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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,195 2,142 2,605
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.48% 13.52% 13.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.97% 33.19% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,522 1,559 2,010
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £454 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £813 £850 £792
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 12
10th Percentile £42.50 £28.78 £36.03
25th Percentile £65.38 £36.25 £52.94
Median hourly rate £80.00 £43.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.05% -27.12% +31.11%
75th Percentile £87.50 £55.75 £85.39
90th Percentile £93.75 £79.30 £87.41
England median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +84.06% -16.04% +22.22%

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 6,276 6,454 7,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.26% 40.73% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,264 4,387 5,619
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £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 £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 40 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.33 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.75 £24.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -7.28% +37.27%
75th Percentile £45.88 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.03 £74.13
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +12 253 £575 - 132
South London +9 64 £525 +6.06% 38
West London -10 26 £513 -9.77% 66
East London - 7 £675 - 64
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
1 147 (6.70%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.78%) Confluence
3 81 (3.69%) Apache
4 76 (3.46%) Apache Spark
5 44 (2.00%) nginx
6 18 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.77%) SAS
8 14 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.59%) CMS
10 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.41%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.32%) Camunda
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.18%) Appian
14 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.14%) Traefik
16 2 (0.091%) Luigi
16 2 (0.091%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.18%) Trello
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
7 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (0.46%) Endur
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.14%) Actimize
7 2 (0.091%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.091%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
8 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
8 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 853 (38.86%) Azure
2 482 (21.96%) GCP
3 301 (13.71%) GitHub
4 291 (13.26%) Amazon S3
4 291 (13.26%) Serverless
5 254 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
6 181 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
7 175 (7.97%) Snowflake
8 168 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 129 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 127 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
11 122 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
12 120 (5.47%) dbt
13 119 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
14 93 (4.24%) Power Platform
15 72 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 69 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
17 57 (2.60%) SaaS
18 55 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
19 48 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 120 (5.47%) Firewall
2 68 (3.10%) DNS
3 57 (2.60%) VPN
4 56 (2.55%) Network Security
5 32 (1.46%) WAN
6 29 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.28%) SSL
8 24 (1.09%) HTTP
9 22 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.96%) DHCP
11 17 (0.77%) BGP
12 16 (0.73%) LAN
12 16 (0.73%) SSH
13 15 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
13 15 (0.68%) OSPF
13 15 (0.68%) VLAN
14 11 (0.50%) FTP
15 10 (0.46%) IMAP
15 10 (0.46%) SMTP
16 9 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (11.12%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
3 117 (5.33%) NoSQL
4 110 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
5 99 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
6 96 (4.37%) Data Lake
7 92 (4.19%) Relational Database
8 88 (4.01%) Power BI
9 80 (3.64%) SQL Server
10 73 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 68 (3.10%) DynamoDB
12 58 (2.64%) MongoDB
12 58 (2.64%) MySQL
13 57 (2.60%) Apache Iceberg
13 57 (2.60%) Metadata
14 51 (2.32%) Big Data
15 49 (2.23%) Tableau
16 47 (2.14%) Apache Arrow
16 47 (2.14%) Dremio
17 43 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 256 (11.66%) Git
2 213 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 164 (7.47%) JIRA
4 161 (7.33%) GitLab
5 45 (2.05%) JUnit
6 26 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 25 (1.14%) MLflow
8 24 (1.09%) ERwin
9 23 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.96%) CircleCI
10 21 (0.96%) Selenium
11 20 (0.91%) SonarQube
12 19 (0.87%) Maven
13 17 (0.77%) Mockito
14 16 (0.73%) ER Studio
15 15 (0.68%) JMeter
16 14 (0.64%) Postman
17 13 (0.59%) Metasploit
18 12 (0.55%) Artifactory
General
1 563 (25.65%) Social Skills
2 508 (23.14%) Finance
3 238 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 220 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 219 (9.98%) Banking
6 110 (5.01%) Front Office
7 100 (4.56%) Investment Banking
8 38 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.37%) Marketing
12 29 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.23%) Retail
14 24 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 21 (0.96%) Legal
16 20 (0.91%) Military
17 18 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.68%) Manufacturing
18 15 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 448 (20.41%) Developer
2 389 (17.72%) Senior
3 305 (13.90%) Architect
4 268 (12.21%) AWS Engineer
