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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,803 2,174 2,285
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.91% 16.26% 14.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.72% 37.66% 34.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,976 1,523 1,742
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £478 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £764
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +91.68% -63.51%
75th Percentile £78.75 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -37.59%

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 8,313 5,773 6,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.25% 43.19% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,951 4,771
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 49
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.05 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.54 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +3.63% -43.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £76.06 £67.95 £59.20
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.25
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.90% -14.39%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -6 282 £550 -4.35% 213
West London +6 99 £560 +31.76% 175
South London +2 75 £535 +0.71% 21
East London +6 13 £550 -5.98% 30
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
1 155 (5.53%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 100 (3.57%) Confluence
4 80 (2.85%) Apache
5 30 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) Camunda
7 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.11%) Mule
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
2 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
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 1,258 (44.88%) Azure
2 624 (22.26%) GCP
3 394 (14.06%) Serverless
4 378 (13.49%) Amazon S3
5 356 (12.70%) GitHub
6 331 (11.81%) AWS Lambda
7 234 (8.35%) GitHub Actions
8 228 (8.13%) Snowflake
9 195 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
10 173 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 155 (5.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 151 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
14 139 (4.96%) Power Platform
15 135 (4.82%) dbt
16 130 (4.64%) SaaS
17 129 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
18 122 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 106 (3.78%) Entra ID
20 95 (3.39%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.85%) Firewall
2 83 (2.96%) Network Security
3 71 (2.53%) DNS
4 60 (2.14%) VPN
5 40 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 39 (1.39%) WAN
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) SSL
9 22 (0.78%) HTTP
10 20 (0.71%) Internet
10 20 (0.71%) SSH
11 19 (0.68%) BGP
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.54%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.50%) LAN
13 14 (0.50%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.46%) OSPF
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
16 11 (0.39%) NGFW
17 10 (0.36%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
4 126 (4.50%) Power BI
5 119 (4.25%) NoSQL
6 117 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 104 (3.71%) Metadata
8 102 (3.64%) SQL Server
9 96 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
10 95 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 85 (3.03%) MongoDB
12 84 (3.00%) DynamoDB
13 77 (2.75%) Relational Database
14 70 (2.50%) Delta Lake
15 59 (2.10%) Tableau
16 58 (2.07%) Big Data
17 53 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
18 43 (1.53%) Redis
19 42 (1.50%) MySQL
20 41 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 288 (10.27%) Jenkins
2 285 (10.17%) Git
3 264 (9.42%) GitLab
4 151 (5.39%) JIRA
5 34 (1.21%) Cypress.io
5 34 (1.21%) Selenium
6 32 (1.14%) JMeter
7 30 (1.07%) JUnit
8 28 (1.00%) Maven
9 27 (0.96%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.82%) Mockito
10 23 (0.82%) Postman
11 22 (0.78%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.78%) Gradle
12 19 (0.68%) REST Assured
13 17 (0.61%) Claude Code
13 17 (0.61%) Gatling
13 17 (0.61%) MLflow
14 16 (0.57%) Cucumber
15 12 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 674 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 668 (23.83%) Finance
3 398 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 263 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.10%) Banking
6 78 (2.78%) Retail
7 62 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 47 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 45 (1.61%) Front Office
11 43 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.28%) Marketing
13 32 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.03%) Legal
15 28 (1.00%) Law
16 25 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (0.75%) Billing
18 21 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 591 (21.08%) Architect
2 442 (15.77%) Senior
3 348 (12.42%) Developer
4 309 (11.02%) Data Engineer
5 307 (10.95%) Lead
6 262 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 200 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 152 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
9 115 (4.10%) AWS Architect
