AWS Engineer Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 142 114
Rank change year-on-year -21 -28 +43
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 272 474 954
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.56% 1.83% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 1.93% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 376 821
10th Percentile £413 £466 £475
25th Percentile £488 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £788 £725 £700
90th Percentile £850 £863 £800
England median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,328 24,595 36,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.20% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 17,870 26,915
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 283 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.69 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.25 £49.80
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Central London +26 27 £550 -12.00% 4
West London +1 9 £575 -4.17% 1
South London 0 5 £518 +3.50% 2
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 272 (100.00%) AWS
2 159 (58.46%) Python
3 124 (45.59%) DevOps
4 107 (39.34%) Terraform
5 91 (33.46%) Finance
6 85 (31.25%) CI/CD
7 79 (29.04%) Kubernetes
8 74 (27.21%) Java
9 73 (26.84%) JavaScript
10 69 (25.37%) Agile
11 67 (24.63%) Apache Airflow
12 65 (23.90%) Amazon Athena
12 65 (23.90%) Security Cleared
13 62 (22.79%) SC Cleared
14 58 (21.32%) Asset Management
14 58 (21.32%) Software Engineering
15 57 (20.96%) Protocol Buffers
15 57 (20.96%) gRPC
15 57 (20.96%) dbt
15 57 (20.96%) Apache Arrow
15 57 (20.96%) Dremio
16 56 (20.59%) Apache
17 54 (19.85%) TypeScript
18 52 (19.12%) Investment Management
19 51 (18.75%) Amazon S3
19 51 (18.75%) Snowflake
20 50 (18.38%) Data Lake
20 50 (18.38%) Serverless
21 49 (18.01%) Linux
22 48 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 67 (24.63%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (20.59%) Apache
3 6 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.47%) nginx
5 3 (1.10%) Confluence
5 3 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 272 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (20.96%) dbt
3 51 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 51 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 50 (18.38%) Serverless
5 47 (17.28%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (8.46%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (8.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (8.09%) Azure
9 21 (7.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (6.99%) GitHub
12 17 (6.25%) GCP
13 13 (4.78%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.04%) Route 53
15 10 (3.68%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (3.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.41%) Firewall
2 8 (2.94%) DNS
3 5 (1.84%) Network Security
4 3 (1.10%) DHCP
4 3 (1.10%) IPv4
4 3 (1.10%) LAN
4 3 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.10%) SMTP
4 3 (1.10%) WLAN
5 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (23.90%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (20.96%) Apache Arrow
2 57 (20.96%) Dremio
3 50 (18.38%) Data Lake
4 41 (15.07%) Apache Ignite
5 24 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (8.09%) Big Data
7 17 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.31%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.94%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.94%) Flink
11 6 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.84%) MySQL
13 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.10%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.74%) Apache Hive
15 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (12.13%) Jenkins
2 32 (11.76%) Git
3 18 (6.62%) GitLab
4 6 (2.21%) JIRA
5 4 (1.47%) Maven
6 3 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.10%) JMeter
6 3 (1.10%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.10%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.74%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.37%) Ant
8 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.37%) Gatling
8 1 (0.37%) Gradle
8 1 (0.37%) Subversion
8 1 (0.37%) VisualWorks
General
1 91 (33.46%) Finance
2 42 (15.44%) Front Office
3 41 (15.07%) Banking
4 36 (13.24%) Investment Banking
5 30 (11.03%) Social Skills
6 20 (7.35%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.31%) Law
8 4 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.10%) Retail
10 1 (0.37%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Marketing
10 1 (0.37%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (20.96%) gRPC
1 57 (20.96%) Protocol Buffers
2 46 (16.91%) Pandas
3 45 (16.54%) NumPy
4 41 (15.07%) SciPy
5 21 (7.72%) Kafka
6 18 (6.62%) React
7 15 (5.51%) .NET
8 13 (4.78%) Node.js
9 12 (4.41%) AWS CDK
10 10 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (3.31%) PySpark
12 8 (2.94%) .NET Core
12 8 (2.94%) Redux
12 8 (2.94%) Vue
13 7 (2.57%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.57%) CSS
14 6 (2.21%) Lambda Expressions
14 6 (2.21%) REST
15 5 (1.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.91%) Hedge funds
2 38 (13.97%) Fixed Income
3 30 (11.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (10.29%) Derivative
4 28 (10.29%) Equities
5 16 (5.88%) Clustering
6 11 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.68%) Pricing Data
8 6 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.10%) PKI
11 3 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.74%) Life Science
12 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.01%) Linux
2 11 (4.04%) Windows
3 7 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.21%) Unix
5 4 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.74%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (45.59%) DevOps
2 85 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 69 (25.37%) Agile
4 58 (21.32%) Asset Management
4 58 (21.32%) Software Engineering
5 52 (19.12%) Investment Management
6 48 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (8.09%) Data Engineering
11 21 (7.72%) Containerisation
12 20 (7.35%) Analytics
13 19 (6.99%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (6.62%) Greeks
14 18 (6.62%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (6.25%) Microservices
16 15 (5.51%) ETL
16 15 (5.51%) Machine Learning
17 14 (5.15%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 159 (58.46%) Python
2 74 (27.21%) Java
3 73 (26.84%) JavaScript
4 54 (19.85%) TypeScript
5 42 (15.44%) SQL
6 28 (10.29%) Bash
7 27 (9.93%) Go
8 15 (5.51%) C#
9 9 (3.31%) C++
9 9 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.94%) C
10 8 (2.94%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.57%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.84%) PHP
12 5 (1.84%) Ruby
13 3 (1.10%) Groovy
13 3 (1.10%) Perl
14 2 (0.74%) Scala
15 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.37%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 65 (23.90%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.62%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.51%) Degree
5 12 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.10%) CISA
8 3 (1.10%) CISM
8 3 (1.10%) CISSP
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.10%) NIST
3 1 (0.37%) NCSC
3 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 38 (13.97%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (39.34%) Terraform
2 79 (29.04%) Kubernetes
3 39 (14.34%) Ansible
4 26 (9.56%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.68%) Grafana
6 9 (3.31%) Puppet
7 5 (1.84%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.47%) Argo
8 4 (1.47%) Kibana
9 3 (1.10%) Consul
9 3 (1.10%) Packer
9 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.74%) Nagios
11 1 (0.37%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.37%) Graylog
11 1 (0.37%) logstash
11 1 (0.37%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (5.15%) Splunk
2 9 (3.31%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.21%) Oracle
4 4 (1.47%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.47%) SAP
5 3 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.10%) Databricks
5 3 (1.10%) F5
6 2 (0.74%) MKS
6 2 (0.74%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.37%) Brio
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco
7 1 (0.37%) Meraki
7 1 (0.37%) New Relic
7 1 (0.37%) Qualys
7 1 (0.37%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.37%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.37%) VMware