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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,331 3,623 6,646
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.34% 14.00% 17.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.51% 35.95% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,799 2,723 5,176
10th Percentile £405 £450 £450
25th Percentile £488 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £700
90th Percentile £826 £800 £788
England median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.21% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 8
10th Percentile £22.10 £61.25 £47.25
25th Percentile £23.43 £63.25 £56.81
Median hourly rate £43.25 £75.00 £75.38
Median % change year-on-year -42.33% -0.50% +58.68%
75th Percentile £68.38 £88.30 £83.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +20.69%

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 6,755 10,077 15,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.65% 38.95% 41.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,983 7,392 12,009
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
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 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 80 77
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.89 £19.91
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.25 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +19.40%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.47 £79.05
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -2 275 £550 -12.00% 113
South London 0 66 £513 +2.50% 7
West London -3 50 £500 -20.00% 23
East London -4 11 £581 +16.25% 314
North London 0 1 £550 -8.33% 6
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
1 261 (11.20%) Apache
2 241 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (2.57%) Confluence
4 52 (2.23%) nginx
5 49 (2.10%) Apache Spark
6 34 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 14 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
10 10 (0.43%) CMS
10 10 (0.43%) IIS
10 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.39%) JBoss
12 8 (0.34%) Site Server
12 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
14 6 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
15 5 (0.21%) WebLogic
16 4 (0.17%) CICS
16 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Sketch
6 1 (0.043%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.043%) InVision
6 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.043%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 12 (0.51%) Endur
3 11 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.34%) Shopify
5 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.21%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.21%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.13%) Magento
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.043%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.043%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.043%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.043%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.043%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.043%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.043%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 781 (33.50%) Azure
2 525 (22.52%) GCP
3 291 (12.48%) Serverless
4 248 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
5 209 (8.97%) Amazon S3
6 174 (7.46%) Snowflake
7 147 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
8 146 (6.26%) dbt
9 124 (5.32%) GitHub
10 101 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
12 77 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 71 (3.05%) SaaS
14 69 (2.96%) Amazon Kinesis
15 63 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 61 (2.62%) Power Platform
17 55 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
18 53 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
19 52 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 109 (4.68%) Firewall
2 74 (3.17%) DNS
3 50 (2.15%) HTTP
4 42 (1.80%) DHCP
4 42 (1.80%) Network Security
5 40 (1.72%) VPN
6 39 (1.67%) LAN
7 31 (1.33%) WAN
8 30 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.29%) Wireless
9 27 (1.16%) BGP
9 27 (1.16%) OSPF
10 19 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
10 19 (0.82%) MPLS
11 17 (0.73%) IPsec
11 17 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.73%) VLAN
12 14 (0.60%) Internet
13 13 (0.56%) Kerberos
13 13 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 173 (7.42%) Apache Ignite
3 169 (7.25%) Amazon Athena
4 156 (6.69%) Data Lake
5 130 (5.58%) NoSQL
6 129 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
7 126 (5.41%) Apache Arrow
7 126 (5.41%) Dremio
8 104 (4.46%) SQL Server
9 95 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
10 90 (3.86%) Big Data
11 81 (3.47%) DynamoDB
12 80 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 79 (3.39%) Relational Database
14 67 (2.87%) MySQL
15 59 (2.53%) Power BI
16 50 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
17 49 (2.10%) MongoDB
18 48 (2.06%) Tableau
19 38 (1.63%) Flink
Development Applications
1 204 (8.75%) Git
1 204 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 108 (4.63%) JIRA
3 78 (3.35%) GitLab
4 77 (3.30%) Cypress.io
5 32 (1.37%) Selenium
6 31 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 27 (1.16%) Maven
8 23 (0.99%) JMeter
9 20 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.82%) JUnit
10 19 (0.82%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.77%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.51%) Mockito
12 12 (0.51%) Postman
13 11 (0.47%) TestNG
14 10 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.39%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 644 (27.63%) Finance
2 352 (15.10%) Social Skills
3 307 (13.17%) Front Office
4 286 (12.27%) Banking
5 187 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 137 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 133 (5.71%) Investment Banking
8 54 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (1.80%) Retail
10 40 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 36 (1.54%) Marketing
12 31 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.82%) Publishing
16 18 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.73%) Law
18 12 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (0.51%) Retail Banking
19 11 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 640 (27.46%) Developer
