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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,788 2,115 2,222
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.77% 15.89% 13.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.69% 36.44% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 1,447 1,639
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
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 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £68.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% +121.86% -63.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £85.63 £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% -25.52%

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 8,276 5,804 6,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.88% 43.60% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,708 3,935 4,517
10th Percentile £360 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 96 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.38 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -3 272 £575 -1.29% 340
West London +13 96 £560 +35.76% 68
South London 0 78 £535 +0.47% 12
East London +9 13 £575 -5.35% 24
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
1 160 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 107 (3.84%) Confluence
4 86 (3.08%) Apache
5 24 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.54%) nginx
7 11 (0.39%) SAS
8 10 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) CICS
9 8 (0.29%) IIS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Mule
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 28 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.25%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Cloudability
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.072%) Actimize
8 2 (0.072%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.072%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (45.09%) Azure
2 647 (23.21%) GCP
3 376 (13.49%) Serverless
4 367 (13.16%) Amazon S3
4 367 (13.16%) GitHub
5 307 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
6 247 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
7 231 (8.29%) Amazon EKS
7 231 (8.29%) Snowflake
8 181 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 162 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
10 152 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
11 151 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 144 (5.16%) dbt
13 139 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
14 129 (4.63%) SaaS
15 128 (4.59%) Power Platform
16 126 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 106 (3.80%) Entra ID
18 97 (3.48%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.62%) Firewall
2 84 (3.01%) Network Security
3 61 (2.19%) DNS
4 55 (1.97%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 31 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 24 (0.86%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) SSH
9 22 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.79%) SSL
10 21 (0.75%) BGP
11 20 (0.72%) Internet
12 17 (0.61%) HTTP
12 17 (0.61%) OSPF
13 16 (0.57%) MPLS
14 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
14 15 (0.54%) NGFW
15 13 (0.47%) LAN
15 13 (0.47%) SAN
16 12 (0.43%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
3 152 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 113 (4.05%) Power BI
6 111 (3.98%) SQL Server
7 105 (3.77%) Metadata
8 102 (3.66%) Data Lake
9 97 (3.48%) MongoDB
10 92 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 87 (3.12%) DynamoDB
12 85 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
13 79 (2.83%) Relational Database
14 69 (2.47%) Delta Lake
15 64 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
16 61 (2.19%) MySQL
17 51 (1.83%) Big Data
18 49 (1.76%) BigQuery
18 49 (1.76%) Tableau
19 48 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 314 (11.26%) Jenkins
2 309 (11.08%) Git
3 278 (9.97%) GitLab
4 154 (5.52%) JIRA
5 38 (1.36%) Maven
6 34 (1.22%) JUnit
7 33 (1.18%) JMeter
8 31 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 29 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 29 (1.04%) SonarQube
10 27 (0.97%) Selenium
11 26 (0.93%) Gradle
12 25 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 25 (0.90%) Mockito
13 21 (0.75%) Claude Code
14 20 (0.72%) Postman
15 18 (0.65%) Gatling
16 17 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
18 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 700 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 670 (24.03%) Finance
3 382 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 273 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 263 (9.43%) Banking
6 87 (3.12%) Retail
7 62 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.36%) Marketing
11 36 (1.29%) Legal
12 34 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (1.22%) Front Office
13 33 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.00%) Billing
15 28 (1.00%) Law
16 27 (0.97%) Military
16 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (0.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 560 (20.09%) Architect
2 448 (16.07%) Senior
3 339 (12.16%) Developer
4 297 (10.65%) Lead
5 287 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 259 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
7 226 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 131 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (3.98%) AWS Architect
10 109 (3.91%) Analyst
11 108 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (3.77%) Java Developer
13 104 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 102 (3.66%) Data Architect
