AWS Contract Job Trends in West London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring AWS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing AWS 31 53 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 11.31% 18.40% 24.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.52% 41.09% 62.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 128
10th Percentile £350 £330 £500
25th Percentile £363 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -27.17% -8.00% +10.13%
75th Percentile £500 £597 £650
90th Percentile £548 £650 £758
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - - £87.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £23.80 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.09% -73.56% -
75th Percentile - £31.28 -
90th Percentile - £35.76 -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £30.65 £87.50
% change year-on-year +103.92% -64.97% +66.67%

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 105 129 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 38.32% 44.79% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 104 206
10th Percentile £241 £300 £214
25th Percentile £350 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £585
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -18.80% +17.00%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £650
90th Percentile £538 £650 £700
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £33.02 - £65.00
25th Percentile £38.96 £23.80 £75.00
Median hourly rate £44.75 £27.20 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.55% -69.78% +324.03%
75th Percentile £49.38 £32.63 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £36.30 -
London median hourly rate £30.25 £30.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year -0.15% -24.26% +14.29%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in West London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in West London

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing AWS

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 22 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
Hillingdon -11 10 £401 -27.18% 9
Hounslow -2 8 £478 +44.73% 6
Wembley -5 2 £350 -
Hammersmith - 1 £425 - 3
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 3 (9.68%) Apache
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (6.45%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.45%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) Serverless
3 7 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (19.35%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.45%) dbt
7 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) DNS
1 11 (35.48%) Firewall
2 9 (29.03%) DHCP
3 8 (25.81%) Network Security
3 8 (25.81%) SD-WAN
3 8 (25.81%) SSL
3 8 (25.81%) VLAN
3 8 (25.81%) WAN
4 7 (22.58%) BGP
4 7 (22.58%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (22.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (22.58%) OSPF
4 7 (22.58%) VPN
5 6 (19.35%) Wireless
5 6 (19.35%) WLAN
6 5 (16.13%) Cisco Wireless
6 5 (16.13%) DMVPN
6 5 (16.13%) EIGRP
6 5 (16.13%) LAN
7 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.23%) Big Data
4 1 (3.23%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.23%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Billing
4 2 (6.45%) Local Government
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Senior
2 7 (22.58%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Network Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Security Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) Backend Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Lambda Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Network Administrator
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Identity Management Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Network Security Administrator
6 2 (6.45%) Security Administrator
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) GraphQL
2 9 (29.03%) React
3 4 (12.90%) OAuth
4 3 (9.68%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (9.68%) Next.js
4 3 (9.68%) Node.js
4 3 (9.68%) Redux
5 2 (6.45%) .NET
5 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.45%) JWT
5 2 (6.45%) Middleware
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.45%) RESTful
6 1 (3.23%) Kafka
6 1 (3.23%) LDAP
6 1 (3.23%) OpenID
6 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
6 1 (3.23%) SAML
6 1 (3.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 2 (6.45%) CentOS
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.45%) Unix
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 10 (32.26%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (19.35%) Clean Code
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
5 5 (16.13%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Analytics
6 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (12.90%) E-Commerce
6 4 (12.90%) ETL
6 4 (12.90%) High Availability
6 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
6 4 (12.90%) Patch Management
7 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
7 3 (9.68%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (9.68%) Data Privacy
7 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) TypeScript
3 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.90%) Bash
4 4 (12.90%) SQL
5 2 (6.45%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) Scala
5 2 (6.45%) VB
6 1 (3.23%) Groovy
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) CCNP
1 8 (25.81%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (22.58%) CCSA
3 6 (19.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.45%) RHCE
4 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) CEH
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
1 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (6.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (6.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) GRC
3 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.23%) SLA
3 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Firmware
2 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) Docker
2 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.13%) CA Spectrum
3 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.90%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Kibana
4 2 (6.45%) Nagios
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.23%) SCCM
5 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Cisco
2 7 (22.58%) F5
2 7 (22.58%) Meraki
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) SolarWinds
3 5 (16.13%) CheckPoint
3 5 (16.13%) Juniper
4 3 (9.68%) VMware
5 2 (6.45%) Informatica
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle
5 2 (6.45%) Qualys
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk
5 2 (6.45%) Tenable
5 2 (6.45%) Teradata
6 1 (3.23%) Citrix
6 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) Okta