AWS Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,031 2,280 3,806
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.19% 12.79% 14.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.22% 33.81% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,471 1,754 2,842
10th Percentile £400 £413 £450
25th Percentile £463 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £610
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +1.58%
75th Percentile £699 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £821 £800
England median daily rate £550 £553 £593
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.71% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 24
10th Percentile £39.80 £22.12 £42.88
25th Percentile £47.38 £23.80 £62.00
Median hourly rate £55.50 £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -26.67% -3.69%
75th Percentile £81.25 £62.50 £84.89
90th Percentile £97.00 £71.40 £88.30
England median hourly rate £71.25 £53.75 £72.75
% change year-on-year +32.56% -26.12% +29.33%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Central London 0 274 £550 - 247
South London -3 35 £475 -7.32% 16
West London -5 23 £565 +15.90% 82
East London +11 7 £585 +4.00% 42
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
1 164 (8.07%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (6.50%) Apache
3 97 (4.78%) Apache Spark
4 74 (3.64%) Confluence
5 26 (1.28%) nginx
6 17 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.59%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.54%) CMS
9 11 (0.54%) SAS
10 9 (0.44%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
11 6 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.25%) Camunda
12 5 (0.25%) JBoss
12 5 (0.25%) Traefik
13 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.20%) WordPress
14 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 5 (0.25%) Sketch
5 5 (0.25%) Trello
6 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.25%) Endur
4 3 (0.15%) Unica
5 2 (0.098%) assyst
5 2 (0.098%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.049%) Magento
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle TCA
6 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.049%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.049%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.049%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.049%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 695 (34.22%) Azure
2 440 (21.66%) GCP
3 300 (14.77%) Serverless
4 256 (12.60%) AWS Lambda
5 239 (11.77%) Amazon S3
6 179 (8.81%) dbt
7 159 (7.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 155 (7.63%) Snowflake
9 153 (7.53%) GitHub
10 129 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
11 128 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
12 105 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
13 71 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
13 71 (3.50%) IaaS
14 66 (3.25%) PaaS
14 66 (3.25%) SaaS
15 65 (3.20%) Power Platform
16 63 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 63 (3.10%) OpenShift
17 59 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.45%) Firewall
2 82 (4.04%) DNS
3 68 (3.35%) VPN
4 56 (2.76%) Network Security
5 52 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.97%) WAN
7 36 (1.77%) HTTP
8 34 (1.67%) DHCP
9 32 (1.58%) BGP
9 32 (1.58%) SD-WAN
10 23 (1.13%) OSPF
11 19 (0.94%) SSL
12 17 (0.84%) MPLS
12 17 (0.84%) VLAN
13 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 13 (0.64%) LAN
13 13 (0.64%) Wireless
14 12 (0.59%) Internet
15 11 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
15 11 (0.54%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (8.12%) Amazon Athena
3 134 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
4 125 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
5 122 (6.01%) Apache Iceberg
6 118 (5.81%) Data Lake
7 111 (5.47%) Dremio
8 101 (4.97%) NoSQL
9 100 (4.92%) Apache Arrow
10 92 (4.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 68 (3.35%) Apache Ignite
11 68 (3.35%) MongoDB
12 61 (3.00%) Power BI
13 57 (2.81%) DynamoDB
14 56 (2.76%) Relational Database
15 55 (2.71%) Tableau
16 52 (2.56%) Redis
16 52 (2.56%) SQL Server
17 49 (2.41%) Big Data
18 41 (2.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 200 (9.85%) Jenkins
2 141 (6.94%) Git
3 131 (6.45%) GitLab
4 115 (5.66%) JIRA
5 42 (2.07%) Artifactory
6 37 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 34 (1.67%) Selenium
8 30 (1.48%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.43%) JUnit
9 29 (1.43%) Maven
9 29 (1.43%) Postman
10 26 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 21 (1.03%) JMeter
12 20 (0.98%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.84%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.84%) REST Assured
14 14 (0.69%) Gradle
15 13 (0.64%) MLflow
16 12 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.54%) IntelliJ
General
1 535 (26.34%) Finance
2 399 (19.65%) Social Skills
3 250 (12.31%) Banking
4 234 (11.52%) Public Sector
5 201 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
6 198 (9.75%) Front Office
7 102 (5.02%) Investment Banking
8 34 (1.67%) Marketing
8 34 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (1.48%) Retail
10 23 (1.13%) Retail Banking
11 20 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (0.98%) Military
12 18 (0.89%) Law
13 17 (0.84%) Telecoms
14 16 (0.79%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.69%) Back Office
16 11 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
17 9 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 495 (24.37%) Developer
2 328 (16.15%) Senior
3 326 (16.05%) Architect
4 309 (15.21%) AWS Engineer
5 217 (10.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 205 (10.09%) Data Engineer
7 177 (8.71%) Software Engineer
8 156 (7.68%) Lead
9 142 (6.99%) Python Engineer
10 109 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
11 107 (5.27%) Java Developer
12 104 (5.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 101 (4.97%) AWS Developer
14 95 (4.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 86 (4.23%) Python Developer
16 82 (4.04%) AWS Software Engineer
17 76 (3.74%) Senior Developer
17 76 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
18 75 (3.69%) AWS Architect
18 75 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (13.34%) React
2 228 (11.23%) Kafka
3 170 (8.37%) Node.js
4 107 (5.27%) Spring
5 104 (5.12%) Pandas
6 101 (4.97%) NumPy
7 100 (4.92%) PySpark
8 88 (4.33%) REST
8 88 (4.33%) Spring Boot
9 85 (4.19%) SciPy
10 84 (4.14%) .NET
11 79 (3.89%) Redux
12 75 (3.69%) AngularJS
13 70 (3.45%) RESTful
14 62 (3.05%) Vue
15 58 (2.86%) gRPC
16 55 (2.71%) GraphQL
17 54 (2.66%) HTML
18 47 (2.31%) CSS
19 40 (1.97%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.65%) Fixed Income
2 95 (4.68%) Hedge funds
3 81 (3.99%) Equities
3 81 (3.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 74 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 72 (3.55%) Derivative
6 54 (2.66%) Public Cloud
7 46 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 44 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 40 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 38 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 38 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (1.67%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.38%) PKI
14 27 (1.33%) Product Ownership
15 26 (1.28%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.13%) Algorithms
17 21 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
18 20 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 185 (9.11%) Linux
2 101 (4.97%) Windows
3 38 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.72%) Unix
5 31 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.74%) Android
6 15 (0.74%) CentOS
7 7 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.34%) Rocky
7 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.20%) Solaris
8 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.049%) AIX
11 1 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (28.06%) DevOps
2 568 (27.97%) CI/CD
3 552 (27.18%) Agile
4 365 (17.97%) Software Engineering
5 325 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 263 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 254 (12.51%) Microservices
8 230 (11.32%) Containerisation
9 211 (10.39%) Analytics
10 205 (10.09%) Asset Management
11 197 (9.70%) Migration
12 154 (7.58%) Data Engineering
13 151 (7.43%) Full-Stack Development
14 150 (7.39%) Test Automation
15 146 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 136 (6.70%) Data Modelling
17 134 (6.60%) Data Pipeline
18 132 (6.50%) ETL
19 131 (6.45%) Fintech
20 126 (6.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 857 (42.20%) Python
2 467 (22.99%) Java
3 394 (19.40%) SQL
4 336 (16.54%) JavaScript
5 249 (12.26%) TypeScript
6 113 (5.56%) Go
7 96 (4.73%) Bash
8 92 (4.53%) C#
9 87 (4.28%) PowerShell
10 46 (2.26%) C++
11 38 (1.87%) PL/SQL
12 35 (1.72%) Scala
13 25 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.13%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.03%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.94%) Ruby
17 17 (0.84%) Groovy
17 17 (0.84%) Rust
18 16 (0.79%) Bicep
18 16 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 514 (25.31%) Security Cleared
2 460 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 141 (6.94%) AWS Certification
4 137 (6.75%) Degree
5 66 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 58 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.67%) CISSP
10 31 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
13 22 (1.08%) CCNP
14 17 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.79%) CISM
16 15 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 15 (0.74%) PMP
17 13 (0.64%) CEH
18 12 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
19 11 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.59%) QA
2 61 (3.00%) GDPR
3 57 (2.81%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.17%) NIST
5 24 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.89%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.64%) NCSC
9 10 (0.49%) GRC
10 9 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.30%) SLA
12 6 (0.30%) WCAG
13 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 377 (18.56%) Docker
2 57 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.20%) Firmware
8 4 (0.20%) Lustre
8 4 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.20%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.098%) FreeRADIUS
10 2 (0.098%) iptables
10 2 (0.098%) vSphere
11 1 (0.049%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.049%) HDFS
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 522 (25.70%) Kubernetes
2 446 (21.96%) Terraform
3 159 (7.83%) Ansible
4 77 (3.79%) Grafana
5 67 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.07%) Puppet
7 30 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.94%) FortiGate
8 19 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (0.79%) Istio
9 16 (0.79%) Kibana
9 16 (0.79%) Packer
10 15 (0.74%) Argo
10 15 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.59%) SCCM
12 10 (0.49%) Nagios
12 10 (0.49%) ZABBIX
13 9 (0.44%) Consul
14 7 (0.34%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 142 (6.99%) Microsoft
2 118 (5.81%) Google
2 118 (5.81%) Oracle
3 71 (3.50%) Databricks
4 64 (3.15%) Splunk
5 53 (2.61%) VMware
6 47 (2.31%) Cisco
7 31 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.48%) Red Hat
9 28 (1.38%) F5
10 25 (1.23%) IBM
11 24 (1.18%) Fortinet
12 22 (1.08%) SolarWinds
13 19 (0.94%) Informatica
13 19 (0.94%) Okta
14 18 (0.89%) CheckPoint
15 17 (0.84%) Palo Alto
16 15 (0.74%) Dynatrace
16 15 (0.74%) Virgin Media
17 14 (0.69%) CyberArk