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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,855 2,235 2,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.08% 16.46% 14.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.95% 38.45% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 1,565 1,756
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £479 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £833 £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 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -35.19%

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 8,409 5,812 6,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.81% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,733 3,994 4,801
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £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 86 52
10th Percentile £19.15 £22.75 £20.65
25th Percentile £24.38 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £69.75 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -4 294 £550 -4.35% 197
West London +4 97 £560 +31.76% 62
South London +1 91 £535 +1.42% 16
East London +6 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
1 150 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 98 (3.43%) Confluence
4 79 (2.77%) Apache
5 36 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.53%) nginx
7 13 (0.46%) SAS
8 12 (0.42%) CMS
9 11 (0.39%) CICS
10 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.28%) Camunda
12 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.18%) IIS
13 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (1.54%) 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%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
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%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.070%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.070%) Endur
6 2 (0.070%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.070%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.070%) Shopify
6 2 (0.070%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1,237 (43.33%) Azure
2 635 (22.24%) GCP
3 397 (13.91%) Serverless
4 388 (13.59%) Amazon S3
5 370 (12.96%) GitHub
6 338 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
7 240 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
8 211 (7.39%) Snowflake
9 201 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
10 178 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 165 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
12 164 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 140 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
14 137 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
15 135 (4.73%) Power Platform
16 124 (4.34%) SaaS
17 121 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 118 (4.13%) dbt
19 92 (3.22%) Amazon Bedrock
19 92 (3.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.89%) Firewall
2 92 (3.22%) Network Security
3 76 (2.66%) DNS
4 66 (2.31%) VPN
5 45 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.33%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 24 (0.84%) HTTP
9 22 (0.77%) SSL
10 21 (0.74%) BGP
11 18 (0.63%) Internet
12 16 (0.56%) SSH
13 15 (0.53%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 14 (0.49%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
15 13 (0.46%) LAN
16 12 (0.42%) VLAN
17 11 (0.39%) SAN
17 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.31%) NoSQL
4 123 (4.31%) Power BI
5 121 (4.24%) Data Lake
6 105 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
7 98 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 98 (3.43%) SQL Server
8 89 (3.12%) DynamoDB
9 87 (3.05%) Metadata
10 80 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 71 (2.49%) Relational Database
12 63 (2.21%) Big Data
12 63 (2.21%) Tableau
13 58 (2.03%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.44%) BigQuery
15 40 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
16 39 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
17 37 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 284 (9.95%) Git
2 279 (9.77%) Jenkins
3 262 (9.18%) GitLab
4 153 (5.36%) JIRA
5 34 (1.19%) Cypress.io
5 34 (1.19%) JMeter
6 32 (1.12%) JUnit
6 32 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.02%) Maven
8 28 (0.98%) Selenium
9 27 (0.95%) Mockito
10 26 (0.91%) MLflow
11 24 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.81%) Postman
13 21 (0.74%) Gradle
14 20 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 20 (0.70%) Gatling
15 17 (0.60%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.53%) Claude Code
General
1 707 (24.76%) Finance
2 633 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 415 (14.54%) Public Sector
4 265 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 261 (9.14%) Banking
6 74 (2.59%) Front Office
6 74 (2.59%) Retail
7 62 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 52 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 41 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.30%) Marketing
13 34 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (0.98%) Legal
15 25 (0.88%) Law
15 25 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (0.74%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 610 (21.37%) Architect
2 447 (15.66%) Senior
3 387 (13.56%) Developer
4 321 (11.24%) Lead
5 293 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 280 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
7 201 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 163 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 132 (4.62%) Software Engineer
10 119 (4.17%) AWS Architect
