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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,644 2,018 2,355
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.38% 16.71% 13.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.01% 38.78% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 1,412 1,829
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £543 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.23% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 12
10th Percentile £35.90 £35.88 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.75 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +49.73% +69.08% -63.13%
75th Percentile £78.25 £58.31 £68.38
90th Percentile £89.13 £77.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £50.59
% change year-on-year - +38.37% -31.64%

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 7,774 5,204 6,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.28% 43.09% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,369 3,525 4,995
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -1.53% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 70
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.64 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -50.25%
75th Percentile £55.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +56.40% +18.18% -38.94%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -3 280 £550 - 269
West London +6 84 £600 +25.63% 33
South London 0 82 £500 +1.01% 9
East London +3 16 £543 -7.26% 40
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
1 127 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 70 (2.65%) Confluence
4 60 (2.27%) Apache
5 23 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.72%) nginx
7 14 (0.53%) Camunda
8 11 (0.42%) CICS
8 11 (0.42%) SAS
9 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.26%) CMS
10 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) Appian
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 38 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.19%) Revit
8 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Endur
5 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.076%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.076%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.038%) Actimize
7 1 (0.038%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1,085 (41.04%) Azure
2 564 (21.33%) GCP
3 391 (14.79%) Amazon S3
4 390 (14.75%) Serverless
5 342 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
6 336 (12.71%) GitHub
7 209 (7.90%) GitHub Actions
8 199 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 178 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
10 176 (6.66%) Snowflake
11 165 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
12 163 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 145 (5.48%) Power Platform
14 130 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
15 121 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 111 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
17 90 (3.40%) SaaS
18 84 (3.18%) dbt
19 70 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
20 68 (2.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 106 (4.01%) Firewall
2 76 (2.87%) Network Security
3 68 (2.57%) DNS
4 65 (2.46%) VPN
5 49 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.36%) WAN
7 22 (0.83%) BGP
8 21 (0.79%) HTTP
9 19 (0.72%) LAN
10 18 (0.68%) DHCP
11 17 (0.64%) OSPF
11 17 (0.64%) SSL
12 14 (0.53%) NGFW
12 14 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.45%) VLAN
14 10 (0.38%) Internet
14 10 (0.38%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
2 125 (4.73%) Data Lake
2 125 (4.73%) Power BI
3 120 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 110 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
6 106 (4.01%) SQL Server
7 98 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 83 (3.14%) DynamoDB
9 73 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 73 (2.76%) Tableau
10 72 (2.72%) Metadata
11 71 (2.69%) Relational Database
12 58 (2.19%) Big Data
13 43 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
14 40 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 40 (1.51%) BigQuery
15 39 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
15 39 (1.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 233 (8.81%) Git
2 230 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 209 (7.90%) GitLab
4 129 (4.88%) JIRA
5 39 (1.48%) JUnit
6 35 (1.32%) MLflow
7 32 (1.21%) Mockito
8 27 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 26 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 24 (0.91%) JMeter
11 21 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 21 (0.79%) Gradle
11 21 (0.79%) Maven
11 21 (0.79%) Selenium
12 20 (0.76%) Postman
13 19 (0.72%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.64%) Gatling
15 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 14 (0.53%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 622 (23.52%) Finance
2 568 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 368 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 227 (8.59%) Banking
5 223 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
6 83 (3.14%) Front Office
7 65 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 55 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 44 (1.66%) Retail
11 42 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 35 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (0.95%) Marketing
15 25 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.83%) Legal
17 16 (0.61%) Law
18 12 (0.45%) Back Office
18 12 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 541 (20.46%) Architect
2 411 (15.54%) Developer
3 401 (15.17%) Senior
4 292 (11.04%) Data Engineer
4 292 (11.04%) Lead
5 264 (9.98%) AWS Engineer
6 189 (7.15%) DevOps Engineer
7 144 (5.45%) Software Engineer
8 138 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
9 119 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 114 (4.31%) Senior Developer
11 106 (4.01%) AWS Architect
