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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,830 2,210 2,283
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.02% 16.35% 14.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.84% 37.95% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,988 1,544 1,739
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +79.45% -63.07%
75th Percentile £80.63 £78.75 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.00 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -38.43%

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 8,364 5,823 6,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.42% 43.08% 40.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,695 3,988 4,779
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -3.52% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 50
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.95 £20.45
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £76.93 £72.68 £58.35
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.15
% change year-on-year +35.76% +8.28% -25.23%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -5 285 £550 -4.35% 167
West London +5 97 £560 +31.76% 72
South London +1 85 £535 +1.90% 19
East London +4 14 £525 -10.26% 26
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
1 153 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 94 (3.32%) Confluence
4 81 (2.86%) Apache
5 37 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.46%) nginx
6 13 (0.46%) SAS
7 12 (0.42%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.28%) Camunda
11 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
13 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 35 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.28%) Revit
6 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
2 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.071%) Endur
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (43.92%) Azure
2 621 (21.94%) GCP
3 396 (13.99%) Serverless
4 379 (13.39%) Amazon S3
5 361 (12.76%) GitHub
6 334 (11.80%) AWS Lambda
7 239 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
8 220 (7.77%) Snowflake
9 199 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
10 176 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 165 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 161 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
13 145 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
14 135 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
15 131 (4.63%) Power Platform
16 127 (4.49%) SaaS
17 121 (4.28%) dbt
18 120 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 97 (3.43%) Entra ID
20 93 (3.29%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.82%) Firewall
2 87 (3.07%) Network Security
3 75 (2.65%) DNS
4 64 (2.26%) VPN
5 43 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.31%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 23 (0.81%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) SSL
10 18 (0.64%) BGP
10 18 (0.64%) Internet
10 18 (0.64%) SSH
11 14 (0.49%) NGFW
11 14 (0.49%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
12 13 (0.46%) LAN
12 13 (0.46%) OSPF
13 12 (0.42%) SAN
13 12 (0.42%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 119 (4.20%) NoSQL
4 119 (4.20%) Power BI
5 117 (4.13%) Data Lake
6 104 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
7 103 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 95 (3.36%) Metadata
10 88 (3.11%) DynamoDB
11 86 (3.04%) MongoDB
12 72 (2.54%) Relational Database
13 62 (2.19%) Delta Lake
14 61 (2.16%) Big Data
15 59 (2.08%) Tableau
16 49 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
17 43 (1.52%) BigQuery
18 40 (1.41%) Redis
18 40 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 285 (10.07%) Git
2 283 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 263 (9.29%) GitLab
4 147 (5.19%) JIRA
5 35 (1.24%) JMeter
6 34 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 33 (1.17%) JUnit
8 31 (1.10%) Selenium
8 31 (1.10%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.02%) Maven
10 27 (0.95%) Mockito
11 23 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.81%) Postman
12 21 (0.74%) Gradle
12 21 (0.74%) MLflow
13 20 (0.71%) Gatling
14 19 (0.67%) Cucumber
15 18 (0.64%) REST Assured
16 17 (0.60%) Claude Code
17 14 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 684 (24.17%) Finance
2 643 (22.72%) Social Skills
3 409 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 257 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.01%) Banking
6 74 (2.61%) Retail
7 62 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (2.12%) Front Office
9 53 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 48 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 47 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 37 (1.31%) Marketing
14 33 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.02%) Legal
16 27 (0.95%) Law
16 27 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 592 (20.92%) Architect
2 448 (15.83%) Senior
3 369 (13.04%) Developer
4 312 (11.02%) Lead
5 297 (10.49%) Data Engineer
6 275 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
7 202 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 158 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
9 116 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 116 (4.10%) Software Engineer
10 115 (4.06%) AWS Architect
11 108 (3.82%) Analyst
11 108 (3.82%) Java Developer
12 95 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
13 92 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 91 (3.22%) Senior Developer
15 88 (3.11%) Data Architect
16 87 (3.07%) AWS DevOps
17 81 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 79 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (11.20%) Kafka
2 251 (8.87%) REST
3 226 (7.99%) React
4 177 (6.25%) Spring
5 160 (5.65%) Spring Boot
6 153 (5.41%) Node.js
6 153 (5.41%) RESTful
7 105 (3.71%) PySpark
8 88 (3.11%) .NET
9 78 (2.76%) GraphQL
10 77 (2.72%) OAuth
11 66 (2.33%) AngularJS
12 62 (2.19%) JSON
13 60 (2.12%) FastAPI
14 57 (2.01%) HTML
15 51 (1.80%) CSS
16 45 (1.59%) LangChain
16 45 (1.59%) OAuth2
16 45 (1.59%) Redux
17 43 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 511 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 122 (4.31%) AI Agents
5 103 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.44%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 59 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.73%) Fixed Income
12 48 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.55%) Management Information System
14 40 (1.41%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
16 36 (1.27%) Replication
17 34 (1.20%) CMDB
17 34 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
17 34 (1.20%) PKI
18 30 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 228 (8.06%) Linux
2 123 (4.35%) Windows
3 47 (1.66%) Unix
4 44 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Solaris
9 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,153 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 874 (30.88%) DevOps
3 711 (25.12%) Agile
4 621 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 620 (21.91%) AI
6 416 (14.70%) Microservices
7 414 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 402 (14.20%) Containerisation
9 373 (13.18%) Migration
10 362 (12.79%) Analytics
11 357 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (12.58%) Observability
13 355 (12.54%) Software Engineering
14 347 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
15 345 (12.19%) Data Modelling
16 328 (11.59%) Data Engineering
17 308 (10.88%) Machine Learning
18 305 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
19 289 (10.21%) Event-Driven
20 273 (9.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,046 (36.96%) Python
2 602 (21.27%) SQL
3 491 (17.35%) Java
4 244 (8.62%) TypeScript
5 226 (7.99%) JavaScript
6 157 (5.55%) Bash
7 142 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.92%) C#
9 61 (2.16%) Go
10 43 (1.52%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Bicep
12 34 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 26 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) Groovy
16 21 (0.74%) R
17 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.64%) C++
19 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 755 (26.68%) Security Cleared
2 672 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.16%) AWS Certification
3 146 (5.16%) Degree
4 88 (3.11%) CISSP
5 69 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 67 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 65 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (1.66%) CISM
10 46 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 23 (0.81%) PMP
14 18 (0.64%) CCNP
15 17 (0.60%) CCSP
16 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (7.31%) Data Quality
2 145 (5.12%) QA
3 102 (3.60%) NIST
4 95 (3.36%) GDPR
5 89 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.10%) GRC
7 31 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.99%) SLA
9 24 (0.85%) NCSC
10 21 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
12 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 15 (0.53%) PMO
13 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.35%) SEPA
15 10 (0.35%) WCAG
16 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 494 (17.46%) Docker
2 83 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.11%) Firmware
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 684 (24.17%) Terraform
2 602 (21.27%) Kubernetes
3 193 (6.82%) Grafana
4 178 (6.29%) Ansible
5 155 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.10%) Argo
8 29 (1.02%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) Istio
13 9 (0.32%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 260 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 161 (5.69%) Databricks
3 129 (4.56%) Google
3 129 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 120 (4.24%) Oracle
5 89 (3.14%) Splunk
6 70 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 55 (1.94%) VMware
8 51 (1.80%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.73%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.70%) Cisco
11 47 (1.66%) SAP
12 36 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.17%) IBM
14 32 (1.13%) Informatica
15 31 (1.10%) Dynatrace
15 31 (1.10%) Foundry
16 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
17 25 (0.88%) MuleSoft
18 23 (0.81%) Zscaler