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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,741 2,085 2,387
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.49% 16.86% 13.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.50% 39.11% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,887 1,468 1,852
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £469 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £584
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.50% -4.30%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £540 £560
% change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile £37.70 £36.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +124.79% -70.25%
75th Percentile £79.38 £67.50 £62.25
90th Percentile £87.38 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 7,946 5,331 6,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.01% 43.10% 39.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,458 3,622 5,076
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £786 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 68 68
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.38 £55.75
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -3 289 £550 - 113
West London +4 88 £560 +13.71% 40
South London +1 81 £500 -2.44% 4
East London +6 16 £543 -7.26% 27
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
1 130 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 80 (2.92%) Confluence
4 58 (2.12%) Apache
5 28 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.69%) nginx
7 13 (0.47%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
8 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.36%) SAS
10 8 (0.29%) CMS
11 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 41 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.40%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Endur
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
4 4 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.073%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.073%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.036%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,114 (40.64%) Azure
2 565 (20.61%) GCP
3 410 (14.96%) Amazon S3
4 406 (14.81%) Serverless
5 353 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
6 344 (12.55%) GitHub
7 214 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
8 197 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 187 (6.82%) Snowflake
10 185 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
11 170 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
12 168 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 150 (5.47%) Power Platform
14 134 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
15 125 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 112 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
17 105 (3.83%) SaaS
18 92 (3.36%) dbt
19 86 (3.14%) Amazon Bedrock
20 73 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.94%) Firewall
2 82 (2.99%) Network Security
3 69 (2.52%) VPN
4 67 (2.44%) DNS
5 48 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.35%) WAN
7 24 (0.88%) BGP
8 23 (0.84%) HTTP
9 21 (0.77%) DHCP
10 20 (0.73%) SSL
11 19 (0.69%) OSPF
12 17 (0.62%) LAN
13 15 (0.55%) NGFW
14 14 (0.51%) Internet
14 14 (0.51%) VXLAN
15 12 (0.44%) VLAN
16 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
17 9 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
3 131 (4.78%) Power BI
4 129 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
5 125 (4.56%) Data Lake
6 115 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
7 114 (4.16%) NoSQL
8 108 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 104 (3.79%) SQL Server
10 85 (3.10%) DynamoDB
11 77 (2.81%) Metadata
12 76 (2.77%) MongoDB
13 75 (2.74%) Tableau
14 73 (2.66%) Relational Database
15 62 (2.26%) Big Data
16 46 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
17 42 (1.53%) BigQuery
18 40 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
19 39 (1.42%) MySQL
20 36 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 244 (8.90%) Git
2 241 (8.79%) Jenkins
3 231 (8.43%) GitLab
4 143 (5.22%) JIRA
5 41 (1.50%) JUnit
6 33 (1.20%) MLflow
7 32 (1.17%) Mockito
8 29 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 28 (1.02%) JMeter
10 25 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.88%) Maven
12 22 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 22 (0.80%) Gradle
13 21 (0.77%) Postman
14 20 (0.73%) Selenium
15 19 (0.69%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.69%) Gatling
16 16 (0.58%) CircleCI
16 16 (0.58%) Snyk
17 14 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 650 (23.71%) Finance
2 592 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 392 (14.30%) Public Sector
4 231 (8.43%) Banking
5 228 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (2.96%) Front Office
7 66 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (1.97%) Retail
10 52 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 44 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (0.91%) Marketing
17 22 (0.80%) Legal
18 21 (0.77%) Law
19 16 (0.58%) Military
20 15 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 541 (19.74%) Architect
2 415 (15.14%) Developer
3 410 (14.96%) Senior
4 303 (11.05%) Lead
5 298 (10.87%) Data Engineer
6 285 (10.40%) AWS Engineer
7 206 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
9 145 (5.29%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 113 (4.12%) AWS Architect
12 110 (4.01%) Senior Developer
13 104 (3.79%) Java Developer
14 102 (3.72%) Analyst
15 95 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
15 95 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
16 90 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
18 83 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 74 (2.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (11.20%) Kafka
2 245 (8.94%) React
3 227 (8.28%) REST
4 180 (6.57%) Node.js
5 170 (6.20%) Spring
6 162 (5.91%) Spring Boot
7 144 (5.25%) RESTful
8 97 (3.54%) .NET
9 87 (3.17%) PySpark
10 83 (3.03%) GraphQL
11 80 (2.92%) OAuth
12 78 (2.85%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.33%) Redux
14 61 (2.23%) SOAP
15 56 (2.04%) HTML
16 54 (1.97%) JSON
16 54 (1.97%) LDAP
16 54 (1.97%) Pandas
17 52 (1.90%) FastAPI
17 52 (1.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 481 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 165 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (3.43%) Onboarding
4 87 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 78 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 77 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 76 (2.77%) Fixed Income
7 76 (2.77%) Security Posture
8 64 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 62 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (2.01%) Management Information System
11 54 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.61%) Derivative
14 39 (1.42%) Equities
15 33 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 31 (1.13%) Data Structures
17 30 (1.09%) Algorithms
18 29 (1.06%) Mainframe
19 28 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 196 (7.15%) Linux
2 94 (3.43%) Windows
3 38 (1.39%) Unix
4 31 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.44%) Android
7 10 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.26%) zOS
10 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.15%) VMS
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.073%) CentOS
14 2 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (38.74%) CI/CD
2 810 (29.55%) DevOps
3 656 (23.93%) Agile
4 578 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 558 (20.36%) AI
6 408 (14.89%) Microservices
7 396 (14.45%) Containerisation
8 378 (13.79%) Analytics
9 348 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
10 331 (12.08%) Migration
11 330 (12.04%) Software Engineering
12 315 (11.49%) Data Modelling
13 308 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
14 300 (10.94%) Data Engineering
15 291 (10.62%) Observability
16 286 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 280 (10.22%) Machine Learning
18 254 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 239 (8.72%) ETL
19 239 (8.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (38.05%) Python
2 592 (21.60%) SQL
3 479 (17.48%) Java
4 251 (9.16%) TypeScript
5 219 (7.99%) JavaScript
6 122 (4.45%) PowerShell
7 121 (4.41%) C#
8 116 (4.23%) Bash
9 88 (3.21%) Go
10 44 (1.61%) Scala
11 35 (1.28%) Ruby
12 34 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 26 (0.95%) Bicep
14 23 (0.84%) R
15 21 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.58%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.51%) Groovy
19 13 (0.47%) C++
20 11 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 748 (27.29%) Security Cleared
2 667 (24.33%) SC Cleared
3 143 (5.22%) Degree
4 132 (4.82%) AWS Certification
5 85 (3.10%) CISSP
6 66 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 57 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 54 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.39%) CISM
12 33 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 27 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.91%) PMP
16 24 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.80%) CCNP
17 22 (0.80%) CCSP
18 15 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.12%) QA
3 103 (3.76%) GDPR
4 97 (3.54%) NIST
5 80 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.02%) GRC
9 27 (0.99%) SLA
10 21 (0.77%) NCSC
11 19 (0.69%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.62%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.62%) PMO
14 12 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.44%) WCAG
15 10 (0.36%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.29%) SEPA
17 7 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 486 (17.73%) Docker
2 91 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.62%) Squid
6 9 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.15%) HDFS
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.073%) Firmware
10 2 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 647 (23.60%) Terraform
2 556 (20.28%) Kubernetes
3 161 (5.87%) Ansible
3 161 (5.87%) Grafana
4 142 (5.18%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.84%) Puppet
7 21 (0.77%) Kibana
8 19 (0.69%) Argo
9 14 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 14 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.44%) Consul
12 10 (0.36%) Packer
13 9 (0.33%) QRadar
14 7 (0.26%) Istio
14 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 216 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.56%) Databricks
3 108 (3.94%) Google
4 92 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 91 (3.32%) Oracle
6 77 (2.81%) Splunk
7 65 (2.37%) CyberArk
8 60 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 59 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 48 (1.75%) Cisco
11 39 (1.42%) VMware
12 36 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.24%) Foundry
14 32 (1.17%) Red Hat
14 32 (1.17%) SAP
15 31 (1.13%) Dynatrace
16 27 (0.99%) IBM
17 25 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
17 25 (0.91%) Centrify
17 25 (0.91%) Informatica