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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,566 2,040 2,330
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.30% 16.31% 13.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.79% 38.37% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,775 1,461 1,798
10th Percentile £404 £400 £406
25th Percentile £470 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £785 £825 £827
England median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.31% -6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.75 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +23.70% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £74.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.07% +31.82% -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 7,595 5,317 6,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 42.50% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,257 3,671 4,982
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 53 70
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%
75th Percentile £52.96 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -3 281 £550 - 242
South London +4 85 £500 +1.78% 8
West London +7 82 £603 +11.88% 36
East London 0 15 £540 -7.69% 45
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 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.61%) Confluence
4 63 (2.46%) Apache
5 23 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.70%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.078%) Drupal
14 2 (0.078%) Mule
14 2 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 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%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.039%) Shopify
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (40.22%) Azure
2 559 (21.78%) GCP
3 382 (14.89%) Amazon S3
4 377 (14.69%) Serverless
5 328 (12.78%) AWS Lambda
6 326 (12.70%) GitHub
7 214 (8.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 199 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
9 176 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
10 164 (6.39%) Snowflake
11 161 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
12 145 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 139 (5.42%) Power Platform
14 136 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
15 118 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 103 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
17 80 (3.12%) SaaS
18 68 (2.65%) dbt
19 67 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
20 65 (2.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.86%) Firewall
2 66 (2.57%) Network Security
3 62 (2.42%) DNS
4 58 (2.26%) VPN
5 46 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.29%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 19 (0.74%) HTTP
9 18 (0.70%) LAN
10 15 (0.58%) OSPF
10 15 (0.58%) SSL
11 14 (0.55%) DHCP
12 13 (0.51%) VLAN
13 11 (0.43%) NGFW
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.31%) SAN
17 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (4.75%) Data Lake
3 118 (4.60%) Power BI
4 116 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
5 110 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
5 110 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 107 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 98 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 74 (2.88%) MongoDB
10 73 (2.84%) Tableau
11 72 (2.81%) DynamoDB
11 72 (2.81%) Metadata
11 72 (2.81%) Relational Database
12 59 (2.30%) Big Data
13 45 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
14 43 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
15 42 (1.64%) BigQuery
15 42 (1.64%) MySQL
16 37 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 224 (8.73%) Git
2 222 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 207 (8.07%) GitLab
4 120 (4.68%) JIRA
5 43 (1.68%) MLflow
6 40 (1.56%) JUnit
7 32 (1.25%) Mockito
8 26 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 22 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.86%) JMeter
10 21 (0.82%) Gradle
10 21 (0.82%) Maven
11 20 (0.78%) Postman
11 20 (0.78%) Selenium
12 19 (0.74%) Bitbucket
12 19 (0.74%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.51%) Snyk
15 12 (0.47%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 582 (22.68%) Finance
2 528 (20.58%) Social Skills
3 358 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 223 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (8.18%) Banking
6 87 (3.39%) Front Office
7 62 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.56%) Retail
11 39 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.09%) Marketing
15 24 (0.94%) Legal
16 22 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Law
19 11 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 516 (20.11%) Architect
2 422 (16.45%) Developer
3 384 (14.96%) Senior
4 276 (10.76%) Data Engineer
5 272 (10.60%) Lead
6 240 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 188 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 142 (5.53%) Software Engineer
9 129 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
10 115 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 106 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (4.05%) AWS Architect
13 98 (3.82%) Analyst
14 97 (3.78%) Cloud Architect
