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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,501 1,995 2,299
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.02% 15.75% 12.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.26% 37.25% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 1,455 1,763
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £692 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £46.50 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £51.75 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £67.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £76.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +29.55% -15.71%

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 7,301 5,355 6,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.29% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,005 3,736 4,965
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 48 79
10th Percentile £18.10 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.54 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +1.64% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.38 £64.40
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.25% +27.68% -16.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -3 290 £550 +3.29% 301
South London +4 94 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +12 58 £603 +6.64% 42
East London -1 10 £588 +0.43% 33
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
1 122 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.04%) Confluence
4 64 (2.56%) Apache
5 33 (1.32%) nginx
6 22 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.64%) Camunda
7 16 (0.64%) SAS
8 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.32%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.12%) CICS
12 3 (0.12%) CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.080%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.080%) OpenROAD
13 2 (0.080%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.040%) Notion
7 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.16%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) Endur
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.080%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.040%) Maximo
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.040%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.040%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,019 (40.74%) Azure
2 571 (22.83%) GCP
3 378 (15.11%) Serverless
4 360 (14.39%) Amazon S3
5 343 (13.71%) GitHub
6 324 (12.95%) AWS Lambda
7 234 (9.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 192 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
9 178 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
10 161 (6.44%) Snowflake
11 153 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
12 147 (5.88%) Power Platform
13 143 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
14 133 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 115 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 85 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
17 63 (2.52%) dbt
18 61 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
19 59 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
19 59 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.92%) Firewall
2 68 (2.72%) VPN
3 61 (2.44%) Network Security
4 59 (2.36%) DNS
5 43 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.44%) WAN
7 20 (0.80%) BGP
8 18 (0.72%) LAN
9 16 (0.64%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.60%) HTTP
10 15 (0.60%) OSPF
11 14 (0.56%) DHCP
12 12 (0.48%) SSL
12 12 (0.48%) VLAN
13 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.36%) 5G
14 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
15 8 (0.32%) 4G
16 7 (0.28%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (5.20%) Power BI
3 126 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
5 121 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.60%) Data Lake
7 98 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
8 96 (3.84%) SQL Server
9 93 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 91 (3.64%) Relational Database
11 79 (3.16%) Tableau
12 72 (2.88%) MongoDB
13 70 (2.80%) DynamoDB
14 69 (2.76%) Metadata
15 58 (2.32%) Big Data
16 53 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
17 51 (2.04%) MySQL
18 41 (1.64%) BigQuery
19 36 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
20 33 (1.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 256 (10.24%) Git
2 216 (8.64%) GitLab
3 210 (8.40%) Jenkins
4 134 (5.36%) JIRA
5 46 (1.84%) JUnit
6 43 (1.72%) MLflow
7 30 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 30 (1.20%) Mockito
8 25 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 21 (0.84%) Selenium
10 19 (0.76%) Maven
10 19 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.68%) JMeter
12 15 (0.60%) Gradle
13 14 (0.56%) Gatling
14 13 (0.52%) Postman
14 13 (0.52%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.40%) Zephyr
16 9 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 580 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 564 (22.55%) Finance
3 357 (14.27%) Public Sector
4 227 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 209 (8.36%) Banking
6 92 (3.68%) Front Office
7 62 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 39 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.08%) Retail
13 24 (0.96%) Legal
14 21 (0.84%) Marketing
15 16 (0.64%) Military
15 16 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.56%) Law
17 13 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 464 (18.55%) Architect
2 446 (17.83%) Developer
3 387 (15.47%) Senior
4 242 (9.68%) Lead
5 237 (9.48%) Data Engineer
6 229 (9.16%) AWS Engineer
7 188 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 152 (6.08%) Software Engineer
9 126 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 111 (4.44%) Analyst
10 111 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
11 97 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 96 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
13 93 (3.72%) Python Engineer
14 92 (3.68%) Java Developer
15 91 (3.64%) AWS Architect
16 87 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 83 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 81 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
19 80 (3.20%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (13.39%) Kafka
2 252 (10.08%) React
3 206 (8.24%) Node.js
4 191 (7.64%) REST
5 144 (5.76%) Spring
6 139 (5.56%) RESTful
7 129 (5.16%) Spring Boot
8 91 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 70 (2.80%) PySpark
10 69 (2.76%) .NET
11 67 (2.68%) CSS
12 66 (2.64%) SOAP
13 65 (2.60%) GraphQL
14 63 (2.52%) HTML
14 63 (2.52%) OAuth
15 60 (2.40%) Redux
16 58 (2.32%) Pandas
17 56 (2.24%) gRPC
18 52 (2.08%) Vue
19 50 (2.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 377 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 134 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (3.16%) Fixed Income
4 75 (3.00%) Security Posture
5 67 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 54 (2.16%) Data Centre
10 53 (2.12%) Derivative
11 51 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 50 (2.00%) AI Agents
13 44 (1.76%) Algorithms
13 44 (1.76%) Management Information System
14 42 (1.68%) Equities
15 37 (1.48%) Public Cloud
16 34 (1.36%) Data Structures
16 34 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
17 26 (1.04%) Mainframe
18 24 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 186 (7.44%) Linux
2 68 (2.72%) Windows
3 47 (1.88%) Unix
4 12 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.44%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
6 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.20%) zOS
9 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.080%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (38.06%) CI/CD
2 695 (27.79%) DevOps
3 621 (24.83%) Agile
4 486 (19.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 433 (17.31%) AI
6 395 (15.79%) Microservices
7 368 (14.71%) Analytics
8 362 (14.47%) Containerisation
9 360 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
10 326 (13.03%) Software Engineering
11 298 (11.92%) Data Modelling
12 272 (10.88%) Data Engineering
13 264 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
14 261 (10.44%) Machine Learning
15 260 (10.40%) Migration
16 248 (9.92%) Observability
17 244 (9.76%) ETL
18 214 (8.56%) Full-Stack Development
19 212 (8.48%) Stakeholder Management
20 204 (8.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,016 (40.62%) Python
2 582 (23.27%) SQL
3 446 (17.83%) Java
4 228 (9.12%) TypeScript
5 226 (9.04%) JavaScript
6 117 (4.68%) Go
7 102 (4.08%) C#
8 100 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.84%) Bash
10 41 (1.64%) Ruby
11 35 (1.40%) Scala
11 35 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.04%) C++
13 20 (0.80%) R
14 18 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.52%) Bicep
17 10 (0.40%) Korn
18 9 (0.36%) PHP
18 9 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 719 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 629 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 125 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 125 (5.00%) Degree
4 71 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (2.20%) CISSP
6 47 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 44 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 41 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 32 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 29 (1.16%) CISM
13 24 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.96%) PMP
14 20 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 17 (0.68%) CCNP
16 14 (0.56%) CCSP
16 14 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 130 (5.20%) GDPR
3 94 (3.76%) QA
4 77 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (3.08%) NIST
5 47 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.08%) NCSC
8 22 (0.88%) SLA
9 17 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 17 (0.68%) WCAG
10 14 (0.56%) PMO
11 13 (0.52%) GRC
12 12 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.32%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.32%) PSD2
16 7 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.24%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 519 (20.75%) Docker
2 69 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.40%) Squid
6 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.20%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.12%) NFS
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.040%) Ceph
12 1 (0.040%) iptables
12 1 (0.040%) KVM
12 1 (0.040%) Lustre
12 1 (0.040%) NLBS
12 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 586 (23.43%) Terraform
2 540 (21.59%) Kubernetes
3 133 (5.32%) Ansible
4 118 (4.72%) Grafana
5 108 (4.32%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.32%) Argo
8 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.72%) Consul
10 16 (0.64%) Puppet
11 14 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.52%) Packer
13 11 (0.44%) SCCM
14 9 (0.36%) Kibana
14 9 (0.36%) QRadar
15 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.24%) Istio
17 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 182 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 140 (5.60%) Databricks
3 99 (3.96%) Google
4 95 (3.80%) Oracle
5 82 (3.28%) Splunk
6 68 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 55 (2.20%) CyberArk
8 51 (2.04%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.56%) Cisco
10 38 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 36 (1.44%) Dynatrace
12 35 (1.40%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.40%) Centrify
13 34 (1.36%) IBM
14 33 (1.32%) VMware
15 30 (1.20%) Palo Alto
16 29 (1.16%) Red Hat
16 29 (1.16%) SAP
17 23 (0.92%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.84%) Informatica