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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,196 2,139 2,617
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.59% 13.71% 13.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.16% 33.52% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,556 2,016
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.96% -4.47%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 14
10th Percentile £43.75 £27.54 £37.58
25th Percentile £60.63 £33.14 £49.69
Median hourly rate £76.75 £40.25 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.68% -31.78% +21.03%
75th Percentile £87.50 £46.19 £87.27
90th Percentile £93.13 £51.93 £90.00
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +82.98% -16.04% +4.76%

All Cloud 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 6,245 6,382 7,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.92% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,230 4,335 5,641
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 34 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.56
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -9.68% +49.93%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.33 £85.62
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +5 251 £575 - 962
South London +8 61 £525 +7.14% 44
West London -8 26 £425 -26.09% 88
East London - 7 £675 - 81
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
1 153 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (5.19%) Confluence
3 85 (3.87%) Apache
4 76 (3.46%) Apache Spark
5 50 (2.28%) nginx
6 16 (0.73%) SAS
6 16 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.68%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.59%) CMS
9 9 (0.41%) Headless CMS
10 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.32%) Camunda
12 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.18%) Appian
13 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.14%) Traefik
15 2 (0.091%) Luigi
15 2 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.14%) Trello
5 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
6 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.55%) Endur
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.18%) Actimize
6 2 (0.091%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.091%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.091%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.091%) Shopify
7 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.046%) Magento
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 856 (38.98%) Azure
2 493 (22.45%) GCP
3 303 (13.80%) GitHub
4 292 (13.30%) Amazon S3
5 283 (12.89%) Serverless
6 242 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
7 180 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
8 177 (8.06%) Snowflake
9 165 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 134 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
11 130 (5.92%) dbt
12 127 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 115 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
14 105 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
15 90 (4.10%) Power Platform
16 70 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 68 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
18 64 (2.91%) SaaS
19 52 (2.37%) Amazon Kinesis
20 51 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 120 (5.46%) Firewall
2 68 (3.10%) DNS
3 57 (2.60%) Network Security
4 55 (2.50%) VPN
5 30 (1.37%) WAN
6 28 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.23%) SSL
8 24 (1.09%) HTTP
9 20 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.87%) DHCP
11 18 (0.82%) BGP
12 17 (0.77%) LAN
12 17 (0.77%) SSH
13 16 (0.73%) OSPF
13 16 (0.73%) VLAN
14 15 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
15 11 (0.50%) FTP
16 10 (0.46%) IMAP
16 10 (0.46%) SMTP
17 9 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (5.01%) NoSQL
4 108 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
5 100 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 99 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
7 92 (4.19%) Relational Database
8 84 (3.83%) Power BI
9 77 (3.51%) SQL Server
10 72 (3.28%) DynamoDB
11 69 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 63 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
13 58 (2.64%) MySQL
14 56 (2.55%) MongoDB
15 55 (2.50%) Metadata
16 53 (2.41%) Apache Arrow
16 53 (2.41%) Dremio
17 47 (2.14%) Big Data
18 46 (2.09%) Tableau
19 43 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 265 (12.07%) Git
2 209 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 170 (7.74%) JIRA
4 147 (6.69%) GitLab
5 46 (2.09%) JUnit
6 32 (1.46%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 27 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 27 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.23%) ERwin
8 26 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 25 (1.14%) Maven
10 22 (1.00%) Metasploit
11 21 (0.96%) Selenium
12 20 (0.91%) Burp Suite
13 19 (0.87%) ER Studio
14 18 (0.82%) MLflow
15 17 (0.77%) Mockito
16 14 (0.64%) JMeter
16 14 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 578 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 526 (23.95%) Finance
3 242 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 229 (10.43%) Banking
5 212 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (5.33%) Front Office
7 110 (5.01%) Investment Banking
8 43 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.28%) Marketing
11 28 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.28%) Retail
12 24 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.05%) Legal
14 21 (0.96%) Military
15 15 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 446 (20.31%) Developer
2 386 (17.58%) Senior
3 318 (14.48%) Architect
4 269 (12.25%) AWS Engineer
5 172 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 161 (7.33%) Software Engineer
