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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,816 2,177 2,409
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.61% 16.89% 13.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.88% 39.40% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,949 1,521 1,877
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -4.17% -0.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £753
90th Percentile £783 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £538 £565
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.87% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 12
10th Percentile £39.50 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +93.49% -65.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £65.00 £59.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £80.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -36.74%

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 8,074 5,525 6,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.90% 42.86% 39.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,553 3,740 5,097
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 75 66
10th Percentile £20.61 £22.70 £18.89
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.08 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +18.65% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.11 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -2 292 £550 - 284
West London +3 91 £560 +20.74% 114
South London +2 86 £500 -2.44% 2
East London +6 16 £540 -7.69% 32
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
1 138 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 84 (2.98%) Confluence
4 65 (2.31%) Apache
5 30 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) Camunda
7 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 8 (0.28%) CMS
9 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 44 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.28%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.18%) Magento
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Endur
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.036%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.036%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,161 (41.23%) Azure
2 583 (20.70%) GCP
3 411 (14.60%) Serverless
4 407 (14.45%) Amazon S3
5 353 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
6 347 (12.32%) GitHub
7 221 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
8 197 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
8 197 (7.00%) Snowflake
9 196 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 174 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
11 168 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 148 (5.26%) Power Platform
13 144 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
14 124 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 119 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
16 116 (4.12%) SaaS
17 100 (3.55%) dbt
18 93 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
19 86 (3.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 110 (3.91%) Firewall
2 89 (3.16%) Network Security
3 72 (2.56%) VPN
4 67 (2.38%) DNS
5 45 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.42%) WAN
7 23 (0.82%) BGP
7 23 (0.82%) DHCP
8 22 (0.78%) HTTP
9 19 (0.67%) SSL
10 17 (0.60%) OSPF
11 16 (0.57%) Internet
11 16 (0.57%) LAN
12 14 (0.50%) NGFW
12 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
13 11 (0.39%) VLAN
14 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.36%) SAN
14 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 131 (4.65%) Power BI
5 123 (4.37%) Data Lake
6 118 (4.19%) NoSQL
7 112 (3.98%) SQL Server
8 111 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
9 105 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 84 (2.98%) DynamoDB
11 82 (2.91%) Metadata
12 78 (2.77%) MongoDB
13 77 (2.73%) Tableau
14 73 (2.59%) Relational Database
15 66 (2.34%) Big Data
16 45 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
17 43 (1.53%) BigQuery
18 39 (1.38%) Delta Lake
19 38 (1.35%) MySQL
20 34 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 256 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 254 (9.02%) Git
3 252 (8.95%) GitLab
4 149 (5.29%) JIRA
5 41 (1.46%) JUnit
6 33 (1.17%) Mockito
7 31 (1.10%) MLflow
8 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.03%) JMeter
10 26 (0.92%) Maven
11 25 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 22 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 22 (0.78%) Gradle
12 22 (0.78%) Selenium
13 21 (0.75%) Postman
14 20 (0.71%) Bitbucket
15 18 (0.64%) Gatling
16 17 (0.60%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.57%) CircleCI
18 15 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 685 (24.33%) Finance
2 593 (21.06%) Social Skills
3 394 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 246 (8.74%) Banking
5 239 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (2.98%) Front Office
7 69 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 68 (2.41%) Retail
9 60 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 57 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 41 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 28 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (0.96%) Marketing
15 26 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (0.82%) Legal
17 21 (0.75%) Law
18 17 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 556 (19.74%) Architect
2 423 (15.02%) Senior
3 411 (14.60%) Developer
4 313 (11.12%) Lead
5 303 (10.76%) Data Engineer
6 298 (10.58%) AWS Engineer
7 225 (7.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 154 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
9 152 (5.40%) Software Engineer
10 134 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 117 (4.15%) AWS Architect
12 108 (3.84%) Java Developer
13 102 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
14 101 (3.59%) Senior Developer
15 100 (3.55%) Analyst
16 96 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 92 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
18 88 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 85 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
20 78 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (11.29%) Kafka
2 243 (8.63%) React
3 211 (7.49%) REST
4 178 (6.32%) Node.js
5 173 (6.14%) Spring
6 164 (5.82%) Spring Boot
7 144 (5.11%) RESTful
8 97 (3.44%) .NET
9 94 (3.34%) PySpark
10 89 (3.16%) GraphQL
11 78 (2.77%) OAuth
12 73 (2.59%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.27%) Redux
14 56 (1.99%) FastAPI
14 56 (1.99%) JSON
15 51 (1.81%) Pandas
16 49 (1.74%) OpenID
17 48 (1.70%) HTML
18 46 (1.63%) SOAP
19 44 (1.56%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 497 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 173 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 96 (3.41%) AI Agents
5 85 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.73%) Fixed Income
8 71 (2.52%) Security Posture
9 68 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 56 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 53 (1.88%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.53%) Derivative
14 39 (1.38%) Equities
15 34 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
15 34 (1.21%) Public Cloud
16 32 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.10%) Algorithms
17 31 (1.10%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 212 (7.53%) Linux
2 111 (3.94%) Windows
3 43 (1.53%) Unix
4 34 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.43%) Android
7 11 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.28%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.071%) VMS
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,108 (39.35%) CI/CD
2 845 (30.01%) DevOps
3 681 (24.18%) Agile
4 592 (21.02%) AI
5 588 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 415 (14.74%) Microservices
7 413 (14.67%) Containerisation
8 389 (13.81%) Analytics
9 350 (12.43%) Migration
10 347 (12.32%) Software Engineering
11 343 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
12 328 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
13 318 (11.29%) Data Engineering
14 314 (11.15%) Data Modelling
15 308 (10.94%) Observability
16 303 (10.76%) Machine Learning
17 302 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
18 278 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 251 (8.91%) Event-Driven
20 250 (8.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,049 (37.25%) Python
2 586 (20.81%) SQL
3 491 (17.44%) Java
4 262 (9.30%) TypeScript
5 223 (7.92%) JavaScript
6 129 (4.58%) Bash
7 121 (4.30%) C#
8 114 (4.05%) PowerShell
9 89 (3.16%) Go
10 47 (1.67%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.14%) Ruby
13 30 (1.07%) Bicep
14 24 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.71%) R
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.57%) Groovy
18 13 (0.46%) C++
18 13 (0.46%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 743 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 663 (23.54%) SC Cleared
3 152 (5.40%) Degree
4 130 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 88 (3.13%) CISSP
6 68 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 59 (2.10%) DV Cleared
9 53 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (1.38%) CISM
12 33 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (1.10%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.82%) CCSP
15 22 (0.78%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.78%) PMP
16 20 (0.71%) CCNP
17 16 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 117 (4.15%) QA
3 102 (3.62%) GDPR
4 93 (3.30%) NIST
5 79 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) GRC
9 27 (0.96%) SLA
10 22 (0.78%) NCSC
11 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.60%) PMO
13 16 (0.57%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
14 13 (0.46%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.43%) WCAG
16 11 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.28%) SEPA
18 6 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 501 (17.79%) Docker
2 80 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) Squid
6 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) IAG
8 5 (0.18%) NFS
9 4 (0.14%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.071%) HDFS
11 2 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 680 (24.15%) Terraform
2 593 (21.06%) Kubernetes
3 171 (6.07%) Ansible
4 166 (5.89%) Grafana
5 144 (5.11%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.92%) Puppet
8 24 (0.85%) Kibana
9 20 (0.71%) Argo
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.43%) Consul
12 12 (0.43%) Packer
13 10 (0.36%) QRadar
14 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.25%) Istio
15 6 (0.21%) CA Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 230 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.69%) Databricks
3 107 (3.80%) Google
4 106 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 96 (3.41%) Oracle
6 79 (2.81%) Splunk
7 70 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 62 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.74%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.70%) Cisco
11 39 (1.38%) VMware
12 36 (1.28%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.21%) Foundry
13 34 (1.21%) SAP
14 31 (1.10%) Informatica
15 30 (1.07%) Dynatrace
15 30 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 29 (1.03%) IBM
16 29 (1.03%) MuleSoft
17 22 (0.78%) Fortinet