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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,467 1,996 2,302
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.02% 15.57% 12.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.25% 37.03% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,452 1,763
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.85%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £76.00 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.83% +38.10% -19.23%

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 7,203 5,390 6,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.05% 37.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,932 3,737 4,978
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 43 77
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +10.79% -25.03%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -1 286 £550 +1.85% 306
South London +3 93 £513 +7.89% 22
West London +11 56 £603 -2.03% 52
East London +1 9 £630 +7.69% 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
1 120 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.08%) Confluence
4 62 (2.51%) Apache
5 32 (1.30%) nginx
6 22 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.65%) SAS
8 15 (0.61%) Camunda
9 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) CICS
13 3 (0.12%) CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.081%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.081%) OpenROAD
14 2 (0.081%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.041%) Notion
7 1 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.16%) Endur
3 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.081%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.041%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.041%) Maximo
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.041%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.041%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.041%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (40.54%) Azure
2 566 (22.94%) GCP
3 373 (15.12%) Serverless
4 347 (14.07%) Amazon S3
5 336 (13.62%) GitHub
6 320 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
7 233 (9.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 190 (7.70%) GitHub Actions
9 178 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
10 166 (6.73%) Snowflake
11 145 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
12 143 (5.80%) Power Platform
13 137 (5.55%) Amazon ECS
14 129 (5.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 82 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.51%) dbt
18 59 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
20 55 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.85%) Firewall
2 63 (2.55%) VPN
3 60 (2.43%) Network Security
4 50 (2.03%) DNS
5 38 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.46%) WAN
7 19 (0.77%) LAN
8 18 (0.73%) BGP
9 16 (0.65%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.57%) HTTP
10 14 (0.57%) OSPF
11 12 (0.49%) SSL
12 11 (0.45%) DHCP
13 9 (0.36%) 5G
13 9 (0.36%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.36%) VLAN
13 9 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.32%) 4G
14 8 (0.32%) VXLAN
15 7 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (5.11%) Power BI
3 125 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
5 119 (4.82%) NoSQL
6 112 (4.54%) Data Lake
7 99 (4.01%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
9 95 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 95 (3.85%) Relational Database
10 75 (3.04%) Tableau
11 74 (3.00%) MongoDB
12 68 (2.76%) Metadata
13 66 (2.68%) DynamoDB
14 59 (2.39%) Big Data
15 54 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
15 54 (2.19%) MySQL
16 43 (1.74%) BigQuery
17 35 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
18 34 (1.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 249 (10.09%) Git
2 213 (8.63%) GitLab
3 209 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 133 (5.39%) JIRA
5 47 (1.91%) JUnit
6 46 (1.86%) MLflow
7 32 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 29 (1.18%) Mockito
10 23 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 22 (0.89%) Selenium
12 19 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 18 (0.73%) JMeter
13 18 (0.73%) Maven
14 14 (0.57%) Gatling
15 13 (0.53%) Gradle
15 13 (0.53%) Postman
15 13 (0.53%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.41%) Zephyr
17 9 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 570 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 549 (22.25%) Finance
3 352 (14.27%) Public Sector
4 219 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (8.23%) Banking
6 93 (3.77%) Front Office
7 61 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.13%) Retail
14 21 (0.85%) Legal
15 20 (0.81%) Marketing
16 16 (0.65%) Military
17 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.53%) Billing
19 12 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 449 (18.20%) Developer
2 447 (18.12%) Architect
3 379 (15.36%) Senior
4 241 (9.77%) Lead
5 232 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
6 230 (9.32%) Data Engineer
7 190 (7.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 123 (4.99%) Senior Developer
10 107 (4.34%) Analyst
11 104 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
12 99 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
13 94 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 94 (3.81%) Java Developer
13 94 (3.81%) Python Engineer
14 90 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 89 (3.61%) AWS Architect
16 79 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 79 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
16 79 (3.20%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (13.58%) Kafka
2 252 (10.21%) React
3 207 (8.39%) Node.js
4 189 (7.66%) REST
5 146 (5.92%) Spring
6 138 (5.59%) RESTful
7 129 (5.23%) Spring Boot
8 95 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 72 (2.92%) PySpark
10 71 (2.88%) .NET
11 68 (2.76%) CSS
12 67 (2.72%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.59%) HTML
13 64 (2.59%) SOAP
14 61 (2.47%) OAuth
14 61 (2.47%) Pandas
15 60 (2.43%) Redux
16 58 (2.35%) gRPC
17 55 (2.23%) PyTorch
18 54 (2.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 366 (14.84%) Cloud Native
2 122 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.16%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.96%) Security Posture
5 67 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 67 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (2.19%) Derivative
8 53 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 50 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 49 (1.99%) AI Agents
10 49 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 45 (1.82%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.78%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.70%) Equities
14 38 (1.54%) Public Cloud
15 35 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
16 34 (1.38%) Data Structures
17 26 (1.05%) Mainframe
18 24 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 183 (7.42%) Linux
2 63 (2.55%) Windows
3 44 (1.78%) Unix
4 12 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.45%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
6 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.20%) zOS
9 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (37.78%) CI/CD
2 686 (27.81%) DevOps
3 602 (24.40%) Agile
4 474 (19.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 424 (17.19%) AI
6 391 (15.85%) Microservices
7 363 (14.71%) Analytics
8 354 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
9 351 (14.23%) Containerisation
10 318 (12.89%) Software Engineering
11 292 (11.84%) Data Modelling
12 266 (10.78%) Machine Learning
13 265 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
14 264 (10.70%) Data Engineering
15 250 (10.13%) Migration
16 245 (9.93%) Observability
17 240 (9.73%) ETL
18 212 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
19 207 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
20 198 (8.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (40.70%) Python
2 580 (23.51%) SQL
3 441 (17.88%) Java
4 227 (9.20%) JavaScript
5 224 (9.08%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.66%) Go
7 102 (4.13%) C#
8 95 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 94 (3.81%) Bash
10 36 (1.46%) Ruby
11 34 (1.38%) Scala
12 32 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.09%) C++
14 19 (0.77%) R
15 18 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.57%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.53%) Bicep
18 10 (0.41%) Korn
18 10 (0.41%) Rust
19 9 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 709 (28.74%) Security Cleared
2 619 (25.09%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.23%) AWS Certification
4 126 (5.11%) Degree
5 72 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.99%) CISSP
7 48 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 43 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (1.05%) CISM
14 22 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.89%) PMP
14 22 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 17 (0.69%) CCNP
17 14 (0.57%) CCSP
18 13 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 125 (5.07%) GDPR
3 91 (3.69%) QA
4 74 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (2.88%) NIST
6 48 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.09%) NCSC
9 21 (0.85%) SLA
10 17 (0.69%) WCAG
11 14 (0.57%) GRC
11 14 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.49%) PMO
13 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.32%) PSD2
15 6 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 516 (20.92%) Docker
2 63 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.36%) Squid
6 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.081%) NFS
9 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.041%) Ceph
10 1 (0.041%) iptables
10 1 (0.041%) KVM
10 1 (0.041%) Lustre
10 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.041%) zsh
Systems Management
1 575 (23.31%) Terraform
2 539 (21.85%) Kubernetes
3 131 (5.31%) Ansible
4 110 (4.46%) Grafana
5 101 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.34%) Argo
8 18 (0.73%) Consul
9 17 (0.69%) Puppet
10 16 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.53%) Packer
13 9 (0.36%) Kibana
13 9 (0.36%) SCCM
14 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.28%) QRadar
15 6 (0.24%) Istio
16 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
16 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 173 (7.01%) Microsoft
2 141 (5.72%) Databricks
3 97 (3.93%) Google
4 90 (3.65%) Oracle
5 76 (3.08%) Splunk
6 58 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 52 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 50 (2.03%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.42%) Centrify
10 35 (1.42%) Cisco
11 34 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.38%) IBM
12 33 (1.34%) Dynatrace
13 31 (1.26%) VMware
14 29 (1.18%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.13%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.09%) SAP
17 24 (0.97%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.81%) Atlassian