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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,797 2,104 2,281
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.81% 15.89% 14.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.66% 36.70% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,973 1,454 1,705
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £479 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £760
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £63.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +107.99% -63.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £79.69 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -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 8,309 5,733 6,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.03% 43.30% 41.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,686 3,902 4,659
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 48
10th Percentile £18.02 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +0.67% -30.01%
75th Percentile £56.88 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -5 282 £550 -5.98% 387
West London +7 97 £560 +33.73% 146
South London +2 77 £535 -1.15% 16
East London +10 14 £550 -9.47% 29
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
1 161 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 101 (3.61%) Confluence
4 88 (3.15%) Apache
5 28 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.46%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.21%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 18 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.072%) Endur
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (44.80%) Azure
2 618 (22.10%) GCP
3 397 (14.19%) Serverless
4 382 (13.66%) Amazon S3
5 369 (13.19%) GitHub
6 333 (11.91%) AWS Lambda
7 251 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
8 234 (8.37%) Snowflake
9 208 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
10 183 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 158 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
12 155 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 146 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
13 146 (5.22%) dbt
14 139 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
15 134 (4.79%) Power Platform
16 128 (4.58%) SaaS
17 119 (4.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 106 (3.79%) Entra ID
19 93 (3.32%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.86%) Firewall
2 81 (2.90%) Network Security
3 69 (2.47%) DNS
4 56 (2.00%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 37 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.97%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 18 (0.64%) HTTP
11 18 (0.64%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.54%) OSPF
13 14 (0.50%) NGFW
14 13 (0.46%) MPLS
14 13 (0.46%) SAN
14 13 (0.46%) VXLAN
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.33%) Power BI
5 120 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 111 (3.97%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 103 (3.68%) Metadata
9 94 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
10 90 (3.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 90 (3.22%) DynamoDB
11 88 (3.15%) MongoDB
12 77 (2.75%) Relational Database
13 69 (2.47%) Delta Lake
14 60 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
15 57 (2.04%) Tableau
16 56 (2.00%) Big Data
17 52 (1.86%) MySQL
18 44 (1.57%) Redis
19 43 (1.54%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 299 (10.69%) Git
2 291 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 257 (9.19%) GitLab
4 153 (5.47%) JIRA
5 32 (1.14%) JMeter
5 32 (1.14%) Maven
6 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.04%) JUnit
8 28 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 27 (0.97%) Selenium
10 24 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.82%) Gradle
11 23 (0.82%) Mockito
12 22 (0.79%) Postman
13 19 (0.68%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.64%) Claude Code
14 18 (0.64%) Gatling
15 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.46%) MLflow
17 11 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 694 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 662 (23.67%) Finance
3 384 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 279 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 254 (9.08%) Banking
6 83 (2.97%) Retail
7 62 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 38 (1.36%) Marketing
12 35 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.18%) Legal
14 32 (1.14%) Front Office
15 30 (1.07%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.04%) Law
17 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
18 25 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.86%) Military
20 23 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 588 (21.02%) Architect
2 451 (16.12%) Senior
3 342 (12.23%) Developer
4 309 (11.05%) Data Engineer
5 298 (10.65%) Lead
6 261 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
7 204 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 151 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (4.08%) AWS Architect
10 112 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 111 (3.97%) Analyst
12 103 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
13 102 (3.65%) Java Developer
14 98 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 98 (3.50%) Data Architect
15 93 (3.32%) Software Engineer
16 92 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
17 82 (2.93%) Senior Developer
18 78 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
19 76 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 712 (25.46%) Terraform
2 317 (11.33%) Kafka
3 267 (9.55%) REST
4 198 (7.08%) React
5 182 (6.51%) Spring
6 166 (5.93%) Spring Boot
7 156 (5.58%) RESTful
8 120 (4.29%) Node.js
9 112 (4.00%) PySpark
10 94 (3.36%) .NET
11 91 (3.25%) OAuth
12 67 (2.40%) FastAPI
12 67 (2.40%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.32%) JSON
14 64 (2.29%) HTML
15 62 (2.22%) AngularJS
16 53 (1.89%) CSS
17 51 (1.82%) OAuth2
18 49 (1.75%) SOAP
19 47 (1.68%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 539 (19.27%) Cloud Native
2 187 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 131 (4.68%) AI Agents
5 123 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 81 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.36%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.29%) Data Centre
10 62 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 42 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.43%) Data Structures
13 40 (1.43%) Replication
14 39 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (1.32%) PKI
16 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
18 30 (1.07%) CMDB
19 28 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 238 (8.51%) Linux
2 122 (4.36%) Windows
3 57 (2.04%) Unix
4 45 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.39%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,167 (41.72%) CI/CD
2 883 (31.57%) DevOps
3 712 (25.46%) Agile
4 665 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 629 (22.49%) AI
6 463 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 423 (15.12%) Microservices
8 404 (14.44%) Containerisation
9 385 (13.76%) Observability
10 366 (13.09%) Migration
11 365 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
12 357 (12.76%) Analytics
13 353 (12.62%) Software Engineering
14 348 (12.44%) Data Pipeline
15 345 (12.33%) Data Modelling
16 335 (11.98%) Data Engineering
17 326 (11.66%) Event-Driven
18 318 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 294 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
20 293 (10.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,030 (36.83%) Python
2 605 (21.63%) SQL
3 477 (17.05%) Java
4 208 (7.44%) TypeScript
5 198 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 168 (6.01%) Bash
7 140 (5.01%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.93%) C#
9 48 (1.72%) Scala
10 44 (1.57%) Go
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.22%) Bicep
13 27 (0.97%) Groovy
14 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.86%) Ruby
16 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.72%) R
17 18 (0.64%) C++
18 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 769 (27.49%) Security Cleared
2 679 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 160 (5.72%) AWS Certification
4 140 (5.01%) Degree
5 89 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 86 (3.07%) CISSP
7 72 (2.57%) Azure Certification
8 61 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 58 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 48 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (1.57%) CISM
13 27 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.75%) PMP
16 20 (0.72%) Master's Degree
17 19 (0.68%) CCSP
18 18 (0.64%) CCNP
18 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 156 (5.58%) QA
3 104 (3.72%) NIST
4 95 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 80 (2.86%) GDPR
6 36 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.11%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.89%) NCSC
9 25 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.82%) SLA
11 20 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 19 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.64%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.54%) EU AI Act
14 15 (0.54%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.46%) SEPA
16 12 (0.43%) PMO
17 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 498 (17.80%) Docker
2 87 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 622 (22.24%) Kubernetes
2 207 (7.40%) Grafana
3 193 (6.90%) Ansible
4 162 (5.79%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.25%) Kibana
6 34 (1.22%) Argo
7 33 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.93%) Puppet
9 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.32%) Istio
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.21%) Control-M
15 6 (0.21%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) Nessus
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 293 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 187 (6.69%) Databricks
3 137 (4.90%) Oracle
4 129 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 125 (4.47%) Google
6 109 (3.90%) Splunk
7 69 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.93%) Cisco
8 54 (1.93%) VMware
9 52 (1.86%) OpenAI
10 51 (1.82%) SAP
11 50 (1.79%) CyberArk
12 44 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 39 (1.39%) Informatica
14 36 (1.29%) Dynatrace
15 32 (1.14%) IBM
16 29 (1.04%) Fortinet
17 28 (1.00%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft
19 24 (0.86%) Foundry