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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,416 1,996 2,298
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.00% 15.39% 12.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.26% 36.66% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,661 1,447 1,760
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.35%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £780 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.50 £65.25 £51.78
% change year-on-year +15.71% +26.02% -19.72%

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 7,051 5,445 6,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.77% 41.98% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,843 3,755 4,985
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 43 78
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £51.81 £55.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.88
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -1 276 £550 +1.38% 142
South London +4 94 £519 +9.17% 58
West London +5 49 £603 +6.64% 78
East London +3 9 £630 +7.69% 73
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
1 112 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.31%) Confluence
4 60 (2.48%) Apache
5 32 (1.32%) nginx
6 23 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.70%) SAS
8 15 (0.62%) Camunda
9 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.46%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.33%) Appian
12 3 (0.12%) CICS
12 3 (0.12%) CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.083%) Drupal
13 2 (0.083%) Mule
13 2 (0.083%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.083%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.041%) Notion
6 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.17%) Actimize
4 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.17%) Endur
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.083%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.083%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.041%) Maximo
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.041%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.041%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 976 (40.40%) Azure
2 562 (23.26%) GCP
3 366 (15.15%) Serverless
4 332 (13.74%) Amazon S3
5 324 (13.41%) GitHub
6 313 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
7 226 (9.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 183 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
9 173 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
10 165 (6.83%) Snowflake
11 141 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
12 138 (5.71%) Power Platform
13 136 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
14 127 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 110 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 80 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.57%) dbt
18 56 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
18 56 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (2.24%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 99 (4.10%) Firewall
2 63 (2.61%) VPN
3 57 (2.36%) Network Security
4 50 (2.07%) DNS
5 39 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.32%) WAN
7 17 (0.70%) LAN
8 16 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.62%) BGP
10 13 (0.54%) HTTP
11 12 (0.50%) OSPF
11 12 (0.50%) SSL
12 11 (0.46%) DHCP
13 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.37%) VLAN
13 9 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.33%) 5G
15 7 (0.29%) 4G
15 7 (0.29%) NGFW
15 7 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (5.01%) Power BI
3 119 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
3 119 (4.93%) NoSQL
4 116 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
5 107 (4.43%) Data Lake
6 103 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 95 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
8 93 (3.85%) Relational Database
9 90 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 73 (3.02%) Tableau
11 72 (2.98%) MongoDB
12 67 (2.77%) Metadata
13 65 (2.69%) DynamoDB
14 54 (2.24%) Big Data
14 54 (2.24%) MySQL
15 52 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
16 45 (1.86%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
18 33 (1.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 237 (9.81%) Git
2 206 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 205 (8.49%) GitLab
4 136 (5.63%) JIRA
5 47 (1.95%) JUnit
6 42 (1.74%) MLflow
7 35 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 24 (0.99%) Mockito
10 22 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.83%) Selenium
12 19 (0.79%) Maven
13 17 (0.70%) JMeter
14 16 (0.66%) Gatling
15 12 (0.50%) Gradle
16 11 (0.46%) ERwin
16 11 (0.46%) Postman
17 10 (0.41%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.37%) Snyk
General
1 570 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 543 (22.48%) Finance
3 333 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 211 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (8.40%) Banking
6 95 (3.93%) Front Office
7 56 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.32%) Investment Banking
8 39 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 36 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.24%) Retail
12 29 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 21 (0.87%) Legal
14 20 (0.83%) Marketing
15 16 (0.66%) Military
16 14 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.50%) Billing
17 12 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 447 (18.50%) Developer
2 431 (17.84%) Architect
3 375 (15.52%) Senior
4 235 (9.73%) Lead
5 234 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
6 219 (9.06%) Data Engineer
7 190 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (6.13%) Software Engineer
9 124 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 106 (4.39%) Analyst
