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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,838 2,252 2,323
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.24% 16.60% 14.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.25% 38.64% 34.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,976 1,577 1,785
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £534 £575
% change year-on-year +3.00% -7.13% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 10
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +57.25% -58.18%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £64.63
90th Percentile - £86.75 £73.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -35.19%

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 8,287 5,828 6,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.59% 42.96% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,657 3,987 4,889
10th Percentile £363 £342 £350
25th Percentile £443 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 84 56
10th Percentile £19.30 £22.65 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.37
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -45.85%
75th Percentile £55.38 £47.81 £41.19
90th Percentile £74.75 £71.88 £66.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
% change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -6 291 £550 -4.35% 144
West London +7 98 £560 +28.00% 70
South London +1 88 £516 -2.73% 5
East London +8 14 £525 -10.26% 27
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
1 140 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 95 (3.35%) Confluence
4 73 (2.57%) Apache
5 36 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.53%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) CMS
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.070%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.070%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.070%) Endur
8 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.035%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 1,228 (43.27%) Azure
2 631 (22.23%) GCP
3 399 (14.06%) Serverless
4 390 (13.74%) Amazon S3
5 356 (12.54%) GitHub
6 337 (11.87%) AWS Lambda
7 225 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
8 200 (7.05%) Snowflake
9 198 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
10 171 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 163 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
11 163 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 139 (4.90%) Power Platform
13 136 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
14 130 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
15 121 (4.26%) SaaS
16 119 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 107 (3.77%) dbt
18 93 (3.28%) Amazon Bedrock
19 91 (3.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.91%) Firewall
2 92 (3.24%) Network Security
3 72 (2.54%) DNS
4 67 (2.36%) VPN
5 47 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.30%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 25 (0.88%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) BGP
10 20 (0.70%) SSL
11 18 (0.63%) Internet
12 16 (0.56%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) SSH
13 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
14 13 (0.46%) NGFW
15 12 (0.42%) VLAN
16 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
16 11 (0.39%) SAN
17 10 (0.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 140 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (4.44%) Power BI
4 125 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
5 120 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.16%) Data Lake
7 102 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
8 100 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 98 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 89 (3.14%) DynamoDB
11 85 (3.00%) Metadata
12 76 (2.68%) MongoDB
13 74 (2.61%) Relational Database
14 67 (2.36%) Tableau
15 63 (2.22%) Big Data
16 51 (1.80%) Delta Lake
17 41 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
18 38 (1.34%) BigQuery
19 35 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
20 33 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 272 (9.58%) Git
2 265 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 245 (8.63%) GitLab
4 150 (5.29%) JIRA
5 35 (1.23%) JUnit
6 33 (1.16%) JMeter
7 31 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.06%) MLflow
9 29 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.99%) Maven
11 27 (0.95%) Mockito
12 24 (0.85%) Selenium
13 21 (0.74%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.74%) Gradle
13 21 (0.74%) Postman
14 20 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 20 (0.70%) Gatling
15 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 712 (25.09%) Finance
2 615 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 416 (14.66%) Public Sector
4 262 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (9.09%) Banking
6 88 (3.10%) Front Office
7 71 (2.50%) Retail
8 62 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 60 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 45 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 39 (1.37%) Financial Institution
13 36 (1.27%) Marketing
14 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (0.99%) Legal
16 27 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (0.88%) Law
18 23 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
19 20 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
20 18 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 603 (21.25%) Architect
2 439 (15.47%) Senior
3 398 (14.02%) Developer
4 323 (11.38%) Lead
5 287 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 282 (9.94%) AWS Engineer
7 207 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 168 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
9 142 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 123 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 117 (4.12%) AWS Architect
12 115 (4.05%) Java Developer
13 111 (3.91%) Analyst
14 96 (3.38%) Senior Developer
15 92 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
17 86 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 86 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 83 (2.92%) Cloud Architect
19 82 (2.89%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (11.31%) Kafka
2 246 (8.67%) React
3 239 (8.42%) REST
4 183 (6.45%) Node.js
5 172 (6.06%) Spring
6 159 (5.60%) Spring Boot
7 143 (5.04%) RESTful
8 95 (3.35%) GraphQL
9 94 (3.31%) PySpark
10 88 (3.10%) .NET
11 77 (2.71%) OAuth
12 69 (2.43%) AngularJS
13 67 (2.36%) Redux
14 61 (2.15%) FastAPI
14 61 (2.15%) JSON
15 56 (1.97%) HTML
16 50 (1.76%) CSS
17 46 (1.62%) LangChain
17 46 (1.62%) OAuth2
17 46 (1.62%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 499 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 191 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 125 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 110 (3.88%) AI Agents
5 96 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 85 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (2.75%) Fixed Income
8 69 (2.43%) Data Centre
9 65 (2.29%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 51 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.66%) Management Information System
14 41 (1.44%) Derivative
15 40 (1.41%) Data Structures
16 38 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
16 38 (1.34%) Equities
17 35 (1.23%) PKI
18 33 (1.16%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.16%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 213 (7.51%) Linux
2 119 (4.19%) Windows
3 42 (1.48%) Unix
4 39 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.070%) CentOS
13 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.070%) VMS
14 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,120 (39.46%) CI/CD
2 849 (29.92%) DevOps
3 717 (25.26%) Agile
4 595 (20.97%) AI
4 595 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 421 (14.83%) Microservices
6 405 (14.27%) Containerisation
7 376 (13.25%) Analytics
8 365 (12.86%) Software Engineering
9 361 (12.72%) Migration
10 352 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 351 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
12 342 (12.05%) Observability
13 331 (11.66%) Data Pipeline
14 330 (11.63%) Data Modelling
15 327 (11.52%) Data Engineering
16 313 (11.03%) Machine Learning
17 292 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 281 (9.90%) Event-Driven
19 270 (9.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (36.72%) Python
2 587 (20.68%) SQL
3 503 (17.72%) Java
4 265 (9.34%) TypeScript
5 239 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 143 (5.04%) Bash
7 120 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.88%) C#
9 83 (2.92%) Go
10 45 (1.59%) Scala
11 36 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.09%) Bicep
13 30 (1.06%) Ruby
14 27 (0.95%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.70%) Groovy
15 20 (0.70%) R
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.56%) C++
18 15 (0.53%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 754 (26.57%) Security Cleared
2 678 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.25%) Degree
4 136 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 87 (3.07%) CISSP
6 68 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 65 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 63 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
10 48 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.48%) CISM
12 36 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 27 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.70%) CCNP
15 20 (0.70%) CCSP
15 20 (0.70%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.70%) PMP
16 18 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (6.87%) Data Quality
2 132 (4.65%) QA
3 95 (3.35%) GDPR
4 94 (3.31%) NIST
5 79 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.16%) GRC
8 32 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.85%) SLA
10 20 (0.70%) NCSC
11 19 (0.67%) ISO 20022
11 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.63%) PMO
13 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.56%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
17 11 (0.39%) SEPA
17 11 (0.39%) WCAG
18 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 493 (17.37%) Docker
2 82 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) vSphere
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.070%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 659 (23.22%) Terraform
2 590 (20.79%) Kubernetes
3 188 (6.62%) Grafana
4 169 (5.95%) Ansible
5 149 (5.25%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.16%) Argo
8 25 (0.88%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.35%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) QRadar
13 9 (0.32%) Istio
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 249 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 141 (4.97%) Databricks
3 124 (4.37%) ServiceNow
4 117 (4.12%) Google
5 106 (3.74%) Oracle
6 85 (3.00%) Splunk
7 68 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.97%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.76%) Cisco
10 46 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 44 (1.55%) VMware
12 43 (1.52%) SAP
13 37 (1.30%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.20%) Foundry
15 31 (1.09%) IBM
16 27 (0.95%) Dynatrace
16 27 (0.95%) Informatica
16 27 (0.95%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.85%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.81%) Qualys