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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,789 2,178 2,279
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.86% 16.17% 14.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.65% 37.48% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,964 1,521 1,728
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £476 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +91.68% -63.94%
75th Percentile £78.75 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -37.59%

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 8,289 5,811 6,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.21% 43.15% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,662 3,979 4,745
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £743 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 91 52
10th Percentile £19.18 £23.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £30.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -0.97% -31.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £44.53
90th Percentile £76.06 £72.00 £65.65
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -6 278 £550 -4.76% 169
West London +7 98 £560 +31.76% 175
South London 0 77 £535 +0.71% 14
East London +6 13 £550 -5.98% 30
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
1 151 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 100 (3.59%) Confluence
4 80 (2.87%) Apache
5 30 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) Camunda
7 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.11%) Mule
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 6 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
2 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.072%) Endur
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,252 (44.89%) Azure
2 613 (21.98%) GCP
3 394 (14.13%) Serverless
4 376 (13.48%) Amazon S3
5 356 (12.76%) GitHub
6 329 (11.80%) AWS Lambda
7 235 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
8 224 (8.03%) Snowflake
9 195 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
10 172 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 155 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 150 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
14 138 (4.95%) Power Platform
15 134 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
16 131 (4.70%) dbt
17 130 (4.66%) SaaS
18 121 (4.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 107 (3.84%) Entra ID
20 95 (3.41%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 110 (3.94%) Firewall
2 85 (3.05%) Network Security
3 71 (2.55%) DNS
4 61 (2.19%) VPN
5 40 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 40 (1.43%) WAN
6 27 (0.97%) DHCP
7 23 (0.82%) SSL
8 22 (0.79%) HTTP
9 20 (0.72%) BGP
9 20 (0.72%) Internet
9 20 (0.72%) SSH
10 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 15 (0.54%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.54%) VXLAN
11 14 (0.50%) LAN
11 14 (0.50%) OSPF
12 12 (0.43%) SAN
13 11 (0.39%) NGFW
14 10 (0.36%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
4 125 (4.48%) Power BI
5 117 (4.20%) Data Lake
6 116 (4.16%) NoSQL
7 103 (3.69%) Metadata
8 101 (3.62%) SQL Server
9 96 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
10 94 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 84 (3.01%) DynamoDB
12 83 (2.98%) MongoDB
13 77 (2.76%) Relational Database
14 70 (2.51%) Delta Lake
15 58 (2.08%) Big Data
16 56 (2.01%) Tableau
17 53 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
18 43 (1.54%) MySQL
18 43 (1.54%) Redis
19 40 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 285 (10.22%) Git
2 284 (10.18%) Jenkins
3 260 (9.32%) GitLab
4 150 (5.38%) JIRA
5 34 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 33 (1.18%) JMeter
6 33 (1.18%) Selenium
7 28 (1.00%) JUnit
7 28 (1.00%) Maven
8 27 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.82%) Postman
10 22 (0.79%) Bitbucket
10 22 (0.79%) Gradle
10 22 (0.79%) Mockito
11 19 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 17 (0.61%) Claude Code
12 17 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.61%) Gatling
12 17 (0.61%) MLflow
13 12 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 678 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 656 (23.52%) Finance
3 400 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 268 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 254 (9.11%) Banking
6 78 (2.80%) Retail
7 62 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 47 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 43 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.29%) Marketing
12 33 (1.18%) Front Office
13 32 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.04%) Legal
15 28 (1.00%) Law
16 25 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (0.79%) Military
17 22 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 591 (21.19%) Architect
2 437 (15.67%) Senior
3 334 (11.98%) Developer
4 308 (11.04%) Data Engineer
5 300 (10.76%) Lead
6 262 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
7 202 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 153 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
9 117 (4.20%) AWS Architect
10 114 (4.09%) Analyst
11 106 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 98 (3.51%) Java Developer
13 96 (3.44%) Data Architect
14 94 (3.37%) Software Engineer
15 93 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
16 92 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 91 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
18 80 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
19 79 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
19 79 (2.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (24.81%) Terraform
2 304 (10.90%) Kafka
3 254 (9.11%) REST
4 200 (7.17%) React
5 175 (6.27%) Spring
6 160 (5.74%) Spring Boot
7 151 (5.41%) RESTful
8 125 (4.48%) Node.js
9 110 (3.94%) PySpark
10 91 (3.26%) .NET
11 85 (3.05%) OAuth
12 63 (2.26%) JSON
13 61 (2.19%) HTML
14 60 (2.15%) GraphQL
15 59 (2.12%) AngularJS
16 58 (2.08%) FastAPI
17 51 (1.83%) CSS
18 45 (1.61%) LangChain
18 45 (1.61%) OAuth2
19 44 (1.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 524 (18.79%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 133 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 127 (4.55%) AI Agents
5 114 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 88 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 67 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 49 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 44 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 36 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 36 (1.29%) PKI
11 36 (1.29%) Replication
12 34 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
13 33 (1.18%) CMDB
13 33 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 28 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 232 (8.32%) Linux
2 127 (4.55%) Windows
3 52 (1.86%) Unix
4 44 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,158 (41.52%) CI/CD
2 869 (31.16%) DevOps
3 696 (24.96%) Agile
4 651 (23.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 615 (22.05%) AI
6 442 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 409 (14.66%) Microservices
8 396 (14.20%) Containerisation
9 369 (13.23%) Migration
10 368 (13.19%) Observability
11 361 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
12 359 (12.87%) Analytics
13 348 (12.48%) Data Pipeline
14 341 (12.23%) Data Modelling
15 339 (12.15%) Software Engineering
16 337 (12.08%) Data Engineering
17 319 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 307 (11.01%) Event-Driven
19 297 (10.65%) Machine Learning
20 282 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,030 (36.93%) Python
2 596 (21.37%) SQL
3 471 (16.89%) Java
4 206 (7.39%) TypeScript
5 194 (6.96%) JavaScript
6 166 (5.95%) Bash
7 144 (5.16%) PowerShell
8 112 (4.02%) C#
9 46 (1.65%) Go
10 44 (1.58%) Scala
11 33 (1.18%) Bicep
11 33 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.04%) Ruby
13 26 (0.93%) Groovy
13 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.68%) R
15 18 (0.65%) C++
16 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 757 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 675 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 156 (5.59%) AWS Certification
4 150 (5.38%) Degree
5 87 (3.12%) CISSP
6 77 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 74 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 67 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 53 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 46 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (1.61%) CISM
13 26 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 24 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 23 (0.82%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.79%) PMP
17 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.61%) CCNP
18 17 (0.61%) CCSP
19 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 144 (5.16%) QA
3 108 (3.87%) NIST
4 99 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 91 (3.26%) GDPR
6 40 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.11%) GRC
9 24 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 24 (0.86%) SLA
10 22 (0.79%) NCSC
11 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 17 (0.61%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.50%) PMO
13 13 (0.47%) EU AI Act
14 11 (0.39%) SEPA
15 10 (0.36%) WCAG
16 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 489 (17.53%) Docker
2 91 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.22%) NFS
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 600 (21.51%) Kubernetes
2 196 (7.03%) Grafana
3 188 (6.74%) Ansible
4 155 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.22%) Argo
6 33 (1.18%) Kibana
6 33 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.86%) Puppet
8 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.39%) Istio
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.22%) Control-M
14 6 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.22%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 290 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 174 (6.24%) Databricks
3 129 (4.63%) Oracle
4 128 (4.59%) Google
5 126 (4.52%) ServiceNow
6 104 (3.73%) Splunk
7 69 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.01%) VMware
9 53 (1.90%) OpenAI
10 51 (1.83%) Cisco
10 51 (1.83%) CyberArk
11 47 (1.69%) SAP
12 38 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 37 (1.33%) Informatica
14 35 (1.25%) IBM
15 32 (1.15%) Foundry
16 30 (1.08%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.97%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 25 (0.90%) Red Hat