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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,840 2,232 2,288
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.09% 16.42% 14.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.04% 38.28% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,992 1,563 1,746
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +44.67% -54.63%
75th Percentile £80.63 £70.63 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £71.70
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -35.19%

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 8,343 5,830 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.40% 42.89% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,695 4,004 4,780
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% -2.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 87 52
10th Percentile £19.05 £23.00 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.89 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.25 £41.19
90th Percentile £76.40 £69.30 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.59
% change year-on-year +35.76% +6.34% -23.92%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -6 287 £550 -4.35% 158
West London +5 98 £555 +30.59% 66
South London +1 96 £535 +1.90% 20
East London +9 14 £525 -10.26% 23
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
1 152 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.84%) Apache Spark
3 99 (3.49%) Confluence
4 80 (2.82%) Apache
5 37 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.49%) nginx
7 13 (0.46%) SAS
8 12 (0.42%) CMS
9 11 (0.39%) CICS
10 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.28%) Camunda
12 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.18%) IIS
13 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 6 (0.21%) 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 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
2 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.070%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.070%) Endur
6 2 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.070%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.070%) Shopify
6 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,228 (43.24%) Azure
2 617 (21.73%) GCP
3 400 (14.08%) Serverless
4 384 (13.52%) Amazon S3
5 362 (12.75%) GitHub
6 338 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
7 241 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
8 217 (7.64%) Snowflake
9 200 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
10 183 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 167 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
12 165 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 141 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
14 139 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
15 135 (4.75%) Power Platform
16 128 (4.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 123 (4.33%) SaaS
18 117 (4.12%) dbt
19 96 (3.38%) Entra ID
20 94 (3.31%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.91%) Firewall
2 88 (3.10%) Network Security
3 75 (2.64%) DNS
4 64 (2.25%) VPN
5 43 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.30%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 24 (0.85%) HTTP
9 21 (0.74%) SSL
10 19 (0.67%) BGP
11 18 (0.63%) Internet
12 17 (0.60%) SSH
13 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 14 (0.49%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
15 13 (0.46%) OSPF
16 12 (0.42%) LAN
16 12 (0.42%) SAN
17 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
2 154 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
3 139 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.33%) Power BI
5 119 (4.19%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.15%) Data Lake
7 100 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
7 100 (3.52%) SQL Server
8 95 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 90 (3.17%) Metadata
10 86 (3.03%) DynamoDB
11 81 (2.85%) MongoDB
12 71 (2.50%) Relational Database
13 63 (2.22%) Tableau
14 61 (2.15%) Big Data
15 60 (2.11%) Delta Lake
16 47 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
17 40 (1.41%) Redis
17 40 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
18 39 (1.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 287 (10.11%) Jenkins
2 284 (10.00%) Git
3 262 (9.23%) GitLab
4 152 (5.35%) JIRA
5 35 (1.23%) Cypress.io
5 35 (1.23%) JMeter
6 32 (1.13%) JUnit
7 31 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 29 (1.02%) Maven
8 29 (1.02%) Selenium
9 27 (0.95%) Mockito
10 25 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 24 (0.85%) MLflow
12 23 (0.81%) Postman
13 21 (0.74%) Gradle
14 20 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 20 (0.70%) Gatling
15 18 (0.63%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.53%) Claude Code
17 14 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 695 (24.47%) Finance
2 635 (22.36%) Social Skills
3 421 (14.82%) Public Sector
4 262 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 252 (8.87%) Banking
6 73 (2.57%) Retail
7 72 (2.54%) Front Office
8 60 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 47 (1.65%) Telecoms
11 46 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 37 (1.30%) Marketing
14 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (0.99%) Legal
16 27 (0.95%) Law
17 26 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (0.74%) Manufacturing
18 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 596 (20.99%) Architect
2 446 (15.70%) Senior
3 377 (13.27%) Developer
4 321 (11.30%) Lead
5 291 (10.25%) Data Engineer
6 277 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
7 206 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 158 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 130 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 118 (4.15%) AWS Architect
11 117 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 112 (3.94%) Analyst
13 109 (3.84%) Java Developer
14 92 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
15 91 (3.20%) Senior Developer
16 90 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
17 89 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 86 (3.03%) Data Architect
19 84 (2.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 81 (2.85%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (11.30%) Kafka
2 244 (8.59%) REST
3 236 (8.31%) React
4 175 (6.16%) Spring
5 166 (5.85%) Node.js
6 157 (5.53%) Spring Boot
7 149 (5.25%) RESTful
8 100 (3.52%) PySpark
9 88 (3.10%) .NET
10 86 (3.03%) GraphQL
11 77 (2.71%) OAuth
12 68 (2.39%) AngularJS
13 62 (2.18%) JSON
14 60 (2.11%) FastAPI
15 57 (2.01%) Redux
16 56 (1.97%) HTML
17 50 (1.76%) CSS
18 45 (1.58%) LangChain
18 45 (1.58%) OAuth2
19 42 (1.48%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 511 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (4.58%) Onboarding
4 120 (4.23%) AI Agents
5 103 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 89 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 62 (2.18%) Fixed Income
11 57 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.62%) Management Information System
14 40 (1.41%) Data Structures
15 37 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
16 35 (1.23%) PKI
16 35 (1.23%) Replication
17 34 (1.20%) Derivative
18 33 (1.16%) CMDB
19 32 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 228 (8.03%) Linux
2 121 (4.26%) Windows
3 45 (1.58%) Unix
4 44 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.35%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.070%) CentOS
13 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (40.32%) CI/CD
2 874 (30.77%) DevOps
3 725 (25.53%) Agile
4 612 (21.55%) AI
5 608 (21.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 414 (14.58%) Microservices
7 402 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 400 (14.08%) Containerisation
9 372 (13.10%) Migration
10 369 (12.99%) Software Engineering
11 366 (12.89%) Analytics
12 352 (12.39%) Observability
12 352 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
13 347 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
14 346 (12.18%) Data Modelling
15 325 (11.44%) Data Engineering
16 310 (10.92%) Machine Learning
17 308 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 287 (10.11%) Event-Driven
19 270 (9.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (36.80%) Python
2 598 (21.06%) SQL
3 498 (17.54%) Java
4 255 (8.98%) TypeScript
5 234 (8.24%) JavaScript
6 158 (5.56%) Bash
7 138 (4.86%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.91%) C#
9 69 (2.43%) Go
10 43 (1.51%) Scala
11 35 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.16%) Bicep
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 25 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.77%) Groovy
15 22 (0.77%) R
16 19 (0.67%) C++
17 18 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 773 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 692 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.11%) AWS Certification
3 145 (5.11%) Degree
4 84 (2.96%) CISSP
5 69 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 66 (2.32%) Azure Certification
7 65 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 46 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.51%) CISM
11 41 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 27 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 26 (0.92%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.77%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.77%) PMP
15 18 (0.63%) CCNP
15 18 (0.63%) CCSP
16 14 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 142 (5.00%) QA
3 96 (3.38%) NIST
4 94 (3.31%) GDPR
5 87 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.06%) GRC
9 29 (1.02%) SLA
10 23 (0.81%) NCSC
11 21 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.70%) PMO
13 18 (0.63%) ISO 20022
14 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
17 12 (0.42%) WCAG
18 10 (0.35%) SEPA
19 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 503 (17.71%) Docker
2 84 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.11%) Firmware
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 676 (23.80%) Terraform
2 597 (21.02%) Kubernetes
3 194 (6.83%) Grafana
4 179 (6.30%) Ansible
5 155 (5.46%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.06%) Argo
8 29 (1.02%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.39%) Packer
13 10 (0.35%) Istio
14 9 (0.32%) QRadar
15 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
16 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
18 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 254 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 154 (5.42%) Databricks
3 130 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 124 (4.37%) Google
5 112 (3.94%) Oracle
6 88 (3.10%) Splunk
7 70 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 53 (1.87%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.83%) VMware
10 48 (1.69%) Cisco
11 47 (1.65%) CyberArk
12 44 (1.55%) SAP
13 36 (1.27%) IBM
13 36 (1.27%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.20%) Foundry
15 31 (1.09%) Dynatrace
16 29 (1.02%) Informatica
17 27 (0.95%) Red Hat
18 26 (0.92%) MuleSoft
19 23 (0.81%) Zscaler