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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,112 2,026 2,352
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.74% 13.78% 12.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.38% 33.57% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,471 1,465 1,797
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £460 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £555
% change year-on-year -8.70% +3.60% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £68.25 £45.45 £43.03
25th Percentile £74.57 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.15% -7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £89.06 £75.38 £78.75
90th Percentile £94.13 £87.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £84.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.90% - -23.03%

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 6,327 6,035 6,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.16% 41.04% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,320 4,083 5,158
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 43 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.35 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -16.10% -12.03% +29.56%
75th Percentile £49.06 £54.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.00 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £28.75 £24.31
% change year-on-year -5.36% +18.29% +6.53%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +5 253 £563 +2.27% 744
South London +10 60 £525 +5.00% 90
West London -1 33 £603 +7.78% 61
East London +5 5 £675 - 49
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
1 122 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (4.17%) Confluence
3 71 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 70 (3.31%) Apache
5 32 (1.52%) nginx
6 16 (0.76%) SAS
6 16 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.43%) Camunda
10 7 (0.33%) CMS
11 6 (0.28%) Appian
12 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.14%) Traefik
15 2 (0.095%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.095%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 12 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.19%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.047%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.047%) Notion
8 1 (0.047%) Pro Tools
8 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.24%) Endur
3 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Actimize
5 2 (0.095%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.095%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.095%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.095%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.095%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.047%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.047%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.047%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 858 (40.63%) Azure
2 481 (22.77%) GCP
3 302 (14.30%) GitHub
3 302 (14.30%) Serverless
4 287 (13.59%) Amazon S3
5 265 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
6 190 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
7 160 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 159 (7.53%) Snowflake
9 129 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 125 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
11 120 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
12 116 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
13 103 (4.88%) Power Platform
14 94 (4.45%) dbt
15 82 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 72 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
17 56 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
18 53 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
19 49 (2.32%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 112 (5.30%) Firewall
2 65 (3.08%) DNS
3 57 (2.70%) VPN
4 53 (2.51%) Network Security
5 35 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.28%) SSL
6 27 (1.28%) WAN
7 20 (0.95%) HTTP
7 20 (0.95%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.76%) DHCP
9 15 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
10 14 (0.66%) SSH
11 13 (0.62%) LAN
12 11 (0.52%) BGP
12 11 (0.52%) VLAN
13 10 (0.47%) FTP
13 10 (0.47%) IMAP
13 10 (0.47%) SMTP
14 9 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (5.40%) NoSQL
3 111 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
5 100 (4.73%) Data Lake
6 99 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
7 93 (4.40%) Power BI
8 89 (4.21%) Relational Database
9 86 (4.07%) SQL Server
10 78 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 60 (2.84%) MongoDB
12 57 (2.70%) DynamoDB
13 54 (2.56%) Metadata
14 51 (2.41%) Tableau
15 48 (2.27%) Big Data
15 48 (2.27%) MySQL
16 45 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
16 45 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
17 44 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
18 33 (1.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 231 (10.94%) Git
2 208 (9.85%) Jenkins
3 165 (7.81%) GitLab
4 152 (7.20%) JIRA
5 36 (1.70%) JUnit
6 26 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 26 (1.23%) MLflow
7 24 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.09%) Selenium
9 20 (0.95%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.95%) ERwin
10 16 (0.76%) JMeter
10 16 (0.76%) Mockito
11 14 (0.66%) ER Studio
11 14 (0.66%) Maven
11 14 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.62%) Postman
13 11 (0.52%) Gatling
13 11 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 537 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 460 (21.78%) Finance
3 246 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 210 (9.94%) Banking
5 194 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 75 (3.55%) Front Office
8 38 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.33%) Marketing
11 28 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.09%) Retail
14 22 (1.04%) Military
15 18 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.85%) Legal
16 15 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 413 (19.55%) Developer
2 378 (17.90%) Senior
3 334 (15.81%) Architect
4 233 (11.03%) AWS Engineer
