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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,832 2,262 2,325
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.24% 16.55% 14.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.26% 38.56% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,975 1,584 1,786
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £534 £575
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.21% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 10
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +57.25% -57.54%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £64.63
90th Percentile - £86.75 £73.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.30%

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 8,266 5,866 6,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.55% 42.91% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,645 4,015 4,891
10th Percentile £363 £341 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 84 56
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.65 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.37
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -47.14%
75th Percentile £55.38 £47.81 £41.19
90th Percentile £74.75 £71.88 £66.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
% change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -4 288 £550 -4.35% 148
West London +7 96 £560 +28.00% 69
South London +1 88 £516 -2.73% 4
East London +9 14 £525 -10.26% 28
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
1 139 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 94 (3.32%) Confluence
4 73 (2.58%) Apache
5 36 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.53%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) CMS
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 45 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.071%) Endur
9 1 (0.035%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.035%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.035%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,221 (43.11%) Azure
2 626 (22.10%) GCP
3 396 (13.98%) Serverless
4 388 (13.70%) Amazon S3
5 356 (12.57%) GitHub
6 335 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
7 226 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
8 200 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
9 197 (6.96%) Snowflake
10 170 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 165 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 164 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
13 137 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
14 136 (4.80%) Power Platform
15 129 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
16 121 (4.27%) SaaS
16 121 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 106 (3.74%) dbt
18 93 (3.28%) Amazon Bedrock
19 90 (3.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.92%) Firewall
2 91 (3.21%) Network Security
3 72 (2.54%) DNS
4 67 (2.37%) VPN
5 47 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.27%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 25 (0.88%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) BGP
10 20 (0.71%) SSL
11 17 (0.60%) Internet
12 16 (0.56%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) SSH
13 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
14 13 (0.46%) NGFW
15 12 (0.42%) VLAN
16 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
16 11 (0.39%) SAN
17 10 (0.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.34%) Power BI
5 119 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 101 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
7 101 (3.57%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (3.14%) DynamoDB
10 84 (2.97%) Metadata
11 76 (2.68%) MongoDB
12 74 (2.61%) Relational Database
13 65 (2.30%) Tableau
14 63 (2.22%) Big Data
15 50 (1.77%) Delta Lake
16 41 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
17 38 (1.34%) BigQuery
18 34 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
19 33 (1.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 272 (9.60%) Git
2 265 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 244 (8.62%) GitLab
4 148 (5.23%) JIRA
5 36 (1.27%) JUnit
6 32 (1.13%) JMeter
7 31 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.06%) MLflow
9 29 (1.02%) Maven
9 29 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.99%) Mockito
11 24 (0.85%) Selenium
12 22 (0.78%) Gradle
13 21 (0.74%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.74%) Postman
14 20 (0.71%) Bitbucket
14 20 (0.71%) Gatling
15 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 708 (25.00%) Finance
2 612 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 414 (14.62%) Public Sector
4 261 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (9.04%) Banking
6 88 (3.11%) Front Office
7 70 (2.47%) Retail
8 60 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 45 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 39 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.24%) Marketing
13 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (0.99%) Legal
15 27 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (0.88%) Law
17 23 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 601 (21.22%) Architect
2 433 (15.29%) Senior
3 400 (14.12%) Developer
4 322 (11.37%) Lead
5 285 (10.06%) AWS Engineer
6 284 (10.03%) Data Engineer
7 209 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 169 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
9 142 (5.01%) Software Engineer
10 124 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.17%) AWS Architect
12 116 (4.10%) Java Developer
13 110 (3.88%) Analyst
14 95 (3.35%) Senior Developer
15 92 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
17 86 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 86 (3.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 84 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
19 81 (2.86%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (11.30%) Kafka
2 243 (8.58%) React
3 238 (8.40%) REST
4 183 (6.46%) Node.js
5 172 (6.07%) Spring
6 159 (5.61%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.12%) RESTful
8 95 (3.35%) GraphQL
9 94 (3.32%) PySpark
10 89 (3.14%) .NET
11 77 (2.72%) OAuth
12 67 (2.37%) AngularJS
13 66 (2.33%) Redux
14 61 (2.15%) FastAPI
14 61 (2.15%) JSON
15 56 (1.98%) HTML
16 50 (1.77%) CSS
17 46 (1.62%) LangChain
17 46 (1.62%) OAuth2
18 45 (1.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 499 (17.62%) Cloud Native
2 190 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 109 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 95 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (2.75%) Fixed Income
8 68 (2.40%) Data Centre
9 65 (2.30%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.62%) Management Information System
14 41 (1.45%) Derivative
15 39 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
15 39 (1.38%) Data Structures
16 38 (1.34%) Equities
17 34 (1.20%) PKI
18 33 (1.17%) CMDB
19 32 (1.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 213 (7.52%) Linux
2 119 (4.20%) Windows
3 42 (1.48%) Unix
4 39 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.071%) VMS
14 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,123 (39.65%) CI/CD
2 849 (29.98%) DevOps
3 712 (25.14%) Agile
4 596 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 590 (20.83%) AI
6 421 (14.87%) Microservices
7 405 (14.30%) Containerisation
8 375 (13.24%) Analytics
9 363 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 359 (12.68%) Migration
11 350 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
12 345 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 341 (12.04%) Observability
14 327 (11.55%) Data Pipeline
15 324 (11.44%) Data Modelling
16 323 (11.41%) Data Engineering
17 310 (10.95%) Machine Learning
18 292 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 280 (9.89%) Event-Driven
20 270 (9.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,038 (36.65%) Python
2 583 (20.59%) SQL
3 503 (17.76%) Java
4 266 (9.39%) TypeScript
5 237 (8.37%) JavaScript
6 143 (5.05%) Bash
7 120 (4.24%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.92%) C#
9 83 (2.93%) Go
10 45 (1.59%) Scala
11 36 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.09%) Bicep
13 30 (1.06%) Ruby
14 26 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.71%) Groovy
15 20 (0.71%) R
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.56%) C++
18 15 (0.53%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 753 (26.59%) Security Cleared
2 677 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.23%) Degree
4 137 (4.84%) AWS Certification
5 87 (3.07%) CISSP
6 68 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 65 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 62 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
10 48 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.48%) CISM
12 37 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 27 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.71%) CCNP
15 20 (0.71%) CCSP
15 20 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.71%) PMP
16 18 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 130 (4.59%) QA
3 94 (3.32%) GDPR
4 93 (3.28%) NIST
5 77 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.17%) GRC
8 32 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.85%) SLA
10 20 (0.71%) NCSC
11 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.64%) PMO
13 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.56%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.49%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
17 11 (0.39%) SEPA
17 11 (0.39%) WCAG
18 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 493 (17.41%) Docker
2 81 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) vSphere
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 663 (23.41%) Terraform
2 593 (20.94%) Kubernetes
3 187 (6.60%) Grafana
4 172 (6.07%) Ansible
5 149 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.17%) Argo
8 25 (0.88%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.35%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) QRadar
13 9 (0.32%) Istio
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 247 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 139 (4.91%) Databricks
3 125 (4.41%) ServiceNow
4 117 (4.13%) Google
5 106 (3.74%) Oracle
6 84 (2.97%) Splunk
7 68 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.73%) Cisco
10 45 (1.59%) CyberArk
11 44 (1.55%) VMware
12 42 (1.48%) SAP
13 36 (1.27%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.20%) Foundry
15 31 (1.09%) IBM
16 27 (0.95%) Dynatrace
16 27 (0.95%) Informatica
16 27 (0.95%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.85%) Qualys
17 24 (0.85%) Red Hat