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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,242 1,953 2,294
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.82% 14.46% 12.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.42% 34.66% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,530 1,400 1,775
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £460 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £22.14
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £29.85
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.14% +20.18% -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 6,709 5,635 6,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.34% 41.72% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,596 3,755 5,087
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
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 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 49 76
10th Percentile £18.12 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.08 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +4.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £55.81 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +30.91% +24.15% -11.40%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -2 258 £539 -0.23% 232
South London +7 64 £519 +6.10% 21
West London +8 48 £603 +5.42% 55
East London +8 9 £630 - 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
1 111 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.61%) Confluence
4 62 (2.77%) Apache
5 34 (1.52%) nginx
6 14 (0.62%) Camunda
6 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.62%) SAS
7 13 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.36%) Appian
9 6 (0.27%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.13%) Drupal
11 3 (0.13%) Traefik
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.089%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.089%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.18%) Trello
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.045%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.045%) Notion
9 1 (0.045%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 9 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.18%) Actimize
5 4 (0.18%) Endur
6 3 (0.13%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.089%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.089%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.089%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.089%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.045%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.045%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 908 (40.50%) Azure
2 520 (23.19%) GCP
3 341 (15.21%) Serverless
4 326 (14.54%) Amazon S3
5 311 (13.87%) GitHub
6 299 (13.34%) AWS Lambda
7 203 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 180 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
9 164 (7.31%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (7.05%) Snowflake
11 138 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
12 125 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 125 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
12 125 (5.58%) Power Platform
13 98 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 74 (3.30%) dbt
15 66 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
16 65 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
17 52 (2.32%) AWS Step Functions
18 48 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (4.73%) Firewall
2 63 (2.81%) VPN
3 61 (2.72%) DNS
4 54 (2.41%) Network Security
5 39 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.20%) WAN
7 22 (0.98%) SSL
8 17 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.67%) HTTP
9 15 (0.67%) LAN
10 14 (0.62%) BGP
10 14 (0.62%) DHCP
11 13 (0.58%) OSPF
12 11 (0.49%) VLAN
13 9 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.40%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.36%) 5G
14 8 (0.36%) Wireless
15 7 (0.31%) 4G
15 7 (0.31%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 114 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
4 111 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
5 110 (4.91%) Power BI
6 99 (4.42%) Data Lake
7 93 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 91 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
8 91 (4.06%) Relational Database
9 81 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 68 (3.03%) MongoDB
11 62 (2.77%) DynamoDB
11 62 (2.77%) Tableau
12 59 (2.63%) Metadata
12 59 (2.63%) MySQL
13 50 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
14 49 (2.19%) Big Data
15 42 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
16 40 (1.78%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 228 (10.17%) Git
2 206 (9.19%) Jenkins
3 196 (8.74%) GitLab
4 148 (6.60%) JIRA
5 40 (1.78%) JUnit
6 34 (1.52%) MLflow
7 27 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 26 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.89%) ERwin
11 19 (0.85%) Mockito
12 17 (0.76%) Maven
12 17 (0.76%) Selenium
13 16 (0.71%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.67%) JMeter
15 14 (0.62%) Gatling
16 13 (0.58%) ER Studio
17 11 (0.49%) Gradle
17 11 (0.49%) Postman
18 9 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
General
1 563 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 479 (21.36%) Finance
3 273 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 197 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 192 (8.56%) Banking
6 62 (2.77%) Front Office
7 56 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 51 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 38 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 29 (1.29%) Retail
13 28 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.03%) Marketing
16 21 (0.94%) Military
17 18 (0.80%) Legal
18 16 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
19 14 (0.62%) Manufacturing
20 12 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 405 (18.06%) Developer
2 378 (16.86%) Architect
3 353 (15.74%) Senior
4 234 (10.44%) AWS Engineer
5 217 (9.68%) Data Engineer
6 194 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 179 (7.98%) Lead
8 119 (5.31%) Software Engineer
9 116 (5.17%) Senior Developer
10 98 (4.37%) Analyst
10 98 (4.37%) Python Engineer
11 93 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
12 92 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
13 85 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 84 (3.75%) Java Developer
15 83 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
16 79 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
17 78 (3.48%) Python Developer
18 73 (3.26%) AWS Developer
19 72 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (13.02%) Kafka
2 212 (9.46%) React
3 165 (7.36%) REST
4 159 (7.09%) Node.js
5 134 (5.98%) Spring
6 120 (5.35%) RESTful
7 117 (5.22%) Spring Boot
8 96 (4.28%) AngularJS
9 71 (3.17%) HTML
10 70 (3.12%) CSS
11 64 (2.85%) gRPC
12 62 (2.77%) .NET
13 60 (2.68%) Pandas
14 57 (2.54%) SOAP
15 56 (2.50%) OAuth
16 55 (2.45%) NumPy
16 55 (2.45%) PySpark
17 52 (2.32%) PyTorch
17 52 (2.32%) Vue
18 51 (2.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 319 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (3.39%) Security Posture
4 59 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 53 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 53 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (2.01%) Fixed Income
6 45 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 43 (1.92%) Derivative
7 43 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 41 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 40 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.65%) Hedge funds
12 36 (1.61%) Data Centre
13 35 (1.56%) Data Structures
14 33 (1.47%) Equities
15 32 (1.43%) AI Agents
16 30 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 30 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 189 (8.43%) Linux
2 69 (3.08%) Windows
3 48 (2.14%) Unix
4 21 (0.94%) VMS
5 13 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.49%) Android
7 10 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.22%) CentOS
10 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.13%) zOS
12 1 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.045%) Solaris
12 1 (0.045%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.045%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (38.76%) CI/CD
2 619 (27.61%) DevOps
3 521 (23.24%) Agile
4 442 (19.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 358 (15.97%) AI
5 358 (15.97%) Microservices
6 347 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
7 341 (15.21%) Analytics
8 293 (13.07%) Containerisation
9 280 (12.49%) Software Engineering
10 258 (11.51%) Data Modelling
11 243 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
12 226 (10.08%) Data Engineering
13 220 (9.81%) Machine Learning
14 216 (9.63%) Observability
15 213 (9.50%) ETL
16 201 (8.97%) Migration
17 183 (8.16%) Full-Stack Development
18 172 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 172 (7.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 952 (42.46%) Python
2 531 (23.68%) SQL
3 418 (18.64%) Java
4 199 (8.88%) JavaScript
5 186 (8.30%) TypeScript
6 104 (4.64%) Bash
7 101 (4.50%) Go
8 96 (4.28%) C#
9 91 (4.06%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.38%) Scala
11 30 (1.34%) C++
12 29 (1.29%) Ruby
13 24 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.80%) R
15 16 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.71%) Rust
16 14 (0.62%) PHP
17 13 (0.58%) Groovy
18 12 (0.54%) Bicep
18 12 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 614 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 544 (24.26%) SC Cleared
3 126 (5.62%) AWS Certification
4 120 (5.35%) Degree
5 64 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 39 (1.74%) CISSP
8 35 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 34 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 31 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (0.85%) CISM
14 18 (0.80%) OSCP
14 18 (0.80%) PMI Certification
15 17 (0.76%) PMP
15 17 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.67%) CCNP
17 12 (0.54%) PhD
18 11 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 108 (4.82%) GDPR
3 79 (3.52%) QA
4 71 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.72%) NIST
6 36 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.20%) NCSC
8 24 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.58%) SLA
12 12 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.49%) GRC
14 9 (0.40%) WCAG
15 8 (0.36%) PSD2
16 7 (0.31%) SEPA
17 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.27%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.22%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 491 (21.90%) Docker
2 62 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.62%) Squid
5 11 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.27%) DFS Replication
6 6 (0.27%) Dovecot
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.27%) Postfix
6 6 (0.27%) zsh
7 5 (0.22%) HDFS
8 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.089%) KVM
10 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.045%) Lustre
11 1 (0.045%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 533 (23.77%) Terraform
2 521 (23.24%) Kubernetes
3 131 (5.84%) Ansible
4 102 (4.55%) Grafana
5 94 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.65%) Argo
6 37 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.80%) Puppet
8 17 (0.76%) Consul
8 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.62%) Nessus
11 13 (0.58%) Kibana
12 12 (0.54%) Packer
12 12 (0.54%) SCCM
13 11 (0.49%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.36%) QRadar
15 7 (0.31%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.31%) Rancher
16 6 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 153 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.56%) Databricks
3 86 (3.84%) Google
3 86 (3.84%) Oracle
4 76 (3.39%) Splunk
5 58 (2.59%) ServiceNow
6 44 (1.96%) CyberArk
7 41 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 35 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.52%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (1.52%) Centrify
9 34 (1.52%) Cisco
10 31 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.34%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.16%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 24 (1.07%) IBM
14 23 (1.03%) SAP
15 21 (0.94%) VMware
16 18 (0.80%) Atlassian