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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,543 2,030 2,322
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.32% 16.26% 13.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.72% 38.34% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 1,467 1,783
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £465 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £688 £699 £738
90th Percentile £778 £825 £825
England median daily rate £537 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.36% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.88 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £48.25 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.97% +11.56% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £74.38 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £96.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +27.27% -25.68%

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 7,542 5,295 6,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.48% 42.42% 38.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,206 3,671 4,992
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.58 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -2 282 £550 - 241
South London +3 85 £500 +2.56% 7
West London +7 79 £603 +11.88% 35
East London 0 13 £525 -10.26% 47
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
1 121 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 66 (2.60%) Confluence
4 64 (2.52%) Apache
5 23 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.71%) nginx
7 15 (0.59%) Camunda
8 12 (0.47%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) CICS
11 5 (0.20%) 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%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.079%) Drupal
14 2 (0.079%) Mule
14 2 (0.079%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.079%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.079%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.079%) Endur
6 2 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.079%) 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 1,030 (40.50%) Azure
2 568 (22.34%) GCP
3 383 (15.06%) Amazon S3
4 373 (14.67%) Serverless
5 328 (12.90%) GitHub
6 324 (12.74%) AWS Lambda
7 213 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 198 (7.79%) GitHub Actions
9 172 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
10 160 (6.29%) Snowflake
11 154 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
12 146 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 140 (5.51%) Power Platform
14 139 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
15 115 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 103 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
17 79 (3.11%) SaaS
18 67 (2.63%) dbt
19 65 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
20 63 (2.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.89%) Firewall
2 65 (2.56%) Network Security
3 60 (2.36%) DNS
4 56 (2.20%) VPN
5 44 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.14%) WAN
7 20 (0.79%) BGP
8 19 (0.75%) HTTP
9 16 (0.63%) LAN
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 15 (0.59%) SSL
11 14 (0.55%) DHCP
12 13 (0.51%) VLAN
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) NGFW
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.35%) SAN
15 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (4.80%) Data Lake
3 119 (4.68%) Power BI
4 111 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
4 111 (4.36%) NoSQL
5 110 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
6 105 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
7 99 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 75 (2.95%) MongoDB
10 74 (2.91%) Tableau
11 73 (2.87%) DynamoDB
12 72 (2.83%) Metadata
12 72 (2.83%) Relational Database
13 59 (2.32%) Big Data
14 47 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
15 43 (1.69%) MySQL
16 41 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
16 41 (1.61%) BigQuery
17 37 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 222 (8.73%) Git
2 219 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 207 (8.14%) GitLab
4 117 (4.60%) JIRA
5 43 (1.69%) MLflow
6 42 (1.65%) JUnit
7 34 (1.34%) Mockito
8 27 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 22 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 21 (0.83%) Maven
11 21 (0.83%) Selenium
12 20 (0.79%) Gradle
12 20 (0.79%) JMeter
13 19 (0.75%) Cypress.io
13 19 (0.75%) Postman
14 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.51%) Snyk
16 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 587 (23.08%) Finance
2 529 (20.80%) Social Skills
3 357 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 225 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 214 (8.42%) Banking
6 88 (3.46%) Front Office
7 63 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 38 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (1.45%) Retail
12 34 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.02%) Marketing
14 24 (0.94%) Legal
15 18 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.55%) Military
17 13 (0.51%) Law
18 11 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 510 (20.06%) Architect
2 423 (16.63%) Developer
3 386 (15.18%) Senior
4 269 (10.58%) Data Engineer
5 268 (10.54%) Lead
6 229 (9.01%) AWS Engineer
7 184 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 141 (5.54%) Software Engineer
9 125 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
10 115 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 103 (4.05%) AWS Architect
12 102 (4.01%) Analyst
12 102 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 98 (3.85%) Java Developer
14 94 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
15 87 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
16 83 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
17 79 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 77 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 72 (2.83%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (12.27%) Kafka
2 233 (9.16%) React
3 198 (7.79%) REST
4 180 (7.08%) Node.js
5 173 (6.80%) Spring
6 162 (6.37%) Spring Boot
7 142 (5.58%) RESTful
8 86 (3.38%) .NET
9 83 (3.26%) PySpark
10 77 (3.03%) AngularJS
11 69 (2.71%) OAuth
12 67 (2.63%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.60%) SOAP
14 62 (2.44%) Redux
15 60 (2.36%) HTML
16 59 (2.32%) LDAP
17 56 (2.20%) Pandas
18 52 (2.04%) CSS
19 49 (1.93%) OpenID
20 46 (1.81%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 415 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (3.03%) Fixed Income
3 77 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 71 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
4 71 (2.79%) Security Posture
5 64 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 63 (2.48%) AI Agents
7 62 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 56 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 52 (2.04%) Data Centre
10 47 (1.85%) Derivative
10 47 (1.85%) Management Information System
11 42 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.61%) Equities
13 35 (1.38%) Algorithms
14 33 (1.30%) Mainframe
15 32 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.26%) Data Structures
16 28 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 179 (7.04%) Linux
2 71 (2.79%) Windows
3 40 (1.57%) Unix
4 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.31%) VMS
8 7 (0.28%) zOS
9 6 (0.24%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
14 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 963 (37.87%) CI/CD
2 730 (28.71%) DevOps
3 580 (22.81%) Agile
4 512 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 480 (18.88%) AI
6 403 (15.85%) Microservices
7 374 (14.71%) Containerisation
8 368 (14.47%) Analytics
9 341 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
10 313 (12.31%) Software Engineering
11 297 (11.68%) Migration
12 294 (11.56%) Data Modelling
13 281 (11.05%) Data Pipeline
14 274 (10.77%) Data Engineering
15 268 (10.54%) Observability
16 254 (9.99%) Machine Learning
17 239 (9.40%) ETL
18 232 (9.12%) Stakeholder Management
19 225 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 209 (8.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 989 (38.89%) Python
2 560 (22.02%) SQL
3 464 (18.25%) Java
4 222 (8.73%) TypeScript
5 219 (8.61%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.48%) C#
7 111 (4.36%) PowerShell
8 101 (3.97%) Go
9 100 (3.93%) Bash
10 42 (1.65%) Scala
11 39 (1.53%) Shell Script
12 38 (1.49%) Ruby
13 21 (0.83%) R
14 19 (0.75%) Bicep
14 19 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.71%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.63%) C++
17 11 (0.43%) PHP
18 10 (0.39%) Groovy
18 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 723 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 640 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 131 (5.15%) Degree
4 117 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 69 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (2.63%) CISSP
7 57 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 37 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.14%) CISM
13 26 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.90%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.90%) PMP
15 21 (0.83%) CCNP
16 20 (0.79%) CCSP
16 20 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 115 (4.52%) GDPR
3 96 (3.78%) QA
4 88 (3.46%) NIST
5 74 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.18%) SLA
9 23 (0.90%) NCSC
10 21 (0.83%) GRC
11 18 (0.71%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.55%) PMO
12 14 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.43%) WCAG
15 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.28%) PSD2
16 7 (0.28%) SEPA
17 6 (0.24%) MiFID
18 5 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 483 (18.99%) Docker
2 86 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.51%) Squid
6 5 (0.20%) HDFS
6 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.16%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.079%) Firmware
9 2 (0.079%) KVM
9 2 (0.079%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.079%) Postfix
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 578 (22.73%) Terraform
2 519 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 142 (5.58%) Grafana
4 125 (4.92%) Ansible
5 124 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.83%) Argo
8 18 (0.71%) Kibana
8 18 (0.71%) Puppet
9 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.47%) QRadar
12 11 (0.43%) Consul
13 6 (0.24%) Istio
13 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
13 6 (0.24%) Packer
13 6 (0.24%) SCCM
14 5 (0.20%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.16%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 191 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 130 (5.11%) Databricks
3 97 (3.81%) Google
4 84 (3.30%) Oracle
5 80 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 73 (2.87%) Splunk
7 62 (2.44%) CyberArk
8 60 (2.36%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 44 (1.73%) Cisco
11 35 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.38%) Centrify
11 35 (1.38%) SAP
12 33 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 33 (1.30%) VMware
13 32 (1.26%) IBM
14 28 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.02%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.87%) Confluent
16 22 (0.87%) Foundry