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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,817 2,247 2,363
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.24% 16.58% 13.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.36% 38.66% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,955 1,571 1,819
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £764
90th Percentile £783 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 12
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +96.20% -66.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £59.88
90th Percentile - £86.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.74%

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 8,198 5,812 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.87% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,588 3,964 5,014
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.73% -49.80%
75th Percentile £54.88 £46.56 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £67.31 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -4 294 £550 -1.79% 160
West London +7 98 £560 +28.00% 47
South London +2 90 £519 -4.20% 8
East London +9 17 £533 -8.97% 32
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
1 139 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 97 (3.44%) Confluence
4 69 (2.45%) Apache
5 35 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.71%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) CMS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.28%) 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 47 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.78%) 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 2 (0.071%) 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%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy AR System
9 1 (0.035%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (43.06%) Azure
2 614 (21.80%) GCP
3 405 (14.38%) Serverless
4 399 (14.16%) Amazon S3
5 349 (12.39%) GitHub
6 342 (12.14%) AWS Lambda
7 222 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
8 197 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
9 193 (6.85%) Snowflake
10 169 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
10 169 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 166 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 140 (4.97%) Power Platform
13 134 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
14 126 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
15 125 (4.44%) SaaS
16 121 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 101 (3.59%) dbt
18 93 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
19 90 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 115 (4.08%) Firewall
2 89 (3.16%) Network Security
3 76 (2.70%) DNS
4 72 (2.56%) VPN
5 53 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.28%) WAN
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 25 (0.89%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) BGP
10 18 (0.64%) SSL
11 16 (0.57%) Internet
11 16 (0.57%) OSPF
12 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.50%) OpenVPN
13 14 (0.50%) SSH
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
14 13 (0.46%) NGFW
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
15 12 (0.43%) VLAN
16 11 (0.39%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (4.47%) Power BI
4 125 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 117 (4.15%) Data Lake
6 114 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
7 102 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 99 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (3.16%) DynamoDB
10 83 (2.95%) Metadata
11 72 (2.56%) Relational Database
12 71 (2.52%) Tableau
13 70 (2.48%) MongoDB
14 64 (2.27%) Big Data
15 44 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
16 43 (1.53%) BigQuery
16 43 (1.53%) Delta Lake
17 34 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
18 31 (1.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 269 (9.55%) Git
2 258 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 241 (8.56%) GitLab
4 151 (5.36%) JIRA
5 35 (1.24%) JUnit
6 34 (1.21%) SonarQube
7 31 (1.10%) JMeter
7 31 (1.10%) MLflow
8 30 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.03%) Maven
10 28 (0.99%) Mockito
11 24 (0.85%) Selenium
12 23 (0.82%) Bitbucket
13 22 (0.78%) Gradle
14 21 (0.75%) Cucumber
14 21 (0.75%) Postman
15 19 (0.67%) Gatling
15 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
17 14 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 695 (24.67%) Finance
2 602 (21.37%) Social Skills
3 408 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 256 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 249 (8.84%) Banking
6 86 (3.05%) Front Office
7 66 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (2.34%) Retail
8 58 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 42 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 38 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.21%) Marketing
13 27 (0.96%) Legal
13 27 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (0.78%) Law
14 22 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 593 (21.05%) Architect
2 431 (15.30%) Senior
3 401 (14.24%) Developer
4 323 (11.47%) Lead
5 285 (10.12%) AWS Engineer
6 284 (10.08%) Data Engineer
7 212 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 164 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
9 142 (5.04%) Software Engineer
10 124 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 117 (4.15%) AWS Architect
12 111 (3.94%) Java Developer
13 109 (3.87%) Analyst
14 96 (3.41%) Senior Developer
15 93 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.12%) Cloud Architect
17 87 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 86 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
19 84 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 78 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (11.11%) Kafka
2 242 (8.59%) React
3 222 (7.88%) REST
4 182 (6.46%) Node.js
5 163 (5.79%) Spring
6 152 (5.40%) Spring Boot
7 138 (4.90%) RESTful
8 92 (3.27%) GraphQL
9 91 (3.23%) .NET
9 91 (3.23%) PySpark
10 80 (2.84%) OAuth
11 65 (2.31%) AngularJS
12 64 (2.27%) Redux
13 57 (2.02%) FastAPI
13 57 (2.02%) JSON
14 56 (1.99%) HTML
15 50 (1.77%) CSS
15 50 (1.77%) Pandas
16 46 (1.63%) LangChain
16 46 (1.63%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 496 (17.61%) Cloud Native
2 184 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
3 118 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 105 (3.73%) AI Agents
5 91 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 89 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.73%) Fixed Income
8 69 (2.45%) Data Centre
9 68 (2.41%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
12 48 (1.70%) Management Information System
13 46 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.46%) Derivative
15 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (1.31%) Equities
16 35 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 34 (1.21%) CMDB
18 33 (1.17%) PKI
19 32 (1.14%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 211 (7.49%) Linux
2 117 (4.15%) Windows
3 43 (1.53%) Unix
4 38 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.43%) Android
6 12 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) Solaris
8 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.071%) VMS
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,107 (39.30%) CI/CD
2 844 (29.96%) DevOps
3 704 (24.99%) Agile
4 590 (20.94%) AI
5 589 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 414 (14.70%) Microservices
7 402 (14.27%) Containerisation
8 373 (13.24%) Analytics
9 358 (12.71%) Migration
10 355 (12.60%) Software Engineering
11 346 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
12 333 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 330 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
14 327 (11.61%) Observability
15 322 (11.43%) Data Modelling
16 317 (11.25%) Data Engineering
17 311 (11.04%) Machine Learning
18 290 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
19 278 (9.87%) Event-Driven
20 273 (9.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,048 (37.20%) Python
2 581 (20.62%) SQL
3 489 (17.36%) Java
4 265 (9.41%) TypeScript
5 233 (8.27%) JavaScript
6 140 (4.97%) Bash
7 120 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 113 (4.01%) C#
9 85 (3.02%) Go
10 44 (1.56%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.10%) Ruby
13 30 (1.06%) Bicep
14 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.75%) R
16 19 (0.67%) Groovy
17 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 15 (0.53%) C++
19 14 (0.50%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 739 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 667 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.25%) Degree
4 137 (4.86%) AWS Certification
5 93 (3.30%) CISSP
6 70 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 61 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.56%) CISM
12 35 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 30 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.78%) CCSP
15 20 (0.71%) CCNP
15 20 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.71%) PMP
16 17 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 124 (4.40%) QA
3 96 (3.41%) GDPR
4 95 (3.37%) NIST
5 81 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.17%) GRC
7 33 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 24 (0.85%) SLA
9 22 (0.78%) NCSC
10 18 (0.64%) PMO
10 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
13 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.39%) WCAG
16 10 (0.35%) SEPA
17 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 489 (17.36%) Docker
2 82 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.18%) vSphere
10 4 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.071%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 665 (23.61%) Terraform
2 591 (20.98%) Kubernetes
3 188 (6.67%) Grafana
4 169 (6.00%) Ansible
5 148 (5.25%) Prometheus
6 46 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.03%) Argo
8 25 (0.89%) Kibana
9 23 (0.82%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.35%) Consul
13 10 (0.35%) Packer
13 10 (0.35%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 253 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 128 (4.54%) Databricks
3 122 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 115 (4.08%) Google
5 103 (3.66%) Oracle
6 82 (2.91%) Splunk
7 69 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.74%) Cisco
10 44 (1.56%) CyberArk
11 40 (1.42%) VMware
12 39 (1.38%) SAP
13 36 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.21%) Foundry
15 30 (1.06%) Dynatrace
15 30 (1.06%) MuleSoft
15 30 (1.06%) Red Hat
16 29 (1.03%) IBM
17 28 (0.99%) Informatica
18 23 (0.82%) Qualys