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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,803 2,106 2,397
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.65% 16.73% 13.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.89% 39.04% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,937 1,475 1,865
10th Percentile £407 £400 £400
25th Percentile £471 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.29% -3.13%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £538 £563
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 12
10th Percentile £39.50 £36.13 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +78.12% -65.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £64.44 £59.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £82.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -37.59%

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 8,033 5,394 6,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 42.86% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,529 3,657 5,096
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £433 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 70 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £68.13 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -3 292 £550 - 91
West London +3 90 £560 +13.71% 50
South London +2 83 £500 -2.44% 3
East London +7 16 £540 -7.69% 28
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
1 134 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 82 (2.93%) Confluence
4 60 (2.14%) Apache
5 30 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 13 (0.46%) Camunda
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 8 (0.29%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 42 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
4 12 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.29%) Revit
6 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Endur
5 4 (0.14%) Magento
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.071%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.036%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,145 (40.85%) Azure
2 581 (20.73%) GCP
3 414 (14.77%) Serverless
4 412 (14.70%) Amazon S3
5 358 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
6 354 (12.63%) GitHub
7 224 (7.99%) GitHub Actions
8 198 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 192 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
9 192 (6.85%) Snowflake
10 172 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
11 171 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 153 (5.46%) Power Platform
13 139 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
14 128 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 116 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
16 113 (4.03%) SaaS
17 97 (3.46%) dbt
18 90 (3.21%) Amazon Bedrock
19 83 (2.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.85%) Firewall
2 87 (3.10%) Network Security
3 71 (2.53%) VPN
4 68 (2.43%) DNS
5 46 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.46%) WAN
7 24 (0.86%) BGP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) DHCP
10 18 (0.64%) LAN
10 18 (0.64%) OSPF
10 18 (0.64%) SSL
11 16 (0.57%) Internet
12 14 (0.50%) NGFW
12 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.43%) VLAN
14 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.36%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
16 8 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
3 134 (4.78%) Power BI
4 132 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
5 124 (4.42%) Data Lake
6 119 (4.25%) NoSQL
7 114 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
8 109 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 107 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 87 (3.10%) DynamoDB
11 79 (2.82%) Metadata
11 79 (2.82%) MongoDB
12 75 (2.68%) Relational Database
13 74 (2.64%) Tableau
14 62 (2.21%) Big Data
15 45 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
16 41 (1.46%) BigQuery
17 40 (1.43%) MySQL
18 38 (1.36%) Delta Lake
19 37 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 253 (9.03%) Jenkins
2 250 (8.92%) Git
3 249 (8.88%) GitLab
4 147 (5.24%) JIRA
5 42 (1.50%) JUnit
6 34 (1.21%) Mockito
7 32 (1.14%) MLflow
8 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.03%) JMeter
10 27 (0.96%) Cucumber
11 26 (0.93%) Maven
12 23 (0.82%) Gradle
13 22 (0.78%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.75%) Postman
15 20 (0.71%) Bitbucket
15 20 (0.71%) Selenium
16 19 (0.68%) Gatling
17 16 (0.57%) CircleCI
17 16 (0.57%) Snyk
18 15 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 668 (23.83%) Finance
2 603 (21.51%) Social Skills
3 398 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 241 (8.60%) Banking
5 237 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (2.93%) Front Office
7 68 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (2.28%) Retail
9 61 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (1.93%) Investment Banking
11 42 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 30 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.93%) Marketing
15 26 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.78%) Legal
17 21 (0.75%) Law
18 15 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 550 (19.62%) Architect
2 424 (15.13%) Senior
3 412 (14.70%) Developer
4 309 (11.02%) Lead
5 299 (10.67%) Data Engineer
6 291 (10.38%) AWS Engineer
7 219 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 154 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
9 153 (5.46%) Software Engineer
10 133 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 115 (4.10%) AWS Architect
12 106 (3.78%) Java Developer
13 105 (3.75%) Senior Developer
14 102 (3.64%) Analyst
15 98 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
15 98 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
16 92 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 88 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 88 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
18 76 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (11.17%) Kafka
2 244 (8.70%) React
3 218 (7.78%) REST
4 177 (6.31%) Node.js
5 174 (6.21%) Spring
6 166 (5.92%) Spring Boot
7 146 (5.21%) RESTful
8 96 (3.42%) .NET
9 93 (3.32%) PySpark
10 86 (3.07%) GraphQL
11 81 (2.89%) OAuth
12 74 (2.64%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.28%) Redux
14 55 (1.96%) FastAPI
15 53 (1.89%) JSON
15 53 (1.89%) SOAP
16 52 (1.86%) OpenID
16 52 (1.86%) Pandas
17 50 (1.78%) HTML
18 47 (1.68%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 493 (17.59%) Cloud Native
2 174 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 90 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 81 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 80 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.71%) Fixed Income
8 74 (2.64%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 57 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 55 (1.96%) Management Information System
12 54 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.57%) Derivative
15 39 (1.39%) Equities
16 35 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.11%) Data Structures
18 30 (1.07%) Algorithms
18 30 (1.07%) Mainframe
18 30 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 206 (7.35%) Linux
2 105 (3.75%) Windows
3 40 (1.43%) Unix
4 32 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.39%) Android
7 10 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) 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
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,098 (39.17%) CI/CD
2 838 (29.90%) DevOps
3 681 (24.30%) Agile
4 586 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 579 (20.66%) AI
6 414 (14.77%) Microservices
7 406 (14.48%) Containerisation
8 384 (13.70%) Analytics
9 352 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
10 345 (12.31%) Software Engineering
11 336 (11.99%) Migration
12 323 (11.52%) Data Pipeline
13 315 (11.24%) Data Modelling
14 312 (11.13%) Data Engineering
15 304 (10.85%) Observability
16 297 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
17 295 (10.52%) Machine Learning
18 268 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 245 (8.74%) Test Automation
20 242 (8.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1,058 (37.75%) Python
2 594 (21.19%) SQL
3 486 (17.34%) Java
4 259 (9.24%) TypeScript
5 221 (7.88%) JavaScript
6 122 (4.35%) Bash
7 120 (4.28%) C#
8 118 (4.21%) PowerShell
9 92 (3.28%) Go
10 46 (1.64%) Scala
11 34 (1.21%) Ruby
11 34 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 28 (1.00%) Bicep
13 22 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 22 (0.78%) R
14 17 (0.61%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.54%) Groovy
15 15 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.46%) C++
17 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 752 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 667 (23.80%) SC Cleared
3 153 (5.46%) Degree
4 130 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 86 (3.07%) CISSP
6 70 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 58 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 54 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.36%) CISM
12 33 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.86%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.86%) PMP
15 23 (0.82%) CCSP
16 20 (0.71%) CCNP
17 16 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 120 (4.28%) QA
3 101 (3.60%) GDPR
4 97 (3.46%) NIST
5 81 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) GRC
9 27 (0.96%) SLA
10 22 (0.78%) NCSC
11 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 17 (0.61%) PMO
13 12 (0.43%) EU AI Act
13 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.43%) WCAG
14 11 (0.39%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.29%) SEPA
16 7 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 496 (17.70%) Docker
2 88 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.57%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.14%) IAG
8 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 2 (0.071%) HDFS
10 2 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 673 (24.01%) Terraform
2 580 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 169 (6.03%) Ansible
4 165 (5.89%) Grafana
5 145 (5.17%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.89%) Puppet
8 23 (0.82%) Kibana
9 19 (0.68%) Argo
10 15 (0.54%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.43%) Consul
14 11 (0.39%) Packer
15 9 (0.32%) QRadar
16 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.25%) Istio
17 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
18 5 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 225 (8.03%) Microsoft
2 127 (4.53%) Databricks
3 106 (3.78%) Google
4 101 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 97 (3.46%) Oracle
6 78 (2.78%) Splunk
7 68 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 63 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 58 (2.07%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.71%) Cisco
11 38 (1.36%) VMware
12 35 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.21%) Foundry
14 33 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 32 (1.14%) Dynatrace
16 29 (1.03%) Informatica
16 29 (1.03%) SAP
17 27 (0.96%) IBM
17 27 (0.96%) MuleSoft
18 23 (0.82%) Fortinet