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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,263 1,963 2,274
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.91% 14.44% 12.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.72% 34.59% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,409 1,756
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £462 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £815 £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 14
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £22.14
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £29.85
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.14% +20.18% -28.95%

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 6,712 5,675 6,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.24% 41.74% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,591 3,787 5,042
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
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 97 49 76
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +4.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £55.75 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -2 263 £539 -2.05% 230
South London +7 68 £519 +6.10% 21
West London +8 48 £603 +5.42% 54
East London +9 9 £630 - 39
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
1 110 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.49%) Confluence
4 62 (2.74%) Apache
5 34 (1.50%) nginx
6 14 (0.62%) Camunda
7 13 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.57%) SAS
8 12 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.35%) Appian
10 6 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.13%) Drupal
12 3 (0.13%) Traefik
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.13%) WordPress
13 2 (0.088%) Mule
13 2 (0.088%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.18%) Trello
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.044%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.044%) Notion
9 1 (0.044%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 9 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.18%) Actimize
5 4 (0.18%) Endur
6 3 (0.13%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.088%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.088%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.088%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.088%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.044%) Maximo
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.044%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.044%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 917 (40.52%) Azure
2 531 (23.46%) GCP
3 344 (15.20%) Serverless
4 325 (14.36%) Amazon S3
5 316 (13.96%) GitHub
6 301 (13.30%) AWS Lambda
7 203 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 180 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
9 166 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
10 157 (6.94%) Snowflake
11 137 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
12 126 (5.57%) Power Platform
13 125 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 123 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
15 96 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 73 (3.23%) dbt
17 66 (2.92%) Amazon Kinesis
18 65 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
19 52 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
20 48 (2.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (4.68%) Firewall
2 64 (2.83%) VPN
3 62 (2.74%) DNS
4 56 (2.47%) Network Security
5 40 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.19%) WAN
7 23 (1.02%) SSL
8 17 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.66%) BGP
9 15 (0.66%) HTTP
9 15 (0.66%) LAN
10 14 (0.62%) DHCP
10 14 (0.62%) OSPF
11 11 (0.49%) VLAN
12 9 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.40%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.35%) 5G
13 8 (0.35%) Wireless
14 7 (0.31%) 4G
14 7 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 115 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
4 111 (4.90%) Power BI
5 109 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
6 100 (4.42%) Data Lake
7 94 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 91 (4.02%) Relational Database
9 90 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
10 81 (3.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 68 (3.00%) MongoDB
12 63 (2.78%) DynamoDB
13 61 (2.70%) Tableau
14 60 (2.65%) Metadata
15 59 (2.61%) MySQL
16 51 (2.25%) Big Data
17 50 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
18 42 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
19 41 (1.81%) BigQuery
20 35 (1.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 228 (10.08%) Git
2 207 (9.15%) Jenkins
3 196 (8.66%) GitLab
4 146 (6.45%) JIRA
5 40 (1.77%) JUnit
6 34 (1.50%) MLflow
7 27 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 26 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.93%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.88%) ERwin
11 19 (0.84%) Mockito
12 17 (0.75%) Maven
12 17 (0.75%) Selenium
13 16 (0.71%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.66%) JMeter
15 14 (0.62%) Gatling
16 13 (0.57%) ER Studio
17 11 (0.49%) Gradle
17 11 (0.49%) Postman
18 9 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 566 (25.01%) Social Skills
2 483 (21.34%) Finance
3 277 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 199 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (8.62%) Banking
6 63 (2.78%) Front Office
7 59 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 30 (1.33%) Retail
13 29 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.02%) Marketing
16 21 (0.93%) Military
17 18 (0.80%) Legal
18 16 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
19 14 (0.62%) Manufacturing
20 12 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 410 (18.12%) Developer
2 383 (16.92%) Architect
3 362 (16.00%) Senior
4 235 (10.38%) AWS Engineer
5 222 (9.81%) Data Engineer
6 194 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 183 (8.09%) Lead
8 122 (5.39%) Software Engineer
9 119 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 98 (4.33%) Analyst
11 97 (4.29%) Python Engineer
