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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,472 1,991 2,293
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.04% 15.58% 12.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.30% 37.05% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,444 1,757
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.05%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.50 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.14% +38.10% -19.23%

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 7,208 5,374 6,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.05% 37.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,941 3,723 4,961
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 44 78
10th Percentile £18.18 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £21.44
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +3.90% -20.06%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.96
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -1 286 £550 +1.62% 302
South London +3 93 £513 +7.89% 19
West London +11 56 £603 -2.03% 51
East London +1 9 £630 +7.69% 42
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
1 121 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 74 (2.99%) Confluence
4 63 (2.55%) Apache
5 32 (1.29%) nginx
6 22 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.65%) Camunda
7 16 (0.65%) SAS
8 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.32%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.12%) CICS
12 3 (0.12%) CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.081%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.081%) OpenROAD
13 2 (0.081%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.040%) Notion
8 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) Endur
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.081%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.040%) Maximo
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.040%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.040%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (40.57%) Azure
2 569 (23.02%) GCP
3 371 (15.01%) Serverless
4 348 (14.08%) Amazon S3
5 337 (13.63%) GitHub
6 319 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
7 232 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 189 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
9 178 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
10 167 (6.76%) Snowflake
11 147 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
12 145 (5.87%) Power Platform
13 137 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
14 130 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 84 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.51%) dbt
18 59 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
19 57 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
20 55 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.80%) Firewall
2 63 (2.55%) VPN
3 61 (2.47%) Network Security
4 51 (2.06%) DNS
5 38 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.46%) WAN
7 19 (0.77%) LAN
8 18 (0.73%) BGP
9 16 (0.65%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.57%) HTTP
10 14 (0.57%) OSPF
11 12 (0.49%) SSL
12 11 (0.44%) DHCP
13 10 (0.40%) VLAN
14 9 (0.36%) 5G
14 9 (0.36%) OpenVPN
14 9 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.32%) 4G
15 8 (0.32%) VXLAN
16 7 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (5.18%) Power BI
3 125 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
5 119 (4.81%) NoSQL
6 112 (4.53%) Data Lake
7 99 (4.00%) SQL Server
8 96 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
9 95 (3.84%) Relational Database
10 94 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 76 (3.07%) Tableau
12 74 (2.99%) MongoDB
13 69 (2.79%) Metadata
14 66 (2.67%) DynamoDB
15 60 (2.43%) Big Data
16 54 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
16 54 (2.18%) MySQL
17 43 (1.74%) BigQuery
18 35 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
19 33 (1.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 251 (10.15%) Git
2 212 (8.58%) GitLab
3 207 (8.37%) Jenkins
4 131 (5.30%) JIRA
5 46 (1.86%) JUnit
6 45 (1.82%) MLflow
7 31 (1.25%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 29 (1.17%) Mockito
10 23 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 21 (0.85%) Selenium
12 19 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 18 (0.73%) JMeter
13 18 (0.73%) Maven
14 14 (0.57%) Gatling
15 13 (0.53%) Gradle
15 13 (0.53%) Postman
15 13 (0.53%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.40%) Zephyr
17 9 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 571 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 550 (22.25%) Finance
3 355 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 221 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (8.25%) Banking
6 93 (3.76%) Front Office
7 61 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.50%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.17%) Retail
14 22 (0.89%) Legal
15 20 (0.81%) Marketing
16 16 (0.65%) Military
17 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.53%) Billing
19 12 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 451 (18.24%) Developer
2 448 (18.12%) Architect
3 382 (15.45%) Senior
4 242 (9.79%) Lead
5 231 (9.34%) Data Engineer
6 229 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
7 190 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (5.99%) Software Engineer
9 124 (5.02%) Senior Developer
10 108 (4.37%) Analyst
11 105 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
12 97 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
13 94 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
13 94 (3.80%) Java Developer
13 94 (3.80%) Python Engineer
14 88 (3.56%) AWS Architect
14 88 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 81 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 80 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
17 79 (3.20%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (13.51%) Kafka
2 251 (10.15%) React
3 207 (8.37%) Node.js
4 189 (7.65%) REST
5 146 (5.91%) Spring
6 138 (5.58%) RESTful
7 129 (5.22%) Spring Boot
8 95 (3.84%) AngularJS
9 74 (2.99%) PySpark
10 70 (2.83%) .NET
11 68 (2.75%) CSS
12 66 (2.67%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.59%) HTML
14 63 (2.55%) SOAP
15 61 (2.47%) OAuth
15 61 (2.47%) Pandas
16 60 (2.43%) Redux
17 58 (2.35%) gRPC
18 55 (2.22%) Vue
19 53 (2.14%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 367 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 123 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.16%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.95%) Security Posture
5 67 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 60 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.18%) Derivative
9 53 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 52 (2.10%) Data Centre
11 50 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 50 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.82%) Algorithms
13 44 (1.78%) Management Information System
14 42 (1.70%) Equities
15 37 (1.50%) Public Cloud
16 36 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
17 35 (1.42%) Data Structures
18 26 (1.05%) Mainframe
19 25 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 182 (7.36%) Linux
2 62 (2.51%) Windows
3 42 (1.70%) Unix
4 11 (0.44%) VMS
4 11 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.28%) Android
5 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.20%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (37.86%) CI/CD
2 684 (27.67%) DevOps
3 602 (24.35%) Agile
4 476 (19.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 425 (17.19%) AI
6 390 (15.78%) Microservices
7 363 (14.68%) Analytics
8 355 (14.36%) Containerisation
9 352 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
10 322 (13.03%) Software Engineering
11 296 (11.97%) Data Modelling
12 267 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
13 266 (10.76%) Data Engineering
13 266 (10.76%) Machine Learning
14 252 (10.19%) Migration
15 245 (9.91%) Observability
16 243 (9.83%) ETL
17 211 (8.54%) Full-Stack Development
18 206 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
19 198 (8.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (40.86%) Python
2 581 (23.50%) SQL
3 446 (18.04%) Java
4 226 (9.14%) JavaScript
5 224 (9.06%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.65%) Go
7 101 (4.09%) C#
8 95 (3.84%) Bash
9 94 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 38 (1.54%) Ruby
11 34 (1.38%) Scala
12 32 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.09%) C++
14 19 (0.77%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.77%) R
15 14 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.53%) Bicep
17 10 (0.40%) Korn
17 10 (0.40%) Rust
18 9 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 712 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 622 (25.16%) SC Cleared
3 125 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 124 (5.02%) Degree
5 71 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.98%) CISSP
7 45 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 41 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 31 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (1.05%) CISM
14 22 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.89%) PMP
15 21 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 18 (0.73%) CCNP
18 14 (0.57%) CCSP
19 13 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 124 (5.02%) GDPR
3 89 (3.60%) QA
4 74 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (2.87%) NIST
6 49 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.09%) NCSC
9 21 (0.85%) SLA
10 17 (0.69%) WCAG
11 14 (0.57%) GRC
11 14 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.53%) PMO
13 12 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.32%) PSD2
16 6 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 514 (20.79%) Docker
2 63 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.36%) Squid
6 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.081%) NFS
9 2 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.040%) Ceph
10 1 (0.040%) iptables
10 1 (0.040%) KVM
10 1 (0.040%) Lustre
10 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.040%) zsh
Systems Management
1 575 (23.26%) Terraform
2 537 (21.72%) Kubernetes
3 133 (5.38%) Ansible
4 110 (4.45%) Grafana
5 101 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.33%) Argo
8 18 (0.73%) Consul
9 16 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (0.65%) Puppet
10 15 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.53%) Packer
12 9 (0.36%) Kibana
12 9 (0.36%) SCCM
13 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.24%) Istio
14 6 (0.24%) QRadar
15 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 175 (7.08%) Microsoft
2 141 (5.70%) Databricks
3 97 (3.92%) Google
4 90 (3.64%) Oracle
5 76 (3.07%) Splunk
6 57 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.14%) OpenAI
8 50 (2.02%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.42%) Centrify
10 35 (1.42%) Cisco
11 34 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.38%) IBM
12 33 (1.33%) Dynatrace
13 31 (1.25%) VMware
14 29 (1.17%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.13%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.09%) SAP
17 24 (0.97%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.81%) Atlassian