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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,549 2,032 2,274
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.41% 16.19% 12.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.53% 38.25% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,764 1,471 1,752
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £465 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £688 £699 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.80 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £47.38 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £55.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.42% +24.72% -40.67%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £63.63
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £75.00 £71.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +35.71% -27.84%

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 7,603 5,313 6,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.97% 42.33% 37.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,246 3,688 4,971
10th Percentile £350 £358 £343
25th Percentile £425 £440 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 53 72
10th Percentile £19.22 £22.53 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £51.81 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £71.25 £72.50 £62.13
England median hourly rate £45.25 £25.98 £20.77
% change year-on-year +74.21% +25.06% -35.70%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -2 290 £550 - 209
South London +5 89 £513 +7.89% 14
West London +7 71 £603 +6.64% 42
East London +2 12 £533 -8.97% 45
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
1 125 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.18%) Confluence
4 63 (2.47%) Apache
5 34 (1.33%) nginx
6 22 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.67%) Camunda
8 12 (0.47%) SAS
9 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) CICS
11 6 (0.24%) Appian
12 5 (0.20%) CMS
13 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.078%) MQSeries
Applications
1 33 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.078%) Revit
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,024 (40.17%) Azure
2 566 (22.20%) GCP
3 379 (14.87%) Amazon S3
4 377 (14.79%) Serverless
5 331 (12.99%) GitHub
6 327 (12.83%) AWS Lambda
7 243 (9.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 198 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
10 157 (6.16%) Snowflake
11 150 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
12 144 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
13 143 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 142 (5.57%) Power Platform
15 113 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 96 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
17 71 (2.79%) SaaS
18 64 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
19 61 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
19 61 (2.39%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 97 (3.81%) Firewall
2 62 (2.43%) VPN
3 61 (2.39%) Network Security
4 59 (2.31%) DNS
5 41 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.22%) WAN
7 19 (0.75%) BGP
8 17 (0.67%) HTTP
8 17 (0.67%) LAN
9 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 13 (0.51%) DHCP
10 13 (0.51%) SSL
10 13 (0.51%) VLAN
11 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
12 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.35%) SAN
14 8 (0.31%) NAS
15 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (4.86%) Power BI
3 122 (4.79%) Data Lake
4 121 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
5 118 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 108 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
7 107 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
8 100 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 94 (3.69%) SQL Server
10 79 (3.10%) Tableau
11 75 (2.94%) MongoDB
12 72 (2.82%) Relational Database
13 69 (2.71%) DynamoDB
14 68 (2.67%) Metadata
15 61 (2.39%) Big Data
16 47 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
16 47 (1.84%) MySQL
17 40 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
17 40 (1.57%) BigQuery
18 34 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 250 (9.81%) Git
2 223 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 213 (8.36%) GitLab
4 136 (5.34%) JIRA
5 43 (1.69%) MLflow
6 41 (1.61%) JUnit
7 34 (1.33%) Mockito
8 30 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.90%) Selenium
12 19 (0.75%) Maven
13 18 (0.71%) Gradle
14 16 (0.63%) JMeter
14 16 (0.63%) Postman
15 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.51%) Snyk
17 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 582 (22.83%) Finance
2 557 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 367 (14.40%) Public Sector
4 229 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (8.16%) Banking
6 89 (3.49%) Front Office
7 63 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (1.84%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.29%) Retail
14 26 (1.02%) Legal
14 26 (1.02%) Marketing
15 16 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.55%) Military
17 12 (0.47%) Billing
17 12 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 504 (19.77%) Architect
2 432 (16.95%) Developer
3 378 (14.83%) Senior
4 261 (10.24%) Lead
5 257 (10.08%) Data Engineer
6 236 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
7 188 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 140 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 125 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
10 117 (4.59%) Senior Developer
11 104 (4.08%) Analyst
12 103 (4.04%) AWS Architect
13 101 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
14 97 (3.81%) Java Developer
15 91 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
17 85 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
18 84 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 78 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 74 (2.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (12.16%) Kafka
2 240 (9.42%) React
3 193 (7.57%) Node.js
3 193 (7.57%) REST
4 170 (6.67%) Spring
5 156 (6.12%) Spring Boot
6 148 (5.81%) RESTful
7 81 (3.18%) .NET
8 77 (3.02%) PySpark
9 75 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 69 (2.71%) SOAP
11 66 (2.59%) OAuth
12 65 (2.55%) GraphQL
13 60 (2.35%) Redux
14 59 (2.31%) HTML
15 58 (2.28%) LDAP
16 56 (2.20%) Pandas
17 55 (2.16%) CSS
18 48 (1.88%) OpenID
19 46 (1.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 406 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 137 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (2.90%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 71 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 63 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 58 (2.28%) AI Agents
10 57 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 46 (1.80%) Derivative
13 44 (1.73%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (1.49%) Equities
16 37 (1.45%) Algorithms
17 34 (1.33%) Mainframe
18 33 (1.29%) Public Cloud
19 32 (1.26%) Data Structures
20 30 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 199 (7.81%) Linux
2 70 (2.75%) Windows
3 44 (1.73%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) VMS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 972 (38.13%) CI/CD
2 732 (28.72%) DevOps
3 610 (23.93%) Agile
4 515 (20.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 461 (18.09%) AI
6 406 (15.93%) Microservices
7 378 (14.83%) Analytics
7 378 (14.83%) Containerisation
8 346 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
9 320 (12.55%) Software Engineering
10 296 (11.61%) Migration
11 293 (11.49%) Data Modelling
12 274 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
13 266 (10.44%) Data Engineering
14 263 (10.32%) Observability
15 252 (9.89%) Machine Learning
16 237 (9.30%) ETL
17 234 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
18 227 (8.91%) Full-Stack Development
19 208 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 994 (39.00%) Python
2 560 (21.97%) SQL
3 467 (18.32%) Java
4 224 (8.79%) TypeScript
5 223 (8.75%) JavaScript
6 110 (4.32%) C#
7 105 (4.12%) PowerShell
8 104 (4.08%) Bash
9 103 (4.04%) Go
10 43 (1.69%) Ruby
11 42 (1.65%) Scala
12 39 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 23 (0.90%) R
14 19 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.71%) Bicep
16 17 (0.67%) C++
16 17 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.43%) PHP
18 9 (0.35%) Groovy
19 8 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 738 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 655 (25.70%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 124 (4.86%) Degree
5 72 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.35%) CISSP
7 58 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 47 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 36 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.18%) CISM
14 26 (1.02%) PMI Certification
14 26 (1.02%) PMP
15 21 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 21 (0.82%) CCNP
16 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.63%) CCSP
18 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 126 (4.94%) GDPR
3 95 (3.73%) QA
4 82 (3.22%) NIST
5 73 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.10%) SLA
9 23 (0.90%) NCSC
10 18 (0.71%) GRC
11 15 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 13 (0.51%) PMO
12 13 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.47%) WCAG
14 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.27%) PSD2
16 6 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 511 (20.05%) Docker
2 80 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.078%) Firmware
10 2 (0.078%) KVM
10 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.078%) Postfix
10 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 599 (23.50%) Terraform
2 535 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 138 (5.41%) Grafana
4 128 (5.02%) Ansible
5 119 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.94%) Argo
8 20 (0.78%) Consul
8 20 (0.78%) Puppet
9 18 (0.71%) Kibana
10 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.59%) Packer
12 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.43%) QRadar
14 6 (0.24%) Istio
14 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.24%) SCCM
15 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 188 (7.38%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.06%) Databricks
3 95 (3.73%) Google
4 92 (3.61%) Oracle
5 77 (3.02%) ServiceNow
5 77 (3.02%) Splunk
6 60 (2.35%) CyberArk
7 57 (2.24%) OpenAI
8 47 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 43 (1.69%) Cisco
10 39 (1.53%) VMware
11 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.37%) Centrify
12 34 (1.33%) SAP
13 33 (1.29%) Dynatrace
13 33 (1.29%) IBM
14 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.90%) Confluent
17 21 (0.82%) Foundry