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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,809 2,124 2,215
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.79% 15.98% 13.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.62% 36.46% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 1,460 1,630
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £73.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% +139.80% -63.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £52.81
90th Percentile - £91.25 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -21.73%

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 8,354 5,826 6,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.83% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,769 3,964 4,507
10th Percentile £363 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 100 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -15.08% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.40 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -5 271 £575 -4.17% 343
West London +13 96 £560 +35.76% 62
South London 0 78 £535 -1.15% 9
East London +10 13 £600 -11.11% 28
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
1 160 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
2 127 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 110 (3.92%) Confluence
4 89 (3.17%) Apache
5 23 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 14 (0.50%) SAS
8 10 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.28%) CICS
9 8 (0.28%) IIS
9 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 30 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.39%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.21%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.071%) Actimize
8 2 (0.071%) Endur
8 2 (0.071%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,262 (44.93%) Azure
2 661 (23.53%) GCP
3 380 (13.53%) Serverless
4 373 (13.28%) GitHub
5 371 (13.21%) Amazon S3
6 310 (11.04%) AWS Lambda
7 255 (9.08%) GitHub Actions
8 238 (8.47%) Amazon EKS
9 232 (8.26%) Snowflake
10 184 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 166 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
12 158 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 149 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
14 146 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
15 144 (5.13%) dbt
16 130 (4.63%) SaaS
16 130 (4.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 125 (4.45%) Power Platform
18 103 (3.67%) Entra ID
19 99 (3.52%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 102 (3.63%) Firewall
2 85 (3.03%) Network Security
3 67 (2.39%) DNS
4 60 (2.14%) VPN
5 39 (1.39%) WAN
6 31 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.96%) BGP
8 23 (0.82%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) Internet
8 23 (0.82%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.78%) OSPF
9 22 (0.78%) SSL
10 21 (0.75%) SSH
11 19 (0.68%) HTTP
12 16 (0.57%) MPLS
13 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.53%) NGFW
14 13 (0.46%) IPsec
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 157 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
4 124 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 113 (4.02%) SQL Server
6 111 (3.95%) Power BI
7 108 (3.84%) Metadata
8 100 (3.56%) Data Lake
9 98 (3.49%) MongoDB
10 91 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 91 (3.24%) DynamoDB
11 86 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
12 78 (2.78%) Relational Database
13 72 (2.56%) Delta Lake
14 64 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
15 62 (2.21%) MySQL
16 51 (1.82%) Big Data
16 51 (1.82%) BigQuery
17 48 (1.71%) Redis
18 47 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 323 (11.50%) Jenkins
2 314 (11.18%) Git
3 279 (9.93%) GitLab
4 153 (5.45%) JIRA
5 40 (1.42%) Maven
6 36 (1.28%) JUnit
7 34 (1.21%) JMeter
8 32 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 32 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 28 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.00%) Gradle
10 28 (1.00%) Selenium
11 27 (0.96%) Mockito
12 21 (0.75%) Claude Code
12 21 (0.75%) Postman
13 18 (0.64%) Gatling
14 17 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 11 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 707 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 677 (24.10%) Finance
3 374 (13.31%) Public Sector
4 272 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 269 (9.58%) Banking
6 88 (3.13%) Retail
7 63 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.39%) Marketing
9 39 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 36 (1.28%) Legal
11 34 (1.21%) Front Office
12 33 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.07%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.03%) Billing
15 29 (1.03%) Law
16 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (0.89%) Back Office
18 24 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 567 (20.19%) Architect
2 461 (16.41%) Senior
3 342 (12.18%) Developer
4 299 (10.64%) Lead
5 291 (10.36%) Data Engineer
6 260 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
7 230 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 134 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (4.06%) AWS Architect
10 110 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 108 (3.84%) Analyst
12 104 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 104 (3.70%) Java Developer
13 101 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
14 98 (3.49%) Data Architect
15 97 (3.45%) Software Engineer
16 88 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
17 83 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
