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 6 June 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 139 115
Rank change year-on-year -15 -24 +48
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 290 491 950
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.64% 1.94% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 2.04% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 390 804
10th Percentile £413 £475 £475
25th Percentile £481 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £725 £700
90th Percentile - £863 £775
England median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +11.63%
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 16,518 24,107 37,172
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,913 17,595 27,351
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.68% +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 277 416
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.78 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.23 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.90 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.14 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.26% +88.21% +11.73%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +9 25 £588 -3.29% 1
West London -4 11 £575 -4.17% 2
South London +4 5 £518 +0.98% 1
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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.

1 290 (100.00%) AWS
2 178 (61.38%) Python
3 131 (45.17%) DevOps
4 112 (38.62%) Terraform
5 104 (35.86%) Finance
6 91 (31.38%) JavaScript
7 86 (29.66%) Java
8 85 (29.31%) Apache Airflow
8 85 (29.31%) Kubernetes
9 81 (27.93%) Amazon Athena
9 81 (27.93%) Agile
10 80 (27.59%) CI/CD
11 74 (25.52%) Asset Management
12 73 (25.17%) Software Engineering
12 73 (25.17%) Protocol Buffers
12 73 (25.17%) Apache Arrow
12 73 (25.17%) Dremio
12 73 (25.17%) dbt
12 73 (25.17%) gRPC
13 72 (24.83%) TypeScript
14 69 (23.79%) Investment Management
14 69 (23.79%) Apache
15 67 (23.10%) Snowflake
16 66 (22.76%) Data Lake
16 66 (22.76%) Security Cleared
17 63 (21.72%) SC Cleared
18 62 (21.38%) Hedge funds
19 60 (20.69%) Pandas
20 59 (20.34%) NumPy
21 56 (19.31%) Front Office

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 85 (29.31%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (23.79%) Apache
3 11 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.03%) Confluence
4 3 (1.03%) nginx
4 3 (1.03%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 290 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (25.17%) dbt
3 67 (23.10%) Snowflake
4 55 (18.97%) Amazon S3
5 50 (17.24%) Serverless
6 48 (16.55%) Amazon EC2
7 41 (14.14%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (9.66%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.24%) GitHub
12 20 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (6.90%) Azure
12 20 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (6.55%) GCP
14 15 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.79%) AWS Control Tower
15 11 (3.79%) Route 53
16 10 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (3.10%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.79%) Firewall
2 8 (2.76%) DNS
3 4 (1.38%) Network Security
4 3 (1.03%) DHCP
4 3 (1.03%) IPv4
4 3 (1.03%) LAN
4 3 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.03%) SMTP
4 3 (1.03%) WLAN
5 2 (0.69%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.69%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (27.93%) Amazon Athena
2 73 (25.17%) Apache Arrow
2 73 (25.17%) Dremio
3 66 (22.76%) Data Lake
4 55 (18.97%) Apache Ignite
5 28 (9.66%) Big Data
6 26 (8.97%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.41%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.72%) Flink
12 5 (1.72%) MySQL
13 4 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.69%) Apache Hive
15 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (11.72%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.34%) Git
3 20 (6.90%) GitLab
4 6 (2.07%) JIRA
5 3 (1.03%) JMeter
5 3 (1.03%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.03%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.69%) Maven
6 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.69%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.69%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.34%) Ant
7 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.34%) Gradle
7 1 (0.34%) Subversion
7 1 (0.34%) VisualWorks
General
1 104 (35.86%) Finance
2 56 (19.31%) Front Office
3 52 (17.93%) Banking
4 47 (16.21%) Investment Banking
5 28 (9.66%) Social Skills
6 27 (9.31%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.10%) Law
8 4 (1.38%) Retail
9 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (25.17%) gRPC
1 73 (25.17%) Protocol Buffers
2 60 (20.69%) Pandas
3 59 (20.34%) NumPy
4 55 (18.97%) SciPy
5 22 (7.59%) React
6 19 (6.55%) Kafka
7 16 (5.52%) .NET
7 16 (5.52%) Node.js
8 12 (4.14%) PySpark
9 11 (3.79%) Redux
9 11 (3.79%) Vue
10 10 (3.45%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.45%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.45%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.10%) CSS
12 7 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (2.07%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (2.07%) REST
14 4 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.38%) Hedge funds
2 55 (18.97%) Fixed Income
3 44 (15.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 42 (14.48%) Derivative
4 42 (14.48%) Equities
5 18 (6.21%) Clustering
6 16 (5.52%) Pricing Data
7 12 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.03%) Life Science
9 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.69%) PKI
10 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.34%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.55%) Linux
2 8 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (2.76%) Unix
2 8 (2.76%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (45.17%) DevOps
2 81 (27.93%) Agile
3 80 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 74 (25.52%) Asset Management
5 73 (25.17%) Software Engineering
6 69 (23.79%) Investment Management
7 45 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (9.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (8.28%) Greeks
10 24 (8.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (7.24%) Containerisation
12 20 (6.90%) Analytics
13 19 (6.55%) Data Engineering
13 19 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (6.21%) Microservices
15 16 (5.52%) ETL
15 16 (5.52%) Fintech
15 16 (5.52%) Machine Learning
15 16 (5.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 178 (61.38%) Python
2 91 (31.38%) JavaScript
3 86 (29.66%) Java
4 72 (24.83%) TypeScript
5 44 (15.17%) SQL
6 30 (10.34%) Go
7 26 (8.97%) Bash
8 15 (5.17%) C#
9 10 (3.45%) C++
10 9 (3.10%) C
10 9 (3.10%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.10%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.41%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.72%) PHP
13 4 (1.38%) Ruby
14 2 (0.69%) Groovy
15 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.34%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.72%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.21%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.48%) Degree
5 11 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.03%) CISA
8 3 (1.03%) CISM
8 3 (1.03%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.03%) NIST
3 2 (0.69%) NCSC
3 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 43 (14.83%) Docker
2 4 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (38.62%) Terraform
2 85 (29.31%) Kubernetes
3 39 (13.45%) Ansible
4 27 (9.31%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.79%) Grafana
6 8 (2.76%) Puppet
7 4 (1.38%) Argo
7 4 (1.38%) Kibana
7 4 (1.38%) Packer
7 4 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.69%) Nagios
10 1 (0.34%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.34%) Graylog
10 1 (0.34%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.34%) logstash
10 1 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (4.83%) Splunk
2 7 (2.41%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.07%) Databricks
3 6 (2.07%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.72%) Oracle
5 4 (1.38%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.38%) SAP
6 3 (1.03%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.03%) F5
7 2 (0.69%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.69%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.69%) Reuters
7 2 (0.69%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.34%) Brio
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco
8 1 (0.34%) Confluent
8 1 (0.34%) Meraki
8 1 (0.34%) New Relic
8 1 (0.34%) Qualys
8 1 (0.34%) VMware