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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,827 2,169 2,409
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.68% 16.91% 13.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.97% 39.44% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,953 1,514 1,877
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £471 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £753
90th Percentile £781 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £538 £565
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.87% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 12
10th Percentile £39.50 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +93.49% -65.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £65.00 £59.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £80.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -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 8,085 5,499 6,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.97% 42.87% 39.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,552 3,727 5,096
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £519 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 74 66
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.65 £18.89
25th Percentile £26.64 £24.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +19.58% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.56 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.29 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -4 292 £550 - 89
West London +3 90 £560 +20.74% 46
South London +2 86 £500 -2.44% 2
East London +6 16 £540 -7.69% 26
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 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 83 (2.94%) Confluence
4 65 (2.30%) Apache
5 31 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) Camunda
7 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 8 (0.28%) CMS
9 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 44 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.18%) Magento
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Endur
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.035%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.035%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 1,164 (41.17%) Azure
2 585 (20.69%) GCP
3 415 (14.68%) Serverless
4 410 (14.50%) Amazon S3
5 357 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
6 347 (12.27%) GitHub
7 220 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
8 199 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 196 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
9 196 (6.93%) Snowflake
10 172 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
11 170 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 153 (5.41%) Power Platform
13 146 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
14 127 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 118 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
16 117 (4.14%) SaaS
17 101 (3.57%) dbt
18 94 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
19 86 (3.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 112 (3.96%) Firewall
2 89 (3.15%) Network Security
3 72 (2.55%) VPN
4 70 (2.48%) DNS
5 46 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.41%) WAN
7 24 (0.85%) BGP
8 23 (0.81%) DHCP
9 22 (0.78%) HTTP
10 19 (0.67%) SSL
11 18 (0.64%) OSPF
12 16 (0.57%) Internet
12 16 (0.57%) LAN
13 15 (0.53%) NGFW
14 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
15 11 (0.39%) VLAN
16 10 (0.35%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.35%) SAN
16 10 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
3 136 (4.81%) Power BI
4 123 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 121 (4.28%) NoSQL
6 113 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
7 112 (3.96%) SQL Server
8 106 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 87 (3.08%) DynamoDB
10 81 (2.87%) Metadata
11 79 (2.79%) MongoDB
12 78 (2.76%) Tableau
13 76 (2.69%) Relational Database
14 67 (2.37%) Big Data
15 46 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
16 43 (1.52%) BigQuery
17 41 (1.45%) MySQL
18 38 (1.34%) Delta Lake
19 37 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 256 (9.06%) Jenkins
2 253 (8.95%) Git
3 250 (8.84%) GitLab
4 148 (5.24%) JIRA
5 41 (1.45%) JUnit
6 33 (1.17%) Mockito
7 32 (1.13%) MLflow
8 30 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.03%) JMeter
10 25 (0.88%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.88%) Maven
11 22 (0.78%) Gradle
11 22 (0.78%) Selenium
12 21 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.74%) Postman
13 20 (0.71%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.64%) Gatling
15 17 (0.60%) REST Assured
16 16 (0.57%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 678 (23.98%) Finance
2 598 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 400 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 242 (8.56%) Banking
5 240 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (2.97%) Front Office
7 68 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (2.41%) Retail
8 60 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 41 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 36 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 28 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (0.96%) Marketing
14 26 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (0.85%) Legal
16 21 (0.74%) Law
17 17 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 554 (19.60%) Architect
2 427 (15.10%) Senior
3 413 (14.61%) Developer
4 311 (11.00%) Lead
5 304 (10.75%) Data Engineer
6 297 (10.51%) AWS Engineer
7 222 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 154 (5.45%) Software Engineer
9 151 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