12 93 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
12 93 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
13 85 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 85 (3.76%) Java Developer
14 84 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
15 81 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
16 78 (3.45%) Python Developer
17 74 (3.27%) AWS Developer
18 72 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (12.99%) Kafka
2 214 (9.46%) React
3 165 (7.29%) REST
4 164 (7.25%) Node.js
5 134 (5.92%) Spring
6 120 (5.30%) RESTful
7 117 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 96 (4.24%) AngularJS
9 73 (3.23%) HTML
10 72 (3.18%) CSS
11 65 (2.87%) .NET
12 64 (2.83%) gRPC
13 62 (2.74%) Pandas
14 57 (2.52%) NumPy
14 57 (2.52%) SOAP
15 56 (2.47%) PySpark
16 55 (2.43%) OAuth
17 54 (2.39%) PyTorch
18 52 (2.30%) LDAP
18 52 (2.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 321 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (3.40%) Security Posture
4 59 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 54 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
6 53 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 47 (2.08%) Fixed Income
8 46 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 45 (1.99%) Derivative
10 43 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 41 (1.81%) Algorithms
12 40 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 38 (1.68%) Public Cloud
14 37 (1.63%) Data Centre
14 37 (1.63%) Hedge funds
15 35 (1.55%) Data Structures
16 34 (1.50%) Equities
17 32 (1.41%) AI Agents
18 31 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 30 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 190 (8.40%) Linux
2 67 (2.96%) Windows
3 50 (2.21%) Unix
4 21 (0.93%) VMS
5 12 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.49%) Android
7 10 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.22%) CentOS
10 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.13%) zOS
12 1 (0.044%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.044%) Solaris
12 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.044%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 877 (38.75%) CI/CD
2 621 (27.44%) DevOps
3 525 (23.20%) Agile
4 448 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 362 (16.00%) Microservices
6 359 (15.86%) AI
7 350 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
8 345 (15.25%) Analytics
9 299 (13.21%) Containerisation
10 284 (12.55%) Software Engineering
11 257 (11.36%) Data Modelling
12 245 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
13 230 (10.16%) Data Engineering
14 224 (9.90%) Machine Learning
15 220 (9.72%) Observability
16 217 (9.59%) ETL
17 203 (8.97%) Migration
18 189 (8.35%) Full-Stack Development
19 177 (7.82%) Test Automation
20 170 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 961 (42.47%) Python
2 537 (23.73%) SQL
3 423 (18.69%) Java
4 206 (9.10%) JavaScript
5 188 (8.31%) TypeScript
6 104 (4.60%) Bash
7 100 (4.42%) Go
8 97 (4.29%) C#
9 91 (4.02%) PowerShell
10 32 (1.41%) Scala
11 30 (1.33%) C++
11 30 (1.33%) Ruby
12 25 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 16 (0.71%) R
13 16 (0.71%) Rust
14 14 (0.62%) PHP
15 13 (0.57%) Groovy
16 12 (0.53%) Bicep
16 12 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 622 (27.49%) Security Cleared
2 551 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 127 (5.61%) AWS Certification
4 119 (5.26%) Degree
5 63 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 42 (1.86%) CISSP
8 35 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 33 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 20 (0.88%) CISM
12 19 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (0.80%) OSCP
13 18 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.75%) PMP
15 16 (0.71%) CCNP
16 13 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 107 (4.73%) GDPR
3 79 (3.49%) QA
4 72 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.74%) NIST
6 40 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.19%) NCSC
8 24 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.66%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.57%) SLA
12 12 (0.53%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.49%) GRC
14 10 (0.44%) WCAG
15 8 (0.35%) PSD2
16 7 (0.31%) SEPA
17 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.27%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.22%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 498 (22.01%) Docker
2 61 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.62%) Squid
5 11 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.27%) DFS Replication
6 6 (0.27%) Dovecot
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.27%) Postfix
6 6 (0.27%) zsh
7 5 (0.22%) HDFS
8 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.088%) KVM
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.044%) Ceph
11 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 539 (23.82%) Terraform
2 528 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 132 (5.83%) Ansible
4 101 (4.46%) Grafana
5 93 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.63%) Argo
6 37 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.75%) Consul
7 17 (0.75%) Puppet
8 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.62%) Nessus
10 13 (0.57%) Kibana
11 12 (0.53%) Packer
12 11 (0.49%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.49%) SCCM
13 9 (0.40%) QRadar
14 7 (0.31%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.27%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 153 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.50%) Databricks
3 86 (3.80%) Google
3 86 (3.80%) Oracle
4 77 (3.40%) Splunk
5 59 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 44 (1.94%) CyberArk
7 40 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 35 (1.55%) Cisco
8 35 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.50%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (1.50%) Centrify
10 31 (1.37%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.37%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.19%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 24 (1.06%) IBM
13 24 (1.06%) SAP
14 21 (0.93%) VMware
15 18 (0.80%) Atlassian