AWS Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,311 1,951 2,320
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.88% 14.55% 12.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.01% 35.01% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,579 1,397 1,788
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £461 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £76.67 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.68% -5.22% -19.01%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £48.62
% change year-on-year +35.14% +14.16% -24.33%

All Cloud Computing 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 6,796 5,572 6,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.74% 41.55% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,664 3,752 5,063
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 52 81
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +7.38% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.16 £56.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.13 £62.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.63 £21.50
% change year-on-year +42.96% +28.51% -14.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

AWS job vacancy trend in London

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

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 23 February 2026. 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 -1 268 £543 +0.46% 232
South London +6 90 £519 +6.10% 25
West London +7 50 £603 +5.42% 57
East London +10 8 £653 - 48
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 105 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 84 (3.63%) Confluence
4 59 (2.55%) Apache
5 34 (1.47%) nginx
6 16 (0.69%) SAS
7 15 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.61%) Camunda
9 13 (0.56%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.35%) Appian
11 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) Traefik
12 3 (0.13%) CMS
12 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.087%) Drupal
13 2 (0.087%) Mule
13 2 (0.087%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.13%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.043%) Notion
6 1 (0.043%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.17%) Actimize
4 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.17%) Endur
5 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.087%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.043%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.043%) Maximo
7 1 (0.043%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.043%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.043%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.043%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.043%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 937 (40.55%) Azure
2 542 (23.45%) GCP
3 354 (15.32%) Serverless
4 325 (14.06%) Amazon S3
5 312 (13.50%) GitHub
6 304 (13.15%) AWS Lambda
7 215 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 180 (7.79%) GitHub Actions
9 167 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
10 156 (6.75%) Snowflake
11 135 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
11 135 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
12 133 (5.76%) Power Platform
13 130 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 104 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 71 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
16 63 (2.73%) Amazon Kinesis
17 62 (2.68%) dbt
18 52 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
19 49 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (4.63%) Firewall
2 66 (2.86%) VPN
3 60 (2.60%) DNS
3 60 (2.60%) Network Security
4 41 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.21%) WAN
6 22 (0.95%) SSL
7 17 (0.74%) BGP
7 17 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.69%) LAN
9 15 (0.65%) DHCP
9 15 (0.65%) OSPF
10 14 (0.61%) HTTP
11 12 (0.52%) VLAN
12 9 (0.39%) 5G
12 9 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.35%) 4G
13 8 (0.35%) Wireless
14 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
2 118 (5.11%) NoSQL
3 117 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (5.06%) Power BI
4 99 (4.28%) Data Lake
5 94 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 92 (3.98%) Relational Database
7 89 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
8 82 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 68 (2.94%) Tableau
10 67 (2.90%) MongoDB
11 64 (2.77%) DynamoDB
11 64 (2.77%) Metadata
12 58 (2.51%) MySQL
13 53 (2.29%) Big Data
14 49 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
15 45 (1.95%) BigQuery
16 36 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
17 35 (1.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 227 (9.82%) Git
2 204 (8.83%) Jenkins
3 195 (8.44%) GitLab
4 147 (6.36%) JIRA
5 44 (1.90%) JUnit
6 40 (1.73%) MLflow
7 30 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.87%) Mockito
11 19 (0.82%) ERwin
11 19 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 18 (0.78%) Selenium
13 17 (0.74%) JMeter
14 16 (0.69%) Maven
15 15 (0.65%) Gatling
16 12 (0.52%) ER Studio
17 11 (0.48%) Gradle
17 11 (0.48%) Postman
18 9 (0.39%) REST Assured
General
1 569 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 505 (21.85%) Finance
3 294 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 214 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 189 (8.18%) Banking
6 70 (3.03%) Front Office
7 55 (2.38%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 32 (1.38%) Retail
13 30 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.08%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.91%) Marketing
16 19 (0.82%) Military
17 18 (0.78%) Legal
18 13 (0.56%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 420 (18.17%) Developer
2 403 (17.44%) Architect
3 363 (15.71%) Senior
4 231 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 215 (9.30%) Data Engineer
6 199 (8.61%) Lead
7 191 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 131 (5.67%) Software Engineer
9 121 (5.24%) Senior Developer
10 106 (4.59%) Analyst
11 97 (4.20%) Python Engineer
12 94 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
13 93 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
14 91 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 89 (3.85%) Java Developer
16 86 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 78 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
18 77 (3.33%) Python Developer
19 76 (3.29%) AWS Architect
20 74 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (12.77%) Kafka
2 225 (9.74%) React
3 177 (7.66%) Node.js
4 170 (7.36%) REST
5 139 (6.01%) Spring
6 123 (5.32%) RESTful
7 118 (5.11%) Spring Boot
8 95 (4.11%) AngularJS
9 73 (3.16%) CSS
10 71 (3.07%) HTML
11 67 (2.90%) .NET
12 62 (2.68%) Pandas
13 60 (2.60%) PySpark
13 60 (2.60%) SOAP
14 57 (2.47%) gRPC
14 57 (2.47%) PyTorch
15 56 (2.42%) NumPy
15 56 (2.42%) OAuth
16 53 (2.29%) Vue
17 52 (2.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 330 (14.28%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (3.42%) Security Posture
4 61 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 58 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (2.42%) Fixed Income
7 53 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 49 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 47 (2.03%) Derivative
10 45 (1.95%) Management Information System
11 44 (1.90%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 37 (1.60%) AI Agents
13 37 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 37 (1.60%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.56%) Data Structures
15 35 (1.51%) Equities
16 32 (1.38%) Hedge funds
17 31 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 191 (8.26%) Linux
2 63 (2.73%) Windows
3 46 (1.99%) Unix
4 18 (0.78%) VMS
5 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.30%) Android
8 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.22%) CentOS
10 4 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.13%) Solaris
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.13%) zOS
12 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.043%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (38.42%) CI/CD
2 640 (27.69%) DevOps
3 555 (24.02%) Agile
4 459 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 382 (16.53%) AI
6 368 (15.92%) Microservices
7 356 (15.40%) Analytics
7 356 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
8 316 (13.67%) Containerisation
9 292 (12.64%) Software Engineering
10 268 (11.60%) Data Modelling
11 250 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
12 240 (10.39%) Machine Learning
13 235 (10.17%) Data Engineering
14 228 (9.87%) Observability
15 226 (9.78%) ETL
16 216 (9.35%) Migration
17 191 (8.26%) Full-Stack Development
18 183 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
19 176 (7.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 962 (41.63%) Python
2 545 (23.58%) SQL
3 423 (18.30%) Java
4 214 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 195 (8.44%) TypeScript
6 104 (4.50%) Go
7 103 (4.46%) Bash
8 98 (4.24%) C#
9 87 (3.76%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.34%) Scala
11 29 (1.25%) Ruby
12 28 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.17%) C++
14 18 (0.78%) R
15 15 (0.65%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.61%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.56%) Bicep
17 13 (0.56%) Rust
18 11 (0.48%) PHP
19 10 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 646 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 567 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.58%) AWS Certification
4 115 (4.98%) Degree
5 64 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (1.99%) CISSP
7 43 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 23 (1.00%) CISM
13 23 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.82%) PMP
15 18 (0.78%) OSCP
16 17 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (0.69%) CCNP
18 14 (0.61%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 107 (4.63%) GDPR
3 81 (3.50%) QA
4 70 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.68%) NIST
6 42 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.21%) NCSC
8 24 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.65%) SLA
10 13 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.56%) WCAG
11 12 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.52%) GRC
12 11 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.39%) PMO
14 7 (0.30%) PSD2
15 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.22%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 505 (21.85%) Docker
2 61 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.48%) Squid
5 9 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.22%) HDFS
8 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.17%) zsh
9 3 (0.13%) DFS Replication
9 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.13%) Postfix
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) Ceph
11 1 (0.043%) KVM
11 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 549 (23.76%) Terraform
2 521 (22.54%) Kubernetes
3 137 (5.93%) Ansible
4 98 (4.24%) Grafana
5 87 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.51%) Argo
6 35 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.74%) Consul
7 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.69%) Puppet
9 15 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.56%) Packer
11 11 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.48%) Kibana
11 11 (0.48%) Nessus
11 11 (0.48%) SCCM
12 7 (0.30%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.30%) QRadar
13 6 (0.26%) Istio
13 6 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 153 (6.62%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.32%) Databricks
3 91 (3.94%) Oracle
4 86 (3.72%) Google
5 77 (3.33%) Splunk
6 62 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.95%) CyberArk
7 45 (1.95%) OpenAI
8 35 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (1.47%) Centrify
9 34 (1.47%) Cisco
10 33 (1.43%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.43%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.34%) IBM
12 28 (1.21%) Red Hat
13 27 (1.17%) SAP
14 25 (1.08%) Fortinet
15 21 (0.91%) VMware
16 19 (0.82%) Atlassian