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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,162 2,137 2,594
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.34% 13.53% 13.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.75% 33.21% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,498 1,557 1,996
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £454 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £813 £850 £795
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.16% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 11
10th Percentile £42.50 £28.78 £43.03
25th Percentile £65.38 £36.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.05% -28.33% +23.08%
75th Percentile £87.50 £55.75 £85.78
90th Percentile £93.75 £79.30 £87.50
England median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £51.78
% change year-on-year +84.06% -10.81% +6.21%

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 6,221 6,435 7,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.15% 40.76% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,224 4,380 5,592
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £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 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 40 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.33 £18.47
25th Percentile £22.63 £24.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -7.28% +30.17%
75th Percentile £45.94 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.03 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.00 £25.45
% change year-on-year -20.41% +25.74% +13.11%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +7 247 £575 - 134
South London +11 63 £525 +6.06% 36
West London -5 26 £513 -10.32% 65
East London - 7 £675 - 65
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
1 147 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.81%) Confluence
3 78 (3.61%) Apache
4 72 (3.33%) Apache Spark
5 42 (1.94%) nginx
6 18 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.74%) SAS
8 14 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.60%) CMS
10 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.42%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.32%) Camunda
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.19%) Appian
14 4 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.14%) Traefik
16 2 (0.093%) Luigi
16 2 (0.093%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.19%) Trello
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
6 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.42%) Endur
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Actimize
6 2 (0.093%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.093%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.093%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.093%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 834 (38.58%) Azure
2 474 (21.92%) GCP
3 297 (13.74%) GitHub
4 287 (13.27%) Amazon S3
4 287 (13.27%) Serverless
5 250 (11.56%) AWS Lambda
6 178 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
7 176 (8.14%) Snowflake
8 162 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 128 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 126 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
11 121 (5.60%) dbt
12 120 (5.55%) Amazon ECS
13 119 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
14 90 (4.16%) Power Platform
15 72 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 66 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
17 57 (2.64%) SaaS
18 52 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
19 47 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 119 (5.50%) Firewall
2 68 (3.15%) DNS
3 57 (2.64%) VPN
4 56 (2.59%) Network Security
5 32 (1.48%) WAN
6 29 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.30%) SSL
8 24 (1.11%) HTTP
9 22 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.97%) DHCP
11 17 (0.79%) BGP
12 16 (0.74%) LAN
13 15 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
13 15 (0.69%) OSPF
13 15 (0.69%) SSH
13 15 (0.69%) VLAN
14 11 (0.51%) FTP
15 10 (0.46%) IMAP
15 10 (0.46%) SMTP
16 9 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (5.37%) NoSQL
4 108 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 99 (4.58%) Amazon Athena
6 94 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 92 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 85 (3.93%) Power BI
9 79 (3.65%) SQL Server
10 71 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 65 (3.01%) DynamoDB
12 58 (2.68%) MongoDB
13 57 (2.64%) Apache Iceberg
14 56 (2.59%) Metadata
15 55 (2.54%) MySQL
16 49 (2.27%) Tableau
17 48 (2.22%) Big Data
18 47 (2.17%) Apache Arrow
18 47 (2.17%) Dremio
19 43 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 248 (11.47%) Git
2 206 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 162 (7.49%) JIRA
4 159 (7.35%) GitLab
5 43 (1.99%) JUnit
6 26 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 24 (1.11%) MLflow
9 23 (1.06%) ERwin
10 21 (0.97%) CircleCI
10 21 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.97%) Selenium
11 19 (0.88%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.79%) Mockito
13 16 (0.74%) ER Studio
13 16 (0.74%) Maven
14 15 (0.69%) JMeter
15 14 (0.65%) Postman
16 13 (0.60%) Metasploit
17 12 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 558 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 503 (23.27%) Finance
3 235 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 219 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 215 (9.94%) Banking
6 109 (5.04%) Front Office
7 98 (4.53%) Investment Banking
8 38 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.39%) Marketing
11 29 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.25%) Retail
13 24 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 20 (0.93%) Military
15 19 (0.88%) Legal
16 18 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.69%) Manufacturing
18 14 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 435 (20.12%) Developer
2 384 (17.76%) Senior
3 302 (13.97%) Architect
4 266 (12.30%) AWS Engineer
5 174 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 164 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 156 (7.22%) Lead
8 148 (6.85%) Software Engineer
9 143 (6.61%) Python Engineer
10 121 (5.60%) Java Developer
11 101 (4.67%) Senior Developer
12 98 (4.53%) AWS Developer
13 90 (4.16%) Analyst
14 89 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
15 88 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
15 88 (4.07%) Python Developer
16 87 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
17 79 (3.65%) Java Engineer
18 78 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 68 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (12.35%) Kafka
2 242 (11.19%) React
3 178 (8.23%) Node.js
4 135 (6.24%) REST
5 122 (5.64%) Spring
6 114 (5.27%) AngularJS
7 113 (5.23%) RESTful
8 105 (4.86%) Spring Boot
9 90 (4.16%) Pandas
10 88 (4.07%) NumPy
11 87 (4.02%) gRPC
12 69 (3.19%) SciPy
13 67 (3.10%) Vue
14 65 (3.01%) CSS
14 65 (3.01%) GraphQL
14 65 (3.01%) HTML
15 62 (2.87%) .NET
16 48 (2.22%) FastAPI
17 46 (2.13%) OAuth
18 43 (1.99%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 248 (11.47%) Cloud Native
2 107 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (3.98%) Fixed Income
4 80 (3.70%) Hedge funds
5 78 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 72 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 67 (3.10%) Equities
8 62 (2.87%) Derivative
9 51 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
10 46 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 45 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
12 43 (1.99%) Public Cloud
13 41 (1.90%) Security Posture
14 40 (1.85%) Management Information System
15 35 (1.62%) Data Centre
16 32 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
16 32 (1.48%) Virtual Team
17 31 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (1.39%) Pricing Data
19 27 (1.25%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 199 (9.20%) Linux
2 82 (3.79%) Windows
3 47 (2.17%) Unix
4 21 (0.97%) VMS
5 17 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.37%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (38.02%) CI/CD
2 606 (28.03%) Agile
3 598 (27.66%) DevOps
4 407 (18.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 352 (16.28%) Microservices
6 351 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
7 324 (14.99%) Software Engineering
8 275 (12.72%) Analytics
9 259 (11.98%) Containerisation
10 244 (11.29%) AI
11 214 (9.90%) Data Modelling
12 209 (9.67%) Data Pipeline
13 195 (9.02%) Migration
14 190 (8.79%) Machine Learning
15 183 (8.46%) ETL
16 175 (8.09%) Observability
17 172 (7.96%) Data Engineering
18 161 (7.45%) Full-Stack Development
19 156 (7.22%) Test Automation
20 153 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 951 (43.99%) Python
2 480 (22.20%) Java
2 480 (22.20%) SQL
3 256 (11.84%) JavaScript
4 252 (11.66%) TypeScript
5 146 (6.75%) Bash
6 127 (5.87%) Go
7 83 (3.84%) C#
8 76 (3.52%) PowerShell
9 46 (2.13%) C++
10 31 (1.43%) Scala
11 24 (1.11%) Ruby
12 23 (1.06%) Perl
12 23 (1.06%) Rust
13 20 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.88%) Groovy
15 18 (0.83%) C
16 16 (0.74%) R
17 15 (0.69%) PHP
18 14 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 500 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 432 (19.98%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.11%) Degree
4 127 (5.87%) AWS Certification
5 64 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 36 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 36 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 34 (1.57%) CISSP
9 31 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.06%) OSCP
12 18 (0.83%) CISM
13 15 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (0.65%) CCNP
15 12 (0.56%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.51%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.51%) PhD
16 11 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.21%) QA
3 85 (3.93%) GDPR
4 72 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.73%) NIST
6 36 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.88%) NCSC
9 17 (0.79%) WCAG
10 16 (0.74%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.46%) GRC
13 8 (0.37%) MiFID
13 8 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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
1 501 (23.17%) Docker
2 41 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
4 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
4 10 (0.46%) Postfix
4 10 (0.46%) Squid
4 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.37%) zsh
6 7 (0.32%) Firmware
6 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.093%) iptables
8 2 (0.093%) KVM
8 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.093%) vSphere
9 1 (0.046%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 506 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 496 (22.94%) Terraform
3 145 (6.71%) Ansible
4 108 (5.00%) Grafana
5 96 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.43%) Argo
7 29 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.20%) Puppet
9 22 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.88%) Packer
11 17 (0.79%) Consul
11 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.79%) Nessus
12 13 (0.60%) SCCM
13 11 (0.51%) Nmap
14 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.42%) QRadar
16 8 (0.37%) Istio
16 8 (0.37%) Kibana
16 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 149 (6.89%) Microsoft
2 133 (6.15%) Databricks
3 84 (3.89%) Google
4 82 (3.79%) Splunk
5 71 (3.28%) Oracle
6 69 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 35 (1.62%) Cisco
8 33 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 32 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 25 (1.16%) F5
10 25 (1.16%) VMware
11 23 (1.06%) IBM
11 23 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 22 (1.02%) CheckPoint
13 21 (0.97%) Arista
13 21 (0.97%) SAP
14 20 (0.93%) Fortinet
15 19 (0.88%) Dynatrace
16 17 (0.79%) Informatica
16 17 (0.79%) Tenable