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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,600 1,985 2,338
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.28% 16.40% 13.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.92% 38.44% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,802 1,408 1,816
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £472 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £739
90th Percentile £787 £825 £850
England median daily rate £545 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -0.91% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.63 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.05
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.73% +48.41% -59.35%
75th Percentile £76.71 £64.44 £69.75
90th Percentile £90.75 £83.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +29.55% -26.67%

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 7,665 5,164 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.10% 42.67% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,305 3,535 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 54 67
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.71 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +11.67% -50.48%
75th Percentile £54.13 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -3 278 £550 - 152
West London +5 86 £603 +21.77% 32
South London +1 82 £500 +1.01% 11
East London +3 16 £543 -7.26% 36
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
1 129 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 66 (2.54%) Confluence
4 63 (2.42%) Apache
5 22 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.69%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 11 (0.42%) CICS
8 11 (0.42%) SAS
9 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 4 (0.15%) Appian
12 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.077%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 39 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.038%) Notion
9 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.15%) Magento
5 4 (0.15%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.077%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.077%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.038%) Actimize
8 1 (0.038%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.038%) Maximo
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.038%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.038%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (40.46%) Azure
2 562 (21.62%) GCP
3 389 (14.96%) Amazon S3
4 382 (14.69%) Serverless
5 336 (12.92%) GitHub
6 335 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
7 206 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
8 205 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 173 (6.65%) Snowflake
10 172 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
11 165 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
12 151 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 144 (5.54%) Power Platform
14 131 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
15 119 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 112 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
17 80 (3.08%) SaaS
18 78 (3.00%) dbt
19 74 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
20 67 (2.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.81%) Firewall
2 69 (2.65%) Network Security
3 62 (2.38%) DNS
4 58 (2.23%) VPN
5 46 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.19%) WAN
7 21 (0.81%) BGP
8 20 (0.77%) HTTP
9 17 (0.65%) LAN
10 16 (0.62%) OSPF
10 16 (0.62%) SSL
11 14 (0.54%) DHCP
12 12 (0.46%) VLAN
12 12 (0.46%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.42%) NGFW
14 10 (0.38%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.31%) SAN
16 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
17 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (4.96%) Data Lake
3 123 (4.73%) Power BI
4 118 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
5 114 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
6 108 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
6 108 (4.15%) NoSQL
7 99 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 95 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (3.15%) DynamoDB
10 74 (2.85%) Tableau
11 73 (2.81%) Metadata
11 73 (2.81%) MongoDB
11 73 (2.81%) Relational Database
12 60 (2.31%) Big Data
13 43 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
13 43 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
14 42 (1.62%) BigQuery
15 41 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
16 40 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 227 (8.73%) Git
2 224 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 207 (7.96%) GitLab
4 120 (4.62%) JIRA
5 41 (1.58%) JUnit
6 39 (1.50%) MLflow
7 33 (1.27%) Mockito
8 27 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 26 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 24 (0.92%) JMeter
11 22 (0.85%) Selenium
12 21 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.81%) Maven
12 21 (0.81%) Postman
13 20 (0.77%) Gradle
14 19 (0.73%) Bitbucket
15 16 (0.62%) Gatling
16 15 (0.58%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.58%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 609 (23.42%) Finance
2 547 (21.04%) Social Skills
3 363 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 223 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (8.58%) Banking
5 84 (3.23%) Front Office
6 61 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 55 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 47 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (1.65%) Retail
10 41 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.00%) Marketing
15 23 (0.88%) Legal
15 23 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.50%) Law
16 13 (0.50%) Military
17 12 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 521 (20.04%) Architect
2 418 (16.08%) Developer
3 394 (15.15%) Senior
4 288 (11.08%) Lead
5 283 (10.88%) Data Engineer
6 252 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
7 188 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 141 (5.42%) Software Engineer
9 132 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.54%) Senior Developer
11 111 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 103 (3.96%) AWS Architect
13 101 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
14 99 (3.81%) Java Developer
15 98 (3.77%) Analyst
16 85 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
17 83 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
18 81 (3.12%) Python Developer
19 78 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 78 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (11.85%) Kafka
2 239 (9.19%) React
3 208 (8.00%) REST
4 175 (6.73%) Node.js
5 165 (6.35%) Spring
6 158 (6.08%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.42%) RESTful
8 92 (3.54%) .NET
9 84 (3.23%) PySpark
10 83 (3.19%) AngularJS
11 75 (2.88%) GraphQL
12 71 (2.73%) OAuth
13 69 (2.65%) SOAP
14 62 (2.38%) Redux
15 61 (2.35%) LDAP
16 58 (2.23%) Pandas
17 54 (2.08%) HTML
18 49 (1.88%) CSS
18 49 (1.88%) JSON
18 49 (1.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 431 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 142 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 75 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 74 (2.85%) Fixed Income
6 72 (2.77%) Security Posture
7 70 (2.69%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.62%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.92%) Data Centre
12 49 (1.88%) Management Information System
13 48 (1.85%) Derivative
14 44 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 42 (1.62%) Equities
16 33 (1.27%) Algorithms
17 31 (1.19%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.19%) Mainframe
18 30 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
19 26 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 176 (6.77%) Linux
2 74 (2.85%) Windows
3 38 (1.46%) Unix
4 18 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.38%) Android
5 10 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) zOS
7 6 (0.23%) Solaris
8 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.19%) VMS
9 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.077%) AIX
11 2 (0.077%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.038%) CentOS
12 1 (0.038%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 988 (38.00%) CI/CD
2 745 (28.65%) DevOps
3 594 (22.85%) Agile
4 522 (20.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 495 (19.04%) AI
6 389 (14.96%) Microservices
7 377 (14.50%) Analytics
8 363 (13.96%) Containerisation
9 328 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
10 317 (12.19%) Software Engineering
11 308 (11.85%) Migration
12 302 (11.62%) Data Modelling
13 288 (11.08%) Data Pipeline
14 283 (10.88%) Data Engineering
15 270 (10.38%) Observability
16 255 (9.81%) Machine Learning
17 244 (9.38%) ETL
18 234 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 229 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
20 228 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (39.04%) Python
2 578 (22.23%) SQL
3 465 (17.88%) Java
4 230 (8.85%) TypeScript
5 218 (8.38%) JavaScript
6 117 (4.50%) C#
7 115 (4.42%) PowerShell
8 100 (3.85%) Bash
9 96 (3.69%) Go
10 44 (1.69%) Scala
11 37 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.35%) Ruby
13 22 (0.85%) R
14 21 (0.81%) Bicep
15 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.62%) C++
18 11 (0.42%) JCL
19 10 (0.38%) Groovy
19 10 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 719 (27.65%) Security Cleared
2 641 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 139 (5.35%) Degree
4 113 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 70 (2.69%) CISSP
6 66 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 49 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 31 (1.19%) CISM
13 30 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 26 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 22 (0.85%) PMP
16 21 (0.81%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.77%) CCNP
17 20 (0.77%) CCSP
18 16 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
19 14 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (6.65%) Data Quality
2 110 (4.23%) GDPR
3 102 (3.92%) QA
4 89 (3.42%) NIST
5 72 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 31 (1.19%) SLA
8 25 (0.96%) NCSC
9 23 (0.88%) GRC
10 19 (0.73%) ISO 20022
11 16 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.54%) PMO
13 11 (0.42%) WCAG
14 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) SEPA
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 5 (0.19%) MiFID
17 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 474 (18.23%) Docker
2 90 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.15%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.12%) NFS
8 3 (0.12%) Postfix
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.077%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.077%) Firmware
9 2 (0.077%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.038%) KVM
Systems Management
1 589 (22.65%) Terraform
2 520 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 149 (5.73%) Grafana
4 132 (5.08%) Ansible
5 131 (5.04%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.81%) Kibana
8 18 (0.69%) Argo
9 17 (0.65%) Puppet
10 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.46%) Consul
12 12 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.38%) QRadar
14 8 (0.31%) Packer
15 6 (0.23%) Istio
15 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
16 5 (0.19%) SCCM
17 4 (0.15%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (7.54%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.81%) Databricks
3 96 (3.69%) Google
4 90 (3.46%) Oracle
5 85 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 73 (2.81%) Splunk
7 66 (2.54%) CyberArk
8 59 (2.27%) OpenAI
9 53 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 47 (1.81%) Cisco
11 35 (1.35%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.35%) Centrify
12 33 (1.27%) VMware
13 32 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 32 (1.23%) SAP
14 30 (1.15%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.12%) IBM
16 28 (1.08%) Red Hat
17 25 (0.96%) Foundry
18 22 (0.85%) Confluent