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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,779 2,126 2,269
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.74% 15.81% 13.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.65% 36.43% 34.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,974 1,474 1,677
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £695 £750
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -64.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £80.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 8,258 5,836 6,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.82% 43.40% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,688 3,977 4,607
10th Percentile £359 £343 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 93 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.60 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -7.45% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -3 277 £575 -1.71% 338
West London +7 94 £560 +31.76% 130
South London +1 75 £535 -5.38% 14
East London +10 13 £525 -13.58% 25
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
1 159 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 108 (3.89%) Confluence
4 86 (3.09%) Apache
5 27 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 11 (0.40%) CMS
8 10 (0.36%) SAS
9 8 (0.29%) Camunda
9 8 (0.29%) CICS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 26 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.11%) Shopify
7 2 (0.072%) Endur
7 2 (0.072%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,242 (44.69%) Azure
2 632 (22.74%) GCP
3 388 (13.96%) Serverless
4 379 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 364 (13.10%) GitHub
6 323 (11.62%) AWS Lambda
7 245 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
8 236 (8.49%) Snowflake
9 219 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
10 184 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 159 (5.72%) Amazon EC2
12 153 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 149 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
14 147 (5.29%) dbt
15 134 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
16 131 (4.71%) Power Platform
17 126 (4.53%) SaaS
18 120 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 106 (3.81%) Entra ID
20 97 (3.49%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.56%) Firewall
2 80 (2.88%) Network Security
3 59 (2.12%) DNS
4 52 (1.87%) VPN
5 37 (1.33%) WAN
6 29 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.90%) DHCP
7 25 (0.90%) SSL
8 22 (0.79%) SSH
9 20 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 17 (0.61%) HTTP
12 16 (0.58%) OSPF
13 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.54%) MPLS
14 14 (0.50%) NGFW
15 12 (0.43%) IPsec
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
3 144 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 116 (4.17%) Power BI
6 111 (3.99%) Data Lake
7 110 (3.96%) SQL Server
8 107 (3.85%) Metadata
9 94 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
10 91 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 91 (3.27%) MongoDB
11 88 (3.17%) DynamoDB
12 76 (2.73%) Relational Database
13 66 (2.37%) Delta Lake
14 60 (2.16%) MySQL
15 59 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
16 56 (2.02%) Tableau
17 52 (1.87%) Big Data
18 46 (1.66%) Redis
19 45 (1.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 305 (10.98%) Jenkins
2 295 (10.62%) Git
3 270 (9.72%) GitLab
4 155 (5.58%) JIRA
5 37 (1.33%) Maven
6 35 (1.26%) JMeter
7 34 (1.22%) JUnit
8 31 (1.12%) Selenium
9 30 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 29 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 28 (1.01%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.97%) Cucumber
13 25 (0.90%) Mockito
14 24 (0.86%) Gradle
15 23 (0.83%) Postman
16 19 (0.68%) Claude Code
17 18 (0.65%) Gatling
18 17 (0.61%) REST Assured
19 13 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 11 (0.40%) Artifactory
General
1 689 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 662 (23.82%) Finance
3 378 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 268 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.18%) Banking
6 89 (3.20%) Retail
7 64 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 37 (1.33%) Marketing
11 34 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 34 (1.22%) Front Office
12 33 (1.19%) Legal
13 32 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 32 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.01%) Law
14 28 (1.01%) Military
15 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (0.86%) Billing
17 23 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 568 (20.44%) Architect
2 449 (16.16%) Senior
3 340 (12.23%) Developer
4 302 (10.87%) Data Engineer
5 294 (10.58%) Lead
6 264 (9.50%) AWS Engineer
7 215 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 136 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (3.99%) AWS Architect
10 110 (3.96%) Analyst
11 109 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (3.74%) Data Architect
13 102 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 101 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
15 100 (3.60%) Java Developer
16 92 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
17 91 (3.27%) Software Engineer
18 81 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
19 76 (2.73%) Senior Developer
20 75 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 718 (25.84%) Terraform
2 322 (11.59%) Kafka
3 288 (10.36%) REST
4 197 (7.09%) React
5 181 (6.51%) Spring
6 166 (5.97%) Spring Boot
7 152 (5.47%) RESTful
8 118 (4.25%) Node.js
9 108 (3.89%) PySpark
10 99 (3.56%) OAuth
11 98 (3.53%) .NET
12 74 (2.66%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.34%) FastAPI
13 65 (2.34%) HTML
14 64 (2.30%) JSON
15 62 (2.23%) AngularJS
16 59 (2.12%) SOAP
17 57 (2.05%) OAuth2
18 54 (1.94%) CSS
19 49 (1.76%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 547 (19.68%) Cloud Native
2 180 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (5.11%) AI Agents
4 141 (5.07%) Onboarding
5 129 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (2.45%) Security Posture
9 66 (2.37%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 45 (1.62%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.55%) Data Structures
13 42 (1.51%) PKI
13 42 (1.51%) Replication
14 40 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 36 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
16 35 (1.26%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 29 (1.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 247 (8.89%) Linux
2 120 (4.32%) Windows
3 53 (1.91%) Unix
4 49 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.47%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.22%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,171 (42.14%) CI/CD
2 886 (31.88%) DevOps
3 700 (25.19%) Agile
4 665 (23.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 626 (22.53%) AI
6 470 (16.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 408 (14.68%) Microservices
8 399 (14.36%) Containerisation
9 394 (14.18%) Observability
10 363 (13.06%) Migration
11 357 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
12 345 (12.41%) Software Engineering
13 343 (12.34%) Analytics
14 339 (12.20%) Data Modelling
15 335 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
16 332 (11.95%) Data Engineering
17 327 (11.77%) Event-Driven
18 325 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
19 305 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
20 295 (10.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (36.34%) Python
2 612 (22.02%) SQL
3 471 (16.95%) Java
4 207 (7.45%) JavaScript
5 202 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 174 (6.26%) Bash
7 141 (5.07%) PowerShell
8 114 (4.10%) C#
9 53 (1.91%) Go
9 53 (1.91%) Scala
10 36 (1.30%) Bicep
10 36 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.12%) Groovy
12 26 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 21 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.72%) C++
15 18 (0.65%) R
16 16 (0.58%) Ruby
17 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 770 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 677 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 172 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 142 (5.11%) Degree
5 92 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 87 (3.13%) CISSP
7 74 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 61 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (1.76%) CISM
12 48 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 21 (0.76%) CCSP
14 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.65%) PMP
17 16 (0.58%) Master's Degree
18 15 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 165 (5.94%) QA
3 102 (3.67%) NIST
4 101 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (2.66%) GDPR
6 37 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.08%) GRC
8 28 (1.01%) NCSC
8 28 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.86%) SLA
10 21 (0.76%) ISO 20022
10 21 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.65%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.54%) EU AI Act
12 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.47%) SEPA
14 9 (0.32%) PMO
15 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 503 (18.10%) Docker
2 88 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.29%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
7 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.072%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 640 (23.03%) Kubernetes
2 211 (7.59%) Grafana
3 197 (7.09%) Ansible
4 161 (5.79%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.58%) Kibana
6 36 (1.30%) Argo
7 30 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (1.01%) Puppet
9 12 (0.43%) Istio
9 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.40%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
13 6 (0.22%) QRadar
14 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
14 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 292 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 192 (6.91%) Databricks
3 140 (5.04%) Google
4 136 (4.89%) Oracle
5 118 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 108 (3.89%) Splunk
7 68 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.87%) VMware
10 51 (1.84%) SAP
11 50 (1.80%) Cisco
12 49 (1.76%) CyberArk
13 44 (1.58%) Palo Alto
14 39 (1.40%) Dynatrace
15 37 (1.33%) Informatica
16 35 (1.26%) IBM
17 32 (1.15%) Fortinet
18 27 (0.97%) Red Hat
19 25 (0.90%) Foundry
20 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft