AWS Contract Job Trends in South London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring AWS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 11 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 46 30 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 25.41% 14.71% 28.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.10% 36.59% 68.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 71
10th Percentile £421 £342 £425
25th Percentile £488 £408 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% -3.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £710 £546 £613
90th Percentile £746 £675 £675
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 82 82 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 45.30% 40.20% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 65 109
10th Percentile £255 £310 £396
25th Percentile £425 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £538 £625
90th Percentile £738 £567 £675
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile - - £17.29
Median hourly rate - - £19.07
75th Percentile - - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
% change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in South London over the 6 months to 19 September 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 19 September 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 +4 37 £593 +16.22% 8
Bromley -7 3 £750 +30.43% 7
Merton +1 2 £363 +3.57% 2
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £300 - 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 13 (28.26%) Confluence
2 11 (23.91%) nginx
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.35%) SAS
4 1 (2.17%) IIS
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) Azure
2 20 (43.48%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (41.30%) Amazon S3
4 13 (28.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (26.09%) Route 53
5 12 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (23.91%) AWS KMS
7 10 (21.74%) Amazon ELB
8 8 (17.39%) GCP
9 7 (15.22%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (13.04%) Serverless
11 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (4.35%) SaaS
14 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
14 1 (2.17%) GitHub
14 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) DNS
1 11 (23.91%) Firewall
2 10 (21.74%) FTP
2 10 (21.74%) HTTP
2 10 (21.74%) IMAP
2 10 (21.74%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (21.74%) SMTP
2 10 (21.74%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (32.61%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (30.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.17%) DataStage
6 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (43.48%) Jenkins
2 17 (36.96%) Git
3 14 (30.43%) JIRA
4 11 (23.91%) Vagrant
5 5 (10.87%) JUnit
5 5 (10.87%) Mockito
6 4 (8.70%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.52%) Maven
8 2 (4.35%) GitLab
8 2 (4.35%) JMeter
9 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.17%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.17%) jMock
9 1 (2.17%) Storybook
General
1 22 (47.83%) Public Sector
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
2 12 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Java Developer
4 10 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (19.57%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (17.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (17.39%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (15.22%) Lead
8 6 (13.04%) Architect
9 3 (6.52%) Senior
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Lead Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Project Coordinator
10 2 (4.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) Spring
2 11 (23.91%) LDAP
3 6 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (13.04%) REST
3 6 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
5 4 (8.70%) Kafka
6 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.52%) Bootstrap
6 3 (6.52%) JPA
6 3 (6.52%) Node.js
6 3 (6.52%) pytest
6 3 (6.52%) React
6 3 (6.52%) SOAP
6 3 (6.52%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (6.52%) Web Services
6 3 (6.52%) XML
7 2 (4.35%) HTML
7 2 (4.35%) jQuery
7 2 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Replication
2 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) CSOC
4 2 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Ubuntu
2 10 (21.74%) VMS
2 10 (21.74%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Android
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) CI/CD
2 21 (45.65%) DevOps
3 19 (41.30%) Microservices
4 12 (26.09%) Agile
4 12 (26.09%) Cloud Security
5 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
5 11 (23.91%) Patch Management
5 11 (23.91%) TDD
6 10 (21.74%) Change Management
6 10 (21.74%) Configuration Management
6 10 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (15.22%) Code Quality
7 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (10.87%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (10.87%) CQRS
9 5 (10.87%) Design Patterns
9 5 (10.87%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) Python
2 18 (39.13%) SQL
3 14 (30.43%) Java
4 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
5 10 (21.74%) Groovy
6 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 32 (69.57%) SC Cleared
3 14 (30.43%) AWS Certification
4 12 (26.09%) Azure Certification
4 12 (26.09%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.52%) QA
System Software
1 28 (60.87%) Docker
2 11 (23.91%) Postfix
3 10 (21.74%) DFS Replication
3 10 (21.74%) Dovecot
3 10 (21.74%) Squid
4 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (30.43%) Grafana
3 13 (28.26%) Prometheus
3 13 (28.26%) Terraform
4 10 (21.74%) Nessus
4 10 (21.74%) Proxmox
5 2 (4.35%) Ansible
5 2 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (4.35%) Kibana
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.17%) Ambari
6 1 (2.17%) Consul
6 1 (2.17%) Packer
6 1 (2.17%) Puppet
6 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (21.74%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Splunk
4 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.35%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.17%) Apple
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle