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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,169 1,984 2,322
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.87% 14.26% 12.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.56% 34.53% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 1,419 1,801
10th Percentile £400 £407 £413
25th Percentile £457 £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 6,463 5,746 6,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 41.30% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,447 3,829 5,120
10th Percentile £350 £353 £325
25th Percentile £425 £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 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 70
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.70
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 £53.69
90th Percentile £77.71 £64.38 £62.63
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +1.86%

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 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 25 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 25 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 +1 259 £541 -0.69% 223
South London +7 62 £522 +4.35% 43
West London +4 38 £603 +6.07% 62
East London +5 9 £630 - 46
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
1 111 (5.12%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (3.78%) Confluence
3 76 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 60 (2.77%) Apache
5 37 (1.71%) nginx
6 16 (0.74%) SAS
7 15 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.65%) Camunda
9 13 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.60%) 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 (0.092%) Mule
14 2 (0.092%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.65%) 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 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.18%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.092%) 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 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.18%) Actimize
4 4 (0.18%) Endur
5 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.092%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.092%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.092%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.092%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 857 (39.51%) Azure
2 486 (22.41%) GCP
3 338 (15.58%) Serverless
4 322 (14.85%) Amazon S3
5 306 (14.11%) GitHub
6 297 (13.69%) AWS Lambda
7 194 (8.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
9 151 (6.96%) Snowflake
10 149 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
11 137 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
12 132 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 129 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
14 112 (5.16%) Power Platform
15 97 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 72 (3.32%) dbt
17 67 (3.09%) Amazon Kinesis
18 64 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
19 54 (2.49%) AWS Step Functions
20 47 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 113 (5.21%) Firewall
2 67 (3.09%) DNS
3 64 (2.95%) VPN
4 51 (2.35%) Network Security
5 41 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.24%) SSL
7 26 (1.20%) WAN
8 17 (0.78%) HTTP
8 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.65%) BGP
9 14 (0.65%) DHCP
9 14 (0.65%) LAN
10 12 (0.55%) OSPF
11 10 (0.46%) VLAN
11 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.41%) SSH
12 9 (0.41%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.37%) IMAP
13 8 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
13 8 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
2 117 (5.39%) NoSQL
3 108 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (4.56%) Power BI
5 95 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
5 95 (4.38%) Data Lake
6 88 (4.06%) Relational Database
7 87 (4.01%) SQL Server
8 81 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 65 (3.00%) MongoDB
10 63 (2.90%) DynamoDB
11 58 (2.67%) MySQL
12 56 (2.58%) Metadata
13 54 (2.49%) Tableau
14 52 (2.40%) Big Data
15 49 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
16 43 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
17 34 (1.57%) BigQuery
18 33 (1.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 229 (10.56%) Git
2 214 (9.87%) Jenkins
3 192 (8.85%) GitLab
4 148 (6.82%) JIRA
5 39 (1.80%) JUnit
6 28 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 28 (1.29%) MLflow
7 26 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 23 (1.06%) ERwin
9 20 (0.92%) Selenium
10 18 (0.83%) Mockito
10 18 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.74%) Maven
12 15 (0.69%) JMeter
13 14 (0.65%) ER Studio
14 12 (0.55%) Gatling
15 11 (0.51%) Postman
16 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.46%) Gradle
General
1 554 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 453 (20.89%) Finance
3 260 (11.99%) Public Sector
4 193 (8.90%) Banking
5 190 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 53 (2.44%) Front Office
8 41 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 28 (1.29%) Retail
12 27 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.15%) Marketing
15 22 (1.01%) Military
16 17 (0.78%) Legal
17 14 (0.65%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 395 (18.21%) Developer
2 361 (16.64%) Senior
3 351 (16.18%) Architect
4 229 (10.56%) AWS Engineer
5 199 (9.17%) Data Engineer
6 187 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 154 (7.10%) Lead
8 115 (5.30%) Senior Developer
