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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,539 2,041 2,284
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.29% 16.24% 12.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.40% 38.32% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,758 1,480 1,756
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.05%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
England median daily rate £530 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -3.64% -1.79% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.88 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £39.06 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £48.25 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.97% +53.17% -58.00%
75th Percentile £76.25 £74.38 £64.75
90th Percentile £91.13 £96.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +7.14% +51.58% -36.52%

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 7,601 5,326 6,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.79% 42.37% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,244 3,707 5,000
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
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 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 52 70
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.42 £17.63
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.96 £50.00 £37.34
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.13 £59.13
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.98 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.56% +25.06% -31.90%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -2 287 £550 - 316
South London +5 89 £513 +7.89% 6
West London +7 76 £603 +6.64% 43
East London +2 12 £533 -8.97% 50
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
1 121 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 70 (2.76%) Confluence
4 63 (2.48%) Apache
5 22 (0.87%) nginx
5 22 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.63%) Camunda
7 12 (0.47%) SAS
8 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.32%) CICS
10 5 (0.20%) Appian
10 5 (0.20%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.079%) MQSeries
Applications
1 34 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.079%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.079%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.079%) Endur
6 2 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (40.65%) Azure
2 566 (22.29%) GCP
3 378 (14.89%) Amazon S3
4 369 (14.53%) Serverless
5 325 (12.80%) GitHub
6 319 (12.56%) AWS Lambda
7 232 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 197 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.22%) Snowflake
11 151 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
12 145 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
13 143 (5.63%) Power Platform
14 142 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 98 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
17 74 (2.91%) SaaS
18 63 (2.48%) dbt
19 62 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
19 62 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.78%) Firewall
2 61 (2.40%) Network Security
3 60 (2.36%) DNS
3 60 (2.36%) VPN
4 41 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.22%) WAN
6 19 (0.75%) BGP
7 18 (0.71%) HTTP
8 17 (0.67%) LAN
9 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 13 (0.51%) DHCP
10 13 (0.51%) SSL
10 13 (0.51%) VLAN
11 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
12 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.35%) SAN
14 8 (0.32%) NAS
15 7 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (4.84%) Data Lake
2 123 (4.84%) Power BI
3 117 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 115 (4.53%) NoSQL
5 109 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
6 106 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 100 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 77 (3.03%) Tableau
10 76 (2.99%) MongoDB
11 71 (2.80%) DynamoDB
11 71 (2.80%) Metadata
11 71 (2.80%) Relational Database
12 62 (2.44%) Big Data
13 47 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
14 46 (1.81%) MySQL
15 41 (1.61%) BigQuery
16 40 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
17 33 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 235 (9.26%) Git
2 220 (8.66%) Jenkins
3 208 (8.19%) GitLab
4 126 (4.96%) JIRA
5 43 (1.69%) MLflow
6 42 (1.65%) JUnit
7 35 (1.38%) Mockito
8 26 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 25 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 24 (0.95%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.91%) Selenium
12 21 (0.83%) Cypress.io
13 19 (0.75%) Maven
14 18 (0.71%) Gradle
15 17 (0.67%) Postman
16 16 (0.63%) JMeter
17 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
18 13 (0.51%) REST Assured
18 13 (0.51%) Snyk
19 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 583 (22.96%) Finance
2 547 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 361 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 226 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (8.31%) Banking
6 89 (3.51%) Front Office
7 64 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 34 (1.34%) Retail
15 27 (1.06%) Legal
15 27 (1.06%) Marketing
16 16 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Law
17 14 (0.55%) Military
18 11 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 504 (19.85%) Architect
2 432 (17.01%) Developer
3 382 (15.05%) Senior
4 265 (10.44%) Lead
5 260 (10.24%) Data Engineer
6 232 (9.14%) AWS Engineer
7 187 (7.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 140 (5.51%) Software Engineer
9 125 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 106 (4.17%) Analyst
12 101 (3.98%) AWS Architect
