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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,569 2,031 2,316
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.37% 16.28% 13.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.76% 38.41% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,780 1,468 1,790
10th Percentile £400 £400 £412
25th Percentile £465 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
England median daily rate £534 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.98% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.88 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £48.25 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.97% +11.56% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £74.38 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £96.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +27.27% -26.67%

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 7,610 5,287 6,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.56% 42.38% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,255 3,670 4,998
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 53 70
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.58 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -45.26%
75th Percentile £54.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £45.50 £26.45 £21.00
% change year-on-year +72.02% +25.95% -34.98%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -2 287 £550 - 262
South London +5 91 £513 +5.13% 11
West London +5 79 £603 +11.88% 39
East London -2 13 £525 -10.26% 43
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
1 121 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 69 (2.69%) Confluence
4 63 (2.45%) Apache
5 24 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.78%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 12 (0.47%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) CICS
11 6 (0.23%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.078%) Drupal
14 2 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Magento
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,051 (40.91%) Azure
2 573 (22.30%) GCP
3 386 (15.03%) Amazon S3
4 373 (14.52%) Serverless
5 331 (12.88%) GitHub
6 323 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
7 222 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (7.79%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (6.34%) Snowflake
11 155 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
12 145 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 143 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
14 141 (5.49%) Power Platform
15 113 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 104 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
17 77 (3.00%) SaaS
18 67 (2.61%) dbt
19 64 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
20 63 (2.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.85%) Firewall
2 64 (2.49%) Network Security
3 60 (2.34%) DNS
4 56 (2.18%) VPN
5 43 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.17%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 19 (0.74%) HTTP
9 17 (0.66%) LAN
10 15 (0.58%) OSPF
11 14 (0.54%) DHCP
11 14 (0.54%) SSL
12 13 (0.51%) VLAN
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) NGFW
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.35%) SAN
15 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (4.75%) Data Lake
3 120 (4.67%) Power BI
4 115 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
4 115 (4.48%) NoSQL
5 110 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
6 107 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 102 (3.97%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 77 (3.00%) MongoDB
10 74 (2.88%) Metadata
10 74 (2.88%) Relational Database
10 74 (2.88%) Tableau
11 73 (2.84%) DynamoDB
12 61 (2.37%) Big Data
13 47 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
14 45 (1.75%) MySQL
15 41 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
16 40 (1.56%) BigQuery
17 37 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 232 (9.03%) Git
2 224 (8.72%) Jenkins
3 210 (8.17%) GitLab
4 121 (4.71%) JIRA
5 43 (1.67%) MLflow
6 42 (1.63%) JUnit
7 34 (1.32%) Mockito
8 26 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 24 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.90%) Bitbucket
11 21 (0.82%) Selenium
12 20 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.78%) JMeter
12 20 (0.78%) Maven
13 19 (0.74%) Gradle
13 19 (0.74%) Postman
14 14 (0.54%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.51%) Snyk
16 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 597 (23.24%) Finance
2 543 (21.14%) Social Skills
3 361 (14.05%) Public Sector
4 229 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 214 (8.33%) Banking
6 90 (3.50%) Front Office
7 63 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 39 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.40%) Retail
12 35 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.05%) Marketing
14 26 (1.01%) Legal
15 17 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.54%) Military
17 13 (0.51%) Law
18 10 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 513 (19.97%) Architect
2 431 (16.78%) Developer
3 387 (15.06%) Senior
4 271 (10.55%) Lead
5 268 (10.43%) Data Engineer
6 229 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
7 184 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 143 (5.57%) Software Engineer
9 125 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
10 117 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 105 (4.09%) Analyst
12 103 (4.01%) AWS Architect
13 102 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 96 (3.74%) Java Developer
15 94 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
16 87 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
17 83 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
18 79 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 77 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 73 (2.84%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (12.18%) Kafka
2 237 (9.23%) React
3 201 (7.82%) REST
4 182 (7.08%) Node.js
5 172 (6.70%) Spring
6 160 (6.23%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.64%) RESTful
8 90 (3.50%) .NET
9 83 (3.23%) PySpark
10 79 (3.08%) AngularJS
11 69 (2.69%) OAuth
12 68 (2.65%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.57%) SOAP
14 62 (2.41%) Redux
15 61 (2.37%) HTML
16 58 (2.26%) LDAP
17 56 (2.18%) Pandas
18 53 (2.06%) CSS
19 50 (1.95%) OpenID
20 46 (1.79%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 416 (16.19%) Cloud Native
2 142 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (3.15%) Onboarding
4 77 (3.00%) Fixed Income
5 75 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 67 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 64 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (2.41%) AI Agents
10 57 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (2.02%) Data Centre
12 48 (1.87%) Derivative
13 47 (1.83%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
15 41 (1.60%) Equities
16 36 (1.40%) Algorithms
17 34 (1.32%) Mainframe
18 32 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (1.25%) Data Structures
19 30 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 184 (7.16%) Linux
2 75 (2.92%) Windows
3 40 (1.56%) Unix
4 15 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.31%) VMS
8 7 (0.27%) zOS
9 6 (0.23%) Solaris
10 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.078%) AIX
13 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
14 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (38.07%) CI/CD
2 736 (28.65%) DevOps
3 592 (23.04%) Agile
4 521 (20.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 479 (18.65%) AI
6 405 (15.76%) Microservices
7 380 (14.79%) Containerisation
8 374 (14.56%) Analytics
9 347 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
10 318 (12.38%) Software Engineering
11 301 (11.72%) Migration
12 297 (11.56%) Data Modelling
13 283 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
14 276 (10.74%) Data Engineering
15 271 (10.55%) Observability
16 255 (9.93%) Machine Learning
17 241 (9.38%) ETL
18 238 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
19 228 (8.88%) Full-Stack Development
20 212 (8.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 998 (38.85%) Python
2 566 (22.03%) SQL
3 467 (18.18%) Java
4 226 (8.80%) TypeScript
5 222 (8.64%) JavaScript
6 118 (4.59%) C#
7 111 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 104 (4.05%) Bash
9 100 (3.89%) Go
10 44 (1.71%) Scala
11 39 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 38 (1.48%) Ruby
13 23 (0.90%) R
14 20 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.74%) Bicep
16 18 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.66%) C++
18 11 (0.43%) PHP
19 10 (0.39%) Groovy
19 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 730 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 648 (25.22%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.14%) Degree
4 120 (4.67%) AWS Certification
5 71 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (2.61%) CISSP
7 59 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 37 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.13%) CISM
13 26 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.90%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.90%) PMP
15 21 (0.82%) CCNP
16 20 (0.78%) CCSP
16 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 118 (4.59%) GDPR
3 97 (3.78%) QA
4 89 (3.46%) NIST
5 75 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.17%) SLA
9 23 (0.90%) NCSC
10 21 (0.82%) GRC
11 16 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.54%) PMO
12 14 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.43%) WCAG
14 7 (0.27%) PSD2
15 6 (0.23%) MiFID
15 6 (0.23%) SEPA
16 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 491 (19.11%) Docker
2 86 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.47%) Squid
6 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.19%) HDFS
7 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.078%) Firmware
10 2 (0.078%) KVM
10 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.078%) Postfix
10 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 587 (22.85%) Terraform
2 523 (20.36%) Kubernetes
3 147 (5.72%) Grafana
4 129 (5.02%) Ansible
5 125 (4.87%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.86%) Argo
8 21 (0.82%) Puppet
9 18 (0.70%) Kibana
10 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.47%) Consul
12 12 (0.47%) QRadar
13 7 (0.27%) Packer
14 6 (0.23%) Istio
14 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.23%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 194 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 132 (5.14%) Databricks
3 95 (3.70%) Google
4 89 (3.46%) Oracle
5 79 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 75 (2.92%) Splunk
7 63 (2.45%) CyberArk
8 60 (2.34%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 44 (1.71%) Cisco
11 36 (1.40%) VMware
12 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.36%) Centrify
12 35 (1.36%) SAP
13 34 (1.32%) Dynatrace
14 33 (1.28%) IBM
15 28 (1.09%) Palo Alto
16 26 (1.01%) Red Hat
17 23 (0.90%) Confluent
18 22 (0.86%) Foundry