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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,490 1,991 2,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.99% 15.71% 12.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.25% 37.16% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 1,454 1,763
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +1.36% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £46.50 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £51.75 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £67.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £76.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +29.55% -15.71%

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 7,271 5,358 6,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.78% 42.28% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,982 3,736 4,966
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 46 79
10th Percentile £18.15 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £24.58 £24.30 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +1.64% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.63 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.63 £64.40
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -16.00%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -1 292 £550 +2.56% 301
South London +4 94 £513 +7.89% 14
West London +12 58 £603 -2.03% 45
East London -1 10 £588 +0.43% 28
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
1 120 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (3.94%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.05%) Confluence
4 63 (2.53%) Apache
5 33 (1.33%) nginx
6 22 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.64%) Camunda
7 16 (0.64%) SAS
8 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.32%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.12%) CICS
12 3 (0.12%) CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.080%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.080%) OpenROAD
13 2 (0.080%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.040%) Notion
8 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.16%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) Endur
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.080%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.040%) Maximo
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.040%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.040%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,010 (40.56%) Azure
2 568 (22.81%) GCP
3 380 (15.26%) Serverless
4 360 (14.46%) Amazon S3
5 343 (13.78%) GitHub
6 326 (13.09%) AWS Lambda
7 234 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 192 (7.71%) GitHub Actions
9 177 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
10 164 (6.59%) Snowflake
11 152 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
12 146 (5.86%) Power Platform
13 143 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
14 132 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 115 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 84 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
17 61 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
17 61 (2.45%) dbt
18 59 (2.37%) Amazon Kinesis
19 58 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.86%) Firewall
2 66 (2.65%) VPN
3 60 (2.41%) Network Security
4 57 (2.29%) DNS
5 42 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.41%) WAN
7 19 (0.76%) BGP
8 18 (0.72%) LAN
9 16 (0.64%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.60%) OSPF
11 14 (0.56%) HTTP
12 13 (0.52%) DHCP
13 12 (0.48%) SSL
14 11 (0.44%) VLAN
15 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
16 9 (0.36%) 5G
16 9 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.32%) 4G
17 8 (0.32%) VXLAN
18 7 (0.28%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (5.18%) Power BI
3 128 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
5 121 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 98 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
7 98 (3.94%) SQL Server
8 95 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (3.69%) Relational Database
10 78 (3.13%) Tableau
11 74 (2.97%) MongoDB
12 70 (2.81%) DynamoDB
12 70 (2.81%) Metadata
13 58 (2.33%) Big Data
14 54 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
15 52 (2.09%) MySQL
16 41 (1.65%) BigQuery
17 36 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
18 33 (1.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 258 (10.36%) Git
2 216 (8.67%) GitLab
3 210 (8.43%) Jenkins
4 133 (5.34%) JIRA
5 46 (1.85%) JUnit
6 43 (1.73%) MLflow
7 30 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 30 (1.20%) Mockito
8 25 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 21 (0.84%) Selenium
10 19 (0.76%) Maven
10 19 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.68%) JMeter
12 15 (0.60%) Gradle
13 14 (0.56%) Gatling
14 13 (0.52%) Postman
14 13 (0.52%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.40%) Zephyr
16 9 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 577 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 563 (22.61%) Finance
3 354 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 224 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (8.31%) Banking
6 92 (3.69%) Front Office
7 63 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 57 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 39 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.08%) Retail
13 23 (0.92%) Legal
14 19 (0.76%) Marketing
15 16 (0.64%) Military
15 16 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.52%) Billing
16 13 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 457 (18.35%) Architect
2 448 (17.99%) Developer
3 385 (15.46%) Senior
4 242 (9.72%) Lead
5 236 (9.48%) Data Engineer
6 229 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