9 114 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 106 (4.89%) Python Engineer
11 93 (4.29%) Analyst
12 91 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
13 83 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 80 (3.69%) Java Developer
14 80 (3.69%) Python Developer
15 78 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
16 76 (3.50%) AWS Developer
17 75 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
18 73 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
19 71 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (12.59%) Kafka
2 201 (9.27%) React
3 155 (7.15%) REST
4 149 (6.87%) Node.js
5 136 (6.27%) Spring
6 122 (5.62%) RESTful
7 118 (5.44%) Spring Boot
8 96 (4.43%) AngularJS
9 72 (3.32%) HTML
10 68 (3.14%) CSS
11 67 (3.09%) gRPC
12 65 (3.00%) Pandas
13 62 (2.86%) NumPy
14 58 (2.67%) .NET
15 55 (2.54%) OAuth
15 55 (2.54%) PySpark
16 54 (2.49%) SOAP
17 50 (2.31%) LDAP
17 50 (2.31%) PyTorch
17 50 (2.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 300 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 109 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.18%) Security Posture
4 62 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 47 (2.17%) Hedge funds
8 44 (2.03%) Derivative
8 44 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 43 (1.98%) Onboarding
10 40 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 37 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 37 (1.71%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 36 (1.66%) Fixed Income
13 34 (1.57%) Equities
14 32 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 32 (1.48%) Algorithms
15 31 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
16 30 (1.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 195 (8.99%) Linux
2 71 (3.27%) Windows
3 50 (2.31%) Unix
4 22 (1.01%) VMS
5 15 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (0.37%) Android
8 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.23%) CentOS
10 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.092%) 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
1 832 (38.36%) CI/CD
2 613 (28.26%) DevOps
3 515 (23.74%) Agile
4 427 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 349 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
6 347 (16.00%) Microservices
7 328 (15.12%) AI
8 313 (14.43%) Analytics
9 288 (13.28%) Containerisation
10 277 (12.77%) Software Engineering
11 236 (10.88%) Data Modelling
12 230 (10.60%) Data Pipeline
13 207 (9.54%) Observability
14 205 (9.45%) Data Engineering
15 203 (9.36%) Machine Learning
16 196 (9.04%) ETL
17 185 (8.53%) Migration
18 174 (8.02%) Full-Stack Development
19 166 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
20 165 (7.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 932 (42.97%) Python
2 504 (23.24%) SQL
3 412 (18.99%) Java
4 196 (9.04%) JavaScript
5 182 (8.39%) TypeScript
6 114 (5.26%) Bash
7 93 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 89 (4.10%) C#
8 89 (4.10%) Go
9 33 (1.52%) Scala
10 31 (1.43%) C++
11 29 (1.34%) Ruby
12 22 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.83%) R
13 18 (0.83%) Rust
14 15 (0.69%) Groovy
15 14 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.60%) Perl
17 12 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 599 (27.62%) Security Cleared
2 525 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.95%) AWS Certification
4 118 (5.44%) Degree
5 67 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.71%) CISSP
7 37 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.06%) MCP
12 19 (0.88%) CISM
13 18 (0.83%) OSCP
13 18 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.78%) PMP
15 15 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.60%) CCNP
17 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 101 (4.66%) GDPR
3 78 (3.60%) QA
4 69 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.72%) NIST
6 34 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.24%) NCSC
8 24 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.65%) 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 (0.28%) 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
1 505 (23.28%) Docker
2 62 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.65%) Squid
3 14 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.37%) DFS Replication
5 8 (0.37%) Dovecot
5 8 (0.37%) Postfix
6 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.28%) 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 (0.092%) KVM
9 2 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) Ceph
10 1 (0.046%) iptables
Systems Management
1 520 (23.97%) Terraform
2 503 (23.19%) Kubernetes
3 137 (6.32%) Ansible
4 105 (4.84%) Grafana
5 95 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.61%) Argo
7 33 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.01%) Puppet
9 18 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.74%) Consul
10 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.69%) Nessus
12 12 (0.55%) Packer
12 12 (0.55%) SCCM
13 11 (0.51%) 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 (6.73%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.55%) Databricks
3 85 (3.92%) Google
3 85 (3.92%) Oracle
4 78 (3.60%) Splunk
5 56 (2.58%) ServiceNow
6 43 (1.98%) CyberArk
7 38 (1.75%) OpenAI
8 36 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 34 (1.57%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.57%) Centrify
11 32 (1.48%) Cisco
12 30 (1.38%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.24%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.15%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.06%) F5
16 22 (1.01%) IBM
17 21 (0.97%) SAP
17 21 (0.97%) VMware