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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,731 2,073 2,413
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.48% 16.84% 13.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.43% 39.14% 34.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,887 1,455 1,873
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £468 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £784 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £540 £560
% change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile £37.70 £36.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +124.79% -70.25%
75th Percentile £79.38 £67.50 £62.25
90th Percentile £87.38 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 7,932 5,297 6,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.05% 43.04% 39.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,447 3,593 5,091
10th Percentile £356 £350 £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 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £785 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 66 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £70.63 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -2 288 £550 - 168
West London +4 86 £560 +13.71% 93
South London 0 81 £500 -2.44% 3
East London +5 16 £543 -7.26% 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
1 130 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 76 (2.78%) Confluence
4 57 (2.09%) Apache
5 26 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.70%) nginx
7 13 (0.48%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
9 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.37%) SAS
10 8 (0.29%) CMS
11 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 40 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.26%) 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 11 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Endur
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%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
4 4 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.073%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.073%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.037%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,114 (40.79%) Azure
2 569 (20.83%) GCP
3 411 (15.05%) Amazon S3
4 410 (15.01%) Serverless
5 358 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
6 347 (12.71%) GitHub
7 218 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
8 203 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 190 (6.96%) Snowflake
10 185 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
11 171 (6.26%) Amazon EC2
12 168 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 149 (5.46%) Power Platform
14 133 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
15 127 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 116 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
17 100 (3.66%) SaaS
18 89 (3.26%) dbt
19 84 (3.08%) Amazon Bedrock
20 74 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.95%) Firewall
2 83 (3.04%) Network Security
3 68 (2.49%) VPN
4 66 (2.42%) DNS
5 47 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.39%) WAN
7 23 (0.84%) BGP
7 23 (0.84%) HTTP
8 21 (0.77%) SSL
9 19 (0.70%) DHCP
9 19 (0.70%) LAN
10 18 (0.66%) OSPF
11 15 (0.55%) NGFW
11 15 (0.55%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.48%) Internet
13 12 (0.44%) VLAN
14 10 (0.37%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.37%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
3 129 (4.72%) Power BI
4 128 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (4.61%) Data Lake
6 117 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
7 113 (4.14%) NoSQL
8 108 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 107 (3.92%) SQL Server
10 85 (3.11%) DynamoDB
11 77 (2.82%) MongoDB
12 75 (2.75%) Metadata
13 74 (2.71%) Tableau
14 73 (2.67%) Relational Database
15 63 (2.31%) Big Data
16 46 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
17 41 (1.50%) BigQuery
18 40 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
19 38 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
19 38 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 242 (8.86%) Git
2 238 (8.71%) Jenkins
3 229 (8.39%) GitLab
4 137 (5.02%) JIRA
5 40 (1.46%) JUnit
6 33 (1.21%) MLflow
7 31 (1.14%) Mockito
8 28 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.95%) JMeter
11 24 (0.88%) Maven
12 23 (0.84%) Gradle
13 22 (0.81%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.73%) Postman
14 20 (0.73%) Selenium
15 19 (0.70%) Bitbucket
16 18 (0.66%) Gatling
17 16 (0.59%) CircleCI
18 15 (0.55%) Snyk
19 14 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 646 (23.65%) Finance
2 588 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 384 (14.06%) Public Sector
4 229 (8.39%) Banking
5 227 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (2.97%) Front Office
7 65 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 58 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.94%) Retail
10 50 (1.83%) Investment Banking
11 43 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 32 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (0.92%) Marketing
17 21 (0.77%) Law
17 21 (0.77%) Legal
18 15 (0.55%) Military
18 15 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 541 (19.81%) Architect
2 420 (15.38%) Developer
3 412 (15.09%) Senior
4 301 (11.02%) Lead
5 299 (10.95%) Data Engineer
6 280 (10.25%) AWS Engineer
7 205 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (5.42%) Software Engineer
9 144 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
11 112 (4.10%) Senior Developer
12 109 (3.99%) AWS Architect
13 104 (3.81%) Java Developer
14 100 (3.66%) Analyst
15 95 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
16 93 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
17 89 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 88 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
19 82 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 74 (2.71%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (11.31%) Kafka
2 243 (8.90%) React
3 234 (8.57%) REST
4 183 (6.70%) Node.js
5 173 (6.33%) Spring
6 165 (6.04%) Spring Boot
7 144 (5.27%) RESTful
8 100 (3.66%) .NET
9 87 (3.19%) PySpark
10 80 (2.93%) AngularJS
10 80 (2.93%) GraphQL
10 80 (2.93%) OAuth
11 67 (2.45%) SOAP
12 64 (2.34%) Redux
13 60 (2.20%) LDAP
14 57 (2.09%) HTML
15 54 (1.98%) Pandas
16 53 (1.94%) JSON
17 51 (1.87%) OpenID
18 50 (1.83%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 480 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 164 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 83 (3.04%) AI Agents
5 82 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 80 (2.93%) Security Posture
7 76 (2.78%) Fixed Income
8 75 (2.75%) Product Ownership
9 66 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.31%) Data Centre
11 57 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 53 (1.94%) Management Information System
13 44 (1.61%) Derivative
14 43 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
15 39 (1.43%) Equities
16 33 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
17 30 (1.10%) Data Structures
18 29 (1.06%) Algorithms
18 29 (1.06%) Mainframe
18 29 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 197 (7.21%) Linux
2 92 (3.37%) Windows
3 38 (1.39%) Unix
4 30 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.44%) Android
7 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.26%) zOS
10 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.15%) VMS
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.073%) CentOS
14 2 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,063 (38.92%) CI/CD
2 806 (29.51%) DevOps
3 647 (23.69%) Agile
4 572 (20.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 549 (20.10%) AI
6 411 (15.05%) Microservices
7 395 (14.46%) Containerisation
8 377 (13.80%) Analytics
9 350 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 331 (12.12%) Migration
11 329 (12.05%) Software Engineering
12 313 (11.46%) Data Modelling
13 310 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
14 300 (10.98%) Data Engineering
15 289 (10.58%) Observability
16 277 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
17 275 (10.07%) Machine Learning
18 251 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
19 240 (8.79%) ETL
20 239 (8.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,044 (38.23%) Python
2 592 (21.68%) SQL
3 483 (17.69%) Java
4 247 (9.04%) TypeScript
5 220 (8.06%) JavaScript
6 125 (4.58%) PowerShell
7 119 (4.36%) C#
8 113 (4.14%) Bash
9 87 (3.19%) Go
10 45 (1.65%) Scala
11 34 (1.24%) Ruby
11 34 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 25 (0.92%) Bicep
13 23 (0.84%) R
14 21 (0.77%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.66%) PL/SQL
16 15 (0.55%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.51%) Groovy
18 13 (0.48%) C++
19 11 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 745 (27.28%) Security Cleared
2 666 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 144 (5.27%) Degree
4 128 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 82 (3.00%) CISSP
6 67 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 55 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 54 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.39%) CISM
12 33 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.92%) PMP
16 24 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.81%) CCNP
17 22 (0.81%) CCSP
18 15 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.06%) QA
3 102 (3.73%) GDPR
4 97 (3.55%) NIST
5 79 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.03%) GRC
9 26 (0.95%) SLA
10 21 (0.77%) NCSC
11 19 (0.70%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.62%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.62%) PMO
14 12 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.44%) WCAG
15 9 (0.33%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.29%) SEPA
17 7 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 485 (17.76%) Docker
2 96 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.62%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) 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 Servers
11 2 (0.073%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.073%) Firmware
11 2 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.073%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.073%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 645 (23.62%) Terraform
2 549 (20.10%) Kubernetes
3 161 (5.90%) Grafana
4 158 (5.79%) Ansible
5 141 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.81%) Puppet
8 21 (0.77%) Kibana
9 19 (0.70%) Argo
10 14 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.44%) Consul
13 10 (0.37%) Packer
14 9 (0.33%) QRadar
15 7 (0.26%) Istio
16 6 (0.22%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
18 4 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 213 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.61%) Databricks
3 107 (3.92%) Google
4 94 (3.44%) Oracle
5 90 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 78 (2.86%) Splunk
7 71 (2.60%) CyberArk
8 60 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 57 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 50 (1.83%) Cisco
11 38 (1.39%) VMware
12 37 (1.35%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.21%) Red Hat
14 32 (1.17%) Foundry
14 32 (1.17%) SAP
15 31 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
15 31 (1.14%) Centrify
15 31 (1.14%) Dynatrace
16 27 (0.99%) IBM
17 23 (0.84%) Fortinet