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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,508 2,000 2,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.04% 15.81% 12.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.32% 37.29% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 1,459 1,767
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +0.99% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £789
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £46.50 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £51.75 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £67.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £76.00 £71.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% +23.91% -11.88%

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 7,307 5,363 6,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.82% 42.40% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,011 3,749 4,962
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £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 104 50 78
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £21.44
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +3.90% -20.06%
75th Percentile £51.10 £54.88 £54.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.13 £64.73
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -16.00%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -1 292 £550 +2.80% 301
South London +3 94 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +12 60 £603 +6.64% 42
East London +2 11 £630 +7.69% 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
1 125 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 78 (3.11%) Confluence
4 66 (2.63%) Apache
5 33 (1.32%) nginx
6 22 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.68%) Camunda
8 16 (0.64%) SAS
9 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) CICS
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.080%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.080%) OpenROAD
14 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.040%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.040%) Notion
9 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.16%) Endur
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.080%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.040%) Maximo
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.040%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.040%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (40.99%) Azure
2 574 (22.89%) GCP
3 379 (15.11%) Serverless
4 359 (14.31%) Amazon S3
5 337 (13.44%) GitHub
6 324 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
7 237 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 191 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
9 176 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
10 160 (6.38%) Snowflake
11 153 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
12 146 (5.82%) Power Platform
13 144 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
14 134 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 115 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 85 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
17 64 (2.55%) dbt
18 61 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
19 59 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
20 58 (2.31%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 101 (4.03%) Firewall
2 71 (2.83%) VPN
3 62 (2.47%) DNS
4 61 (2.43%) Network Security
5 45 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.48%) WAN
7 20 (0.80%) BGP
8 18 (0.72%) LAN
9 17 (0.68%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.64%) HTTP
11 15 (0.60%) OSPF
12 14 (0.56%) VLAN
13 13 (0.52%) DHCP
14 11 (0.44%) SSL
15 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.36%) 5G
16 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
17 8 (0.32%) 4G
18 7 (0.28%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (5.14%) Power BI
3 123 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
5 120 (4.78%) NoSQL
6 113 (4.51%) Data Lake
7 99 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
8 96 (3.83%) SQL Server
9 92 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (3.51%) Relational Database
11 79 (3.15%) Tableau
12 72 (2.87%) DynamoDB
12 72 (2.87%) MongoDB
13 67 (2.67%) Metadata
14 55 (2.19%) Big Data
15 53 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
16 52 (2.07%) MySQL
17 40 (1.59%) BigQuery
18 36 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
19 32 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 253 (10.09%) Git
2 217 (8.65%) GitLab
3 209 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 137 (5.46%) JIRA
5 46 (1.83%) JUnit
6 43 (1.71%) MLflow
7 30 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 30 (1.20%) Mockito
8 24 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 21 (0.84%) Selenium
10 20 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 19 (0.76%) Maven
12 17 (0.68%) JMeter
13 15 (0.60%) Gradle
14 14 (0.56%) Gatling
15 13 (0.52%) Postman
15 13 (0.52%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.40%) Snyk
General
1 583 (23.25%) Social Skills
2 570 (22.73%) Finance
3 357 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 233 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (8.37%) Banking
6 91 (3.63%) Front Office
7 62 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 39 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.08%) Retail
14 24 (0.96%) Legal
15 20 (0.80%) Marketing
16 16 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.60%) Military
18 14 (0.56%) Law
19 13 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 468 (18.66%) Architect
2 445 (17.74%) Developer
3 390 (15.55%) Senior
4 243 (9.69%) Lead
5 238 (9.49%) Data Engineer
6 228 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 187 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 150 (5.98%) Software Engineer
