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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,578 2,016 2,311
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.32% 16.26% 13.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.77% 38.31% 34.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,781 1,449 1,783
10th Percentile £402 £400 £406
25th Percentile £470 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £688 £699 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £831
England median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.31% -6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.75 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +23.70% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £74.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.07% +31.82% -26.67%

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 7,634 5,263 6,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.40% 42.44% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,275 3,635 4,954
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% +21.43% -34.98%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -3 284 £550 - 238
South London +5 86 £500 +1.78% 8
West London +6 82 £603 +11.88% 38
East London 0 15 £540 -7.69% 48
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
1 120 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.60%) Confluence
4 63 (2.44%) Apache
5 23 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.70%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.078%) Drupal
14 2 (0.078%) Mule
14 2 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.039%) Shopify
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (40.22%) Azure
2 562 (21.80%) GCP
3 389 (15.09%) Amazon S3
4 384 (14.90%) Serverless
5 334 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
6 330 (12.80%) GitHub
7 216 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
9 181 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
10 165 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
11 163 (6.32%) Snowflake
12 150 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 144 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
14 139 (5.39%) Power Platform
15 121 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 104 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
17 81 (3.14%) SaaS
18 68 (2.64%) dbt
19 66 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
20 65 (2.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.88%) Firewall
2 66 (2.56%) Network Security
3 62 (2.40%) DNS
4 58 (2.25%) VPN
5 46 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.28%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 19 (0.74%) HTTP
9 18 (0.70%) LAN
10 15 (0.58%) OSPF
10 15 (0.58%) SSL
11 14 (0.54%) DHCP
12 13 (0.50%) VLAN
13 11 (0.43%) NGFW
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.31%) SAN
17 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (4.73%) Data Lake
3 119 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 118 (4.58%) Power BI
5 111 (4.31%) NoSQL
6 110 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
7 107 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
8 98 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 95 (3.69%) SQL Server
10 74 (2.87%) MongoDB
11 73 (2.83%) DynamoDB
11 73 (2.83%) Tableau
12 72 (2.79%) Metadata
12 72 (2.79%) Relational Database
13 60 (2.33%) Big Data
14 45 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
15 43 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
16 42 (1.63%) BigQuery
16 42 (1.63%) MySQL
17 37 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 225 (8.73%) Git
1 225 (8.73%) Jenkins
2 210 (8.15%) GitLab
3 121 (4.69%) JIRA
4 43 (1.67%) MLflow
5 40 (1.55%) JUnit
6 32 (1.24%) Mockito
7 27 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 23 (0.89%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.81%) Gradle
9 21 (0.81%) JMeter
9 21 (0.81%) Maven
9 21 (0.81%) Selenium
10 20 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.78%) Postman
11 19 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.54%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.50%) Snyk
14 12 (0.47%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 587 (22.77%) Finance
2 534 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 357 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 224 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 213 (8.26%) Banking
6 87 (3.37%) Front Office
7 63 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.55%) Retail
11 39 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.09%) Marketing
16 24 (0.93%) Legal
17 22 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.54%) Military
19 12 (0.47%) Law
20 11 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 520 (20.17%) Architect
2 422 (16.37%) Developer
3 385 (14.93%) Senior
4 275 (10.67%) Data Engineer
5 274 (10.63%) Lead
6 237 (9.19%) AWS Engineer
7 187 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 144 (5.59%) Software Engineer
9 129 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 115 (4.46%) Senior Developer
11 107 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (4.07%) AWS Architect
13 98 (3.80%) Analyst
14 97 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
14 97 (3.76%) Java Developer
15 86 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
16 82 (3.18%) AWS DevOps
17 79 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 76 (2.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 76 (2.95%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (12.10%) Kafka
2 236 (9.15%) React
3 201 (7.80%) REST
4 180 (6.98%) Node.js
5 171 (6.63%) Spring
6 160 (6.21%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.47%) RESTful
8 88 (3.41%) .NET
9 83 (3.22%) PySpark
10 77 (2.99%) AngularJS
11 73 (2.83%) GraphQL
12 69 (2.68%) OAuth
13 66 (2.56%) SOAP
14 62 (2.40%) Redux
15 60 (2.33%) LDAP
16 57 (2.21%) HTML
16 57 (2.21%) Pandas
17 49 (1.90%) CSS
17 49 (1.90%) OpenID
18 47 (1.82%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 433 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 144 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (3.18%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.95%) Fixed Income
5 72 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 66 (2.56%) AI Agents
7 66 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.52%) Product Ownership
9 57 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 51 (1.98%) Data Centre
11 47 (1.82%) Derivative
11 47 (1.82%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.63%) Equities
14 35 (1.36%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.28%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.20%) Mainframe
18 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (6.98%) Linux
2 72 (2.79%) Windows
3 40 (1.55%) Unix
4 15 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.27%) VMS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) Solaris
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (37.94%) CI/CD
2 740 (28.70%) DevOps
3 589 (22.85%) Agile
4 520 (20.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 484 (18.77%) AI
6 403 (15.63%) Microservices
7 378 (14.66%) Containerisation
8 366 (14.20%) Analytics
9 339 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
10 316 (12.26%) Software Engineering
11 301 (11.68%) Migration
12 300 (11.64%) Data Modelling
13 279 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
14 275 (10.67%) Data Engineering
15 274 (10.63%) Observability
16 256 (9.93%) Machine Learning
17 242 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
18 240 (9.31%) ETL
19 227 (8.81%) Full-Stack Development
20 215 (8.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (38.83%) Python
2 560 (21.72%) SQL
3 468 (18.15%) Java
4 230 (8.92%) TypeScript
5 217 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.38%) C#
7 112 (4.34%) PowerShell
8 103 (4.00%) Bash
9 99 (3.84%) Go
10 42 (1.63%) Scala
11 38 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.40%) Ruby
13 21 (0.81%) R
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.70%) Bicep
15 18 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.62%) C++
17 11 (0.43%) PHP
18 10 (0.39%) Groovy
18 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 728 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 645 (25.02%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.24%) Degree
4 118 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 70 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (2.64%) CISSP
7 56 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (1.86%) DV Cleared
10 36 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.16%) CISM
14 26 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 25 (0.97%) PMI Certification
15 25 (0.97%) PMP
16 21 (0.81%) CCNP
17 20 (0.78%) CCSP
17 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 114 (4.42%) GDPR
3 97 (3.76%) QA
4 88 (3.41%) NIST
5 73 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.16%) SLA
9 24 (0.93%) GRC
9 24 (0.93%) NCSC
10 18 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 16 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.54%) PMO
13 11 (0.43%) WCAG
14 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.27%) MiFID
15 7 (0.27%) PSD2
15 7 (0.27%) SEPA
16 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 484 (18.77%) Docker
2 88 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.19%) HDFS
7 4 (0.16%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.078%) Firmware
9 2 (0.078%) KVM
9 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.078%) Postfix
9 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 588 (22.81%) Terraform
2 524 (20.33%) Kubernetes
3 144 (5.59%) Grafana
4 128 (4.97%) Ansible
5 124 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.74%) Argo
8 18 (0.70%) Kibana
8 18 (0.70%) Puppet
9 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.43%) Consul
11 11 (0.43%) QRadar
12 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
12 6 (0.23%) Packer
12 6 (0.23%) SCCM
13 5 (0.19%) Istio
13 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.16%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 192 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.00%) Databricks
3 94 (3.65%) Google
4 83 (3.22%) Oracle
4 83 (3.22%) ServiceNow
5 74 (2.87%) Splunk
6 64 (2.48%) CyberArk
7 61 (2.37%) OpenAI
8 54 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 47 (1.82%) Cisco
10 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
10 35 (1.36%) Centrify
10 35 (1.36%) SAP
11 34 (1.32%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.24%) VMware
13 31 (1.20%) IBM
14 29 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 22 (0.85%) Foundry