AWS Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,230 2,430 3,578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.87% 13.79% 14.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.28% 34.60% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,559 1,893 2,724
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £463 £488 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £700 £760 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £820
England median daily rate £538 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -4.44% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 24
10th Percentile £36.25 £22.10 £38.93
25th Percentile £38.13 £23.43 £63.88
Median hourly rate £53.50 £27.65 £81.25
Median % change year-on-year +93.49% -65.97% +39.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.88 £88.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.95 £90.00
England median hourly rate £71.25 £46.18 £72.75
% change year-on-year +54.29% -36.52% +3.93%

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 5,677 7,024 10,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.94% 39.86% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,847 5,155 7,429
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 75
10th Percentile £22.80 £18.22 £17.54
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.04 £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -52.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.32
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 4 July 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 4 July 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 +1 283 £550 -2.65% 1,113
South London -1 44 £513 +0.39% 85
West London -1 36 £464 -19.34% 218
East London +19 9 £585 +17.00% 106
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 180 (8.07%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (5.74%) Apache
3 95 (4.26%) Apache Spark
4 86 (3.86%) Confluence
5 26 (1.17%) nginx
6 17 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.58%) CMS
7 13 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.31%) JBoss
9 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.27%) Camunda
11 5 (0.22%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.13%) Luigi
13 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.090%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 14 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.13%) Trello
7 2 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.045%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.045%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (0.76%) Endur
2 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.090%) Actimize
4 2 (0.090%) assyst
4 2 (0.090%) Magento
4 2 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.090%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.090%) Shopify
4 2 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.090%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.045%) Avolution ABACUS
5 1 (0.045%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.045%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.045%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.045%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 794 (35.61%) Azure
2 511 (22.91%) GCP
3 296 (13.27%) Serverless
4 255 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 241 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 209 (9.37%) GitHub
7 179 (8.03%) dbt
8 167 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 164 (7.35%) Snowflake
10 137 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
11 110 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
13 90 (4.04%) SaaS
14 76 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
15 73 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
16 72 (3.23%) Power Platform
17 71 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
18 69 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 54 (2.42%) OpenShift
20 50 (2.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 147 (6.59%) Firewall
2 79 (3.54%) DNS
3 71 (3.18%) VPN
4 60 (2.69%) Network Security
5 46 (2.06%) WAN
6 39 (1.75%) HTTP
7 34 (1.52%) BGP
7 34 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 32 (1.43%) DHCP
9 30 (1.35%) OSPF
10 27 (1.21%) SD-WAN
11 26 (1.17%) LAN
12 24 (1.08%) VLAN
13 21 (0.94%) SSL
14 16 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
15 15 (0.67%) Internet
16 13 (0.58%) Wireless
17 12 (0.54%) IPsec
18 11 (0.49%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (6.68%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
4 117 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
5 110 (4.93%) Apache Iceberg
6 104 (4.66%) Dremio
7 101 (4.53%) Data Lake
8 100 (4.48%) Apache Arrow
9 98 (4.39%) NoSQL
10 75 (3.36%) DynamoDB
11 66 (2.96%) Power BI
12 60 (2.69%) Relational Database
13 56 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 53 (2.38%) Apache Ignite
14 53 (2.38%) MongoDB
15 51 (2.29%) Big Data
16 49 (2.20%) MySQL
17 48 (2.15%) Redis
17 48 (2.15%) Tableau
18 46 (2.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 205 (9.19%) Jenkins
2 192 (8.61%) Git
3 128 (5.74%) JIRA
4 118 (5.29%) GitLab
5 47 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 42 (1.88%) JUnit
7 39 (1.75%) Maven
8 33 (1.48%) Artifactory
9 32 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.21%) Bitbucket
10 27 (1.21%) Selenium
11 26 (1.17%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.94%) CircleCI
13 20 (0.90%) Postman
14 19 (0.85%) MLflow
15 17 (0.76%) IntelliJ
15 17 (0.76%) Mockito
16 16 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 15 (0.67%) JMeter
17 15 (0.67%) Metasploit
General
1 584 (26.19%) Finance
2 506 (22.69%) Social Skills
3 270 (12.11%) Banking
4 239 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 217 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
6 207 (9.28%) Front Office
7 128 (5.74%) Investment Banking
8 33 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (1.48%) Marketing
9 30 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (1.35%) Retail
10 29 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.12%) Military
12 20 (0.90%) Legal
13 17 (0.76%) Back Office
13 17 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.72%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 14 (0.63%) Law
17 11 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 562 (25.20%) Developer
2 385 (17.26%) Architect
3 359 (16.10%) Senior
4 299 (13.41%) AWS Engineer
5 218 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 186 (8.34%) Data Engineer
7 184 (8.25%) Lead
8 174 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 156 (7.00%) Java Developer
10 143 (6.41%) Python Engineer
11 128 (5.74%) AWS Developer
12 124 (5.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 103 (4.62%) Python Developer
14 96 (4.30%) AWS Software Engineer
14 96 (4.30%) Java Engineer
15 89 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
16 86 (3.86%) Senior Developer
17 84 (3.77%) AWS Architect
17 84 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
18 82 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (13.95%) React
2 240 (10.76%) Kafka
3 204 (9.15%) Node.js
4 123 (5.52%) AngularJS
5 122 (5.47%) Spring
6 120 (5.38%) REST
7 110 (4.93%) Pandas
8 107 (4.80%) NumPy
9 104 (4.66%) Spring Boot
10 97 (4.35%) Redux
11 91 (4.08%) GraphQL
12 90 (4.04%) SciPy
13 88 (3.95%) .NET
14 87 (3.90%) Vue
15 78 (3.50%) RESTful
16 70 (3.14%) PySpark
17 68 (3.05%) gRPC
18 52 (2.33%) HTML
19 41 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
20 40 (1.79%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 168 (7.53%) Fixed Income
2 138 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 122 (5.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 116 (5.20%) Hedge funds
5 112 (5.02%) Equities
6 73 (3.27%) Derivative
7 70 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 67 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
9 60 (2.69%) Public Cloud
10 50 (2.24%) Product Ownership
11 46 (2.06%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 43 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.88%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.43%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.39%) PKI
17 30 (1.35%) Pricing Data
18 26 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 196 (8.79%) Linux
2 97 (4.35%) Windows
3 37 (1.66%) Unix
4 32 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.45%) Android
7 8 (0.36%) CentOS
8 7 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.27%) Rocky
10 5 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.13%) Solaris
11 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.090%) AIX
12 2 (0.090%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.090%) zOS
13 1 (0.045%) Debian
13 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (29.46%) Agile
2 634 (28.43%) CI/CD
3 583 (26.14%) DevOps
4 387 (17.35%) Software Engineering
5 353 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
6 314 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 304 (13.63%) Microservices
8 256 (11.48%) Containerisation
9 215 (9.64%) Analytics
10 199 (8.92%) Migration
11 185 (8.30%) Asset Management
12 177 (7.94%) Full-Stack Development
13 174 (7.80%) TDD
14 165 (7.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 158 (7.09%) ETL
16 156 (7.00%) Mentoring
17 153 (6.86%) Test Automation
18 149 (6.68%) Artificial Intelligence
19 148 (6.64%) Data Engineering
19 148 (6.64%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 930 (41.70%) Python
2 515 (23.09%) Java
3 387 (17.35%) SQL
4 359 (16.10%) JavaScript
5 325 (14.57%) TypeScript
6 135 (6.05%) Bash
7 127 (5.70%) Go
8 108 (4.84%) PowerShell
9 96 (4.30%) C#
10 63 (2.83%) C++
11 38 (1.70%) Scala
12 31 (1.39%) PL/SQL
13 30 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 27 (1.21%) Perl
15 24 (1.08%) C
15 24 (1.08%) Groovy
16 23 (1.03%) Kotlin
17 22 (0.99%) Rust
18 17 (0.76%) Bicep
18 17 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 519 (23.27%) Security Cleared
2 455 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 151 (6.77%) Degree
4 137 (6.14%) AWS Certification
5 65 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 47 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.93%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.75%) CISSP
10 39 (1.75%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.26%) CCNP
12 20 (0.90%) OSCP
13 19 (0.85%) CREST Certified
14 18 (0.81%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.81%) PMP
15 16 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
15 16 (0.72%) CISM
15 16 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
16 14 (0.63%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (3.95%) QA
2 70 (3.14%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.14%) GDPR
3 61 (2.74%) NIST
4 57 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 20 (0.90%) NCSC
8 18 (0.81%) HIPAA
9 13 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.45%) GRC
10 10 (0.45%) SLA
11 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.31%) WCAG
13 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.22%) MiFID
15 4 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 4 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 408 (18.30%) Docker
2 63 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.58%) Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.18%) Platform Symphony
8 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) iptables
8 3 (0.13%) Lustre
9 2 (0.090%) FreeRADIUS
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.090%) vSphere
9 2 (0.090%) zsh
10 1 (0.045%) Postfix
10 1 (0.045%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 527 (23.63%) Kubernetes
2 435 (19.51%) Terraform
3 193 (8.65%) Ansible
4 94 (4.22%) Grafana
5 92 (4.13%) Prometheus
6 56 (2.51%) Puppet
7 38 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 26 (1.17%) Packer
9 25 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (0.85%) Kibana
11 17 (0.76%) Consul
11 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (0.67%) Argo
13 14 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
13 14 (0.63%) Nmap
14 10 (0.45%) Nagios
15 9 (0.40%) SCCM
16 8 (0.36%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.36%) Podman
17 7 (0.31%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 165 (7.40%) Microsoft
2 131 (5.87%) Google
3 86 (3.86%) Splunk
4 85 (3.81%) Oracle
5 81 (3.63%) Databricks
6 56 (2.51%) Cisco
7 49 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 44 (1.97%) VMware
9 29 (1.30%) IBM
10 28 (1.26%) Arista
11 27 (1.21%) F5
12 24 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 22 (0.99%) CheckPoint
13 22 (0.99%) SolarWinds
14 20 (0.90%) CyberArk
14 20 (0.90%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.85%) Informatica
16 17 (0.76%) Okta
17 16 (0.72%) Juniper
18 14 (0.63%) Atlassian