5 176 (8.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 167 (7.61%) Data Engineer
7 159 (7.24%) Lead
8 150 (6.83%) Software Engineer
9 145 (6.61%) Python Engineer
10 124 (5.65%) Java Developer
11 102 (4.65%) Senior Developer
12 100 (4.56%) AWS Developer
13 91 (4.15%) Python Developer
14 90 (4.10%) Analyst
15 89 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
15 89 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
16 87 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
17 81 (3.69%) Java Engineer
18 79 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 70 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (12.48%) Kafka
2 244 (11.12%) React
3 178 (8.11%) Node.js
4 137 (6.24%) REST
5 127 (5.79%) Spring
6 115 (5.24%) AngularJS
7 114 (5.19%) RESTful
8 108 (4.92%) Spring Boot
9 90 (4.10%) Pandas
10 88 (4.01%) NumPy
11 87 (3.96%) gRPC
12 69 (3.14%) SciPy
13 67 (3.05%) GraphQL
13 67 (3.05%) Vue
14 66 (3.01%) HTML
15 65 (2.96%) CSS
16 62 (2.82%) .NET
17 48 (2.19%) FastAPI
17 48 (2.19%) OAuth
18 44 (2.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 252 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 107 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (3.92%) Fixed Income
4 80 (3.64%) Hedge funds
5 78 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 72 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 67 (3.05%) Equities
8 62 (2.82%) Derivative
9 51 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
10 49 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 45 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (2.05%) Public Cloud
12 41 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.87%) Security Posture
13 35 (1.59%) Data Centre
14 32 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
14 32 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.46%) Virtual Team
15 30 (1.37%) Pricing Data
16 27 (1.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 204 (9.29%) Linux
2 84 (3.83%) Windows
3 48 (2.19%) Unix
4 21 (0.96%) VMS
5 17 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.36%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.091%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.046%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (37.86%) CI/CD
2 619 (28.20%) Agile
3 609 (27.74%) DevOps
4 411 (18.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 356 (16.22%) Microservices
6 354 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 329 (14.99%) Software Engineering
8 283 (12.89%) Analytics
9 264 (12.03%) Containerisation
10 252 (11.48%) AI
11 219 (9.98%) Data Modelling
12 214 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
13 200 (9.11%) Migration
14 198 (9.02%) Machine Learning
15 187 (8.52%) ETL
16 176 (8.02%) Data Engineering
17 175 (7.97%) Observability
18 169 (7.70%) Full-Stack Development
19 159 (7.24%) Test Automation
20 153 (6.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 967 (44.05%) Python
2 490 (22.32%) Java
3 482 (21.96%) SQL
4 259 (11.80%) JavaScript
5 256 (11.66%) TypeScript
6 148 (6.74%) Bash
7 131 (5.97%) Go
8 86 (3.92%) C#
9 81 (3.69%) PowerShell
10 51 (2.32%) C++
11 33 (1.50%) Scala
12 24 (1.09%) Ruby
13 23 (1.05%) Groovy
13 23 (1.05%) Perl
13 23 (1.05%) Rust
14 21 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 20 (0.91%) C
16 16 (0.73%) R
17 15 (0.68%) PHP
18 14 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 508 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 438 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 138 (6.29%) Degree
4 128 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 65 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 38 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.59%) CISSP
10 31 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.05%) OSCP
14 18 (0.82%) CISM
15 15 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.64%) CCNP
17 12 (0.55%) PhD
17 12 (0.55%) PMI Certification
18 11 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 95 (4.33%) QA
3 86 (3.92%) GDPR
4 73 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (2.73%) NIST
6 37 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.87%) NCSC
9 17 (0.77%) WCAG
10 16 (0.73%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.46%) GRC
13 8 (0.36%) MiFID
13 8 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.32%) SLA
15 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy 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
1 507 (23.10%) Docker
2 42 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
4 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
4 10 (0.46%) Postfix
4 10 (0.46%) Squid
4 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.41%) zsh
6 7 (0.32%) Firmware
6 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.091%) iptables
8 2 (0.091%) KVM
8 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.091%) vSphere
9 1 (0.046%) Samba
9 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 515 (23.46%) Kubernetes
2 502 (22.87%) Terraform
3 149 (6.79%) Ansible
4 109 (4.97%) Grafana
5 97 (4.42%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.41%) Argo
7 30 (1.37%) Puppet
8 29 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 21 (0.96%) Packer
11 18 (0.82%) Consul
11 18 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.77%) Nessus
13 13 (0.59%) SCCM
14 11 (0.50%) Nmap
15 10 (0.46%) Kibana
15 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.41%) QRadar
17 8 (0.36%) Istio
17 8 (0.36%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 153 (6.97%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.15%) Databricks
3 84 (3.83%) Google
4 82 (3.74%) Splunk
5 74 (3.37%) Oracle
6 71 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.64%) Cisco
8 33 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 33 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.14%) F5
9 25 (1.14%) VMware
10 23 (1.05%) IBM
10 23 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 22 (1.00%) CheckPoint
12 21 (0.96%) Arista
12 21 (0.96%) SAP
13 20 (0.91%) Fortinet
14 19 (0.87%) Dynatrace
15 17 (0.77%) Informatica
15 17 (0.77%) Tenable