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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,204 2,158 2,592
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.59% 13.72% 13.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.13% 33.55% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 1,573 1,995
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -4.92%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 14
10th Percentile £43.75 £27.54 £37.58
25th Percentile £60.63 £33.14 £49.69
Median hourly rate £76.75 £40.25 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.68% -31.78% +21.03%
75th Percentile £87.50 £46.19 £87.27
90th Percentile £93.13 £51.93 £90.00
England median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +84.06% -16.04% +12.82%

All Cloud 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 6,274 6,432 7,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.38% 40.90% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,247 4,377 5,594
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 34 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.56
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -9.68% +40.91%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.33 £85.62
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +7 254 £575 - 918
South London +9 61 £525 +7.14% 47
West London -11 26 £425 -26.09% 90
East London - 7 £675 - 82
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
1 154 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (5.17%) Confluence
3 85 (3.86%) Apache
4 76 (3.45%) Apache Spark
5 50 (2.27%) nginx
6 16 (0.73%) SAS
6 16 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.68%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.59%) CMS
9 9 (0.41%) Headless CMS
10 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.32%) Camunda
12 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.18%) Appian
13 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.14%) Traefik
15 2 (0.091%) JBoss
15 2 (0.091%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.14%) Trello
5 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.045%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.045%) Pro Tools
6 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.54%) Endur
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.18%) Actimize
6 2 (0.091%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.091%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.091%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.091%) Shopify
7 1 (0.045%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.045%) Magento
7 1 (0.045%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.045%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.045%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.045%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 856 (38.84%) Azure
2 494 (22.41%) GCP
3 304 (13.79%) GitHub
4 294 (13.34%) Amazon S3
5 284 (12.89%) Serverless
6 245 (11.12%) AWS Lambda
7 181 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
8 180 (8.17%) Snowflake
9 167 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 133 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
11 130 (5.90%) dbt
12 128 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 116 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
14 108 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
15 90 (4.08%) Power Platform
16 71 (3.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 68 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
18 63 (2.86%) SaaS
19 52 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
20 50 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 119 (5.40%) Firewall
2 68 (3.09%) DNS
3 57 (2.59%) Network Security
4 55 (2.50%) VPN
5 30 (1.36%) WAN
6 28 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.23%) SSL
8 24 (1.09%) HTTP
9 20 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.86%) DHCP
11 18 (0.82%) BGP
12 17 (0.77%) LAN
12 17 (0.77%) SSH
13 16 (0.73%) OSPF
14 15 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
14 15 (0.68%) VLAN
15 11 (0.50%) FTP
16 10 (0.45%) IMAP
16 10 (0.45%) SMTP
17 9 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
3 109 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 100 (4.54%) Amazon Athena
4 100 (4.54%) Data Lake
5 93 (4.22%) Relational Database
6 84 (3.81%) Power BI
7 77 (3.49%) SQL Server
8 73 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 70 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 63 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
11 58 (2.63%) MySQL
12 56 (2.54%) MongoDB
13 55 (2.50%) Metadata
14 53 (2.40%) Apache Arrow
14 53 (2.40%) Dremio
15 48 (2.18%) Big Data
16 46 (2.09%) Tableau
17 44 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 266 (12.07%) Git
2 212 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 170 (7.71%) JIRA
4 149 (6.76%) GitLab
5 45 (2.04%) JUnit
6 32 (1.45%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 27 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.23%) ERwin
8 26 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 25 (1.13%) Maven
10 22 (1.00%) Metasploit
11 21 (0.95%) MLflow
11 21 (0.95%) Selenium
12 20 (0.91%) Burp Suite
13 19 (0.86%) ER Studio
14 16 (0.73%) Mockito
15 14 (0.64%) JMeter
15 14 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 577 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 525 (23.82%) Finance
3 244 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 229 (10.39%) Banking
5 212 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (5.31%) Front Office
7 110 (4.99%) Investment Banking
8 42 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.27%) Marketing
11 28 (1.27%) Retail
12 24 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.04%) Legal
14 21 (0.95%) Military
15 15 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 449 (20.37%) Developer
2 387 (17.56%) Senior
3 317 (14.38%) Architect
4 269 (12.21%) AWS Engineer
5 172 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 165 (7.49%) Data Engineer
7 162 (7.35%) Lead
8 161 (7.30%) Software Engineer
9 146 (6.62%) Python Engineer
10 129 (5.85%) Java Developer
11 102 (4.63%) AWS Developer
12 100 (4.54%) Senior Developer
13 94 (4.26%) Python Developer
14 88 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
14 88 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
15 86 (3.90%) Java Engineer
16 85 (3.86%) Analyst
17 77 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 74 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (12.07%) Kafka
2 255 (11.57%) React
3 181 (8.21%) Node.js
4 135 (6.13%) REST
5 122 (5.54%) AngularJS
5 122 (5.54%) Spring
6 113 (5.13%) RESTful
7 102 (4.63%) Spring Boot
8 94 (4.26%) NumPy
8 94 (4.26%) Pandas
9 91 (4.13%) gRPC
10 75 (3.40%) GraphQL
11 74 (3.36%) SciPy
12 69 (3.13%) Vue
13 65 (2.95%) CSS
14 63 (2.86%) .NET
14 63 (2.86%) HTML
15 48 (2.18%) OAuth
16 47 (2.13%) FastAPI
17 42 (1.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 246 (11.16%) Cloud Native
2 107 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (4.22%) Fixed Income
4 87 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 87 (3.95%) Hedge funds
5 74 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 72 (3.27%) Equities
7 65 (2.95%) Derivative
8 55 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 51 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 50 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 44 (2.00%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
13 41 (1.86%) Security Posture
14 35 (1.59%) Data Centre
15 34 (1.54%) Pricing Data
16 32 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
16 32 (1.45%) Virtual Team
17 30 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
18 26 (1.18%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 207 (9.39%) Linux
2 85 (3.86%) Windows
3 52 (2.36%) Unix
4 20 (0.91%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.45%) Android
7 10 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.36%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.091%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.045%) AIX
12 1 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.045%) Debian
12 1 (0.045%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (37.70%) CI/CD
2 640 (29.04%) Agile
3 601 (27.27%) DevOps
4 421 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 352 (15.97%) Microservices
6 345 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
7 338 (15.34%) Software Engineering
8 279 (12.66%) Analytics
9 255 (11.57%) Containerisation
10 240 (10.89%) AI
11 212 (9.62%) Data Modelling
12 207 (9.39%) Data Pipeline
13 195 (8.85%) Migration
14 192 (8.71%) Machine Learning
15 186 (8.44%) ETL
16 177 (8.03%) Full-Stack Development
17 173 (7.85%) Observability
18 170 (7.71%) Data Engineering
19 167 (7.58%) Cloud Security
20 161 (7.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 968 (43.92%) Python
2 498 (22.60%) Java
3 476 (21.60%) SQL
4 280 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 267 (12.11%) JavaScript
6 157 (7.12%) Bash
7 135 (6.13%) Go
8 83 (3.77%) C#
9 81 (3.68%) PowerShell
10 52 (2.36%) C++
11 34 (1.54%) Scala
12 26 (1.18%) Perl
13 24 (1.09%) Groovy
14 23 (1.04%) Ruby
14 23 (1.04%) Rust
14 23 (1.04%) Shell Script
15 20 (0.91%) C
16 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.68%) R
18 14 (0.64%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 505 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 438 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.31%) Degree
4 125 (5.67%) AWS Certification
5 68 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 37 (1.68%) CISSP
6 37 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 33 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.45%) OSCP
9 28 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.95%) CREST Certified
12 18 (0.82%) CISM
13 13 (0.59%) CCNP
13 13 (0.59%) Tigerscheme
13 13 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (0.50%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.45%) QA
3 83 (3.77%) GDPR
4 77 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.77%) NIST
6 39 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.18%) NCSC
8 20 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.77%) WCAG
10 15 (0.68%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.41%) GRC
12 9 (0.41%) MiFID
13 8 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.32%) SLA
15 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 508 (23.05%) Docker
2 44 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.50%) Postfix
5 10 (0.45%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.45%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.45%) Squid
5 10 (0.45%) zsh
6 9 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.32%) Firmware
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.091%) vSphere
10 1 (0.045%) etcd
10 1 (0.045%) Snort
10 1 (0.045%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.045%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 515 (23.37%) Kubernetes
2 501 (22.73%) Terraform
3 149 (6.76%) Ansible
4 112 (5.08%) Grafana
5 104 (4.72%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.32%) Argo
7 29 (1.32%) Puppet
8 28 (1.27%) Packer
9 23 (1.04%) Consul
10 22 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.91%) Nmap
12 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.77%) Nessus
13 12 (0.54%) SCCM
14 11 (0.50%) Kibana
15 10 (0.45%) Proxmox
15 10 (0.45%) QRadar
16 8 (0.36%) Istio
17 7 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 158 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.85%) Databricks
3 85 (3.86%) Google
4 84 (3.81%) Splunk
5 74 (3.36%) Oracle
6 69 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 33 (1.50%) Cisco
7 33 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 29 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.13%) F5
9 25 (1.13%) VMware
10 23 (1.04%) Arista
10 23 (1.04%) IBM
11 22 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.95%) CheckPoint
13 20 (0.91%) Dynatrace
14 18 (0.82%) Fortinet
14 18 (0.82%) Tenable
15 17 (0.77%) Informatica
15 17 (0.77%) SAP