AWS Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,287 3,773 6,760
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.85% 14.05% 17.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.76% 36.01% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,759 2,820 5,264
10th Percentile £413 £450 £454
25th Percentile £481 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £788
England median daily rate £556 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -7.29% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 8
10th Percentile £22.08 £48.13 £47.25
25th Percentile £23.05 £62.63 £56.81
Median hourly rate £31.50 £75.00 £77.88
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% -3.69% +63.95%
75th Percentile £64.75 £88.30 £83.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £46.18 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.59% +34.55% -5.17%

All Cloud Skills
London

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,775 10,479 16,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.07% 39.01% 41.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,999 7,650 12,121
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £785 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 90 86
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £16.16
25th Percentile £21.81 £24.63 £21.65
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.25 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.89% +8.05% +4.93%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £60.59
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.02
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.66% -2.23%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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 -3 266 £550 -12.00% 101
South London 0 74 £513 -2.38% 8
West London -2 51 £500 -20.00% 28
East London -3 11 £563 +12.50% 30
AWS
England

AWS
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
1 226 (9.88%) Apache
2 200 (8.75%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (2.97%) Confluence
4 50 (2.19%) nginx
5 48 (2.10%) Apache Spark
6 35 (1.53%) SharePoint
7 19 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
9 10 (0.44%) IIS
9 10 (0.44%) JBoss
9 10 (0.44%) Site Server
10 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.35%) CMS
11 8 (0.35%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.31%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.17%) CICS
14 4 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.087%) Sketch
5 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.044%) InVision
5 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.044%) Trello
5 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.44%) Endur
4 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.35%) Shopify
5 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 3 (0.13%) Magento
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.044%) Aareon QL
10 1 (0.044%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.044%) OPENHousing
10 1 (0.044%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.044%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.044%) SAP Hybris
10 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 767 (33.54%) Azure
2 500 (21.86%) GCP
3 301 (13.16%) Serverless
4 254 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 217 (9.49%) Amazon S3
6 149 (6.52%) Snowflake
7 148 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
8 131 (5.73%) GitHub
9 121 (5.29%) dbt
10 102 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
12 73 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 73 (3.19%) SaaS
13 71 (3.10%) Amazon Kinesis
14 66 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
15 65 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 59 (2.58%) Power Platform
17 58 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
18 55 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
18 55 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (4.59%) Firewall
2 79 (3.45%) DNS
3 46 (2.01%) DHCP
4 44 (1.92%) HTTP
5 43 (1.88%) LAN
6 42 (1.84%) VPN
7 40 (1.75%) Network Security
8 35 (1.53%) WAN
9 31 (1.36%) TCP/IP
10 30 (1.31%) Wireless
11 29 (1.27%) BGP
12 27 (1.18%) OSPF
13 19 (0.83%) MPLS
13 19 (0.83%) VLAN
14 17 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
14 17 (0.74%) IPsec
15 16 (0.70%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.66%) Kerberos
17 14 (0.61%) SAN
17 14 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
3 139 (6.08%) Apache Ignite
4 135 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
4 135 (5.90%) Data Lake
5 134 (5.86%) NoSQL
6 107 (4.68%) SQL Server
7 100 (4.37%) Apache Arrow
7 100 (4.37%) Dremio
8 96 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
9 89 (3.89%) Big Data
10 87 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 85 (3.72%) DynamoDB
12 76 (3.32%) Relational Database
13 64 (2.80%) MySQL
14 57 (2.49%) Power BI
15 51 (2.23%) MongoDB
16 50 (2.19%) Tableau
17 49 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
18 40 (1.75%) Flink
Development Applications
1 210 (9.18%) Jenkins
2 209 (9.14%) Git
3 115 (5.03%) JIRA
4 77 (3.37%) GitLab
5 75 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 37 (1.62%) Maven
7 31 (1.36%) Cucumber
7 31 (1.36%) Selenium
8 22 (0.96%) JMeter
9 21 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.83%) JUnit
10 19 (0.83%) TeamCity
11 17 (0.74%) Postman
12 16 (0.70%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.52%) Mockito
14 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.44%) TestNG
14 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.35%) Burp Suite
15 8 (0.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 594 (25.97%) Finance
2 361 (15.78%) Social Skills
3 262 (11.46%) Front Office
4 250 (10.93%) Banking
5 195 (8.53%) Public Sector
6 146 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 115 (5.03%) Investment Banking
8 51 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (1.84%) Retail
10 38 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.62%) Marketing
12 32 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.79%) Law
16 17 (0.74%) Publishing
17 13 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (0.52%) Retail Banking
19 11 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 635 (27.77%) Developer
2 359 (15.70%) Architect
3 300 (13.12%) Senior
4 253 (11.06%) AWS Engineer
5 241 (10.54%) Software Engineer
