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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,848 2,259 2,336
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.24% 16.53% 14.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.27% 38.54% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,984 1,582 1,796
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £533 £575
% change year-on-year +3.29% -7.39% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 10
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +57.25% -58.34%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £64.63
90th Percentile - £86.75 £73.13
England median hourly rate £72.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -0.69% +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 8,310 5,862 6,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 42.91% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,670 4,012 4,921
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 83 57
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.89 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -49.77%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.13 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £72.50 £66.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -6 290 £550 -4.35% 138
West London +7 99 £560 +28.00% 59
South London +2 88 £516 -2.73% 7
East London +9 14 £525 -10.26% 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
1 140 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 94 (3.30%) Confluence
4 75 (2.63%) Apache
5 36 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.53%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) CMS
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
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%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
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%) Endur
8 2 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.035%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,228 (43.12%) Azure
2 632 (22.19%) GCP
3 397 (13.94%) Serverless
4 392 (13.76%) Amazon S3
5 359 (12.61%) GitHub
6 336 (11.80%) AWS Lambda
7 228 (8.01%) GitHub Actions
8 202 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
9 196 (6.88%) Snowflake
10 171 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 169 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 164 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
13 140 (4.92%) Power Platform
14 138 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
15 129 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
16 123 (4.32%) SaaS
17 121 (4.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 105 (3.69%) dbt
19 93 (3.27%) Amazon Bedrock
20 91 (3.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.90%) Firewall
2 91 (3.20%) Network Security
3 72 (2.53%) DNS
4 67 (2.35%) VPN
5 47 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.26%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 25 (0.88%) HTTP
9 22 (0.77%) BGP
10 20 (0.70%) SSL
11 17 (0.60%) Internet
12 16 (0.56%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) SSH
13 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
14 13 (0.46%) NGFW
15 12 (0.42%) VLAN
16 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
16 11 (0.39%) SAN
17 10 (0.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 127 (4.46%) Power BI
4 126 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
5 120 (4.21%) Data Lake
6 119 (4.18%) NoSQL
7 103 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
8 102 (3.58%) SQL Server
9 98 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 89 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 85 (2.98%) Metadata
12 76 (2.67%) MongoDB
13 74 (2.60%) Relational Database
14 68 (2.39%) Tableau
15 63 (2.21%) Big Data
16 50 (1.76%) Delta Lake
17 41 (1.44%) BigQuery
17 41 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
18 34 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
18 34 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 274 (9.62%) Git
2 265 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 244 (8.57%) GitLab
4 148 (5.20%) JIRA
5 36 (1.26%) JUnit
6 32 (1.12%) JMeter
7 31 (1.09%) MLflow
8 30 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.05%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.02%) Maven
10 28 (0.98%) Mockito
11 24 (0.84%) Selenium
12 22 (0.77%) Gradle
13 21 (0.74%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.74%) Postman
14 20 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 20 (0.70%) Gatling
15 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
17 14 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 710 (24.93%) Finance
2 614 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 416 (14.61%) Public Sector
4 262 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (8.99%) Banking
6 88 (3.09%) Front Office
7 70 (2.46%) Retail
8 60 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 46 (1.62%) Telecoms
11 39 (1.37%) Financial Institution
12 34 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.19%) Marketing
13 28 (0.98%) Legal
14 27 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 25 (0.88%) Law
16 23 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 601 (21.10%) Architect
2 437 (15.34%) Senior
3 404 (14.19%) Developer
4 324 (11.38%) Lead
5 287 (10.08%) Data Engineer
6 286 (10.04%) AWS Engineer
7 209 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 168 (5.90%) Solutions Architect
9 142 (4.99%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.14%) AWS Architect
12 117 (4.11%) Java Developer
13 111 (3.90%) Analyst
14 98 (3.44%) Senior Developer
15 92 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
16 91 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
17 86 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 86 (3.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 84 (2.95%) Cloud Architect
19 81 (2.84%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (11.34%) Kafka
2 244 (8.57%) React
3 238 (8.36%) REST
4 183 (6.43%) Node.js
5 172 (6.04%) Spring
6 159 (5.58%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.09%) RESTful
8 95 (3.34%) GraphQL
9 94 (3.30%) PySpark
10 89 (3.13%) .NET
11 79 (2.77%) OAuth
12 67 (2.35%) AngularJS
12 67 (2.35%) Redux
13 61 (2.14%) FastAPI
13 61 (2.14%) JSON
14 56 (1.97%) HTML
15 50 (1.76%) CSS
16 48 (1.69%) Pandas
17 46 (1.62%) OAuth2
17 46 (1.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 504 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 192 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 125 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 109 (3.83%) AI Agents
5 95 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 85 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (2.74%) Fixed Income
8 68 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.35%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 48 (1.69%) Management Information System
14 42 (1.47%) Derivative
15 39 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
15 39 (1.37%) Data Structures
16 38 (1.33%) Equities
17 34 (1.19%) CMDB
17 34 (1.19%) PKI
18 33 (1.16%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 213 (7.48%) Linux
2 119 (4.18%) Windows
3 42 (1.47%) Unix
4 39 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.070%) CentOS
13 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.070%) VMS
14 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,130 (39.68%) CI/CD
2 854 (29.99%) DevOps
3 712 (25.00%) Agile
4 603 (21.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 595 (20.89%) AI
6 422 (14.82%) Microservices
7 407 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 379 (13.31%) Analytics
9 365 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 361 (12.68%) Migration
11 349 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
12 346 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 344 (12.08%) Observability
14 329 (11.55%) Data Pipeline
15 328 (11.52%) Data Modelling
16 326 (11.45%) Data Engineering
17 314 (11.03%) Machine Learning
18 295 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
19 279 (9.80%) Event-Driven
20 269 (9.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,048 (36.80%) Python
2 591 (20.75%) SQL
3 504 (17.70%) Java
4 266 (9.34%) TypeScript
5 238 (8.36%) JavaScript
6 143 (5.02%) Bash
7 121 (4.25%) PowerShell
8 113 (3.97%) C#
9 85 (2.98%) Go
10 45 (1.58%) Scala
11 36 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.12%) Ruby
13 31 (1.09%) Bicep
14 26 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.70%) Groovy
15 20 (0.70%) R
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.56%) C++
18 15 (0.53%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 756 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 680 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.23%) Degree
4 138 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 88 (3.09%) CISSP
6 68 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 65 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 63 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 48 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.47%) CISM
12 38 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (0.98%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.74%) CCSP
16 20 (0.70%) CCNP
16 20 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.70%) PMP
17 18 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 130 (4.56%) QA
3 96 (3.37%) GDPR
4 94 (3.30%) NIST
5 79 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.16%) GRC
8 32 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.84%) SLA
10 20 (0.70%) NCSC
11 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.63%) PMO
13 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.56%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.49%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
17 11 (0.39%) WCAG
18 10 (0.35%) SEPA
19 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 496 (17.42%) Docker
2 81 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) vSphere
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.070%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 671 (23.56%) Terraform
2 598 (21.00%) Kubernetes
3 187 (6.57%) Grafana
4 174 (6.11%) Ansible
5 149 (5.23%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.16%) Argo
8 25 (0.88%) Kibana
9 24 (0.84%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.35%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) QRadar
13 9 (0.32%) Istio
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) Consul
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 250 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 141 (4.95%) Databricks
3 125 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 120 (4.21%) Google
5 106 (3.72%) Oracle
6 85 (2.98%) Splunk
7 68 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.97%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.72%) Cisco
10 45 (1.58%) CyberArk
11 44 (1.54%) VMware
12 42 (1.47%) SAP
13 36 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.19%) Foundry
15 31 (1.09%) IBM
16 28 (0.98%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.95%) Informatica
17 27 (0.95%) MuleSoft
18 24 (0.84%) Qualys
18 24 (0.84%) Red Hat