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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,575 2,020 2,331
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.31% 16.31% 13.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.93% 38.38% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,780 1,442 1,799
10th Percentile £405 £400 £405
25th Percentile £470 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £826
England median daily rate £540 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.82% -2.27% -6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.75 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +23.70% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £75.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.41% +37.45% -26.67%

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 7,589 5,263 6,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.16% 42.48% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,251 3,628 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 70
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.71 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -35.80%
75th Percentile £53.35 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £71.88 £59.13
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -4 280 £550 - 261
South London +4 85 £500 +1.78% 7
West London +6 83 £603 +11.88% 36
East London +1 16 £543 -7.26% 48
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
1 119 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.60%) Confluence
4 64 (2.49%) Apache
5 23 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.70%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) CICS
9 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.19%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.12%) IIS
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.078%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 39 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.12%) Revit
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) Magento
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Endur
5 3 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) Actimize
6 2 (0.078%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,044 (40.54%) Azure
2 555 (21.55%) GCP
3 383 (14.87%) Amazon S3
4 381 (14.80%) Serverless
5 332 (12.89%) AWS Lambda
6 327 (12.70%) GitHub
7 206 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 198 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 169 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
10 162 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
10 162 (6.29%) Snowflake
11 144 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 143 (5.55%) Power Platform
13 132 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
14 117 (4.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 105 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
16 81 (3.15%) SaaS
17 73 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
18 68 (2.64%) dbt
19 64 (2.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.84%) Firewall
2 67 (2.60%) Network Security
3 64 (2.49%) DNS
4 57 (2.21%) VPN
5 47 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.28%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
7 20 (0.78%) HTTP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 16 (0.62%) DHCP
9 16 (0.62%) SSL
10 15 (0.58%) OSPF
11 13 (0.50%) VLAN
12 11 (0.43%) NGFW
12 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
13 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.31%) SAN
16 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (4.89%) Data Lake
3 122 (4.74%) Power BI
4 119 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 113 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 110 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
7 109 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (3.84%) SQL Server
9 97 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 75 (2.91%) DynamoDB
11 74 (2.87%) Tableau
12 73 (2.83%) Metadata
12 73 (2.83%) MongoDB
13 72 (2.80%) Relational Database
14 60 (2.33%) Big Data
15 44 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
16 43 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
17 42 (1.63%) MySQL
18 41 (1.59%) BigQuery
19 38 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 228 (8.85%) Git
2 221 (8.58%) Jenkins
3 204 (7.92%) GitLab
4 120 (4.66%) JIRA
5 41 (1.59%) JUnit
6 40 (1.55%) MLflow
7 33 (1.28%) Mockito
8 27 (1.05%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.89%) JMeter
10 22 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 22 (0.85%) Maven
10 22 (0.85%) Selenium
11 21 (0.82%) Cypress.io
11 21 (0.82%) Gradle
12 20 (0.78%) Bitbucket
12 20 (0.78%) Postman
13 15 (0.58%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.50%) Snyk
15 12 (0.47%) Gatling
15 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 590 (22.91%) Finance
2 538 (20.89%) Social Skills
3 358 (13.90%) Public Sector
4 228 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 214 (8.31%) Banking
6 86 (3.34%) Front Office
7 63 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.67%) Retail
11 40 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.09%) Marketing
15 23 (0.89%) Legal
16 22 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.54%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Law
18 12 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 517 (20.08%) Architect
2 423 (16.43%) Developer
3 390 (15.15%) Senior
4 276 (10.72%) Data Engineer
4 276 (10.72%) Lead
5 240 (9.32%) AWS Engineer
