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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,556 2,024 2,304
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.94% 15.96% 12.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.25% 37.56% 34.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,760 1,479 1,769
10th Percentile £400 £404 £404
25th Percentile £463 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £701
90th Percentile £776 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £47.38 £22.12
25th Percentile £44.00 £52.63 £29.72
Median hourly rate £72.50 £60.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.33% +4.78% -23.33%
75th Percentile £90.00 £88.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £97.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £51.78
% change year-on-year +1.69% +42.44% -22.72%

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 7,463 5,389 6,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.64% 42.49% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,129 3,767 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 52 78
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.97
% change year-on-year +60.73% +26.37% -20.08%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 0 299 £550 +0.69% 301
South London +4 93 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +7 66 £603 +15.58% 42
East London +5 13 £545 -6.84% 33
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
1 132 (5.16%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 75 (2.93%) Confluence
4 71 (2.78%) Apache
5 33 (1.29%) nginx
6 25 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.67%) SAS
8 16 (0.63%) Camunda
9 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.43%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Appian
12 5 (0.20%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.16%) CICS
13 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.078%) Drupal
15 2 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.039%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 1 (0.039%) Revit
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.039%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.039%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,043 (40.81%) Azure
2 575 (22.50%) GCP
3 390 (15.26%) Serverless
4 376 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 337 (13.18%) AWS Lambda
6 333 (13.03%) GitHub
7 245 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 194 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
9 176 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (6.38%) Snowflake
11 154 (6.03%) Power Platform
12 150 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
13 146 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
14 144 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 112 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 84 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
17 71 (2.78%) dbt
18 65 (2.54%) Amazon Kinesis
18 65 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
19 61 (2.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.76%) Firewall
2 65 (2.54%) VPN
3 59 (2.31%) DNS
4 58 (2.27%) Network Security
5 42 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.29%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 16 (0.63%) HTTP
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
11 14 (0.55%) DHCP
11 14 (0.55%) VLAN
12 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.47%) SSL
13 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 9 (0.35%) 5G
14 9 (0.35%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.31%) 4G
16 7 (0.27%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (5.36%) Power BI
3 124 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
3 124 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (4.77%) NoSQL
5 120 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 110 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
7 96 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 94 (3.68%) SQL Server
9 88 (3.44%) Tableau
10 84 (3.29%) Relational Database
11 76 (2.97%) DynamoDB
12 74 (2.90%) Metadata
13 72 (2.82%) MongoDB
14 54 (2.11%) Big Data
15 52 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
16 51 (2.00%) MySQL
17 40 (1.56%) BigQuery
18 34 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
19 31 (1.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 261 (10.21%) Git
2 211 (8.26%) GitLab
3 203 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 132 (5.16%) JIRA
5 45 (1.76%) JUnit
6 42 (1.64%) MLflow
7 31 (1.21%) Mockito
8 29 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 28 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 27 (1.06%) Cypress.io
11 23 (0.90%) Selenium
11 23 (0.90%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.86%) Maven
13 18 (0.70%) Gradle
14 16 (0.63%) JMeter
14 16 (0.63%) Postman
15 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.47%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.43%) Snyk
17 11 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 585 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 571 (22.34%) Finance
3 366 (14.32%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (8.22%) Banking
6 92 (3.60%) Front Office
7 66 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 38 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 38 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.10%) Retail
13 27 (1.06%) Legal
14 21 (0.82%) Marketing
15 18 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (0.59%) Military
17 14 (0.55%) Law
18 13 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 492 (19.25%) Architect
2 450 (17.61%) Developer
3 392 (15.34%) Senior
4 258 (10.09%) Data Engineer
5 247 (9.66%) Lead
6 235 (9.19%) AWS Engineer
7 192 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (5.75%) Software Engineer
