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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,829 2,264 2,307
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.14% 16.62% 14.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.10% 38.73% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,986 1,586 1,771
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £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 £831 £850
England median daily rate £550 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +44.67% -54.63%
75th Percentile £80.63 £70.63 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £71.70
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £50.59
% change year-on-year -3.45% +43.31% -29.00%

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 8,295 5,846 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.92% 40.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 4,015 4,830
10th Percentile £363 £339 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 85 52
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.70 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -48.37%
75th Percentile £56.63 £46.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -5 294 £550 -4.35% 218
West London +4 97 £550 +29.41% 70
South London +1 85 £530 +0.47% 18
East London +8 14 £525 -10.26% 31
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
1 149 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 99 (3.50%) Confluence
4 79 (2.79%) Apache
5 36 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.57%) nginx
7 13 (0.46%) SAS
8 12 (0.42%) CMS
9 11 (0.39%) CICS
10 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.14%) Mule
13 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.28%) Revit
6 7 (0.25%) 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%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) Endur
7 2 (0.071%) Shopify
7 2 (0.071%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.035%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (42.88%) Azure
2 622 (21.99%) GCP
3 394 (13.93%) Serverless
4 389 (13.75%) Amazon S3
5 364 (12.87%) GitHub
6 334 (11.81%) AWS Lambda
7 232 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
8 208 (7.35%) Snowflake
9 199 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
10 172 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 164 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
12 159 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 138 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
14 136 (4.81%) Power Platform
15 134 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
16 122 (4.31%) SaaS
17 118 (4.17%) dbt
17 118 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 93 (3.29%) Amazon Bedrock
19 90 (3.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.92%) Firewall
2 91 (3.22%) Network Security
3 77 (2.72%) DNS
4 66 (2.33%) VPN
5 47 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.31%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 24 (0.85%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) SSL
10 21 (0.74%) BGP
11 18 (0.64%) Internet
12 16 (0.57%) SSH
13 15 (0.53%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
14 13 (0.46%) NGFW
15 12 (0.42%) VLAN
16 11 (0.39%) SAN
17 10 (0.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
4 124 (4.38%) Power BI
5 120 (4.24%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 105 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
8 97 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 97 (3.43%) SQL Server
9 90 (3.18%) DynamoDB
10 86 (3.04%) Metadata
11 77 (2.72%) MongoDB
12 72 (2.55%) Relational Database
13 62 (2.19%) Big Data
13 62 (2.19%) Tableau
14 56 (1.98%) Delta Lake
15 40 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
16 39 (1.38%) BigQuery
17 35 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
18 34 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 280 (9.90%) Git
2 270 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 254 (8.98%) GitLab
4 153 (5.41%) JIRA
5 33 (1.17%) JMeter
6 32 (1.13%) JUnit
7 31 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 28 (0.99%) Maven
9 28 (0.99%) MLflow
10 27 (0.95%) Mockito
11 24 (0.85%) Selenium
12 23 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 21 (0.74%) Gradle
13 21 (0.74%) Postman
14 20 (0.71%) Cucumber
15 19 (0.67%) Gatling
16 18 (0.64%) REST Assured
17 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
18 13 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 707 (24.99%) Finance
2 617 (21.81%) Social Skills
3 411 (14.53%) Public Sector
4 259 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (9.05%) Banking
6 84 (2.97%) Front Office
7 73 (2.58%) Retail
8 62 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 53 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 41 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 37 (1.31%) Marketing
14 35 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (0.99%) Legal
16 25 (0.88%) Law
17 24 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
18 23 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
20 19 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 598 (21.14%) Architect
2 444 (15.69%) Senior
3 396 (14.00%) Developer
4 323 (11.42%) Lead
5 292 (10.32%) Data Engineer
6 279 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
7 198 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 163 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
9 140 (4.95%) Software Engineer
10 119 (4.21%) AWS Architect
11 118 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 115 (4.07%) Analyst
13 111 (3.92%) Java Developer
14 95 (3.36%) Senior Developer
15 89 (3.15%) AWS DevOps
15 89 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
16 88 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 83 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 83 (2.93%) Data Architect
17 83 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (11.24%) Kafka
2 244 (8.62%) React
3 235 (8.31%) REST
4 183 (6.47%) Node.js
5 168 (5.94%) Spring
6 154 (5.44%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.13%) RESTful
8 96 (3.39%) PySpark
9 95 (3.36%) GraphQL
10 88 (3.11%) .NET
11 75 (2.65%) OAuth
12 71 (2.51%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.26%) Redux
14 60 (2.12%) FastAPI
14 60 (2.12%) JSON
15 56 (1.98%) HTML
16 50 (1.77%) CSS
17 45 (1.59%) Pandas
18 44 (1.56%) LangChain
18 44 (1.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 504 (17.82%) Cloud Native
2 187 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 113 (3.99%) AI Agents
5 100 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.51%) Fixed Income
8 70 (2.47%) Data Centre
9 63 (2.23%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 51 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.66%) Management Information System
14 39 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
16 36 (1.27%) Derivative
16 36 (1.27%) PKI
17 33 (1.17%) Equities
18 32 (1.13%) CMDB
19 30 (1.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 217 (7.67%) Linux
2 122 (4.31%) Windows
3 44 (1.56%) Unix
4 42 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.071%) VMS
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,117 (39.48%) CI/CD
2 843 (29.80%) DevOps
3 723 (25.56%) Agile
4 599 (21.17%) AI
5 593 (20.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 413 (14.60%) Microservices
7 401 (14.17%) Containerisation
8 377 (13.33%) Analytics
9 372 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 370 (13.08%) Software Engineering
11 357 (12.62%) Migration
11 357 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
12 341 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
13 340 (12.02%) Observability
14 337 (11.91%) Data Modelling
15 331 (11.70%) Data Engineering
16 309 (10.92%) Machine Learning
17 298 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
18 277 (9.79%) Event-Driven
19 269 (9.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (36.80%) Python
2 592 (20.93%) SQL
3 494 (17.46%) Java
4 263 (9.30%) TypeScript
5 236 (8.34%) JavaScript
6 152 (5.37%) Bash
7 127 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.89%) C#
9 81 (2.86%) Go
10 44 (1.56%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.13%) Bicep
13 29 (1.03%) Ruby
14 27 (0.95%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.74%) Groovy
15 21 (0.74%) R
16 16 (0.57%) C++
16 16 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 751 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 673 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.23%) Degree
4 138 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 87 (3.08%) CISSP
6 67 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 66 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 64 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 43 (1.52%) CISM
12 37 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 26 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.74%) CCSP
15 21 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.74%) PMP
16 20 (0.71%) CCNP
17 19 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 135 (4.77%) QA
3 95 (3.36%) NIST
4 91 (3.22%) GDPR
5 82 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.06%) GRC
9 24 (0.85%) SLA
10 22 (0.78%) NCSC
11 19 (0.67%) PMO
11 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.57%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.49%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
17 12 (0.42%) WCAG
18 9 (0.32%) SEPA
19 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 501 (17.71%) Docker
2 82 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
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%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 651 (23.01%) Terraform
2 592 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 187 (6.61%) Grafana
4 172 (6.08%) Ansible
5 149 (5.27%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.10%) Argo
8 24 (0.85%) Kibana
8 24 (0.85%) Puppet
9 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.35%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Istio
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) Consul
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 249 (8.80%) Microsoft
2 147 (5.20%) Databricks
3 125 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 121 (4.28%) Google
5 109 (3.85%) Oracle
6 85 (3.00%) Splunk
7 69 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.91%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.77%) Cisco
10 49 (1.73%) VMware
11 45 (1.59%) CyberArk
12 43 (1.52%) SAP
13 37 (1.31%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.20%) Foundry
15 32 (1.13%) IBM
16 31 (1.10%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.95%) Informatica
18 26 (0.92%) MuleSoft
18 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
19 23 (0.81%) Fortinet