AWS Contracts in South London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 35 70 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 19.02% 29.05% 30.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.30% 56.91% 75.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 48 97
10th Percentile £390 £373 £459
25th Percentile £447 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £675
90th Percentile £738 £630 £725
London median daily rate £575 £575 £610
% change year-on-year - -5.74% +1.67%

All Cloud Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 74 123 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 40.22% 51.04% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 96 128
10th Percentile £380 £206 £292
25th Percentile £463 £407 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £544 £540 £649
90th Percentile £700 £630 £725
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile - - £20.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in South London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in South London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in South London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in South London

AWS
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 within the South London region over the 6 months to 2 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 0 28 £475 -7.32% 4
Merton - 4 £450 - 5
Bromley -6 1 £675 +3.85% 7
AWS
London

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) Confluence
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.71%) Camunda
4 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Serverless
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 7 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.43%) IaaS
5 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (11.43%) PaaS
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (8.57%) GCP
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.57%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) MySQL
2 3 (8.57%) Parquet
3 2 (5.71%) GIS
3 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.71%) Redis
3 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) JMeter
3 2 (5.71%) JUnit
3 2 (5.71%) Mockito
3 2 (5.71%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Local Government
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Java Developer
4 5 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 2 (5.71%) Architect
7 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Administrator
8 1 (2.86%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) Kafka
2 7 (20.00%) Spring
3 5 (14.29%) JSON
4 4 (11.43%) HTML
4 4 (11.43%) Spring Boot
4 4 (11.43%) XML
5 3 (8.57%) Apache Avro
5 3 (8.57%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (8.57%) Keycloak
5 3 (8.57%) REST
6 2 (5.71%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.71%) Apache Camel
6 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.71%) jQuery
6 2 (5.71%) Web Services
6 2 (5.71%) WireMock
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
1 3 (8.57%) PKI
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Microservices
2 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) Containerisation
4 11 (31.43%) TDD
5 10 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (25.71%) DevOps
7 8 (22.86%) Code Quality
8 7 (20.00%) Agile
9 6 (17.14%) Cloud Security
9 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (14.29%) Task Automation
11 4 (11.43%) Data Protection
11 4 (11.43%) High Availability
11 4 (11.43%) Load Balancing
11 4 (11.43%) Refactoring
11 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
12 3 (8.57%) CQRS
12 3 (8.57%) Data Transformation
12 3 (8.57%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Python
2 13 (37.14%) Java
3 7 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) Bash
4 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) Lua
5 2 (5.71%) Perl
5 2 (5.71%) PHP
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (74.29%) Security Cleared
2 24 (68.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NCSC
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (65.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.00%) Terraform
3 6 (17.14%) Grafana
4 5 (14.29%) Ansible
4 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.71%) Istio
5 2 (5.71%) Kibana
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.86%) Puppet
6 1 (2.86%) Rancher
6 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Dynatrace
1 3 (8.57%) Proofpoint
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Splunk
3 1 (2.86%) Apple
3 1 (2.86%) Confluent
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) VMware