6 215 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 173 (7.56%) Lead
8 169 (7.39%) Data Engineer
9 145 (6.34%) Python Developer
10 144 (6.30%) Full Stack Developer
11 130 (5.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 124 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
13 117 (5.12%) Python Engineer
14 115 (5.03%) Java Developer
15 103 (4.50%) AWS Architect
16 100 (4.37%) React Developer
17 98 (4.29%) Python Software Engineer
18 86 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
19 82 (3.59%) Analyst
20 78 (3.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (12.46%) React
2 202 (8.83%) Kafka
3 169 (7.39%) Node.js
4 166 (7.26%) gRPC
5 160 (7.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 153 (6.69%) .NET
7 122 (5.33%) Pandas
7 122 (5.33%) REST
8 115 (5.03%) Redux
9 111 (4.85%) Spring
10 108 (4.72%) NumPy
11 106 (4.63%) RESTful
12 98 (4.29%) Spring Boot
13 95 (4.15%) SciPy
14 90 (3.94%) AngularJS
15 86 (3.76%) HTML
16 76 (3.32%) CSS
17 67 (2.93%) Material-UI
18 62 (2.71%) .NET Core
19 61 (2.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 240 (10.49%) Fixed Income
2 230 (10.06%) Hedge funds
3 173 (7.56%) Derivative
3 173 (7.56%) Equities
4 146 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 70 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 62 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
7 61 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 53 (2.32%) Public Cloud
9 47 (2.06%) Data Centre
10 44 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 39 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.62%) Clustering
13 35 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
14 29 (1.27%) Management Information System
14 29 (1.27%) PKI
15 28 (1.22%) Replication
16 25 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
17 24 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 244 (10.67%) Linux
2 146 (6.38%) Windows
3 70 (3.06%) Unix
4 69 (3.02%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.39%) CentOS
8 9 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.35%) Android
9 8 (0.35%) Solaris
10 7 (0.31%) VMS
11 5 (0.22%) zOS
12 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.044%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (32.14%) Agile
2 624 (27.28%) DevOps
3 459 (20.07%) CI/CD
4 396 (17.32%) Software Engineering
5 281 (12.29%) Microservices
6 266 (11.63%) Asset Management
7 259 (11.32%) Full Stack Development
8 227 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
9 220 (9.62%) Investment Management
10 180 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 174 (7.61%) Machine Learning
12 172 (7.52%) Analytics
13 162 (7.08%) Test Automation
14 161 (7.04%) TDD
15 156 (6.82%) Containerisation
16 150 (6.56%) Data Pipeline
17 139 (6.08%) Migration
18 138 (6.03%) ETL
19 133 (5.82%) Artificial Intelligence
20 115 (5.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 852 (37.25%) Python
2 465 (20.33%) Java
3 457 (19.98%) SQL
4 410 (17.93%) JavaScript
5 332 (14.52%) TypeScript
6 148 (6.47%) C#
7 122 (5.33%) Go
8 102 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 101 (4.42%) Bash
10 76 (3.32%) Scala
11 50 (2.19%) PHP
12 47 (2.06%) C++
13 42 (1.84%) Ruby
14 35 (1.53%) Shell Script
15 30 (1.31%) T-SQL
16 29 (1.27%) Kotlin
17 28 (1.22%) C
18 21 (0.92%) R
19 16 (0.70%) Perl
20 15 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 537 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 467 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 136 (5.95%) Degree
4 86 (3.76%) AWS Certification
5 85 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 33 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.31%) CISSP
9 24 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (1.05%) CISM
10 23 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (0.92%) CCNP
12 19 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.52%) CISA
15 11 (0.48%) CCNA
16 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 9 (0.39%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (3.63%) QA
2 71 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 36 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.44%) NIST
5 26 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.09%) SLA
7 24 (1.05%) GDPR
8 23 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.79%) NCSC
10 10 (0.44%) MiFID
11 8 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.26%) GRC
13 5 (0.22%) WCAG
14 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.13%) GPG13
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 31000
15 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 1 (0.044%) Actionable Recommendations
17 1 (0.044%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 315 (13.77%) Docker
2 81 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.31%) ACF2
6 7 (0.31%) IAG
6 7 (0.31%) RACF
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
8 5 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.17%) KVM
9 4 (0.17%) NFS
9 4 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.087%) Lustre
10 2 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.087%) PowerDNS
10 2 (0.087%) Squid
Systems Management
1 446 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 430 (18.80%) Terraform
3 169 (7.39%) Ansible
4 67 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 61 (2.67%) Grafana
6 54 (2.36%) Puppet
7 27 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.09%) Packer
9 22 (0.96%) SCCM
10 17 (0.74%) Consul
11 14 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.48%) Kibana
13 9 (0.39%) Argo
13 9 (0.39%) SCOM
14 8 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.35%) Netcool
14 8 (0.35%) Opsgenie
14 8 (0.35%) Tivoli
14 8 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 7 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 156 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 153 (6.69%) Oracle
3 137 (5.99%) Google
4 76 (3.32%) VMware
5 55 (2.40%) SAP
6 52 (2.27%) Splunk
7 51 (2.23%) Cisco
7 51 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.75%) Databricks
9 36 (1.57%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.40%) IBM
11 31 (1.36%) F5
11 31 (1.36%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.27%) Bloomberg
12 29 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.18%) Salesforce
14 23 (1.01%) Talend
15 20 (0.87%) Informatica
16 19 (0.83%) BeyondTrust
17 18 (0.79%) Dynatrace