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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,686 2,040 2,372
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.46% 16.81% 13.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.19% 38.93% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,863 1,431 1,835
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £542 £540 £563
% change year-on-year +0.34% -4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 12
10th Percentile £37.70 £35.88 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £46.75 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +46.52% +69.08% -63.13%
75th Percentile £77.25 £58.31 £68.38
90th Percentile £87.38 £77.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £50.59
% change year-on-year - +38.37% -31.64%

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 7,857 5,240 6,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 43.17% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,423 3,548 5,021
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 62 69
10th Percentile £21.02 £22.29 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.81 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.95 £58.50
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -2 283 £550 - 280
West London +5 85 £600 +21.83% 36
South London 0 82 £500 +1.01% 6
East London +3 16 £543 -7.26% 39
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
1 127 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 71 (2.64%) Confluence
4 60 (2.23%) Apache
5 24 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.71%) nginx
7 14 (0.52%) Camunda
8 11 (0.41%) CICS
8 11 (0.41%) SAS
9 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.26%) CMS
10 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 38 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.19%) Revit
8 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Endur
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.074%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.074%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.037%) Actimize
7 1 (0.037%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1,099 (40.92%) Azure
2 572 (21.30%) GCP
3 393 (14.63%) Serverless
4 392 (14.59%) Amazon S3
5 344 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
6 343 (12.77%) GitHub
7 215 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 202 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 180 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
9 180 (6.70%) Snowflake
10 166 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
11 163 (6.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 147 (5.47%) Power Platform
13 131 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
14 124 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 115 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
16 92 (3.43%) SaaS
17 84 (3.13%) dbt
18 72 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
19 71 (2.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 109 (4.06%) Firewall
2 77 (2.87%) Network Security
3 70 (2.61%) DNS
4 67 (2.49%) VPN
5 49 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.34%) WAN
7 22 (0.82%) BGP
7 22 (0.82%) HTTP
8 20 (0.74%) DHCP
9 19 (0.71%) LAN
10 18 (0.67%) SSL
11 17 (0.63%) OSPF
12 14 (0.52%) NGFW
12 14 (0.52%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.45%) Internet
13 12 (0.45%) VLAN
14 10 (0.37%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 127 (4.73%) Power BI
4 126 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 121 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
6 113 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 109 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
8 108 (4.02%) SQL Server
9 97 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (3.16%) DynamoDB
11 75 (2.79%) MongoDB
12 74 (2.76%) Tableau
13 72 (2.68%) Metadata
13 72 (2.68%) Relational Database
14 61 (2.27%) Big Data
15 43 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
16 41 (1.53%) BigQuery
17 40 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
18 39 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
18 39 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 235 (8.75%) Git
2 234 (8.71%) Jenkins
3 214 (7.97%) GitLab
4 131 (4.88%) JIRA
5 39 (1.45%) JUnit
6 35 (1.30%) MLflow
7 32 (1.19%) Mockito
8 28 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 28 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 25 (0.93%) JMeter
10 22 (0.82%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.82%) Gradle
10 22 (0.82%) Maven
11 21 (0.78%) Selenium
12 20 (0.74%) Postman
13 19 (0.71%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.63%) Gatling
15 16 (0.60%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.56%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 631 (23.49%) Finance
2 577 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 375 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 229 (8.53%) Banking
5 224 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (3.02%) Front Office
7 65 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 50 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (1.75%) Retail
11 42 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 35 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.97%) Marketing
16 25 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (0.82%) Legal
18 17 (0.63%) Law
19 14 (0.52%) Military
20 12 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 544 (20.25%) Architect
2 422 (15.71%) Developer
3 406 (15.12%) Senior
4 296 (11.02%) Lead
5 294 (10.95%) Data Engineer
6 269 (10.01%) AWS Engineer
7 193 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (5.47%) Software Engineer
9 138 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
10 119 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 114 (4.24%) Senior Developer
12 109 (4.06%) AWS Architect
13 104 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
14 99 (3.69%) Analyst
15 98 (3.65%) Java Developer
16 87 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
16 87 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
17 83 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 78 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 75 (2.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (11.39%) Kafka
2 240 (8.94%) React
3 226 (8.41%) REST
4 179 (6.66%) Node.js
5 170 (6.33%) Spring
6 162 (6.03%) Spring Boot
7 142 (5.29%) RESTful
8 99 (3.69%) .NET
9 87 (3.24%) PySpark
10 82 (3.05%) AngularJS
11 76 (2.83%) GraphQL
12 75 (2.79%) OAuth
13 71 (2.64%) SOAP
14 64 (2.38%) Redux
15 62 (2.31%) LDAP
16 56 (2.08%) HTML
17 54 (2.01%) Pandas
18 50 (1.86%) CSS
18 50 (1.86%) JSON
19 49 (1.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 469 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 153 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 81 (3.02%) Security Posture
5 80 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 74 (2.76%) Fixed Income
7 73 (2.72%) AI Agents
7 73 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 56 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 53 (1.97%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.71%) Derivative
13 42 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
14 40 (1.49%) Equities
15 34 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 31 (1.15%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.15%) PKI
17 30 (1.12%) Mainframe
18 29 (1.08%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.04%) Linux
2 90 (3.35%) Windows
3 36 (1.34%) Unix
4 31 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.45%) Android
7 9 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.30%) Solaris
9 7 (0.26%) zOS
10 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.074%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.037%) Debian
14 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (38.12%) CI/CD
2 779 (29.00%) DevOps
3 627 (23.34%) Agile
4 548 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 515 (19.17%) AI
6 400 (14.89%) Microservices
7 375 (13.96%) Containerisation
8 374 (13.92%) Analytics
9 339 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
10 329 (12.25%) Migration
11 324 (12.06%) Software Engineering
12 308 (11.47%) Data Modelling
13 302 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
14 288 (10.72%) Data Engineering
15 280 (10.42%) Observability
16 260 (9.68%) Machine Learning
16 260 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 246 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 243 (9.05%) ETL
19 234 (8.71%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (38.31%) Python
2 588 (21.89%) SQL
3 480 (17.87%) Java
4 242 (9.01%) TypeScript
5 219 (8.15%) JavaScript
6 130 (4.84%) PowerShell
7 118 (4.39%) C#
8 111 (4.13%) Bash
9 89 (3.31%) Go
10 47 (1.75%) Scala
11 37 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.30%) Ruby
13 24 (0.89%) Bicep
14 22 (0.82%) R
15 21 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.52%) C++
17 14 (0.52%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.48%) Groovy
19 11 (0.41%) JCL
Qualifications
1 744 (27.70%) Security Cleared
2 664 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.40%) Degree
4 120 (4.47%) AWS Certification
5 80 (2.98%) CISSP
6 70 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 54 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (1.90%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.34%) CISM
12 29 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 29 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.89%) PMP
14 23 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.82%) CCNP
16 21 (0.78%) CCSP
17 15 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 112 (4.17%) QA
3 106 (3.95%) GDPR
4 94 (3.50%) NIST
5 78 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.19%) SLA
8 26 (0.97%) GRC
9 21 (0.78%) NCSC
10 19 (0.71%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.63%) PMO
11 17 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.41%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.41%) WCAG
14 8 (0.30%) SEPA
14 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.26%) PSD2
16 6 (0.22%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 476 (17.72%) Docker
2 100 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.63%) Squid
6 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.15%) HDFS
9 4 (0.15%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) IAG
10 3 (0.11%) NFS
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.074%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.074%) Firmware
11 2 (0.074%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.074%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 610 (22.71%) Terraform
2 533 (19.84%) Kubernetes
3 153 (5.70%) Grafana
4 150 (5.58%) Ansible
5 136 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.86%) Kibana
8 21 (0.78%) Puppet
9 16 (0.60%) Argo
10 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.45%) Consul
14 10 (0.37%) QRadar
15 9 (0.34%) Packer
16 7 (0.26%) Istio
17 6 (0.22%) Karpenter
17 6 (0.22%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
19 4 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 211 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.58%) Databricks
3 104 (3.87%) Google
4 95 (3.54%) Oracle
5 91 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 77 (2.87%) Splunk
7 70 (2.61%) CyberArk
8 55 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 55 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 49 (1.82%) Cisco
10 38 (1.41%) VMware
11 35 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.30%) Centrify
12 34 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.19%) Dynatrace
13 32 (1.19%) Red Hat
14 31 (1.15%) SAP
15 28 (1.04%) IBM
16 27 (1.01%) Foundry
17 26 (0.97%) Qualys