6 187 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 141 (5.48%) Software Engineer
8 129 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
9 118 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 106 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 104 (4.04%) AWS Architect
12 100 (3.88%) Analyst
12 100 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
13 99 (3.84%) Java Developer
14 85 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
15 80 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
16 76 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 76 (2.95%) Python Developer
17 75 (2.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (12.23%) Kafka
2 237 (9.20%) React
3 203 (7.88%) REST
4 178 (6.91%) Node.js
5 174 (6.76%) Spring
6 164 (6.37%) Spring Boot
7 139 (5.40%) RESTful
8 91 (3.53%) .NET
9 83 (3.22%) PySpark
10 82 (3.18%) AngularJS
11 75 (2.91%) GraphQL
12 68 (2.64%) OAuth
13 67 (2.60%) SOAP
14 62 (2.41%) Redux
15 60 (2.33%) LDAP
16 57 (2.21%) HTML
16 57 (2.21%) Pandas
17 49 (1.90%) CSS
17 49 (1.90%) OpenID
18 46 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 429 (16.66%) Cloud Native
2 140 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (3.22%) Onboarding
4 75 (2.91%) Fixed Income
5 74 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 68 (2.64%) Product Ownership
8 66 (2.56%) AI Agents
9 65 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
10 51 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.90%) Data Centre
12 48 (1.86%) Derivative
12 48 (1.86%) Management Information System
13 44 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.67%) Equities
15 34 (1.32%) Algorithms
16 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.24%) Mainframe
17 31 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
18 25 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 178 (6.91%) Linux
2 73 (2.83%) Windows
3 40 (1.55%) Unix
4 17 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) Solaris
8 6 (0.23%) VMS
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (37.90%) CI/CD
2 741 (28.78%) DevOps
3 596 (23.15%) Agile
4 511 (19.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 481 (18.68%) AI
6 400 (15.53%) Microservices
7 373 (14.49%) Containerisation
8 366 (14.21%) Analytics
9 334 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
10 312 (12.12%) Software Engineering
11 305 (11.84%) Migration
12 301 (11.69%) Data Modelling
13 278 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
14 277 (10.76%) Data Engineering
15 270 (10.49%) Observability
16 250 (9.71%) Machine Learning
17 241 (9.36%) ETL
18 237 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 228 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 220 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 994 (38.60%) Python
2 569 (22.10%) SQL
3 467 (18.14%) Java
4 230 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 219 (8.50%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.47%) C#
7 111 (4.31%) PowerShell
8 99 (3.84%) Bash
9 94 (3.65%) Go
10 42 (1.63%) Scala
11 38 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 37 (1.44%) Ruby
13 21 (0.82%) R
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.70%) Bicep
16 17 (0.66%) C++
17 10 (0.39%) PHP
17 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
18 9 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 731 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 651 (25.28%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.20%) Degree
4 115 (4.47%) AWS Certification
5 69 (2.68%) CISSP
6 66 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 50 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (1.17%) CISM
10 30 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 25 (0.97%) PMP
13 21 (0.82%) CCNP
14 20 (0.78%) CCSP
15 17 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.31%) GDPR
3 96 (3.73%) QA
4 89 (3.46%) NIST
5 71 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 30 (1.17%) SLA
8 23 (0.89%) GRC
8 23 (0.89%) NCSC
9 20 (0.78%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.54%) PMO
12 11 (0.43%) WCAG
13 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.31%) SEPA
15 7 (0.27%) PSD2
16 6 (0.23%) MiFID
17 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 482 (18.72%) Docker
2 90 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.62%) Squid
6 4 (0.16%) HDFS
6 4 (0.16%) NFS
6 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.12%) IAG
7 3 (0.12%) Postfix
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.078%) Firmware
8 2 (0.078%) KVM
8 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 576 (22.37%) Terraform
2 526 (20.43%) Kubernetes
3 146 (5.67%) Grafana
4 129 (5.01%) Ansible
5 126 (4.89%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.78%) Kibana
8 19 (0.74%) Argo
9 17 (0.66%) Puppet
10 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.43%) Consul
14 10 (0.39%) QRadar
15 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.23%) Packer
15 6 (0.23%) SCCM
16 5 (0.19%) Istio
16 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 193 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.78%) Databricks
3 91 (3.53%) Google
4 86 (3.34%) Oracle
5 84 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 75 (2.91%) Splunk
7 65 (2.52%) CyberArk
8 57 (2.21%) OpenAI
9 53 (2.06%) Salesforce
10 49 (1.90%) Cisco
11 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.36%) Centrify
11 35 (1.36%) SAP
12 32 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.24%) VMware
13 31 (1.20%) IBM
14 29 (1.13%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 22 (0.85%) Foundry