14 97 (3.78%) Java Developer
15 86 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
16 82 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
17 78 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 77 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 76 (2.96%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (12.12%) Kafka
2 236 (9.20%) React
3 199 (7.76%) REST
4 178 (6.94%) Node.js
5 168 (6.55%) Spring
6 158 (6.16%) Spring Boot
7 138 (5.38%) RESTful
8 88 (3.43%) .NET
9 83 (3.23%) PySpark
10 77 (3.00%) AngularJS
11 74 (2.88%) GraphQL
12 68 (2.65%) OAuth
13 66 (2.57%) SOAP
14 62 (2.42%) Redux
15 60 (2.34%) LDAP
16 57 (2.22%) HTML
16 57 (2.22%) Pandas
17 49 (1.91%) CSS
17 49 (1.91%) OpenID
18 46 (1.79%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 430 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.96%) Fixed Income
5 72 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 70 (2.73%) Security Posture
7 65 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 64 (2.49%) AI Agents
9 54 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.95%) Data Centre
11 47 (1.83%) Derivative
11 47 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.64%) Equities
14 35 (1.36%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.29%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.21%) Mainframe
18 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (6.94%) Linux
2 71 (2.77%) Windows
3 40 (1.56%) Unix
4 15 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.27%) VMS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) Solaris
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (37.80%) CI/CD
2 735 (28.64%) DevOps
3 586 (22.84%) Agile
4 516 (20.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 478 (18.63%) AI
6 394 (15.35%) Microservices
7 374 (14.58%) Containerisation
8 364 (14.19%) Analytics
9 335 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
10 312 (12.16%) Software Engineering
11 301 (11.73%) Data Modelling
12 299 (11.65%) Migration
13 278 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
14 274 (10.68%) Data Engineering
15 270 (10.52%) Observability
16 252 (9.82%) Machine Learning
17 240 (9.35%) ETL
17 240 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
18 227 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
19 213 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 994 (38.74%) Python
2 558 (21.75%) SQL
3 458 (17.85%) Java
4 230 (8.96%) TypeScript
5 217 (8.46%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.40%) C#
6 113 (4.40%) PowerShell
7 101 (3.94%) Bash
8 97 (3.78%) Go
9 42 (1.64%) Scala
10 38 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 36 (1.40%) Ruby
12 21 (0.82%) R
13 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.70%) Bicep
14 18 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 15 (0.58%) C++
16 11 (0.43%) PHP
17 10 (0.39%) Groovy
17 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 729 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 646 (25.18%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.18%) Degree
4 115 (4.48%) AWS Certification
5 68 (2.65%) CISSP
5 68 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 50 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 36 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (1.17%) CISM
10 30 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 25 (0.97%) PMP
13 21 (0.82%) CCNP
14 20 (0.78%) CCSP
14 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.40%) GDPR
3 94 (3.66%) QA
4 87 (3.39%) NIST
5 72 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.17%) SLA
9 23 (0.90%) GRC
9 23 (0.90%) NCSC
10 18 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 16 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.55%) PMO
13 11 (0.43%) WCAG
14 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.27%) MiFID
15 7 (0.27%) PSD2
15 7 (0.27%) SEPA
16 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 478 (18.63%) Docker
2 88 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.19%) HDFS
7 4 (0.16%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.078%) Firmware
9 2 (0.078%) KVM
9 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.078%) Postfix
9 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 584 (22.76%) Terraform
2 520 (20.27%) Kubernetes
3 145 (5.65%) Grafana
4 129 (5.03%) Ansible
5 125 (4.87%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.74%) Argo
8 18 (0.70%) Kibana
8 18 (0.70%) Puppet
9 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.43%) Consul
12 10 (0.39%) QRadar
13 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
13 6 (0.23%) Packer
13 6 (0.23%) SCCM
14 5 (0.19%) Istio
14 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 192 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 128 (4.99%) Databricks
3 91 (3.55%) Google
4 83 (3.23%) Oracle
4 83 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 74 (2.88%) Splunk
6 64 (2.49%) CyberArk
7 61 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 54 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 47 (1.83%) Cisco
10 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
10 35 (1.36%) Centrify
10 35 (1.36%) SAP
11 33 (1.29%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.25%) VMware
13 31 (1.21%) IBM
14 29 (1.13%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.86%) Fortinet
16 22 (0.86%) Foundry