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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,823 2,140 2,260
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.88% 15.97% 14.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.66% 36.91% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,992 1,482 1,706
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £479 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +107.99% -63.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.69 £52.81
90th Percentile £98.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.11% +58.08% -38.43%

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 8,387 5,798 6,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.25% 43.26% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,735 3,945 4,658
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 49
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £21.60
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £68.05
England median hourly rate £34.06 £26.38 £30.59
% change year-on-year +29.13% -13.78% -7.30%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -4 287 £550 -5.98% 201
West London +8 98 £555 +30.59% 127
South London +1 79 £535 +0.71% 15
East London +11 14 £550 -9.47% 26
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
1 163 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 101 (3.58%) Confluence
4 89 (3.15%) Apache
5 28 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
6 12 (0.43%) SAS
7 10 (0.35%) Camunda
7 10 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.21%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
2 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.071%) Endur
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,265 (44.81%) Azure
2 622 (22.03%) GCP
3 398 (14.10%) Serverless
4 388 (13.74%) Amazon S3
5 370 (13.11%) GitHub
6 336 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
7 248 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
8 234 (8.29%) Snowflake
9 201 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
10 180 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 159 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
12 154 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 144 (5.10%) dbt
14 143 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
15 139 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
16 134 (4.75%) Power Platform
17 129 (4.57%) SaaS
18 119 (4.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 106 (3.75%) Entra ID
20 92 (3.26%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.86%) Firewall
2 85 (3.01%) Network Security
3 68 (2.41%) DNS
4 57 (2.02%) VPN
5 38 (1.35%) WAN
6 36 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 24 (0.85%) SSL
9 20 (0.71%) SSH
10 19 (0.67%) BGP
10 19 (0.67%) HTTP
10 19 (0.67%) Internet
11 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
11 15 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.50%) OSPF
13 13 (0.46%) LAN
13 13 (0.46%) SAN
14 11 (0.39%) NGFW
15 10 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
4 122 (4.32%) Power BI
5 120 (4.25%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.07%) Data Lake
7 108 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 105 (3.72%) Metadata
9 96 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 93 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
11 89 (3.15%) MongoDB
12 86 (3.05%) DynamoDB
13 77 (2.73%) Relational Database
14 69 (2.44%) Delta Lake
15 61 (2.16%) Big Data
16 58 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
17 57 (2.02%) Tableau
18 49 (1.74%) MySQL
19 43 (1.52%) Redis
20 42 (1.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 297 (10.52%) Git
2 289 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 263 (9.32%) GitLab
4 155 (5.49%) JIRA
5 33 (1.17%) JMeter
6 32 (1.13%) Cypress.io
6 32 (1.13%) JUnit
7 31 (1.10%) Maven
7 31 (1.10%) Selenium
8 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 26 (0.92%) Mockito
10 25 (0.89%) Postman
11 24 (0.85%) Gradle
12 23 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 19 (0.67%) Claude Code
13 19 (0.67%) Cucumber
13 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.60%) Gatling
15 16 (0.57%) MLflow
16 12 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 698 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 660 (23.38%) Finance
3 391 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 283 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (9.07%) Banking
6 81 (2.87%) Retail
7 64 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 43 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (1.38%) Marketing
12 35 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 33 (1.17%) Front Office
14 31 (1.10%) Legal
15 29 (1.03%) Law
16 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (0.85%) Billing
18 23 (0.81%) Military
19 22 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 596 (21.11%) Architect
2 446 (15.80%) Senior
3 345 (12.22%) Developer
4 317 (11.23%) Data Engineer
5 301 (10.66%) Lead
6 265 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
7 201 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 156 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
9 115 (4.07%) Analyst
10 113 (4.00%) AWS Architect
11 108 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 102 (3.61%) Java Developer
12 102 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
13 100 (3.54%) Data Architect
