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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,810 2,120 2,282
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.83% 15.74% 13.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.80% 36.32% 34.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,994 1,475 1,687
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £697 £760
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -65.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £80.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 8,313 5,837 6,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.90% 43.33% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,723 3,977 4,636
10th Percentile £359 £348 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 96 44
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.75 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.75 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -6.64% -18.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.33
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -5 283 £575 -1.71% 356
West London +5 97 £560 +31.76% 130
South London 0 75 £535 -5.38% 15
East London +10 14 £550 -9.47% 26
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 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 119 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 110 (3.91%) Confluence
4 90 (3.20%) Apache
5 27 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
10 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.25%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 26 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,263 (44.95%) Azure
2 641 (22.81%) GCP
3 393 (13.99%) Serverless
4 383 (13.63%) Amazon S3
5 367 (13.06%) GitHub
6 327 (11.64%) AWS Lambda
7 248 (8.83%) GitHub Actions
8 239 (8.51%) Snowflake
9 218 (7.76%) Amazon EKS
10 186 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 158 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
12 157 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 150 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
14 147 (5.23%) dbt
15 136 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
16 132 (4.70%) Power Platform
17 129 (4.59%) SaaS
18 120 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 108 (3.84%) Entra ID
20 98 (3.49%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.74%) Firewall
2 81 (2.88%) Network Security
3 63 (2.24%) DNS
4 55 (1.96%) VPN
5 39 (1.39%) WAN
6 32 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.89%) DHCP
7 25 (0.89%) SSL
8 22 (0.78%) SSH
9 21 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 18 (0.64%) HTTP
12 16 (0.57%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.53%) MPLS
14 14 (0.50%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) LAN
16 12 (0.43%) IPsec
16 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 145 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
4 118 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 117 (4.16%) Power BI
6 111 (3.95%) Data Lake
7 110 (3.91%) SQL Server
8 108 (3.84%) Metadata
9 96 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
10 91 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 91 (3.24%) DynamoDB
11 90 (3.20%) MongoDB
12 80 (2.85%) Relational Database
13 67 (2.38%) Delta Lake
14 60 (2.14%) MySQL
15 59 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
16 56 (1.99%) Tableau
17 54 (1.92%) Big Data
18 46 (1.64%) Redis
19 44 (1.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 303 (10.78%) Jenkins
2 296 (10.53%) Git
3 266 (9.47%) GitLab
4 157 (5.59%) JIRA
5 37 (1.32%) Maven
6 34 (1.21%) JMeter
6 34 (1.21%) JUnit
7 31 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.07%) Selenium
9 29 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 26 (0.93%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.89%) Mockito
13 24 (0.85%) Gradle
14 22 (0.78%) Postman
15 19 (0.68%) Claude Code
16 18 (0.64%) Gatling
17 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
18 13 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 12 (0.43%) MLflow
General
1 704 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 673 (23.95%) Finance
3 379 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 275 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 260 (9.25%) Banking
6 87 (3.10%) Retail
7 64 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.35%) Marketing
11 35 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (1.21%) Front Office
13 33 (1.17%) Legal
14 32 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.07%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.00%) Law
17 27 (0.96%) Military
17 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (0.85%) Billing
19 23 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 582 (20.71%) Architect
2 455 (16.19%) Senior
3 340 (12.10%) Developer
4 305 (10.85%) Data Engineer
5 301 (10.71%) Lead
6 265 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
7 214 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 144 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
9 113 (4.02%) AWS Architect
10 111 (3.95%) Analyst
11 109 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 106 (3.77%) Data Architect
13 103 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
14 102 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 100 (3.56%) Java Developer
16 92 (3.27%) Software Engineer
17 91 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
18 82 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
19 77 (2.74%) Senior Developer
20 76 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 722 (25.69%) Terraform
2 324 (11.53%) Kafka
3 290 (10.32%) REST
4 197 (7.01%) React
5 181 (6.44%) Spring
6 166 (5.91%) Spring Boot
7 154 (5.48%) RESTful
8 121 (4.31%) Node.js
9 113 (4.02%) PySpark
10 100 (3.56%) .NET
10 100 (3.56%) OAuth
11 74 (2.63%) GraphQL
12 65 (2.31%) FastAPI
13 64 (2.28%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.28%) HTML
13 64 (2.28%) JSON
14 59 (2.10%) SOAP
15 57 (2.03%) OAuth2
16 53 (1.89%) CSS
17 50 (1.78%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 551 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 180 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 143 (5.09%) AI Agents
5 133 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.46%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 60 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.53%) Data Structures
12 43 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.53%) PKI
13 41 (1.46%) Replication
14 38 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
15 36 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
16 35 (1.25%) Virtual Team
17 34 (1.21%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.07%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 248 (8.83%) Linux
2 124 (4.41%) Windows
3 56 (1.99%) Unix
4 49 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.21%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) zOS
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (41.81%) CI/CD
2 898 (31.96%) DevOps
3 708 (25.20%) Agile
4 671 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 635 (22.60%) AI
6 474 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 412 (14.66%) Microservices
8 404 (14.38%) Containerisation
9 401 (14.27%) Observability
10 367 (13.06%) Migration
11 362 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
12 351 (12.49%) Analytics
13 350 (12.46%) Software Engineering
14 345 (12.28%) Data Modelling
15 343 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
16 337 (11.99%) Data Engineering
17 331 (11.78%) Event-Driven
18 330 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
19 312 (11.10%) Technical Leadership
20 294 (10.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,026 (36.51%) Python
2 612 (21.78%) SQL
3 478 (17.01%) Java
4 206 (7.33%) JavaScript
4 206 (7.33%) TypeScript
5 175 (6.23%) Bash
6 141 (5.02%) PowerShell
7 113 (4.02%) C#
8 54 (1.92%) Scala
9 53 (1.89%) Go
10 37 (1.32%) Bicep
10 37 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.10%) Groovy
12 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.71%) C++
15 19 (0.68%) R
16 16 (0.57%) Ruby
17 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 776 (27.62%) Security Cleared
2 685 (24.38%) SC Cleared
3 174 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 146 (5.20%) Degree
5 91 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 89 (3.17%) CISSP
7 76 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 67 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 66 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 64 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 51 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.71%) CISM
13 31 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.78%) CCSP
15 20 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (0.64%) PMP
18 17 (0.60%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 163 (5.80%) QA
3 103 (3.67%) NIST
4 101 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (2.67%) GDPR
6 37 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.07%) GRC
8 28 (1.00%) NCSC
8 28 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.85%) SLA
10 22 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.53%) EU AI Act
13 15 (0.53%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.46%) SEPA
16 10 (0.36%) PMO
17 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 501 (17.83%) Docker
2 90 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
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
11 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 640 (22.78%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.54%) Grafana
3 201 (7.15%) Ansible
4 161 (5.73%) Prometheus
5 42 (1.49%) Kibana
6 36 (1.28%) Argo
7 31 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (1.00%) Puppet
9 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.43%) Istio
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
14 6 (0.21%) QRadar
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
15 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 298 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.94%) Databricks
3 139 (4.95%) Google
4 138 (4.91%) Oracle
5 123 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 109 (3.88%) Splunk
7 68 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 53 (1.89%) SAP
10 52 (1.85%) Cisco
10 52 (1.85%) VMware
11 49 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 44 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 39 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 39 (1.39%) IBM
14 37 (1.32%) Informatica
15 32 (1.14%) Fortinet
16 27 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 25 (0.89%) Foundry
17 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft