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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,579 2,019 2,305
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.91% 15.94% 12.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.30% 37.52% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,773 1,470 1,771
10th Percentile £400 £404 £405
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £703
90th Percentile £781 £814 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £47.38 £22.12
25th Percentile £44.00 £52.63 £29.72
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% +4.78% -23.33%
75th Percentile £83.38 £88.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £97.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £51.78
% change year-on-year +1.69% +42.44% -21.85%

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 7,519 5,381 6,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.47% 42.48% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,751 4,935
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.26%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 52 78
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.87
% change year-on-year +61.08% +26.98% -21.19%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 0 298 £550 +1.38% 301
South London +3 95 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +6 68 £603 +6.64% 42
East London +4 13 £540 -7.69% 33
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
1 131 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 77 (2.99%) Confluence
4 70 (2.71%) Apache
5 33 (1.28%) nginx
6 26 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.66%) SAS
8 16 (0.62%) Camunda
9 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Appian
12 6 (0.23%) CMS
13 5 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.16%) CICS
14 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
16 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
16 2 (0.078%) Drupal
16 2 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.039%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 1 (0.039%) Revit
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%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (40.33%) Azure
2 571 (22.14%) GCP
3 393 (15.24%) Serverless
4 382 (14.81%) Amazon S3
5 337 (13.07%) AWS Lambda
6 329 (12.76%) GitHub
7 247 (9.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 187 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
9 175 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
10 165 (6.40%) Snowflake
11 154 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
11 154 (5.97%) Power Platform
12 144 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 144 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 114 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 91 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
15 68 (2.64%) dbt
15 68 (2.64%) SaaS
16 66 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
17 65 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.84%) Firewall
2 64 (2.48%) VPN
3 60 (2.33%) DNS
4 59 (2.29%) Network Security
5 43 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.28%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 16 (0.62%) HTTP
10 15 (0.58%) DHCP
10 15 (0.58%) OSPF
11 14 (0.54%) VLAN
12 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.47%) SSL
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.35%) 5G
16 8 (0.31%) 4G
17 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (5.31%) Power BI
3 124 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (4.77%) NoSQL
5 122 (4.73%) Data Lake
6 111 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
7 97 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 92 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 87 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 86 (3.33%) Tableau
11 75 (2.91%) Metadata
12 74 (2.87%) DynamoDB
13 73 (2.83%) MongoDB
14 53 (2.06%) Big Data
15 51 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
16 49 (1.90%) MySQL
17 39 (1.51%) BigQuery
18 34 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
19 31 (1.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 254 (9.85%) Git
2 214 (8.30%) GitLab
3 202 (7.83%) Jenkins
4 137 (5.31%) JIRA
5 44 (1.71%) JUnit
6 42 (1.63%) MLflow
7 31 (1.20%) Mockito
8 30 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 28 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 23 (0.89%) Selenium
11 23 (0.89%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.78%) Maven
13 17 (0.66%) Gradle
14 16 (0.62%) Postman
15 15 (0.58%) JMeter
16 14 (0.54%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.47%) CircleCI
18 11 (0.43%) Snyk
18 11 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 586 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 579 (22.45%) Finance
3 371 (14.39%) Public Sector
4 246 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 213 (8.26%) Banking
6 94 (3.64%) Front Office
7 65 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 39 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.09%) Legal
12 28 (1.09%) Retail
13 21 (0.81%) Marketing
14 18 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 17 (0.66%) Military
16 14 (0.54%) Law
17 13 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 497 (19.27%) Architect
2 452 (17.53%) Developer
3 395 (15.32%) Senior
4 259 (10.04%) Data Engineer
5 248 (9.62%) Lead
6 239 (9.27%) AWS Engineer
7 195 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (5.74%) Software Engineer
9 130 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (4.77%) Senior Developer
11 115 (4.46%) Analyst
12 100 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
13 99 (3.84%) Java Developer
14 97 (3.76%) AWS Architect
14 97 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
15 93 (3.61%) Python Engineer
16 91 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 86 (3.33%) Python Developer
18 83 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
19 82 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (12.72%) Kafka
2 250 (9.69%) React
3 212 (8.22%) Node.js
4 192 (7.44%) REST
5 158 (6.13%) Spring
6 144 (5.58%) Spring Boot
7 143 (5.54%) RESTful
8 84 (3.26%) AngularJS
9 79 (3.06%) PySpark
10 74 (2.87%) .NET
11 67 (2.60%) OAuth
12 65 (2.52%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.48%) Pandas
14 63 (2.44%) SOAP
15 60 (2.33%) Redux
16 58 (2.25%) CSS
16 58 (2.25%) HTML
17 53 (2.06%) LDAP
18 49 (1.90%) Vue
19 47 (1.82%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 387 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (2.99%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.75%) Security Posture
6 70 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 69 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 57 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 56 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 55 (2.13%) AI Agents
12 50 (1.94%) Derivative
13 44 (1.71%) Management Information System
14 42 (1.63%) Algorithms
15 41 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (1.55%) Equities
17 36 (1.40%) Data Structures
18 34 (1.32%) Public Cloud
19 29 (1.12%) Mainframe
20 26 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 188 (7.29%) Linux
2 66 (2.56%) Windows
3 44 (1.71%) Unix
4 13 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) VMS
6 9 (0.35%) Android
7 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.23%) zOS
10 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.078%) AIX
13 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.078%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (37.73%) CI/CD
2 722 (28.00%) DevOps
3 627 (24.31%) Agile
4 508 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 458 (17.76%) AI
6 412 (15.98%) Microservices
7 392 (15.20%) Analytics
8 371 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
9 369 (14.31%) Containerisation
10 331 (12.83%) Software Engineering
11 303 (11.75%) Data Modelling
12 289 (11.21%) Migration
13 278 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
14 273 (10.59%) Data Engineering
15 266 (10.31%) Observability
16 263 (10.20%) Machine Learning
17 249 (9.65%) ETL
18 228 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
19 219 (8.49%) Full-Stack Development
20 211 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (39.71%) Python
2 584 (22.64%) SQL
3 464 (17.99%) Java
4 229 (8.88%) TypeScript
5 219 (8.49%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.38%) Go
7 105 (4.07%) C#
8 104 (4.03%) Bash
9 99 (3.84%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.71%) Ruby
11 38 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.36%) Scala
13 23 (0.89%) C++
14 22 (0.85%) R
15 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.70%) Bicep
17 15 (0.58%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.35%) C
18 9 (0.35%) Korn
19 8 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 753 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 664 (25.75%) SC Cleared
3 124 (4.81%) AWS Certification
4 122 (4.73%) Degree
5 72 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (2.09%) CISSP
7 52 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 47 (1.82%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 35 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.09%) CISM
12 25 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 25 (0.97%) PMP
13 19 (0.74%) CCNP
13 19 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.50%) CCSP
15 13 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 129 (5.00%) GDPR
3 94 (3.64%) QA
4 80 (3.10%) NIST
5 73 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.05%) NCSC
9 26 (1.01%) SLA
10 16 (0.62%) WCAG
11 15 (0.58%) GRC
12 13 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.50%) PMO
13 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.23%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 512 (19.85%) Docker
2 80 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.39%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.12%) IAG
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.078%) Firmware
11 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.039%) KVM
12 1 (0.039%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 601 (23.30%) Terraform
2 545 (21.13%) Kubernetes
3 133 (5.16%) Ansible
4 123 (4.77%) Grafana
5 111 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.16%) Argo
8 19 (0.74%) Consul
8 19 (0.74%) Puppet
9 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.50%) Packer
12 12 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.43%) Kibana
14 9 (0.35%) QRadar
14 9 (0.35%) SCCM
15 7 (0.27%) Istio
15 7 (0.27%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.19%) Rancher
16 5 (0.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 191 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 142 (5.51%) Databricks
3 94 (3.64%) Google
4 93 (3.61%) Oracle
5 86 (3.33%) Splunk
6 77 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.25%) CyberArk
8 53 (2.06%) OpenAI
9 40 (1.55%) Cisco
9 40 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 39 (1.51%) IBM
11 38 (1.47%) VMware
12 36 (1.40%) Dynatrace
13 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.36%) Centrify
14 33 (1.28%) SAP
15 28 (1.09%) Palo Alto
16 26 (1.01%) Red Hat
17 22 (0.85%) Fortinet
17 22 (0.85%) Foundry