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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,861 2,265 2,294
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.20% 16.61% 14.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.18% 38.76% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,004 1,588 1,764
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £788 £829 £850
England median daily rate £550 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -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% -54.55%
75th Percentile £80.63 £70.63 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £71.70
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £50.59
% change year-on-year -3.45% +43.31% -27.73%

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 8,370 5,843 6,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.53% 42.85% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,722 4,012 4,849
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 52
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.70 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -47.14%
75th Percentile £55.56 £47.50 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -2 294 £550 -4.35% 208
West London +4 97 £555 +30.59% 67
South London +1 86 £525 -0.47% 13
East London +7 14 £525 -10.26% 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
1 148 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 98 (3.43%) Confluence
4 78 (2.73%) Apache
5 36 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.56%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) CMS
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.38%) CICS
9 9 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.24%) Camunda
10 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.17%) IIS
11 5 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.28%) Revit
6 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.17%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.10%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.10%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.070%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.070%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.070%) Endur
8 2 (0.070%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.035%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (43.45%) Azure
2 640 (22.37%) GCP
3 400 (13.98%) Serverless
4 392 (13.70%) Amazon S3
5 367 (12.83%) GitHub
6 337 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
7 234 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
8 207 (7.24%) Snowflake
9 201 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
10 172 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 164 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
12 162 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 140 (4.89%) Power Platform
14 138 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
15 135 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
16 123 (4.30%) SaaS
17 120 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 117 (4.09%) dbt
19 93 (3.25%) Amazon Bedrock
20 92 (3.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 114 (3.98%) Firewall
2 92 (3.22%) Network Security
3 77 (2.69%) DNS
4 67 (2.34%) VPN
5 47 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.33%) WAN
7 27 (0.94%) DHCP
8 24 (0.84%) HTTP
9 22 (0.77%) BGP
9 22 (0.77%) SSL
10 18 (0.63%) Internet
11 16 (0.56%) OSPF
11 16 (0.56%) SSH
11 16 (0.56%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.49%) LAN
13 13 (0.45%) HTTPS
13 13 (0.45%) NGFW
14 12 (0.42%) VLAN
15 11 (0.38%) SAN
16 10 (0.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
3 127 (4.44%) Power BI
4 124 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
5 122 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 121 (4.23%) Data Lake
7 104 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
8 101 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 99 (3.46%) SQL Server
10 91 (3.18%) DynamoDB
11 86 (3.01%) Metadata
12 78 (2.73%) MongoDB
13 72 (2.52%) Relational Database
14 63 (2.20%) Big Data
14 63 (2.20%) Tableau
15 55 (1.92%) Delta Lake
16 41 (1.43%) BigQuery
16 41 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
17 35 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
17 35 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 281 (9.82%) Git
2 273 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 257 (8.98%) GitLab
4 152 (5.31%) JIRA
5 33 (1.15%) JMeter
5 33 (1.15%) JUnit
6 31 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 30 (1.05%) MLflow
7 30 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 29 (1.01%) Maven
9 27 (0.94%) Mockito
10 24 (0.84%) Selenium
11 22 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.73%) Gradle
12 21 (0.73%) Postman
13 20 (0.70%) REST Assured
14 19 (0.66%) Gatling
15 15 (0.52%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 718 (25.10%) Finance
2 619 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 417 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 262 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (9.02%) Banking
6 88 (3.08%) Front Office
7 71 (2.48%) Retail
8 61 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 56 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 41 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 36 (1.26%) Marketing
14 33 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.01%) Legal
16 27 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (0.87%) Law
18 24 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
19 20 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
20 19 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 603 (21.08%) Architect
2 447 (15.62%) Senior
3 403 (14.09%) Developer
4 331 (11.57%) Lead
5 291 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 279 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
7 202 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 163 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
9 144 (5.03%) Software Engineer
10 122 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 119 (4.16%) AWS Architect
12 113 (3.95%) Analyst
12 113 (3.95%) Java Developer
13 97 (3.39%) Senior Developer
14 90 (3.15%) AWS DevOps
14 90 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
15 88 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 84 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
16 84 (2.94%) Data Architect
16 84 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (11.36%) Kafka
2 251 (8.77%) React
3 238 (8.32%) REST
4 190 (6.64%) Node.js
5 170 (5.94%) Spring
6 157 (5.49%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.07%) RESTful
8 97 (3.39%) PySpark
9 95 (3.32%) GraphQL
10 89 (3.11%) .NET
11 77 (2.69%) OAuth
12 72 (2.52%) AngularJS
13 68 (2.38%) Redux
14 61 (2.13%) FastAPI
14 61 (2.13%) JSON
15 58 (2.03%) HTML
16 52 (1.82%) CSS
17 47 (1.64%) LangChain
18 46 (1.61%) OAuth2
19 45 (1.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 510 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 192 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 115 (4.02%) AI Agents
5 100 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.66%) Fixed Income
8 72 (2.52%) Data Centre
9 66 (2.31%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 51 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
12 48 (1.68%) Management Information System
13 41 (1.43%) Derivative
14 40 (1.40%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.33%) Equities
16 37 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
17 36 (1.26%) PKI
18 32 (1.12%) Algorithms
18 32 (1.12%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 216 (7.55%) Linux
2 122 (4.26%) Windows
3 44 (1.54%) Unix
4 42 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.24%) Solaris
9 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.24%) zOS
10 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.10%) AIX
11 3 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.070%) CentOS
12 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.070%) VMS
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,143 (39.95%) CI/CD
2 858 (29.99%) DevOps
3 731 (25.55%) Agile
4 612 (21.39%) AI
5 602 (21.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 422 (14.75%) Microservices
7 405 (14.16%) Containerisation
8 382 (13.35%) Analytics
9 375 (13.11%) Software Engineering
10 373 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 358 (12.51%) Migration
12 356 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
13 349 (12.20%) Observability
14 341 (11.92%) Data Pipeline
15 339 (11.85%) Data Modelling
16 338 (11.81%) Data Engineering
17 317 (11.08%) Machine Learning
18 299 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 282 (9.86%) Event-Driven
20 272 (9.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,063 (37.15%) Python
2 595 (20.80%) SQL
3 503 (17.58%) Java
4 269 (9.40%) TypeScript
5 242 (8.46%) JavaScript
6 153 (5.35%) Bash
7 127 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.84%) C#
9 85 (2.97%) Go
10 45 (1.57%) Scala
11 35 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.15%) Bicep
13 30 (1.05%) Ruby
14 28 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.77%) R
16 21 (0.73%) Groovy
17 17 (0.59%) C++
17 17 (0.59%) T-SQL
18 16 (0.56%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 759 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 680 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.21%) Degree
4 137 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 88 (3.08%) CISSP
6 67 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 66 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 64 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 43 (1.50%) CISM
12 37 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 26 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.73%) CCNP
16 20 (0.70%) CCSP
16 20 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.70%) PMP
17 18 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 138 (4.82%) QA
3 96 (3.36%) NIST
4 94 (3.29%) GDPR
5 81 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.12%) GRC
7 32 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 25 (0.87%) SLA
9 20 (0.70%) NCSC
10 19 (0.66%) PMO
10 19 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.56%) NIST 800
13 15 (0.52%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.45%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.38%) WCAG
16 9 (0.31%) SEPA
17 7 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 506 (17.69%) Docker
2 83 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.31%) IAG
6 9 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.24%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) vSphere
9 5 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.10%) Firmware
10 3 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.10%) Postfix
10 3 (0.10%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.070%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 662 (23.14%) Terraform
2 605 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 192 (6.71%) Grafana
4 173 (6.05%) Ansible
5 154 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.12%) Argo
8 25 (0.87%) Kibana
9 24 (0.84%) Puppet
10 13 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.35%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) QRadar
13 9 (0.31%) Istio
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.17%) Consul
17 5 (0.17%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 252 (8.81%) Microsoft
2 148 (5.17%) Databricks
3 127 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 121 (4.23%) Google
5 108 (3.77%) Oracle
6 86 (3.01%) Splunk
7 70 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.96%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.78%) Cisco
10 48 (1.68%) VMware
11 46 (1.61%) CyberArk
12 43 (1.50%) SAP
13 38 (1.33%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.19%) Foundry
15 32 (1.12%) IBM
16 31 (1.08%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.94%) Informatica
18 26 (0.91%) MuleSoft
18 26 (0.91%) Red Hat
19 24 (0.84%) Qualys