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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,827 2,193 2,290
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.08% 16.31% 14.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.92% 37.88% 34.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,996 1,533 1,742
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +91.68% -63.07%
75th Percentile £80.63 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.74%

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 8,334 5,789 6,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 43.06% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,701 3,968 4,770
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.85 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.85 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -4 284 £550 -4.35% 86
West London +5 98 £555 +30.59% 50
South London +1 77 £535 +1.90% 13
East London +3 14 £525 -10.26% 26
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
1 155 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 93 (3.29%) Confluence
4 80 (2.83%) Apache
5 35 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.42%) CMS
7 11 (0.39%) CICS
7 11 (0.39%) nginx
7 11 (0.39%) SAS
8 10 (0.35%) Camunda
8 10 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 34 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.28%) Revit
6 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.071%) Endur
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (44.32%) Azure
2 628 (22.21%) GCP
3 391 (13.83%) Serverless
4 371 (13.12%) Amazon S3
5 360 (12.73%) GitHub
6 330 (11.67%) AWS Lambda
7 239 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
8 223 (7.89%) Snowflake
9 198 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
10 175 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 166 (5.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 157 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
13 148 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
14 134 (4.74%) Power Platform
15 133 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
16 128 (4.53%) SaaS
17 123 (4.35%) dbt
18 118 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 96 (3.40%) Entra ID
20 93 (3.29%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.68%) Firewall
2 85 (3.01%) Network Security
3 73 (2.58%) DNS
4 60 (2.12%) VPN
5 42 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.27%) WAN
7 26 (0.92%) DHCP
8 23 (0.81%) HTTP
8 23 (0.81%) SSL
9 18 (0.64%) Internet
9 18 (0.64%) SSH
10 17 (0.60%) BGP
11 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
13 12 (0.42%) LAN
13 12 (0.42%) OSPF
13 12 (0.42%) SAN
14 11 (0.39%) NGFW
14 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 124 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 122 (4.32%) Power BI
6 116 (4.10%) Data Lake
7 106 (3.75%) SQL Server
8 99 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
8 99 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 98 (3.47%) Metadata
10 89 (3.15%) MongoDB
11 87 (3.08%) DynamoDB
12 72 (2.55%) Relational Database
13 65 (2.30%) Delta Lake
14 60 (2.12%) Tableau
15 59 (2.09%) Big Data
16 48 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
17 44 (1.56%) BigQuery
18 41 (1.45%) Redis
19 40 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 287 (10.15%) Jenkins
2 285 (10.08%) Git
3 265 (9.37%) GitLab
4 148 (5.24%) JIRA
5 35 (1.24%) JMeter
6 34 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 33 (1.17%) JUnit
8 32 (1.13%) Selenium
9 30 (1.06%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.99%) Maven
11 26 (0.92%) Mockito
12 25 (0.88%) Bitbucket
13 24 (0.85%) Postman
14 21 (0.74%) Gradle
15 20 (0.71%) Gatling
15 20 (0.71%) REST Assured
16 19 (0.67%) MLflow
17 18 (0.64%) Cucumber
18 16 (0.57%) Claude Code
19 14 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 689 (24.37%) Finance
2 649 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 407 (14.40%) Public Sector
4 252 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (8.91%) Banking
5 76 (2.69%) Retail
6 64 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (2.09%) Front Office
8 53 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.31%) Marketing
13 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.03%) Legal
15 28 (0.99%) Law
16 25 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 593 (20.98%) Architect
2 450 (15.92%) Senior
3 366 (12.95%) Developer
4 317 (11.21%) Lead
5 298 (10.54%) Data Engineer
6 267 (9.44%) AWS Engineer
7 201 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 157 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
9 116 (4.10%) Software Engineer
10 115 (4.07%) AWS Architect
10 115 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 108 (3.82%) Analyst
11 108 (3.82%) Java Developer
12 93 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 93 (3.29%) Data Architect
13 90 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.11%) Senior Developer
15 83 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
15 83 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
16 78 (2.76%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (11.39%) Kafka
2 256 (9.06%) REST
3 226 (7.99%) React
4 178 (6.30%) Spring
5 163 (5.77%) Spring Boot
6 159 (5.62%) RESTful
7 150 (5.31%) Node.js
8 106 (3.75%) PySpark
9 87 (3.08%) .NET
10 79 (2.79%) OAuth
11 77 (2.72%) GraphQL
12 64 (2.26%) AngularJS
13 62 (2.19%) JSON
14 59 (2.09%) FastAPI
15 58 (2.05%) HTML
16 50 (1.77%) CSS
17 46 (1.63%) OAuth2
18 45 (1.59%) LangChain
18 45 (1.59%) Redux
19 43 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 529 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 187 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 120 (4.24%) AI Agents
5 108 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 49 (1.73%) Fixed Income
11 48 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.66%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 37 (1.31%) Replication
15 35 (1.24%) CMDB
15 35 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
16 34 (1.20%) PKI
17 33 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 230 (8.14%) Linux
2 127 (4.49%) Windows
3 51 (1.80%) Unix
4 44 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Solaris
9 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (41.17%) CI/CD
2 874 (30.92%) DevOps
3 712 (25.19%) Agile
4 632 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 616 (21.79%) AI
6 430 (15.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 414 (14.64%) Microservices
8 404 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 376 (13.30%) Migration
10 363 (12.84%) Analytics
11 362 (12.81%) Observability
12 358 (12.66%) Software Engineering
13 356 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
14 348 (12.31%) Data Modelling
15 343 (12.13%) Data Pipeline
16 332 (11.74%) Data Engineering
17 308 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 308 (10.89%) Machine Learning
18 303 (10.72%) Event-Driven
19 279 (9.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (37.04%) Python
2 606 (21.44%) SQL
3 492 (17.40%) Java
4 240 (8.49%) TypeScript
5 222 (7.85%) JavaScript
6 158 (5.59%) Bash
7 145 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 112 (3.96%) C#
9 61 (2.16%) Go
10 43 (1.52%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Bicep
12 33 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 26 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) Groovy
16 21 (0.74%) R
17 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.67%) C++
19 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 760 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 676 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 147 (5.20%) AWS Certification
4 145 (5.13%) Degree
5 86 (3.04%) CISSP
6 74 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 68 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 66 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 48 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 45 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.59%) CISM
12 25 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.85%) PMP
14 18 (0.64%) CCNP
15 17 (0.60%) CCSP
16 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 144 (5.09%) QA
3 103 (3.64%) NIST
4 95 (3.36%) GDPR
5 92 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.10%) GRC
7 31 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) SLA
9 25 (0.88%) NCSC
10 22 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 14 (0.50%) PMO
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.35%) SEPA
15 10 (0.35%) WCAG
16 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 495 (17.51%) Docker
2 83 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 689 (24.37%) Terraform
2 610 (21.58%) Kubernetes
3 195 (6.90%) Grafana
4 181 (6.40%) Ansible
5 157 (5.55%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.10%) Argo
8 30 (1.06%) Kibana
9 25 (0.88%) Puppet
10 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.39%) Istio
12 11 (0.39%) Packer
13 9 (0.32%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 268 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 165 (5.84%) Databricks
3 131 (4.63%) Google
4 129 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 125 (4.42%) Oracle
6 92 (3.25%) Splunk
7 69 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.05%) VMware
9 50 (1.77%) CyberArk
9 50 (1.77%) SAP
10 49 (1.73%) OpenAI
11 46 (1.63%) Cisco
12 34 (1.20%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.17%) IBM
13 33 (1.17%) Informatica
14 32 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 31 (1.10%) Foundry
16 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
17 25 (0.88%) MuleSoft
18 23 (0.81%) Fortinet