7 188 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 152 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 127 (5.10%) Senior Developer
10 111 (4.46%) Analyst
11 110 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
12 96 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
12 96 (3.86%) Python Engineer
13 95 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 91 (3.65%) AWS Architect
14 91 (3.65%) Java Developer
15 87 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 83 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 81 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
18 80 (3.21%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (13.37%) Kafka
2 255 (10.24%) React
3 207 (8.31%) Node.js
4 191 (7.67%) REST
5 144 (5.78%) Spring
6 138 (5.54%) RESTful
7 128 (5.14%) Spring Boot
8 94 (3.78%) AngularJS
9 70 (2.81%) .NET
9 70 (2.81%) PySpark
10 67 (2.69%) CSS
11 66 (2.65%) SOAP
12 65 (2.61%) GraphQL
13 63 (2.53%) HTML
13 63 (2.53%) OAuth
14 60 (2.41%) Redux
15 59 (2.37%) Pandas
16 56 (2.25%) gRPC
17 55 (2.21%) Vue
18 50 (2.01%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 375 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 128 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 75 (3.01%) Security Posture
5 67 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 54 (2.17%) Derivative
10 53 (2.13%) Data Centre
11 51 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 50 (2.01%) AI Agents
13 45 (1.81%) Management Information System
14 44 (1.77%) Algorithms
15 42 (1.69%) Equities
16 37 (1.49%) Public Cloud
17 34 (1.37%) Data Structures
18 33 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
19 26 (1.04%) Mainframe
20 25 (1.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 185 (7.43%) Linux
2 65 (2.61%) Windows
3 45 (1.81%) Unix
4 12 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.44%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
6 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.20%) zOS
9 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.080%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (38.15%) CI/CD
2 691 (27.75%) DevOps
3 617 (24.78%) Agile
4 483 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 430 (17.27%) AI
6 393 (15.78%) Microservices
7 369 (14.82%) Analytics
8 360 (14.46%) Containerisation
8 360 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
9 324 (13.01%) Software Engineering
10 296 (11.89%) Data Modelling
11 271 (10.88%) Data Engineering
12 267 (10.72%) Data Pipeline
13 261 (10.48%) Machine Learning
14 258 (10.36%) Migration
15 245 (9.84%) ETL
16 244 (9.80%) Observability
17 214 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 210 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
19 202 (8.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (40.84%) Python
2 581 (23.33%) SQL
3 447 (17.95%) Java
4 230 (9.24%) TypeScript
5 226 (9.08%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.66%) Go
7 103 (4.14%) C#
8 100 (4.02%) PowerShell
9 97 (3.90%) Bash
10 41 (1.65%) Ruby
11 35 (1.41%) Scala
11 35 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.08%) C++
13 20 (0.80%) R
14 19 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.52%) Bicep
17 10 (0.40%) Korn
17 10 (0.40%) Rust
18 9 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 717 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 628 (25.22%) SC Cleared
3 126 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 124 (4.98%) Degree
5 71 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (2.13%) CISSP
7 47 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.16%) CISM
14 24 (0.96%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.96%) PMP
15 21 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 17 (0.68%) CCNP
18 14 (0.56%) CCSP
18 14 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 128 (5.14%) GDPR
3 92 (3.69%) QA
4 74 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (2.93%) NIST
6 47 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.08%) NCSC
9 21 (0.84%) SLA
10 17 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 17 (0.68%) WCAG
11 14 (0.56%) GRC
11 14 (0.56%) PMO
12 12 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.32%) PSD2
15 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.24%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 520 (20.88%) Docker
2 66 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.40%) Squid
6 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) NFS
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.040%) Ceph
10 1 (0.040%) iptables
10 1 (0.040%) KVM
10 1 (0.040%) Lustre
10 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.040%) zsh
Systems Management
1 584 (23.45%) Terraform
2 539 (21.65%) Kubernetes
3 130 (5.22%) Ansible
4 115 (4.62%) Grafana
5 106 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (1.37%) Argo
8 20 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.72%) Consul
10 16 (0.64%) Puppet
11 14 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.52%) Packer
13 10 (0.40%) SCCM
14 9 (0.36%) Kibana
14 9 (0.36%) QRadar
15 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.24%) Istio
17 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 181 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 140 (5.62%) Databricks
3 98 (3.94%) Google
4 95 (3.82%) Oracle
5 81 (3.25%) Splunk
6 65 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 52 (2.09%) CyberArk
8 50 (2.01%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.53%) Cisco
9 38 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
10 35 (1.41%) Centrify
11 34 (1.37%) Dynatrace
11 34 (1.37%) IBM
12 31 (1.24%) VMware
13 30 (1.20%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.16%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.16%) SAP
15 23 (0.92%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.84%) Informatica