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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,799 2,099 2,398
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.66% 16.73% 13.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.86% 39.07% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,931 1,472 1,865
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.29% -2.73%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £538 £563
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 12
10th Percentile £39.50 £36.13 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +78.12% -65.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £64.44 £59.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £82.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -37.59%

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 8,029 5,373 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.05% 42.83% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,515 3,647 5,103
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 69 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.90 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +20.82% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £68.75 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -2 290 £550 - 100
West London +3 89 £560 +13.71% 49
South London +2 81 £500 - 6
East London +7 16 £540 -7.69% 31
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
1 133 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 82 (2.93%) Confluence
4 59 (2.11%) Apache
5 30 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 13 (0.46%) Camunda
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 8 (0.29%) CMS
10 7 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 42 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Endur
5 4 (0.14%) Magento
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.071%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.036%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,139 (40.69%) Azure
2 580 (20.72%) GCP
3 414 (14.79%) Serverless
4 410 (14.65%) Amazon S3
5 359 (12.83%) AWS Lambda
6 350 (12.50%) GitHub
7 220 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
8 199 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 191 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
9 191 (6.82%) Snowflake
10 172 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
11 171 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 155 (5.54%) Power Platform
13 138 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
14 129 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 115 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
16 112 (4.00%) SaaS
17 95 (3.39%) dbt
18 91 (3.25%) Amazon Bedrock
19 80 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.86%) Firewall
2 85 (3.04%) Network Security
3 70 (2.50%) VPN
4 67 (2.39%) DNS
5 46 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.43%) WAN
7 24 (0.86%) BGP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
9 21 (0.75%) DHCP
10 18 (0.64%) LAN
10 18 (0.64%) OSPF
10 18 (0.64%) SSL
11 15 (0.54%) Internet
11 15 (0.54%) NGFW
12 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.43%) VLAN
14 10 (0.36%) HTTPS
14 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (4.86%) Power BI
3 131 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (4.43%) Data Lake
5 119 (4.25%) NoSQL
6 114 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
7 109 (3.89%) SQL Server
8 106 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 86 (3.07%) DynamoDB
10 79 (2.82%) Metadata
10 79 (2.82%) MongoDB
11 76 (2.72%) Relational Database
12 75 (2.68%) Tableau
13 62 (2.22%) Big Data
14 46 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
15 41 (1.46%) BigQuery
16 40 (1.43%) MySQL
17 37 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 37 (1.32%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 252 (9.00%) Jenkins
2 250 (8.93%) Git
3 248 (8.86%) GitLab
4 148 (5.29%) JIRA
5 42 (1.50%) JUnit
6 34 (1.21%) Mockito
7 32 (1.14%) MLflow
8 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.04%) JMeter
10 27 (0.96%) Cucumber
11 26 (0.93%) Maven
12 23 (0.82%) Gradle
13 22 (0.79%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.75%) Postman
15 20 (0.71%) Bitbucket
16 19 (0.68%) Gatling
16 19 (0.68%) Selenium
17 16 (0.57%) CircleCI
17 16 (0.57%) Snyk
18 14 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 665 (23.76%) Finance
2 601 (21.47%) Social Skills
3 398 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 239 (8.54%) Banking
5 235 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (2.93%) Front Office
7 67 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 62 (2.22%) Retail
9 59 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 41 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 30 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.93%) Marketing
15 26 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.79%) Legal
17 21 (0.75%) Law
18 15 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 543 (19.40%) Architect
2 425 (15.18%) Senior
3 417 (14.90%) Developer
4 308 (11.00%) Lead
5 298 (10.65%) Data Engineer
6 289 (10.33%) AWS Engineer
7 216 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 153 (5.47%) Software Engineer
8 153 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
9 131 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 114 (4.07%) AWS Architect
11 108 (3.86%) Senior Developer
12 106 (3.79%) Java Developer
13 104 (3.72%) Analyst
