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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,825 2,243 2,348
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.21% 16.51% 14.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.27% 38.53% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,965 1,573 1,807
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £770
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 12
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +96.20% -66.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £59.88
90th Percentile - £86.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £72.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -0.69% +56.99% -37.59%

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 8,244 5,822 6,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.48% 42.84% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,619 3,982 4,957
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £55.19 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -5 290 £550 -4.35% 138
West London +7 99 £560 +28.00% 59
South London +2 87 £513 -3.53% 8
East London +6 13 £513 -12.39% 30
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
1 139 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 94 (3.33%) Confluence
4 73 (2.58%) Apache
5 36 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.53%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) CMS
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.071%) Trello
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.071%) Endur
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.035%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,219 (43.15%) Azure
2 623 (22.05%) GCP
3 393 (13.91%) Serverless
4 389 (13.77%) Amazon S3
5 358 (12.67%) GitHub
6 332 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
7 227 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
8 200 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
9 193 (6.83%) Snowflake
10 168 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 168 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 163 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
12 140 (4.96%) Power Platform
13 135 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
14 129 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
15 122 (4.32%) SaaS
16 119 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 106 (3.75%) dbt
18 93 (3.29%) Amazon Bedrock
19 91 (3.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.93%) Firewall
2 91 (3.22%) Network Security
3 72 (2.55%) DNS
4 67 (2.37%) VPN
5 47 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.27%) WAN
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 25 (0.88%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) BGP
10 19 (0.67%) SSL
11 17 (0.60%) Internet
12 16 (0.57%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) SSH
13 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
14 13 (0.46%) NGFW
15 12 (0.42%) VLAN
16 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
16 11 (0.39%) SAN
17 10 (0.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
3 127 (4.50%) Power BI
4 124 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
5 120 (4.25%) Data Lake
6 119 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 101 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
7 101 (3.58%) SQL Server
8 97 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (3.15%) DynamoDB
10 84 (2.97%) Metadata
11 74 (2.62%) MongoDB
12 72 (2.55%) Relational Database
13 69 (2.44%) Tableau
14 63 (2.23%) Big Data
15 48 (1.70%) Delta Lake
16 42 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (1.42%) BigQuery
18 34 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
19 33 (1.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 271 (9.59%) Git
2 264 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 241 (8.53%) GitLab
4 147 (5.20%) JIRA
5 36 (1.27%) JUnit
6 32 (1.13%) JMeter
7 31 (1.10%) MLflow
8 30 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.03%) Maven
10 28 (0.99%) Mockito
11 24 (0.85%) Selenium
12 22 (0.78%) Gradle
13 21 (0.74%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.74%) Postman
14 20 (0.71%) Gatling
15 19 (0.67%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
17 14 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 701 (24.81%) Finance
2 605 (21.42%) Social Skills
3 415 (14.69%) Public Sector
4 260 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 250 (8.85%) Banking
6 86 (3.04%) Front Office
7 70 (2.48%) Retail
8 60 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 46 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.31%) Financial Institution
12 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.20%) Marketing
13 28 (0.99%) Legal
14 27 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 25 (0.88%) Law
16 23 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 593 (20.99%) Architect
2 434 (15.36%) Senior
3 404 (14.30%) Developer
4 323 (11.43%) Lead
5 284 (10.05%) AWS Engineer
6 281 (9.95%) Data Engineer
7 209 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 166 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
9 140 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 117 (4.14%) Java Developer
12 116 (4.11%) AWS Architect
13 110 (3.89%) Analyst
14 98 (3.47%) Senior Developer
15 92 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
16 89 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
17 86 (3.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 84 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 83 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
20 79 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (11.26%) Kafka
2 244 (8.64%) React
3 234 (8.28%) REST
4 181 (6.41%) Node.js
5 171 (6.05%) Spring
6 159 (5.63%) Spring Boot
7 144 (5.10%) RESTful
8 93 (3.29%) GraphQL
9 92 (3.26%) PySpark
10 89 (3.15%) .NET
11 77 (2.73%) OAuth
12 67 (2.37%) AngularJS
12 67 (2.37%) Redux
13 60 (2.12%) FastAPI
13 60 (2.12%) JSON
14 56 (1.98%) HTML
15 50 (1.77%) CSS
16 48 (1.70%) Pandas
17 46 (1.63%) SOAP
18 45 (1.59%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 497 (17.59%) Cloud Native
2 191 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 121 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 107 (3.79%) AI Agents
5 93 (3.29%) Product Ownership
6 85 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (2.76%) Fixed Income
8 69 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.37%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 48 (1.70%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.49%) Derivative
14 38 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 38 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 38 (1.35%) Equities
15 34 (1.20%) CMDB
16 33 (1.17%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 212 (7.50%) Linux
2 118 (4.18%) Windows
3 42 (1.49%) Unix
4 39 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.071%) VMS
14 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,116 (39.50%) CI/CD
2 850 (30.09%) DevOps
3 708 (25.06%) Agile
4 596 (21.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 591 (20.92%) AI
6 419 (14.83%) Microservices
7 402 (14.23%) Containerisation
8 373 (13.20%) Analytics
9 360 (12.74%) Migration
10 357 (12.64%) Software Engineering
11 346 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
12 340 (12.04%) Observability
12 340 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 325 (11.50%) Data Modelling
13 325 (11.50%) Data Pipeline
14 320 (11.33%) Data Engineering
15 310 (10.97%) Machine Learning
16 291 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 274 (9.70%) Event-Driven
18 266 (9.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (36.67%) Python
2 583 (20.64%) SQL
3 500 (17.70%) Java
4 264 (9.35%) TypeScript
5 237 (8.39%) JavaScript
6 142 (5.03%) Bash
7 121 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 112 (3.96%) C#
9 85 (3.01%) Go
10 44 (1.56%) Scala
11 36 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.10%) Bicep
12 31 (1.10%) Ruby
13 25 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.74%) R
15 20 (0.71%) Groovy
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.53%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.50%) C++
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 749 (26.51%) Security Cleared
2 674 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.27%) Degree
4 136 (4.81%) AWS Certification
5 88 (3.12%) CISSP
6 68 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 64 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 62 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.49%) CISM
12 36 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.74%) CCSP
16 20 (0.71%) CCNP
16 20 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.71%) PMP
17 18 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 130 (4.60%) QA
3 98 (3.47%) GDPR
4 94 (3.33%) NIST
5 78 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.17%) GRC
8 32 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.85%) SLA
10 20 (0.71%) NCSC
11 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.64%) PMO
13 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
17 11 (0.39%) WCAG
18 10 (0.35%) SEPA
19 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 489 (17.31%) Docker
2 81 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.50%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) vSphere
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.071%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 665 (23.54%) Terraform
2 589 (20.85%) Kubernetes
3 186 (6.58%) Grafana
4 173 (6.12%) Ansible
5 147 (5.20%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.10%) Argo
8 25 (0.88%) Kibana
9 23 (0.81%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.35%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) QRadar
13 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.28%) Istio
14 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) Consul
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 250 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 138 (4.88%) Databricks
3 125 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 118 (4.18%) Google
5 106 (3.75%) Oracle
6 85 (3.01%) Splunk
7 68 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.73%) Cisco
10 45 (1.59%) CyberArk
11 43 (1.52%) VMware
12 42 (1.49%) SAP
13 36 (1.27%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.20%) Foundry
15 30 (1.06%) IBM
16 28 (0.99%) Dynatrace
16 28 (0.99%) Informatica
17 27 (0.96%) MuleSoft
18 24 (0.85%) Qualys
18 24 (0.85%) Red Hat