7 160 (7.29%) Data Engineer
7 160 (7.29%) Lead
8 141 (6.42%) Python Engineer
9 130 (5.92%) Java Developer
10 102 (4.64%) AWS Developer
11 99 (4.51%) Senior Developer
12 93 (4.23%) Python Developer
13 88 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
14 87 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
15 86 (3.92%) Java Engineer
15 86 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
16 84 (3.83%) Analyst
17 77 (3.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 73 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (12.02%) Kafka
2 256 (11.66%) React
3 181 (8.24%) Node.js
4 135 (6.15%) REST
5 122 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 122 (5.56%) Spring
6 113 (5.15%) RESTful
7 102 (4.64%) Spring Boot
8 93 (4.23%) NumPy
8 93 (4.23%) Pandas
9 89 (4.05%) gRPC
10 76 (3.46%) GraphQL
11 74 (3.37%) SciPy
12 69 (3.14%) Vue
13 65 (2.96%) CSS
14 63 (2.87%) .NET
14 63 (2.87%) HTML
15 48 (2.19%) OAuth
16 47 (2.14%) FastAPI
17 42 (1.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 246 (11.20%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (4.19%) Fixed Income
4 87 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 87 (3.96%) Hedge funds
5 74 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 72 (3.28%) Equities
7 65 (2.96%) Derivative
8 55 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 52 (2.37%) Onboarding
10 49 (2.23%) Public Cloud
11 43 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
11 43 (1.96%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.87%) Security Posture
13 36 (1.64%) Data Centre
14 34 (1.55%) Pricing Data
15 32 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
15 32 (1.46%) Virtual Team
16 30 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
17 26 (1.18%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 210 (9.56%) Linux
2 85 (3.87%) Windows
3 52 (2.37%) Unix
4 19 (0.87%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.36%) CentOS
9 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.091%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Debian
11 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Solaris
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (37.61%) CI/CD
2 642 (29.23%) Agile
3 600 (27.32%) DevOps
4 418 (19.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 350 (15.94%) Microservices
6 346 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
7 335 (15.26%) Software Engineering
8 277 (12.61%) Analytics
9 257 (11.70%) Containerisation
10 237 (10.79%) AI
11 211 (9.61%) Data Modelling
12 204 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
13 198 (9.02%) Migration
14 189 (8.61%) Machine Learning
15 185 (8.42%) ETL
16 177 (8.06%) Full-Stack Development
17 172 (7.83%) Observability
18 170 (7.74%) Data Engineering
19 168 (7.65%) Cloud Security
20 160 (7.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 960 (43.72%) Python
2 497 (22.63%) Java
3 473 (21.54%) SQL
4 278 (12.66%) TypeScript
5 266 (12.11%) JavaScript
6 157 (7.15%) Bash
7 131 (5.97%) Go
8 83 (3.78%) C#
9 82 (3.73%) PowerShell
10 54 (2.46%) C++
11 34 (1.55%) Scala
12 26 (1.18%) Perl
13 24 (1.09%) Groovy
13 24 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.05%) Ruby
14 23 (1.05%) Rust
15 22 (1.00%) C
16 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.68%) R
18 14 (0.64%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 501 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 436 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 141 (6.42%) Degree
4 125 (5.69%) AWS Certification
5 67 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.73%) CISSP
8 36 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 32 (1.46%) OSCP
11 29 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.00%) CREST Certified
15 18 (0.82%) CISM
16 13 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.59%) CCNP
16 13 (0.59%) Tigerscheme
17 12 (0.55%) PhD
17 12 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 97 (4.42%) QA
3 83 (3.78%) GDPR
4 78 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.82%) NIST
6 39 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.23%) NCSC
8 20 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.77%) WCAG
10 15 (0.68%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.41%) GRC
12 9 (0.41%) MiFID
13 8 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.32%) SLA
15 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 506 (23.04%) Docker
2 45 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.50%) Postfix
5 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.46%) Squid
5 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.46%) zsh
6 8 (0.36%) Firmware
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.091%) vSphere
10 1 (0.046%) KVM
10 1 (0.046%) Snort
10 1 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.046%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 511 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 496 (22.59%) Terraform
3 152 (6.92%) Ansible
4 112 (5.10%) Grafana
5 103 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.32%) Argo
7 29 (1.32%) Puppet
8 28 (1.28%) Packer
9 23 (1.05%) Consul
10 22 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.91%) Nmap
12 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.77%) Nessus
13 12 (0.55%) SCCM
14 11 (0.50%) Kibana
15 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
15 10 (0.46%) QRadar
16 8 (0.36%) Istio
17 7 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 156 (7.10%) Microsoft
2 123 (5.60%) Databricks
3 86 (3.92%) Splunk
4 84 (3.83%) Google
5 74 (3.37%) Oracle
6 69 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 35 (1.59%) Cisco
8 33 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.18%) VMware
11 25 (1.14%) F5
12 23 (1.05%) Arista
12 23 (1.05%) IBM
13 21 (0.96%) CheckPoint
14 20 (0.91%) Dynatrace
14 20 (0.91%) OpenAI
15 18 (0.82%) Fortinet
15 18 (0.82%) Tenable
16 17 (0.77%) Informatica
16 17 (0.77%) SAP