10 110 (3.92%) Analyst
11 106 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 106 (3.78%) Software Engineer
12 101 (3.60%) Java Developer
13 96 (3.42%) Data Architect
14 93 (3.32%) Senior Data Engineer
15 92 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 91 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
17 81 (2.89%) Senior Developer
18 80 (2.85%) Cloud Architect
19 79 (2.82%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (24.69%) Terraform
2 315 (11.24%) Kafka
3 254 (9.06%) REST
4 216 (7.71%) React
5 175 (6.24%) Spring
6 160 (5.71%) Spring Boot
7 151 (5.39%) RESTful
8 137 (4.89%) Node.js
9 111 (3.96%) PySpark
10 90 (3.21%) .NET
11 84 (3.00%) OAuth
12 68 (2.43%) GraphQL
13 63 (2.25%) JSON
14 62 (2.21%) AngularJS
15 61 (2.18%) HTML
16 58 (2.07%) FastAPI
17 51 (1.82%) CSS
18 44 (1.57%) LangChain
18 44 (1.57%) OAuth2
18 44 (1.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 522 (18.62%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 126 (4.50%) AI Agents
5 113 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 88 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 67 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (2.39%) Security Posture
9 49 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 44 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 36 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 36 (1.28%) Fixed Income
11 36 (1.28%) Replication
12 35 (1.25%) PKI
13 34 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
14 33 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.14%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 233 (8.31%) Linux
2 127 (4.53%) Windows
3 52 (1.86%) Unix
4 44 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (41.53%) CI/CD
2 868 (30.97%) DevOps
3 706 (25.19%) Agile
4 648 (23.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 616 (21.98%) AI
6 441 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 408 (14.56%) Microservices
8 394 (14.06%) Containerisation
9 372 (13.27%) Migration
10 370 (13.20%) Observability
11 363 (12.95%) Analytics
12 359 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
13 351 (12.52%) Software Engineering
14 350 (12.49%) Data Pipeline
15 342 (12.20%) Data Modelling
16 338 (12.06%) Data Engineering
17 320 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 305 (10.88%) Event-Driven
19 298 (10.63%) Machine Learning
20 282 (10.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (37.14%) Python
2 601 (21.44%) SQL
3 478 (17.05%) Java
4 222 (7.92%) TypeScript
5 207 (7.38%) JavaScript
6 166 (5.92%) Bash
7 144 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 112 (4.00%) C#
9 54 (1.93%) Go
10 44 (1.57%) Scala
11 33 (1.18%) Bicep
11 33 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.03%) Ruby
13 26 (0.93%) Groovy
13 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.68%) R
15 18 (0.64%) C++
16 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 750 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 668 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 153 (5.46%) AWS Certification
4 151 (5.39%) Degree
5 87 (3.10%) CISSP
6 77 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 75 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 67 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 53 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 46 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (1.61%) CISM
13 26 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 24 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 23 (0.82%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.78%) PMP
17 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.61%) CCNP
18 17 (0.61%) CCSP
19 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 144 (5.14%) QA
3 107 (3.82%) NIST
4 96 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 91 (3.25%) GDPR
6 40 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.11%) GRC
9 27 (0.96%) SLA
10 24 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.78%) NCSC
12 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.61%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.50%) PMO
15 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.39%) SEPA
17 10 (0.36%) WCAG
18 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 492 (17.55%) Docker
2 89 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 600 (21.41%) Kubernetes
2 198 (7.06%) Grafana
3 187 (6.67%) Ansible
4 158 (5.64%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.21%) Argo
6 33 (1.18%) Kibana
6 33 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.86%) Puppet
8 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.39%) Istio
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 287 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 173 (6.17%) Databricks
3 130 (4.64%) Oracle
4 128 (4.57%) Google
5 126 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 103 (3.67%) Splunk
7 69 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.07%) VMware
9 53 (1.89%) OpenAI
10 51 (1.82%) Cisco
11 50 (1.78%) CyberArk
12 47 (1.68%) SAP
13 37 (1.32%) Informatica
13 37 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 35 (1.25%) IBM
15 32 (1.14%) Foundry
16 29 (1.03%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.96%) MuleSoft
18 26 (0.93%) Fortinet
19 25 (0.89%) Red Hat