AWS Contracts in West London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 8 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing AWS 23 51 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 11.17% 14.21% 22.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 38.64% 52.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 99
10th Percentile £378 £282 £513
25th Percentile £400 £359 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -20.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £750 £588 £675
90th Percentile £785 £625 £708
London median daily rate £575 £575 £610
% change year-on-year - -5.74% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 13
10th Percentile - £22.60 £61.40
25th Percentile - £23.05 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -68.27% -
75th Percentile - £45.40 -
90th Percentile - £58.36 -
London median hourly rate £55.50 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +0.91% -26.67% -3.69%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 69 132 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 33.50% 36.77% 42.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 104 187
10th Percentile £290 £250 £303
25th Percentile £363 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -17.39% +11.64%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £650
90th Percentile £720 £599 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 21
10th Percentile - £22.60 £61.25
25th Percentile - £23.05 £64.50
Median hourly rate £22.27 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% -68.27% +253.36%
75th Percentile £27.32 £45.40 £80.00
90th Percentile £29.04 £58.36 £90.00
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 West London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in West London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in West London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in West London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in West London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in West London

AWS
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Hillingdon +11 8 £413 -17.50% 4
Hounslow -6 7 £478 +40.47% 20
AWS
London

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
1 12 (52.17%) Serverless
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (8.70%) AWS KMS
5 2 (8.70%) dbt
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DHCP
1 8 (34.78%) DNS
2 7 (30.43%) Network Security
3 6 (26.09%) BGP
3 6 (26.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 6 (26.09%) Firewall
3 6 (26.09%) OSPF
3 6 (26.09%) VLAN
3 6 (26.09%) VPN
4 5 (21.74%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (21.74%) SD-WAN
4 5 (21.74%) SSL
4 5 (21.74%) WAN
5 4 (17.39%) DMVPN
5 4 (17.39%) LAN
5 4 (17.39%) Wireless
5 4 (17.39%) WLAN
6 3 (13.04%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (13.04%) EIGRP
7 2 (8.70%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Cypress.io
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) React Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) Network Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) DBA
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Software Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) React
2 7 (30.43%) GraphQL
3 6 (26.09%) Node.js
4 4 (17.39%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (17.39%) Next.js
4 4 (17.39%) Redux
5 3 (13.04%) AWS CDK
6 2 (8.70%) .NET
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
6 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
6 2 (8.70%) Kafka
7 1 (4.35%) JDBC
7 1 (4.35%) OAuth
7 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
7 1 (4.35%) ODBC
7 1 (4.35%) PySpark
7 1 (4.35%) REST
7 1 (4.35%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
1 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
1 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
2 7 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Coaching
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (17.39%) Regression Testing
5 4 (17.39%) TDD
6 3 (13.04%) Clean Code
6 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
7 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
2 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 2 (8.70%) VB
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
1 5 (21.74%) CCNP
1 5 (21.74%) CCSA
1 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (8.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Firmware
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) CA Spectrum
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) F5
3 5 (21.74%) Meraki
3 5 (21.74%) SolarWinds
4 4 (17.39%) Juniper
5 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.70%) VMware
7 1 (4.35%) Adobe
7 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (4.35%) Confluent
7 1 (4.35%) Google
7 1 (4.35%) SAP