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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,191 1,982 2,315
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.96% 14.23% 12.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.67% 34.48% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,517 1,418 1,794
10th Percentile £400 £407 £413
25th Percentile £456 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £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 10
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £41.70
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -5.93% -8.88%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £87.75
England median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +62.41% - -27.28%

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 6,508 5,749 6,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.43% 41.26% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,474 3,836 5,099
10th Percentile £346 £352 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.30 £29.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -8.32% +25.75%
75th Percentile £56.13 £47.72 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.71 £64.38 £63.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.43
% change year-on-year +9.09% +12.57% +5.39%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 0 262 £540 +0.23% 193
South London +7 63 £525 +5.00% 43
West London +3 38 £603 +7.78% 63
East London +5 9 £630 - 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
1 114 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (3.74%) Confluence
3 76 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 62 (2.83%) Apache
5 37 (1.69%) nginx
6 16 (0.73%) SAS
7 15 (0.68%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.64%) Camunda
9 13 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.32%) Appian
10 7 (0.32%) CMS
11 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.14%) Traefik
14 2 (0.091%) Mule
14 2 (0.091%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 2 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 6 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.18%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.046%) Notion
9 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
9 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.18%) Actimize
3 4 (0.18%) Endur
4 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.091%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.091%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 867 (39.57%) Azure
2 488 (22.27%) GCP
3 345 (15.75%) Serverless
4 325 (14.83%) Amazon S3
5 307 (14.01%) GitHub
6 302 (13.78%) AWS Lambda
7 194 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
9 155 (7.07%) Snowflake
10 149 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
11 139 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
12 132 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 129 (5.89%) Amazon EC2
14 114 (5.20%) Power Platform
15 97 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 76 (3.47%) dbt
17 69 (3.15%) Amazon Kinesis
18 65 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
19 56 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
20 49 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 114 (5.20%) Firewall
2 67 (3.06%) DNS
3 64 (2.92%) VPN
4 51 (2.33%) Network Security
5 41 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.23%) SSL
6 27 (1.23%) WAN
7 17 (0.78%) HTTP
7 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.68%) LAN
9 14 (0.64%) BGP
9 14 (0.64%) DHCP
10 12 (0.55%) OSPF
11 11 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.46%) VLAN
13 9 (0.41%) SSH
13 9 (0.41%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.37%) IMAP
14 8 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
14 8 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 111 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
5 100 (4.56%) Power BI
6 98 (4.47%) Data Lake
7 97 (4.43%) Amazon Athena
8 89 (4.06%) Relational Database
8 89 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 82 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 66 (3.01%) MongoDB
11 65 (2.97%) DynamoDB
12 60 (2.74%) MySQL
13 58 (2.65%) Metadata
14 54 (2.46%) Tableau
15 52 (2.37%) Big Data
16 50 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
17 45 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
18 35 (1.60%) Apache Iceberg
19 34 (1.55%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 231 (10.54%) Git
2 214 (9.77%) Jenkins
3 192 (8.76%) GitLab
4 148 (6.75%) JIRA
5 39 (1.78%) JUnit
6 28 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 28 (1.28%) MLflow
7 26 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 23 (1.05%) ERwin
9 20 (0.91%) Selenium
10 18 (0.82%) Mockito
10 18 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.73%) Maven
12 15 (0.68%) JMeter
13 14 (0.64%) ER Studio
14 12 (0.55%) Gatling
15 11 (0.50%) Postman
16 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.46%) Gradle
General
1 557 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 456 (20.81%) Finance
3 260 (11.87%) Public Sector
4 197 (8.99%) Banking
5 192 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 55 (2.51%) Front Office
8 43 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.32%) Retail
12 27 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.14%) Marketing
15 22 (1.00%) Military
16 17 (0.78%) Legal
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 402 (18.35%) Developer
2 364 (16.61%) Senior
3 356 (16.25%) Architect
4 231 (10.54%) AWS Engineer
5 201 (9.17%) Data Engineer
6 188 (8.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 155 (7.07%) Lead
8 117 (5.34%) Software Engineer
9 115 (5.25%) Senior Developer
10 108 (4.93%) Python Engineer
11 93 (4.24%) Analyst
12 91 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
13 84 (3.83%) Python Developer
14 83 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 82 (3.74%) Java Developer
16 78 (3.56%) AWS Developer
16 78 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
17 76 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
18 73 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
19 72 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (12.69%) Kafka
2 202 (9.22%) React
3 156 (7.12%) REST
4 152 (6.94%) Node.js
5 137 (6.25%) Spring
6 124 (5.66%) RESTful
7 118 (5.39%) Spring Boot
8 97 (4.43%) AngularJS
9 73 (3.33%) HTML
10 71 (3.24%) gRPC
11 68 (3.10%) CSS
12 67 (3.06%) Pandas
13 64 (2.92%) NumPy
14 58 (2.65%) .NET
15 56 (2.56%) PySpark
16 55 (2.51%) OAuth
17 54 (2.46%) SOAP
18 50 (2.28%) LDAP
18 50 (2.28%) PyTorch
18 50 (2.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 300 (13.69%) Cloud Native
2 110 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.15%) Security Posture
4 62 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.24%) Hedge funds
6 49 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (2.10%) Derivative
8 44 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 43 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 40 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 39 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 39 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 38 (1.73%) Fixed Income
13 37 (1.69%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.64%) Equities
15 32 (1.46%) AI Agents
15 32 (1.46%) Algorithms
16 31 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
17 30 (1.37%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 197 (8.99%) Linux
2 72 (3.29%) Windows
3 50 (2.28%) Unix
4 22 (1.00%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (0.37%) Android
8 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.23%) CentOS
10 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.091%) 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
1 839 (38.29%) CI/CD
2 615 (28.07%) DevOps
3 520 (23.73%) Agile
4 430 (19.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 352 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 351 (16.02%) Microservices
7 330 (15.06%) AI
8 316 (14.42%) Analytics
9 289 (13.19%) Containerisation
10 283 (12.92%) Software Engineering
11 239 (10.91%) Data Modelling
12 231 (10.54%) Data Pipeline
13 209 (9.54%) Data Engineering
14 208 (9.49%) Observability
15 203 (9.27%) Machine Learning
16 200 (9.13%) ETL
17 190 (8.67%) Migration
18 175 (7.99%) Full-Stack Development
19 166 (7.58%) Stakeholder Management
19 166 (7.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 944 (43.09%) Python
2 508 (23.19%) SQL
3 419 (19.12%) Java
4 199 (9.08%) JavaScript
5 185 (8.44%) TypeScript
6 115 (5.25%) Bash
7 93 (4.24%) PowerShell
8 90 (4.11%) Go
9 89 (4.06%) C#
10 33 (1.51%) Scala
11 31 (1.41%) C++
12 29 (1.32%) Ruby
13 22 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.82%) R
14 18 (0.82%) Rust
15 15 (0.68%) Groovy
16 14 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.59%) Perl
18 12 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 602 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 528 (24.10%) SC Cleared
3 133 (6.07%) AWS Certification
4 119 (5.43%) Degree
5 68 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 39 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.69%) CISSP
9 32 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.05%) MCP
13 19 (0.87%) CISM
13 19 (0.87%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.82%) OSCP
14 18 (0.82%) PMP
15 15 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.59%) CCNP
17 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 101 (4.61%) GDPR
3 78 (3.56%) QA
4 69 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.69%) NIST
6 34 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.23%) NCSC
8 24 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.55%) SLA
12 10 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.46%) WCAG
13 8 (0.37%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) SEPA
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 507 (23.14%) Docker
2 63 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.64%) Squid
3 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.37%) DFS Replication
5 8 (0.37%) Dovecot
5 8 (0.37%) Postfix
6 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.32%) zsh
7 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.091%) KVM
9 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) Ceph
10 1 (0.046%) iptables
Systems Management
1 522 (23.82%) Terraform
2 506 (23.09%) Kubernetes
3 138 (6.30%) Ansible
4 106 (4.84%) Grafana
5 96 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.60%) Argo
7 33 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.00%) Puppet
9 19 (0.87%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.73%) Consul
10 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.68%) Nessus
12 12 (0.55%) Packer
12 12 (0.55%) SCCM
13 11 (0.50%) Kibana
14 9 (0.41%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.37%) Istio
15 8 (0.37%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.37%) QRadar
16 7 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 146 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 144 (6.57%) Databricks
3 87 (3.97%) Oracle
4 85 (3.88%) Google
5 78 (3.56%) Splunk
6 56 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.96%) CyberArk
8 38 (1.73%) OpenAI
8 38 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 36 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 34 (1.55%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.55%) Centrify
11 33 (1.51%) Cisco
12 30 (1.37%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.23%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.14%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.05%) F5
16 22 (1.00%) IBM
16 22 (1.00%) SAP
16 22 (1.00%) VMware