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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,762 2,116 2,263
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.72% 15.83% 13.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.64% 36.44% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 1,463 1,671
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £479 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -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% -64.97%
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 8,211 5,807 6,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.79% 43.45% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,655 3,956 4,585
10th Percentile £358 £343 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 92 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.55 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.89
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.25 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -5.02% -23.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -4 275 £575 -1.71% 334
West London +7 94 £560 +31.76% 128
South London 0 75 £535 -5.38% 10
East London +10 13 £525 -13.58% 20
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
1 158 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.16%) Apache Spark
3 105 (3.80%) Confluence
4 84 (3.04%) Apache
5 26 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.51%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) CMS
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 8 (0.29%) Camunda
8 8 (0.29%) CICS
8 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 26 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) 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 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.11%) Shopify
7 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.072%) Endur
7 2 (0.072%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,232 (44.61%) Azure
2 623 (22.56%) GCP
3 385 (13.94%) Serverless
4 377 (13.65%) Amazon S3
5 363 (13.14%) GitHub
6 321 (11.62%) AWS Lambda
7 245 (8.87%) GitHub Actions
8 235 (8.51%) Snowflake
9 219 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
10 183 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 159 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
12 153 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 149 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
14 147 (5.32%) dbt
15 134 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
16 130 (4.71%) Power Platform
17 126 (4.56%) SaaS
18 120 (4.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 102 (3.69%) Entra ID
20 96 (3.48%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.58%) Firewall
2 79 (2.86%) Network Security
3 59 (2.14%) DNS
4 52 (1.88%) VPN
5 37 (1.34%) WAN
6 29 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.91%) DHCP
8 22 (0.80%) SSH
8 22 (0.80%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.69%) BGP
10 19 (0.69%) Internet
11 17 (0.62%) HTTP
12 16 (0.58%) OSPF
13 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.54%) MPLS
14 14 (0.51%) NGFW
15 12 (0.43%) IPsec
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.34%) NoSQL
5 115 (4.16%) Power BI
6 110 (3.98%) Data Lake
7 108 (3.91%) SQL Server
8 104 (3.77%) Metadata
9 94 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
10 92 (3.33%) MongoDB
11 91 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 88 (3.19%) DynamoDB
13 75 (2.72%) Relational Database
14 66 (2.39%) Delta Lake
15 60 (2.17%) MySQL
16 59 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
17 56 (2.03%) Tableau
18 51 (1.85%) Big Data
19 47 (1.70%) Redis
20 45 (1.63%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 304 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 295 (10.68%) Git
3 268 (9.70%) GitLab
4 152 (5.50%) JIRA
5 36 (1.30%) Maven
6 35 (1.27%) JMeter
7 34 (1.23%) JUnit
8 31 (1.12%) Selenium
9 30 (1.09%) Bitbucket
10 29 (1.05%) SonarQube
11 28 (1.01%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.98%) Cucumber
13 25 (0.91%) Mockito
14 23 (0.83%) Gradle
14 23 (0.83%) Postman
15 19 (0.69%) Claude Code
16 18 (0.65%) Gatling
17 17 (0.62%) REST Assured
18 13 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 11 (0.40%) Artifactory
General
1 684 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 659 (23.86%) Finance
3 378 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 266 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (9.27%) Banking
6 88 (3.19%) Retail
7 64 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (1.70%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 37 (1.34%) Marketing
11 34 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 34 (1.23%) Front Office
12 32 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.16%) Legal
13 31 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 28 (1.01%) Law
14 28 (1.01%) Military
15 27 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (0.87%) Billing
17 23 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 564 (20.42%) Architect
2 449 (16.26%) Senior
3 336 (12.17%) Developer
4 300 (10.86%) Data Engineer
5 292 (10.57%) Lead
6 265 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
7 216 (7.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 135 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (4.02%) AWS Architect
10 110 (3.98%) Analyst
10 110 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 104 (3.77%) Data Architect
12 101 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 101 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
13 98 (3.55%) Java Developer
14 91 (3.29%) Software Engineer
15 90 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
16 81 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
17 76 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
18 75 (2.72%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 714 (25.85%) Terraform
2 322 (11.66%) Kafka
3 289 (10.46%) REST
4 196 (7.10%) React
5 179 (6.48%) Spring
6 164 (5.94%) Spring Boot
7 152 (5.50%) RESTful
8 114 (4.13%) Node.js
9 108 (3.91%) PySpark
10 98 (3.55%) .NET
11 95 (3.44%) OAuth
12 74 (2.68%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.35%) FastAPI
13 65 (2.35%) HTML
14 64 (2.32%) JSON
15 63 (2.28%) AngularJS
16 59 (2.14%) SOAP
17 54 (1.96%) CSS
17 54 (1.96%) OAuth2
18 48 (1.74%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 547 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 178 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 141 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 140 (5.07%) AI Agents
5 129 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (2.46%) Security Posture
9 66 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 45 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 42 (1.52%) Replication
14 41 (1.48%) PKI
15 38 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
16 36 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
16 36 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
17 35 (1.27%) Virtual Team
18 33 (1.19%) Public Cloud
19 29 (1.05%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 248 (8.98%) Linux
2 120 (4.34%) Windows
3 54 (1.96%) Unix
4 49 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) 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%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (42.22%) CI/CD
2 881 (31.90%) DevOps
3 700 (25.34%) Agile
4 664 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 620 (22.45%) AI
6 470 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 404 (14.63%) Microservices
8 396 (14.34%) Containerisation
9 392 (14.19%) Observability
10 358 (12.96%) Migration
11 354 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
12 340 (12.31%) Analytics
12 340 (12.31%) Software Engineering
13 335 (12.13%) Data Modelling
14 332 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
15 331 (11.98%) Data Engineering
16 325 (11.77%) Event-Driven
17 322 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
18 304 (11.01%) Technical Leadership
19 295 (10.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (36.42%) Python
2 605 (21.90%) SQL
3 464 (16.80%) Java
4 206 (7.46%) JavaScript
5 199 (7.20%) TypeScript
6 175 (6.34%) Bash
7 141 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 112 (4.06%) C#
9 53 (1.92%) Go
10 52 (1.88%) Scala
11 37 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.30%) Bicep
13 31 (1.12%) Groovy
14 26 (0.94%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.72%) C++
17 17 (0.62%) R
18 15 (0.54%) Ruby
19 14 (0.51%) T-SQL
20 13 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 767 (27.77%) Security Cleared
2 675 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 171 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 140 (5.07%) Degree
5 92 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 85 (3.08%) CISSP
7 73 (2.64%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 59 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 48 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (1.70%) CISM
13 30 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 21 (0.76%) CCSP
14 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 19 (0.69%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.65%) PMP
17 16 (0.58%) Master's Degree
18 15 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 165 (5.97%) QA
3 102 (3.69%) NIST
4 101 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (2.57%) GDPR
6 37 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.09%) GRC
8 28 (1.01%) NCSC
8 28 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.87%) SLA
10 21 (0.76%) ISO 20022
10 21 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.65%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.54%) EU AI Act
12 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.47%) SEPA
14 9 (0.33%) PMO
15 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 499 (18.07%) Docker
2 84 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.83%) 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
1 635 (22.99%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.68%) Grafana
3 197 (7.13%) Ansible
4 161 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.59%) Kibana
6 36 (1.30%) Argo
7 28 (1.01%) Puppet
8 27 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.43%) Istio
9 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.40%) Packer
11 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
13 6 (0.22%) QRadar
14 5 (0.18%) CA Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 290 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 192 (6.95%) Databricks
3 140 (5.07%) Google
4 136 (4.92%) Oracle
5 115 (4.16%) ServiceNow
6 109 (3.95%) Splunk
7 68 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.88%) VMware
10 51 (1.85%) SAP
11 50 (1.81%) Cisco
12 49 (1.77%) CyberArk
13 44 (1.59%) Palo Alto
14 39 (1.41%) Dynatrace
15 37 (1.34%) Informatica
16 35 (1.27%) IBM
17 32 (1.16%) Fortinet
18 27 (0.98%) Red Hat
19 24 (0.87%) Foundry
19 24 (0.87%) MuleSoft