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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,186 1,985 2,270
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.97% 14.20% 12.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.71% 34.42% 33.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,517 1,427 1,756
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £460 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £41.70
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -5.93% -8.88%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £87.75
England median hourly rate £75.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +63.49% - -27.28%

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 6,485 5,767 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 41.25% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,459 3,862 4,988
10th Percentile £350 £351 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 48 69
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.61 £30.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -5.25% +25.75%
75th Percentile £56.38 £45.65 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
% change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 0 257 £540 -1.82% 207
South London +6 61 £520 +6.12% 44
West London +2 38 £603 +7.78% 64
East London +1 5 £675 - 43
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
1 113 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (3.71%) Confluence
3 76 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 62 (2.84%) Apache
5 33 (1.51%) nginx
6 16 (0.73%) SAS
7 15 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.59%) Camunda
8 13 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.32%) Appian
9 7 (0.32%) CMS
10 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.14%) Traefik
13 2 (0.091%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.091%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.18%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.046%) Notion
9 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
9 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.18%) Actimize
3 4 (0.18%) Endur
4 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.091%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.091%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.046%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 871 (39.84%) Azure
2 488 (22.32%) GCP
3 336 (15.37%) Serverless
4 319 (14.59%) Amazon S3
5 309 (14.14%) GitHub
6 295 (13.49%) AWS Lambda
7 195 (8.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 186 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
9 152 (6.95%) Snowflake
10 143 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
11 138 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
12 134 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 124 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
14 111 (5.08%) Power Platform
15 93 (4.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 76 (3.48%) dbt
17 69 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
18 67 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
19 55 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
20 53 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.03%) Firewall
2 64 (2.93%) DNS
3 59 (2.70%) VPN
4 51 (2.33%) Network Security
5 36 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.24%) SSL
6 27 (1.24%) WAN
7 18 (0.82%) HTTP
8 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.69%) DHCP
9 15 (0.69%) LAN
10 14 (0.64%) BGP
11 12 (0.55%) OSPF
12 11 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.46%) SSH
13 10 (0.46%) VLAN
14 9 (0.41%) FTP
14 9 (0.41%) IMAP
14 9 (0.41%) SMTP
14 9 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (5.44%) NoSQL
4 109 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (4.53%) Amazon Athena
5 99 (4.53%) Data Lake
6 98 (4.48%) Power BI
7 89 (4.07%) Relational Database
7 89 (4.07%) SQL Server
8 82 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 68 (3.11%) MongoDB
10 65 (2.97%) DynamoDB
11 61 (2.79%) Metadata
12 60 (2.74%) MySQL
13 53 (2.42%) Tableau
14 51 (2.33%) Big Data
15 50 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
16 48 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
17 35 (1.60%) Apache Iceberg
18 33 (1.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 230 (10.52%) Git
2 216 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 188 (8.60%) GitLab
4 146 (6.68%) JIRA
5 39 (1.78%) JUnit
6 29 (1.33%) MLflow
7 26 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 24 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 23 (1.05%) ERwin
10 20 (0.91%) Selenium
11 18 (0.82%) Mockito
12 16 (0.73%) Maven
13 15 (0.69%) JMeter
14 14 (0.64%) ER Studio
15 13 (0.59%) SonarQube
16 12 (0.55%) Gatling
16 12 (0.55%) Postman
17 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
17 10 (0.46%) Gradle
General
1 553 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 454 (20.77%) Finance
3 260 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 194 (8.87%) Banking
5 193 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (3.02%) Investment Banking
7 55 (2.52%) Front Office
8 39 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 29 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.33%) Retail
12 27 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.14%) Marketing
14 23 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.01%) Military
16 17 (0.78%) Legal
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 404 (18.48%) Developer
2 368 (16.83%) Senior
3 343 (15.69%) Architect
4 235 (10.75%) AWS Engineer
5 199 (9.10%) Data Engineer
6 188 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 156 (7.14%) Lead
8 116 (5.31%) Software Engineer
9 115 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 107 (4.89%) Python Engineer
11 92 (4.21%) Analyst