18 77 (2.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 75 (2.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 748 (26.63%) Terraform
2 340 (12.10%) Kafka
3 301 (10.72%) REST
4 196 (6.98%) React
5 177 (6.30%) Spring
6 164 (5.84%) Spring Boot
7 153 (5.45%) RESTful
8 110 (3.92%) PySpark
9 109 (3.88%) Node.js
10 99 (3.52%) OAuth
11 97 (3.45%) .NET
12 74 (2.63%) GraphQL
13 69 (2.46%) FastAPI
14 68 (2.42%) HTML
15 67 (2.39%) AngularJS
16 63 (2.24%) JSON
17 62 (2.21%) SOAP
18 58 (2.06%) CSS
19 55 (1.96%) OAuth2
20 51 (1.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 558 (19.86%) Cloud Native
2 184 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 155 (5.52%) AI Agents
4 145 (5.16%) Onboarding
5 133 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 73 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 70 (2.49%) Security Posture
10 57 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 51 (1.82%) Management Information System
12 50 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 47 (1.67%) Replication
14 46 (1.64%) PKI
15 41 (1.46%) Public Cloud
16 39 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
17 36 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
18 33 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
19 31 (1.10%) Virtual Team
20 30 (1.07%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 260 (9.26%) Linux
2 126 (4.49%) Windows
3 56 (1.99%) Unix
4 51 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) macOS
10 6 (0.21%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Solaris
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.036%) AIX
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,204 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 911 (32.43%) DevOps
3 732 (26.06%) Agile
4 704 (25.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 638 (22.71%) AI
6 488 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 418 (14.88%) Observability
8 415 (14.77%) Microservices
9 401 (14.28%) Containerisation
10 375 (13.35%) Migration
11 372 (13.24%) Software Engineering
12 352 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
13 348 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 340 (12.10%) Data Engineering
14 340 (12.10%) Data Modelling
15 337 (12.00%) Event-Driven
16 335 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
17 332 (11.82%) Analytics
18 318 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
19 314 (11.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,040 (37.02%) Python
2 617 (21.97%) SQL
3 469 (16.70%) Java
4 211 (7.51%) JavaScript
5 207 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 192 (6.84%) Bash
7 152 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.88%) C#
9 57 (2.03%) Go
10 51 (1.82%) Scala
11 36 (1.28%) Bicep
11 36 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.25%) Groovy
13 23 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.78%) C++
15 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.57%) R
17 16 (0.57%) Ruby
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 793 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 698 (24.85%) SC Cleared
3 189 (6.73%) AWS Certification
4 147 (5.23%) Degree
5 96 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 91 (3.24%) CISSP
7 75 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 74 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 65 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 63 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 52 (1.85%) CISM
12 51 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 20 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (0.68%) PMP
17 18 (0.64%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (9.01%) Data Quality
2 165 (5.87%) QA
3 108 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (3.56%) NIST
5 76 (2.71%) GDPR
6 38 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.10%) NCSC
9 29 (1.03%) GRC
10 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.68%) SLA
13 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
14 15 (0.53%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.46%) SEPA
16 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
17 9 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.32%) PMO
18 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 524 (18.65%) Docker
2 81 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 6 (0.21%) IAG
9 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) NFS
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.071%) Ceph
12 2 (0.071%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 660 (23.50%) Kubernetes
2 218 (7.76%) Grafana
3 200 (7.12%) Ansible
4 162 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 50 (1.78%) Kibana
6 41 (1.46%) Argo
7 29 (1.03%) Puppet
8 26 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.50%) Istio
9 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) Packer
11 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.25%) QRadar
13 6 (0.21%) Control-M
13 6 (0.21%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.21%) Nagios
13 6 (0.21%) Podman
14 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 313 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 211 (7.51%) Databricks
3 162 (5.77%) Google
4 150 (5.34%) Oracle
5 111 (3.95%) Splunk
6 109 (3.88%) ServiceNow
7 66 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 59 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.74%) Cisco
9 49 (1.74%) SAP
10 48 (1.71%) VMware
11 47 (1.67%) CyberArk
12 45 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 40 (1.42%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.39%) Informatica
15 37 (1.32%) IBM
16 30 (1.07%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 24 (0.85%) Foundry
19 23 (0.82%) MuleSoft