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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,799 2,125 2,241
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.76% 15.78% 13.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.62% 36.36% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,989 1,464 1,654
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £694 £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 8,325 5,844 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.39% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,736 3,967 4,542
10th Percentile £358 £339 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.34%
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% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.15 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.31 £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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -6 275 £575 -0.86% 333
West London +9 98 £560 +31.76% 133
South London 0 75 £535 -5.38% 11
East London +11 13 £525 -13.58% 20
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 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 106 (3.79%) Confluence
4 85 (3.04%) 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%) CICS
8 8 (0.29%) IIS
8 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.25%) Camunda
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.71%) 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 12 (0.43%) 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%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (44.77%) Azure
2 634 (22.65%) GCP
3 387 (13.83%) Serverless
4 383 (13.68%) Amazon S3
5 362 (12.93%) GitHub
6 321 (11.47%) AWS Lambda
7 243 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
8 236 (8.43%) Snowflake
9 225 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
10 190 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 163 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
12 155 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 154 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
14 150 (5.36%) dbt
15 137 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
16 130 (4.64%) Power Platform
17 129 (4.61%) SaaS
18 125 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 103 (3.68%) Entra ID
20 98 (3.50%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.57%) Firewall
2 83 (2.97%) 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
9 22 (0.79%) SSL
10 20 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 19 (0.68%) BGP
11 19 (0.68%) Internet
12 17 (0.61%) HTTP
13 16 (0.57%) OSPF
14 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
14 15 (0.54%) MPLS
15 14 (0.50%) NGFW
16 12 (0.43%) IPsec
16 12 (0.43%) LAN
16 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
2 174 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
3 151 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 115 (4.11%) Power BI
6 110 (3.93%) SQL Server
7 108 (3.86%) Data Lake
8 105 (3.75%) Metadata
9 95 (3.39%) MongoDB
10 94 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
11 93 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
12 89 (3.18%) DynamoDB
13 75 (2.68%) Relational Database
14 67 (2.39%) Delta Lake
15 62 (2.22%) MySQL
16 59 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
17 55 (1.96%) Tableau
18 51 (1.82%) Big Data
19 48 (1.71%) Redis
20 46 (1.64%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 307 (10.97%) Jenkins
2 306 (10.93%) Git
3 274 (9.79%) GitLab
4 154 (5.50%) JIRA
5 36 (1.29%) Maven
6 34 (1.21%) JMeter
6 34 (1.21%) JUnit
7 31 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.07%) Selenium
9 28 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 27 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 27 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 25 (0.89%) Mockito
12 23 (0.82%) Gradle
13 22 (0.79%) Postman
14 20 (0.71%) Claude Code
15 18 (0.64%) Gatling
16 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 693 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 670 (23.94%) Finance
3 381 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 274 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (9.25%) Banking
6 87 (3.11%) Retail
7 63 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.36%) Marketing
11 36 (1.29%) Legal
12 35 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 35 (1.25%) Front Office
13 33 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.07%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.00%) Law
15 28 (1.00%) Military
16 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (0.89%) Billing
18 23 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 568 (20.29%) Architect
2 449 (16.04%) Senior
3 341 (12.18%) Developer
4 300 (10.72%) Data Engineer
5 298 (10.65%) Lead
6 265 (9.47%) AWS Engineer
7 218 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 134 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 113 (4.04%) AWS Architect
10 112 (4.00%) Analyst
11 110 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (3.75%) Data Architect
13 103 (3.68%) Java Developer
14 102 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 100 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 93 (3.32%) Software Engineer
17 90 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
18 81 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
19 76 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
20 75 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 730 (26.08%) Terraform
2 333 (11.90%) Kafka
3 294 (10.50%) REST
4 196 (7.00%) React
5 180 (6.43%) Spring
6 164 (5.86%) Spring Boot
7 154 (5.50%) RESTful
8 114 (4.07%) Node.js
9 107 (3.82%) PySpark
10 98 (3.50%) OAuth
11 97 (3.47%) .NET
12 74 (2.64%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.36%) HTML
13 66 (2.36%) JSON
14 65 (2.32%) FastAPI
15 63 (2.25%) AngularJS
16 60 (2.14%) SOAP
17 55 (1.96%) CSS
17 55 (1.96%) OAuth2
18 48 (1.71%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 554 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 180 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 143 (5.11%) AI Agents
5 132 (4.72%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.47%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 43 (1.54%) PKI
13 43 (1.54%) Replication
14 39 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
16 37 (1.32%) Public Cloud
17 35 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
17 35 (1.25%) Virtual Team
18 29 (1.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 258 (9.22%) Linux
2 124 (4.43%) Windows
3 56 (2.00%) Unix
4 52 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.79%) 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 1,183 (42.27%) CI/CD
2 896 (32.01%) DevOps
3 714 (25.51%) Agile
4 682 (24.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 627 (22.40%) AI
6 479 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 411 (14.68%) Microservices
8 401 (14.33%) Containerisation
8 401 (14.33%) Observability
9 363 (12.97%) Migration
10 354 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
11 352 (12.58%) Software Engineering
12 340 (12.15%) Analytics
13 337 (12.04%) Data Modelling
14 336 (12.00%) Data Engineering
15 333 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
16 332 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 332 (11.86%) Event-Driven
17 313 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
18 304 (10.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (36.62%) Python
2 618 (22.08%) SQL
3 471 (16.83%) Java
4 209 (7.47%) JavaScript
5 199 (7.11%) TypeScript
6 184 (6.57%) Bash
7 144 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 113 (4.04%) C#
9 56 (2.00%) Go
10 54 (1.93%) Scala
11 38 (1.36%) Bicep
12 37 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 31 (1.11%) Groovy
14 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.79%) C++
16 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.61%) R
18 14 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.50%) Ruby
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 783 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 686 (24.51%) SC Cleared
3 177 (6.32%) AWS Certification
4 146 (5.22%) Degree
5 93 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 87 (3.11%) CISSP
7 75 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 64 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 49 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 48 (1.71%) CISM
12 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (0.79%) CCSP
13 22 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.64%) PMI Certification
16 17 (0.61%) Master's Degree
16 17 (0.61%) PMP
17 15 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.97%) QA
3 103 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 103 (3.68%) NIST
4 73 (2.61%) GDPR
5 38 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.11%) GRC
7 30 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.04%) NCSC
9 24 (0.86%) SLA
10 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
13 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.46%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.46%) SEPA
15 9 (0.32%) PMO
16 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 507 (18.11%) Docker
2 86 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.29%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
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
1 652 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 221 (7.90%) Grafana
3 201 (7.18%) Ansible
4 167 (5.97%) Prometheus
5 48 (1.71%) Kibana
6 38 (1.36%) Argo
7 31 (1.11%) Puppet
8 27 (0.96%) 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%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
15 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 295 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 197 (7.04%) Databricks
3 146 (5.22%) Google
4 140 (5.00%) Oracle
5 115 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 113 (4.04%) Splunk
7 69 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.86%) SAP
10 51 (1.82%) Cisco
10 51 (1.82%) VMware
11 49 (1.75%) CyberArk
12 44 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 39 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 39 (1.39%) Informatica
14 35 (1.25%) IBM
15 32 (1.14%) Fortinet
16 27 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft
18 23 (0.82%) Foundry