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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,172 1,963 2,339
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.75% 14.22% 12.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.30% 34.32% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 1,400 1,815
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £458 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £762 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £22.17
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £81.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £50.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +47.52% +10.09% -28.95%

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 6,522 5,719 6,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.43% 37.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,467 3,791 5,144
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
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 93 47 79
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.88 £31.35 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +2.77% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £76.34 £68.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £33.32 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +21.15% +22.22% -10.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -1 249 £530 -3.64% 267
South London +8 63 £519 +5.82% 20
West London +5 44 £603 +7.78% 63
East London +6 9 £630 - 50
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 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (3.73%) Confluence
3 78 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 59 (2.72%) Apache
5 36 (1.66%) nginx
6 14 (0.64%) Camunda
6 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.64%) SAS
6 14 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.37%) Appian
9 7 (0.32%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.14%) Drupal
11 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.14%) Traefik
11 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.18%) Trello
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.046%) Notion
8 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.18%) Actimize
3 4 (0.18%) Endur
3 4 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.092%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.092%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.092%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.092%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.046%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.046%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.046%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 867 (39.92%) Azure
2 490 (22.56%) GCP
3 335 (15.42%) Serverless
4 313 (14.41%) Amazon S3
5 307 (14.13%) GitHub
6 295 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
7 197 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 181 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 154 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
9 154 (7.09%) Snowflake
10 136 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
11 125 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 122 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
13 120 (5.52%) Power Platform
14 93 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 70 (3.22%) dbt
16 67 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
17 64 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
18 52 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
19 47 (2.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (4.79%) Firewall
2 59 (2.72%) DNS
2 59 (2.72%) VPN
3 49 (2.26%) Network Security
4 36 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.20%) WAN
6 22 (1.01%) SSL
7 17 (0.78%) HTTP
7 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.64%) DHCP
8 14 (0.64%) LAN
9 13 (0.60%) BGP
10 11 (0.51%) OSPF
11 10 (0.46%) VLAN
11 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.41%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.37%) SSH
13 8 (0.37%) Wireless
14 7 (0.32%) FTP
14 7 (0.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (5.39%) NoSQL
3 116 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
4 112 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
5 107 (4.93%) Power BI
6 92 (4.24%) Data Lake
7 90 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
7 90 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 89 (4.10%) SQL Server
9 78 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 64 (2.95%) MongoDB
10 64 (2.95%) Tableau
11 62 (2.85%) DynamoDB
12 58 (2.67%) MySQL
13 56 (2.58%) Metadata
14 51 (2.35%) Big Data
15 49 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
16 43 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
17 37 (1.70%) BigQuery
18 32 (1.47%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 224 (10.31%) Git
2 204 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 189 (8.70%) GitLab
4 147 (6.77%) JIRA
5 41 (1.89%) JUnit
6 28 (1.29%) MLflow
7 27 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.01%) ERwin
10 21 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.87%) Mockito
11 19 (0.87%) Selenium
12 18 (0.83%) SonarQube
13 17 (0.78%) Maven
14 14 (0.64%) ER Studio
14 14 (0.64%) JMeter
15 13 (0.60%) Gatling
16 11 (0.51%) Gradle
17 10 (0.46%) Postman
18 9 (0.41%) CircleCI
General
1 551 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 447 (20.58%) Finance
3 264 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 193 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 186 (8.56%) Banking
6 58 (2.67%) Investment Banking
7 50 (2.30%) Front Office
8 44 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 38 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (1.34%) Retail
11 28 (1.29%) Financial Institution
12 27 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 25 (1.15%) Marketing
15 21 (0.97%) Military
16 17 (0.78%) Legal
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.51%) Law
18 11 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 392 (18.05%) Developer
