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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,188 1,968 2,294
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.82% 14.25% 12.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.53% 34.43% 33.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,511 1,408 1,785
10th Percentile £400 £407 £413
25th Percentile £458 £489 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £23.04
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £39.70
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -3.90% -23.00%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £86.00
England median hourly rate £76.00 £50.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.49% +10.09% -28.95%

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 6,526 5,716 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.38% 37.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,479 3,806 5,078
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 96 46 74
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £29.69 £29.80 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% -5.41% +14.55%
75th Percentile £54.31 £47.72 £53.44
90th Percentile £75.84 £64.38 £61.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +1 260 £538 -0.46% 208
South London +6 62 £522 +4.35% 35
West London +5 41 £603 +7.78% 63
East London +8 9 £630 - 49
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
1 111 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (3.75%) Confluence
3 79 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 62 (2.83%) Apache
5 37 (1.69%) nginx
6 15 (0.69%) SAS
6 15 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.64%) Camunda
8 13 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.32%) Appian
9 7 (0.32%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.14%) Traefik
12 2 (0.091%) Mule
12 2 (0.091%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 6 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.18%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.046%) Notion
9 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.18%) Actimize
4 4 (0.18%) Endur
5 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.091%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.091%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.046%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.046%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 867 (39.63%) Azure
2 493 (22.53%) GCP
3 339 (15.49%) Serverless
4 325 (14.85%) Amazon S3
5 310 (14.17%) GitHub
6 298 (13.62%) AWS Lambda
7 197 (9.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 185 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
9 154 (7.04%) Snowflake
10 151 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
11 137 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
12 134 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 130 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
14 118 (5.39%) Power Platform
15 99 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 71 (3.24%) dbt
17 67 (3.06%) Amazon Kinesis
18 63 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
19 53 (2.42%) AWS Step Functions
20 47 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 113 (5.16%) Firewall
2 67 (3.06%) DNS
3 64 (2.93%) VPN
4 51 (2.33%) Network Security
5 41 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.23%) SSL
7 26 (1.19%) WAN
8 17 (0.78%) HTTP
8 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.64%) DHCP
9 14 (0.64%) LAN
10 13 (0.59%) BGP
11 11 (0.50%) OSPF
12 10 (0.46%) VLAN
12 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.41%) SSH
13 9 (0.41%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.37%) IMAP
14 8 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
14 8 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.44%) NoSQL
3 118 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
4 109 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
5 105 (4.80%) Power BI
6 96 (4.39%) Data Lake
7 94 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
8 89 (4.07%) SQL Server
9 88 (4.02%) Relational Database
10 80 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 66 (3.02%) MongoDB
12 63 (2.88%) DynamoDB
13 59 (2.70%) MySQL
13 59 (2.70%) Tableau
14 57 (2.61%) Metadata
15 52 (2.38%) Big Data
16 50 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
17 43 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
18 37 (1.69%) BigQuery
19 32 (1.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 232 (10.60%) Git
2 213 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 190 (8.68%) GitLab
4 148 (6.76%) JIRA
5 40 (1.83%) JUnit
6 29 (1.33%) MLflow
7 28 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 23 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.05%) ERwin
10 20 (0.91%) Selenium
11 19 (0.87%) Mockito
11 19 (0.87%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.78%) Maven
13 15 (0.69%) JMeter
14 14 (0.64%) ER Studio
15 12 (0.55%) Gatling
16 11 (0.50%) Gradle
16 11 (0.50%) Postman
17 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
General
1 557 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 451 (20.61%) Finance
3 262 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 190 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (8.68%) Banking
5 62 (2.83%) Investment Banking
6 51 (2.33%) Front Office
7 40 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 28 (1.28%) Retail
11 27 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.14%) Marketing
14 22 (1.01%) Military
15 17 (0.78%) Legal
16 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 397 (18.14%) Developer
2 362 (16.54%) Senior
3 354 (16.18%) Architect
4 231 (10.56%) AWS Engineer
5 202 (9.23%) Data Engineer
6 189 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 159 (7.27%) Lead
8 118 (5.39%) Senior Developer
9 113 (5.16%) Software Engineer
10 104 (4.75%) Python Engineer
11 95 (4.34%) Analyst