11 118 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 115 (4.03%) Analyst
13 111 (3.89%) Java Developer
14 94 (3.29%) Senior Developer
15 92 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
16 91 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
17 87 (3.05%) Data Architect
18 86 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 85 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 83 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (11.17%) Kafka
2 242 (8.48%) React
3 240 (8.41%) REST
4 174 (6.09%) Spring
5 173 (6.06%) Node.js
6 157 (5.50%) Spring Boot
7 149 (5.22%) RESTful
8 98 (3.43%) PySpark
9 91 (3.19%) .NET
10 87 (3.05%) GraphQL
11 78 (2.73%) OAuth
12 70 (2.45%) AngularJS
13 61 (2.14%) JSON
14 60 (2.10%) FastAPI
15 58 (2.03%) Redux
16 56 (1.96%) HTML
17 50 (1.75%) CSS
18 46 (1.61%) LangChain
18 46 (1.61%) OAuth2
19 44 (1.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 515 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 187 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 128 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 116 (4.06%) AI Agents
5 102 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.49%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 63 (2.21%) Fixed Income
10 60 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 56 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 42 (1.47%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
16 36 (1.26%) Derivative
16 36 (1.26%) PKI
17 32 (1.12%) CMDB
17 32 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
17 32 (1.12%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 222 (7.78%) Linux
2 123 (4.31%) Windows
3 46 (1.61%) Unix
4 42 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.39%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) Solaris
8 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.11%) AIX
10 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.070%) CentOS
11 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,139 (39.89%) CI/CD
2 863 (30.23%) DevOps
3 726 (25.43%) Agile
4 605 (21.19%) AI
4 605 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 423 (14.82%) Microservices
6 406 (14.22%) Containerisation
7 385 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 378 (13.24%) Analytics
9 367 (12.85%) Migration
9 367 (12.85%) Software Engineering
10 357 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 351 (12.29%) Observability
12 347 (12.15%) Data Modelling
13 344 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
14 332 (11.63%) Data Engineering
15 314 (11.00%) Machine Learning
16 303 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 284 (9.95%) Event-Driven
18 276 (9.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (36.81%) Python
2 600 (21.02%) SQL
3 499 (17.48%) Java
4 259 (9.07%) TypeScript
5 241 (8.44%) JavaScript
6 155 (5.43%) Bash
7 130 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 116 (4.06%) C#
9 73 (2.56%) Go
10 45 (1.58%) Scala
11 35 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.12%) Bicep
13 29 (1.02%) Ruby
14 26 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.74%) R
16 20 (0.70%) Groovy
17 18 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.60%) C++
19 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 767 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 687 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 150 (5.25%) Degree
4 143 (5.01%) AWS Certification
5 88 (3.08%) CISSP
6 68 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 68 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 66 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (1.54%) CISM
11 41 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 26 (0.91%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.74%) CCSP
14 21 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.74%) PMP
15 20 (0.70%) CCNP
16 19 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 141 (4.94%) QA
3 94 (3.29%) NIST
4 91 (3.19%) GDPR
5 83 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.05%) GRC
9 26 (0.91%) SLA
10 23 (0.81%) NCSC
11 19 (0.67%) PMO
11 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.63%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.56%) 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 10 (0.35%) SEPA
19 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 511 (17.90%) Docker
2 82 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.46%) 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 4 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.070%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 671 (23.50%) Terraform
2 605 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 189 (6.62%) Grafana
4 176 (6.16%) Ansible
5 151 (5.29%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.09%) Argo
8 26 (0.91%) Kibana
9 24 (0.84%) Puppet
10 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.35%) Istio
12 10 (0.35%) Packer
13 9 (0.32%) QRadar
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%) Consul
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 253 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.29%) Databricks
3 127 (4.45%) ServiceNow
4 124 (4.34%) Google
5 110 (3.85%) Oracle
6 87 (3.05%) Splunk
7 69 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.96%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.79%) Cisco
10 50 (1.75%) VMware
11 46 (1.61%) CyberArk
12 45 (1.58%) SAP
13 38 (1.33%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.19%) Foundry
15 33 (1.16%) IBM
16 31 (1.09%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.95%) Informatica
18 26 (0.91%) MuleSoft
19 25 (0.88%) Red Hat
20 24 (0.84%) Fortinet