12 103 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
13 96 (3.63%) Analyst
14 95 (3.59%) Java Developer
15 86 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
16 83 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
17 79 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 76 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 76 (2.87%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (11.46%) Kafka
2 235 (8.89%) React
3 220 (8.32%) REST
4 178 (6.73%) Node.js
5 167 (6.32%) Spring
6 158 (5.98%) Spring Boot
7 139 (5.26%) RESTful
8 97 (3.67%) .NET
9 86 (3.25%) PySpark
10 81 (3.06%) AngularJS
11 75 (2.84%) GraphQL
12 74 (2.80%) OAuth
13 70 (2.65%) SOAP
14 62 (2.34%) LDAP
14 62 (2.34%) Redux
15 55 (2.08%) Pandas
16 53 (2.00%) HTML
17 49 (1.85%) OpenID
18 48 (1.82%) JSON
19 47 (1.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 460 (17.40%) Cloud Native
2 148 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (3.18%) Onboarding
4 79 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 79 (2.99%) Security Posture
5 73 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.72%) AI Agents
6 72 (2.72%) Fixed Income
7 68 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 56 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 53 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 47 (1.78%) Derivative
11 42 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.51%) Equities
13 33 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.21%) Mainframe
15 31 (1.17%) Data Structures
16 29 (1.10%) Algorithms
16 29 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (7.00%) Linux
2 87 (3.29%) Windows
3 36 (1.36%) Unix
4 28 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 21 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.45%) Android
7 9 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.30%) Solaris
8 8 (0.30%) zOS
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) VMS
9 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.038%) CentOS
13 1 (0.038%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,006 (38.05%) CI/CD
2 766 (28.97%) DevOps
3 614 (23.22%) Agile
4 539 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 505 (19.10%) AI
6 388 (14.67%) Microservices
7 371 (14.03%) Analytics
8 364 (13.77%) Containerisation
9 335 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
10 329 (12.44%) Migration
11 318 (12.03%) Software Engineering
12 306 (11.57%) Data Modelling
13 297 (11.23%) Data Pipeline
14 286 (10.82%) Data Engineering
15 276 (10.44%) Observability
16 257 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 254 (9.61%) Machine Learning
18 243 (9.19%) ETL
19 238 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
20 229 (8.66%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (38.54%) Python
2 584 (22.09%) SQL
3 470 (17.78%) Java
4 236 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 213 (8.06%) JavaScript
6 127 (4.80%) PowerShell
7 117 (4.43%) C#
8 111 (4.20%) Bash
9 90 (3.40%) Go
10 47 (1.78%) Scala
11 36 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.25%) Ruby
13 24 (0.91%) Bicep
14 22 (0.83%) R
15 19 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.68%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.57%) C++
18 13 (0.49%) T-SQL
19 11 (0.42%) Groovy
19 11 (0.42%) JCL
Qualifications
1 730 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 652 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 143 (5.41%) Degree
4 116 (4.39%) AWS Certification
5 78 (2.95%) CISSP
6 69 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 54 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.32%) CISM
12 30 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (0.91%) PMP
16 23 (0.87%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.83%) CCNP
18 21 (0.79%) CCSP
19 15 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
20 13 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 110 (4.16%) QA
3 106 (4.01%) GDPR
4 91 (3.44%) NIST
5 76 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.21%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.21%) SLA
8 25 (0.95%) GRC
9 21 (0.79%) NCSC
10 19 (0.72%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.57%) PMO
14 11 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.42%) WCAG
15 8 (0.30%) SEPA
15 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.26%) PSD2
17 5 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 469 (17.74%) Docker
2 96 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.64%) Squid
6 6 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.15%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) vSphere
8 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) IAG
8 3 (0.11%) NFS
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.11%) Postfix
8 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.076%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.076%) Firmware
9 2 (0.076%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.038%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 603 (22.81%) Terraform
2 523 (19.78%) Kubernetes
3 151 (5.71%) Grafana
4 145 (5.48%) Ansible
5 133 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.83%) Kibana
8 19 (0.72%) Puppet
9 17 (0.64%) Argo
10 15 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.45%) Consul
14 10 (0.38%) QRadar
15 9 (0.34%) Packer
16 7 (0.26%) Istio
17 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
18 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
19 4 (0.15%) HP ALM
19 4 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 206 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 120 (4.54%) Databricks
3 99 (3.74%) Google
4 91 (3.44%) Oracle
5 89 (3.37%) ServiceNow
6 76 (2.87%) Splunk
7 69 (2.61%) CyberArk
8 55 (2.08%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 49 (1.85%) Cisco
11 36 (1.36%) VMware
12 35 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.32%) Centrify
13 34 (1.29%) Palo Alto
14 32 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 32 (1.21%) Red Hat
15 30 (1.13%) SAP
16 29 (1.10%) IBM
17 26 (0.98%) Foundry
18 25 (0.95%) Qualys