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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,845 2,233 2,416
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.41% 16.51% 13.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.64% 38.59% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 1,556 1,877
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £775 £831 £850
England median daily rate £550 £537 £564
% change year-on-year +2.37% -4.74% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £52.25 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +96.20% -66.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £59.88
90th Percentile £87.38 £86.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 8,214 5,786 6,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.60% 42.77% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,623 3,941 5,121
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 79 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.08 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -2 294 £550 - 108
West London +4 96 £560 +28.00% 51
South London +2 91 £519 -1.70% 5
East London +10 16 £540 -7.69% 36
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
1 138 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 97 (3.41%) Confluence
4 69 (2.43%) Apache
5 34 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 21 (0.74%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) Camunda
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.32%) CMS
10 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.28%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.25%) Magento
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.070%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.070%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.070%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.035%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.035%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,203 (42.28%) Azure
2 609 (21.41%) GCP
3 414 (14.55%) Serverless
4 410 (14.41%) Amazon S3
5 352 (12.37%) GitHub
6 349 (12.27%) AWS Lambda
7 227 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
8 205 (7.21%) Amazon EKS
9 192 (6.75%) Snowflake
10 184 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 176 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
12 172 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 146 (5.13%) Power Platform
14 144 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
15 127 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
16 125 (4.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 121 (4.25%) SaaS
18 101 (3.55%) dbt
19 95 (3.34%) Amazon Bedrock
20 90 (3.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 115 (4.04%) Firewall
2 89 (3.13%) Network Security
3 74 (2.60%) VPN
4 73 (2.57%) DNS
5 52 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.34%) WAN
7 24 (0.84%) DHCP
7 24 (0.84%) HTTP
8 23 (0.81%) BGP
9 19 (0.67%) SSL
10 17 (0.60%) OSPF
11 16 (0.56%) Internet
12 14 (0.49%) LAN
12 14 (0.49%) NGFW
13 13 (0.46%) OpenVPN
13 13 (0.46%) SSH
13 13 (0.46%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.42%) SAN
15 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
15 11 (0.39%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 131 (4.60%) Power BI
5 120 (4.22%) Data Lake
6 114 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 107 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
7 107 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 99 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 87 (3.06%) DynamoDB
10 85 (2.99%) Metadata
11 74 (2.60%) Tableau
12 73 (2.57%) Relational Database
13 69 (2.43%) MongoDB
14 66 (2.32%) Big Data
15 45 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
16 43 (1.51%) BigQuery
17 42 (1.48%) Delta Lake
18 37 (1.30%) MySQL
19 34 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 270 (9.49%) Git
2 265 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 250 (8.79%) GitLab
4 155 (5.45%) JIRA
5 37 (1.30%) JUnit
6 34 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.12%) Maven
8 31 (1.09%) JMeter
8 31 (1.09%) Mockito
9 30 (1.05%) MLflow
10 28 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 24 (0.84%) Gradle
11 24 (0.84%) Selenium
12 23 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.81%) Cucumber
13 22 (0.77%) Postman
14 19 (0.67%) Gatling
14 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
15 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 697 (24.50%) Finance
2 603 (21.20%) Social Skills
3 410 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 252 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 250 (8.79%) Banking
6 85 (2.99%) Front Office
7 69 (2.43%) Retail
8 67 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 43 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 40 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.12%) Marketing
14 27 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (0.91%) Legal
16 23 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (0.77%) Law
18 21 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
19 19 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 578 (20.32%) Architect
2 433 (15.22%) Senior
3 412 (14.48%) Developer
4 323 (11.35%) Lead
5 297 (10.44%) AWS Engineer
6 294 (10.33%) Data Engineer
7 223 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 157 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
9 150 (5.27%) Software Engineer
10 129 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.15%) AWS Architect
12 111 (3.90%) Java Developer
13 105 (3.69%) Analyst
14 99 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
15 96 (3.37%) Senior Developer
16 93 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 88 (3.09%) Cloud Architect
18 85 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 85 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
19 80 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (11.04%) Kafka
2 244 (8.58%) React
3 220 (7.73%) REST
4 183 (6.43%) Node.js
5 170 (5.98%) Spring
6 161 (5.66%) Spring Boot
7 143 (5.03%) RESTful
8 94 (3.30%) .NET
8 94 (3.30%) GraphQL
8 94 (3.30%) PySpark
9 79 (2.78%) OAuth
10 68 (2.39%) AngularJS
11 64 (2.25%) Redux
12 57 (2.00%) JSON
13 56 (1.97%) FastAPI
14 54 (1.90%) HTML
15 53 (1.86%) Pandas
16 47 (1.65%) CSS
16 47 (1.65%) LangChain
17 46 (1.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 500 (17.57%) Cloud Native
2 185 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 118 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 101 (3.55%) AI Agents
5 88 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 87 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 76 (2.67%) Fixed Income
8 70 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 66 (2.32%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.44%) Derivative
15 37 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (1.30%) Equities
16 35 (1.23%) Public Cloud
17 33 (1.16%) Data Structures
18 32 (1.12%) PKI
19 31 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 216 (7.59%) Linux
2 116 (4.08%) Windows
3 41 (1.44%) Unix
4 36 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.42%) Android
5 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.25%) Solaris
7 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.25%) zOS
8 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.11%) AIX
10 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.070%) CentOS
11 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,124 (39.51%) CI/CD
2 863 (30.33%) DevOps
3 700 (24.60%) Agile
4 594 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 588 (20.67%) AI
6 429 (15.08%) Microservices
7 411 (14.45%) Containerisation
8 385 (13.53%) Analytics
9 363 (12.76%) Migration
10 358 (12.58%) Software Engineering
11 350 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
12 332 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
13 324 (11.39%) Data Modelling
13 324 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 323 (11.35%) Observability
15 320 (11.25%) Data Engineering
16 310 (10.90%) Machine Learning
17 291 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 275 (9.67%) Event-Driven
19 272 (9.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,058 (37.19%) Python
2 590 (20.74%) SQL
3 504 (17.72%) Java
4 266 (9.35%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 139 (4.89%) Bash
7 119 (4.18%) C#
7 119 (4.18%) PowerShell
8 88 (3.09%) Go
9 47 (1.65%) Scala
10 35 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.09%) Ruby
12 29 (1.02%) Bicep
13 24 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 20 (0.70%) R
15 18 (0.63%) Groovy
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.46%) C++
17 13 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 752 (26.43%) Security Cleared
2 676 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 147 (5.17%) Degree
4 137 (4.82%) AWS Certification
5 90 (3.16%) CISSP
6 69 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 64 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 50 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 41 (1.44%) CISM
12 33 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 30 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 22 (0.77%) CCSP
16 21 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 21 (0.74%) PMP
17 19 (0.67%) CCNP
18 17 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
19 16 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 121 (4.25%) QA
3 98 (3.44%) GDPR
4 94 (3.30%) NIST
5 79 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.09%) GRC
9 26 (0.91%) SLA
10 22 (0.77%) NCSC
11 18 (0.63%) PMO
11 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.56%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
15 12 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.39%) WCAG
17 10 (0.35%) SEPA
18 6 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 502 (17.64%) Docker
2 81 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.14%) vSphere
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.070%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.070%) HDFS
12 2 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 677 (23.80%) Terraform
2 600 (21.09%) Kubernetes
3 184 (6.47%) Grafana
4 170 (5.98%) Ansible
5 149 (5.24%) Prometheus
6 46 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.98%) Argo
8 26 (0.91%) Puppet
9 24 (0.84%) Kibana
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.42%) Consul
12 12 (0.42%) Packer
13 10 (0.35%) QRadar
14 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.25%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.25%) Istio
15 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 249 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.64%) Databricks
3 118 (4.15%) Google
4 115 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 104 (3.66%) Oracle
6 84 (2.95%) Splunk
7 69 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 59 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 47 (1.65%) Cisco
10 45 (1.58%) CyberArk
11 39 (1.37%) SAP
11 39 (1.37%) VMware
12 36 (1.27%) Foundry
13 35 (1.23%) Palo Alto
14 31 (1.09%) Red Hat
15 30 (1.05%) Dynatrace
15 30 (1.05%) MuleSoft
16 29 (1.02%) IBM
16 29 (1.02%) Informatica
17 22 (0.77%) Qualys