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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,783 2,102 2,246
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.76% 15.83% 13.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.68% 36.45% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,975 1,453 1,657
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £479 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £695 £750
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -64.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £80.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -28.95%

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 8,263 5,767 6,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.86% 43.44% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,693 3,928 4,551
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.83% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 92 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.55 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.89
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.25 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -5.02% -23.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -4 275 £575 -1.71% 339
West London +8 94 £560 +31.76% 131
South London +1 75 £535 -5.38% 12
East London +10 13 £525 -13.58% 21
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
1 160 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 106 (3.81%) Confluence
4 85 (3.05%) Apache
5 26 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) CMS
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 8 (0.29%) Camunda
8 8 (0.29%) CICS
8 8 (0.29%) IIS
8 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.11%) Mule
10 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.11%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.11%) Shopify
7 2 (0.072%) Endur
7 2 (0.072%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,241 (44.59%) Azure
2 631 (22.67%) GCP
3 386 (13.87%) Serverless
4 379 (13.62%) Amazon S3
5 365 (13.12%) GitHub
6 322 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
7 246 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
8 237 (8.52%) Snowflake
9 221 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
10 186 (6.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 160 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
12 156 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 151 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
14 149 (5.35%) dbt
15 136 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
16 130 (4.67%) Power Platform
17 128 (4.60%) SaaS
18 122 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 103 (3.70%) Entra ID
20 96 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.59%) Firewall
2 79 (2.84%) Network Security
3 60 (2.16%) DNS
4 53 (1.90%) VPN
5 37 (1.33%) WAN
6 30 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.90%) DHCP
8 23 (0.83%) SSH
8 23 (0.83%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 17 (0.61%) HTTP
12 16 (0.57%) OSPF
13 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.54%) MPLS
14 14 (0.50%) NGFW
15 12 (0.43%) IPsec
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 173 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
3 145 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 115 (4.13%) Power BI
6 110 (3.95%) Data Lake
7 108 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 105 (3.77%) Metadata
9 95 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
10 94 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 92 (3.31%) MongoDB
12 88 (3.16%) DynamoDB
13 75 (2.69%) Relational Database
14 66 (2.37%) Delta Lake
15 60 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
15 60 (2.16%) MySQL
16 56 (2.01%) Tableau
17 51 (1.83%) Big Data
18 47 (1.69%) Redis
19 46 (1.65%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 306 (11.00%) Jenkins
2 297 (10.67%) Git
3 273 (9.81%) GitLab
4 153 (5.50%) JIRA
5 36 (1.29%) Maven
6 35 (1.26%) JMeter
7 34 (1.22%) JUnit
8 31 (1.11%) Selenium
9 30 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 29 (1.04%) SonarQube
11 28 (1.01%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.97%) Cucumber
13 25 (0.90%) Mockito
14 23 (0.83%) Gradle
14 23 (0.83%) Postman
15 19 (0.68%) Claude Code
16 18 (0.65%) Gatling
17 17 (0.61%) REST Assured
18 13 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 688 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 666 (23.93%) Finance
3 379 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 270 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (9.31%) Banking
6 88 (3.16%) Retail
7 64 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 37 (1.33%) Marketing
11 35 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.26%) Front Office
12 32 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.15%) Legal
13 31 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 28 (1.01%) Law
14 28 (1.01%) Military
15 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (0.90%) Billing
17 23 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 568 (20.41%) Architect
2 449 (16.13%) Senior
3 340 (12.22%) Developer
4 302 (10.85%) Data Engineer
5 295 (10.60%) Lead
6 266 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
7 217 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 137 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
9 113 (4.06%) AWS Architect
10 112 (4.02%) Analyst
11 110 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (3.77%) Data Architect
13 101 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 101 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
14 100 (3.59%) Java Developer
15 92 (3.31%) Software Engineer
16 90 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
17 81 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
18 77 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
19 75 (2.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 722 (25.94%) Terraform
2 326 (11.71%) Kafka
3 290 (10.42%) REST
4 196 (7.04%) React
5 180 (6.47%) Spring
6 165 (5.93%) Spring Boot
7 153 (5.50%) RESTful
8 114 (4.10%) Node.js
9 109 (3.92%) PySpark
10 98 (3.52%) .NET
11 97 (3.49%) OAuth
12 74 (2.66%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.34%) FastAPI
13 65 (2.34%) HTML
14 64 (2.30%) JSON
15 63 (2.26%) AngularJS
16 59 (2.12%) SOAP
17 55 (1.98%) OAuth2
18 54 (1.94%) CSS
19 48 (1.72%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 551 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 180 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 140 (5.03%) AI Agents
5 129 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (2.44%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 47 (1.69%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.62%) Data Structures
13 43 (1.55%) Replication
14 42 (1.51%) PKI
15 38 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
17 36 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
18 35 (1.26%) Public Cloud
18 35 (1.26%) Virtual Team
19 29 (1.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 254 (9.13%) Linux
2 123 (4.42%) Windows
3 54 (1.94%) Unix
4 50 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.47%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.22%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (42.26%) CI/CD
2 889 (31.94%) DevOps
3 702 (25.22%) Agile
4 671 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 624 (22.42%) AI
6 473 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 407 (14.62%) Microservices
8 400 (14.37%) Containerisation
9 396 (14.23%) Observability
10 364 (13.08%) Migration
11 355 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 345 (12.40%) Software Engineering
13 342 (12.29%) Analytics
14 337 (12.11%) Data Modelling
15 333 (11.97%) Data Engineering
15 333 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
16 325 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 325 (11.68%) Event-Driven
17 307 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
18 297 (10.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (36.47%) Python
2 610 (21.92%) SQL
3 470 (16.89%) Java
4 207 (7.44%) JavaScript
5 199 (7.15%) TypeScript
6 179 (6.43%) Bash
7 142 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 113 (4.06%) C#
9 54 (1.94%) Go
10 52 (1.87%) Scala
11 38 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.29%) Bicep
13 31 (1.11%) Groovy
14 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.79%) C++
16 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.61%) R
18 15 (0.54%) Ruby
19 14 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 771 (27.70%) Security Cleared
2 677 (24.33%) SC Cleared
3 173 (6.22%) AWS Certification
4 142 (5.10%) Degree
5 94 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 87 (3.13%) CISSP
7 73 (2.62%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 60 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.72%) CISM
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.79%) CCSP
15 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (0.65%) PMP
18 16 (0.57%) Master's Degree
19 15 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 165 (5.93%) QA
3 104 (3.74%) NIST
4 102 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (2.59%) GDPR
6 37 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.11%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 28 (1.01%) NCSC
10 24 (0.86%) SLA
11 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
11 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.54%) EU AI Act
13 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.47%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.47%) SEPA
15 9 (0.32%) PMO
16 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 504 (18.11%) Docker
2 85 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.29%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
7 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.072%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 642 (23.07%) Kubernetes
2 214 (7.69%) Grafana
3 200 (7.19%) Ansible
4 163 (5.86%) Prometheus
5 45 (1.62%) Kibana
6 38 (1.37%) Argo
7 29 (1.04%) Puppet
8 27 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.47%) Istio
9 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.40%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
13 6 (0.22%) QRadar
14 5 (0.18%) CA Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 292 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 194 (6.97%) Databricks
3 142 (5.10%) Google
4 137 (4.92%) Oracle
5 115 (4.13%) ServiceNow
6 110 (3.95%) Splunk
7 68 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.01%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.83%) Cisco
9 51 (1.83%) SAP
9 51 (1.83%) VMware
10 50 (1.80%) CyberArk
11 44 (1.58%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.40%) Dynatrace
13 37 (1.33%) Informatica
14 36 (1.29%) IBM
15 32 (1.15%) Fortinet
16 27 (0.97%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.86%) Foundry
17 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft