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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,812 2,129 2,218
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.81% 15.89% 13.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.75% 36.41% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,996 1,456 1,637
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £462 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £68.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% +121.86% -63.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £85.63 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -25.52%

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 8,331 5,847 6,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.92% 43.63% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,749 3,960 4,513
10th Percentile £360 £345 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.83%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 97 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.01 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.25 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -5 275 £575 -1.29% 317
West London +13 96 £560 +35.76% 68
South London 0 79 £530 -0.47% 12
East London +9 14 £588 -3.29% 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
1 161 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
2 122 (4.34%) Apache Spark
3 108 (3.84%) Confluence
4 88 (3.13%) Apache
5 23 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CMS
9 8 (0.28%) CICS
9 8 (0.28%) IIS
9 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Mule
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 28 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.25%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Cloudability
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.071%) Actimize
8 2 (0.071%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.071%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,264 (44.95%) Azure
2 652 (23.19%) GCP
3 380 (13.51%) Serverless
4 372 (13.23%) Amazon S3
5 371 (13.19%) GitHub
6 311 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
7 250 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
8 234 (8.32%) Amazon EKS
9 231 (8.21%) Snowflake
10 183 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 166 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
12 154 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 153 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
14 146 (5.19%) dbt
15 143 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
16 130 (4.62%) SaaS
17 128 (4.55%) Power Platform
18 127 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 106 (3.77%) Entra ID
20 97 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.59%) Firewall
2 84 (2.99%) Network Security
3 61 (2.17%) DNS
4 57 (2.03%) VPN
5 38 (1.35%) WAN
6 31 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 24 (0.85%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) SSH
9 22 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.78%) SSL
10 21 (0.75%) BGP
11 20 (0.71%) Internet
12 18 (0.64%) HTTP
13 17 (0.60%) OSPF
14 16 (0.57%) MPLS
15 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
15 15 (0.53%) NGFW
16 13 (0.46%) LAN
16 13 (0.46%) SAN
17 12 (0.43%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 155 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
4 122 (4.34%) NoSQL
5 113 (4.02%) Power BI
6 111 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 107 (3.81%) Metadata
8 103 (3.66%) Data Lake
9 97 (3.45%) MongoDB
10 95 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 87 (3.09%) DynamoDB
12 86 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
13 79 (2.81%) Relational Database
14 71 (2.52%) Delta Lake
15 64 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
16 61 (2.17%) MySQL
17 51 (1.81%) Big Data
18 49 (1.74%) BigQuery
18 49 (1.74%) Redis
18 49 (1.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 320 (11.38%) Jenkins
2 311 (11.06%) Git
3 284 (10.10%) GitLab
4 155 (5.51%) JIRA
5 38 (1.35%) Maven
6 34 (1.21%) JMeter
6 34 (1.21%) JUnit
7 32 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.96%) Selenium
10 26 (0.92%) Cypress.io
10 26 (0.92%) Gradle
11 25 (0.89%) Mockito
12 21 (0.75%) Claude Code
12 21 (0.75%) Postman
13 18 (0.64%) Gatling
14 17 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 704 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 674 (23.97%) Finance
3 385 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 276 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 268 (9.53%) Banking
6 87 (3.09%) Retail
7 63 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.35%) Marketing
11 36 (1.28%) Legal
12 34 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (1.21%) Front Office
13 33 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.07%) Law
16 28 (1.00%) Billing
17 27 (0.96%) Military
17 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (0.85%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 563 (20.02%) Architect
2 459 (16.32%) Senior
3 344 (12.23%) Developer
4 299 (10.63%) Lead
5 290 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 263 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 231 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 133 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (3.95%) AWS Architect
10 109 (3.88%) Analyst
10 109 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 105 (3.73%) Java Developer
12 104 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 102 (3.63%) Data Architect
14 99 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
15 97 (3.45%) Software Engineer
16 89 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
17 84 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
18 78 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 74 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 737 (26.21%) Terraform
2 335 (11.91%) Kafka
3 302 (10.74%) REST
4 198 (7.04%) React
5 181 (6.44%) Spring
6 166 (5.90%) Spring Boot
7 150 (5.33%) RESTful
8 112 (3.98%) Node.js
9 108 (3.84%) PySpark
10 99 (3.52%) .NET
11 97 (3.45%) OAuth
12 75 (2.67%) GraphQL
13 68 (2.42%) FastAPI
13 68 (2.42%) HTML
14 66 (2.35%) JSON
15 65 (2.31%) AngularJS
16 60 (2.13%) SOAP
17 57 (2.03%) CSS
18 54 (1.92%) OAuth2
19 49 (1.74%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 558 (19.84%) Cloud Native
2 181 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (5.30%) AI Agents
4 148 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 132 (4.69%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 71 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 71 (2.52%) Security Posture
9 61 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 49 (1.74%) PKI
12 47 (1.67%) Data Structures
13 46 (1.64%) Replication
14 40 (1.42%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
17 36 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
18 31 (1.10%) Virtual Team
19 30 (1.07%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 266 (9.46%) Linux
2 129 (4.59%) Windows
3 57 (2.03%) Unix
4 51 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.21%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,204 (42.82%) CI/CD
2 912 (32.43%) DevOps
3 723 (25.71%) Agile
4 689 (24.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 635 (22.58%) AI
6 487 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 413 (14.69%) Observability
8 412 (14.65%) Microservices
9 402 (14.30%) Containerisation
10 369 (13.12%) Migration
11 366 (13.02%) Software Engineering
12 362 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
13 340 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 338 (12.02%) Data Modelling
15 336 (11.95%) Analytics
16 335 (11.91%) Data Engineering
17 333 (11.84%) Event-Driven
18 329 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
19 312 (11.10%) Technical Leadership
20 308 (10.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (36.77%) Python
2 622 (22.12%) SQL
3 472 (16.79%) Java
4 211 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 204 (7.25%) TypeScript
6 194 (6.90%) Bash
7 152 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 114 (4.05%) C#
9 57 (2.03%) Go
10 52 (1.85%) Scala
11 37 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.28%) Bicep
13 35 (1.24%) Groovy
14 23 (0.82%) C++
14 23 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.60%) R
16 17 (0.60%) Ruby
17 15 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 795 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 700 (24.89%) SC Cleared
3 183 (6.51%) AWS Certification
4 145 (5.16%) Degree
5 94 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 90 (3.20%) CISSP
7 74 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 74 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 65 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 63 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 51 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.78%) CISM
12 32 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 23 (0.82%) CCSP
14 22 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.64%) PMP
17 17 (0.60%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.76%) QA
3 104 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (3.63%) NIST
5 74 (2.63%) GDPR
6 39 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.07%) GRC
8 29 (1.03%) NCSC
8 29 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (0.75%) SLA
10 20 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
12 15 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.46%) SEPA
14 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.32%) PMO
16 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 523 (18.60%) Docker
2 86 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) IAG
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) NFS
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.071%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 662 (23.54%) Kubernetes
2 219 (7.79%) Grafana
3 202 (7.18%) Ansible
4 165 (5.87%) Prometheus
5 52 (1.85%) Kibana
6 42 (1.49%) Argo
7 31 (1.10%) Puppet
8 26 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.50%) Istio
9 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) Packer
11 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.25%) QRadar
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.18%) logstash
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
15 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 303 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 203 (7.22%) Databricks
3 157 (5.58%) Google
4 145 (5.16%) Oracle
5 114 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 112 (3.98%) Splunk
7 66 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 59 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.85%) Cisco
10 51 (1.81%) VMware
11 50 (1.78%) SAP
12 48 (1.71%) CyberArk
13 45 (1.60%) Palo Alto
14 39 (1.39%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.39%) Informatica
15 35 (1.24%) IBM
16 33 (1.17%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.82%) Foundry
18 23 (0.82%) MuleSoft