10 133 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 119 (4.21%) AWS Architect
12 107 (3.78%) Java Developer
13 104 (3.68%) Senior Developer
14 103 (3.64%) Analyst
15 101 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
16 95 (3.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 95 (3.36%) Cloud Architect
17 89 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 85 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
19 77 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (11.25%) Kafka
2 243 (8.60%) React
3 214 (7.57%) REST
4 179 (6.33%) Node.js
5 175 (6.19%) Spring
6 167 (5.91%) Spring Boot
7 146 (5.16%) RESTful
8 97 (3.43%) .NET
9 94 (3.33%) PySpark
10 89 (3.15%) GraphQL
11 81 (2.87%) OAuth
12 74 (2.62%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.26%) Redux
14 55 (1.95%) JSON
15 54 (1.91%) FastAPI
16 52 (1.84%) OpenID
16 52 (1.84%) Pandas
17 49 (1.73%) HTML
18 47 (1.66%) SOAP
19 45 (1.59%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 499 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 177 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (3.71%) Onboarding
4 94 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 85 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 77 (2.72%) Fixed Income
8 72 (2.55%) Security Posture
9 68 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 58 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (1.91%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.52%) Derivative
15 39 (1.38%) Equities
16 34 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.20%) Public Cloud
17 32 (1.13%) Data Structures
18 31 (1.10%) Algorithms
18 31 (1.10%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 211 (7.46%) Linux
2 111 (3.93%) Windows
3 43 (1.52%) Unix
4 34 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.42%) Android
7 11 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.28%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
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 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (39.26%) CI/CD
2 843 (29.82%) DevOps
3 685 (24.23%) Agile
4 594 (21.01%) AI
5 591 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 416 (14.72%) Microservices
7 413 (14.61%) Containerisation
8 393 (13.90%) Analytics
9 349 (12.35%) Migration
10 348 (12.31%) Software Engineering
11 347 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
12 328 (11.60%) Data Pipeline
13 319 (11.28%) Data Engineering
14 317 (11.21%) Data Modelling
15 308 (10.89%) Observability
16 303 (10.72%) Machine Learning
17 302 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 276 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
19 251 (8.88%) Event-Driven
20 250 (8.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,054 (37.28%) Python
2 594 (21.01%) SQL
3 494 (17.47%) Java
4 262 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 223 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 128 (4.53%) Bash
7 121 (4.28%) C#
8 114 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 90 (3.18%) Go
10 48 (1.70%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.17%) Ruby
13 29 (1.03%) Bicep
14 24 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) R
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.57%) Groovy
18 13 (0.46%) C++
18 13 (0.46%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 749 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 668 (23.63%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.45%) Degree
4 131 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 89 (3.15%) CISSP
6 70 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 58 (2.05%) DV Cleared
9 55 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.41%) CISM
12 33 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (1.10%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.81%) CCSP
15 22 (0.78%) CCNP
15 22 (0.78%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.78%) PMP
16 16 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 121 (4.28%) QA
3 103 (3.64%) GDPR
4 96 (3.40%) NIST
5 82 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) GRC
9 27 (0.96%) SLA
10 22 (0.78%) NCSC
11 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.60%) PMO
13 16 (0.57%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
14 13 (0.46%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.42%) WCAG
16 11 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.25%) SEPA
18 6 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 501 (17.72%) Docker
2 81 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) Squid
6 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) IAG
8 5 (0.18%) NFS
9 4 (0.14%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.071%) HDFS
11 2 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 681 (24.09%) Terraform
2 594 (21.01%) Kubernetes
3 170 (6.01%) Ansible
4 164 (5.80%) Grafana
5 143 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.92%) Puppet
8 24 (0.85%) Kibana
9 19 (0.67%) Argo
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.42%) Consul
13 11 (0.39%) Packer
14 10 (0.35%) QRadar
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.21%) CA Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 231 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.63%) Databricks
3 108 (3.82%) Google
4 106 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 97 (3.43%) Oracle
6 79 (2.79%) Splunk
7 70 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 61 (2.16%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.77%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.70%) Cisco
11 39 (1.38%) VMware
12 37 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.20%) Foundry
14 33 (1.17%) SAP
15 32 (1.13%) Informatica
15 32 (1.13%) Red Hat
16 30 (1.06%) Dynatrace
17 29 (1.03%) IBM
18 28 (0.99%) MuleSoft
19 23 (0.81%) Fortinet