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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,440 2,017 2,286
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.99% 15.09% 12.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.22% 36.06% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,671 1,450 1,750
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £780 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -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 £74.00 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.78% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £89.38 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £51.78
% change year-on-year +35.14% +7.19% -20.34%

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 7,130 5,594 6,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.80% 41.84% 37.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,880 3,813 4,956
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
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 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 45 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -4.69% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.16 £55.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.58 £27.38 £21.37
% change year-on-year +37.28% +28.10% -14.52%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 0 281 £550 - 279
South London +3 93 £515 +8.42% 44
West London +7 52 £603 +4.56% 75
East London +4 9 £630 +7.69% 56
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
1 117 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 82 (3.36%) Confluence
4 61 (2.50%) Apache
5 33 (1.35%) nginx
6 20 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.70%) SAS
8 14 (0.57%) Camunda
9 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.33%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) Traefik
13 3 (0.12%) CICS
13 3 (0.12%) CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.082%) Anypoint
Applications
1 26 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.082%) Trello
7 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.041%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.16%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) Endur
4 4 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.082%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.082%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.041%) Maximo
7 1 (0.041%) Misys Midas
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
1 990 (40.57%) Azure
2 575 (23.57%) GCP
3 368 (15.08%) Serverless
4 337 (13.81%) Amazon S3
5 327 (13.40%) GitHub
6 316 (12.95%) AWS Lambda
7 224 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 185 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
9 173 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
10 169 (6.93%) Snowflake
11 146 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
12 136 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
13 135 (5.53%) Power Platform
14 133 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 79 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
17 63 (2.58%) dbt
18 58 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
19 55 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
20 52 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.51%) Firewall
2 69 (2.83%) VPN
3 64 (2.62%) DNS
4 62 (2.54%) Network Security
5 46 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.27%) WAN
7 21 (0.86%) SSL
8 19 (0.78%) BGP
9 16 (0.66%) HTTP
9 16 (0.66%) LAN
9 16 (0.66%) OSPF
9 16 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.57%) DHCP
11 13 (0.53%) VLAN
12 10 (0.41%) 5G
13 9 (0.37%) 4G
13 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.33%) Wireshark
15 7 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 121 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
4 119 (4.88%) Power BI
5 117 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 104 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 104 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 94 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
7 94 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 90 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 73 (2.99%) MongoDB
10 71 (2.91%) Tableau
11 67 (2.75%) DynamoDB
12 64 (2.62%) Metadata
13 56 (2.30%) MySQL
14 53 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
15 52 (2.13%) Big Data
16 45 (1.84%) BigQuery
17 35 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
18 33 (1.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 242 (9.92%) Git
2 216 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 213 (8.73%) GitLab
4 145 (5.94%) JIRA
5 48 (1.97%) JUnit
6 42 (1.72%) MLflow
7 35 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.31%) Bitbucket
9 25 (1.02%) Mockito
10 23 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.86%) Selenium
13 20 (0.82%) Maven
14 17 (0.70%) JMeter
15 16 (0.66%) Gatling
16 13 (0.53%) ERwin
17 12 (0.49%) Gradle
18 11 (0.45%) Postman
19 10 (0.41%) REST Assured
19 10 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 579 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 546 (22.38%) Finance
3 330 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 215 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 201 (8.24%) Banking
6 95 (3.89%) Front Office
7 55 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 54 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 32 (1.31%) Retail
13 29 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 22 (0.90%) Marketing
16 18 (0.74%) Legal
16 18 (0.74%) Military
17 14 (0.57%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 454 (18.61%) Developer
2 430 (17.62%) Architect
3 386 (15.82%) Senior
4 240 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
5 233 (9.55%) Lead
6 219 (8.98%) Data Engineer
7 200 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 151 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 127 (5.20%) Senior Developer
10 107 (4.39%) Analyst
11 103 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
12 101 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
13 97 (3.98%) Java Developer
13 97 (3.98%) Python Engineer
14 95 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 94 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 85 (3.48%) AWS Architect
17 80 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 79 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
19 78 (3.20%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (13.11%) Kafka
2 250 (10.25%) React
3 212 (8.69%) Node.js
4 180 (7.38%) REST
5 146 (5.98%) Spring
6 134 (5.49%) RESTful
7 125 (5.12%) Spring Boot
8 100 (4.10%) AngularJS
9 73 (2.99%) CSS
10 72 (2.95%) .NET
11 71 (2.91%) HTML
12 67 (2.75%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.70%) PySpark
14 63 (2.58%) SOAP
15 61 (2.50%) OAuth
15 61 (2.50%) Redux
16 60 (2.46%) Pandas
17 58 (2.38%) gRPC
18 56 (2.30%) PyTorch
19 55 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 349 (14.30%) Cloud Native
2 119 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (3.24%) Security Posture
4 77 (3.16%) Fixed Income
5 65 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 63 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 55 (2.25%) Derivative
7 55 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 46 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 46 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 45 (1.84%) Data Centre
11 44 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 42 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
13 41 (1.68%) Equities
14 39 (1.60%) Data Structures
14 39 (1.60%) Public Cloud
15 33 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
16 32 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
17 29 (1.19%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 195 (7.99%) Linux
2 67 (2.75%) Windows
3 46 (1.89%) Unix
4 15 (0.61%) VMS
5 12 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.29%) Android
8 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.20%) zOS
10 4 (0.16%) CentOS
10 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (37.91%) CI/CD
2 684 (28.03%) DevOps
3 598 (24.51%) Agile
4 476 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 413 (16.93%) AI
6 380 (15.57%) Microservices
7 365 (14.96%) Analytics
8 359 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 334 (13.69%) Containerisation
10 317 (12.99%) Software Engineering
11 279 (11.43%) Data Modelling
12 256 (10.49%) Machine Learning
13 250 (10.25%) Data Pipeline
14 245 (10.04%) Data Engineering
15 243 (9.96%) Observability
16 235 (9.63%) Migration
17 234 (9.59%) ETL
18 208 (8.52%) Full-Stack Development
19 197 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
20 189 (7.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (41.23%) Python
2 568 (23.28%) SQL
3 440 (18.03%) Java
4 236 (9.67%) JavaScript
5 226 (9.26%) TypeScript
6 119 (4.88%) Go
7 108 (4.43%) Bash
8 102 (4.18%) C#
9 93 (3.81%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.23%) Ruby
11 30 (1.23%) Scala
12 26 (1.07%) C++
13 20 (0.82%) R
14 16 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.61%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.57%) Bicep
17 11 (0.45%) PHP
17 11 (0.45%) Rust
18 10 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 690 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 603 (24.71%) SC Cleared
3 131 (5.37%) AWS Certification
4 118 (4.84%) Degree
5 65 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (1.97%) CISSP
7 46 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 41 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 31 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.98%) CISM
14 23 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (0.82%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.82%) PMP
16 18 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 18 (0.74%) OSCP
17 17 (0.70%) CCNP
18 14 (0.57%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.55%) GDPR
3 93 (3.81%) QA
4 71 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (2.70%) NIST
6 46 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.15%) NCSC
8 27 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.82%) SLA
10 14 (0.57%) WCAG
11 13 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.49%) GRC
12 12 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.37%) PMO
15 8 (0.33%) PSD2
16 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 520 (21.31%) Docker
2 66 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.41%) Squid
6 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
8 3 (0.12%) zsh
9 2 (0.082%) NFS
9 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.082%) Postfix
9 2 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.041%) Ceph
10 1 (0.041%) KVM
10 1 (0.041%) Lustre
10 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 574 (23.52%) Terraform
2 537 (22.01%) Kubernetes
3 142 (5.82%) Ansible
4 106 (4.34%) Grafana
5 95 (3.89%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (1.39%) Argo
8 18 (0.74%) Consul
9 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.70%) Puppet
10 15 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.53%) Packer
12 12 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.45%) Kibana
13 11 (0.45%) SCCM
14 9 (0.37%) Nessus
15 7 (0.29%) Istio
15 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.29%) QRadar
16 6 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 162 (6.64%) Microsoft
2 145 (5.94%) Databricks
3 91 (3.73%) Oracle
4 89 (3.65%) Google
5 78 (3.20%) Splunk
6 64 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 49 (2.01%) OpenAI
8 47 (1.93%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.39%) Centrify
10 34 (1.39%) Cisco
11 33 (1.35%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.27%) Dynatrace
13 30 (1.23%) IBM
14 29 (1.19%) Red Hat
15 27 (1.11%) SAP
16 26 (1.07%) VMware
17 24 (0.98%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.86%) Atlassian