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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,815 2,195 2,282
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.01% 16.30% 14.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.81% 37.84% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,982 1,534 1,742
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -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 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +91.68% -63.07%
75th Percentile £80.63 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.11% +58.08% -38.43%

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 8,327 5,801 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 43.09% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,683 3,974 4,771
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.85 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.85 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -6 281 £550 -4.35% 114
West London +5 97 £560 +31.76% 57
South London +1 79 £535 +1.90% 9
East London +3 14 £525 -10.26% 28
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
1 151 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 93 (3.30%) Confluence
4 79 (2.81%) Apache
5 36 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) SAS
7 11 (0.39%) CICS
7 11 (0.39%) nginx
8 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.28%) Camunda
10 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 34 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.28%) Revit
6 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) 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%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.071%) Endur
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,245 (44.23%) Azure
2 622 (22.10%) GCP
3 387 (13.75%) Serverless
4 370 (13.14%) Amazon S3
5 357 (12.68%) GitHub
6 328 (11.65%) AWS Lambda
7 236 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
8 218 (7.74%) Snowflake
9 194 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
10 174 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 164 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 156 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
13 146 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
14 133 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
15 132 (4.69%) Power Platform
16 127 (4.51%) SaaS
17 120 (4.26%) dbt
18 118 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 96 (3.41%) Entra ID
20 91 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.69%) Firewall
2 84 (2.98%) Network Security
3 73 (2.59%) DNS
4 60 (2.13%) VPN
5 42 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.28%) WAN
7 26 (0.92%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
8 23 (0.82%) SSL
9 18 (0.64%) Internet
9 18 (0.64%) SSH
10 17 (0.60%) BGP
11 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
13 12 (0.43%) LAN
13 12 (0.43%) OSPF
13 12 (0.43%) SAN
14 11 (0.39%) NGFW
14 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
3 134 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 120 (4.26%) Power BI
6 116 (4.12%) Data Lake
7 105 (3.73%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
9 97 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 96 (3.41%) Metadata
11 87 (3.09%) DynamoDB
11 87 (3.09%) MongoDB
12 73 (2.59%) Relational Database
13 61 (2.17%) Big Data
13 61 (2.17%) Delta Lake
14 59 (2.10%) Tableau
15 48 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
16 42 (1.49%) BigQuery
17 40 (1.42%) MySQL
17 40 (1.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 285 (10.12%) Jenkins
2 283 (10.05%) Git
3 264 (9.38%) GitLab
4 147 (5.22%) JIRA
5 35 (1.24%) JMeter
6 34 (1.21%) JUnit
7 33 (1.17%) Cypress.io
8 32 (1.14%) Selenium
9 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.99%) Maven
11 27 (0.96%) Mockito
12 23 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.82%) Postman
13 21 (0.75%) Gradle
14 20 (0.71%) Gatling
15 19 (0.67%) MLflow
15 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.64%) Cucumber
17 16 (0.57%) Claude Code
18 14 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 683 (24.26%) Finance
2 641 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 408 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 256 (9.09%) Banking
5 250 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.63%) Retail
7 64 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (2.10%) Front Office
9 54 (1.92%) Investment Banking
10 47 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.31%) Marketing
13 34 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.03%) Legal
15 28 (0.99%) Law
16 26 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.75%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 590 (20.96%) Architect
2 449 (15.95%) Senior
3 365 (12.97%) Developer
4 314 (11.15%) Lead
5 293 (10.41%) Data Engineer
6 267 (9.48%) AWS Engineer
7 200 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 156 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
9 116 (4.12%) AWS Architect
9 116 (4.12%) Software Engineer
10 115 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 109 (3.87%) Java Developer
12 108 (3.84%) Analyst
13 93 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 91 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
15 90 (3.20%) Data Architect
15 90 (3.20%) Senior Developer
16 84 (2.98%) AWS DevOps
17 79 (2.81%) Senior Data Engineer
18 78 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (11.26%) Kafka
2 251 (8.92%) REST
3 225 (7.99%) React
4 178 (6.32%) Spring
5 161 (5.72%) Spring Boot
6 155 (5.51%) RESTful
7 150 (5.33%) Node.js
8 104 (3.69%) PySpark
9 86 (3.06%) .NET
10 78 (2.77%) OAuth
11 77 (2.74%) GraphQL
12 64 (2.27%) AngularJS
13 62 (2.20%) JSON
14 59 (2.10%) FastAPI
15 57 (2.02%) HTML
16 51 (1.81%) CSS
17 46 (1.63%) OAuth2
18 45 (1.60%) LangChain
18 45 (1.60%) Redux
19 42 (1.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 518 (18.40%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (4.87%) Onboarding
4 120 (4.26%) AI Agents
5 104 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.31%) Security Posture
9 63 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 61 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 48 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.67%) Management Information System
14 40 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
16 37 (1.31%) Replication
17 35 (1.24%) CMDB
17 35 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
18 34 (1.21%) PKI
19 30 (1.07%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 229 (8.13%) Linux
2 126 (4.48%) Windows
3 49 (1.74%) Unix
4 44 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Solaris
9 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,152 (40.92%) CI/CD
2 869 (30.87%) DevOps
3 707 (25.12%) Agile
4 624 (22.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 611 (21.71%) AI
6 421 (14.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 411 (14.60%) Microservices
8 400 (14.21%) Containerisation
9 372 (13.21%) Migration
10 362 (12.86%) Analytics
11 355 (12.61%) Observability
12 354 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
13 351 (12.47%) Software Engineering
14 342 (12.15%) Data Modelling
15 340 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
16 329 (11.69%) Data Engineering
17 304 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 304 (10.80%) Machine Learning
18 293 (10.41%) Event-Driven
19 276 (9.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (36.91%) Python
2 596 (21.17%) SQL
3 491 (17.44%) Java
4 240 (8.53%) TypeScript
5 222 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 156 (5.54%) Bash
7 145 (5.15%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.94%) C#
9 60 (2.13%) Go
10 42 (1.49%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Bicep
12 33 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 26 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) Groovy
16 21 (0.75%) R
17 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.67%) C++
19 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 757 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 675 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.15%) AWS Certification
4 144 (5.12%) Degree
5 86 (3.06%) CISSP
6 71 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 68 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 65 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 45 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.60%) CISM
12 25 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.85%) PMP
14 18 (0.64%) CCNP
15 17 (0.60%) CCSP
16 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 144 (5.12%) QA
3 103 (3.66%) NIST
4 95 (3.37%) GDPR
5 92 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.10%) GRC
7 31 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) SLA
9 25 (0.89%) NCSC
10 22 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 14 (0.50%) PMO
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.36%) SEPA
15 10 (0.36%) WCAG
16 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 491 (17.44%) Docker
2 83 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 681 (24.19%) Terraform
2 603 (21.42%) Kubernetes
3 194 (6.89%) Grafana
4 179 (6.36%) Ansible
5 157 (5.58%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.10%) Argo
8 29 (1.03%) Kibana
9 25 (0.89%) Puppet
10 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.39%) Packer
13 9 (0.32%) Istio
13 9 (0.32%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 264 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 158 (5.61%) Databricks
3 131 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 129 (4.58%) Google
5 123 (4.37%) Oracle
6 90 (3.20%) Splunk
7 70 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.99%) VMware
9 50 (1.78%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.71%) OpenAI
10 48 (1.71%) SAP
11 46 (1.63%) Cisco
12 34 (1.21%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.17%) IBM
13 33 (1.17%) Informatica
14 31 (1.10%) Dynatrace
14 31 (1.10%) Foundry
15 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
16 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.82%) Fortinet