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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,661 2,024 2,361
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.42% 16.73% 13.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.09% 38.78% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 1,416 1,831
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £784 £825 £850
England median daily rate £543 £544 £563
% change year-on-year -0.23% -3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 12
10th Percentile £35.90 £35.88 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.75 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +49.73% +69.08% -63.13%
75th Percentile £78.25 £58.31 £68.38
90th Percentile £89.13 £77.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £50.59
% change year-on-year - +38.37% -31.64%

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 7,806 5,219 6,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.30% 43.13% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,389 3,531 5,001
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 70
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.64 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -49.03%
75th Percentile £55.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -3 281 £550 - 252
West London +4 84 £600 +23.70% 35
South London 0 82 £500 +1.01% 9
East London +3 16 £543 -7.26% 42
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
1 127 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.10%) Apache Spark
3 70 (2.63%) Confluence
4 60 (2.25%) Apache
5 24 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.71%) nginx
7 14 (0.53%) Camunda
8 11 (0.41%) CICS
8 11 (0.41%) SAS
9 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.26%) CMS
10 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) Appian
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 38 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.19%) Revit
8 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Endur
5 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.075%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.075%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.038%) Actimize
7 1 (0.038%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1,090 (40.96%) Azure
2 567 (21.31%) GCP
3 389 (14.62%) Amazon S3
3 389 (14.62%) Serverless
4 341 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
5 340 (12.78%) GitHub
6 212 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
7 198 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 178 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
8 178 (6.69%) Snowflake
9 165 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
10 161 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 146 (5.49%) Power Platform
12 129 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
13 122 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 113 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
15 90 (3.38%) SaaS
16 84 (3.16%) dbt
17 72 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
18 69 (2.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 108 (4.06%) Firewall
2 76 (2.86%) Network Security
3 70 (2.63%) DNS
4 67 (2.52%) VPN
5 49 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.35%) WAN
7 22 (0.83%) BGP
8 21 (0.79%) HTTP
9 20 (0.75%) DHCP
10 19 (0.71%) LAN
11 18 (0.68%) SSL
12 17 (0.64%) OSPF
13 14 (0.53%) NGFW
13 14 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.45%) VLAN
15 11 (0.41%) Internet
16 10 (0.38%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
18 8 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
3 126 (4.74%) Power BI
4 125 (4.70%) Data Lake
5 120 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 113 (4.25%) NoSQL
7 109 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
8 108 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 97 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 83 (3.12%) DynamoDB
11 73 (2.74%) MongoDB
11 73 (2.74%) Tableau
12 72 (2.71%) Metadata
12 72 (2.71%) Relational Database
13 61 (2.29%) Big Data
14 43 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
15 40 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
15 40 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 39 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
16 39 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 232 (8.72%) Git
2 230 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 211 (7.93%) GitLab
4 129 (4.85%) JIRA
5 39 (1.47%) JUnit
6 35 (1.32%) MLflow
7 32 (1.20%) Mockito
8 28 (1.05%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 25 (0.94%) JMeter
11 21 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 21 (0.79%) Gradle
11 21 (0.79%) Maven
11 21 (0.79%) Selenium
12 20 (0.75%) Postman
13 19 (0.71%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.64%) Gatling
15 15 (0.56%) REST Assured
16 14 (0.53%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 626 (23.52%) Finance
2 573 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 370 (13.90%) Public Sector
4 227 (8.53%) Banking
5 223 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (3.04%) Front Office
7 65 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 46 (1.73%) Retail
11 42 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 35 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (0.94%) Marketing
15 25 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.83%) Legal
17 16 (0.60%) Law
18 14 (0.53%) Military
19 12 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 541 (20.33%) Architect
2 414 (15.56%) Developer
3 404 (15.18%) Senior
4 293 (11.01%) Data Engineer
4 293 (11.01%) Lead
5 266 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 190 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 147 (5.52%) Software Engineer
8 138 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
9 119 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 114 (4.28%) Senior Developer
11 107 (4.02%) AWS Architect
12 104 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
13 97 (3.65%) Analyst
14 96 (3.61%) Java Developer
15 87 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
16 85 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
17 81 (3.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 77 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 75 (2.82%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (11.39%) Kafka
2 237 (8.91%) React
3 223 (8.38%) REST
4 178 (6.69%) Node.js
5 167 (6.28%) Spring
6 159 (5.98%) Spring Boot
7 140 (5.26%) RESTful
8 99 (3.72%) .NET
9 87 (3.27%) PySpark
10 82 (3.08%) AngularJS
11 75 (2.82%) GraphQL
12 74 (2.78%) OAuth
13 70 (2.63%) SOAP
14 63 (2.37%) Redux
15 62 (2.33%) LDAP
16 54 (2.03%) HTML
16 54 (2.03%) Pandas
17 49 (1.84%) OpenID
18 48 (1.80%) CSS
18 48 (1.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 464 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 151 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 79 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 79 (2.97%) Security Posture
5 73 (2.74%) Fixed Income
5 73 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.71%) AI Agents
7 68 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 59 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 56 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 53 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 46 (1.73%) Derivative
12 42 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.50%) Equities
14 34 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (1.16%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.16%) PKI
16 30 (1.13%) Mainframe
17 29 (1.09%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.10%) Linux
2 90 (3.38%) Windows
3 36 (1.35%) Unix
4 31 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.45%) Android
7 9 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.30%) Solaris
9 7 (0.26%) zOS
10 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.075%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.038%) Debian
14 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,010 (37.96%) CI/CD
2 772 (29.01%) DevOps
3 621 (23.34%) Agile
4 541 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 510 (19.17%) AI
6 394 (14.81%) Microservices
7 371 (13.94%) Analytics
8 369 (13.87%) Containerisation
9 336 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
10 328 (12.33%) Migration
11 322 (12.10%) Software Engineering
12 306 (11.50%) Data Modelling
13 299 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
14 286 (10.75%) Data Engineering
15 276 (10.37%) Observability
16 258 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 257 (9.66%) Machine Learning
18 243 (9.13%) ETL
19 241 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
20 231 (8.68%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,021 (38.37%) Python
2 585 (21.98%) SQL
3 473 (17.78%) Java
4 239 (8.98%) TypeScript
5 215 (8.08%) JavaScript
6 130 (4.89%) PowerShell
7 118 (4.43%) C#
8 110 (4.13%) Bash
9 89 (3.34%) Go
10 47 (1.77%) Scala
11 37 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.28%) Ruby
13 24 (0.90%) Bicep
14 22 (0.83%) R
15 21 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.68%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.53%) C++
17 14 (0.53%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.49%) Groovy
19 11 (0.41%) JCL
Qualifications
1 739 (27.77%) Security Cleared
2 659 (24.77%) SC Cleared
3 144 (5.41%) Degree
4 119 (4.47%) AWS Certification
5 80 (3.01%) CISSP
6 69 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 54 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.88%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.35%) CISM
12 29 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 24 (0.90%) PMP
15 23 (0.86%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.83%) CCNP
17 21 (0.79%) CCSP
18 15 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
19 13 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.17%) QA
3 106 (3.98%) GDPR
4 93 (3.49%) NIST
5 78 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.20%) SLA
8 25 (0.94%) GRC
9 21 (0.79%) NCSC
10 19 (0.71%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.60%) PMO
13 11 (0.41%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.41%) WCAG
14 8 (0.30%) SEPA
14 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.26%) PSD2
16 5 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 471 (17.70%) Docker
2 100 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.64%) Squid
6 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.15%) HDFS
9 4 (0.15%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) IAG
10 3 (0.11%) NFS
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.075%) Firmware
11 2 (0.075%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.075%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.075%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 604 (22.70%) Terraform
2 528 (19.84%) Kubernetes
3 150 (5.64%) Grafana
4 147 (5.52%) Ansible
5 133 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.83%) Kibana
8 21 (0.79%) Puppet
9 16 (0.60%) Argo
10 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.45%) Consul
14 10 (0.38%) QRadar
15 9 (0.34%) Packer
16 7 (0.26%) Istio
17 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
17 6 (0.23%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
19 4 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 210 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 121 (4.55%) Databricks
3 102 (3.83%) Google
4 92 (3.46%) Oracle
5 90 (3.38%) ServiceNow
6 77 (2.89%) Splunk
7 69 (2.59%) CyberArk
8 55 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 53 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 49 (1.84%) Cisco
11 38 (1.43%) VMware
12 35 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.32%) Centrify
13 34 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 32 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 32 (1.20%) Red Hat
15 30 (1.13%) SAP
16 28 (1.05%) IBM
17 27 (1.01%) Foundry
18 26 (0.98%) Qualys