9 126 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 116 (4.54%) Analyst
12 99 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
13 97 (3.79%) AWS Architect
14 96 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
15 94 (3.68%) Java Developer
16 92 (3.60%) Python Engineer
17 90 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 85 (3.33%) Python Developer
19 80 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
19 80 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (13.03%) Kafka
2 253 (9.90%) React
3 212 (8.29%) Node.js
4 194 (7.59%) REST
5 153 (5.99%) Spring
6 145 (5.67%) RESTful
7 139 (5.44%) Spring Boot
8 86 (3.36%) AngularJS
9 79 (3.09%) PySpark
10 73 (2.86%) .NET
11 69 (2.70%) OAuth
12 64 (2.50%) SOAP
13 63 (2.46%) Pandas
14 62 (2.43%) GraphQL
15 61 (2.39%) CSS
15 61 (2.39%) Redux
16 59 (2.31%) HTML
17 53 (2.07%) LDAP
18 50 (1.96%) gRPC
19 49 (1.92%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 383 (14.98%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (3.01%) Fixed Income
4 71 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 70 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 70 (2.74%) Security Posture
6 66 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 63 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 55 (2.15%) Data Centre
10 52 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.96%) Derivative
12 44 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.68%) Algorithms
14 40 (1.56%) Equities
15 38 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
16 35 (1.37%) Data Structures
17 34 (1.33%) Public Cloud
18 28 (1.10%) Mainframe
19 24 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 181 (7.08%) Linux
2 62 (2.43%) Windows
3 41 (1.60%) Unix
4 12 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) VMS
6 7 (0.27%) Android
6 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.23%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.039%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (37.64%) CI/CD
2 713 (27.90%) DevOps
3 622 (24.33%) Agile
4 500 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 460 (18.00%) AI
6 412 (16.12%) Microservices
7 390 (15.26%) Analytics
8 366 (14.32%) Containerisation
9 361 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
10 332 (12.99%) Software Engineering
11 302 (11.82%) Data Modelling
12 282 (11.03%) Migration
13 281 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
14 275 (10.76%) Data Engineering
15 272 (10.64%) Machine Learning
16 261 (10.21%) Observability
17 252 (9.86%) ETL
18 225 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
19 214 (8.37%) Full-Stack Development
20 208 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,018 (39.83%) Python
2 586 (22.93%) SQL
3 461 (18.04%) Java
4 233 (9.12%) TypeScript
5 223 (8.72%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.54%) Go
7 101 (3.95%) C#
8 97 (3.79%) Bash
8 97 (3.79%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.68%) Ruby
10 38 (1.49%) Scala
11 37 (1.45%) Shell Script
12 22 (0.86%) R
13 21 (0.82%) C++
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.63%) Bicep
16 14 (0.55%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.35%) Korn
18 8 (0.31%) Rust
19 7 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 739 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 650 (25.43%) SC Cleared
3 124 (4.85%) Degree
4 123 (4.81%) AWS Certification
5 73 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (2.19%) CISSP
7 51 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 47 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.13%) CISM
13 25 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 25 (0.98%) PMP
14 19 (0.74%) CCNP
15 18 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 18 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.51%) CCSP
16 13 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 129 (5.05%) GDPR
3 95 (3.72%) QA
4 76 (2.97%) NIST
5 75 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.10%) NCSC
9 25 (0.98%) SLA
10 16 (0.63%) WCAG
11 15 (0.59%) GRC
11 15 (0.59%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.51%) PMO
13 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 6 (0.23%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 514 (20.11%) Docker
2 76 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.39%) Squid
6 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.20%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.078%) IAG
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.039%) Ceph
12 1 (0.039%) iptables
12 1 (0.039%) KVM
12 1 (0.039%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 594 (23.24%) Terraform
2 542 (21.21%) Kubernetes
3 127 (4.97%) Ansible
4 122 (4.77%) Grafana
5 109 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.17%) Argo
8 18 (0.70%) Consul
9 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.67%) Puppet
10 15 (0.59%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.51%) Packer
12 12 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.39%) Kibana
14 9 (0.35%) QRadar
14 9 (0.35%) SCCM
15 7 (0.27%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.23%) Istio
17 5 (0.20%) Rancher
17 5 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 189 (7.39%) Microsoft
2 143 (5.59%) Databricks
3 94 (3.68%) Google
4 93 (3.64%) Oracle
5 85 (3.33%) Splunk
6 76 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.23%) CyberArk
8 52 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.53%) IBM
9 39 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 37 (1.45%) Cisco
11 36 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 36 (1.41%) VMware
12 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.37%) Centrify
13 33 (1.29%) SAP
14 27 (1.06%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.02%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.86%) Foundry
17 20 (0.78%) Informatica