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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,809 2,138 2,276
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.81% 15.92% 14.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.62% 36.74% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 1,478 1,700
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £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% -36.30%

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 8,355 5,820 6,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.07% 43.33% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,722 3,960 4,663
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -2.73% -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% -23.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -6 285 £553 -5.56% 393
West London +7 95 £560 +33.73% 143
South London +1 76 £535 -4.07% 16
East London +10 14 £550 -9.47% 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
1 161 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 101 (3.60%) Confluence
4 88 (3.13%) Apache
5 28 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) 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 6 (0.21%) IIS
10 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) 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 10 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.071%) Shopify
7 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,261 (44.89%) Azure
2 625 (22.25%) GCP
3 395 (14.06%) Serverless
4 385 (13.71%) Amazon S3
5 367 (13.07%) GitHub
6 331 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
7 249 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
8 232 (8.26%) Snowflake
9 208 (7.40%) Amazon EKS
10 187 (6.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 161 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
12 152 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 146 (5.20%) dbt
14 144 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
15 138 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
16 135 (4.81%) Power Platform
17 128 (4.56%) SaaS
18 122 (4.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 107 (3.81%) Entra ID
20 95 (3.38%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 110 (3.92%) Firewall
2 81 (2.88%) Network Security
3 69 (2.46%) DNS
4 58 (2.06%) VPN
5 39 (1.39%) WAN
6 37 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 24 (0.85%) SSL
9 20 (0.71%) BGP
9 20 (0.71%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
10 19 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.64%) HTTP
12 16 (0.57%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
14 14 (0.50%) MPLS
14 14 (0.50%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) LAN
15 13 (0.46%) SAN
15 13 (0.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 148 (5.27%) Amazon RDS
4 122 (4.34%) Power BI
5 118 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 112 (3.99%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 106 (3.77%) Metadata
9 96 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
10 93 (3.31%) DynamoDB
11 90 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 88 (3.13%) MongoDB
13 79 (2.81%) Relational Database
14 69 (2.46%) Delta Lake
15 60 (2.14%) Tableau
16 59 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
17 56 (1.99%) Big Data
18 52 (1.85%) MySQL
19 44 (1.57%) Redis
20 43 (1.53%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 297 (10.57%) Git
2 296 (10.54%) Jenkins
3 263 (9.36%) GitLab
4 151 (5.38%) JIRA
5 33 (1.17%) Maven
6 32 (1.14%) JMeter
7 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 29 (1.03%) JUnit
9 28 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 27 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.96%) Selenium
11 23 (0.82%) Gradle
11 23 (0.82%) Mockito
12 22 (0.78%) Postman
13 19 (0.68%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.64%) Claude Code
14 18 (0.64%) Gatling
15 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 700 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 667 (23.75%) Finance
3 387 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 282 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.08%) Banking
6 83 (2.95%) Retail
7 62 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 38 (1.35%) Marketing
12 36 (1.28%) Legal
13 35 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.14%) Front Office
15 30 (1.07%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.03%) Law
17 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 25 (0.89%) Military
18 25 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 588 (20.93%) Architect
2 453 (16.13%) Senior
3 342 (12.18%) Developer
4 309 (11.00%) Data Engineer
5 299 (10.64%) Lead
6 260 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
7 209 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 149 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (4.06%) Analyst
10 112 (3.99%) AWS Architect
11 111 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
13 103 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 101 (3.60%) Java Developer
15 99 (3.52%) Data Architect
16 92 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
16 92 (3.28%) Software Engineer
17 81 (2.88%) Senior Developer
18 78 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
19 77 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 715 (25.45%) Terraform
2 315 (11.21%) Kafka
3 272 (9.68%) REST
4 199 (7.08%) React
5 182 (6.48%) Spring
6 167 (5.95%) Spring Boot
7 156 (5.55%) RESTful
8 125 (4.45%) Node.js
9 115 (4.09%) PySpark
10 95 (3.38%) .NET
11 94 (3.35%) OAuth
12 68 (2.42%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.31%) FastAPI
14 64 (2.28%) HTML
15 63 (2.24%) AngularJS
15 63 (2.24%) JSON
16 53 (1.89%) CSS
16 53 (1.89%) OAuth2
17 50 (1.78%) SOAP
18 48 (1.71%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 541 (19.26%) Cloud Native
2 188 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 136 (4.84%) AI Agents
5 128 (4.56%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.39%) Security Posture
9 65 (2.31%) Data Centre
10 60 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.50%) Data Structures
14 40 (1.42%) PKI
14 40 (1.42%) Replication
15 38 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.21%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
18 31 (1.10%) CMDB
19 28 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 238 (8.47%) Linux
2 124 (4.41%) Windows
3 56 (1.99%) Unix
4 46 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) 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 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (41.72%) CI/CD
2 888 (31.61%) DevOps
3 715 (25.45%) Agile
4 670 (23.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 633 (22.53%) AI
6 468 (16.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 423 (15.06%) Microservices
8 407 (14.49%) Containerisation
9 391 (13.92%) Observability
10 368 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 367 (13.07%) Migration
12 359 (12.78%) Analytics
13 355 (12.64%) Software Engineering
14 347 (12.35%) Data Modelling
15 345 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
16 337 (12.00%) Data Engineering
17 330 (11.75%) Event-Driven
18 327 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 302 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
20 293 (10.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,033 (36.77%) Python
2 608 (21.64%) SQL
3 481 (17.12%) Java
4 212 (7.55%) TypeScript
5 201 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 169 (6.02%) Bash
7 140 (4.98%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.95%) C#
9 51 (1.82%) Scala
10 46 (1.64%) Go
11 34 (1.21%) Bicep
11 34 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.03%) Groovy
13 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.85%) Ruby
15 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.71%) R
16 19 (0.68%) C++
17 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 776 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 686 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 163 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 140 (4.98%) Degree
5 89 (3.17%) CISSP
6 88 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 73 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 62 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 62 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.67%) CISM
11 28 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 22 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 21 (0.75%) PMP
14 20 (0.71%) CCSP
15 19 (0.68%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.64%) CCNP
16 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 158 (5.62%) QA
3 106 (3.77%) NIST
4 98 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (2.81%) GDPR
6 39 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.10%) GRC
8 29 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.93%) NCSC
10 25 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (0.85%) SLA
12 20 (0.71%) ISO 20022
13 19 (0.68%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.64%) HIPAA
15 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
16 15 (0.53%) EU AI Act
17 13 (0.46%) SEPA
18 12 (0.43%) PMO
19 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
20 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 499 (17.76%) Docker
2 88 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) 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
1 627 (22.32%) Kubernetes
2 213 (7.58%) Grafana
3 196 (6.98%) Ansible
4 164 (5.84%) Prometheus
5 39 (1.39%) Kibana
6 34 (1.21%) Argo
7 33 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.93%) Puppet
9 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) 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 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
15 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 292 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 186 (6.62%) Databricks
3 137 (4.88%) Oracle
4 130 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 125 (4.45%) Google
6 111 (3.95%) Splunk
7 69 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 55 (1.96%) Cisco
9 54 (1.92%) VMware
10 53 (1.89%) OpenAI
10 53 (1.89%) SAP
11 50 (1.78%) CyberArk
12 45 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 39 (1.39%) Informatica
14 38 (1.35%) Dynatrace
15 33 (1.17%) IBM
16 30 (1.07%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.96%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft
19 24 (0.85%) Foundry