14 97 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
15 96 (3.43%) Cloud Architect
16 91 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 89 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
18 86 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 75 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (11.18%) Kafka
2 246 (8.79%) React
3 217 (7.75%) REST
4 178 (6.36%) Node.js
5 175 (6.25%) Spring
6 167 (5.97%) Spring Boot
7 146 (5.22%) RESTful
8 96 (3.43%) .NET
9 91 (3.25%) PySpark
10 86 (3.07%) GraphQL
11 80 (2.86%) OAuth
12 76 (2.72%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.29%) Redux
14 54 (1.93%) FastAPI
15 53 (1.89%) SOAP
16 52 (1.86%) HTML
16 52 (1.86%) JSON
16 52 (1.86%) OpenID
16 52 (1.86%) Pandas
17 49 (1.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 490 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 174 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 90 (3.22%) AI Agents
5 80 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 80 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.72%) Fixed Income
7 73 (2.61%) Security Posture
8 67 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 56 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 55 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (1.96%) Management Information System
11 45 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
12 44 (1.57%) Derivative
13 39 (1.39%) Equities
14 35 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (1.07%) Algorithms
15 30 (1.07%) Mainframe
15 30 (1.07%) Public Cloud
16 29 (1.04%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 207 (7.40%) Linux
2 104 (3.72%) Windows
3 41 (1.46%) Unix
4 32 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.39%) Android
7 10 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,095 (39.12%) CI/CD
2 833 (29.76%) DevOps
3 679 (24.26%) Agile
4 583 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 573 (20.47%) AI
6 415 (14.83%) Microservices
7 406 (14.51%) Containerisation
8 381 (13.61%) Analytics
9 353 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
10 345 (12.33%) Software Engineering
11 335 (11.97%) Migration
12 321 (11.47%) Data Pipeline
13 311 (11.11%) Data Engineering
14 309 (11.04%) Data Modelling
15 302 (10.79%) Observability
16 294 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 292 (10.43%) Machine Learning
18 264 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
19 243 (8.68%) Full-Stack Development
20 241 (8.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,054 (37.66%) Python
2 595 (21.26%) SQL
3 485 (17.33%) Java
4 259 (9.25%) TypeScript
5 222 (7.93%) JavaScript
6 121 (4.32%) Bash
7 120 (4.29%) C#
8 115 (4.11%) PowerShell
9 93 (3.32%) Go
10 45 (1.61%) Scala
11 34 (1.21%) Ruby
11 34 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 27 (0.96%) Bicep
13 23 (0.82%) R
14 22 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.61%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.54%) Groovy
16 15 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.46%) C++
18 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 751 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 667 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 152 (5.43%) Degree
4 130 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 85 (3.04%) CISSP
6 70 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 58 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 56 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.36%) CISM
12 33 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.86%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.86%) PMP
15 23 (0.82%) CCSP
16 22 (0.79%) CCNP
17 16 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 119 (4.25%) QA
3 101 (3.61%) GDPR
4 97 (3.47%) NIST
5 81 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.04%) GRC
9 27 (0.96%) SLA
10 22 (0.79%) NCSC
11 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 17 (0.61%) PMO
13 12 (0.43%) EU AI Act
13 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.43%) WCAG
14 11 (0.39%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.29%) SEPA
16 7 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 494 (17.65%) Docker
2 89 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.57%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.14%) IAG
8 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 2 (0.071%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.071%) HDFS
10 2 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 671 (23.97%) Terraform
2 578 (20.65%) Kubernetes
3 169 (6.04%) Ansible
4 165 (5.89%) Grafana
5 145 (5.18%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.89%) Puppet
8 23 (0.82%) Kibana
9 19 (0.68%) Argo
10 14 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.43%) Consul
13 11 (0.39%) Packer
14 9 (0.32%) QRadar
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
17 5 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 224 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.50%) Databricks
3 106 (3.79%) Google
4 100 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 95 (3.39%) Oracle
6 78 (2.79%) Splunk
7 67 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 61 (2.18%) OpenAI
9 59 (2.11%) CyberArk
10 47 (1.68%) Cisco
11 38 (1.36%) VMware
12 36 (1.29%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.18%) Foundry
13 33 (1.18%) Red Hat
14 32 (1.14%) Dynatrace
15 29 (1.04%) Informatica
15 29 (1.04%) SAP
16 26 (0.93%) IBM
16 26 (0.93%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.82%) Fortinet