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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,815 2,213 2,281
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.01% 16.32% 14.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.77% 37.87% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,980 1,545 1,741
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +79.45% -63.07%
75th Percentile £80.63 £78.75 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.00 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 8,335 5,844 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.50% 43.09% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,680 4,001 4,772
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £72.68 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -4 285 £550 -4.35% 117
West London +5 97 £560 +31.76% 58
South London +1 82 £535 +1.90% 12
East London +3 14 £525 -10.26% 27
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
1 152 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 93 (3.30%) Confluence
4 80 (2.84%) Apache
5 36 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) SAS
7 11 (0.39%) CICS
7 11 (0.39%) nginx
8 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.28%) Camunda
10 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 34 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.57%) 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 (0.036%) 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%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
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 1,242 (44.12%) Azure
2 618 (21.95%) GCP
3 390 (13.85%) Serverless
4 373 (13.25%) Amazon S3
5 358 (12.72%) GitHub
6 330 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
7 237 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
8 221 (7.85%) Snowflake
9 194 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
10 174 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 162 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 157 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
13 145 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
14 133 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
15 131 (4.65%) Power Platform
16 127 (4.51%) SaaS
17 121 (4.30%) dbt
18 118 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 97 (3.45%) Entra ID
20 93 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.80%) Firewall
2 86 (3.06%) Network Security
3 73 (2.59%) DNS
4 62 (2.20%) VPN
5 42 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.28%) WAN
7 26 (0.92%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) SSL
10 18 (0.64%) Internet
10 18 (0.64%) SSH
11 17 (0.60%) BGP
12 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
13 13 (0.46%) NGFW
14 12 (0.43%) LAN
14 12 (0.43%) OSPF
14 12 (0.43%) SAN
15 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.26%) NoSQL
5 119 (4.23%) Power BI
6 117 (4.16%) Data Lake
7 103 (3.66%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
9 96 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 94 (3.34%) Metadata
11 88 (3.13%) DynamoDB
12 86 (3.06%) MongoDB
13 73 (2.59%) Relational Database
14 63 (2.24%) Delta Lake
15 61 (2.17%) Big Data
16 59 (2.10%) Tableau
17 49 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
18 42 (1.49%) BigQuery
19 40 (1.42%) Redis
19 40 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 283 (10.05%) Git
1 283 (10.05%) Jenkins
2 263 (9.34%) GitLab
3 146 (5.19%) JIRA
4 35 (1.24%) JMeter
5 34 (1.21%) JUnit
6 33 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 31 (1.10%) Selenium
7 31 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 29 (1.03%) Maven
9 28 (0.99%) Mockito
10 23 (0.82%) Postman
11 22 (0.78%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.75%) Gradle
13 20 (0.71%) Gatling
13 20 (0.71%) MLflow
14 18 (0.64%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.64%) REST Assured
15 16 (0.57%) Claude Code
16 14 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 680 (24.16%) Finance
2 641 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 408 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 254 (9.02%) Banking
5 249 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.63%) Retail
7 64 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (2.13%) Front Office
9 53 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 47 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.31%) Marketing
13 33 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.03%) Legal
15 27 (0.96%) Law
16 26 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.75%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 587 (20.85%) Architect
2 446 (15.84%) Senior
3 366 (13.00%) Developer
4 313 (11.12%) Lead
5 296 (10.52%) Data Engineer
6 270 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
7 201 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 156 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
9 116 (4.12%) Software Engineer
10 115 (4.09%) AWS Architect
10 115 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 109 (3.87%) Java Developer
12 106 (3.77%) Analyst
13 94 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
14 93 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 90 (3.20%) Senior Developer
16 88 (3.13%) Data Architect
17 86 (3.06%) AWS DevOps
18 80 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 79 (2.81%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (11.26%) Kafka
2 251 (8.92%) REST
3 224 (7.96%) React
4 178 (6.32%) Spring
5 161 (5.72%) Spring Boot
6 154 (5.47%) RESTful
7 151 (5.36%) Node.js
8 104 (3.69%) PySpark
9 85 (3.02%) .NET
10 78 (2.77%) GraphQL
10 78 (2.77%) OAuth
11 64 (2.27%) AngularJS
12 62 (2.20%) JSON
13 60 (2.13%) FastAPI
14 56 (1.99%) HTML
15 50 (1.78%) CSS
16 46 (1.63%) OAuth2
17 45 (1.60%) LangChain
17 45 (1.60%) Redux
18 43 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 516 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 122 (4.33%) AI Agents
5 104 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.34%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 59 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 48 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 40 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
16 36 (1.28%) Replication
17 34 (1.21%) CMDB
17 34 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
17 34 (1.21%) PKI
18 30 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 227 (8.06%) Linux
2 125 (4.44%) Windows
3 48 (1.71%) Unix
4 43 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Solaris
9 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,143 (40.60%) CI/CD
2 867 (30.80%) DevOps
3 705 (25.04%) Agile
4 618 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 615 (21.85%) AI
6 415 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 410 (14.56%) Microservices
8 400 (14.21%) Containerisation
9 373 (13.25%) Migration
10 363 (12.90%) Analytics
11 355 (12.61%) Observability
12 352 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 352 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 345 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
14 342 (12.15%) Data Modelling
15 329 (11.69%) Data Engineering
16 306 (10.87%) Machine Learning
17 302 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 290 (10.30%) Event-Driven
19 273 (9.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (36.91%) Python
2 597 (21.21%) SQL
3 491 (17.44%) Java
4 240 (8.53%) TypeScript
5 220 (7.82%) JavaScript
6 156 (5.54%) Bash
7 142 (5.04%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.87%) C#
9 60 (2.13%) Go
10 42 (1.49%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Bicep
12 33 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 26 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) Groovy
15 22 (0.78%) R
16 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.67%) C++
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 755 (26.82%) Security Cleared
2 670 (23.80%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.15%) AWS Certification
3 145 (5.15%) Degree
4 87 (3.09%) CISSP
5 72 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 67 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 64 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (1.63%) CISM
11 26 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.82%) PMI Certification
13 23 (0.82%) PMP
14 18 (0.64%) CCNP
15 17 (0.60%) CCSP
16 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 143 (5.08%) QA
3 103 (3.66%) NIST
4 94 (3.34%) GDPR
5 91 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.10%) GRC
9 28 (0.99%) SLA
10 24 (0.85%) NCSC
11 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.57%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.50%) PMO
16 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
17 10 (0.36%) SEPA
18 9 (0.32%) WCAG
19 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 491 (17.44%) Docker
2 83 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) 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
1 678 (24.09%) Terraform
2 599 (21.28%) Kubernetes
3 193 (6.86%) Grafana
4 178 (6.32%) Ansible
5 155 (5.51%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.10%) Argo
8 29 (1.03%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.39%) Packer
13 9 (0.32%) 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
1 260 (9.24%) Microsoft
2 160 (5.68%) Databricks
3 129 (4.58%) Google
3 129 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 121 (4.30%) Oracle
5 89 (3.16%) Splunk
6 69 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 55 (1.95%) VMware
8 49 (1.74%) CyberArk
8 49 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 48 (1.71%) Cisco
10 47 (1.67%) SAP
11 36 (1.28%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.17%) IBM
13 32 (1.14%) Foundry
13 32 (1.14%) Informatica
14 31 (1.10%) Dynatrace
15 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
16 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.82%) Fortinet