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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,565 2,045 2,265
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.68% 16.08% 12.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.87% 37.82% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,772 1,478 1,744
10th Percentile £400 £400 £408
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.80 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £47.38 £26.28
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £76.67 £81.25 £64.75
90th Percentile £91.50 £97.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +3.45% +28.89% -21.05%

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 7,572 5,407 6,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.53% 37.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,217 3,756 4,907
10th Percentile £350 £357 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 53 74
10th Percentile £18.98 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £52.56 £53.75 £40.72
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -30.77%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -1 294 £550 - 229
South London +6 94 £514 +8.16% 9
West London +4 73 £603 -2.03% 36
East London +4 13 £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
1 135 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (4.13%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.16%) Confluence
4 69 (2.69%) Apache
5 34 (1.33%) nginx
6 26 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 18 (0.70%) Camunda
8 13 (0.51%) SAS
9 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.27%) Appian
10 7 (0.27%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) CMS
11 5 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.078%) MQSeries
Applications
1 34 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.078%) Revit
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
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%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Cloudability
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%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (40.23%) Azure
2 560 (21.83%) GCP
3 400 (15.59%) Amazon S3
4 392 (15.28%) Serverless
5 341 (13.29%) AWS Lambda
6 329 (12.83%) GitHub
7 249 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 191 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
9 172 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.16%) Snowflake
11 154 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
12 147 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
13 146 (5.69%) Power Platform
14 145 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 116 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 96 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
17 73 (2.85%) SaaS
18 66 (2.57%) Amazon Kinesis
19 64 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
19 64 (2.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 97 (3.78%) Firewall
2 62 (2.42%) VPN
3 60 (2.34%) DNS
3 60 (2.34%) Network Security
4 41 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 32 (1.25%) WAN
6 19 (0.74%) BGP
7 17 (0.66%) LAN
8 16 (0.62%) HTTP
9 15 (0.58%) OSPF
10 14 (0.55%) DHCP
10 14 (0.55%) VLAN
11 13 (0.51%) SSL
12 11 (0.43%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
13 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.35%) SAN
15 8 (0.31%) NAS
16 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (4.99%) Power BI
3 126 (4.91%) NoSQL
4 125 (4.87%) Data Lake
5 124 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
6 115 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
7 112 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
8 108 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (3.63%) SQL Server
10 83 (3.24%) Tableau
11 80 (3.12%) Relational Database
12 79 (3.08%) MongoDB
13 75 (2.92%) Metadata
14 73 (2.85%) DynamoDB
15 60 (2.34%) Big Data
16 48 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
16 48 (1.87%) MySQL
17 41 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
17 41 (1.60%) BigQuery
18 33 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 253 (9.86%) Git
2 216 (8.42%) GitLab
3 215 (8.38%) Jenkins
4 142 (5.54%) JIRA
5 44 (1.72%) MLflow
6 41 (1.60%) JUnit
7 33 (1.29%) Mockito
8 31 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.01%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.90%) Selenium
13 20 (0.78%) Maven
14 17 (0.66%) Gradle
15 16 (0.62%) Postman
16 14 (0.55%) JMeter
17 13 (0.51%) CircleCI
18 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
18 12 (0.47%) Snyk
18 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 579 (22.57%) Finance
2 563 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 367 (14.31%) Public Sector
4 238 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (8.07%) Banking
6 92 (3.59%) Front Office
7 65 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.13%) Retail
15 25 (0.97%) Legal
16 23 (0.90%) Marketing
17 18 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.55%) Military
19 13 (0.51%) Billing
20 12 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 501 (19.53%) Architect
2 440 (17.15%) Developer
3 379 (14.78%) Senior
4 264 (10.29%) Data Engineer
5 256 (9.98%) Lead
6 244 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
7 196 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 145 (5.65%) Software Engineer
9 123 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 106 (4.13%) Analyst
12 102 (3.98%) AWS Architect
13 100 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
14 99 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
15 98 (3.82%) Java Developer
16 93 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 85 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
17 85 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
18 84 (3.27%) Python Engineer
19 79 (3.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (12.44%) Kafka
2 247 (9.63%) React
3 199 (7.76%) Node.js
4 193 (7.52%) REST
5 162 (6.32%) Spring
6 148 (5.77%) RESTful
6 148 (5.77%) Spring Boot
7 80 (3.12%) AngularJS
7 80 (3.12%) PySpark
8 77 (3.00%) .NET
9 73 (2.85%) OAuth
10 67 (2.61%) SOAP
11 66 (2.57%) GraphQL
12 62 (2.42%) HTML
13 60 (2.34%) Redux
14 59 (2.30%) CSS
15 57 (2.22%) Pandas
16 56 (2.18%) LDAP
17 48 (1.87%) JSON
17 48 (1.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 396 (15.44%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (2.92%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 66 (2.57%) Security Posture
7 65 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 57 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 56 (2.18%) AI Agents
11 54 (2.11%) Data Centre
12 46 (1.79%) Derivative
13 44 (1.72%) Management Information System
14 42 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (1.48%) Equities
16 37 (1.44%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.29%) Data Structures
18 32 (1.25%) Mainframe
18 32 (1.25%) Public Cloud
19 26 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 195 (7.60%) Linux
2 67 (2.61%) Windows
3 45 (1.75%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) VMS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.19%) Solaris
10 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 979 (38.17%) CI/CD
2 726 (28.30%) DevOps
3 618 (24.09%) Agile
4 520 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 459 (17.89%) AI
6 410 (15.98%) Microservices
7 384 (14.97%) Analytics
8 373 (14.54%) Containerisation
9 352 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
10 325 (12.67%) Software Engineering
11 300 (11.70%) Data Modelling
12 296 (11.54%) Migration
13 282 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
14 274 (10.68%) Data Engineering
15 263 (10.25%) Observability
16 255 (9.94%) Machine Learning
17 250 (9.75%) ETL
18 227 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
19 224 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
20 204 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (39.73%) Python
2 582 (22.69%) SQL
3 472 (18.40%) Java
4 224 (8.73%) TypeScript
5 223 (8.69%) JavaScript
6 110 (4.29%) C#
6 110 (4.29%) Go
7 104 (4.05%) Bash
7 104 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 44 (1.72%) Scala
9 42 (1.64%) Ruby
10 39 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 22 (0.86%) R
12 19 (0.74%) Bicep
12 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 18 (0.70%) C++
14 15 (0.58%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.35%) Perl
16 8 (0.31%) C
16 8 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 740 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 657 (25.61%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.07%) AWS Certification
4 121 (4.72%) Degree
5 72 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.34%) CISSP
7 57 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 43 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.17%) CISM
13 24 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.94%) PMP
14 21 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (0.74%) CCNP
17 16 (0.62%) CCSP
18 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 125 (4.87%) GDPR
3 91 (3.55%) QA
4 83 (3.24%) NIST
5 72 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.05%) SLA
9 25 (0.97%) NCSC
10 15 (0.58%) GRC
10 15 (0.58%) WCAG
11 14 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.55%) ISO 20022
12 13 (0.51%) PMO
13 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.27%) PSD2
15 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 516 (20.12%) Docker
2 81 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) IAG
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.078%) Firmware
11 2 (0.078%) KVM
11 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.078%) Postfix
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 612 (23.86%) Terraform
2 534 (20.82%) Kubernetes
3 133 (5.19%) Grafana
4 130 (5.07%) Ansible
5 117 (4.56%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.05%) Argo
8 20 (0.78%) Consul
8 20 (0.78%) Puppet
9 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.62%) Kibana
11 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.51%) Packer
11 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.35%) QRadar
12 9 (0.35%) SCCM
13 7 (0.27%) Istio
14 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.19%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 188 (7.33%) Microsoft
2 139 (5.42%) Databricks
3 95 (3.70%) Google
4 93 (3.63%) Oracle
5 80 (3.12%) ServiceNow
5 80 (3.12%) Splunk
6 60 (2.34%) CyberArk
7 57 (2.22%) OpenAI
8 45 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 42 (1.64%) Cisco
10 40 (1.56%) VMware
11 36 (1.40%) IBM
11 36 (1.40%) SAP
12 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.36%) Centrify
13 33 (1.29%) Dynatrace
14 25 (0.97%) Red Hat
15 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.90%) Confluent
17 22 (0.86%) Foundry