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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,821 2,123 2,268
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.85% 15.75% 14.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.85% 36.33% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,000 1,475 1,678
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £695 £751
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -65.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £80.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 8,334 5,843 6,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.35% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 3,979 4,600
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 96 44
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.75 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.12 £24.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.04 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -5.72% -18.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.33
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.58 £34.47
% change year-on-year +32.90% -25.79% +4.44%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -4 283 £575 -1.71% 346
West London +6 96 £560 +33.73% 158
South London 0 75 £535 -5.38% 16
East London +9 14 £550 -9.47% 25
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
1 163 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 110 (3.90%) Confluence
4 90 (3.19%) Apache
5 27 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
10 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.25%) IIS
12 6 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.071%) Endur
6 2 (0.071%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,273 (45.13%) Azure
2 644 (22.83%) GCP
3 392 (13.90%) Serverless
4 383 (13.58%) Amazon S3
5 367 (13.01%) GitHub
6 326 (11.56%) AWS Lambda
7 248 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
8 238 (8.44%) Snowflake
9 217 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 187 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 159 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 158 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
13 150 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
14 148 (5.25%) dbt
15 136 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
16 134 (4.75%) Power Platform
17 130 (4.61%) SaaS
18 121 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 111 (3.93%) Entra ID
20 100 (3.54%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.83%) Firewall
2 82 (2.91%) Network Security
3 64 (2.27%) DNS
4 57 (2.02%) VPN
5 40 (1.42%) WAN
6 33 (1.17%) TCP/IP
7 26 (0.92%) DHCP
8 25 (0.89%) SSL
9 22 (0.78%) SSH
10 21 (0.74%) SD-WAN
11 20 (0.71%) BGP
12 19 (0.67%) Internet
13 18 (0.64%) HTTP
14 16 (0.57%) OSPF
15 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
15 15 (0.53%) MPLS
16 14 (0.50%) NGFW
17 13 (0.46%) LAN
17 13 (0.46%) SAN
18 12 (0.43%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 145 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
4 119 (4.22%) NoSQL
4 119 (4.22%) Power BI
5 111 (3.93%) Data Lake
6 110 (3.90%) SQL Server
7 106 (3.76%) Metadata
8 95 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
9 90 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 90 (3.19%) DynamoDB
9 90 (3.19%) MongoDB
10 80 (2.84%) Relational Database
11 68 (2.41%) Delta Lake
12 59 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
12 59 (2.09%) MySQL
13 58 (2.06%) Tableau
14 55 (1.95%) Big Data
15 46 (1.63%) Redis
16 44 (1.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 303 (10.74%) Jenkins
2 298 (10.56%) Git
3 267 (9.46%) GitLab
4 158 (5.60%) JIRA
5 36 (1.28%) Maven
6 34 (1.21%) JMeter
6 34 (1.21%) JUnit
7 31 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.06%) Selenium
9 29 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 25 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 25 (0.89%) Mockito
12 23 (0.82%) Gradle
13 22 (0.78%) Postman
14 20 (0.71%) Claude Code
15 18 (0.64%) Gatling
16 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 11 (0.39%) Artifactory
General
1 706 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 672 (23.82%) Finance
3 382 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 280 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 261 (9.25%) Banking
6 84 (2.98%) Retail
7 64 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (1.63%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.42%) Marketing
11 35 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (1.21%) Front Office
12 34 (1.21%) Legal
13 33 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.03%) Law
16 27 (0.96%) Military
16 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
17 23 (0.82%) Billing
18 22 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 588 (20.84%) Architect
2 454 (16.09%) Senior
3 343 (12.16%) Developer
4 306 (10.85%) Data Engineer
5 300 (10.63%) Lead
6 267 (9.46%) AWS Engineer
7 215 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 145 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
9 113 (4.01%) AWS Architect
10 111 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 110 (3.90%) Analyst
12 105 (3.72%) Data Architect
13 103 (3.65%) Java Developer
13 103 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
14 101 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 91 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
16 90 (3.19%) Software Engineer
17 82 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
18 78 (2.76%) Senior Developer
19 76 (2.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 724 (25.66%) Terraform
2 324 (11.49%) Kafka
3 288 (10.21%) REST
4 196 (6.95%) React
5 181 (6.42%) Spring
6 166 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 155 (5.49%) RESTful
8 122 (4.32%) Node.js
9 113 (4.01%) PySpark
10 100 (3.54%) .NET
10 100 (3.54%) OAuth
11 74 (2.62%) GraphQL
12 65 (2.30%) FastAPI
12 65 (2.30%) HTML
12 65 (2.30%) JSON
13 63 (2.23%) AngularJS
14 57 (2.02%) OAuth2
14 57 (2.02%) SOAP
15 54 (1.91%) CSS
16 49 (1.74%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 551 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 141 (5.00%) AI Agents
5 132 (4.68%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.45%) Security Posture
9 68 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 60 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 42 (1.49%) PKI
14 41 (1.45%) Replication
15 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
16 35 (1.24%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.17%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.06%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 248 (8.79%) Linux
2 127 (4.50%) Windows
3 56 (1.99%) Unix
4 49 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.21%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) zOS
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (41.69%) CI/CD
2 903 (32.01%) DevOps
3 716 (25.38%) Agile
4 674 (23.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 634 (22.47%) AI
6 474 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 413 (14.64%) Microservices
8 406 (14.39%) Containerisation
9 401 (14.21%) Observability
10 372 (13.19%) Migration
11 364 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
12 352 (12.48%) Analytics
12 352 (12.48%) Software Engineering
13 345 (12.23%) Data Modelling
14 342 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
15 339 (12.02%) Data Engineering
16 333 (11.80%) Event-Driven
17 329 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
18 314 (11.13%) Technical Leadership
19 295 (10.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,027 (36.41%) Python
2 615 (21.80%) SQL
3 480 (17.02%) Java
4 207 (7.34%) JavaScript
5 205 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 174 (6.17%) Bash
7 140 (4.96%) PowerShell
8 113 (4.01%) C#
9 54 (1.91%) Scala
10 53 (1.88%) Go
11 37 (1.31%) Bicep
12 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 31 (1.10%) Groovy
14 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.71%) C++
17 19 (0.67%) R
18 17 (0.60%) Ruby
19 13 (0.46%) T-SQL
20 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 779 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 687 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 174 (6.17%) AWS Certification
4 148 (5.25%) Degree
5 91 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 90 (3.19%) CISSP
7 76 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 67 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 66 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 65 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 52 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.70%) CISM
13 32 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.78%) CCSP
15 20 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 18 (0.64%) PMP
18 17 (0.60%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 165 (5.85%) QA
3 107 (3.79%) NIST
4 104 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (2.76%) GDPR
6 37 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.06%) GRC
8 29 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.99%) NCSC
10 25 (0.89%) SLA
11 24 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.74%) ISO 20022
13 18 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.53%) EU AI Act
15 15 (0.53%) HIPAA
16 13 (0.46%) SEPA
17 10 (0.35%) PMO
18 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 503 (17.83%) Docker
2 93 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
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%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 642 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 215 (7.62%) Grafana
3 205 (7.27%) Ansible
4 163 (5.78%) Prometheus
5 42 (1.49%) Kibana
6 35 (1.24%) Argo
7 33 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (0.99%) Puppet
9 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) Istio
10 11 (0.39%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.21%) Control-M
13 6 (0.21%) Nagios
13 6 (0.21%) QRadar
14 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
14 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 298 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.91%) Databricks
3 140 (4.96%) Google
4 139 (4.93%) Oracle
5 125 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 110 (3.90%) Splunk
7 68 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 54 (1.91%) VMware
10 53 (1.88%) Cisco
11 52 (1.84%) CyberArk
11 52 (1.84%) SAP
12 45 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 40 (1.42%) Dynatrace
14 38 (1.35%) IBM
15 37 (1.31%) Informatica
16 32 (1.13%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.96%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.89%) Foundry
18 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft