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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,560 2,042 2,266
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.68% 16.06% 12.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.90% 37.68% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,764 1,478 1,745
10th Percentile £400 £400 £408
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% -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% - -8.33%
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% -19.64%

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 7,552 5,419 6,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.31% 42.62% 37.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,196 3,769 4,909
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £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 £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -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% -27.78%
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% -28.38%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 - 209
South London +6 95 £513 +7.89% 8
West London +6 73 £603 +6.64% 37
East London +3 13 £540 -7.69% 42
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
1 136 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.16%) Confluence
4 69 (2.70%) Apache
5 34 (1.33%) nginx
6 26 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.66%) Camunda
8 16 (0.63%) SAS
9 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.27%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) CICS
11 6 (0.23%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
15 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%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
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 1,027 (40.12%) Azure
2 557 (21.76%) GCP
3 402 (15.70%) Amazon S3
4 392 (15.31%) Serverless
5 343 (13.40%) AWS Lambda
6 325 (12.70%) GitHub
7 250 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 188 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
10 157 (6.13%) Snowflake
11 155 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
12 150 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
13 148 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 145 (5.66%) Power Platform
15 115 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 92 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
17 72 (2.81%) SaaS
18 69 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
19 66 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
20 64 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.83%) Firewall
2 63 (2.46%) VPN
3 60 (2.34%) DNS
3 60 (2.34%) Network Security
4 42 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 33 (1.29%) WAN
6 19 (0.74%) BGP
7 17 (0.66%) LAN
8 16 (0.63%) HTTP
9 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 14 (0.55%) DHCP
10 14 (0.55%) VLAN
11 13 (0.51%) SSL
12 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.35%) SAN
16 8 (0.31%) NAS
17 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (5.04%) Power BI
3 127 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
3 127 (4.96%) NoSQL
4 120 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 115 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
6 111 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
7 106 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 93 (3.63%) SQL Server
9 84 (3.28%) Tableau
10 83 (3.24%) Relational Database
11 79 (3.09%) MongoDB
12 76 (2.97%) DynamoDB
12 76 (2.97%) Metadata
13 58 (2.27%) Big Data
14 48 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
14 48 (1.88%) MySQL
15 40 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 39 (1.52%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 250 (9.77%) Git
2 214 (8.36%) GitLab
3 210 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 142 (5.55%) JIRA
5 43 (1.68%) JUnit
6 42 (1.64%) MLflow
7 32 (1.25%) Mockito
8 30 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.90%) Selenium
13 20 (0.78%) Maven
14 17 (0.66%) Gradle
15 15 (0.59%) Postman
16 13 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.51%) JMeter
17 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.47%) Snyk
17 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 574 (22.42%) Finance
2 562 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 371 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 240 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 205 (8.01%) Banking
6 92 (3.59%) Front Office
7 65 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.13%) Retail
14 25 (0.98%) Legal
15 23 (0.90%) Marketing
16 17 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Military
18 13 (0.51%) Billing
19 12 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 496 (19.38%) Architect
2 440 (17.19%) Developer
3 379 (14.80%) Senior
4 266 (10.39%) Data Engineer
5 256 (10.00%) Lead
6 245 (9.57%) AWS Engineer
7 195 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 145 (5.66%) Software Engineer
9 121 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
10 119 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 107 (4.18%) Analyst
12 101 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (3.91%) AWS Architect
13 100 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 100 (3.91%) Java Developer
14 94 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 84 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (3.28%) Python Engineer
16 83 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
17 78 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (12.58%) Kafka
2 251 (9.80%) React
3 203 (7.93%) Node.js
4 191 (7.46%) REST
5 163 (6.37%) Spring
6 149 (5.82%) Spring Boot
7 147 (5.74%) RESTful
8 80 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 80 (3.13%) PySpark
9 75 (2.93%) .NET
10 73 (2.85%) OAuth
11 66 (2.58%) SOAP
12 65 (2.54%) GraphQL
13 62 (2.42%) HTML
14 60 (2.34%) CSS
14 60 (2.34%) Redux
15 56 (2.19%) Pandas
16 55 (2.15%) LDAP
17 48 (1.88%) JSON
18 47 (1.84%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 389 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 138 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (2.93%) Fixed Income
4 71 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 70 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 66 (2.58%) Security Posture
7 65 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 57 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 55 (2.15%) AI Agents
10 55 (2.15%) Data Centre
11 46 (1.80%) Derivative
12 44 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (1.48%) Algorithms
14 38 (1.48%) Equities
15 33 (1.29%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.25%) Public Cloud
17 31 (1.21%) Mainframe
18 26 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 194 (7.58%) Linux
2 67 (2.62%) Windows
3 45 (1.76%) 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 (0.20%) 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
1 972 (37.97%) CI/CD
2 719 (28.09%) DevOps
3 619 (24.18%) Agile
4 512 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 455 (17.77%) AI
6 410 (16.02%) Microservices
7 383 (14.96%) Analytics
8 368 (14.38%) Containerisation
9 352 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
10 323 (12.62%) Software Engineering
11 300 (11.72%) Data Modelling
12 293 (11.45%) Migration
13 276 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
14 270 (10.55%) Data Engineering
15 259 (10.12%) Observability
16 253 (9.88%) Machine Learning
17 248 (9.69%) ETL
18 228 (8.91%) Full-Stack Development
19 222 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
20 204 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,018 (39.77%) Python
2 583 (22.77%) SQL
3 472 (18.44%) Java
4 227 (8.87%) TypeScript
5 225 (8.79%) JavaScript
6 110 (4.30%) Go
7 106 (4.14%) C#
8 103 (4.02%) Bash
9 102 (3.98%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.72%) Scala
11 42 (1.64%) Ruby
12 38 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 21 (0.82%) R
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.70%) C++
16 17 (0.66%) Bicep
17 15 (0.59%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.35%) Perl
19 8 (0.31%) C
19 8 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 741 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 656 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 122 (4.77%) Degree
5 73 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.34%) CISSP
7 57 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 34 (1.33%) 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 (0.63%) CCSP
18 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 125 (4.88%) GDPR
3 89 (3.48%) QA
4 84 (3.28%) NIST
5 73 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.05%) SLA
9 25 (0.98%) NCSC
10 16 (0.63%) WCAG
11 15 (0.59%) GRC
12 14 (0.55%) ISO 20022
13 13 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.51%) PMO
14 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 513 (20.04%) Docker
2 80 (3.13%) 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 (0.20%) 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
1 607 (23.71%) Terraform
2 534 (20.86%) Kubernetes
3 132 (5.16%) Grafana
4 129 (5.04%) Ansible
5 116 (4.53%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.41%) 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 (0.63%) 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 (0.20%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 184 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 138 (5.39%) Databricks
3 94 (3.67%) Google
4 93 (3.63%) Oracle
5 80 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 80 (3.13%) Splunk
6 60 (2.34%) CyberArk
7 55 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 45 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 42 (1.64%) Cisco
10 40 (1.56%) VMware
11 36 (1.41%) IBM
12 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.37%) Centrify
12 35 (1.37%) SAP
13 33 (1.29%) Dynatrace
14 25 (0.98%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.90%) Confluent
16 22 (0.86%) Foundry