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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,371 1,970 2,298
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.04% 14.87% 12.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.22% 35.60% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,621 1,413 1,758
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £89.38 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £51.78
% change year-on-year +35.14% +7.19% -20.03%

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 6,928 5,534 6,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.76% 37.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,750 3,750 4,984
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 47 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.35 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +5.47% -12.59%
75th Percentile £52.56 £57.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £72.75 £75.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 0 277 £550 - 248
South London +2 92 £517 +8.79% 53
West London +6 49 £603 +2.55% 74
East London +9 9 £630 - 56
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
1 111 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 82 (3.46%) Confluence
4 58 (2.45%) Apache
5 33 (1.39%) nginx
6 19 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.72%) SAS
8 14 (0.59%) Camunda
9 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.46%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.34%) Appian
12 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Traefik
13 3 (0.13%) CICS
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
13 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.084%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.084%) Drupal
Applications
1 25 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.084%) Trello
7 1 (0.042%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.042%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.17%) Actimize
5 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
5 4 (0.17%) Endur
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.084%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.084%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.042%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.042%) Maximo
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.042%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.042%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 958 (40.40%) Azure
2 559 (23.58%) GCP
3 357 (15.06%) Serverless
4 329 (13.88%) Amazon S3
5 318 (13.41%) GitHub
6 308 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
7 221 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 181 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
10 162 (6.83%) Snowflake
11 143 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
12 137 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
13 131 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 130 (5.48%) Power Platform
15 106 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 75 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
17 60 (2.53%) dbt
18 59 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
19 52 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
19 52 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 108 (4.56%) Firewall
2 67 (2.83%) VPN
3 62 (2.61%) Network Security
4 60 (2.53%) DNS
5 43 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.22%) WAN
7 21 (0.89%) SSL
8 18 (0.76%) BGP
9 16 (0.67%) OSPF
9 16 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.63%) LAN
11 14 (0.59%) DHCP
12 13 (0.55%) HTTP
12 13 (0.55%) VLAN
13 9 (0.38%) 5G
13 9 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.38%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.34%) 4G
14 8 (0.34%) OpenVPN
15 7 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
3 117 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (4.93%) NoSQL
4 114 (4.81%) Power BI
5 99 (4.18%) SQL Server
6 98 (4.13%) Data Lake
7 91 (3.84%) Amazon Athena
7 91 (3.84%) Relational Database
8 86 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 69 (2.91%) MongoDB
10 68 (2.87%) Tableau
11 66 (2.78%) DynamoDB
12 61 (2.57%) Metadata
13 59 (2.49%) MySQL
14 52 (2.19%) Big Data
15 51 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
16 46 (1.94%) BigQuery
17 35 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
17 35 (1.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 236 (9.95%) Git
2 205 (8.65%) GitLab
2 205 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 146 (6.16%) JIRA
4 46 (1.94%) JUnit
5 41 (1.73%) MLflow
6 34 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 32 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 23 (0.97%) Mockito
9 22 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.84%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.80%) Maven
12 18 (0.76%) JMeter
12 18 (0.76%) Selenium
13 17 (0.72%) Gatling
14 15 (0.63%) ERwin
15 11 (0.46%) Gradle
15 11 (0.46%) Postman
16 10 (0.42%) ER Studio
16 10 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 573 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 523 (22.06%) Finance
3 317 (13.37%) Public Sector
4 211 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (8.22%) Banking
6 83 (3.50%) Front Office
7 55 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (2.28%) Investment Banking
9 38 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 33 (1.39%) Retail
13 29 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 22 (0.93%) Marketing
16 18 (0.76%) Legal
16 18 (0.76%) Military
17 14 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 438 (18.47%) Developer
2 416 (17.55%) Architect
3 371 (15.65%) Senior
4 234 (9.87%) AWS Engineer
5 218 (9.19%) Lead
6 215 (9.07%) Data Engineer
7 197 (8.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 139 (5.86%) Software Engineer
9 125 (5.27%) Senior Developer
10 104 (4.39%) Analyst
11 103 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
12 100 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
13 95 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
14 94 (3.96%) Java Developer
14 94 (3.96%) Python Engineer
15 92 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 79 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 79 (3.33%) AWS Architect
17 77 (3.25%) Python Developer
18 76 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (12.86%) Kafka
2 234 (9.87%) React
3 194 (8.18%) Node.js
4 177 (7.47%) REST
5 144 (6.07%) Spring
6 133 (5.61%) RESTful
7 123 (5.19%) Spring Boot
8 95 (4.01%) AngularJS
9 71 (2.99%) CSS
10 70 (2.95%) .NET
11 69 (2.91%) HTML
12 64 (2.70%) SOAP
13 62 (2.61%) PySpark
14 60 (2.53%) GraphQL
14 60 (2.53%) Pandas
15 57 (2.40%) OAuth
16 56 (2.36%) gRPC
16 56 (2.36%) PyTorch
17 54 (2.28%) NumPy
18 51 (2.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 343 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.29%) Security Posture
4 66 (2.78%) Fixed Income
5 60 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 56 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 50 (2.11%) Derivative
9 45 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.81%) Management Information System
11 41 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 39 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 39 (1.64%) Data Structures
13 38 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 38 (1.60%) Public Cloud
14 37 (1.56%) Equities
15 33 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
16 30 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
17 28 (1.18%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 190 (8.01%) Linux
2 63 (2.66%) Windows
3 46 (1.94%) Unix
4 15 (0.63%) VMS
5 12 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.30%) Android
8 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.21%) zOS
10 4 (0.17%) CentOS
10 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.13%) Solaris
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 904 (38.13%) CI/CD
2 666 (28.09%) DevOps
3 574 (24.21%) Agile
4 466 (19.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 399 (16.83%) AI
6 377 (15.90%) Microservices
7 357 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
8 353 (14.89%) Analytics
9 329 (13.88%) Containerisation
10 304 (12.82%) Software Engineering
11 274 (11.56%) Data Modelling
12 249 (10.50%) Machine Learning
13 246 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
14 239 (10.08%) Data Engineering
15 231 (9.74%) Observability
16 230 (9.70%) ETL
17 223 (9.41%) Migration
18 198 (8.35%) Full-Stack Development
19 189 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
20 184 (7.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 981 (41.37%) Python
2 554 (23.37%) SQL
3 433 (18.26%) Java
4 224 (9.45%) JavaScript
5 210 (8.86%) TypeScript
6 111 (4.68%) Go
7 104 (4.39%) Bash
8 98 (4.13%) C#
9 90 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.31%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.27%) Scala
12 29 (1.22%) Ruby
13 25 (1.05%) C++
14 20 (0.84%) R
15 15 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.55%) Bicep
17 11 (0.46%) PHP
17 11 (0.46%) Rust
18 10 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 678 (28.60%) Security Cleared
2 594 (25.05%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.57%) AWS Certification
4 112 (4.72%) Degree
5 64 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (1.98%) CISSP
7 41 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.01%) CISM
12 23 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.84%) PMP
14 18 (0.76%) OSCP
15 17 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.72%) CCNP
16 14 (0.59%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 106 (4.47%) GDPR
3 88 (3.71%) QA
4 68 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.61%) NIST
6 45 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.14%) NCSC
8 24 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.67%) SLA
10 13 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.55%) WCAG
11 12 (0.51%) GRC
11 12 (0.51%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.38%) PMO
14 8 (0.34%) PSD2
15 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 511 (21.55%) Docker
2 62 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.42%) Squid
4 10 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.21%) HDFS
6 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.13%) zsh
8 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.084%) Postfix
8 2 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.042%) Ceph
9 1 (0.042%) etcd
9 1 (0.042%) iptables
9 1 (0.042%) KVM
9 1 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 561 (23.66%) Terraform
2 532 (22.44%) Kubernetes
3 139 (5.86%) Ansible
4 102 (4.30%) Grafana
5 91 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (1.48%) Argo
8 18 (0.76%) Consul
9 17 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.72%) Puppet
10 14 (0.59%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.55%) Packer
12 12 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.46%) Kibana
13 11 (0.46%) SCCM
14 9 (0.38%) Nessus
15 7 (0.30%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.30%) QRadar
16 6 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 152 (6.41%) Microsoft
2 142 (5.99%) Databricks
3 91 (3.84%) Oracle
4 86 (3.63%) Google
5 75 (3.16%) Splunk
6 64 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 46 (1.94%) CyberArk
8 43 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 36 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.48%) Dynatrace
11 34 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.43%) Centrify
12 33 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.35%) Cisco
14 29 (1.22%) IBM
14 29 (1.22%) Red Hat
15 27 (1.14%) SAP
16 25 (1.05%) Fortinet
17 22 (0.93%) VMware
18 21 (0.89%) Atlassian