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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,134 2,036 2,334
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.82% 13.81% 12.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.42% 33.64% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 1,472 1,783
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £461 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £68.25 £45.45 £43.03
25th Percentile £74.57 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.15% -7.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £89.06 £75.38 £78.75
90th Percentile £94.13 £87.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £84.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.90% - -24.60%

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 6,385 6,052 6,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.35% 41.06% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,361 4,097 5,100
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £643 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 44 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.56 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.17 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -12.51% +30.75%
75th Percentile £52.19 £54.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.54 £65.00 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +5 254 £550 - 652
South London +11 61 £525 +5.00% 125
West London -2 31 £603 +7.78% 52
East London +5 5 £675 - 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
1 124 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (4.12%) Confluence
3 72 (3.37%) Apache Spark
4 69 (3.23%) Apache
5 32 (1.50%) nginx
6 16 (0.75%) SAS
6 16 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.42%) Camunda
10 7 (0.33%) CMS
11 6 (0.28%) Appian
12 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.14%) Traefik
15 2 (0.094%) Mule
15 2 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.19%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.047%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.047%) Notion
8 1 (0.047%) Pro Tools
8 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.23%) Endur
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Actimize
5 2 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.094%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.094%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.094%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.047%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 862 (40.39%) Azure
2 481 (22.54%) GCP
3 308 (14.43%) Serverless
4 306 (14.34%) GitHub
5 294 (13.78%) Amazon S3
6 271 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
7 192 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
8 166 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 159 (7.45%) Snowflake
10 132 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 129 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
12 119 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
12 119 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 107 (5.01%) Power Platform
14 93 (4.36%) dbt
15 86 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 71 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
17 61 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
18 52 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
19 51 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (5.20%) Firewall
2 66 (3.09%) DNS
3 55 (2.58%) VPN
4 51 (2.39%) Network Security
5 36 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.22%) SSL
7 24 (1.12%) WAN
8 21 (0.98%) HTTP
9 17 (0.80%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.70%) DHCP
10 15 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
11 13 (0.61%) SSH
12 12 (0.56%) LAN
13 11 (0.52%) BGP
14 10 (0.47%) FTP
14 10 (0.47%) IMAP
14 10 (0.47%) SMTP
14 10 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.42%) VLAN
15 9 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (5.48%) NoSQL
3 113 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
4 110 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
5 101 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
6 100 (4.69%) Data Lake
7 97 (4.55%) Power BI
8 92 (4.31%) Relational Database
9 86 (4.03%) SQL Server
10 80 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 61 (2.86%) MongoDB
12 60 (2.81%) DynamoDB
13 54 (2.53%) Metadata
14 52 (2.44%) Tableau
15 51 (2.39%) MySQL
16 49 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
16 49 (2.30%) Big Data
17 46 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
17 46 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
18 33 (1.55%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 231 (10.82%) Git
2 210 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 169 (7.92%) GitLab
4 151 (7.08%) JIRA
5 35 (1.64%) JUnit
6 27 (1.27%) MLflow
7 26 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 24 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 23 (1.08%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.03%) Selenium
11 20 (0.94%) CircleCI
11 20 (0.94%) ERwin
12 16 (0.75%) JMeter
13 15 (0.70%) Mockito
14 14 (0.66%) ER Studio
14 14 (0.66%) Maven
14 14 (0.66%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.61%) Postman
16 11 (0.52%) Gatling
16 11 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 537 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 464 (21.74%) Finance
3 254 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 211 (9.89%) Banking
5 194 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 75 (3.51%) Front Office
8 37 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.31%) Marketing
11 28 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.12%) Retail
14 23 (1.08%) Military
15 18 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.84%) Legal
16 15 (0.70%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 417 (19.54%) Developer
2 380 (17.81%) Senior
3 336 (15.75%) Architect
4 231 (10.82%) AWS Engineer
5 173 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 168 (7.87%) Data Engineer
7 152 (7.12%) Lead
8 125 (5.86%) Python Engineer
9 122 (5.72%) Software Engineer
10 116 (5.44%) Senior Developer
11 96 (4.50%) Java Developer
12 94 (4.40%) Analyst
13 87 (4.08%) AWS Developer
14 84 (3.94%) Python Developer
15 82 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
15 82 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
16 75 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
17 74 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 71 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
19 61 (2.86%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (12.56%) Kafka
2 213 (9.98%) React
3 164 (7.69%) Node.js
4 152 (7.12%) REST
5 124 (5.81%) Spring
6 117 (5.48%) RESTful
7 106 (4.97%) Spring Boot
8 99 (4.64%) AngularJS
9 82 (3.84%) gRPC
10 79 (3.70%) Pandas
11 77 (3.61%) NumPy
12 71 (3.33%) HTML
13 69 (3.23%) CSS
14 59 (2.76%) .NET
15 56 (2.62%) Vue
16 53 (2.48%) SciPy
17 51 (2.39%) FastAPI
18 50 (2.34%) GraphQL
19 48 (2.25%) LDAP
19 48 (2.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 264 (12.37%) Cloud Native
2 108 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.05%) Hedge funds
4 64 (3.00%) Security Posture
5 63 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.67%) Derivative
7 56 (2.62%) Fixed Income
8 54 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 48 (2.25%) Equities
10 47 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
11 46 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 45 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (1.87%) Management Information System
14 37 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (1.69%) Data Centre
15 36 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
15 36 (1.69%) Public Cloud
16 31 (1.45%) Algorithms
16 31 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
17 28 (1.31%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 193 (9.04%) Linux
2 80 (3.75%) Windows
3 48 (2.25%) Unix
4 23 (1.08%) VMS
5 18 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.47%) Android
8 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.33%) CentOS
11 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.094%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.094%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.094%) zOS
13 1 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (38.38%) CI/CD
2 604 (28.30%) DevOps
3 524 (24.55%) Agile
4 423 (19.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 343 (16.07%) Microservices
5 343 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 298 (13.96%) Analytics
7 296 (13.87%) Software Engineering
8 283 (13.26%) AI
9 255 (11.95%) Containerisation
10 221 (10.36%) Data Modelling
11 208 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
12 199 (9.33%) Migration
13 198 (9.28%) Observability
14 196 (9.18%) Machine Learning
15 190 (8.90%) Data Engineering
16 186 (8.72%) ETL
17 167 (7.83%) Full-Stack Development
18 164 (7.69%) Test Automation
19 159 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 931 (43.63%) Python
2 493 (23.10%) SQL
3 433 (20.29%) Java
4 223 (10.45%) JavaScript
5 205 (9.61%) TypeScript
6 116 (5.44%) Bash
7 110 (5.15%) Go
8 96 (4.50%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.08%) C#
10 36 (1.69%) C++
11 32 (1.50%) Ruby
12 26 (1.22%) Scala
13 21 (0.98%) Rust
13 21 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 20 (0.94%) R
15 17 (0.80%) Groovy
16 16 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.70%) Perl
18 14 (0.66%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 554 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 488 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 129 (6.04%) AWS Certification
4 126 (5.90%) Degree
5 67 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.59%) CISSP
8 33 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 32 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (0.89%) CISM
14 18 (0.84%) MCP
14 18 (0.84%) OSCP
15 15 (0.70%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.66%) PMP
17 13 (0.61%) CCNP
18 11 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.59%) GDPR
3 86 (4.03%) QA
4 75 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.95%) NIST
6 36 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.03%) NCSC
8 21 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 15 (0.70%) WCAG
10 14 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.47%) SLA
12 8 (0.37%) GRC
12 8 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.37%) MiFID
13 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.23%) PERC
14 5 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 485 (22.73%) Docker
2 66 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.52%) Squid
4 11 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.47%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.47%) Postfix
6 8 (0.37%) zsh
7 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.094%) KVM
9 2 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.047%) NFS
10 1 (0.047%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 506 (23.71%) Terraform
2 489 (22.91%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.51%) Ansible
4 111 (5.20%) Grafana
5 96 (4.50%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.55%) Argo
7 26 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.94%) Puppet
9 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.84%) Nessus
9 18 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.66%) SCCM
11 12 (0.56%) Kibana
12 10 (0.47%) Packer
12 10 (0.47%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.42%) Consul
13 9 (0.42%) QRadar
14 8 (0.37%) Istio
15 7 (0.33%) Rancher
15 7 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 142 (6.65%) Databricks
1 142 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 81 (3.80%) Google
2 81 (3.80%) Oracle
3 79 (3.70%) Splunk
4 62 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 35 (1.64%) CyberArk
5 35 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 33 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 31 (1.45%) Cisco
7 31 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 29 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
8 29 (1.36%) Centrify
9 25 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 25 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 23 (1.08%) IBM
11 21 (0.98%) SAP
11 21 (0.98%) VMware
12 20 (0.94%) F5
13 19 (0.89%) CheckPoint