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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,188 2,183 2,637
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.55% 13.72% 13.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.11% 33.64% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,513 1,588 2,032
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £454 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £579
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.71% -5.15%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £798
England median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 13
10th Percentile £43.75 £28.78 £36.81
25th Percentile £60.63 £36.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £76.75 £43.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.49% -25.86% +18.97%
75th Percentile £87.50 £55.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £93.13 £79.30 £87.31
England median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year +84.06% -12.04% +7.69%

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 6,231 6,490 7,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 40.79% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,216 4,419 5,653
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 39 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.07 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.75 £24.15 £21.63
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -9.68% +45.28%
75th Percentile £43.97 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.05 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.75
% change year-on-year -24.93% +26.84% +18.89%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +5 252 £575 - 134
South London +11 60 £525 +7.14% 42
West London -10 26 £425 -26.09% 73
East London - 7 £675 - 64
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
1 151 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (5.07%) Confluence
3 85 (3.88%) Apache
4 76 (3.47%) Apache Spark
5 47 (2.15%) nginx
6 17 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.73%) SAS
8 15 (0.69%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.59%) CMS
10 9 (0.41%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.32%) Camunda
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.18%) Appian
14 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.14%) Traefik
16 2 (0.091%) Apache Solr
16 2 (0.091%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
7 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (0.46%) Endur
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.18%) Actimize
6 2 (0.091%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.091%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 849 (38.80%) Azure
2 486 (22.21%) GCP
3 302 (13.80%) GitHub
4 291 (13.30%) Amazon S3
5 283 (12.93%) Serverless
6 246 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
7 180 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
8 175 (8.00%) Snowflake
9 162 (7.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 131 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
11 129 (5.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 128 (5.85%) dbt
13 116 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
14 111 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
15 92 (4.20%) Power Platform
16 69 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 66 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
18 64 (2.93%) SaaS
19 53 (2.42%) Amazon Kinesis
20 49 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (5.39%) Firewall
2 68 (3.11%) DNS
3 56 (2.56%) VPN
4 55 (2.51%) Network Security
5 31 (1.42%) WAN
6 28 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.23%) SSL
8 24 (1.10%) HTTP
9 21 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.87%) DHCP
11 18 (0.82%) BGP
12 17 (0.78%) LAN
12 17 (0.78%) SSH
13 16 (0.73%) OSPF
14 15 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
14 15 (0.69%) VLAN
15 11 (0.50%) FTP
16 10 (0.46%) IMAP
16 10 (0.46%) SMTP
17 9 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (5.16%) NoSQL
4 110 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
5 100 (4.57%) Amazon Athena
6 98 (4.48%) Data Lake
7 94 (4.30%) Relational Database
8 86 (3.93%) Power BI
9 78 (3.56%) SQL Server
10 73 (3.34%) DynamoDB
11 70 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 61 (2.79%) Apache Iceberg
13 58 (2.65%) Metadata
13 58 (2.65%) MySQL
14 57 (2.61%) MongoDB
15 51 (2.33%) Apache Arrow
15 51 (2.33%) Dremio
16 49 (2.24%) Big Data
17 46 (2.10%) Tableau
18 43 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 258 (11.79%) Git
2 211 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 168 (7.68%) JIRA
4 152 (6.95%) GitLab
5 46 (2.10%) JUnit
6 29 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 27 (1.23%) ERwin
8 26 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 25 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.05%) Maven
11 22 (1.01%) Metasploit
11 22 (1.01%) MLflow
12 21 (0.96%) Selenium
13 20 (0.91%) Burp Suite
14 19 (0.87%) ER Studio
15 17 (0.78%) Mockito
16 14 (0.64%) JMeter
17 13 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 574 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 520 (23.77%) Finance
3 245 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 227 (10.37%) Banking
5 212 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
6 115 (5.26%) Front Office
7 106 (4.84%) Investment Banking
8 44 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.33%) Marketing
12 28 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.23%) Retail
14 24 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.01%) Legal
16 21 (0.96%) Military
17 15 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.69%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 444 (20.29%) Developer
2 385 (17.60%) Senior
3 314 (14.35%) Architect
4 269 (12.29%) AWS Engineer
5 172 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 165 (7.54%) Data Engineer
7 157 (7.18%) Lead
8 156 (7.13%) Software Engineer
9 145 (6.63%) Python Engineer
10 127 (5.80%) Java Developer
11 103 (4.71%) AWS Developer
12 100 (4.57%) Senior Developer
13 93 (4.25%) Python Developer
14 88 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
14 88 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
14 88 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
15 86 (3.93%) Analyst
16 82 (3.75%) Java Engineer
17 78 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (12.20%) Kafka
2 250 (11.43%) React
3 179 (8.18%) Node.js
4 134 (6.12%) REST
5 121 (5.53%) Spring
6 120 (5.48%) AngularJS
7 110 (5.03%) RESTful
8 100 (4.57%) Spring Boot
9 93 (4.25%) NumPy
9 93 (4.25%) Pandas
10 87 (3.98%) gRPC
11 73 (3.34%) SciPy
12 70 (3.20%) GraphQL
12 70 (3.20%) Vue
13 66 (3.02%) CSS
14 64 (2.93%) HTML
15 61 (2.79%) .NET
16 47 (2.15%) FastAPI
16 47 (2.15%) OAuth
17 43 (1.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 245 (11.20%) Cloud Native
2 107 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (4.16%) Fixed Income
4 85 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 85 (3.88%) Hedge funds
5 74 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 72 (3.29%) Equities
7 64 (2.93%) Derivative
8 55 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
9 52 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 49 (2.24%) Public Cloud
11 45 (2.06%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
13 41 (1.87%) Security Posture
14 36 (1.65%) Data Centre
15 32 (1.46%) Pricing Data
15 32 (1.46%) Virtual Team
16 31 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
18 26 (1.19%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 206 (9.41%) Linux
2 85 (3.88%) Windows
3 51 (2.33%) Unix
4 21 (0.96%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.37%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.091%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (37.71%) CI/CD
2 635 (29.02%) Agile
3 599 (27.38%) DevOps
4 417 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 349 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
6 347 (15.86%) Microservices
7 331 (15.13%) Software Engineering
8 280 (12.80%) Analytics
9 251 (11.47%) Containerisation
10 239 (10.92%) AI
11 215 (9.83%) Data Modelling
12 210 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
13 199 (9.10%) Migration
14 192 (8.78%) Machine Learning
15 186 (8.50%) ETL
16 171 (7.82%) Data Engineering
16 171 (7.82%) Full-Stack Development
16 171 (7.82%) Observability
17 163 (7.45%) Cloud Security
18 159 (7.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 965 (44.10%) Python
2 495 (22.62%) Java
3 480 (21.94%) SQL
4 272 (12.43%) TypeScript
5 261 (11.93%) JavaScript
6 155 (7.08%) Bash
7 131 (5.99%) Go
8 85 (3.88%) C#
9 79 (3.61%) PowerShell
10 53 (2.42%) C++
11 33 (1.51%) Scala
12 25 (1.14%) Perl
13 24 (1.10%) Ruby
14 23 (1.05%) Groovy
14 23 (1.05%) Rust
15 22 (1.01%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.91%) C
17 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.69%) R
19 14 (0.64%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 511 (23.35%) Security Cleared
2 442 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.35%) Degree
4 128 (5.85%) AWS Certification
5 67 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.65%) CISSP
8 36 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.46%) OSCP
10 30 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.96%) CREST Certified
14 17 (0.78%) CISM
15 14 (0.64%) CCNP
15 14 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.59%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.59%) Tigerscheme
17 12 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 94 (4.30%) QA
3 85 (3.88%) GDPR
4 76 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (2.74%) NIST
6 38 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.19%) NCSC
8 20 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.78%) WCAG
11 15 (0.69%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.46%) GRC
14 9 (0.41%) MiFID
15 8 (0.37%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.32%) SLA
17 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 498 (22.76%) Docker
2 42 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.50%) Postfix
5 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.41%) zsh
7 7 (0.32%) Firmware
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.091%) vSphere
10 1 (0.046%) etcd
10 1 (0.046%) HDFS
10 1 (0.046%) iptables
10 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 511 (23.35%) Kubernetes
2 497 (22.71%) Terraform
3 148 (6.76%) Ansible
4 114 (5.21%) Grafana
5 103 (4.71%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.37%) Argo
7 29 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (1.28%) Puppet
9 25 (1.14%) Packer
10 22 (1.01%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.91%) Consul
11 20 (0.91%) Nmap
12 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.78%) Nessus
13 12 (0.55%) SCCM
14 11 (0.50%) Kibana
15 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.41%) QRadar
17 8 (0.37%) Istio
18 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 154 (7.04%) Microsoft
2 128 (5.85%) Databricks
3 84 (3.84%) Splunk
4 83 (3.79%) Google
5 75 (3.43%) Oracle
6 70 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 34 (1.55%) Cisco
7 34 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 28 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.14%) F5
9 25 (1.14%) VMware
10 24 (1.10%) IBM
11 23 (1.05%) Arista
12 22 (1.01%) CheckPoint
13 21 (0.96%) OpenAI
14 20 (0.91%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.87%) Fortinet
16 18 (0.82%) Tenable
17 17 (0.78%) Informatica
17 17 (0.78%) SAP