9 126 (5.02%) Senior Developer
10 115 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
11 113 (4.51%) Analyst
12 97 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 96 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
14 93 (3.71%) Python Engineer
15 92 (3.67%) AWS Architect
15 92 (3.67%) Java Developer
16 87 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 83 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 81 (3.23%) Python Developer
19 78 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (13.44%) Kafka
2 251 (10.01%) React
3 204 (8.13%) Node.js
4 196 (7.81%) REST
5 144 (5.74%) Spring
6 138 (5.50%) RESTful
7 131 (5.22%) Spring Boot
8 90 (3.59%) AngularJS
9 72 (2.87%) PySpark
10 71 (2.83%) .NET
11 67 (2.67%) SOAP
12 65 (2.59%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.55%) CSS
14 63 (2.51%) OAuth
15 61 (2.43%) HTML
16 60 (2.39%) Redux
17 57 (2.27%) Pandas
18 56 (2.23%) gRPC
19 50 (1.99%) JSON
19 50 (1.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 375 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 136 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (3.15%) Fixed Income
4 75 (2.99%) Security Posture
5 68 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 63 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 55 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 53 (2.11%) Derivative
10 52 (2.07%) AI Agents
11 51 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.75%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.75%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.67%) Equities
14 38 (1.52%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
16 35 (1.40%) Data Structures
17 28 (1.12%) Mainframe
18 25 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 188 (7.50%) Linux
2 72 (2.87%) Windows
3 50 (1.99%) Unix
4 12 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.44%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
6 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.24%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.080%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 949 (37.84%) CI/CD
2 695 (27.71%) DevOps
3 623 (24.84%) Agile
4 488 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 436 (17.38%) AI
6 397 (15.83%) Microservices
7 369 (14.71%) Analytics
8 362 (14.43%) Containerisation
9 361 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
10 325 (12.96%) Software Engineering
11 298 (11.88%) Data Modelling
12 272 (10.85%) Data Engineering
13 265 (10.57%) Data Pipeline
14 261 (10.41%) Migration
15 260 (10.37%) Machine Learning
16 249 (9.93%) Observability
17 244 (9.73%) ETL
18 213 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
19 210 (8.37%) Full-Stack Development
20 203 (8.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,020 (40.67%) Python
2 577 (23.01%) SQL
3 449 (17.90%) Java
4 230 (9.17%) TypeScript
5 224 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.63%) Go
7 102 (4.07%) C#
8 101 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 99 (3.95%) Bash
10 40 (1.59%) Ruby
11 37 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.44%) Scala
13 25 (1.00%) C++
14 20 (0.80%) R
15 18 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.56%) Bicep
16 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.40%) Korn
18 9 (0.36%) PHP
18 9 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 715 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 627 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 124 (4.94%) AWS Certification
4 122 (4.86%) Degree
5 68 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (2.23%) CISSP
7 49 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 43 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 32 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (1.12%) CISM
13 24 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.96%) PMP
14 20 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (0.76%) CCNP
16 16 (0.64%) OSCP
17 14 (0.56%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 129 (5.14%) GDPR
3 94 (3.75%) QA
4 78 (3.11%) NIST
5 77 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.08%) NCSC
9 22 (0.88%) SLA
10 17 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 17 (0.68%) WCAG
11 14 (0.56%) GRC
11 14 (0.56%) PMO
12 12 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.28%) PSD2
16 6 (0.24%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 518 (20.65%) Docker
2 71 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.40%) 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 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.080%) IAG
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.040%) Ceph
12 1 (0.040%) iptables
12 1 (0.040%) KVM
12 1 (0.040%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 586 (23.37%) Terraform
2 538 (21.45%) Kubernetes
3 136 (5.42%) Ansible
4 118 (4.70%) Grafana
5 108 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.16%) Argo
8 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.72%) Consul
10 16 (0.64%) Puppet
11 14 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.52%) Packer
13 11 (0.44%) SCCM
14 9 (0.36%) Kibana
14 9 (0.36%) QRadar
15 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.24%) Istio
17 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 183 (7.30%) Microsoft
2 141 (5.62%) Databricks
3 97 (3.87%) Google
4 95 (3.79%) Oracle
5 83 (3.31%) Splunk
6 73 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 56 (2.23%) CyberArk
8 51 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 41 (1.63%) Cisco
10 38 (1.52%) IBM
10 38 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 36 (1.44%) Dynatrace
12 35 (1.40%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.40%) Centrify
13 33 (1.32%) VMware
14 31 (1.24%) SAP
15 29 (1.16%) Palo Alto
16 26 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 22 (0.88%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.84%) Informatica