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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,840 2,232 2,414
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.37% 16.46% 13.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.59% 38.49% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,971 1,551 1,871
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £775 £838 £850
England median daily rate £550 £537 £565
% change year-on-year +2.42% -4.96% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 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 £88.25 £86.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 8,210 5,799 6,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.55% 42.76% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,948 5,111
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 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 16 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 16 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 -4 293 £550 - 110
West London +5 96 £560 +28.00% 50
South London +2 90 £519 -2.16% 5
East London +9 16 £540 -7.69% 36
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 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 96 (3.38%) Confluence
4 69 (2.43%) Apache
5 34 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 21 (0.74%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) Camunda
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) CMS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 47 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.28%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Endur
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.070%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.070%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.070%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.035%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.035%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,204 (42.39%) Azure
2 610 (21.48%) GCP
3 410 (14.44%) Amazon S3
3 410 (14.44%) Serverless
4 353 (12.43%) GitHub
5 348 (12.25%) AWS Lambda
6 227 (7.99%) GitHub Actions
7 204 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
8 190 (6.69%) Snowflake
9 181 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 176 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
11 173 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 144 (5.07%) Power Platform
13 141 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
14 126 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
15 125 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 123 (4.33%) SaaS
17 99 (3.49%) dbt
18 95 (3.35%) Amazon Bedrock
19 90 (3.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 116 (4.08%) Firewall
2 89 (3.13%) Network Security
3 74 (2.61%) DNS
4 72 (2.54%) VPN
5 52 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.34%) WAN
7 25 (0.88%) DHCP
7 25 (0.88%) HTTP
8 23 (0.81%) BGP
9 18 (0.63%) SSL
10 17 (0.60%) OSPF
11 16 (0.56%) Internet
12 14 (0.49%) LAN
12 14 (0.49%) NGFW
13 13 (0.46%) OpenVPN
13 13 (0.46%) SAN
13 13 (0.46%) SSH
13 13 (0.46%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.42%) NAS
15 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 129 (4.54%) Power BI
5 120 (4.23%) Data Lake
6 112 (3.94%) NoSQL
7 106 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
8 104 (3.66%) SQL Server
9 99 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (3.10%) DynamoDB
11 84 (2.96%) Metadata
12 74 (2.61%) Tableau
13 73 (2.57%) Relational Database
14 67 (2.36%) MongoDB
15 66 (2.32%) Big Data
16 44 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
17 43 (1.51%) BigQuery
18 42 (1.48%) Delta Lake
19 38 (1.34%) MySQL
20 34 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 272 (9.58%) Git
2 265 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 249 (8.77%) GitLab
4 154 (5.42%) JIRA
5 37 (1.30%) JUnit
6 34 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 31 (1.09%) JMeter
7 31 (1.09%) Maven
7 31 (1.09%) MLflow
7 31 (1.09%) Mockito
8 28 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 24 (0.85%) Gradle
9 24 (0.85%) Selenium
10 23 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 22 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.77%) Postman
12 19 (0.67%) Gatling
12 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
13 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 14 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 699 (24.61%) Finance
2 608 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 410 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 252 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 250 (8.80%) Banking
6 85 (2.99%) Front Office
7 68 (2.39%) Retail
8 67 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 43 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 40 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.16%) Marketing
14 27 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (0.92%) Legal
16 22 (0.77%) Law
16 22 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 581 (20.46%) Architect
2 431 (15.18%) Senior
3 410 (14.44%) Developer
4 324 (11.41%) Lead
5 294 (10.35%) AWS Engineer
6 289 (10.18%) Data Engineer
7 221 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 161 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
9 148 (5.21%) Software Engineer
10 128 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.15%) AWS Architect
12 112 (3.94%) Java Developer
13 105 (3.70%) Analyst
14 98 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
15 96 (3.38%) Senior Developer
16 92 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
18 86 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 84 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
20 77 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (11.13%) Kafka
2 246 (8.66%) React
3 222 (7.82%) REST
4 182 (6.41%) Node.js
5 168 (5.92%) Spring
6 158 (5.56%) Spring Boot
7 142 (5.00%) RESTful
8 94 (3.31%) GraphQL
9 92 (3.24%) .NET
9 92 (3.24%) PySpark
10 80 (2.82%) OAuth
11 69 (2.43%) AngularJS
12 65 (2.29%) Redux
13 56 (1.97%) FastAPI
14 55 (1.94%) JSON
15 53 (1.87%) HTML
16 52 (1.83%) Pandas
17 48 (1.69%) LangChain
18 47 (1.65%) CSS
19 46 (1.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 496 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 187 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 104 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 88 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 87 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 76 (2.68%) Fixed Income
8 72 (2.54%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.36%) Security Posture
10 57 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 48 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.44%) Derivative
15 37 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (1.30%) Equities
16 35 (1.23%) Public Cloud
17 34 (1.20%) Data Structures
18 33 (1.16%) PKI
19 31 (1.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 216 (7.61%) Linux
2 117 (4.12%) Windows
3 42 (1.48%) Unix
4 36 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.42%) Android
5 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.25%) Solaris
7 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.25%) zOS
8 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.11%) AIX
10 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.070%) CentOS
11 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,116 (39.30%) CI/CD
2 857 (30.18%) DevOps
3 704 (24.79%) Agile
4 591 (20.81%) AI
5 590 (20.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 425 (14.96%) Microservices
7 404 (14.23%) Containerisation
8 382 (13.45%) Analytics
9 360 (12.68%) Migration
10 359 (12.64%) Software Engineering
11 350 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
12 334 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
13 329 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 325 (11.44%) Observability
15 324 (11.41%) Data Modelling
16 320 (11.27%) Data Engineering
17 317 (11.16%) Machine Learning
18 293 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
19 277 (9.75%) Event-Driven
20 271 (9.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,058 (37.25%) Python
2 584 (20.56%) SQL
3 502 (17.68%) Java
4 267 (9.40%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.27%) JavaScript
6 139 (4.89%) Bash
7 118 (4.15%) C#
7 118 (4.15%) PowerShell
8 88 (3.10%) Go
9 48 (1.69%) Scala
10 33 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.09%) Ruby
12 29 (1.02%) Bicep
13 24 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 20 (0.70%) R
15 19 (0.67%) Groovy
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.46%) C++
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 751 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 677 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 147 (5.18%) Degree
4 137 (4.82%) AWS Certification
5 90 (3.17%) CISSP
6 69 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 63 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 50 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 41 (1.44%) CISM
12 33 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 30 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 22 (0.77%) CCSP
16 21 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 21 (0.74%) PMP
17 19 (0.67%) CCNP
18 17 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
19 16 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 122 (4.30%) QA
3 96 (3.38%) GDPR
4 93 (3.27%) NIST
5 79 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.09%) GRC
7 31 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 26 (0.92%) SLA
9 22 (0.77%) NCSC
10 18 (0.63%) PMO
10 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.56%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.42%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.39%) WCAG
16 10 (0.35%) SEPA
17 6 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 497 (17.50%) Docker
2 82 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) IAG
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.14%) vSphere
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Postfix
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.070%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.070%) HDFS
13 2 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 675 (23.77%) Terraform
2 593 (20.88%) Kubernetes
3 185 (6.51%) Grafana
4 168 (5.92%) Ansible
5 150 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 46 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.99%) Argo
8 25 (0.88%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.42%) Consul
12 12 (0.42%) Packer
12 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.35%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 251 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.61%) Databricks
3 119 (4.19%) Google
4 116 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 103 (3.63%) Oracle
6 83 (2.92%) Splunk
7 68 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 59 (2.08%) OpenAI
9 47 (1.65%) Cisco
10 45 (1.58%) CyberArk
11 40 (1.41%) SAP
12 39 (1.37%) VMware
13 36 (1.27%) Foundry
14 35 (1.23%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.09%) Dynatrace
15 31 (1.09%) Red Hat
16 30 (1.06%) IBM
16 30 (1.06%) MuleSoft
17 28 (0.99%) Informatica
18 22 (0.77%) Qualys