15 98 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
16 96 (3.44%) Software Engineer
17 89 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
18 81 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
19 75 (2.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 74 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 728 (26.11%) Terraform
2 332 (11.91%) Kafka
3 299 (10.72%) REST
4 195 (6.99%) React
5 179 (6.42%) Spring
6 164 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 150 (5.38%) RESTful
8 111 (3.98%) Node.js
9 104 (3.73%) PySpark
10 97 (3.48%) OAuth
11 95 (3.41%) .NET
12 75 (2.69%) GraphQL
13 68 (2.44%) FastAPI
14 67 (2.40%) HTML
15 66 (2.37%) JSON
16 64 (2.30%) AngularJS
17 60 (2.15%) SOAP
18 57 (2.04%) CSS
19 54 (1.94%) OAuth2
20 49 (1.76%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 555 (19.91%) Cloud Native
2 181 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (5.34%) AI Agents
4 146 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 131 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 84 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 73 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.47%) Data Centre
8 69 (2.47%) Security Posture
9 59 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 49 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 49 (1.76%) PKI
11 47 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 46 (1.65%) Replication
13 40 (1.43%) Public Cloud
14 38 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
17 31 (1.11%) Virtual Team
18 30 (1.08%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 260 (9.33%) Linux
2 125 (4.48%) Windows
3 57 (2.04%) Unix
4 51 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.47%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.22%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,187 (42.58%) CI/CD
2 900 (32.28%) DevOps
3 712 (25.54%) Agile
4 682 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 628 (22.53%) AI
6 482 (17.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 406 (14.56%) Microservices
7 406 (14.56%) Observability
8 399 (14.31%) Containerisation
9 365 (13.09%) Migration
10 361 (12.95%) Software Engineering
11 357 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
12 334 (11.98%) Data Modelling
13 333 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 331 (11.87%) Data Engineering
14 331 (11.87%) Event-Driven
15 330 (11.84%) Analytics
16 324 (11.62%) Data Pipeline
17 308 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
18 300 (10.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,023 (36.69%) Python
2 616 (22.09%) SQL
3 469 (16.82%) Java
4 208 (7.46%) JavaScript
5 204 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 192 (6.89%) Bash
7 150 (5.38%) PowerShell
8 112 (4.02%) C#
9 56 (2.01%) Go
10 52 (1.87%) Scala
11 37 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.29%) Bicep
13 32 (1.15%) Groovy
14 23 (0.82%) C++
14 23 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.61%) R
17 15 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
19 13 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 784 (28.12%) Security Cleared
2 690 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 181 (6.49%) AWS Certification
4 144 (5.16%) Degree
5 94 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 89 (3.19%) CISSP
7 74 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 72 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 63 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
12 49 (1.76%) CISM
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.79%) CCSP
14 22 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.65%) PMP
17 17 (0.61%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.81%) QA
3 104 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (3.66%) NIST
5 74 (2.65%) GDPR
6 38 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.08%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) NCSC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (0.75%) SLA
10 20 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
12 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.47%) SEPA
14 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.32%) PMO
16 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 517 (18.54%) Docker
2 85 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.29%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
7 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.072%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 656 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 218 (7.82%) Grafana
3 201 (7.21%) Ansible
4 165 (5.92%) Prometheus
5 49 (1.76%) Kibana
6 42 (1.51%) Argo
7 30 (1.08%) Puppet
8 26 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.50%) Istio
10 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.25%) QRadar
15 6 (0.22%) Control-M
15 6 (0.22%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.18%) logstash
16 5 (0.18%) Nessus
16 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 301 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 201 (7.21%) Databricks
3 155 (5.56%) Google
4 143 (5.13%) Oracle
5 112 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 111 (3.98%) Splunk
7 66 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 59 (2.12%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.87%) Cisco
10 51 (1.83%) VMware
11 50 (1.79%) SAP
12 48 (1.72%) CyberArk
13 45 (1.61%) Palo Alto
14 39 (1.40%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.40%) Informatica
15 35 (1.26%) IBM
16 33 (1.18%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.82%) Foundry
18 23 (0.82%) MuleSoft