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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,575 2,008 2,334
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.27% 16.25% 13.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.87% 38.28% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,785 1,438 1,806
10th Percentile £406 £400 £405
25th Percentile £474 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £838
England median daily rate £542 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.48% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.63 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £46.75 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.52% +8.09% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £64.44 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £83.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +31.82% -26.67%

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 7,603 5,245 6,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.12% 42.46% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,263 3,615 4,988
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.70%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 54 70
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.71 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -35.80%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £67.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -3 278 £550 - 200
South London +3 85 £500 +1.78% 8
West London +5 84 £603 +11.88% 35
East London +2 16 £543 -7.26% 43
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
1 119 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.60%) Confluence
4 63 (2.45%) Apache
5 23 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.70%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
9 10 (0.39%) CICS
9 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.19%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.12%) IIS
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.078%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.078%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 40 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.16%) Magento
5 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.078%) Actimize
7 2 (0.078%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.039%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,043 (40.50%) Azure
2 555 (21.55%) GCP
3 386 (14.99%) Amazon S3
4 379 (14.72%) Serverless
5 331 (12.85%) AWS Lambda
6 328 (12.74%) GitHub
7 206 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 199 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
10 163 (6.33%) Snowflake
11 143 (5.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 141 (5.48%) Power Platform
13 132 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
14 118 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 104 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
16 79 (3.07%) SaaS
17 73 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
18 71 (2.76%) dbt
19 65 (2.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.92%) Firewall
2 68 (2.64%) Network Security
3 63 (2.45%) DNS
4 59 (2.29%) VPN
5 48 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.28%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
7 20 (0.78%) HTTP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 17 (0.66%) SSL
10 16 (0.62%) DHCP
11 15 (0.58%) OSPF
12 13 (0.50%) VLAN
13 11 (0.43%) NGFW
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.31%) SAN
17 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (4.89%) Data Lake
3 120 (4.66%) Power BI
4 119 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 112 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 109 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
7 108 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
8 98 (3.81%) SQL Server
9 96 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (2.87%) MongoDB
10 74 (2.87%) Tableau
11 73 (2.83%) DynamoDB
12 72 (2.80%) Metadata
13 71 (2.76%) Relational Database
14 59 (2.29%) Big Data
15 44 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
16 43 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
17 42 (1.63%) MySQL
18 41 (1.59%) BigQuery
19 38 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 230 (8.93%) Git
2 221 (8.58%) Jenkins
3 201 (7.81%) GitLab
4 120 (4.66%) JIRA
5 41 (1.59%) JUnit
6 39 (1.51%) MLflow
7 33 (1.28%) Mockito
8 27 (1.05%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.89%) JMeter
10 22 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 22 (0.85%) Selenium
11 21 (0.82%) Cypress.io
11 21 (0.82%) Gradle
11 21 (0.82%) Maven
12 20 (0.78%) Postman
13 19 (0.74%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.58%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.50%) Snyk
16 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 593 (23.03%) Finance
2 530 (20.58%) Social Skills
3 359 (13.94%) Public Sector
4 224 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 216 (8.39%) Banking
6 85 (3.30%) Front Office
7 61 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.67%) Retail
11 41 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.05%) Marketing
16 22 (0.85%) Legal
16 22 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.54%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Law
18 12 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 521 (20.23%) Architect
2 421 (16.35%) Developer
3 392 (15.22%) Senior
4 280 (10.87%) Lead
5 276 (10.72%) Data Engineer
6 241 (9.36%) AWS Engineer
7 188 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 139 (5.40%) Software Engineer
9 131 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.58%) Senior Developer
11 105 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (4.04%) AWS Architect
13 101 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
14 99 (3.84%) Analyst
15 98 (3.81%) Java Developer
16 85 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
17 80 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
18 76 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 76 (2.95%) Python Developer
19 75 (2.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (12.23%) Kafka
2 238 (9.24%) React
3 205 (7.96%) REST
4 176 (6.83%) Node.js
5 175 (6.80%) Spring
6 165 (6.41%) Spring Boot
7 139 (5.40%) RESTful
8 90 (3.50%) .NET
9 83 (3.22%) AngularJS
9 83 (3.22%) PySpark
10 75 (2.91%) GraphQL
11 69 (2.68%) OAuth
12 67 (2.60%) SOAP
13 62 (2.41%) Redux
14 61 (2.37%) LDAP
15 58 (2.25%) HTML
16 57 (2.21%) Pandas
17 50 (1.94%) CSS
18 49 (1.90%) OpenID
19 45 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 427 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (3.22%) Onboarding
4 75 (2.91%) Fixed Income
5 73 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 67 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 66 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 66 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 51 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.94%) Data Centre
11 48 (1.86%) Derivative
11 48 (1.86%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.63%) Equities
14 33 (1.28%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 31 (1.20%) Mainframe
17 25 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 175 (6.80%) Linux
2 73 (2.83%) Windows
3 39 (1.51%) Unix
4 17 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) Solaris
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 980 (38.06%) CI/CD
2 740 (28.74%) DevOps
3 594 (23.07%) Agile
4 512 (19.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 482 (18.72%) AI
6 400 (15.53%) Microservices
7 371 (14.41%) Containerisation
8 365 (14.17%) Analytics
9 327 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
10 310 (12.04%) Software Engineering
11 306 (11.88%) Migration
12 301 (11.69%) Data Modelling
13 278 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
14 276 (10.72%) Data Engineering
15 271 (10.52%) Observability
16 248 (9.63%) Machine Learning
17 241 (9.36%) ETL
18 233 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
19 228 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 221 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 988 (38.37%) Python
2 565 (21.94%) SQL
3 463 (17.98%) Java
4 231 (8.97%) TypeScript
5 219 (8.50%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.43%) C#
7 112 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 99 (3.84%) Bash
9 94 (3.65%) Go
10 42 (1.63%) Scala
11 36 (1.40%) Ruby
12 35 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 21 (0.82%) R
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.70%) Bicep
16 17 (0.66%) C++
17 10 (0.39%) JCL
17 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
18 9 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 728 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 650 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.17%) Degree
4 112 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 69 (2.68%) CISSP
6 66 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (2.10%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.17%) CISM
11 30 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 28 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 24 (0.93%) PMP
15 23 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 21 (0.82%) CCNP
17 20 (0.78%) CCSP
18 17 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
19 14 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.31%) GDPR
3 97 (3.77%) QA
4 89 (3.46%) NIST
5 72 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.20%) SLA
8 30 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.93%) NCSC
10 22 (0.85%) GRC
11 20 (0.78%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.58%) PMO
14 14 (0.54%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.43%) WCAG
16 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.31%) SEPA
18 7 (0.27%) PSD2
19 6 (0.23%) MiFID
20 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 482 (18.72%) Docker
2 91 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.62%) Squid
6 4 (0.16%) HDFS
6 4 (0.16%) NFS
6 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.12%) IAG
7 3 (0.12%) Postfix
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.078%) Firmware
8 2 (0.078%) KVM
8 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 576 (22.37%) Terraform
2 528 (20.50%) Kubernetes
3 144 (5.59%) Grafana
4 130 (5.05%) Ansible
5 126 (4.89%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.78%) Kibana
8 18 (0.70%) Argo
9 17 (0.66%) Puppet
10 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.47%) Consul
12 12 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.39%) QRadar
14 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.23%) Packer
14 6 (0.23%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) Istio
15 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.16%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 194 (7.53%) Microsoft
2 122 (4.74%) Databricks
3 92 (3.57%) Google
4 85 (3.30%) Oracle
4 85 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 74 (2.87%) Splunk
6 67 (2.60%) CyberArk
7 57 (2.21%) OpenAI
8 53 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.94%) Cisco
10 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
10 35 (1.36%) Centrify
11 33 (1.28%) SAP
12 32 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.24%) VMware
13 31 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.13%) IBM
15 26 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 23 (0.89%) Fortinet
16 23 (0.89%) Foundry