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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,341 1,967 2,323
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.95% 14.56% 12.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.13% 35.02% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,597 1,415 1,790
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £461 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £76.67 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.68% -5.22% -19.01%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +35.14% +8.71% -20.54%

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 6,859 5,616 6,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.79% 41.57% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,702 3,784 5,081
10th Percentile £350 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 80
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.56
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.63
England median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +36.65% +27.49% -13.72%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -1 271 £541 -1.59% 247
South London +7 91 £519 +6.10% 25
West London +6 51 £603 +5.42% 57
East London +11 8 £653 - 46
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
1 105 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 85 (3.63%) Confluence
4 60 (2.56%) Apache
5 35 (1.50%) nginx
6 16 (0.68%) SAS
7 14 (0.60%) Camunda
7 14 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.34%) Appian
10 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.17%) Traefik
11 3 (0.13%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.085%) Drupal
12 2 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.043%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.043%) Notion
7 1 (0.043%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.17%) Actimize
4 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.17%) Endur
5 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.085%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.085%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.043%) Maximo
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.043%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 951 (40.62%) Azure
2 551 (23.54%) GCP
3 360 (15.38%) Serverless
4 334 (14.27%) Amazon S3
5 316 (13.50%) GitHub
6 310 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
7 215 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
9 169 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
10 159 (6.79%) Snowflake
11 140 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
12 136 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 135 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
14 134 (5.72%) Power Platform
15 106 (4.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 71 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
17 65 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
18 62 (2.65%) dbt
19 52 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
20 50 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 109 (4.66%) Firewall
2 67 (2.86%) VPN
3 61 (2.61%) Network Security
4 60 (2.56%) DNS
5 41 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.20%) WAN
7 23 (0.98%) SSL
8 17 (0.73%) BGP
8 17 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.68%) LAN
10 15 (0.64%) DHCP
10 15 (0.64%) HTTP
10 15 (0.64%) OSPF
11 12 (0.51%) VLAN
12 9 (0.38%) 5G
12 9 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.38%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.34%) 4G
13 8 (0.34%) Wireless
14 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 118 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 118 (5.04%) Power BI
5 100 (4.27%) Data Lake
6 93 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
6 93 (3.97%) SQL Server
7 92 (3.93%) Relational Database
8 85 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 68 (2.90%) Tableau
10 67 (2.86%) MongoDB
11 64 (2.73%) DynamoDB
11 64 (2.73%) Metadata
12 58 (2.48%) MySQL
13 53 (2.26%) Big Data
14 51 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
15 45 (1.92%) BigQuery
16 37 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
17 35 (1.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 229 (9.78%) Git
2 211 (9.01%) Jenkins
3 199 (8.50%) GitLab
4 149 (6.36%) JIRA
5 44 (1.88%) JUnit
6 40 (1.71%) MLflow
7 30 (1.28%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.85%) Mockito
11 19 (0.81%) ERwin
11 19 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 18 (0.77%) Selenium
13 17 (0.73%) JMeter
13 17 (0.73%) Maven
14 15 (0.64%) Gatling
15 12 (0.51%) ER Studio
16 11 (0.47%) Gradle
16 11 (0.47%) Postman
17 9 (0.38%) REST Assured
General
1 578 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 510 (21.79%) Finance
3 300 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 216 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 192 (8.20%) Banking
6 71 (3.03%) Front Office
7 56 (2.39%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 32 (1.37%) Retail
13 31 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 23 (0.98%) Marketing
16 19 (0.81%) Legal
16 19 (0.81%) Military
17 14 (0.60%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 425 (18.15%) Developer
2 408 (17.43%) Architect
3 367 (15.68%) Senior
4 236 (10.08%) AWS Engineer
5 218 (9.31%) Data Engineer
6 202 (8.63%) Lead
7 198 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 132 (5.64%) Software Engineer
9 122 (5.21%) Senior Developer
10 107 (4.57%) Analyst
11 98 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
12 97 (4.14%) Python Engineer
13 95 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
14 91 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 90 (3.84%) Java Developer
16 88 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 80 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
18 77 (3.29%) AWS Architect
18 77 (3.29%) Python Developer
19 74 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (13.11%) Kafka
2 227 (9.70%) React
3 179 (7.65%) Node.js
4 170 (7.26%) REST
5 140 (5.98%) Spring
6 125 (5.34%) RESTful
7 118 (5.04%) Spring Boot
8 96 (4.10%) AngularJS
9 73 (3.12%) CSS
10 71 (3.03%) HTML
11 68 (2.90%) .NET
12 62 (2.65%) Pandas
13 60 (2.56%) gRPC
13 60 (2.56%) PySpark
13 60 (2.56%) SOAP
14 57 (2.43%) OAuth
14 57 (2.43%) PyTorch
15 56 (2.39%) NumPy
16 53 (2.26%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 332 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 120 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.42%) Security Posture
4 61 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 58 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.43%) Fixed Income
7 53 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 49 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 47 (2.01%) Derivative
10 45 (1.92%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.88%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.75%) Data Centre
13 38 (1.62%) AI Agents
14 37 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
14 37 (1.58%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.54%) Data Structures
15 36 (1.54%) Equities
16 32 (1.37%) Hedge funds
17 30 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
17 30 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 192 (8.20%) Linux
2 63 (2.69%) Windows
3 48 (2.05%) Unix
4 19 (0.81%) VMS
5 12 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.30%) Android
7 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.21%) CentOS
10 3 (0.13%) Solaris
10 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.13%) zOS
11 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.043%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 902 (38.53%) CI/CD
2 649 (27.72%) DevOps
3 559 (23.88%) Agile
4 463 (19.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 382 (16.32%) AI
6 374 (15.98%) Microservices
7 360 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 358 (15.29%) Analytics
9 316 (13.50%) Containerisation
10 296 (12.64%) Software Engineering
11 268 (11.45%) Data Modelling
12 252 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
13 242 (10.34%) Machine Learning
14 239 (10.21%) Data Engineering
15 230 (9.82%) ETL
16 229 (9.78%) Observability
17 218 (9.31%) Migration
18 194 (8.29%) Full-Stack Development
19 187 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
20 179 (7.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 975 (41.65%) Python
2 551 (23.54%) SQL
3 428 (18.28%) Java
4 217 (9.27%) JavaScript
5 198 (8.46%) TypeScript
6 106 (4.53%) Go
7 103 (4.40%) Bash
8 99 (4.23%) C#
9 87 (3.72%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.32%) Scala
11 30 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.24%) Ruby
13 28 (1.20%) C++
14 18 (0.77%) R
15 15 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.56%) Bicep
17 13 (0.56%) Rust
18 11 (0.47%) Korn
18 11 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 655 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 575 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.64%) AWS Certification
4 117 (5.00%) Degree
5 64 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (1.96%) CISSP
7 45 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 42 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 37 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 33 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 23 (0.98%) CISM
11 23 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (0.81%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.81%) PMP
13 18 (0.77%) OSCP
14 17 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.68%) CCNP
16 14 (0.60%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 107 (4.57%) GDPR
3 82 (3.50%) QA
4 70 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.69%) NIST
6 42 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.20%) NCSC
8 24 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.64%) SLA
10 13 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.56%) WCAG
11 12 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.51%) GRC
12 11 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.38%) PMO
14 7 (0.30%) PSD2
15 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 515 (22.00%) Docker
2 61 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.51%) Squid
5 9 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
8 4 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.17%) Postfix
8 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.17%) zsh
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) NLBS
11 1 (0.043%) Samba
11 1 (0.043%) Snort
Systems Management
1 555 (23.71%) Terraform
2 534 (22.81%) Kubernetes
3 137 (5.85%) Ansible
4 101 (4.31%) Grafana
5 90 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (1.50%) Argo
8 17 (0.73%) Consul
8 17 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (0.68%) Puppet
10 15 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.56%) Packer
12 12 (0.51%) Nessus
13 11 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.47%) Kibana
13 11 (0.47%) SCCM
14 7 (0.30%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.30%) QRadar
15 6 (0.26%) Istio
15 6 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 154 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 150 (6.41%) Databricks
3 91 (3.89%) Oracle
4 90 (3.84%) Google
5 79 (3.37%) Splunk
6 63 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 46 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 45 (1.92%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.50%) Cisco
11 34 (1.45%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.45%) Centrify
12 33 (1.41%) Dynatrace
12 33 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 31 (1.32%) IBM
14 28 (1.20%) Red Hat
14 28 (1.20%) SAP
15 25 (1.07%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.90%) VMware
17 19 (0.81%) Atlassian