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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,780 2,118 2,249
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.86% 16.03% 14.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.61% 36.96% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 1,473 1,707
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £63.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +107.99% -63.94%
75th Percentile £78.75 £79.69 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.11% +58.08% -38.43%

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 8,272 5,730 6,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.23% 43.37% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,666 3,912 4,684
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 51
10th Percentile £19.13 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +3.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £44.56
90th Percentile £78.65 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -6 283 £550 -5.98% 203
West London +8 96 £550 +29.41% 158
South London +2 76 £535 +0.71% 15
East London +10 14 £550 -9.47% 18
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
1 161 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 101 (3.63%) Confluence
4 89 (3.20%) Apache
5 26 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) Camunda
7 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.22%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 19 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.29%) Revit
6 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
2 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.072%) Endur
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,245 (44.78%) Azure
2 612 (22.01%) GCP
3 392 (14.10%) Serverless
4 379 (13.63%) Amazon S3
5 360 (12.95%) GitHub
6 331 (11.91%) AWS Lambda
7 241 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
8 228 (8.20%) Snowflake
9 196 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
10 176 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 154 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 151 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
14 138 (4.96%) dbt
15 136 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
16 132 (4.75%) Power Platform
17 129 (4.64%) SaaS
18 118 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 105 (3.78%) Entra ID
20 92 (3.31%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.85%) Firewall
2 85 (3.06%) Network Security
3 67 (2.41%) DNS
4 57 (2.05%) VPN
5 39 (1.40%) WAN
6 36 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.97%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) HTTP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
11 15 (0.54%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.54%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.50%) LAN
12 14 (0.50%) OSPF
13 12 (0.43%) SAN
14 11 (0.40%) NGFW
15 10 (0.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.32%) Power BI
5 119 (4.28%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.14%) Data Lake
7 102 (3.67%) Metadata
7 102 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 95 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
10 86 (3.09%) MongoDB
11 85 (3.06%) DynamoDB
12 77 (2.77%) Relational Database
13 69 (2.48%) Delta Lake
14 61 (2.19%) Big Data
15 56 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
16 55 (1.98%) Tableau
17 46 (1.65%) MySQL
18 43 (1.55%) Redis
19 42 (1.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 291 (10.47%) Git
2 286 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 260 (9.35%) GitLab
4 155 (5.58%) JIRA
5 33 (1.19%) JMeter
6 32 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 31 (1.12%) JUnit
7 31 (1.12%) Selenium
8 30 (1.08%) Maven
9 29 (1.04%) SonarQube
10 25 (0.90%) Mockito
11 23 (0.83%) Gradle
11 23 (0.83%) Postman
12 22 (0.79%) Bitbucket
13 19 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 18 (0.65%) Cucumber
15 17 (0.61%) Claude Code
15 17 (0.61%) Gatling
16 16 (0.58%) MLflow
17 12 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 684 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 648 (23.31%) Finance
3 390 (14.03%) Public Sector
4 279 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 250 (8.99%) Banking
6 80 (2.88%) Retail
7 63 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 47 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 43 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (1.40%) Marketing
12 35 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 32 (1.15%) Front Office
14 30 (1.08%) Legal
15 29 (1.04%) Law
16 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
17 23 (0.83%) Billing
17 23 (0.83%) Military
18 21 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 581 (20.90%) Architect
2 441 (15.86%) Senior
3 339 (12.19%) Developer
4 312 (11.22%) Data Engineer
5 296 (10.65%) Lead
6 260 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 200 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 154 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
9 115 (4.14%) Analyst
10 111 (3.99%) AWS Architect
11 107 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 101 (3.63%) Java Developer
13 98 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
14 95 (3.42%) Data Architect
15 94 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 93 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
16 93 (3.35%) Software Engineer
17 82 (2.95%) Senior Developer
18 77 (2.77%) AWS DevOps
19 75 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 693 (24.93%) Terraform
2 308 (11.08%) Kafka
3 262 (9.42%) REST
4 202 (7.27%) React
5 179 (6.44%) Spring
6 164 (5.90%) Spring Boot
7 154 (5.54%) RESTful
8 120 (4.32%) Node.js
9 111 (3.99%) PySpark
10 90 (3.24%) .NET
11 86 (3.09%) OAuth
12 64 (2.30%) JSON
13 63 (2.27%) GraphQL
14 61 (2.19%) HTML
15 60 (2.16%) AngularJS
15 60 (2.16%) FastAPI
16 50 (1.80%) CSS
17 48 (1.73%) OAuth2
18 47 (1.69%) LangChain
19 46 (1.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 530 (19.06%) Cloud Native
2 184 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 124 (4.46%) AI Agents
5 114 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 83 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (2.45%) Data Centre
9 66 (2.37%) Security Posture
10 65 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
13 38 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 38 (1.37%) Replication
14 36 (1.29%) PKI
15 35 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
16 33 (1.19%) CMDB
16 33 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
16 33 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 28 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 231 (8.31%) Linux
2 126 (4.53%) Windows
3 56 (2.01%) Unix
4 45 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,159 (41.69%) CI/CD
2 867 (31.19%) DevOps
3 706 (25.40%) Agile
4 651 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 618 (22.23%) AI
6 449 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 408 (14.68%) Microservices
8 399 (14.35%) Containerisation
9 373 (13.42%) Observability
10 367 (13.20%) Migration
11 364 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (12.81%) Analytics
13 352 (12.66%) Data Pipeline
14 344 (12.37%) Data Modelling
15 343 (12.34%) Software Engineering
16 338 (12.16%) Data Engineering
17 318 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 308 (11.08%) Event-Driven
19 294 (10.58%) Machine Learning
20 286 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,032 (37.12%) Python
2 599 (21.55%) SQL
3 477 (17.16%) Java
4 208 (7.48%) TypeScript
5 193 (6.94%) JavaScript
6 167 (6.01%) Bash
7 142 (5.11%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.92%) C#
9 47 (1.69%) Scala
10 44 (1.58%) Go
11 34 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.15%) Bicep
13 28 (1.01%) Ruby
14 27 (0.97%) Groovy
15 25 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.68%) R
18 18 (0.65%) C++
19 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 762 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 677 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 158 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 143 (5.14%) Degree
5 87 (3.13%) CISSP
6 84 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 69 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 61 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 58 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 46 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (1.65%) CISM
11 25 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 23 (0.83%) PMI Certification
13 22 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.79%) PMP
14 18 (0.65%) CCNP
15 17 (0.61%) CCSP
15 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (8.35%) Data Quality
2 147 (5.29%) QA
3 106 (3.81%) NIST
4 96 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 86 (3.09%) GDPR
6 39 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.12%) GRC
8 30 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.83%) SLA
11 22 (0.79%) NCSC
12 18 (0.65%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.54%) PMO
15 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
16 13 (0.47%) EU AI Act
17 12 (0.43%) SEPA
18 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
18 8 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 490 (17.63%) Docker
2 89 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.22%) NFS
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 600 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 200 (7.19%) Grafana
3 187 (6.73%) Ansible
4 157 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.26%) Argo
6 34 (1.22%) Kibana
7 30 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (0.86%) Puppet
9 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.36%) Istio
10 10 (0.36%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) QRadar
12 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
14 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 290 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 182 (6.55%) Databricks
3 133 (4.78%) Oracle
4 130 (4.68%) ServiceNow
5 129 (4.64%) Google
6 106 (3.81%) Splunk
7 69 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.05%) VMware
9 52 (1.87%) Cisco
10 51 (1.83%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.80%) OpenAI
12 49 (1.76%) SAP
13 39 (1.40%) Palo Alto
14 38 (1.37%) Informatica
15 34 (1.22%) IBM
16 31 (1.12%) Dynatrace
17 28 (1.01%) Fortinet
18 27 (0.97%) Foundry
19 25 (0.90%) Red Hat
20 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft