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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,558 2,037 2,294
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.73% 16.04% 12.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.99% 37.67% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,764 1,474 1,770
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £463 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.50%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.80 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £47.38 £28.26
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £76.67 £81.25 £63.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £97.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +31.82% -19.71%

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 7,525 5,407 6,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.58% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,760 4,950
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £439 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 53 77
10th Percentile £20.01 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.31 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £51.81 £53.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.75 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.22% +28.79% -24.47%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -1 294 £543 -1.36% 259
South London +5 94 £513 +7.89% 11
West London +6 73 £603 +6.64% 38
East London +2 13 £540 -7.69% 40
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
1 136 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 77 (3.01%) Confluence
4 69 (2.70%) Apache
5 34 (1.33%) nginx
6 26 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.66%) Camunda
7 17 (0.66%) SAS
8 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.27%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) CICS
10 6 (0.23%) CMS
11 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.078%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.078%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.078%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 33 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.078%) Revit
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,022 (39.95%) Azure
2 558 (21.81%) GCP
3 401 (15.68%) Amazon S3
4 395 (15.44%) Serverless
5 346 (13.53%) AWS Lambda
6 325 (12.71%) GitHub
7 250 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 189 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (6.65%) Amazon EKS
10 159 (6.22%) Snowflake
11 151 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
12 150 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
13 147 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 145 (5.67%) Power Platform
15 112 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 92 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
17 72 (2.81%) SaaS
18 69 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
19 67 (2.62%) dbt
20 66 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.71%) Firewall
2 63 (2.46%) VPN
3 60 (2.35%) DNS
3 60 (2.35%) Network Security
4 42 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 33 (1.29%) WAN
6 19 (0.74%) BGP
7 17 (0.66%) LAN
8 16 (0.63%) HTTP
9 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 14 (0.55%) DHCP
10 14 (0.55%) VLAN
11 13 (0.51%) SSL
12 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.35%) SAN
16 8 (0.31%) NAS
17 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (5.04%) Power BI
3 128 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 124 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
5 120 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 118 (4.61%) Amazon Athena
7 114 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
8 106 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (3.60%) SQL Server
10 85 (3.32%) Tableau
11 84 (3.28%) Relational Database
12 80 (3.13%) MongoDB
13 77 (3.01%) DynamoDB
14 76 (2.97%) Metadata
15 58 (2.27%) Big Data
16 48 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
16 48 (1.88%) MySQL
17 39 (1.52%) BigQuery
18 38 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
19 34 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 250 (9.77%) Git
2 215 (8.41%) GitLab
3 208 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 138 (5.39%) JIRA
5 43 (1.68%) JUnit
6 42 (1.64%) MLflow
7 32 (1.25%) Mockito
8 30 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.90%) Selenium
13 20 (0.78%) Maven
14 17 (0.66%) Gradle
15 16 (0.63%) Postman
16 13 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.51%) JMeter
16 13 (0.51%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.47%) Snyk
17 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 574 (22.44%) Finance
2 562 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 371 (14.50%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (8.09%) Banking
6 92 (3.60%) Front Office
7 66 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 36 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 35 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.13%) Retail
14 25 (0.98%) Legal
15 24 (0.94%) Marketing
16 17 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Military
18 13 (0.51%) Billing
19 12 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 490 (19.16%) Architect
2 446 (17.44%) Developer
3 383 (14.97%) Senior
4 266 (10.40%) Data Engineer
5 258 (10.09%) Lead
6 246 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
7 193 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 145 (5.67%) Software Engineer
9 121 (4.73%) Senior Developer
10 118 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
11 110 (4.30%) Analyst
12 102 (3.99%) Java Developer
13 101 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
14 100 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
15 99 (3.87%) AWS Architect
16 93 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 86 (3.36%) Python Engineer
18 85 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
19 83 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
20 80 (3.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (12.71%) Kafka
2 254 (9.93%) React
3 206 (8.05%) Node.js
4 191 (7.47%) REST
5 163 (6.37%) Spring
6 149 (5.82%) Spring Boot
7 148 (5.79%) RESTful
8 82 (3.21%) AngularJS
9 80 (3.13%) PySpark
10 74 (2.89%) .NET
11 71 (2.78%) OAuth
12 65 (2.54%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.50%) SOAP
14 61 (2.38%) HTML
15 60 (2.35%) Redux
16 59 (2.31%) CSS
16 59 (2.31%) Pandas
17 53 (2.07%) LDAP
18 47 (1.84%) PyTorch
18 47 (1.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 393 (15.36%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (2.93%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 69 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 67 (2.62%) Security Posture
7 64 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 57 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 55 (2.15%) AI Agents
10 55 (2.15%) Data Centre
11 47 (1.84%) Derivative
12 43 (1.68%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.52%) Algorithms
15 38 (1.49%) Equities
16 33 (1.29%) Data Structures
17 32 (1.25%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.17%) Mainframe
19 25 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 191 (7.47%) Linux
2 67 (2.62%) Windows
3 45 (1.76%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) Android
5 9 (0.35%) VMS
6 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (38.15%) CI/CD
2 717 (28.03%) DevOps
3 617 (24.12%) Agile
4 513 (20.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 450 (17.59%) AI
6 411 (16.07%) Microservices
7 384 (15.01%) Analytics
8 369 (14.43%) Containerisation
9 352 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
10 324 (12.67%) Software Engineering
11 301 (11.77%) Data Modelling
12 295 (11.53%) Migration
13 276 (10.79%) Data Pipeline
14 272 (10.63%) Data Engineering
15 260 (10.16%) Observability
16 252 (9.85%) Machine Learning
17 248 (9.70%) ETL
18 230 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
19 219 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
20 203 (7.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (39.68%) Python
2 585 (22.87%) SQL
3 470 (18.37%) Java
4 229 (8.95%) TypeScript
5 227 (8.87%) JavaScript
6 110 (4.30%) Go
7 106 (4.14%) C#
8 102 (3.99%) Bash
9 97 (3.79%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.72%) Scala
11 42 (1.64%) Ruby
12 38 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 21 (0.82%) R
14 19 (0.74%) C++
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.66%) Bicep
16 15 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.31%) C
17 8 (0.31%) Korn
17 8 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 740 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 656 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 125 (4.89%) AWS Certification
4 121 (4.73%) Degree
5 72 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (2.23%) CISSP
7 55 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 33 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (1.09%) CISM
14 24 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.94%) PMP
15 20 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (0.74%) CCNP
17 15 (0.59%) CCSP
18 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 124 (4.85%) GDPR
3 90 (3.52%) QA
4 84 (3.28%) NIST
5 73 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.06%) SLA
9 25 (0.98%) NCSC
10 16 (0.63%) WCAG
11 15 (0.59%) GRC
12 14 (0.55%) ISO 20022
13 13 (0.51%) PMO
14 11 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 513 (20.05%) Docker
2 79 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.20%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) IAG
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.078%) Firmware
11 2 (0.078%) KVM
11 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.078%) Postfix
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 604 (23.61%) Terraform
2 537 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 130 (5.08%) Ansible
4 129 (5.04%) Grafana
5 112 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.06%) Argo
8 20 (0.78%) Puppet
9 19 (0.74%) Consul
10 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (0.63%) Kibana
12 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.51%) Packer
12 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.35%) QRadar
13 9 (0.35%) SCCM
14 7 (0.27%) Istio
15 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 185 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 139 (5.43%) Databricks
3 94 (3.67%) Google
4 93 (3.64%) Oracle
5 80 (3.13%) Splunk
6 75 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 60 (2.35%) CyberArk
8 55 (2.15%) OpenAI
9 45 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.64%) Cisco
11 40 (1.56%) VMware
12 36 (1.41%) IBM
13 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.37%) Centrify
14 34 (1.33%) Dynatrace
14 34 (1.33%) SAP
15 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.90%) Confluent
18 22 (0.86%) Foundry