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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,568 2,024 2,331
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.28% 16.29% 13.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.80% 38.36% 34.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,772 1,447 1,799
10th Percentile £405 £400 £405
25th Percentile £471 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £699 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £826
England median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.27% -6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.75 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +23.70% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +31.82% -26.67%

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 7,597 5,277 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.23% 42.48% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,254 3,641 4,983
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 53 70
10th Percentile £20.67 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.64 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -35.80%
75th Percentile £53.35 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -2 280 £550 - 233
South London +4 84 £500 +1.78% 7
West London +7 82 £603 +11.88% 35
East London +1 15 £540 -7.69% 43
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
1 120 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (4.32%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.61%) Confluence
4 63 (2.45%) Apache
5 23 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.70%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.12%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.078%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.078%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 39 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.12%) Revit
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) Magento
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) Actimize
6 2 (0.078%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (40.34%) Azure
2 556 (21.65%) GCP
3 381 (14.84%) Amazon S3
4 378 (14.72%) Serverless
5 329 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
6 324 (12.62%) GitHub
7 209 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 196 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (6.66%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (6.35%) Snowflake
11 160 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
12 144 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 139 (5.41%) Power Platform
14 132 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
15 116 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 104 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
17 81 (3.15%) SaaS
18 69 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
19 68 (2.65%) dbt
20 65 (2.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.86%) Firewall
2 67 (2.61%) Network Security
3 63 (2.45%) DNS
4 57 (2.22%) VPN
5 47 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.29%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
7 20 (0.78%) HTTP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 16 (0.62%) SSL
10 15 (0.58%) DHCP
10 15 (0.58%) OSPF
11 13 (0.51%) VLAN
12 11 (0.43%) NGFW
12 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
13 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.31%) SAN
16 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (4.71%) Data Lake
3 118 (4.60%) Power BI
4 116 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
5 111 (4.32%) NoSQL
6 110 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
7 109 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
8 98 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 96 (3.74%) SQL Server
10 73 (2.84%) DynamoDB
10 73 (2.84%) MongoDB
10 73 (2.84%) Tableau
11 71 (2.76%) Metadata
11 71 (2.76%) Relational Database
12 59 (2.30%) Big Data
13 45 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
14 42 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
14 42 (1.64%) BigQuery
14 42 (1.64%) MySQL
15 38 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 226 (8.80%) Git
2 220 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 204 (7.94%) GitLab
4 120 (4.67%) JIRA
5 43 (1.67%) MLflow
6 40 (1.56%) JUnit
7 32 (1.25%) Mockito
8 26 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.90%) JMeter
10 22 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 21 (0.82%) Gradle
11 21 (0.82%) Maven
12 20 (0.78%) Bitbucket
12 20 (0.78%) Postman
12 20 (0.78%) Selenium
13 19 (0.74%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.51%) Snyk
16 12 (0.47%) Artifactory
16 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 583 (22.70%) Finance
2 531 (20.68%) Social Skills
3 357 (13.90%) Public Sector
4 223 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 212 (8.26%) Banking
6 86 (3.35%) Front Office
7 63 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (1.64%) Retail
10 39 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.09%) Marketing
14 23 (0.90%) Legal
15 22 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.55%) Military
17 12 (0.47%) Law
17 12 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 513 (19.98%) Architect
2 425 (16.55%) Developer
3 389 (15.15%) Senior
4 278 (10.83%) Data Engineer
5 275 (10.71%) Lead
6 240 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 185 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 141 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 129 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 107 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (4.05%) AWS Architect
13 99 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
14 98 (3.82%) Analyst
14 98 (3.82%) Java Developer
15 86 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
16 79 (3.08%) AWS DevOps
17 77 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 77 (3.00%) Python Developer
18 74 (2.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (12.23%) Kafka
2 234 (9.11%) React
3 201 (7.83%) REST
4 177 (6.89%) Node.js
5 171 (6.66%) Spring
6 161 (6.27%) Spring Boot
7 137 (5.33%) RESTful
8 90 (3.50%) .NET
9 83 (3.23%) PySpark
10 80 (3.12%) AngularJS
11 74 (2.88%) GraphQL
12 68 (2.65%) OAuth
13 66 (2.57%) SOAP
14 62 (2.41%) Redux
15 60 (2.34%) LDAP
16 58 (2.26%) Pandas
17 57 (2.22%) HTML
18 49 (1.91%) CSS
18 49 (1.91%) OpenID
19 46 (1.79%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 426 (16.59%) Cloud Native
2 140 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.96%) Fixed Income
5 72 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 70 (2.73%) Security Posture
7 67 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 65 (2.53%) AI Agents
8 65 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 49 (1.91%) Data Centre
11 48 (1.87%) Derivative
12 47 (1.83%) Management Information System
13 44 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (1.64%) Equities
15 35 (1.36%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.29%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.21%) Mainframe
18 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (6.85%) Linux
2 72 (2.80%) Windows
3 40 (1.56%) Unix
4 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.27%) VMS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) Solaris
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 971 (37.81%) CI/CD
2 733 (28.54%) DevOps
3 588 (22.90%) Agile
4 513 (19.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 478 (18.61%) AI
6 396 (15.42%) Microservices
7 371 (14.45%) Containerisation
8 363 (14.14%) Analytics
9 333 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
10 313 (12.19%) Software Engineering
11 300 (11.68%) Data Modelling
11 300 (11.68%) Migration
12 278 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
13 274 (10.67%) Data Engineering
14 270 (10.51%) Observability
15 251 (9.77%) Machine Learning
16 239 (9.31%) ETL
17 237 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
18 229 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
19 215 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 996 (38.79%) Python
2 563 (21.92%) SQL
3 464 (18.07%) Java
4 230 (8.96%) TypeScript
5 218 (8.49%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.48%) C#
7 112 (4.36%) PowerShell
8 99 (3.86%) Bash
9 98 (3.82%) Go
10 42 (1.64%) Scala
11 38 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.40%) Ruby
13 21 (0.82%) R
14 19 (0.74%) Bicep
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.62%) C++
17 10 (0.39%) PHP
17 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
18 9 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 725 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 643 (25.04%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.26%) Degree
4 114 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 69 (2.69%) CISSP
6 67 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 39 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (1.17%) CISM
13 26 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 25 (0.97%) PMI Certification
14 25 (0.97%) PMP
15 21 (0.82%) CCNP
16 20 (0.78%) CCSP
17 18 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 110 (4.28%) GDPR
3 95 (3.70%) QA
4 87 (3.39%) NIST
5 71 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 30 (1.17%) SLA
8 23 (0.90%) GRC
8 23 (0.90%) NCSC
9 19 (0.74%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.55%) PMO
12 11 (0.43%) WCAG
13 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.31%) SEPA
15 7 (0.27%) PSD2
16 6 (0.23%) MiFID
17 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 480 (18.69%) Docker
2 89 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.62%) Squid
6 4 (0.16%) HDFS
6 4 (0.16%) NFS
6 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.12%) IAG
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.078%) Firmware
8 2 (0.078%) KVM
8 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.078%) Postfix
8 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 578 (22.51%) Terraform
2 526 (20.48%) Kubernetes
3 144 (5.61%) Grafana
4 128 (4.98%) Ansible
5 125 (4.87%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.74%) Argo
7 19 (0.74%) Kibana
8 17 (0.66%) Puppet
9 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.43%) Consul
13 10 (0.39%) QRadar
14 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.23%) Packer
14 6 (0.23%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) Istio
15 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 192 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 127 (4.95%) Databricks
3 92 (3.58%) Google
4 83 (3.23%) Oracle
4 83 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 75 (2.92%) Splunk
6 64 (2.49%) CyberArk
7 59 (2.30%) OpenAI
8 53 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 49 (1.91%) Cisco
10 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
10 35 (1.36%) Centrify
10 35 (1.36%) SAP
11 32 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.25%) VMware
12 31 (1.21%) IBM
13 29 (1.13%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.01%) Red Hat
15 22 (0.86%) Fortinet
15 22 (0.86%) Foundry