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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,532 2,007 2,292
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.92% 15.94% 12.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.18% 37.50% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,740 1,466 1,757
10th Percentile £400 £403 £405
25th Percentile £463 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £693 £701
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £46.50 £22.12
25th Percentile £44.00 £51.75 £29.72
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.63% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £90.00 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £84.00 £71.40
England median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £51.78
% change year-on-year +3.45% +40.02% -22.72%

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 7,407 5,352 6,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.65% 42.50% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,088 3,739 4,947
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 51 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +61.08% +26.19% -18.69%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -1 295 £550 +1.85% 301
South London +4 93 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +8 65 £603 +6.64% 42
East London +6 13 £545 -6.84% 33
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
1 131 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 75 (2.96%) Confluence
4 71 (2.80%) Apache
5 33 (1.30%) nginx
6 24 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.67%) SAS
8 16 (0.63%) Camunda
9 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Appian
12 5 (0.20%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.16%) CICS
13 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.079%) Drupal
15 2 (0.079%) Mule
15 2 (0.079%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.039%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 1 (0.039%) Revit
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.079%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.079%) Endur
6 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (40.96%) Azure
2 572 (22.59%) GCP
3 385 (15.21%) Serverless
4 371 (14.65%) Amazon S3
5 333 (13.15%) GitHub
6 332 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
7 243 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 194 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
9 175 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
10 159 (6.28%) Snowflake
11 152 (6.00%) Power Platform
12 150 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
13 146 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
14 141 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 84 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
17 69 (2.73%) dbt
18 65 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
19 64 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
20 61 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.79%) Firewall
2 65 (2.57%) VPN
3 59 (2.33%) DNS
4 58 (2.29%) Network Security
5 42 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.30%) WAN
7 20 (0.79%) BGP
8 18 (0.71%) LAN
9 16 (0.63%) HTTP
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
11 14 (0.55%) DHCP
11 14 (0.55%) VLAN
12 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.47%) SSL
13 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 9 (0.36%) 5G
14 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.32%) 4G
16 7 (0.28%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (5.33%) Power BI
3 124 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.78%) NoSQL
5 120 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
6 119 (4.70%) Data Lake
7 107 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
8 96 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (3.67%) SQL Server
10 84 (3.32%) Relational Database
11 83 (3.28%) Tableau
12 75 (2.96%) DynamoDB
13 74 (2.92%) Metadata
14 71 (2.80%) MongoDB
15 54 (2.13%) Big Data
16 52 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
17 50 (1.97%) MySQL
18 40 (1.58%) BigQuery
19 33 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
20 31 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 259 (10.23%) Git
2 210 (8.29%) GitLab
3 203 (8.02%) Jenkins
4 132 (5.21%) JIRA
5 45 (1.78%) JUnit
6 42 (1.66%) MLflow
7 31 (1.22%) Mockito
8 29 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 28 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 27 (1.07%) Cypress.io
11 23 (0.91%) Selenium
11 23 (0.91%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.87%) Maven
13 18 (0.71%) Gradle
14 16 (0.63%) JMeter
14 16 (0.63%) Postman
15 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.47%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.43%) Gatling
17 11 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 579 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 565 (22.31%) Finance
3 362 (14.30%) Public Sector
4 237 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (8.18%) Banking
6 91 (3.59%) Front Office
7 66 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (2.01%) Investment Banking
9 37 (1.46%) Financial Institution
9 37 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.11%) Retail
13 27 (1.07%) Legal
14 21 (0.83%) Marketing
15 18 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (0.59%) Military
17 14 (0.55%) Law
18 13 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 485 (19.15%) Architect
2 448 (17.69%) Developer
3 390 (15.40%) Senior
4 252 (9.95%) Data Engineer
5 245 (9.68%) Lead
6 233 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
7 191 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (5.81%) Software Engineer
9 124 (4.90%) Senior Developer
