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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,833 2,211 2,288
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.08% 16.31% 14.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.01% 38.01% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,994 1,546 1,744
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £479 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £788 £838 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +44.67% -54.63%
75th Percentile £80.63 £70.63 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £71.70
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -35.19%

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 8,331 5,817 6,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.39% 42.90% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,990 4,779
10th Percentile £363 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -3.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £658 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 89 52
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.90 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £55.63 £43.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.40 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -3 287 £550 -4.35% 159
West London +6 97 £560 +31.76% 71
South London +1 86 £535 +1.90% 18
East London +6 14 £525 -10.26% 23
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
1 150 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 95 (3.35%) Confluence
4 80 (2.82%) Apache
5 37 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.49%) nginx
7 13 (0.46%) SAS
8 12 (0.42%) CMS
9 11 (0.39%) CICS
10 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.28%) Camunda
12 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.18%) IIS
13 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.28%) Revit
6 6 (0.21%) 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 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
2 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.071%) Endur
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (43.63%) Azure
2 623 (21.99%) GCP
3 395 (13.94%) Serverless
4 377 (13.31%) Amazon S3
5 360 (12.71%) GitHub
6 334 (11.79%) AWS Lambda
7 239 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
8 220 (7.77%) Snowflake
9 198 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
10 175 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 163 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 160 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
14 135 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
15 129 (4.55%) Power Platform
16 124 (4.38%) SaaS
17 119 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 117 (4.13%) dbt
19 97 (3.42%) Entra ID
20 96 (3.39%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 110 (3.88%) Firewall
2 88 (3.11%) Network Security
3 75 (2.65%) DNS
4 64 (2.26%) VPN
5 43 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.27%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 24 (0.85%) HTTP
9 21 (0.74%) SSL
10 18 (0.64%) BGP
10 18 (0.64%) Internet
10 18 (0.64%) SSH
11 14 (0.49%) NGFW
11 14 (0.49%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
12 13 (0.46%) OSPF
13 12 (0.42%) LAN
13 12 (0.42%) SAN
14 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 119 (4.20%) Data Lake
6 117 (4.13%) Power BI
7 101 (3.57%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
9 96 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 94 (3.32%) Metadata
11 87 (3.07%) DynamoDB
12 82 (2.89%) MongoDB
13 71 (2.51%) Relational Database
14 61 (2.15%) Big Data
15 60 (2.12%) Delta Lake
16 59 (2.08%) Tableau
17 48 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
18 41 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
19 40 (1.41%) Redis
20 39 (1.38%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 284 (10.02%) Jenkins
2 280 (9.88%) Git
3 258 (9.11%) GitLab
4 149 (5.26%) JIRA
5 35 (1.24%) Cypress.io
5 35 (1.24%) JMeter
6 34 (1.20%) JUnit
7 31 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.06%) Selenium
9 29 (1.02%) Maven
10 27 (0.95%) Mockito
11 23 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.81%) Postman
12 22 (0.78%) MLflow
13 21 (0.74%) Gradle
14 20 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 20 (0.71%) Gatling
15 18 (0.64%) REST Assured
16 16 (0.56%) Claude Code
17 14 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 691 (24.39%) Finance
2 636 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 411 (14.51%) Public Sector
4 257 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
5 253 (8.93%) Banking
6 73 (2.58%) Retail
7 72 (2.54%) Front Office
8 60 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 47 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.31%) Marketing
13 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (0.99%) Legal
15 27 (0.95%) Law
16 25 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 598 (21.11%) Architect
2 444 (15.67%) Senior
3 377 (13.31%) Developer
4 319 (11.26%) Lead
5 291 (10.27%) Data Engineer
6 278 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
7 204 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 158 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
9 127 (4.48%) Software Engineer
10 118 (4.17%) AWS Architect
11 117 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 111 (3.92%) Java Developer
13 108 (3.81%) Analyst
14 93 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
15 92 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 91 (3.21%) Senior Developer
17 89 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
17 89 (3.14%) Data Architect
18 83 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 80 (2.82%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (11.40%) Kafka
2 246 (8.68%) REST
3 237 (8.37%) React
4 177 (6.25%) Spring
5 166 (5.86%) Node.js
6 159 (5.61%) Spring Boot
7 151 (5.33%) RESTful
8 101 (3.57%) PySpark
9 87 (3.07%) .NET
9 87 (3.07%) GraphQL
10 76 (2.68%) OAuth
11 68 (2.40%) AngularJS
12 62 (2.19%) JSON
13 60 (2.12%) FastAPI
14 57 (2.01%) Redux
15 56 (1.98%) HTML
16 50 (1.76%) CSS
17 45 (1.59%) LangChain
18 44 (1.55%) OAuth2
19 42 (1.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 510 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 123 (4.34%) AI Agents
5 103 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 88 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.47%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 61 (2.15%) Fixed Income
10 57 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 40 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 38 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
15 35 (1.24%) PKI
15 35 (1.24%) Replication
16 34 (1.20%) CMDB
16 34 (1.20%) Derivative
17 32 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 228 (8.05%) Linux
2 123 (4.34%) Windows
3 47 (1.66%) Unix
4 45 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.39%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Solaris
8 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,142 (40.31%) CI/CD
2 874 (30.85%) DevOps
3 716 (25.27%) Agile
4 615 (21.71%) AI
5 610 (21.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 415 (14.65%) Microservices
7 408 (14.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 395 (13.94%) Containerisation
9 369 (13.03%) Migration
10 364 (12.85%) Analytics
10 364 (12.85%) Software Engineering
11 354 (12.50%) Observability
12 351 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
13 344 (12.14%) Data Modelling
13 344 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
14 324 (11.44%) Data Engineering
15 306 (10.80%) Machine Learning
16 302 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 290 (10.24%) Event-Driven
18 270 (9.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (36.75%) Python
2 593 (20.93%) SQL
3 498 (17.58%) Java
4 256 (9.04%) TypeScript
5 234 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 160 (5.65%) Bash
7 141 (4.98%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.92%) C#
9 69 (2.44%) Go
10 43 (1.52%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Bicep
12 34 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 25 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) Groovy
15 22 (0.78%) R
16 18 (0.64%) C++
16 18 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 761 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 681 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.22%) AWS Certification
4 145 (5.12%) Degree
5 87 (3.07%) CISSP
6 68 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 68 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 64 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (1.59%) CISM
11 27 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 22 (0.78%) PMP
14 18 (0.64%) CCNP
14 18 (0.64%) CCSP
15 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
15 15 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 143 (5.05%) QA
3 101 (3.57%) NIST
4 94 (3.32%) GDPR
5 87 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.06%) GRC
9 28 (0.99%) SLA
10 23 (0.81%) NCSC
11 21 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.53%) PMO
14 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.39%) WCAG
17 10 (0.35%) SEPA
18 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 496 (17.51%) Docker
2 84 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.11%) Firmware
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 677 (23.90%) Terraform
2 598 (21.11%) Kubernetes
3 193 (6.81%) Grafana
4 178 (6.28%) Ansible
5 155 (5.47%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.06%) Argo
8 29 (1.02%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) Istio
13 9 (0.32%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 255 (9.00%) Microsoft
2 157 (5.54%) Databricks
3 127 (4.48%) ServiceNow
4 125 (4.41%) Google
5 116 (4.09%) Oracle
6 89 (3.14%) Splunk
7 69 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 53 (1.87%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.84%) VMware
10 48 (1.69%) CyberArk
11 47 (1.66%) Cisco
12 46 (1.62%) SAP
13 37 (1.31%) IBM
14 35 (1.24%) Palo Alto
15 34 (1.20%) Foundry
16 31 (1.09%) Dynatrace
17 30 (1.06%) Informatica
18 27 (0.95%) Red Hat
19 26 (0.92%) MuleSoft
20 23 (0.81%) Fortinet