5 174 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 163 (7.72%) Data Engineer
7 149 (7.05%) Lead
8 125 (5.92%) Python Engineer
9 120 (5.68%) Software Engineer
10 114 (5.40%) Senior Developer
11 97 (4.59%) Java Developer
12 93 (4.40%) Analyst
13 88 (4.17%) AWS Developer
14 84 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
15 82 (3.88%) Python Developer
16 81 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
17 76 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 76 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
18 70 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
19 60 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (12.50%) Kafka
2 210 (9.94%) React
3 164 (7.77%) Node.js
4 147 (6.96%) REST
5 121 (5.73%) Spring
6 114 (5.40%) RESTful
7 103 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 97 (4.59%) AngularJS
9 78 (3.69%) Pandas
10 77 (3.65%) gRPC
11 76 (3.60%) NumPy
12 69 (3.27%) HTML
13 67 (3.17%) CSS
14 60 (2.84%) .NET
15 55 (2.60%) Vue
16 53 (2.51%) SciPy
17 51 (2.41%) FastAPI
18 49 (2.32%) GraphQL
19 47 (2.23%) PySpark
20 46 (2.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 257 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.08%) Hedge funds
4 63 (2.98%) Product Ownership
5 62 (2.94%) Security Posture
6 57 (2.70%) Derivative
7 56 (2.65%) Fixed Income
8 54 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 48 (2.27%) Equities
10 47 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
11 45 (2.13%) Onboarding
12 43 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (1.89%) Management Information System
14 37 (1.75%) Data Centre
15 36 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
15 36 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (1.70%) Public Cloud
16 31 (1.47%) Algorithms
17 29 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
18 28 (1.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 192 (9.09%) Linux
2 81 (3.84%) Windows
3 49 (2.32%) Unix
4 22 (1.04%) VMS
5 18 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.47%) Android
8 9 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.33%) CentOS
10 7 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.095%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.095%) zOS
12 1 (0.047%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (38.35%) CI/CD
2 601 (28.46%) DevOps
3 519 (24.57%) Agile
4 414 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 338 (16.00%) Microservices
5 338 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 295 (13.97%) Analytics
7 292 (13.83%) Software Engineering
8 275 (13.02%) AI
9 252 (11.93%) Containerisation
10 216 (10.23%) Data Modelling
11 202 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
12 197 (9.33%) Migration
13 196 (9.28%) Machine Learning
14 192 (9.09%) Observability
15 185 (8.76%) Data Engineering
16 183 (8.66%) ETL
17 163 (7.72%) Test Automation
18 162 (7.67%) Full-Stack Development
19 154 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 920 (43.56%) Python
2 482 (22.82%) SQL
3 430 (20.36%) Java
4 221 (10.46%) JavaScript
5 202 (9.56%) TypeScript
6 119 (5.63%) Bash
7 108 (5.11%) Go
8 96 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.12%) C#
10 36 (1.70%) C++
11 31 (1.47%) Ruby
12 25 (1.18%) Scala
13 22 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 21 (0.99%) Rust
15 17 (0.80%) Groovy
15 17 (0.80%) R
16 16 (0.76%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.76%) Perl
17 14 (0.66%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 542 (25.66%) Security Cleared
2 477 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 129 (6.11%) AWS Certification
4 124 (5.87%) Degree
5 65 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.56%) CISSP
7 33 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 30 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.85%) CISM
12 18 (0.85%) OSCP
13 17 (0.80%) MCP
14 15 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.62%) CCNP
16 13 (0.62%) PMP
17 11 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 97 (4.59%) GDPR
3 82 (3.88%) QA
4 73 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (2.84%) NIST
6 37 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.04%) NCSC
8 19 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.71%) HIPAA
9 15 (0.71%) WCAG
10 14 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.47%) SLA
12 9 (0.43%) GRC
13 8 (0.38%) MiFID
14 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.24%) HL7
15 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 481 (22.77%) Docker
2 64 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.52%) Squid
6 10 (0.47%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.47%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.47%) Postfix
7 8 (0.38%) zsh
8 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.14%) Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.095%) KVM
10 2 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.047%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 498 (23.58%) Terraform
2 480 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.58%) Ansible
4 109 (5.16%) Grafana
5 95 (4.50%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.56%) Argo
7 25 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.99%) Puppet
9 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.90%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.85%) Nessus
11 15 (0.71%) SCCM
12 12 (0.57%) Kibana
13 10 (0.47%) Packer
13 10 (0.47%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.43%) Consul
14 9 (0.43%) QRadar
15 8 (0.38%) Istio
16 7 (0.33%) Rancher
16 7 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 144 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.72%) Databricks
3 82 (3.88%) Google
4 80 (3.79%) Oracle
5 78 (3.69%) Splunk
6 62 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 35 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 32 (1.52%) Cisco
8 32 (1.52%) CyberArk
8 32 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 31 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 27 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
10 27 (1.28%) Centrify
11 24 (1.14%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.14%) Fortinet
11 24 (1.14%) IBM
12 22 (1.04%) VMware
13 21 (0.99%) F5
13 21 (0.99%) SAP
14 20 (0.95%) CheckPoint