2 362 (16.67%) Architect
3 346 (15.93%) Senior
4 230 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
5 207 (9.53%) Data Engineer
6 187 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 159 (7.32%) Lead
8 115 (5.29%) Senior Developer
9 108 (4.97%) Software Engineer
10 100 (4.60%) Python Engineer
11 96 (4.42%) Analyst
12 91 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
13 87 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
14 83 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 82 (3.78%) Java Developer
16 78 (3.59%) Python Developer
17 77 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
18 75 (3.45%) AWS Developer
19 73 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
20 69 (3.18%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (12.57%) Kafka
2 196 (9.02%) React
3 159 (7.32%) REST
4 143 (6.58%) Node.js
5 136 (6.26%) Spring
6 122 (5.62%) RESTful
7 118 (5.43%) Spring Boot
8 92 (4.24%) AngularJS
9 71 (3.27%) HTML
10 67 (3.08%) CSS
11 63 (2.90%) gRPC
11 63 (2.90%) Pandas
12 59 (2.72%) .NET
13 58 (2.67%) NumPy
14 56 (2.58%) SOAP
15 54 (2.49%) OAuth
15 54 (2.49%) PySpark
16 50 (2.30%) LDAP
16 50 (2.30%) Vue
17 48 (2.21%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 304 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (3.31%) Security Posture
4 59 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 45 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.93%) Hedge funds
10 41 (1.89%) Derivative
11 40 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.70%) Public Cloud
13 34 (1.57%) Data Centre
13 34 (1.57%) Fixed Income
13 34 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 33 (1.52%) Algorithms
15 31 (1.43%) AI Agents
15 31 (1.43%) Data Structures
16 30 (1.38%) Equities
16 30 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 192 (8.84%) Linux
2 68 (3.13%) Windows
3 49 (2.26%) Unix
4 21 (0.97%) VMS
5 13 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.46%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.37%) Android
8 7 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.23%) CentOS
10 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.046%) Solaris
13 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (38.49%) CI/CD
2 613 (28.22%) DevOps
3 505 (23.25%) Agile
4 428 (19.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 346 (15.93%) Microservices
6 341 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
7 333 (15.33%) AI
8 322 (14.83%) Analytics
9 289 (13.31%) Containerisation
10 269 (12.38%) Software Engineering
11 245 (11.28%) Data Modelling
12 232 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
13 210 (9.67%) Data Engineering
14 205 (9.44%) ETL
15 204 (9.39%) Observability
16 203 (9.35%) Machine Learning
17 194 (8.93%) Migration
18 174 (8.01%) Full-Stack Development
19 166 (7.64%) Test Automation
20 165 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 913 (42.03%) Python
2 520 (23.94%) SQL
3 402 (18.51%) Java
4 187 (8.61%) JavaScript
5 174 (8.01%) TypeScript
6 103 (4.74%) Bash
7 92 (4.24%) C#
7 92 (4.24%) PowerShell
8 87 (4.01%) Go
9 31 (1.43%) Scala
10 30 (1.38%) C++
11 29 (1.34%) Ruby
12 24 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.87%) R
14 17 (0.78%) Rust
15 14 (0.64%) PHP
16 13 (0.60%) Groovy
16 13 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 601 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 532 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 126 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 119 (5.48%) Degree
5 66 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.70%) CISSP
8 34 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 33 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.83%) CISM
13 18 (0.83%) OSCP
13 18 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.78%) PMP
15 15 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.60%) CCNP
17 11 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 104 (4.79%) GDPR
3 74 (3.41%) QA
4 69 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.72%) NIST
6 34 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.24%) NCSC
8 23 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.55%) SLA
12 9 (0.41%) GRC
12 9 (0.41%) WCAG
13 8 (0.37%) PSD2
14 7 (0.32%) SEPA
15 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 488 (22.47%) Docker
2 62 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.60%) Squid
5 11 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.32%) DFS Replication
6 7 (0.32%) Dovecot
6 7 (0.32%) Postfix
7 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.28%) zsh
8 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.092%) KVM
10 2 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.046%) Ceph
11 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 521 (23.99%) Terraform
2 500 (23.02%) Kubernetes
3 133 (6.12%) Ansible
4 96 (4.42%) Grafana
5 88 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.66%) Argo
7 34 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.87%) Puppet
9 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.74%) Consul
11 15 (0.69%) Nessus
12 12 (0.55%) Packer
12 12 (0.55%) SCCM
13 11 (0.51%) Kibana
14 9 (0.41%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.32%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.32%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.32%) QRadar
15 7 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 147 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 145 (6.68%) Databricks
3 85 (3.91%) Google
4 84 (3.87%) Oracle
5 77 (3.55%) Splunk
6 57 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.98%) CyberArk
8 36 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 35 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.57%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.57%) Centrify
11 31 (1.43%) Cisco
11 31 (1.43%) Dynatrace
12 28 (1.29%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.20%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.15%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.06%) IBM
16 21 (0.97%) SAP
16 21 (0.97%) VMware
17 18 (0.83%) Informatica