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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,646 2,045 2,362
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.40% 16.68% 13.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.03% 38.78% 34.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 1,439 1,834
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £745
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £542 £550 £561
% change year-on-year -1.48% -2.00% -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.75 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% +93.49% -63.13%
75th Percentile £76.75 £61.38 £68.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £50.59
% change year-on-year -1.75% +40.84% -32.55%

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 7,775 5,273 6,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.30% 43.00% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,376 3,588 5,020
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -0.86% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 61 70
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.27 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -50.25%
75th Percentile £55.81 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.99% -38.94%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 - 114
West London +5 84 £600 +21.26% 41
South London +2 83 £500 +1.01% 18
East London +3 16 £543 -7.26% 40
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
1 130 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (4.16%) Apache Spark
3 68 (2.57%) Confluence
4 61 (2.31%) Apache
5 23 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.68%) nginx
7 14 (0.53%) Camunda
8 11 (0.42%) CICS
9 10 (0.38%) SAS
10 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.23%) CMS
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Appian
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 39 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.23%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.15%) Revit
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Endur
5 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.076%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.076%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.038%) Actimize
7 1 (0.038%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1,082 (40.89%) Azure
2 569 (21.50%) GCP
3 393 (14.85%) Amazon S3
4 388 (14.66%) Serverless
5 340 (12.85%) AWS Lambda
6 335 (12.66%) GitHub
7 208 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
8 202 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 177 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
9 177 (6.69%) Snowflake
10 166 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
11 159 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 146 (5.52%) Power Platform
13 133 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
14 122 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 111 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
16 85 (3.21%) SaaS
17 82 (3.10%) dbt
18 70 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
19 68 (2.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 106 (4.01%) Firewall
2 73 (2.76%) Network Security
3 69 (2.61%) DNS
4 63 (2.38%) VPN
5 50 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.32%) WAN
7 22 (0.83%) BGP
8 21 (0.79%) HTTP
9 19 (0.72%) LAN
10 18 (0.68%) DHCP
10 18 (0.68%) SSL
11 17 (0.64%) OSPF
12 14 (0.53%) NGFW
12 14 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.45%) VLAN
14 10 (0.38%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.34%) Internet
15 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (4.84%) Data Lake
3 124 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
3 124 (4.69%) Power BI
4 117 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 107 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
7 104 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 95 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 85 (3.21%) DynamoDB
10 74 (2.80%) Tableau
11 73 (2.76%) MongoDB
12 72 (2.72%) Metadata
12 72 (2.72%) Relational Database
13 59 (2.23%) Big Data
14 43 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
15 41 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
15 41 (1.55%) BigQuery
15 41 (1.55%) MySQL
16 40 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 234 (8.84%) Git
2 229 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 209 (7.90%) GitLab
4 124 (4.69%) JIRA
5 39 (1.47%) JUnit
6 36 (1.36%) MLflow
7 32 (1.21%) Mockito
8 27 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 26 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.87%) JMeter
11 21 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 21 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 21 (0.79%) Gradle
11 21 (0.79%) Maven
11 21 (0.79%) Selenium
12 20 (0.76%) Postman
13 16 (0.60%) Gatling
14 15 (0.57%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 626 (23.66%) Finance
2 565 (21.35%) Social Skills
3 369 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 231 (8.73%) Banking
5 226 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 83 (3.14%) Front Office
7 64 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 50 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.63%) Retail
11 42 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 35 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.98%) Marketing
16 23 (0.87%) Legal
16 23 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (0.60%) Law
18 12 (0.45%) Back Office
18 12 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 537 (20.29%) Architect
2 419 (15.84%) Developer
3 399 (15.08%) Senior
4 294 (11.11%) Lead
5 290 (10.96%) Data Engineer
6 261 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
7 191 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 143 (5.40%) Software Engineer
9 137 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
10 117 (4.42%) Senior Developer
11 114 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (3.93%) AWS Architect
13 102 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
14 98 (3.70%) Analyst
14 98 (3.70%) Java Developer
15 86 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
16 83 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
17 79 (2.99%) Python Developer
18 78 (2.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 75 (2.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (11.53%) Kafka
2 239 (9.03%) React
3 216 (8.16%) REST
4 178 (6.73%) Node.js
5 167 (6.31%) Spring
6 158 (5.97%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.33%) RESTful
8 96 (3.63%) .NET
9 82 (3.10%) PySpark
10 81 (3.06%) AngularJS
11 76 (2.87%) GraphQL
12 74 (2.80%) OAuth
13 70 (2.65%) SOAP
14 62 (2.34%) LDAP
14 62 (2.34%) Redux
15 57 (2.15%) Pandas
16 52 (1.97%) HTML
17 49 (1.85%) JSON
17 49 (1.85%) OpenID
18 47 (1.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 453 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 146 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 78 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
4 78 (2.95%) Security Posture
5 76 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 73 (2.76%) Fixed Income
7 70 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 68 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
9 56 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 55 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 54 (2.04%) Management Information System
12 48 (1.81%) Derivative
13 42 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.55%) Equities
15 33 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 32 (1.21%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.17%) Mainframe
18 30 (1.13%) Algorithms
19 29 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.14%) Linux
2 85 (3.21%) Windows
3 36 (1.36%) Unix
4 26 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.45%) Android
7 9 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.30%) zOS
9 7 (0.26%) Solaris
10 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,009 (38.13%) CI/CD
2 766 (28.95%) DevOps
3 611 (23.09%) Agile
4 538 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 502 (18.97%) AI
6 391 (14.78%) Microservices
7 376 (14.21%) Analytics
8 366 (13.83%) Containerisation
9 337 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
10 325 (12.28%) Migration
11 321 (12.13%) Software Engineering
12 305 (11.53%) Data Modelling
13 293 (11.07%) Data Pipeline
14 283 (10.70%) Data Engineering
15 278 (10.51%) Observability
16 253 (9.56%) Machine Learning
16 253 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 245 (9.26%) ETL
18 236 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 231 (8.73%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (38.74%) Python
2 583 (22.03%) SQL
3 471 (17.80%) Java
4 237 (8.96%) TypeScript
5 214 (8.09%) JavaScript
6 128 (4.84%) PowerShell
7 116 (4.38%) C#
8 110 (4.16%) Bash
9 94 (3.55%) Go
10 47 (1.78%) Scala
11 36 (1.36%) Ruby
11 36 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 23 (0.87%) Bicep
13 21 (0.79%) R
14 18 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 15 (0.57%) C++
16 11 (0.42%) Groovy
16 11 (0.42%) JCL
16 11 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 730 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 648 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 143 (5.40%) Degree
4 114 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 77 (2.91%) CISSP
6 69 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 53 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.28%) CISM
12 30 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 28 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.87%) PMP
15 22 (0.83%) CCNP
15 22 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 21 (0.79%) CCSP
17 15 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 109 (4.12%) QA
3 107 (4.04%) GDPR
4 93 (3.51%) NIST
5 75 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.21%) SLA
8 29 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.91%) GRC
10 22 (0.83%) NCSC
11 19 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.57%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.57%) PMO
14 11 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.42%) WCAG
15 8 (0.30%) SEPA
15 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.26%) PSD2
17 5 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 475 (17.95%) Docker
2 95 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.64%) Squid
6 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.15%) HDFS
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 3 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.076%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.076%) Firmware
10 2 (0.076%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.038%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 601 (22.71%) Terraform
2 527 (19.92%) Kubernetes
3 152 (5.74%) Grafana
4 143 (5.40%) Ansible
5 136 (5.14%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.79%) Kibana
8 19 (0.72%) Puppet
9 18 (0.68%) Argo
10 16 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.45%) Consul
14 10 (0.38%) QRadar
15 9 (0.34%) Packer
16 7 (0.26%) Istio
17 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
18 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
18 5 (0.19%) SCCM
19 4 (0.15%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 206 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 122 (4.61%) Databricks
3 100 (3.78%) Google
4 92 (3.48%) Oracle
5 89 (3.36%) ServiceNow
6 77 (2.91%) Splunk
7 69 (2.61%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 49 (1.85%) Cisco
11 37 (1.40%) VMware
12 35 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.32%) Centrify
13 33 (1.25%) Palo Alto
14 32 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 32 (1.21%) Red Hat
15 30 (1.13%) SAP
16 29 (1.10%) IBM
17 26 (0.98%) Foundry
18 25 (0.94%) Qualys