11 99 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
11 99 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
12 95 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 95 (3.93%) Java Developer
12 95 (3.93%) Python Engineer
13 90 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 84 (3.48%) AWS Architect
15 81 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 79 (3.27%) Python Developer
17 77 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (13.29%) Kafka
2 244 (10.10%) React
3 208 (8.61%) Node.js
4 181 (7.49%) REST
5 142 (5.88%) Spring
6 133 (5.50%) RESTful
7 122 (5.05%) Spring Boot
8 96 (3.97%) AngularJS
9 71 (2.94%) .NET
10 69 (2.86%) CSS
11 68 (2.81%) PySpark
12 67 (2.77%) HTML
13 66 (2.73%) GraphQL
14 62 (2.57%) SOAP
15 60 (2.48%) OAuth
15 60 (2.48%) Redux
16 57 (2.36%) gRPC
16 57 (2.36%) Pandas
17 55 (2.28%) PyTorch
18 53 (2.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 344 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 115 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (3.19%) Fixed Income
4 71 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 66 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 56 (2.32%) Derivative
8 55 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 47 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 47 (1.95%) Data Centre
11 45 (1.86%) Algorithms
12 42 (1.74%) Equities
12 42 (1.74%) Management Information System
13 41 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
14 38 (1.57%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.53%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
17 30 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
18 27 (1.12%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 184 (7.62%) Linux
2 62 (2.57%) Windows
3 44 (1.82%) Unix
4 12 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.46%) VMS
6 7 (0.29%) Android
6 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.21%) zOS
9 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.083%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (37.87%) CI/CD
2 678 (28.06%) DevOps
3 589 (24.38%) Agile
4 458 (18.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 410 (16.97%) AI
6 378 (15.65%) Microservices
7 361 (14.94%) Analytics
8 353 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
9 331 (13.70%) Containerisation
10 310 (12.83%) Software Engineering
11 279 (11.55%) Data Modelling
12 257 (10.64%) Machine Learning
13 250 (10.35%) Data Engineering
13 250 (10.35%) Data Pipeline
14 241 (9.98%) Observability
15 238 (9.85%) Migration
16 231 (9.56%) ETL
17 205 (8.49%) Full-Stack Development
18 197 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
19 188 (7.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 985 (40.77%) Python
2 565 (23.39%) SQL
3 432 (17.88%) Java
4 228 (9.44%) JavaScript
5 221 (9.15%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.76%) Go
7 102 (4.22%) C#
8 95 (3.93%) Bash
9 92 (3.81%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.28%) Scala
10 31 (1.28%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.24%) Ruby
12 26 (1.08%) C++
13 20 (0.83%) R
14 17 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.58%) Bicep
17 11 (0.46%) Rust
18 10 (0.41%) Korn
18 10 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 691 (28.60%) Security Cleared
2 604 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.38%) AWS Certification
4 121 (5.01%) Degree
5 69 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 47 (1.95%) CISSP
8 41 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.95%) CISM
12 23 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (0.83%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.83%) PMP
14 18 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.70%) CCNP
16 14 (0.58%) CCSP
17 13 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 115 (4.76%) GDPR
3 92 (3.81%) QA
4 72 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (2.77%) NIST
6 46 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.12%) NCSC
9 20 (0.83%) SLA
10 15 (0.62%) WCAG
11 14 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.46%) GRC
14 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.37%) PMO
16 8 (0.33%) PSD2
17 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.21%) EU AI Act
18 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 507 (20.99%) Docker
2 62 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.37%) Squid
6 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.083%) NFS
9 2 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.083%) zsh
10 1 (0.041%) Ceph
10 1 (0.041%) iptables
10 1 (0.041%) KVM
10 1 (0.041%) Lustre
10 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 561 (23.22%) Terraform
2 530 (21.94%) Kubernetes
3 134 (5.55%) Ansible
4 106 (4.39%) Grafana
5 96 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.32%) Argo
8 18 (0.75%) Consul
9 17 (0.70%) Puppet
10 16 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.54%) Packer
12 12 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.46%) Kibana
14 10 (0.41%) SCCM
15 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.29%) QRadar
16 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.21%) Istio
16 5 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 161 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 145 (6.00%) Databricks
3 94 (3.89%) Google
4 87 (3.60%) Oracle
5 77 (3.19%) Splunk
6 57 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 49 (2.03%) CyberArk
7 49 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 38 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.45%) Centrify
10 34 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.41%) Cisco
11 31 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.28%) IBM
12 30 (1.24%) VMware
13 28 (1.16%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.16%) Red Hat
14 26 (1.08%) SAP
15 24 (0.99%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.87%) Atlassian