14 97 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 93 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.29%) Software Engineer
16 81 (2.87%) Senior Developer
17 77 (2.73%) AWS DevOps
17 77 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (24.83%) Terraform
2 316 (11.19%) Kafka
3 270 (9.56%) REST
4 207 (7.33%) React
5 184 (6.52%) Spring
6 168 (5.95%) Spring Boot
7 155 (5.49%) RESTful
8 121 (4.29%) Node.js
9 114 (4.04%) PySpark
10 92 (3.26%) .NET
11 88 (3.12%) OAuth
12 67 (2.37%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.30%) JSON
14 63 (2.23%) FastAPI
14 63 (2.23%) HTML
15 62 (2.20%) AngularJS
16 52 (1.84%) CSS
17 50 (1.77%) OAuth2
18 49 (1.74%) LangChain
19 46 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 540 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 189 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 129 (4.57%) AI Agents
5 118 (4.18%) Product Ownership
6 83 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 66 (2.34%) Security Posture
10 65 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
13 39 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 39 (1.38%) Replication
14 38 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 38 (1.35%) PKI
15 34 (1.20%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.17%) CMDB
16 33 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
17 28 (0.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 233 (8.25%) Linux
2 125 (4.43%) Windows
3 56 (1.98%) Unix
4 46 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,171 (41.48%) CI/CD
2 880 (31.17%) DevOps
3 714 (25.29%) Agile
4 661 (23.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 628 (22.25%) AI
6 455 (16.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 418 (14.81%) Microservices
8 404 (14.31%) Containerisation
9 379 (13.43%) Observability
10 372 (13.18%) Migration
11 370 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
12 362 (12.82%) Analytics
13 357 (12.65%) Data Pipeline
14 353 (12.50%) Data Modelling
15 351 (12.43%) Software Engineering
16 342 (12.11%) Data Engineering
17 324 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 322 (11.41%) Event-Driven
19 297 (10.52%) Machine Learning
20 291 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (37.02%) Python
2 614 (21.75%) SQL
3 486 (17.22%) Java
4 211 (7.47%) TypeScript
5 199 (7.05%) JavaScript
6 168 (5.95%) Bash
7 142 (5.03%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.90%) C#
9 48 (1.70%) Scala
10 44 (1.56%) Go
11 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.13%) Bicep
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 27 (0.96%) Groovy
15 26 (0.92%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.71%) C++
16 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.71%) R
17 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 771 (27.31%) Security Cleared
2 682 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 160 (5.67%) AWS Certification
4 146 (5.17%) Degree
5 88 (3.12%) CISSP
6 86 (3.05%) DV Cleared
7 70 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 63 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 58 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.66%) CISM
11 26 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 23 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 22 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.78%) PMP
14 18 (0.64%) CCNP
14 18 (0.64%) CCSP
15 17 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 153 (5.42%) QA
3 108 (3.83%) NIST
4 98 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 89 (3.15%) GDPR
6 39 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.10%) GRC
8 30 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (0.85%) SLA
11 23 (0.81%) NCSC
12 20 (0.71%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.71%) SOC 2
13 19 (0.67%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.53%) PMO
15 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 12 (0.43%) SEPA
17 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
17 8 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 498 (17.64%) Docker
2 91 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.21%) NFS
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 608 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 203 (7.19%) Grafana
3 189 (6.70%) Ansible
4 160 (5.67%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.24%) Argo
5 35 (1.24%) Kibana
6 32 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.85%) Puppet
8 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.35%) Istio
10 10 (0.35%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) QRadar
12 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.21%) Control-M
13 6 (0.21%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.21%) Nagios
14 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 296 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 186 (6.59%) Databricks
3 134 (4.75%) Oracle
4 130 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 129 (4.57%) Google
6 109 (3.86%) Splunk
7 69 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 55 (1.95%) VMware
9 53 (1.88%) OpenAI
10 52 (1.84%) Cisco
10 52 (1.84%) CyberArk
11 49 (1.74%) SAP
12 41 (1.45%) Palo Alto
13 40 (1.42%) Informatica
14 33 (1.17%) IBM
15 32 (1.13%) Dynatrace
16 28 (0.99%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.96%) Foundry
18 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
19 24 (0.85%) MuleSoft