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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,458 1,997 2,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.03% 15.43% 12.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.25% 36.83% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 1,455 1,761
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% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.59% +0.05% -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 £75.50 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.14% +38.10% -18.92%

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 7,176 5,422 6,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.87% 41.90% 37.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,922 3,749 4,975
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 £767
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 43 79
10th Percentile £18.13 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.66 £23.99 £20.88
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -23.94%
75th Percentile £51.81 £55.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -2 285 £550 +1.62% 311
South London +4 94 £517 +8.79% 19
West London +8 53 £603 +6.64% 49
East London +3 9 £630 +7.69% 51
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
1 117 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.25%) Confluence
4 60 (2.44%) Apache
5 32 (1.30%) nginx
6 22 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.65%) SAS
8 15 (0.61%) Camunda
9 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.33%) 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 30 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.41%) 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
4 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.081%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.041%) Maximo
6 1 (0.041%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.041%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.041%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.041%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 994 (40.44%) Azure
2 570 (23.19%) GCP
3 371 (15.09%) Serverless
4 343 (13.95%) Amazon S3
5 335 (13.63%) GitHub
6 318 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
7 228 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 188 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
9 175 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
10 167 (6.79%) Snowflake
11 144 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
12 142 (5.78%) Power Platform
13 137 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
14 131 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 81 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.52%) dbt
18 57 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
18 57 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
19 55 (2.24%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 97 (3.95%) Firewall
2 64 (2.60%) VPN
3 62 (2.52%) Network Security
4 51 (2.07%) DNS
5 39 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.42%) WAN
7 18 (0.73%) LAN
8 17 (0.69%) BGP
9 16 (0.65%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.57%) HTTP
11 13 (0.53%) OSPF
12 12 (0.49%) DHCP
12 12 (0.49%) SSL
13 9 (0.37%) 5G
13 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.37%) VLAN
13 9 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.33%) 4G
15 7 (0.28%) VXLAN
15 7 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
2 125 (5.09%) Power BI
3 120 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 119 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 110 (4.48%) Data Lake
6 100 (4.07%) SQL Server
7 97 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
8 95 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (3.86%) Relational Database
9 76 (3.09%) Tableau
10 73 (2.97%) MongoDB
11 69 (2.81%) Metadata
12 66 (2.69%) DynamoDB
13 58 (2.36%) Big Data
14 55 (2.24%) MySQL
15 54 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
16 44 (1.79%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 34 (1.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 243 (9.89%) Git
2 217 (8.83%) GitLab
3 211 (8.58%) Jenkins
4 138 (5.61%) JIRA
5 48 (1.95%) JUnit
6 44 (1.79%) MLflow
7 34 (1.38%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 28 (1.14%) Mockito
10 25 (1.02%) Cypress.io
11 24 (0.98%) Selenium
12 22 (0.90%) SonarQube
13 18 (0.73%) JMeter
13 18 (0.73%) Maven
14 16 (0.65%) Gatling
15 15 (0.61%) Postman
16 13 (0.53%) Gradle
16 13 (0.53%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.45%) ERwin
18 10 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 578 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 551 (22.42%) Finance
3 346 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 220 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (8.46%) Banking
6 96 (3.91%) Front Office
7 60 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 58 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 39 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
10 33 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.18%) Retail
13 21 (0.85%) Legal
14 20 (0.81%) Marketing
15 16 (0.65%) Military
16 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.53%) Billing
18 12 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 451 (18.35%) Developer
2 444 (18.06%) Architect
3 379 (15.42%) Senior
4 238 (9.68%) Lead
5 233 (9.48%) AWS Engineer
6 228 (9.28%) Data Engineer
7 191 (7.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 123 (5.00%) Senior Developer
10 109 (4.43%) Analyst