12 91 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
13 83 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 82 (3.75%) Java Developer
15 81 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
16 79 (3.61%) Python Developer
17 77 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
18 76 (3.47%) AWS Developer
19 74 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
20 72 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (12.61%) Kafka
2 201 (9.19%) React
3 155 (7.08%) REST
4 147 (6.72%) Node.js
5 135 (6.17%) Spring
6 126 (5.76%) RESTful
7 117 (5.35%) Spring Boot
8 95 (4.34%) AngularJS
9 72 (3.29%) HTML
10 68 (3.11%) CSS
11 67 (3.06%) gRPC
12 66 (3.02%) Pandas
13 61 (2.79%) NumPy
14 59 (2.70%) .NET
15 55 (2.51%) OAuth
15 55 (2.51%) PySpark
15 55 (2.51%) SOAP
16 51 (2.33%) PyTorch
17 50 (2.29%) LDAP
18 49 (2.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 307 (14.03%) Cloud Native
2 109 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (3.29%) Security Posture
4 63 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (2.10%) Hedge funds
7 46 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 44 (2.01%) Derivative
8 44 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 40 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.65%) Data Centre
12 35 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 34 (1.55%) Fixed Income
14 33 (1.51%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.46%) AI Agents
15 32 (1.46%) Equities
16 30 (1.37%) Data Structures
17 29 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 192 (8.78%) Linux
2 71 (3.24%) Windows
3 50 (2.29%) Unix
4 22 (1.01%) VMS
5 15 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (0.37%) Android
8 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.23%) CentOS
10 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.046%) Solaris
13 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (38.57%) CI/CD
2 620 (28.34%) DevOps
3 513 (23.45%) Agile
4 430 (19.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 349 (15.95%) Microservices
6 347 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
7 335 (15.31%) AI
8 320 (14.63%) Analytics
9 288 (13.16%) Containerisation
10 278 (12.71%) Software Engineering
11 241 (11.01%) Data Modelling
12 231 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
13 209 (9.55%) Data Engineering
14 208 (9.51%) Machine Learning
15 205 (9.37%) Observability
16 202 (9.23%) ETL
17 188 (8.59%) Migration
18 175 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
19 169 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
20 167 (7.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 939 (42.92%) Python
2 518 (23.67%) SQL
3 410 (18.74%) Java
4 196 (8.96%) JavaScript
5 181 (8.27%) TypeScript
6 112 (5.12%) Bash
7 94 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 92 (4.20%) C#
9 88 (4.02%) Go
10 33 (1.51%) Scala
11 31 (1.42%) C++
11 31 (1.42%) Ruby
12 22 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.87%) R
14 18 (0.82%) Rust
15 15 (0.69%) Groovy
16 14 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.59%) Perl
18 12 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 602 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 531 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.94%) AWS Certification
4 120 (5.48%) Degree
5 68 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 38 (1.74%) CISSP
8 35 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 33 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.05%) MCP
14 19 (0.87%) CISM
15 18 (0.82%) OSCP
15 18 (0.82%) PMI Certification
16 17 (0.78%) PMP
17 15 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.59%) CCNP
19 11 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 105 (4.80%) GDPR
3 78 (3.56%) QA
4 70 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (2.74%) NIST
6 33 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.23%) NCSC
8 23 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.55%) SLA
11 10 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.41%) WCAG
13 8 (0.37%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) SEPA
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 505 (23.08%) Docker
2 62 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.64%) Squid
3 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.37%) DFS Replication
5 8 (0.37%) Dovecot
5 8 (0.37%) Postfix
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.27%) zsh
7 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.091%) KVM
9 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) Ceph
10 1 (0.046%) iptables
10 1 (0.046%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 526 (24.04%) Terraform
2 506 (23.13%) Kubernetes
3 138 (6.31%) Ansible
4 102 (4.66%) Grafana
5 94 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.60%) Argo
7 34 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.01%) Puppet
9 18 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.73%) Consul
10 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.73%) Nessus
11 12 (0.55%) Packer
11 12 (0.55%) SCCM
12 11 (0.50%) Kibana
13 9 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.37%) Proxmox
14 8 (0.37%) QRadar
15 7 (0.32%) Istio
15 7 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 149 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 144 (6.58%) Databricks
3 89 (4.07%) Google
4 86 (3.93%) Oracle
5 79 (3.61%) Splunk
6 57 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.97%) CyberArk
8 38 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 36 (1.65%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.55%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.55%) Centrify
10 34 (1.55%) Palo Alto
11 32 (1.46%) Dynatrace
12 31 (1.42%) Cisco
13 27 (1.23%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.14%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.05%) F5
16 22 (1.01%) IBM
17 21 (0.96%) SAP
17 21 (0.96%) VMware