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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,806 2,147 2,286
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.80% 15.91% 14.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.55% 36.83% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,976 1,487 1,717
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 £697 £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 £73.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.11% +58.08% -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 8,363 5,830 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.14% 43.21% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,714 3,966 4,714
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -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 £26.38 £30.88
% change year-on-year +28.87% -14.57% -6.44%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -4 286 £550 -5.98% 272
West London +6 96 £550 +29.41% 133
South London +1 76 £535 +0.71% 15
East London +10 14 £550 -9.47% 30
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
1 164 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 101 (3.60%) Confluence
4 89 (3.17%) Apache
5 28 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.46%) 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%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.29%) Magento
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) Endur
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.071%) Shopify
7 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,258 (44.83%) Azure
2 616 (21.95%) GCP
3 400 (14.26%) Serverless
4 381 (13.58%) Amazon S3
5 374 (13.33%) GitHub
6 335 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
7 253 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
8 234 (8.34%) Snowflake
9 209 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
10 184 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 159 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
12 156 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 148 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
14 146 (5.20%) dbt
15 139 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
16 132 (4.70%) Power Platform
17 129 (4.60%) SaaS
18 120 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 108 (3.85%) Entra ID
20 95 (3.39%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.85%) Firewall
2 86 (3.06%) Network Security
3 69 (2.46%) DNS
4 56 (2.00%) VPN
5 39 (1.39%) WAN
6 36 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 20 (0.71%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) HTTP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 18 (0.64%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.53%) OSPF
13 13 (0.46%) MPLS
13 13 (0.46%) SAN
13 13 (0.46%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.43%) LAN
14 12 (0.43%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.31%) NoSQL
5 119 (4.24%) Power BI
6 113 (4.03%) Data Lake
7 107 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 103 (3.67%) Metadata
9 92 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
9 92 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 90 (3.21%) MongoDB
11 88 (3.14%) DynamoDB
12 77 (2.74%) Relational Database
13 70 (2.49%) Delta Lake
14 59 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
15 58 (2.07%) Big Data
16 54 (1.92%) Tableau
17 52 (1.85%) MySQL
18 44 (1.57%) Redis
19 42 (1.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 299 (10.66%) Git
2 293 (10.44%) Jenkins
3 260 (9.27%) GitLab
4 154 (5.49%) JIRA
5 33 (1.18%) JMeter
6 32 (1.14%) Maven
7 31 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 31 (1.10%) JUnit
8 30 (1.07%) Selenium
8 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 25 (0.89%) Mockito
10 24 (0.86%) Gradle
10 24 (0.86%) Postman
11 23 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 20 (0.71%) Cucumber
13 19 (0.68%) Claude Code
14 18 (0.64%) REST Assured
15 17 (0.61%) Gatling
16 15 (0.53%) MLflow
17 11 (0.39%) CircleCI
General
1 699 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 662 (23.59%) Finance
3 387 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 277 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.09%) Banking
6 83 (2.96%) Retail
7 64 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 45 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 40 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (1.39%) Marketing
11 36 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.14%) Front Office
13 30 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 30 (1.07%) Law
13 30 (1.07%) Legal
14 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (0.86%) Billing
15 24 (0.86%) Military
15 24 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 598 (21.31%) Architect
2 450 (16.04%) Senior
3 344 (12.26%) Developer
4 308 (10.98%) Data Engineer
5 296 (10.55%) Lead
6 262 (9.34%) AWS Engineer
7 204 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 155 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (4.06%) AWS Architect
10 111 (3.96%) Analyst
11 109 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 102 (3.64%) Java Developer
13 101 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
14 98 (3.49%) Data Architect
15 97 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 94 (3.35%) Software Engineer
17 91 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
18 82 (2.92%) Senior Developer
19 79 (2.82%) AWS DevOps
20 77 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 710 (25.30%) Terraform
2 316 (11.26%) Kafka
3 271 (9.66%) REST
4 202 (7.20%) React
5 184 (6.56%) Spring
6 168 (5.99%) Spring Boot
7 157 (5.60%) RESTful
8 122 (4.35%) Node.js
9 114 (4.06%) PySpark
10 95 (3.39%) .NET
11 89 (3.17%) OAuth
12 68 (2.42%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.32%) FastAPI
13 65 (2.32%) HTML
14 63 (2.25%) JSON
15 62 (2.21%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.92%) CSS
17 50 (1.78%) OAuth2
18 49 (1.75%) SOAP
19 47 (1.67%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 542 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 189 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 132 (4.70%) AI Agents
5 120 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 81 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.35%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.28%) Data Centre
9 64 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 48 (1.71%) Management Information System
11 43 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.43%) Replication
13 39 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.25%) PKI
14 35 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 33 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
16 31 (1.10%) CMDB
17 28 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 235 (8.37%) Linux
2 122 (4.35%) Windows
3 57 (2.03%) Unix
4 45 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.71%) 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 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (41.87%) CI/CD
2 889 (31.68%) DevOps
3 715 (25.48%) Agile
4 665 (23.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 634 (22.59%) AI
6 463 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 426 (15.18%) Microservices
8 406 (14.47%) Containerisation
9 385 (13.72%) Observability
10 371 (13.22%) Migration
11 368 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
12 360 (12.83%) Analytics
13 356 (12.69%) Software Engineering
14 350 (12.47%) Data Pipeline
15 343 (12.22%) Data Modelling
16 337 (12.01%) Data Engineering
17 326 (11.62%) Event-Driven
18 322 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
19 296 (10.55%) Machine Learning
20 295 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,033 (36.81%) Python
2 608 (21.67%) SQL
3 485 (17.28%) Java
4 210 (7.48%) TypeScript
5 200 (7.13%) JavaScript
6 168 (5.99%) Bash
7 141 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.92%) C#
9 49 (1.75%) Scala
10 43 (1.53%) Go
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.21%) Bicep
13 27 (0.96%) Groovy
14 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 26 (0.93%) Ruby
15 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.71%) R
16 19 (0.68%) C++
17 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 768 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 678 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 162 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 146 (5.20%) Degree
5 89 (3.17%) CISSP
5 89 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 72 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 63 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 48 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.67%) CISM
12 27 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 23 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.78%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.75%) PMP
16 19 (0.68%) CCSP
17 18 (0.64%) CCNP
17 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
18 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (8.34%) Data Quality
2 156 (5.56%) QA
3 104 (3.71%) NIST
4 95 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 84 (2.99%) GDPR
6 37 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.07%) GRC
8 29 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.89%) NCSC
9 25 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (0.86%) SLA
11 20 (0.71%) ISO 20022
12 19 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.64%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.53%) EU AI Act
14 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.46%) PMO
15 13 (0.46%) SEPA
16 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 501 (17.85%) Docker
2 89 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.46%) 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
1 616 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 206 (7.34%) Grafana
3 192 (6.84%) Ansible
4 162 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.25%) Argo
5 35 (1.25%) Kibana
6 32 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.93%) Puppet
8 13 (0.46%) 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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 294 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 186 (6.63%) Databricks
3 137 (4.88%) Oracle
4 129 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 126 (4.49%) Google
6 107 (3.81%) Splunk
7 69 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.92%) Cisco
8 54 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 54 (1.92%) VMware
9 51 (1.82%) SAP
10 50 (1.78%) CyberArk
11 42 (1.50%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.39%) Informatica
13 36 (1.28%) Dynatrace
14 33 (1.18%) IBM
15 29 (1.03%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.93%) Foundry
16 26 (0.93%) Red Hat
17 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft