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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,373 1,973 2,275
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.98% 14.66% 12.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.08% 35.23% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,621 1,411 1,752
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.62% -6.15%
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% -6.38%
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% -23.33%
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% -24.62%

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 6,964 5,600 6,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.60% 37.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,783 3,783 4,972
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £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 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 52 79
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.54 £21.63
Median hourly rate £33.75 £32.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% +10.20% -2.56%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.15% -14.16%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 0 273 £550 +2.09% 208
South London +2 94 £517 +7.38% 19
West London +6 50 £603 +4.78% 36
East London +6 9 £630 - 21
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
1 109 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 86 (3.62%) Confluence
4 59 (2.49%) Apache
5 35 (1.47%) nginx
6 18 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.72%) SAS
8 14 (0.59%) Camunda
9 13 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.34%) 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 (0.084%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.084%) Drupal
13 2 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) 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 (0.042%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.042%) Notion
6 1 (0.042%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.17%) Actimize
5 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
5 4 (0.17%) Endur
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.084%) DELMIA
8 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.042%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.042%) Maximo
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.042%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.042%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.042%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 953 (40.16%) Azure
2 552 (23.26%) GCP
3 360 (15.17%) Serverless
4 331 (13.95%) Amazon S3
5 317 (13.36%) GitHub
6 311 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
7 223 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 181 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (7.21%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.66%) Snowflake
11 144 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
12 140 (5.90%) Amazon ECS
13 133 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 132 (5.56%) Power Platform
15 107 (4.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 72 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
17 63 (2.65%) dbt
18 60 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
19 52 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
20 51 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (4.55%) Firewall
2 66 (2.78%) VPN
3 63 (2.65%) DNS
4 62 (2.61%) Network Security
5 41 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.18%) WAN
7 22 (0.93%) SSL
8 17 (0.72%) BGP
9 16 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.63%) LAN
10 15 (0.63%) OSPF
11 14 (0.59%) DHCP
12 13 (0.55%) HTTP
13 12 (0.51%) VLAN
14 9 (0.38%) 5G
14 9 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.38%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.34%) 4G
15 8 (0.34%) OpenVPN
16 7 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
3 118 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (4.97%) NoSQL
4 116 (4.89%) Power BI
5 100 (4.21%) Data Lake
5 100 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 92 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
6 92 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 83 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 68 (2.87%) Tableau
9 67 (2.82%) MongoDB
10 66 (2.78%) DynamoDB
11 62 (2.61%) Metadata
12 58 (2.44%) MySQL
13 52 (2.19%) Big Data
14 50 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
15 46 (1.94%) BigQuery
16 37 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
17 35 (1.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 239 (10.07%) Git
2 207 (8.72%) Jenkins
3 200 (8.43%) GitLab
4 148 (6.24%) JIRA
5 46 (1.94%) JUnit
6 40 (1.69%) MLflow
7 34 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 22 (0.93%) Mockito
10 21 (0.88%) Cypress.io
10 21 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 19 (0.80%) Maven
11 19 (0.80%) Selenium
12 18 (0.76%) JMeter
13 16 (0.67%) ERwin
14 15 (0.63%) Gatling
15 11 (0.46%) Gradle
15 11 (0.46%) Postman
16 10 (0.42%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.38%) ER Studio
General
1 577 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 527 (22.21%) Finance
3 310 (13.06%) Public Sector
4 215 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (8.22%) Banking
6 85 (3.58%) Front Office
7 57 (2.40%) Investment Banking
8 56 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (1.47%) Financial Institution
11 34 (1.43%) Retail
12 30 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 21 (0.88%) Marketing
15 19 (0.80%) Military
16 18 (0.76%) Legal
17 14 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 441 (18.58%) Developer
2 413 (17.40%) Architect
3 374 (15.76%) Senior
4 239 (10.07%) AWS Engineer
5 217 (9.14%) Data Engineer
6 213 (8.98%) Lead
7 196 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 143 (6.03%) Software Engineer
9 124 (5.23%) Senior Developer
10 106 (4.47%) Analyst
11 101 (4.26%) Python Engineer
12 99 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
13 98 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
14 94 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
15 93 (3.92%) Java Developer
16 91 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 81 (3.41%) Python Developer
18 80 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
19 77 (3.24%) AWS Architect
20 76 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (12.90%) Kafka
2 240 (10.11%) React
3 191 (8.05%) Node.js
4 175 (7.37%) REST
5 142 (5.98%) Spring
6 128 (5.39%) RESTful
7 121 (5.10%) Spring Boot
8 99 (4.17%) AngularJS
9 75 (3.16%) CSS
10 72 (3.03%) HTML
11 67 (2.82%) .NET
12 63 (2.65%) PySpark
12 63 (2.65%) SOAP
13 62 (2.61%) Pandas
14 60 (2.53%) GraphQL
15 58 (2.44%) gRPC
16 56 (2.36%) NumPy
16 56 (2.36%) OAuth
16 56 (2.36%) PyTorch
17 54 (2.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 338 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.37%) Security Posture
4 68 (2.87%) Fixed Income
5 61 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 60 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 52 (2.19%) Derivative
9 50 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 45 (1.90%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 40 (1.69%) Data Centre
13 39 (1.64%) Equities
14 38 (1.60%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
15 37 (1.56%) Data Structures
15 37 (1.56%) Public Cloud
16 34 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
17 32 (1.35%) Hedge funds
18 29 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 194 (8.18%) Linux
2 66 (2.78%) Windows
3 47 (1.98%) Unix
4 18 (0.76%) VMS
5 12 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.29%) Android
8 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.21%) CentOS
10 4 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.17%) zOS
11 3 (0.13%) Solaris
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.042%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 909 (38.31%) CI/CD
2 661 (27.86%) DevOps
3 579 (24.40%) Agile
4 469 (19.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 393 (16.56%) AI
6 373 (15.72%) Microservices
7 361 (15.21%) Analytics
8 357 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 323 (13.61%) Containerisation
10 308 (12.98%) Software Engineering
11 271 (11.42%) Data Modelling
12 251 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
13 250 (10.54%) Machine Learning
14 241 (10.16%) Data Engineering
15 231 (9.73%) Observability
16 228 (9.61%) ETL
17 222 (9.36%) Migration
18 203 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
19 187 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
20 184 (7.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 997 (42.01%) Python
2 557 (23.47%) SQL
3 438 (18.46%) Java
4 232 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 213 (8.98%) TypeScript
6 114 (4.80%) Go
7 106 (4.47%) Bash
8 100 (4.21%) C#
9 92 (3.88%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.31%) Scala
11 29 (1.22%) Ruby
11 29 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.14%) C++
13 20 (0.84%) R
14 15 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.59%) Rust
16 13 (0.55%) Bicep
17 11 (0.46%) PHP
18 10 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 667 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 587 (24.74%) SC Cleared
3 136 (5.73%) AWS Certification
4 115 (4.85%) Degree
5 65 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (2.02%) CISSP
7 43 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.35%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.05%) CISM
13 23 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.80%) PMP
15 18 (0.76%) OSCP
16 17 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.63%) CCNP
18 14 (0.59%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (6.87%) Data Quality
2 107 (4.51%) GDPR
3 88 (3.71%) QA
4 71 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.65%) NIST
6 44 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.22%) NCSC
8 24 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.63%) SLA
10 14 (0.59%) WCAG
11 13 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.51%) GRC
13 11 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.38%) PMO
15 7 (0.29%) PSD2
16 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 512 (21.58%) Docker
2 62 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.51%) Squid
5 10 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.17%) Postfix
8 4 (0.17%) zsh
9 3 (0.13%) DFS Replication
9 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.042%) NFS
11 1 (0.042%) NLBS
11 1 (0.042%) Samba
Systems Management
1 564 (23.77%) Terraform
2 532 (22.42%) Kubernetes
3 139 (5.86%) Ansible
4 104 (4.38%) Grafana
5 93 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (1.47%) Argo
8 18 (0.76%) Consul
9 17 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.72%) Puppet
10 14 (0.59%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.55%) Packer
12 12 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.46%) Kibana
13 11 (0.46%) Nessus
13 11 (0.46%) SCCM
14 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.29%) QRadar
15 6 (0.25%) Istio
15 6 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 155 (6.53%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.19%) Databricks
3 91 (3.83%) Oracle
4 88 (3.71%) Google
5 76 (3.20%) Splunk
6 62 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.90%) CyberArk
7 45 (1.90%) OpenAI
8 34 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
8 34 (1.43%) Centrify
8 34 (1.43%) Dynatrace
8 34 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.39%) Cisco
9 33 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 31 (1.31%) IBM
11 30 (1.26%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.14%) SAP
13 25 (1.05%) Fortinet
14 22 (0.93%) VMware
15 21 (0.88%) Atlassian