2 374 (16.04%) Architect
3 307 (13.17%) Senior
4 272 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
5 268 (11.50%) Software Engineer
6 220 (9.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 176 (7.55%) Lead
8 162 (6.95%) Python Developer
9 161 (6.91%) Data Engineer
10 148 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
11 147 (6.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 138 (5.92%) Python Engineer
13 132 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
14 121 (5.19%) Python Software Engineer
15 114 (4.89%) React Developer
16 110 (4.72%) Java Developer
17 104 (4.46%) AWS Architect
18 91 (3.90%) Analyst
19 89 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
20 80 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (12.87%) React
2 213 (9.14%) Kafka
3 205 (8.79%) gRPC
4 198 (8.49%) Protocol Buffers
5 160 (6.86%) .NET
5 160 (6.86%) Node.js
6 137 (5.88%) Pandas
7 128 (5.49%) Redux
8 126 (5.41%) NumPy
9 113 (4.85%) RESTful
9 113 (4.85%) SciPy
10 111 (4.76%) REST
11 107 (4.59%) Spring
12 97 (4.16%) Spring Boot
13 90 (3.86%) HTML
14 87 (3.73%) AngularJS
15 78 (3.35%) CSS
15 78 (3.35%) Material-UI
16 64 (2.75%) .NET Core
17 59 (2.53%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 273 (11.71%) Fixed Income
2 268 (11.50%) Hedge funds
3 202 (8.67%) Equities
4 190 (8.15%) Derivative
5 164 (7.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 66 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 65 (2.79%) Cloud Native
8 61 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 51 (2.19%) Public Cloud
10 46 (1.97%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.80%) Clustering
12 39 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
13 37 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
14 33 (1.42%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.12%) PKI
15 26 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 247 (10.60%) Linux
2 144 (6.18%) Windows
3 74 (3.17%) Unix
4 53 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.34%) Android
10 7 (0.30%) CentOS
10 7 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
10 7 (0.30%) VMS
11 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.26%) Solaris
12 5 (0.21%) zOS
13 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.043%) tvOS
15 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (32.48%) Agile
2 628 (26.94%) DevOps
3 469 (20.12%) CI/CD
4 441 (18.92%) Software Engineering
5 298 (12.78%) Asset Management
6 282 (12.10%) Microservices
7 273 (11.71%) Full Stack Development
8 248 (10.64%) Investment Management
9 234 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
10 196 (8.41%) Machine Learning
11 186 (7.98%) Analytics
12 174 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 163 (6.99%) TDD
14 162 (6.95%) Test Automation
15 156 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence
16 150 (6.44%) Containerisation
17 143 (6.13%) Data Pipeline
18 141 (6.05%) Migration
19 139 (5.96%) ETL
20 127 (5.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 894 (38.35%) Python
2 491 (21.06%) Java
3 474 (20.33%) SQL
4 426 (18.28%) JavaScript
5 366 (15.70%) TypeScript
6 147 (6.31%) C#
7 130 (5.58%) Go
8 98 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 96 (4.12%) Bash
10 83 (3.56%) Scala
11 55 (2.36%) C++
12 50 (2.15%) PHP
13 43 (1.84%) Ruby
14 36 (1.54%) C
14 36 (1.54%) Shell Script
15 29 (1.24%) Kotlin
15 29 (1.24%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.86%) R
17 16 (0.69%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 533 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 464 (19.91%) SC Cleared
3 148 (6.35%) Degree
4 94 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 65 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 35 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 35 (1.50%) CISSP
8 29 (1.24%) CISM
9 25 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (0.94%) CCNP
11 20 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.77%) CISA
13 16 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.51%) CCNA
14 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.39%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (3.78%) QA
2 79 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 36 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.42%) NIST
5 25 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.07%) GDPR
5 25 (1.07%) SLA
6 24 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.73%) NCSC
8 10 (0.43%) MiFID
9 6 (0.26%) GRC
9 6 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.17%) WCAG
12 3 (0.13%) GPG13
12 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.13%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 315 (13.51%) Docker
2 86 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 54 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.30%) ACF2
6 7 (0.30%) IAG
6 7 (0.30%) RACF
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
8 5 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.17%) KVM
9 4 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.13%) vSphere
11 2 (0.086%) Ceph
11 2 (0.086%) Lustre
11 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.086%) NFS
11 2 (0.086%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.086%) Squid
Systems Management
1 452 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 434 (18.62%) Terraform
3 166 (7.12%) Ansible
4 72 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 58 (2.49%) Grafana
6 49 (2.10%) Puppet
7 25 (1.07%) Progress Chef
7 25 (1.07%) SCCM
8 24 (1.03%) Packer
9 16 (0.69%) Consul
9 16 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.51%) Kibana
11 8 (0.34%) Argo
11 8 (0.34%) Opsgenie
11 8 (0.34%) WSUS
12 7 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (0.30%) Nagios
12 7 (0.30%) SCOM
12 7 (0.30%) SCVMM
12 7 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 162 (6.95%) Microsoft
2 157 (6.74%) Oracle
3 148 (6.35%) Google
4 73 (3.13%) VMware
5 57 (2.45%) SAP
6 55 (2.36%) Splunk
7 53 (2.27%) Cisco
8 52 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.76%) CyberArk
9 41 (1.76%) Databricks
10 34 (1.46%) F5
11 31 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.29%) Bloomberg
12 30 (1.29%) IBM
13 29 (1.24%) Palo Alto
14 27 (1.16%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.90%) Talend
16 20 (0.86%) BeyondTrust
16 20 (0.86%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.86%) Typelevel