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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,796 2,126 2,274
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.75% 15.77% 13.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.66% 36.38% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 1,476 1,681
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £696 £760
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 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -65.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £80.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 8,306 5,844 6,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.85% 43.35% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,713 3,981 4,616
10th Percentile £359 £344 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 95 43
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.98
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -6.83% -23.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £46.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.55
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -5 278 £575 -1.29% 340
West London +6 95 £560 +31.76% 129
South London +1 75 £535 -5.38% 14
East London +9 13 £525 -13.58% 25
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
1 159 (5.69%) Apache Airflow
2 119 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 108 (3.86%) Confluence
4 87 (3.11%) Apache
5 27 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 8 (0.29%) Camunda
9 8 (0.29%) CICS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 26 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
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 (0.29%) Magento
3 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.11%) Shopify
7 2 (0.072%) Endur
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,251 (44.74%) Azure
2 637 (22.78%) GCP
3 390 (13.95%) Serverless
4 380 (13.59%) Amazon S3
5 366 (13.09%) GitHub
6 325 (11.62%) AWS Lambda
7 247 (8.83%) GitHub Actions
8 237 (8.48%) Snowflake
9 219 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
10 184 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 159 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
12 154 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 152 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
14 147 (5.26%) dbt
15 134 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
16 133 (4.76%) Power Platform
17 126 (4.51%) SaaS
18 120 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 106 (3.79%) Entra ID
20 97 (3.47%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.58%) Firewall
2 81 (2.90%) Network Security
3 59 (2.11%) DNS
4 52 (1.86%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 29 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.89%) DHCP
7 25 (0.89%) SSL
8 22 (0.79%) SSH
9 20 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 17 (0.61%) HTTP
12 16 (0.57%) OSPF
13 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.54%) MPLS
14 14 (0.50%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) LAN
16 12 (0.43%) IPsec
16 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 144 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.33%) NoSQL
5 118 (4.22%) Power BI
6 111 (3.97%) Data Lake
7 110 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 108 (3.86%) Metadata
9 95 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
10 91 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 91 (3.25%) MongoDB
11 89 (3.18%) DynamoDB
12 81 (2.90%) Relational Database
13 67 (2.40%) Delta Lake
14 61 (2.18%) MySQL
15 59 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
16 56 (2.00%) Tableau
17 54 (1.93%) Big Data
18 46 (1.65%) Redis
19 45 (1.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 306 (10.94%) Jenkins
2 296 (10.59%) Git
3 270 (9.66%) GitLab
4 155 (5.54%) JIRA
5 37 (1.32%) Maven
6 35 (1.25%) JMeter
7 34 (1.22%) JUnit
8 31 (1.11%) Selenium
9 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 29 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 28 (1.00%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.97%) Cucumber
13 25 (0.89%) Mockito
14 24 (0.86%) Gradle
15 23 (0.82%) Postman
16 19 (0.68%) Claude Code
17 18 (0.64%) Gatling
18 17 (0.61%) REST Assured
19 13 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 12 (0.43%) MLflow
General
1 694 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 665 (23.78%) Finance
3 379 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 271 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 257 (9.19%) Banking
6 90 (3.22%) Retail
7 64 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.36%) Marketing
11 35 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (1.22%) Front Office
13 33 (1.18%) Legal
14 32 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.11%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.00%) Law
16 28 (1.00%) Military
17 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (0.86%) Billing
19 23 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 576 (20.60%) Architect
2 451 (16.13%) Senior
3 343 (12.27%) Developer
4 304 (10.87%) Data Engineer
5 297 (10.62%) Lead
6 264 (9.44%) AWS Engineer
7 215 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 140 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (4.01%) AWS Architect
10 110 (3.93%) Analyst
11 109 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 106 (3.79%) Data Architect
13 102 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 101 (3.61%) Java Developer
14 101 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
15 92 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
15 92 (3.29%) Software Engineer
16 81 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
17 77 (2.75%) Senior Developer
18 76 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 720 (25.75%) Terraform
2 324 (11.59%) Kafka
3 290 (10.37%) REST
4 198 (7.08%) React
5 182 (6.51%) Spring
6 167 (5.97%) Spring Boot
7 155 (5.54%) RESTful
8 118 (4.22%) Node.js
9 111 (3.97%) PySpark
10 99 (3.54%) .NET
10 99 (3.54%) OAuth
11 74 (2.65%) GraphQL
12 65 (2.32%) FastAPI
12 65 (2.32%) HTML
13 64 (2.29%) JSON
14 63 (2.25%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.11%) SOAP
16 57 (2.04%) OAuth2
17 54 (1.93%) CSS
18 49 (1.75%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 549 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 181 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (5.08%) AI Agents
3 142 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 133 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 86 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 68 (2.43%) Security Posture
8 66 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 60 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 49 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 43 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.54%) PKI
12 42 (1.50%) Replication
13 41 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
15 36 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
16 35 (1.25%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.18%) Public Cloud
18 29 (1.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 248 (8.87%) Linux
2 121 (4.33%) Windows
3 53 (1.90%) Unix
4 49 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.21%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,178 (42.13%) CI/CD
2 897 (32.08%) DevOps
3 707 (25.29%) Agile
4 671 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 630 (22.53%) AI
6 474 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 415 (14.84%) Microservices
8 401 (14.34%) Containerisation
8 401 (14.34%) Observability
9 364 (13.02%) Migration
10 359 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
11 351 (12.55%) Software Engineering
12 350 (12.52%) Analytics
13 342 (12.23%) Data Modelling
14 341 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
15 335 (11.98%) Data Engineering
16 329 (11.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 329 (11.77%) Event-Driven
17 307 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
18 295 (10.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (36.37%) Python
2 617 (22.07%) SQL
3 474 (16.95%) Java
4 208 (7.44%) JavaScript
5 203 (7.26%) TypeScript
6 174 (6.22%) Bash
7 140 (5.01%) PowerShell
8 114 (4.08%) C#
9 53 (1.90%) Go
9 53 (1.90%) Scala
10 36 (1.29%) Bicep
10 36 (1.29%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.11%) Groovy
12 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.72%) C++
15 19 (0.68%) R
16 16 (0.57%) Ruby
17 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 777 (27.79%) Security Cleared
2 684 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 175 (6.26%) AWS Certification
4 145 (5.19%) Degree
5 92 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 88 (3.15%) CISSP
7 74 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 67 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 64 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (1.75%) CISM
12 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (0.79%) CCSP
14 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 19 (0.68%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.64%) PMP
17 15 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 165 (5.90%) QA
3 102 (3.65%) NIST
4 101 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (2.65%) GDPR
6 37 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.07%) GRC
8 28 (1.00%) NCSC
8 28 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.86%) SLA
10 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.64%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.54%) EU AI Act
12 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.46%) SEPA
14 10 (0.36%) PMO
15 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 505 (18.06%) Docker
2 88 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.29%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
7 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.072%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 642 (22.96%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.58%) Grafana
3 197 (7.05%) Ansible
4 161 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.57%) Kibana
6 36 (1.29%) Argo
7 30 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (1.00%) Puppet
9 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.43%) Istio
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
14 6 (0.21%) QRadar
15 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
15 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 297 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 194 (6.94%) Databricks
3 140 (5.01%) Google
4 137 (4.90%) Oracle
5 118 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 109 (3.90%) Splunk
7 68 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.04%) OpenAI
9 53 (1.90%) VMware
10 51 (1.82%) SAP
11 50 (1.79%) Cisco
12 48 (1.72%) CyberArk
13 44 (1.57%) Palo Alto
14 39 (1.39%) Dynatrace
15 37 (1.32%) Informatica
16 35 (1.25%) IBM
17 32 (1.14%) Fortinet
18 27 (0.97%) Red Hat
19 25 (0.89%) Foundry
20 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft