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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,449 2,008 2,303
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.00% 15.47% 12.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.18% 36.88% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 1,464 1,764
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
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 £92.81 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.50 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.14% +38.10% -19.23%

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 7,164 5,444 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.86% 41.95% 37.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,913 3,777 4,978
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £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 107 43 76
10th Percentile £18.15 £22.27 £17.39
25th Percentile £23.11 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +3.90% -20.06%
75th Percentile £51.46 £55.50 £51.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £63.13
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.00 £21.19
% change year-on-year +44.54% +22.73% -15.26%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -1 285 £550 +1.62% 277
South London +4 93 £515 +8.42% 28
West London +9 53 £603 +6.64% 57
East London +3 9 £630 +7.69% 54
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
1 117 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.27%) Confluence
4 60 (2.45%) Apache
5 32 (1.31%) nginx
6 22 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.65%) SAS
8 15 (0.61%) Camunda
9 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.33%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) CICS
13 3 (0.12%) CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.082%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.082%) OpenROAD
14 2 (0.082%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.082%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.041%) Notion
7 1 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.16%) Endur
4 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.082%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.041%) Maximo
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.041%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.041%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.041%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 987 (40.30%) Azure
2 566 (23.11%) GCP
3 372 (15.19%) Serverless
4 342 (13.96%) Amazon S3
5 334 (13.64%) GitHub
6 319 (13.03%) AWS Lambda
7 228 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 188 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
9 175 (7.15%) Amazon EKS
10 166 (6.78%) Snowflake
11 144 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
12 142 (5.80%) Power Platform
13 137 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
14 131 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 81 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.53%) dbt
18 57 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
18 57 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
19 55 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.92%) Firewall
2 64 (2.61%) VPN
3 61 (2.49%) Network Security
4 50 (2.04%) DNS
5 38 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.43%) WAN
7 18 (0.73%) LAN
8 17 (0.69%) BGP
9 16 (0.65%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.57%) HTTP
11 13 (0.53%) OSPF
12 12 (0.49%) SSL
13 11 (0.45%) DHCP
14 9 (0.37%) 5G
14 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
14 9 (0.37%) VLAN
14 9 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.33%) 4G
16 7 (0.29%) VXLAN
16 7 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (5.10%) Power BI
3 124 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
5 119 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 110 (4.49%) Data Lake
7 100 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 97 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
9 94 (3.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 94 (3.84%) Relational Database
10 76 (3.10%) Tableau
11 73 (2.98%) MongoDB
12 68 (2.78%) Metadata
13 66 (2.69%) DynamoDB
14 58 (2.37%) Big Data
15 54 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
15 54 (2.20%) MySQL
16 43 (1.76%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 34 (1.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 243 (9.92%) Git
2 216 (8.82%) GitLab
3 210 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 136 (5.55%) JIRA
5 48 (1.96%) JUnit
6 44 (1.80%) MLflow
7 34 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 28 (1.14%) Mockito
10 25 (1.02%) Cypress.io
11 24 (0.98%) Selenium
12 22 (0.90%) SonarQube
13 18 (0.73%) JMeter
13 18 (0.73%) Maven
14 16 (0.65%) Gatling
15 15 (0.61%) Postman
16 13 (0.53%) Gradle
16 13 (0.53%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.41%) ERwin
17 10 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 576 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 550 (22.46%) Finance
3 346 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 219 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (8.45%) Banking
6 96 (3.92%) Front Office
7 60 (2.45%) Investment Banking
8 58 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 39 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
10 33 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.18%) Retail
12 21 (0.86%) Legal
13 20 (0.82%) Marketing
14 16 (0.65%) Military
15 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.53%) Billing
17 12 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 451 (18.42%) Developer
2 441 (18.01%) Architect
3 380 (15.52%) Senior
4 238 (9.72%) Lead
5 233 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
6 227 (9.27%) Data Engineer
7 191 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (6.04%) Software Engineer
9 124 (5.06%) Senior Developer
10 108 (4.41%) Analyst
11 102 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
12 99 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
13 95 (3.88%) Python Engineer
14 94 (3.84%) Java Developer
15 93 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
16 90 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 86 (3.51%) AWS Architect
18 80 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 80 (3.27%) Python Developer
19 78 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (13.47%) Kafka
2 250 (10.21%) React
3 207 (8.45%) Node.js
4 188 (7.68%) REST
5 144 (5.88%) Spring
6 136 (5.55%) RESTful
7 127 (5.19%) Spring Boot
8 95 (3.88%) AngularJS
9 71 (2.90%) .NET
9 71 (2.90%) PySpark
10 69 (2.82%) CSS
11 67 (2.74%) GraphQL
12 65 (2.65%) HTML
13 64 (2.61%) SOAP
14 61 (2.49%) Pandas
15 60 (2.45%) OAuth
15 60 (2.45%) Redux
16 59 (2.41%) gRPC
17 54 (2.20%) PyTorch
18 53 (2.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 357 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 118 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 67 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 56 (2.29%) Derivative
8 55 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 49 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 49 (2.00%) Data Centre
11 45 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.80%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.80%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.76%) Equities
14 38 (1.55%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.47%) Data Structures
16 35 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
17 27 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.10%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 182 (7.43%) Linux
2 61 (2.49%) Windows
3 44 (1.80%) Unix
4 12 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.45%) VMS
6 8 (0.33%) Android
7 7 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.20%) zOS
9 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.082%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (37.81%) CI/CD
2 685 (27.97%) DevOps
3 597 (24.38%) Agile
4 464 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 416 (16.99%) AI
6 385 (15.72%) Microservices
7 363 (14.82%) Analytics
8 355 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
9 343 (14.01%) Containerisation
10 316 (12.90%) Software Engineering
11 287 (11.72%) Data Modelling
12 260 (10.62%) Machine Learning
13 259 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
14 258 (10.53%) Data Engineering
15 245 (10.00%) Migration
16 240 (9.80%) Observability
17 239 (9.76%) ETL
18 211 (8.62%) Full-Stack Development
19 201 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
20 197 (8.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,000 (40.83%) Python
2 575 (23.48%) SQL
3 441 (18.01%) Java
4 231 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 224 (9.15%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.70%) Go
7 101 (4.12%) C#
8 94 (3.84%) Bash
9 93 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 34 (1.39%) Ruby
10 34 (1.39%) Scala
11 31 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 28 (1.14%) C++
13 19 (0.78%) R
14 18 (0.73%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.53%) Bicep
17 11 (0.45%) Rust
18 10 (0.41%) Korn
19 9 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 698 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 609 (24.87%) SC Cleared
3 131 (5.35%) AWS Certification
4 125 (5.10%) Degree
5 72 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.00%) CISSP
7 48 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 42 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (1.06%) CISM
14 23 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.86%) PMP
16 18 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 17 (0.69%) CCNP
18 14 (0.57%) CCSP
19 12 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 120 (4.90%) GDPR
3 93 (3.80%) QA
4 71 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (2.74%) NIST
6 48 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.10%) NCSC
9 21 (0.86%) SLA
10 17 (0.69%) WCAG
11 14 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.49%) GRC
12 12 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.49%) PMO
13 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.33%) PSD2
15 6 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 514 (20.99%) Docker
2 63 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.37%) Squid
6 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.082%) NFS
9 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.082%) zsh
10 1 (0.041%) Ceph
10 1 (0.041%) iptables
10 1 (0.041%) KVM
10 1 (0.041%) Lustre
10 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 567 (23.15%) Terraform
2 534 (21.80%) Kubernetes
3 132 (5.39%) Ansible
4 108 (4.41%) Grafana
5 99 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.35%) Argo
8 18 (0.73%) Consul
9 17 (0.69%) Puppet
10 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.53%) Packer
13 9 (0.37%) Kibana
13 9 (0.37%) SCCM
14 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.29%) QRadar
15 6 (0.24%) Istio
16 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
16 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 168 (6.86%) Microsoft
2 143 (5.84%) Databricks
3 97 (3.96%) Google
4 89 (3.63%) Oracle
5 76 (3.10%) Splunk
6 58 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 52 (2.12%) OpenAI
8 49 (2.00%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.43%) Centrify
10 35 (1.43%) Cisco
11 34 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
12 33 (1.35%) IBM
13 32 (1.31%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.18%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.14%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.14%) VMware
16 27 (1.10%) SAP
17 24 (0.98%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.82%) Atlassian