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Grafana
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Prometheus