13 98 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 96 (3.78%) Java Developer
15 90 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
16 88 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
17 87 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
18 82 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 78 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 74 (2.91%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (12.29%) Kafka
2 239 (9.41%) React
3 194 (7.64%) REST
4 189 (7.44%) Node.js
5 170 (6.70%) Spring
6 156 (6.14%) Spring Boot
7 146 (5.75%) RESTful
8 85 (3.35%) .NET
9 78 (3.07%) PySpark
10 75 (2.95%) AngularJS
11 68 (2.68%) SOAP
12 66 (2.60%) OAuth
13 65 (2.56%) GraphQL
14 62 (2.44%) Redux
15 59 (2.32%) HTML
16 58 (2.28%) LDAP
17 57 (2.24%) Pandas
18 52 (2.05%) CSS
19 48 (1.89%) OpenID
20 46 (1.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 400 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (2.99%) Fixed Income
3 76 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 71 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.60%) Security Posture
6 64 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.28%) AI Agents
8 57 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 52 (2.05%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.89%) Derivative
11 44 (1.73%) Management Information System
12 42 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.58%) Equities
14 37 (1.46%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.30%) Mainframe
16 32 (1.26%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.26%) Public Cloud
17 30 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 187 (7.37%) Linux
2 73 (2.88%) Windows
3 39 (1.54%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) VMS
7 8 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.28%) zOS
9 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
14 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 969 (38.16%) CI/CD
2 728 (28.67%) DevOps
3 595 (23.43%) Agile
4 512 (20.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 464 (18.27%) AI
6 409 (16.11%) Microservices
7 378 (14.89%) Containerisation
8 374 (14.73%) Analytics
9 344 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
10 316 (12.45%) Software Engineering
11 298 (11.74%) Migration
12 291 (11.46%) Data Modelling
13 272 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
14 268 (10.56%) Data Engineering
14 268 (10.56%) Observability
15 255 (10.04%) Machine Learning
16 236 (9.29%) ETL
17 234 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 230 (9.06%) Full-Stack Development
19 210 (8.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 987 (38.87%) Python
2 555 (21.86%) SQL
3 467 (18.39%) Java
4 225 (8.86%) TypeScript
5 220 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.49%) C#
7 106 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 102 (4.02%) Go
9 99 (3.90%) Bash
10 43 (1.69%) Scala
11 42 (1.65%) Ruby
12 38 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 23 (0.91%) R
14 20 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.67%) Bicep
15 17 (0.67%) C++
15 17 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.43%) PHP
17 9 (0.35%) Groovy
18 8 (0.32%) C
Qualifications
1 725 (28.55%) Security Cleared
2 642 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 125 (4.92%) Degree
4 124 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 71 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (2.40%) CISSP
7 57 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 34 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.18%) CISM
13 26 (1.02%) PMI Certification
13 26 (1.02%) PMP
14 22 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 21 (0.83%) CCNP
16 20 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.67%) CCSP
18 15 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 120 (4.73%) GDPR
3 95 (3.74%) QA
4 83 (3.27%) NIST
5 72 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.14%) SLA
9 23 (0.91%) NCSC
10 18 (0.71%) GRC
11 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.55%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.51%) PMO
13 13 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.47%) WCAG
15 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.28%) PSD2
17 6 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.24%) MiFID
18 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 500 (19.69%) Docker
2 80 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.079%) Firmware
10 2 (0.079%) KVM
10 2 (0.079%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.079%) Postfix
11 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 588 (23.16%) Terraform
2 525 (20.68%) Kubernetes
3 139 (5.47%) Grafana
4 130 (5.12%) Ansible
5 119 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.95%) Argo
8 20 (0.79%) Puppet
9 18 (0.71%) Kibana
10 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.55%) Consul
12 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.47%) QRadar
14 8 (0.32%) Packer
15 6 (0.24%) Istio
15 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.24%) SCCM
16 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 192 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.08%) Databricks
3 94 (3.70%) Google
4 89 (3.51%) Oracle
5 79 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 77 (3.03%) Splunk
7 62 (2.44%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.28%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 43 (1.69%) Cisco
11 38 (1.50%) VMware
12 35 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.38%) Centrify
12 35 (1.38%) SAP
13 34 (1.34%) Dynatrace
14 33 (1.30%) IBM
15 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.95%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.91%) Confluent
18 21 (0.83%) Foundry