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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,521 2,010 2,295
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.92% 15.92% 12.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.19% 37.44% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,731 1,473 1,762
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 14
10th Percentile £35.00 £46.50 £22.14
25th Percentile £65.00 £51.75 £29.85
Median hourly rate £74.50 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.23% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £90.00 £67.50 £61.88
90th Percentile £93.75 £84.00 £70.85
England median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +31.82% -17.91%

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 7,374 5,369 6,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.65% 42.53% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,067 3,764 4,962
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 51 80
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £24.29 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -25.37%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £51.06
90th Percentile £72.25 £67.50 £62.63
England median hourly rate £41.64 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +57.13% +26.19% -18.69%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -1 293 £550 +2.80% 301
South London +4 94 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +8 65 £603 +6.64% 42
East London +8 13 £545 -6.84% 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
1 128 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.21%) Confluence
4 69 (2.74%) Apache
5 33 (1.31%) nginx
6 24 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.67%) Camunda
7 17 (0.67%) SAS
8 12 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.32%) Appian
11 5 (0.20%) CMS
11 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) CICS
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.079%) Drupal
14 2 (0.079%) Mule
14 2 (0.079%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.040%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.040%) Notion
8 1 (0.040%) Revit
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.079%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.079%) Endur
5 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.040%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.040%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.040%) Maximo
6 1 (0.040%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.040%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.040%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,034 (41.02%) Azure
2 576 (22.85%) GCP
3 376 (14.91%) Serverless
4 361 (14.32%) Amazon S3
5 342 (13.57%) GitHub
6 322 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
7 237 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 196 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.27%) Snowflake
11 151 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
11 151 (5.99%) Power Platform
12 142 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
13 133 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 113 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 89 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
16 67 (2.66%) dbt
17 63 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
18 60 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
18 60 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.93%) Firewall
2 70 (2.78%) VPN
3 61 (2.42%) DNS
4 58 (2.30%) Network Security
5 44 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.47%) WAN
7 20 (0.79%) BGP
8 18 (0.71%) LAN
9 17 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.63%) HTTP
11 15 (0.60%) OSPF
12 14 (0.56%) DHCP
12 14 (0.56%) VLAN
13 12 (0.48%) SSL
14 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.36%) 5G
15 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.32%) 4G
17 7 (0.28%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (5.32%) Power BI
3 121 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
3 121 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 118 (4.68%) Data Lake
6 104 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
7 94 (3.73%) SQL Server
8 93 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 87 (3.45%) Relational Database
10 80 (3.17%) Tableau
11 72 (2.86%) Metadata
12 71 (2.82%) DynamoDB
13 70 (2.78%) MongoDB
14 56 (2.22%) Big Data
15 51 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
16 50 (1.98%) MySQL
17 40 (1.59%) BigQuery
18 32 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
18 32 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 254 (10.08%) Git
2 217 (8.61%) GitLab
3 211 (8.37%) Jenkins
4 142 (5.63%) JIRA
5 45 (1.79%) JUnit
6 44 (1.75%) MLflow
7 30 (1.19%) Mockito
8 29 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 25 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.87%) Selenium
10 22 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.79%) Maven
12 17 (0.67%) JMeter
13 16 (0.63%) Gradle
14 15 (0.60%) Postman
15 14 (0.56%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.52%) Gatling
17 11 (0.44%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.44%) Snyk
General
1 578 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 561 (22.25%) Finance
3 360 (14.28%) Public Sector
4 236 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 206 (8.17%) Banking
6 89 (3.53%) Front Office
7 64 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (1.98%) Investment Banking
9 38 (1.51%) Financial Institution
9 38 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (1.39%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.19%) Retail
13 25 (0.99%) Legal
14 21 (0.83%) Marketing
15 18 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.56%) Law
16 14 (0.56%) Military
17 13 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 477 (18.92%) Architect
2 444 (17.61%) Developer
3 387 (15.35%) Senior
4 244 (9.68%) Lead
5 243 (9.64%) Data Engineer
6 227 (9.00%) AWS Engineer
7 190 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 150 (5.95%) Software Engineer
9 123 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
10 121 (4.80%) Senior Developer
11 115 (4.56%) Analyst
12 97 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
13 96 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
14 94 (3.73%) AWS Architect
15 92 (3.65%) Java Developer
15 92 (3.65%) Python Engineer
16 88 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 84 (3.33%) Python Developer
18 82 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 79 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (13.21%) Kafka
2 250 (9.92%) React
3 208 (8.25%) Node.js
4 198 (7.85%) REST
5 147 (5.83%) Spring
6 141 (5.59%) RESTful
7 133 (5.28%) Spring Boot
8 89 (3.53%) AngularJS
9 75 (2.98%) PySpark
10 72 (2.86%) .NET
11 68 (2.70%) OAuth
12 67 (2.66%) SOAP
13 63 (2.50%) CSS
13 63 (2.50%) GraphQL
14 61 (2.42%) Redux
15 60 (2.38%) HTML
16 59 (2.34%) Pandas
17 53 (2.10%) gRPC
17 53 (2.10%) LDAP
18 49 (1.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 374 (14.84%) Cloud Native
2 140 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (3.01%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.90%) Security Posture
5 68 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 63 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 55 (2.18%) Data Centre
9 49 (1.94%) Derivative
9 49 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 45 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 44 (1.75%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.55%) Equities
12 39 (1.55%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 28 (1.11%) Mainframe
16 23 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 185 (7.34%) Linux
2 66 (2.62%) Windows
3 47 (1.86%) Unix
4 12 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.44%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.079%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (37.88%) CI/CD
2 710 (28.16%) DevOps
3 626 (24.83%) Agile
4 496 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 450 (17.85%) AI
6 406 (16.10%) Microservices
7 380 (15.07%) Analytics
8 362 (14.36%) Containerisation
9 360 (14.28%) Problem-Solving
10 331 (13.13%) Software Engineering
11 298 (11.82%) Data Modelling
12 274 (10.87%) Migration
13 272 (10.79%) Data Pipeline
14 270 (10.71%) Data Engineering
15 266 (10.55%) Machine Learning
16 259 (10.27%) Observability
17 248 (9.84%) ETL
18 218 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 213 (8.45%) Full-Stack Development
20 205 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (40.42%) Python
2 585 (23.21%) SQL
3 454 (18.01%) Java
4 232 (9.20%) TypeScript
5 225 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.52%) Go
7 101 (4.01%) C#
8 100 (3.97%) PowerShell
9 98 (3.89%) Bash
10 42 (1.67%) Ruby
11 39 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.43%) Scala
13 23 (0.91%) C++
14 22 (0.87%) R
15 19 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.60%) Bicep
17 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.36%) Korn
19 8 (0.32%) Rust
20 7 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 731 (29.00%) Security Cleared
2 641 (25.43%) SC Cleared
3 124 (4.92%) AWS Certification
4 122 (4.84%) Degree
5 70 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (2.22%) CISSP
7 51 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 47 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.15%) CISM
13 25 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 25 (0.99%) PMP
14 19 (0.75%) CCNP
15 18 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 18 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 129 (5.12%) GDPR
3 94 (3.73%) QA
4 78 (3.09%) NIST
5 74 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.11%) NCSC
9 25 (0.99%) SLA
10 16 (0.63%) WCAG
11 15 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.56%) GRC
12 14 (0.56%) PMO
13 12 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.28%) PSD2
17 6 (0.24%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 520 (20.63%) Docker
2 74 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.40%) Squid
5 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.079%) IAG
10 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.040%) Ceph
11 1 (0.040%) iptables
11 1 (0.040%) KVM
11 1 (0.040%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 592 (23.48%) Terraform
2 540 (21.42%) Kubernetes
3 131 (5.20%) Ansible
4 124 (4.92%) Grafana
5 110 (4.36%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.15%) Argo
8 18 (0.71%) Consul
9 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.63%) Puppet
11 15 (0.60%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.52%) Packer
13 12 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.36%) Kibana
14 9 (0.36%) QRadar
14 9 (0.36%) SCCM
15 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.24%) Istio
17 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 5 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 188 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 142 (5.63%) Databricks
3 94 (3.73%) Google
3 94 (3.73%) Oracle
4 84 (3.33%) Splunk
5 78 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 56 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 51 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 39 (1.55%) Cisco
8 39 (1.55%) IBM
9 38 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 36 (1.43%) Dynatrace
11 35 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.39%) Centrify
11 35 (1.39%) VMware
12 31 (1.23%) SAP
13 26 (1.03%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.99%) Red Hat
15 22 (0.87%) Foundry
16 21 (0.83%) MuleSoft