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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,792 2,136 2,298
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.80% 15.88% 14.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.56% 36.72% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,967 1,476 1,724
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £63.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +107.99% -63.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £79.69 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -2.44% +55.37% -38.43%

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 8,319 5,817 6,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.12% 43.24% 41.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,953 4,716
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 48
10th Percentile £18.30 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £32.81 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +0.67% -35.17%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -6 284 £553 -5.56% 280
West London +8 95 £550 +31.34% 136
South London +2 76 £535 -1.15% 15
East London +10 14 £550 -9.47% 31
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
1 162 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 101 (3.62%) Confluence
4 88 (3.15%) Apache
5 28 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.47%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.21%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.11%) Mule
14 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.072%) Endur
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,250 (44.77%) Azure
2 612 (21.92%) GCP
3 398 (14.26%) Serverless
4 380 (13.61%) Amazon S3
5 371 (13.29%) GitHub
6 334 (11.96%) AWS Lambda
7 252 (9.03%) GitHub Actions
8 234 (8.38%) Snowflake
9 209 (7.49%) Amazon EKS
10 183 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 159 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
12 156 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 147 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
14 145 (5.19%) dbt
15 139 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
16 132 (4.73%) Power Platform
17 128 (4.58%) SaaS
18 120 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 107 (3.83%) Entra ID
20 94 (3.37%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.87%) Firewall
2 84 (3.01%) Network Security
3 69 (2.47%) DNS
4 56 (2.01%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 36 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.97%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 18 (0.64%) HTTP
11 18 (0.64%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.54%) OSPF
13 13 (0.47%) MPLS
13 13 (0.47%) SAN
13 13 (0.47%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.43%) LAN
14 12 (0.43%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.27%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 119 (4.26%) Power BI
6 112 (4.01%) Data Lake
7 107 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 103 (3.69%) Metadata
9 92 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
10 90 (3.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 89 (3.19%) MongoDB
12 88 (3.15%) DynamoDB
13 76 (2.72%) Relational Database
14 69 (2.47%) Delta Lake
15 59 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
16 56 (2.01%) Big Data
17 54 (1.93%) Tableau
18 51 (1.83%) MySQL
19 44 (1.58%) Redis
20 42 (1.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 298 (10.67%) Git
2 293 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 259 (9.28%) GitLab
4 153 (5.48%) JIRA
5 33 (1.18%) JMeter
6 32 (1.15%) Maven
7 31 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 31 (1.11%) JUnit
8 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.04%) Selenium
10 25 (0.90%) Mockito
11 24 (0.86%) Gradle
11 24 (0.86%) Postman
12 23 (0.82%) Bitbucket
13 20 (0.72%) Cucumber
14 19 (0.68%) Claude Code
15 18 (0.64%) REST Assured
16 17 (0.61%) Gatling
17 15 (0.54%) MLflow
18 11 (0.39%) CircleCI
General
1 694 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 658 (23.57%) Finance
3 385 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 274 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.13%) Banking
6 83 (2.97%) Retail
7 63 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (1.40%) Marketing
12 35 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.15%) Front Office
14 30 (1.07%) Financial Institution
14 30 (1.07%) Law
14 30 (1.07%) Legal
15 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (0.86%) Military
16 24 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 592 (21.20%) Architect
2 449 (16.08%) Senior
3 342 (12.25%) Developer
4 305 (10.92%) Data Engineer
5 296 (10.60%) Lead
6 261 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 203 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 153 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (4.08%) AWS Architect
10 111 (3.98%) Analyst
11 109 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 102 (3.65%) Java Developer
13 101 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
14 99 (3.55%) Data Architect
15 97 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 94 (3.37%) Software Engineer
17 91 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
18 82 (2.94%) Senior Developer
19 78 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
20 76 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 709 (25.39%) Terraform
2 313 (11.21%) Kafka
3 269 (9.63%) REST
4 202 (7.23%) React
5 184 (6.59%) Spring
6 168 (6.02%) Spring Boot
7 156 (5.59%) RESTful
8 122 (4.37%) Node.js
9 113 (4.05%) PySpark
10 95 (3.40%) .NET
11 89 (3.19%) OAuth
12 67 (2.40%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.33%) FastAPI
14 64 (2.29%) HTML
15 63 (2.26%) JSON
16 62 (2.22%) AngularJS
17 53 (1.90%) CSS
18 50 (1.79%) OAuth2
19 49 (1.76%) SOAP
20 47 (1.68%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 535 (19.16%) Cloud Native
2 187 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (5.09%) Onboarding
4 131 (4.69%) AI Agents
5 120 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 80 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 64 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 64 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 64 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 47 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 42 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
11 40 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 40 (1.43%) Replication
12 39 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 35 (1.25%) PKI
13 35 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 33 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
15 30 (1.07%) CMDB
16 28 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 234 (8.38%) Linux
2 122 (4.37%) Windows
3 57 (2.04%) Unix
4 45 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.39%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,170 (41.91%) CI/CD
2 884 (31.66%) DevOps
3 712 (25.50%) Agile
4 662 (23.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 631 (22.60%) AI
6 462 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 424 (15.19%) Microservices
8 404 (14.47%) Containerisation
9 382 (13.68%) Observability
10 367 (13.14%) Migration
11 366 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
12 358 (12.82%) Analytics
13 354 (12.68%) Software Engineering
14 348 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
15 341 (12.21%) Data Modelling
16 335 (12.00%) Data Engineering
17 323 (11.57%) Event-Driven
18 318 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
19 294 (10.53%) Machine Learning
19 294 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (36.71%) Python
2 604 (21.63%) SQL
3 481 (17.23%) Java
4 210 (7.52%) TypeScript
5 199 (7.13%) JavaScript
6 168 (6.02%) Bash
7 140 (5.01%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.94%) C#
9 47 (1.68%) Scala
10 43 (1.54%) Go
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.22%) Bicep
13 27 (0.97%) Groovy
14 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.86%) Ruby
16 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.72%) R
17 18 (0.64%) C++
18 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 766 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 675 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 160 (5.73%) AWS Certification
4 144 (5.16%) Degree
5 90 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 87 (3.12%) CISSP
7 71 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 63 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 61 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 57 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 48 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (1.61%) CISM
13 27 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 22 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 21 (0.75%) PMP
17 19 (0.68%) CCSP
18 18 (0.64%) CCNP
18 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 155 (5.55%) QA
3 104 (3.72%) NIST
4 95 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 82 (2.94%) GDPR
6 36 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.07%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.90%) NCSC
9 25 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.82%) SLA
11 20 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 19 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.64%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.54%) EU AI Act
14 15 (0.54%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.47%) PMO
15 13 (0.47%) SEPA
16 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 499 (17.87%) Docker
2 88 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 614 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 204 (7.31%) Grafana
3 192 (6.88%) Ansible
4 160 (5.73%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.25%) Argo
5 35 (1.25%) Kibana
6 32 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.93%) Puppet
8 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.36%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) Istio
11 9 (0.32%) QRadar
12 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
15 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 292 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 185 (6.63%) Databricks
3 135 (4.84%) Oracle
4 128 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 125 (4.48%) Google
6 106 (3.80%) Splunk
7 68 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.93%) Cisco
8 54 (1.93%) VMware
9 53 (1.90%) OpenAI
10 51 (1.83%) SAP
11 50 (1.79%) CyberArk
12 42 (1.50%) Palo Alto
13 39 (1.40%) Informatica
14 35 (1.25%) Dynatrace
15 32 (1.15%) IBM
16 29 (1.04%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.90%) Foundry
18 25 (0.90%) MuleSoft