12 91 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
13 85 (3.89%) Java Developer
14 83 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 83 (3.80%) Python Developer
15 78 (3.57%) AWS Developer
16 76 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
16 76 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
17 75 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
18 74 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (12.81%) Kafka
2 204 (9.33%) React
3 157 (7.18%) REST
4 152 (6.95%) Node.js
5 142 (6.50%) Spring
6 129 (5.90%) RESTful
7 120 (5.49%) Spring Boot
8 96 (4.39%) AngularJS
9 74 (3.39%) HTML
10 71 (3.25%) gRPC
11 69 (3.16%) CSS
12 66 (3.02%) Pandas
13 63 (2.88%) NumPy
14 59 (2.70%) .NET
15 55 (2.52%) PySpark
16 54 (2.47%) SOAP
17 52 (2.38%) OAuth
18 50 (2.29%) Vue
19 49 (2.24%) FastAPI
19 49 (2.24%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 296 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 112 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.16%) Security Posture
4 62 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.29%) Hedge funds
7 46 (2.10%) Derivative
8 45 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 44 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 44 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 41 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 40 (1.83%) Data Centre
12 39 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 38 (1.74%) Fixed Income
14 36 (1.65%) Equities
15 35 (1.60%) Public Cloud
16 32 (1.46%) AI Agents
17 31 (1.42%) Algorithms
17 31 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (1.37%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 194 (8.87%) Linux
2 74 (3.39%) Windows
3 48 (2.20%) Unix
4 23 (1.05%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.37%) Android
9 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.23%) CentOS
11 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.14%) zOS
13 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Solaris
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (38.61%) CI/CD
2 616 (28.18%) DevOps
3 520 (23.79%) Agile
4 436 (19.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 357 (16.33%) Microservices
6 349 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
7 322 (14.73%) AI
8 315 (14.41%) Analytics
9 286 (13.08%) Containerisation
10 282 (12.90%) Software Engineering
11 234 (10.70%) Data Modelling
12 230 (10.52%) Data Pipeline
13 210 (9.61%) Data Engineering
14 208 (9.52%) Observability
15 200 (9.15%) Machine Learning
16 198 (9.06%) ETL
17 191 (8.74%) Migration
18 175 (8.01%) Full-Stack Development
19 169 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
20 168 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 938 (42.91%) Python
2 502 (22.96%) SQL
3 423 (19.35%) Java
4 201 (9.19%) JavaScript
5 185 (8.46%) TypeScript
6 113 (5.17%) Bash
7 94 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 91 (4.16%) C#
9 89 (4.07%) Go
10 33 (1.51%) Scala
11 30 (1.37%) C++
12 29 (1.33%) Ruby
13 22 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.82%) R
14 18 (0.82%) Rust
15 16 (0.73%) Groovy
16 14 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.64%) Perl
16 14 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 599 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 525 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.13%) AWS Certification
4 123 (5.63%) Degree
5 70 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 39 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.69%) CISSP
9 33 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (1.05%) MCP
14 20 (0.91%) CISM
15 19 (0.87%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.82%) OSCP
16 18 (0.82%) PMP
17 15 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.59%) CCNP
19 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 105 (4.80%) GDPR
3 81 (3.71%) QA
4 70 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.70%) NIST
6 34 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.19%) NCSC
8 23 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.55%) SLA
11 10 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.46%) WCAG
12 7 (0.32%) GRC
13 6 (0.27%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.23%) SEPA
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 511 (23.38%) Docker
2 63 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.41%) DFS Replication
6 9 (0.41%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.41%) Postfix
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.32%) zsh
8 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.091%) KVM
10 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.046%) Ceph
11 1 (0.046%) iptables
Systems Management
1 521 (23.83%) Terraform
2 503 (23.01%) Kubernetes
3 138 (6.31%) Ansible
4 100 (4.57%) Grafana
5 89 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.60%) Argo
7 28 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.05%) Puppet
9 20 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (0.73%) Nessus
12 13 (0.59%) SCCM
13 12 (0.55%) Packer
14 11 (0.50%) Consul
14 11 (0.50%) Kibana
15 9 (0.41%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.41%) QRadar
16 8 (0.37%) Istio
17 7 (0.32%) Rancher
17 7 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 145 (6.63%) Databricks
2 143 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 87 (3.98%) Oracle
4 81 (3.71%) Google
5 79 (3.61%) Splunk
6 57 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.97%) CyberArk
8 37 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 37 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 36 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 34 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.56%) Centrify
11 33 (1.51%) Cisco
12 28 (1.28%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 22 (1.01%) F5
14 22 (1.01%) IBM
14 22 (1.01%) SAP
14 22 (1.01%) VMware
15 20 (0.91%) CheckPoint