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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,804 2,116 2,235
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.79% 15.82% 13.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.71% 36.46% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,994 1,461 1,650
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £695 £751
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -64.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £80.00 £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% -28.95%

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 8,317 5,803 6,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.91% 43.40% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,730 3,951 4,519
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 92 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.55 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.15 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.25 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -5.65% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -5 276 £575 -1.71% 343
West London +8 99 £560 +31.76% 128
South London 0 75 £535 -5.38% 12
East London +10 13 £525 -13.58% 21
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
1 162 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 108 (3.85%) Confluence
4 85 (3.03%) Apache
5 26 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) CMS
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 8 (0.29%) Camunda
8 8 (0.29%) CICS
8 8 (0.29%) IIS
8 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.11%) Mule
10 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
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%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.11%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.071%) Endur
8 2 (0.071%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,249 (44.54%) Azure
2 634 (22.61%) GCP
3 389 (13.87%) Serverless
4 382 (13.62%) Amazon S3
5 364 (12.98%) GitHub
6 324 (11.55%) AWS Lambda
7 245 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
8 237 (8.45%) Snowflake
9 222 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
10 191 (6.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 162 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
12 157 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 151 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
14 149 (5.31%) dbt
15 137 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
16 130 (4.64%) Power Platform
17 128 (4.56%) SaaS
18 123 (4.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 104 (3.71%) Entra ID
20 98 (3.50%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.57%) Firewall
2 83 (2.96%) Network Security
3 60 (2.14%) DNS
4 53 (1.89%) VPN
5 37 (1.32%) WAN
6 30 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.89%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) SSH
8 23 (0.82%) SSL
9 20 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 17 (0.61%) HTTP
12 16 (0.57%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.53%) MPLS
14 14 (0.50%) NGFW
15 12 (0.43%) IPsec
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
2 174 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
4 122 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 115 (4.10%) Power BI
6 110 (3.92%) Data Lake
7 108 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 105 (3.74%) Metadata
9 95 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
10 94 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 92 (3.28%) MongoDB
12 89 (3.17%) DynamoDB
13 75 (2.67%) Relational Database
14 68 (2.43%) Delta Lake
15 60 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
15 60 (2.14%) MySQL
16 56 (2.00%) Tableau
17 51 (1.82%) Big Data
18 47 (1.68%) Redis
19 46 (1.64%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 309 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 299 (10.66%) Git
3 274 (9.77%) GitLab
4 155 (5.53%) JIRA
5 36 (1.28%) Maven
6 34 (1.21%) JMeter
6 34 (1.21%) JUnit
7 30 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.07%) Selenium
8 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.96%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.89%) Mockito
11 23 (0.82%) Gradle
12 22 (0.78%) Postman
13 19 (0.68%) Claude Code
14 18 (0.64%) Gatling
15 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 691 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 670 (23.89%) Finance
3 381 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 272 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 260 (9.27%) Banking
6 88 (3.14%) Retail
7 64 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (1.78%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.36%) Marketing
11 36 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 35 (1.25%) Front Office
12 35 (1.25%) Legal
13 32 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.00%) Law
15 28 (1.00%) Military
16 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (0.89%) Billing
18 23 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 569 (20.29%) Architect
2 451 (16.08%) Senior
3 341 (12.16%) Developer
4 302 (10.77%) Data Engineer
5 297 (10.59%) Lead
6 267 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
7 219 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 136 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (4.07%) AWS Architect
10 113 (4.03%) Analyst
11 110 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (3.74%) Data Architect
13 103 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 101 (3.60%) Java Developer
15 100 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 93 (3.32%) Software Engineer
17 89 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
18 82 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
19 77 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
20 76 (2.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 727 (25.93%) Terraform
2 328 (11.70%) Kafka
3 291 (10.38%) REST
4 198 (7.06%) React
5 180 (6.42%) Spring
6 165 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 153 (5.46%) RESTful
8 115 (4.10%) Node.js
9 108 (3.85%) PySpark
10 98 (3.50%) .NET
11 97 (3.46%) OAuth
12 74 (2.64%) GraphQL
13 67 (2.39%) FastAPI
14 65 (2.32%) HTML
15 64 (2.28%) JSON
16 63 (2.25%) AngularJS
17 59 (2.10%) SOAP
18 55 (1.96%) OAuth2
19 54 (1.93%) CSS
20 48 (1.71%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 553 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 181 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 144 (5.14%) AI Agents
5 131 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 88 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 72 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.46%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.60%) Data Structures
13 43 (1.53%) Replication
14 42 (1.50%) PKI
15 38 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 38 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (1.32%) Public Cloud
17 35 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
17 35 (1.25%) Virtual Team
18 29 (1.03%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 255 (9.09%) Linux
2 124 (4.42%) Windows
3 55 (1.96%) Unix
4 50 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.21%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,180 (42.08%) CI/CD
2 895 (31.92%) DevOps
3 708 (25.25%) Agile
4 678 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 628 (22.40%) AI
6 478 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 411 (14.66%) Microservices
8 403 (14.37%) Containerisation
9 400 (14.27%) Observability
10 368 (13.12%) Migration
11 356 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
12 350 (12.48%) Software Engineering
13 345 (12.30%) Analytics
14 338 (12.05%) Data Modelling
15 336 (11.98%) Data Engineering
16 335 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
17 328 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 328 (11.70%) Event-Driven
18 310 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
19 299 (10.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (36.52%) Python
2 617 (22.00%) SQL
3 472 (16.83%) Java
4 207 (7.38%) JavaScript
5 201 (7.17%) TypeScript
6 180 (6.42%) Bash
7 142 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 114 (4.07%) C#
9 56 (2.00%) Go
10 54 (1.93%) Scala
11 37 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.28%) Bicep
13 31 (1.11%) Groovy
14 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) C++
16 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.61%) R
18 15 (0.53%) Ruby
19 14 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 780 (27.82%) Security Cleared
2 684 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 175 (6.24%) AWS Certification
4 144 (5.14%) Degree
5 94 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 87 (3.10%) CISSP
7 75 (2.67%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 62 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.71%) CISM
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.78%) CCSP
14 22 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.64%) PMP
17 16 (0.57%) Master's Degree
18 15 (0.53%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (8.67%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.92%) QA
3 104 (3.71%) NIST
4 103 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (2.67%) GDPR
6 37 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.11%) GRC
8 30 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 28 (1.00%) NCSC
10 24 (0.86%) SLA
11 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
11 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
14 15 (0.53%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.46%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.46%) SEPA
16 9 (0.32%) PMO
17 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 510 (18.19%) Docker
2 87 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.29%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
7 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.071%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 649 (23.15%) Kubernetes
2 219 (7.81%) Grafana
3 200 (7.13%) Ansible
4 166 (5.92%) Prometheus
5 47 (1.68%) Kibana
6 38 (1.36%) Argo
7 29 (1.03%) Puppet
8 28 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.46%) Istio
9 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.25%) QRadar
14 6 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) CA Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 295 (10.52%) Microsoft
2 196 (6.99%) Databricks
3 146 (5.21%) Google
4 139 (4.96%) Oracle
5 116 (4.14%) ServiceNow
6 111 (3.96%) Splunk
7 69 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.82%) Cisco
9 51 (1.82%) SAP
9 51 (1.82%) VMware
10 50 (1.78%) CyberArk
11 44 (1.57%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 37 (1.32%) Informatica
14 36 (1.28%) IBM
15 32 (1.14%) Fortinet
16 27 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.86%) Foundry
17 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft