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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,129 2,049 2,384
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.74% 13.80% 12.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.42% 33.62% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 1,481 1,820
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £68.25 £45.45 £43.03
25th Percentile £74.57 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.15% -7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £89.06 £75.38 £78.75
90th Percentile £94.13 £87.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.98% - -19.69%

All Cloud 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 6,371 6,094 7,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 41.04% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,349 4,121 5,226
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 43 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +22.95%
75th Percentile £47.31 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.71 £65.00 £73.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £23.43
% change year-on-year -6.17% +23.80% +4.11%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +4 255 £563 +2.27% 782
South London +11 60 £525 +5.00% 58
West London +1 35 £603 +7.78% 63
East London +5 5 £675 - 50
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
1 126 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (4.13%) Confluence
3 71 (3.33%) Apache
3 71 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.50%) nginx
5 16 (0.75%) SAS
5 16 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.42%) Camunda
9 7 (0.33%) CMS
10 6 (0.28%) Appian
11 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.14%) Traefik
14 2 (0.094%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.094%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 12 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.19%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.047%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.047%) Notion
8 1 (0.047%) Pro Tools
8 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.23%) Endur
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Actimize
5 2 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.094%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.094%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.094%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.047%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 861 (40.44%) Azure
2 481 (22.59%) GCP
3 306 (14.37%) GitHub
4 302 (14.19%) Serverless
5 287 (13.48%) Amazon S3
6 265 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
7 193 (9.07%) GitHub Actions
8 160 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 159 (7.47%) Snowflake
10 129 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 126 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
12 120 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
13 117 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
14 103 (4.84%) Power Platform
15 96 (4.51%) dbt
16 83 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 74 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
18 56 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
19 53 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
20 49 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 114 (5.35%) Firewall
2 67 (3.15%) DNS
3 59 (2.77%) VPN
4 55 (2.58%) Network Security
5 35 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.36%) SSL
6 29 (1.36%) WAN
7 22 (1.03%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.94%) HTTP
9 18 (0.85%) DHCP
10 15 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
11 14 (0.66%) LAN
11 14 (0.66%) SSH
12 13 (0.61%) BGP
12 13 (0.61%) VLAN
13 11 (0.52%) OSPF
14 10 (0.47%) FTP
14 10 (0.47%) IMAP
14 10 (0.47%) SMTP
14 10 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (10.52%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (5.35%) NoSQL
3 111 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
5 100 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
5 100 (4.70%) Data Lake
6 93 (4.37%) Power BI
7 89 (4.18%) Relational Database
8 86 (4.04%) SQL Server
9 78 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (2.82%) MongoDB
11 57 (2.68%) DynamoDB
12 54 (2.54%) Metadata
13 51 (2.40%) Tableau
14 49 (2.30%) Big Data
15 48 (2.25%) MySQL
16 46 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
17 45 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
18 44 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
19 33 (1.55%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 232 (10.90%) Git
2 210 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 167 (7.84%) GitLab
4 152 (7.14%) JIRA
5 36 (1.69%) JUnit
6 26 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 26 (1.22%) MLflow
7 24 (1.13%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.08%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.08%) Selenium
9 21 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.94%) ERwin
11 16 (0.75%) JMeter
11 16 (0.75%) Mockito
12 14 (0.66%) ER Studio
12 14 (0.66%) Maven
12 14 (0.66%) Postman
12 14 (0.66%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.52%) Gatling
13 11 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 540 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 466 (21.89%) Finance
3 250 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 211 (9.91%) Banking
5 198 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (4.04%) Investment Banking
7 76 (3.57%) Front Office
8 38 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.32%) Marketing
11 28 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.13%) Retail
14 22 (1.03%) Military
15 20 (0.94%) Legal
16 18 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.70%) Manufacturing
18 14 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 415 (19.49%) Developer
2 380 (17.85%) Senior
3 333 (15.64%) Architect
4 236 (11.09%) AWS Engineer
5 175 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 166 (7.80%) Data Engineer
7 150 (7.05%) Lead
8 127 (5.97%) Python Engineer
9 121 (5.68%) Software Engineer
10 114 (5.35%) Senior Developer
11 97 (4.56%) Java Developer
12 94 (4.42%) Analyst
13 89 (4.18%) AWS Developer
14 84 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
15 83 (3.90%) Python Developer
16 81 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
17 77 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
18 76 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 70 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
20 61 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (12.40%) Kafka
2 211 (9.91%) React
3 165 (7.75%) Node.js
4 145 (6.81%) REST
5 121 (5.68%) Spring
6 114 (5.35%) RESTful
7 103 (4.84%) Spring Boot
8 98 (4.60%) AngularJS
9 79 (3.71%) Pandas
10 77 (3.62%) gRPC
10 77 (3.62%) NumPy
11 69 (3.24%) HTML
12 67 (3.15%) CSS
13 60 (2.82%) .NET
14 56 (2.63%) Vue
15 54 (2.54%) SciPy
16 51 (2.40%) FastAPI
17 49 (2.30%) GraphQL
18 47 (2.21%) PySpark
19 44 (2.07%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 259 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.05%) Hedge funds
4 64 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 61 (2.87%) Security Posture
6 57 (2.68%) Derivative
6 57 (2.68%) Fixed Income
7 55 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 49 (2.30%) Equities
9 48 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 45 (2.11%) Onboarding
11 41 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
12 40 (1.88%) Management Information System
13 38 (1.78%) Data Centre
14 37 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
14 37 (1.74%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
16 31 (1.46%) Algorithms
17 29 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
18 28 (1.32%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 194 (9.11%) Linux
2 82 (3.85%) Windows
3 50 (2.35%) Unix
4 22 (1.03%) VMS
5 18 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.47%) Android
8 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.33%) CentOS
11 2 (0.094%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.094%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.094%) zOS
12 1 (0.047%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (38.33%) CI/CD
2 606 (28.46%) DevOps
3 523 (24.57%) Agile
4 418 (19.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 340 (15.97%) Microservices
5 340 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (13.90%) Analytics
7 293 (13.76%) Software Engineering
8 276 (12.96%) AI
9 254 (11.93%) Containerisation
10 216 (10.15%) Data Modelling
11 205 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
12 200 (9.39%) Migration
13 196 (9.21%) Machine Learning
14 192 (9.02%) Observability
15 188 (8.83%) Data Engineering
16 183 (8.60%) ETL
17 165 (7.75%) Test Automation
18 162 (7.61%) Full-Stack Development
19 157 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 922 (43.31%) Python
2 485 (22.78%) SQL
3 430 (20.20%) Java
4 222 (10.43%) JavaScript
5 203 (9.53%) TypeScript
6 119 (5.59%) Bash
7 109 (5.12%) Go
8 93 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 88 (4.13%) C#
10 36 (1.69%) C++
11 31 (1.46%) Ruby
12 25 (1.17%) Scala
13 23 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 21 (0.99%) Rust
15 17 (0.80%) Groovy
15 17 (0.80%) R
16 16 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.75%) Perl
17 14 (0.66%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 545 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 478 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 129 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 125 (5.87%) Degree
5 66 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.55%) CISSP
7 33 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 30 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.85%) CISM
12 18 (0.85%) OSCP
13 17 (0.80%) MCP
14 15 (0.70%) CCNP
14 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.61%) PMP
17 11 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.60%) GDPR
3 83 (3.90%) QA
4 76 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.96%) NIST
6 37 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.03%) NCSC
8 20 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 15 (0.70%) WCAG
10 14 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.52%) SLA
12 9 (0.42%) GRC
13 8 (0.38%) MiFID
14 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.23%) HL7
15 5 (0.23%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 483 (22.69%) Docker
2 61 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.52%) Squid
6 10 (0.47%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.47%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.47%) Postfix
7 8 (0.38%) zsh
8 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.19%) Firmware
10 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.14%) vSphere
11 2 (0.094%) KVM
11 2 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.047%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 503 (23.63%) Terraform
2 483 (22.69%) Kubernetes
3 140 (6.58%) Ansible
4 109 (5.12%) Grafana
5 96 (4.51%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.55%) Argo
7 25 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.03%) Puppet
9 20 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (0.85%) Nessus
12 15 (0.70%) SCCM
13 12 (0.56%) Kibana
14 10 (0.47%) Packer
14 10 (0.47%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.42%) Consul
15 9 (0.42%) QRadar
16 8 (0.38%) Istio
17 7 (0.33%) Rancher
17 7 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 144 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.67%) Databricks
3 83 (3.90%) Google
4 80 (3.76%) Oracle
5 78 (3.66%) Splunk
6 63 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 35 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.60%) Cisco
9 32 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 31 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 29 (1.36%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
12 24 (1.13%) Centrify
12 24 (1.13%) Dynatrace
12 24 (1.13%) Fortinet
12 24 (1.13%) IBM
13 23 (1.08%) F5
14 22 (1.03%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.03%) VMware
15 21 (0.99%) SAP