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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,789 2,190 2,290
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.89% 16.37% 14.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.64% 37.88% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,964 1,540 1,734
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £477 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £691 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £54.06 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +91.68% -63.51%
75th Percentile £79.38 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £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 8,291 5,782 6,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.30% 43.23% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,664 3,958 4,756
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £652 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 89 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.90 £21.00
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.01 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.90% -43.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £68.40 £61.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -6 283 £550 -4.35% 105
West London +8 97 £550 +29.41% 159
South London +2 73 £535 +0.94% 13
East London +5 13 £550 -5.98% 17
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
1 153 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 97 (3.48%) Confluence
4 78 (2.80%) Apache
5 32 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) Camunda
7 10 (0.36%) CICS
7 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.32%) SAS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
2 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.072%) Endur
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,251 (44.85%) Azure
2 628 (22.52%) GCP
3 389 (13.95%) Serverless
4 372 (13.34%) Amazon S3
5 352 (12.62%) GitHub
6 326 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
7 232 (8.32%) GitHub Actions
8 225 (8.07%) Snowflake
9 197 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
10 171 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 155 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 151 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
14 137 (4.91%) Power Platform
15 128 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
15 128 (4.59%) dbt
15 128 (4.59%) SaaS
16 122 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 100 (3.59%) Entra ID
18 94 (3.37%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.84%) Firewall
2 83 (2.98%) Network Security
3 71 (2.55%) DNS
4 60 (2.15%) VPN
5 41 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.36%) WAN
7 26 (0.93%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) HTTP
9 23 (0.82%) SSL
10 20 (0.72%) Internet
10 20 (0.72%) SSH
11 19 (0.68%) BGP
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.54%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.47%) LAN
13 13 (0.47%) OSPF
14 12 (0.43%) SAN
14 12 (0.43%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.39%) NGFW
16 10 (0.36%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
3 138 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
4 125 (4.48%) Power BI
5 119 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 116 (4.16%) Data Lake
7 104 (3.73%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.59%) Metadata
9 98 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 95 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
11 89 (3.19%) MongoDB
12 84 (3.01%) DynamoDB
13 75 (2.69%) Relational Database
14 66 (2.37%) Delta Lake
15 59 (2.12%) Tableau
16 58 (2.08%) Big Data
17 53 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
18 42 (1.51%) MySQL
19 41 (1.47%) BigQuery
19 41 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 286 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 280 (10.04%) Git
3 263 (9.43%) GitLab
4 150 (5.38%) JIRA
5 34 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 33 (1.18%) JMeter
7 32 (1.15%) Selenium
8 29 (1.04%) JUnit
9 27 (0.97%) Maven
9 27 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 24 (0.86%) Mockito
11 23 (0.82%) Postman
12 22 (0.79%) Bitbucket
13 21 (0.75%) Gradle
14 19 (0.68%) Gatling
14 19 (0.68%) REST Assured
15 18 (0.65%) MLflow
16 17 (0.61%) Claude Code
17 14 (0.50%) Cucumber
18 13 (0.47%) CircleCI
General
1 668 (23.95%) Finance
2 660 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 403 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 256 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.14%) Banking
6 75 (2.69%) Retail
7 63 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 44 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (1.54%) Front Office
12 37 (1.33%) Marketing
13 35 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.04%) Legal
16 28 (1.00%) Law
17 25 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (0.75%) Billing
18 21 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 595 (21.33%) Architect
2 440 (15.78%) Senior
3 351 (12.59%) Developer
4 304 (10.90%) Lead
5 300 (10.76%) Data Engineer
6 259 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
7 199 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 154 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
9 117 (4.20%) AWS Architect
10 107 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 106 (3.80%) Analyst
11 106 (3.80%) Software Engineer
12 102 (3.66%) Java Developer
13 95 (3.41%) Data Architect
14 94 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 91 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
16 90 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
17 83 (2.98%) Senior Developer
18 80 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
18 80 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 681 (24.42%) Terraform
2 314 (11.26%) Kafka
3 256 (9.18%) REST
4 217 (7.78%) React
5 175 (6.27%) Spring
6 161 (5.77%) Spring Boot
7 152 (5.45%) RESTful
8 140 (5.02%) Node.js
9 107 (3.84%) PySpark
10 89 (3.19%) .NET
11 84 (3.01%) OAuth
12 69 (2.47%) GraphQL
13 63 (2.26%) JSON
14 61 (2.19%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.12%) HTML
16 58 (2.08%) FastAPI
17 49 (1.76%) CSS
18 45 (1.61%) LangChain
18 45 (1.61%) OAuth2
19 43 (1.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 520 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 184 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 125 (4.48%) AI Agents
5 112 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 48 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 44 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
12 36 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 36 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 36 (1.29%) Replication
13 35 (1.25%) PKI
14 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 33 (1.18%) CMDB
15 33 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 230 (8.25%) Linux
2 125 (4.48%) Windows
3 52 (1.86%) Unix
4 44 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.22%) zOS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.072%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,155 (41.41%) CI/CD
2 865 (31.01%) DevOps
3 701 (25.13%) Agile
4 633 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 612 (21.94%) AI
6 433 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 410 (14.70%) Microservices
8 396 (14.20%) Containerisation
9 371 (13.30%) Migration
10 366 (13.12%) Observability
11 356 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 354 (12.69%) Analytics
13 351 (12.59%) Software Engineering
14 342 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
15 338 (12.12%) Data Modelling
16 328 (11.76%) Data Engineering
17 312 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 305 (10.94%) Event-Driven
19 298 (10.68%) Machine Learning
20 278 (9.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,030 (36.93%) Python
2 597 (21.41%) SQL
3 480 (17.21%) Java
4 225 (8.07%) TypeScript
5 206 (7.39%) JavaScript
6 157 (5.63%) Bash
7 143 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.91%) C#
9 51 (1.83%) Go
10 44 (1.58%) Scala
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.18%) Bicep
13 28 (1.00%) Ruby
14 26 (0.93%) Groovy
14 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.68%) C++
16 19 (0.68%) R
17 13 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 10 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 749 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 666 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.31%) Degree
4 146 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 83 (2.98%) CISSP
6 74 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 72 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 65 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 51 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 44 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
12 42 (1.51%) CISM
13 24 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.79%) PMP
16 19 (0.68%) CCNP
17 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
18 15 (0.54%) CCSP
18 15 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 143 (5.13%) QA
3 105 (3.76%) NIST
4 94 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (3.33%) GDPR
6 42 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.11%) GRC
9 28 (1.00%) SLA
10 23 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.79%) NCSC
12 18 (0.65%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.54%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.50%) PMO
16 13 (0.47%) EU AI Act
17 11 (0.39%) SEPA
18 10 (0.36%) WCAG
19 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 489 (17.53%) Docker
2 85 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 594 (21.30%) Kubernetes
2 197 (7.06%) Grafana
3 182 (6.53%) Ansible
4 157 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.11%) Argo
6 31 (1.11%) Kibana
7 24 (0.86%) Puppet
8 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.39%) Istio
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.22%) Control-M
14 6 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 273 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 170 (6.10%) Databricks
3 130 (4.66%) ServiceNow
4 129 (4.63%) Oracle
5 127 (4.55%) Google
6 95 (3.41%) Splunk
7 71 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.01%) VMware
9 51 (1.83%) CyberArk
9 51 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 49 (1.76%) Cisco
11 47 (1.69%) SAP
12 37 (1.33%) Informatica
13 36 (1.29%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.22%) IBM
15 31 (1.11%) Foundry
16 30 (1.08%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 24 (0.86%) Fortinet
18 24 (0.86%) Red Hat