10 123 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
11 114 (4.50%) Analyst
12 98 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
13 96 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
14 95 (3.75%) AWS Architect
15 94 (3.71%) Java Developer
16 92 (3.63%) Python Engineer
17 89 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 85 (3.36%) Python Developer
19 80 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 80 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (13.11%) Kafka
2 251 (9.91%) React
3 211 (8.33%) Node.js
4 194 (7.66%) REST
5 153 (6.04%) Spring
6 144 (5.69%) RESTful
7 139 (5.49%) Spring Boot
8 86 (3.40%) AngularJS
9 77 (3.04%) PySpark
10 72 (2.84%) .NET
11 69 (2.73%) OAuth
12 64 (2.53%) SOAP
13 62 (2.45%) GraphQL
14 61 (2.41%) CSS
14 61 (2.41%) Pandas
14 61 (2.41%) Redux
15 59 (2.33%) HTML
16 53 (2.09%) LDAP
17 50 (1.97%) gRPC
18 48 (1.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 379 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (3.04%) Fixed Income
4 70 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 70 (2.76%) Security Posture
5 69 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 62 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.21%) AI Agents
9 55 (2.17%) Data Centre
10 50 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.94%) Derivative
12 43 (1.70%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.70%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.54%) Equities
14 37 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
15 34 (1.34%) Data Structures
15 34 (1.34%) Public Cloud
16 28 (1.11%) Mainframe
17 23 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 180 (7.11%) Linux
2 62 (2.45%) Windows
3 41 (1.62%) Unix
4 12 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.079%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.039%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 954 (37.68%) CI/CD
2 710 (28.04%) DevOps
3 619 (24.45%) Agile
4 493 (19.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 453 (17.89%) AI
6 410 (16.19%) Microservices
7 383 (15.13%) Analytics
8 364 (14.38%) Containerisation
9 360 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
10 332 (13.11%) Software Engineering
11 295 (11.65%) Data Modelling
12 276 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
12 276 (10.90%) Migration
13 271 (10.70%) Data Engineering
14 266 (10.51%) Machine Learning
15 259 (10.23%) Observability
16 249 (9.83%) ETL
17 223 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
18 213 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
19 207 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,008 (39.81%) Python
2 581 (22.95%) SQL
3 460 (18.17%) Java
4 231 (9.12%) TypeScript
5 223 (8.81%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.58%) Go
7 101 (3.99%) C#
8 97 (3.83%) Bash
8 97 (3.83%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.70%) Ruby
10 37 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 36 (1.42%) Scala
12 22 (0.87%) R
13 21 (0.83%) C++
14 19 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.63%) Bicep
16 14 (0.55%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.36%) Korn
18 8 (0.32%) Rust
19 7 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 732 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 643 (25.39%) SC Cleared
3 124 (4.90%) Degree
4 122 (4.82%) AWS Certification
5 73 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (2.21%) CISSP
7 51 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 47 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.15%) CISM
14 25 (0.99%) PMI Certification
14 25 (0.99%) PMP
15 19 (0.75%) CCNP
16 18 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 18 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 13 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 129 (5.09%) GDPR
3 94 (3.71%) QA
4 76 (3.00%) NIST
5 75 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.11%) NCSC
9 25 (0.99%) SLA
10 16 (0.63%) WCAG
11 15 (0.59%) GRC
11 15 (0.59%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.51%) PMO
13 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.28%) PSD2
17 6 (0.24%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 513 (20.26%) Docker
2 75 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.39%) Squid
6 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.20%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.079%) IAG
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.039%) KVM
12 1 (0.039%) Lustre
12 1 (0.039%) NLBS
12 1 (0.039%) Samba
Systems Management
1 588 (23.22%) Terraform
2 539 (21.29%) Kubernetes
3 126 (4.98%) Ansible
4 121 (4.78%) Grafana
5 108 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.18%) Argo
8 18 (0.71%) Consul
9 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.63%) Puppet
11 15 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.51%) Packer
13 12 (0.47%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.39%) Kibana
15 9 (0.36%) QRadar
15 9 (0.36%) SCCM
16 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
17 6 (0.24%) Istio
18 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
18 5 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 187 (7.39%) Microsoft
2 143 (5.65%) Databricks
3 94 (3.71%) Google
4 93 (3.67%) Oracle
5 84 (3.32%) Splunk
6 75 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 56 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 52 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.54%) IBM
9 39 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 37 (1.46%) Cisco
11 36 (1.42%) Dynatrace
11 36 (1.42%) VMware
12 35 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.38%) Centrify
13 33 (1.30%) SAP
14 27 (1.07%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.87%) Foundry
17 20 (0.79%) Informatica