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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,818 2,250 2,354
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.22% 16.54% 14.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.29% 38.64% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,951 1,577 1,809
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 12
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +96.20% -66.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £59.88
90th Percentile - £86.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £71.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -2.07% +56.99% -37.59%

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 8,218 5,823 6,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.81% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,600 3,975 4,975
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 59
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £22.19
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £67.50 £66.20
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -37.14%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -5 294 £550 -4.35% 158
West London +7 99 £560 +28.00% 47
South London +2 86 £513 -3.53% 9
East London +7 14 £525 -10.26% 28
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
1 137 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 94 (3.34%) Confluence
4 69 (2.45%) Apache
5 35 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.53%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
7 12 (0.43%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.28%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.071%) Trello
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.071%) Endur
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.035%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,212 (43.01%) Azure
2 621 (22.04%) GCP
3 395 (14.02%) Serverless
4 389 (13.80%) Amazon S3
5 352 (12.49%) GitHub
6 334 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
7 221 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
8 196 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
9 192 (6.81%) Snowflake
10 167 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 166 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 163 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
13 139 (4.93%) Power Platform
14 134 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
15 126 (4.47%) SaaS
16 125 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
17 115 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 101 (3.58%) dbt
19 92 (3.26%) Amazon Bedrock
20 90 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 110 (3.90%) Firewall
2 90 (3.19%) Network Security
3 71 (2.52%) DNS
4 67 (2.38%) VPN
5 48 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.28%) WAN
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 25 (0.89%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) BGP
10 18 (0.64%) SSL
11 16 (0.57%) Internet
11 16 (0.57%) OSPF
12 15 (0.53%) SSH
12 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.46%) LAN
13 13 (0.46%) NGFW
14 12 (0.43%) SAN
14 12 (0.43%) VLAN
15 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
15 11 (0.39%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 125 (4.44%) Power BI
4 123 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
5 120 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 117 (4.15%) Data Lake
7 102 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 101 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
9 97 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 89 (3.16%) DynamoDB
11 83 (2.95%) Metadata
12 74 (2.63%) MongoDB
13 72 (2.56%) Relational Database
14 70 (2.48%) Tableau
15 65 (2.31%) Big Data
16 44 (1.56%) Delta Lake
17 42 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
18 40 (1.42%) BigQuery
19 34 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
20 33 (1.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 272 (9.65%) Git
2 261 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 243 (8.62%) GitLab
4 148 (5.25%) JIRA
5 36 (1.28%) JUnit
6 32 (1.14%) JMeter
7 31 (1.10%) MLflow
8 30 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.03%) Maven
9 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.99%) Mockito
11 24 (0.85%) Selenium
12 22 (0.78%) Gradle
13 21 (0.75%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.75%) Postman
14 20 (0.71%) Gatling
15 19 (0.67%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
17 14 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 699 (24.80%) Finance
2 601 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 412 (14.62%) Public Sector
4 258 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 249 (8.84%) Banking
6 86 (3.05%) Front Office
7 69 (2.45%) Retail
8 61 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (1.99%) Investment Banking
11 46 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 37 (1.31%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.21%) Marketing
14 28 (0.99%) Legal
15 27 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (0.82%) Law
17 22 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 590 (20.94%) Architect
2 433 (15.37%) Senior
3 404 (14.34%) Developer
4 321 (11.39%) Lead
5 283 (10.04%) AWS Engineer
6 282 (10.01%) Data Engineer
7 212 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 164 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
9 140 (4.97%) Software Engineer
10 124 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 117 (4.15%) Java Developer
12 114 (4.05%) AWS Architect
13 110 (3.90%) Analyst
14 99 (3.51%) Senior Developer
15 93 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
16 87 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 86 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
18 84 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 83 (2.95%) Cloud Architect
20 79 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (11.39%) Kafka
2 244 (8.66%) React
3 231 (8.20%) REST
4 182 (6.46%) Node.js
5 170 (6.03%) Spring
6 158 (5.61%) Spring Boot
7 143 (5.07%) RESTful
8 93 (3.30%) GraphQL
9 91 (3.23%) PySpark
10 88 (3.12%) .NET
11 77 (2.73%) OAuth
12 68 (2.41%) AngularJS
13 67 (2.38%) Redux
14 59 (2.09%) FastAPI
14 59 (2.09%) JSON
15 56 (1.99%) HTML
16 50 (1.77%) CSS
17 49 (1.74%) Pandas
18 46 (1.63%) LangChain
18 46 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 498 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 190 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 121 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 107 (3.80%) AI Agents
5 92 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 89 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.73%) Fixed Income
8 69 (2.45%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.38%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 47 (1.67%) Management Information System
13 41 (1.45%) Derivative
14 38 (1.35%) Data Structures
15 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (1.31%) Equities
16 34 (1.21%) Algorithms
16 34 (1.21%) CMDB
17 33 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 215 (7.63%) Linux
2 118 (4.19%) Windows
3 43 (1.53%) Unix
4 39 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 6 (0.21%) 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 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,112 (39.46%) CI/CD
2 845 (29.99%) DevOps
3 704 (24.98%) Agile
4 594 (21.08%) AI
5 590 (20.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 418 (14.83%) Microservices
7 400 (14.19%) Containerisation
8 372 (13.20%) Analytics
9 358 (12.70%) Migration
10 354 (12.56%) Software Engineering
11 343 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
12 335 (11.89%) Observability
13 333 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 329 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
15 322 (11.43%) Data Modelling
16 317 (11.25%) Data Engineering
17 315 (11.18%) Machine Learning
18 289 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
19 279 (9.90%) Event-Driven
20 267 (9.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,040 (36.91%) Python
2 583 (20.69%) SQL
3 501 (17.78%) Java
4 264 (9.37%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.34%) JavaScript
6 143 (5.07%) Bash
7 121 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.94%) C#
9 84 (2.98%) Go
10 44 (1.56%) Scala
11 36 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.10%) Ruby
13 30 (1.06%) Bicep
14 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.75%) R
16 20 (0.71%) Groovy
17 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 15 (0.53%) PL/SQL
19 14 (0.50%) C++
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 739 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 665 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.29%) Degree
4 134 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 89 (3.16%) CISSP
6 68 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 62 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.49%) CISM
12 35 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 22 (0.78%) CCSP
16 20 (0.71%) CCNP
17 19 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 19 (0.67%) PMP
18 17 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
19 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 127 (4.51%) QA
3 95 (3.37%) GDPR
4 94 (3.34%) NIST
5 79 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.17%) GRC
8 32 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.85%) SLA
10 21 (0.75%) NCSC
11 18 (0.64%) PMO
11 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.39%) WCAG
17 10 (0.35%) SEPA
18 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 486 (17.25%) Docker
2 82 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.50%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) vSphere
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.071%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 661 (23.46%) Terraform
2 587 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 186 (6.60%) Grafana
4 172 (6.10%) Ansible
5 147 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.03%) Argo
8 25 (0.89%) Kibana
9 23 (0.82%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.35%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) QRadar
13 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.25%) Istio
15 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) Consul
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 252 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.65%) Databricks
3 124 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 116 (4.12%) Google
5 105 (3.73%) Oracle
6 84 (2.98%) Splunk
7 70 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.74%) Cisco
10 45 (1.60%) CyberArk
11 43 (1.53%) VMware
12 41 (1.45%) SAP
13 36 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.21%) Foundry
15 30 (1.06%) MuleSoft
16 29 (1.03%) IBM
17 28 (0.99%) Dynatrace
17 28 (0.99%) Informatica
18 25 (0.89%) Red Hat
19 23 (0.82%) Qualys