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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,805 2,141 2,253
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.78% 15.87% 13.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.72% 36.50% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,992 1,467 1,662
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £694 £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 23 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £68.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +121.86% -64.97%
75th Percentile £80.00 £85.63 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -25.82%

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 8,319 5,865 6,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.88% 43.48% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,730 3,974 4,581
10th Percentile £360 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% -3.14% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 95 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -8.80% -22.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.50 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -4 279 £575 -1.71% 320
West London +11 97 £560 +33.73% 108
South London +1 78 £535 -4.07% 15
East London +11 13 £575 -5.35% 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 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (4.28%) Apache Spark
3 106 (3.78%) Confluence
4 86 (3.07%) Apache
5 25 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 11 (0.39%) SAS
8 10 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) CICS
9 8 (0.29%) IIS
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
10 7 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.11%) Mule
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
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 (0.29%) 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%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.14%) Cloudability
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%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.071%) Actimize
8 2 (0.071%) Endur
8 2 (0.071%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,259 (44.88%) Azure
2 641 (22.85%) GCP
3 379 (13.51%) Serverless
4 374 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 367 (13.08%) GitHub
6 313 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
7 248 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
8 235 (8.38%) Snowflake
9 231 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
10 186 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 161 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
12 157 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 149 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
14 146 (5.20%) dbt
15 137 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
16 129 (4.60%) Power Platform
16 129 (4.60%) SaaS
17 126 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 105 (3.74%) Entra ID
19 98 (3.49%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 102 (3.64%) Firewall
2 85 (3.03%) Network Security
3 61 (2.17%) DNS
4 55 (1.96%) VPN
5 39 (1.39%) WAN
6 31 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 24 (0.86%) 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 17 (0.61%) HTTP
12 17 (0.61%) OSPF
13 16 (0.57%) MPLS
14 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
14 15 (0.53%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) LAN
15 13 (0.46%) SAN
16 12 (0.43%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 114 (4.06%) Power BI
6 113 (4.03%) SQL Server
7 105 (3.74%) Metadata
8 104 (3.71%) Data Lake
9 97 (3.46%) MongoDB
10 93 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 88 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
12 87 (3.10%) DynamoDB
13 77 (2.75%) Relational Database
14 69 (2.46%) Delta Lake
15 63 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
16 62 (2.21%) MySQL
17 53 (1.89%) Tableau
18 51 (1.82%) Big Data
19 49 (1.75%) BigQuery
19 49 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 310 (11.05%) Git
2 309 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 277 (9.88%) GitLab
4 154 (5.49%) JIRA
5 38 (1.35%) Maven
6 33 (1.18%) JMeter
6 33 (1.18%) JUnit
7 31 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 28 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 28 (1.00%) Selenium
8 28 (1.00%) SonarQube
9 26 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 26 (0.93%) Gradle
10 24 (0.86%) Mockito
11 20 (0.71%) Claude Code
11 20 (0.71%) Postman
12 18 (0.64%) Gatling
13 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
14 13 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 700 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 675 (24.06%) Finance
3 385 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 273 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 266 (9.48%) Banking
6 87 (3.10%) Retail
7 62 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.35%) Marketing
11 36 (1.28%) Front Office
12 35 (1.25%) Legal
13 34 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 33 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.14%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.00%) Law
16 28 (1.00%) Military
17 27 (0.96%) Billing
17 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 23 (0.82%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 566 (20.18%) Architect
2 450 (16.04%) Senior
3 342 (12.19%) Developer
4 299 (10.66%) Lead
5 294 (10.48%) Data Engineer
6 264 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
7 222 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 133 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (3.99%) AWS Architect
10 110 (3.92%) Analyst
10 110 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 104 (3.71%) Data Architect
11 104 (3.71%) Java Developer
12 101 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 100 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
14 94 (3.35%) Software Engineer
15 91 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
16 81 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
17 75 (2.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 75 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 736 (26.24%) Terraform
2 333 (11.87%) Kafka
3 299 (10.66%) REST
4 197 (7.02%) React
5 181 (6.45%) Spring
6 166 (5.92%) Spring Boot
7 151 (5.38%) RESTful
8 111 (3.96%) Node.js
9 106 (3.78%) PySpark
10 97 (3.46%) .NET
11 96 (3.42%) OAuth
12 75 (2.67%) GraphQL
13 68 (2.42%) FastAPI
14 67 (2.39%) HTML
15 65 (2.32%) JSON
16 64 (2.28%) AngularJS
17 59 (2.10%) SOAP
18 56 (2.00%) CSS
19 54 (1.93%) OAuth2
20 48 (1.71%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 557 (19.86%) Cloud Native
2 181 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 146 (5.20%) AI Agents
5 131 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 85 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 73 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 68 (2.42%) Security Posture
10 62 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.68%) Data Structures
13 46 (1.64%) Replication
14 45 (1.60%) PKI
15 39 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
15 39 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
15 39 (1.39%) Public Cloud
16 35 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
17 34 (1.21%) Virtual Team
18 30 (1.07%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 259 (9.23%) Linux
2 124 (4.42%) Windows
3 56 (2.00%) Unix
4 52 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) 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%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,192 (42.50%) CI/CD
2 896 (31.94%) DevOps
3 717 (25.56%) Agile
4 685 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 632 (22.53%) AI
6 483 (17.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 407 (14.51%) Microservices
7 407 (14.51%) Observability
8 400 (14.26%) Containerisation
9 366 (13.05%) Migration
10 359 (12.80%) Software Engineering
11 353 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
12 338 (12.05%) Analytics
13 337 (12.01%) Data Modelling
14 335 (11.94%) Data Engineering
15 334 (11.91%) Event-Driven
16 333 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 329 (11.73%) Data Pipeline
18 312 (11.12%) Technical Leadership
19 299 (10.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,028 (36.65%) Python
2 618 (22.03%) SQL
3 470 (16.76%) Java
4 209 (7.45%) JavaScript
5 201 (7.17%) TypeScript
6 187 (6.67%) Bash
7 146 (5.20%) PowerShell
8 113 (4.03%) C#
9 56 (2.00%) Go
10 54 (1.93%) Scala
11 37 (1.32%) Bicep
11 37 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.11%) Groovy
13 24 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.78%) C++
15 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.61%) R
17 15 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
19 13 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 786 (28.02%) Security Cleared
2 690 (24.60%) SC Cleared
3 181 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 143 (5.10%) Degree
5 91 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 88 (3.14%) CISSP
7 73 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 72 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 65 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 62 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.71%) CISM
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.78%) 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 (0.61%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 163 (5.81%) QA
3 102 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (3.60%) NIST
5 73 (2.60%) GDPR
6 38 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.11%) GRC
8 29 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 28 (1.00%) NCSC
10 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 21 (0.75%) SLA
11 19 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
13 15 (0.53%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.46%) SEPA
15 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.32%) PMO
17 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 513 (18.29%) Docker
2 86 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.29%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.071%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 655 (23.35%) Kubernetes
2 220 (7.84%) Grafana
3 203 (7.24%) Ansible
4 167 (5.95%) Prometheus
5 48 (1.71%) Kibana
6 42 (1.50%) Argo
7 31 (1.11%) Puppet
8 27 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.50%) Istio
10 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.25%) QRadar
15 6 (0.21%) Control-M
15 6 (0.21%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.18%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.18%) Nessus
16 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 303 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 200 (7.13%) Databricks
3 151 (5.38%) Google
4 142 (5.06%) Oracle
5 113 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 112 (3.99%) Splunk
7 66 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 53 (1.89%) Cisco
10 52 (1.85%) VMware
11 50 (1.78%) SAP
12 49 (1.75%) CyberArk
13 46 (1.64%) Palo Alto
14 39 (1.39%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.39%) Informatica
15 35 (1.25%) IBM
16 34 (1.21%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.96%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
18 23 (0.82%) MuleSoft