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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,183 2,153 2,686
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.65% 13.69% 13.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.29% 33.44% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 1,567 2,069
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -4.10%
75th Percentile £688 £731 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 14
10th Percentile £43.75 £27.54 £37.58
25th Percentile £60.63 £33.14 £49.69
Median hourly rate £76.75 £40.25 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.68% -31.78% +31.11%
75th Percentile £87.50 £46.19 £87.27
90th Percentile £93.13 £51.93 £90.00
England median hourly rate £75.75 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +64.03% -16.04% +2.33%

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 6,186 6,438 7,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.36% 40.95% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,190 4,381 5,762
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 34 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -7.89% +49.02%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.33 £85.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +4 244 £575 - 1,042
South London +8 61 £525 +7.14% 40
West London -10 25 £425 -26.09% 105
East London +11 7 £675 -10.00% 93
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
1 155 (7.10%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (5.22%) Confluence
3 84 (3.85%) Apache
4 78 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 50 (2.29%) nginx
6 16 (0.73%) SAS
6 16 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.69%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.60%) CMS
9 9 (0.41%) Headless CMS
10 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.32%) Camunda
12 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.18%) Appian
13 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.14%) Traefik
15 2 (0.092%) JBoss
15 2 (0.092%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.14%) Trello
5 2 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
6 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.55%) Endur
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.14%) Actimize
6 2 (0.092%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.092%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.092%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.092%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.092%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.092%) Shopify
7 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.046%) Magento
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 850 (38.94%) Azure
2 491 (22.49%) GCP
3 298 (13.65%) GitHub
4 287 (13.15%) Amazon S3
5 274 (12.55%) Serverless
6 233 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
7 177 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
8 175 (8.02%) Snowflake
9 161 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 133 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
11 132 (6.05%) dbt
12 122 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 104 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
14 95 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
15 90 (4.12%) Power Platform
16 68 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
17 65 (2.98%) SaaS
17 65 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 54 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
19 53 (2.43%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 120 (5.50%) Firewall
2 69 (3.16%) DNS
3 56 (2.57%) Network Security
4 55 (2.52%) VPN
5 30 (1.37%) WAN
6 28 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.24%) SSL
8 25 (1.15%) HTTP
9 20 (0.92%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.87%) DHCP
11 18 (0.82%) BGP
12 17 (0.78%) LAN
12 17 (0.78%) SSH
13 16 (0.73%) OSPF
13 16 (0.73%) VLAN
14 15 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
15 11 (0.50%) FTP
16 10 (0.46%) IMAP
16 10 (0.46%) SMTP
17 9 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (5.04%) NoSQL
4 105 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
5 101 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
6 99 (4.54%) Data Lake
7 91 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 84 (3.85%) Power BI
9 76 (3.48%) SQL Server
10 71 (3.25%) DynamoDB
11 69 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 65 (2.98%) Apache Iceberg
13 58 (2.66%) MySQL
14 55 (2.52%) Apache Arrow
14 55 (2.52%) Dremio
14 55 (2.52%) MongoDB
15 54 (2.47%) Metadata
16 47 (2.15%) Big Data
17 46 (2.11%) Tableau
18 43 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 267 (12.23%) Git
2 207 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 169 (7.74%) JIRA
4 142 (6.50%) GitLab
5 48 (2.20%) JUnit
6 33 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.24%) CircleCI
7 27 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 27 (1.24%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.24%) ERwin
7 27 (1.24%) Maven
8 25 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 22 (1.01%) Metasploit
10 20 (0.92%) Burp Suite
10 20 (0.92%) Selenium
11 19 (0.87%) ER Studio
11 19 (0.87%) Mockito
12 18 (0.82%) MLflow
13 15 (0.69%) Artifactory
14 14 (0.64%) JMeter
General
1 574 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 525 (24.05%) Finance
3 241 (11.04%) Public Sector
4 229 (10.49%) Banking
5 212 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 120 (5.50%) Front Office
7 111 (5.08%) Investment Banking
8 43 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.33%) Marketing
11 28 (1.28%) Retail
12 25 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.05%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.01%) Legal
15 21 (0.96%) Military
16 15 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 454 (20.80%) Developer
2 384 (17.59%) Senior
3 317 (14.52%) Architect
4 269 (12.32%) AWS Engineer
5 168 (7.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 162 (7.42%) Software Engineer
7 160 (7.33%) Data Engineer
7 160 (7.33%) Lead
8 143 (6.55%) Python Engineer
9 136 (6.23%) Java Developer
10 105 (4.81%) AWS Developer
11 100 (4.58%) Senior Developer
12 94 (4.31%) Python Developer
13 88 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
14 86 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
15 85 (3.89%) Java Engineer
16 84 (3.85%) Analyst
16 84 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
17 74 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 74 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (12.09%) Kafka
2 259 (11.86%) React
3 181 (8.29%) Node.js
4 134 (6.14%) REST
5 129 (5.91%) AngularJS
6 123 (5.63%) Spring
7 108 (4.95%) RESTful
8 103 (4.72%) Spring Boot
9 96 (4.40%) NumPy
9 96 (4.40%) Pandas
10 88 (4.03%) gRPC
11 77 (3.53%) SciPy
12 75 (3.44%) GraphQL
13 74 (3.39%) Vue
14 66 (3.02%) CSS
15 64 (2.93%) HTML
16 62 (2.84%) .NET
17 48 (2.20%) FastAPI
18 47 (2.15%) OAuth
19 41 (1.88%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 236 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (4.40%) Fixed Income
4 94 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 90 (4.12%) Hedge funds
6 76 (3.48%) Equities
7 74 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 66 (3.02%) Derivative
9 53 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 53 (2.43%) Onboarding
10 50 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 45 (2.06%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
13 40 (1.83%) Security Posture
14 35 (1.60%) Data Centre
15 34 (1.56%) Pricing Data
16 32 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
16 32 (1.47%) Virtual Team
17 26 (1.19%) Data Structures
18 25 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 207 (9.48%) Linux
2 85 (3.89%) Windows
3 53 (2.43%) Unix
4 19 (0.87%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.37%) CentOS
9 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.092%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Debian
11 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (37.43%) CI/CD
2 645 (29.55%) Agile
3 594 (27.21%) DevOps
4 408 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 343 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
6 342 (15.67%) Microservices
7 335 (15.35%) Software Engineering
8 279 (12.78%) Analytics
9 253 (11.59%) Containerisation
10 228 (10.44%) AI
11 210 (9.62%) Data Modelling
12 201 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
13 196 (8.98%) Migration
14 187 (8.57%) ETL
15 185 (8.47%) Machine Learning
16 178 (8.15%) Full-Stack Development
17 171 (7.83%) Data Engineering
18 169 (7.74%) Observability
19 166 (7.60%) Cloud Security
20 154 (7.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 955 (43.75%) Python
2 496 (22.72%) Java
3 472 (21.62%) SQL
4 280 (12.83%) TypeScript
5 271 (12.41%) JavaScript
6 153 (7.01%) Bash
7 130 (5.96%) Go
8 82 (3.76%) C#
8 82 (3.76%) PowerShell
9 56 (2.57%) C++
10 34 (1.56%) Scala
11 27 (1.24%) Perl
12 25 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.10%) Groovy
13 24 (1.10%) Rust
14 23 (1.05%) C
14 23 (1.05%) Ruby
15 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.69%) R
17 14 (0.64%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 499 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 435 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 142 (6.50%) Degree
4 121 (5.54%) AWS Certification
5 66 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.69%) CISSP
8 33 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.42%) OSCP
10 28 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 22 (1.01%) CREST Certified
14 18 (0.82%) CISM
15 13 (0.60%) CCNP
15 13 (0.60%) PhD
15 13 (0.60%) Tigerscheme
16 12 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 11 (0.50%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 94 (4.31%) QA
3 79 (3.62%) GDPR
4 76 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.79%) NIST
6 40 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.19%) NCSC
8 20 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.82%) WCAG
11 15 (0.69%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.37%) GRC
13 8 (0.37%) MiFID
13 8 (0.37%) SOC 2
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
1 503 (23.04%) Docker
2 46 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.50%) Postfix
5 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.46%) Squid
5 10 (0.46%) zsh
6 9 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.37%) Firmware
8 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.092%) vSphere
11 1 (0.046%) etcd
11 1 (0.046%) Snort
11 1 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.046%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 513 (23.50%) Kubernetes
2 487 (22.31%) Terraform
3 155 (7.10%) Ansible
4 113 (5.18%) Grafana
5 104 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.33%) Argo
7 29 (1.33%) Puppet
8 28 (1.28%) Packer
9 23 (1.05%) Consul
10 21 (0.96%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.92%) Nmap
12 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.78%) Nessus
13 12 (0.55%) SCCM
14 11 (0.50%) Kibana
15 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.41%) QRadar
17 8 (0.37%) Istio
18 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 154 (7.05%) Microsoft
2 120 (5.50%) Databricks
3 88 (4.03%) Splunk
4 82 (3.76%) Google
5 74 (3.39%) Oracle
6 68 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 35 (1.60%) Cisco
8 33 (1.51%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.19%) VMware
11 25 (1.15%) F5
12 24 (1.10%) Arista
13 23 (1.05%) IBM
14 20 (0.92%) CheckPoint
15 18 (0.82%) Dynatrace
15 18 (0.82%) Fortinet
15 18 (0.82%) OpenAI
15 18 (0.82%) Tenable
16 17 (0.78%) SAP
17 16 (0.73%) Informatica