11 103 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
12 99 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
13 96 (3.91%) Python Engineer
14 94 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 94 (3.82%) Java Developer
15 90 (3.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 86 (3.50%) AWS Architect
17 80 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 80 (3.25%) Python Developer
18 79 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (13.43%) Kafka
2 250 (10.17%) React
3 207 (8.42%) Node.js
4 189 (7.69%) REST
5 144 (5.86%) Spring
6 135 (5.49%) RESTful
7 127 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 95 (3.86%) AngularJS
9 71 (2.89%) .NET
10 70 (2.85%) PySpark
11 69 (2.81%) CSS
12 67 (2.73%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.69%) HTML
14 64 (2.60%) SOAP
15 61 (2.48%) Pandas
16 60 (2.44%) OAuth
16 60 (2.44%) Redux
17 59 (2.40%) gRPC
18 55 (2.24%) PyTorch
19 53 (2.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 358 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 118 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (3.21%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.97%) Security Posture
5 67 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 56 (2.28%) Derivative
8 55 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 49 (1.99%) AI Agents
10 49 (1.99%) Data Centre
11 45 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 45 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.79%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.75%) Equities
14 38 (1.55%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.51%) Data Structures
16 36 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
17 27 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.10%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 183 (7.45%) Linux
2 61 (2.48%) Windows
3 44 (1.79%) Unix
4 12 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.45%) VMS
6 8 (0.33%) Android
7 7 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.20%) zOS
9 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (37.75%) CI/CD
2 688 (27.99%) DevOps
3 600 (24.41%) Agile
4 465 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 416 (16.92%) AI
6 385 (15.66%) Microservices
7 366 (14.89%) Analytics
8 357 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
9 345 (14.04%) Containerisation
10 316 (12.86%) Software Engineering
11 288 (11.72%) Data Modelling
12 261 (10.62%) Machine Learning
13 260 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
14 259 (10.54%) Data Engineering
15 248 (10.09%) Migration
16 241 (9.80%) ETL
16 241 (9.80%) Observability
17 212 (8.62%) Full-Stack Development
18 202 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 198 (8.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (40.72%) Python
2 577 (23.47%) SQL
3 442 (17.98%) Java
4 231 (9.40%) JavaScript
5 224 (9.11%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.68%) Go
7 101 (4.11%) C#
8 95 (3.86%) Bash
9 93 (3.78%) PowerShell
10 34 (1.38%) Ruby
10 34 (1.38%) Scala
11 31 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 28 (1.14%) C++
13 20 (0.81%) R
14 18 (0.73%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.53%) Bicep
17 11 (0.45%) Rust
18 10 (0.41%) Korn
19 9 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 701 (28.52%) Security Cleared
2 612 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 126 (5.13%) Degree
5 73 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 49 (1.99%) CISSP
7 42 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 32 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 26 (1.06%) CISM
13 24 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.85%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.85%) PMP
15 18 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 17 (0.69%) CCNP
17 14 (0.57%) CCSP
18 12 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 120 (4.88%) GDPR
3 93 (3.78%) QA
4 71 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (2.73%) NIST
6 48 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.10%) NCSC
9 21 (0.85%) SLA
10 17 (0.69%) WCAG
11 14 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.49%) GRC
12 12 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.49%) PMO
13 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.33%) PSD2
15 6 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 515 (20.95%) Docker
2 63 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.37%) 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
9 2 (0.081%) zsh
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
Systems Management
1 568 (23.11%) Terraform
2 535 (21.77%) Kubernetes
3 135 (5.49%) Ansible
4 108 (4.39%) Grafana
5 99 (4.03%) 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 14 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.53%) Packer
13 10 (0.41%) Kibana
13 10 (0.41%) 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
1 169 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 144 (5.86%) Databricks
3 97 (3.95%) Google
4 89 (3.62%) Oracle
5 77 (3.13%) Splunk
6 59 (2.40%) ServiceNow
7 52 (2.12%) OpenAI
8 49 (1.99%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.42%) Centrify
10 35 (1.42%) Cisco
11 34 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
12 33 (1.34%) IBM
13 32 (1.30%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.18%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.14%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.14%) VMware
16 27 (1.10%) SAP
17 24 (0.98%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.81%) Atlassian