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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,821 2,111 2,257
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.86% 15.78% 14.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.81% 36.38% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 1,468 1,674
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £696 £755
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 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -64.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £80.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 8,343 5,803 6,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.98% 43.39% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,737 3,954 4,577
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 93 44
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.58% -21.04%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.33
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -5 283 £575 -1.71% 350
West London +6 96 £560 +33.73% 160
South London +1 75 £535 -5.38% 13
East London +11 14 £550 -9.47% 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
1 163 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 108 (3.83%) Confluence
4 90 (3.19%) Apache
5 28 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
10 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.25%) IIS
12 6 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
14 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,266 (44.88%) Azure
2 641 (22.72%) GCP
3 395 (14.00%) Serverless
4 386 (13.68%) Amazon S3
5 368 (13.05%) GitHub
6 330 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
7 248 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
8 236 (8.37%) Snowflake
9 217 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 188 (6.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 161 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
12 160 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 150 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
14 147 (5.21%) dbt
15 138 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
16 134 (4.75%) Power Platform
17 133 (4.71%) SaaS
18 123 (4.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 113 (4.01%) Entra ID
20 100 (3.54%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.79%) Firewall
2 82 (2.91%) Network Security
3 65 (2.30%) DNS
4 56 (1.99%) VPN
5 38 (1.35%) WAN
6 33 (1.17%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 25 (0.89%) SSL
9 22 (0.78%) SSH
10 19 (0.67%) Internet
10 19 (0.67%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.64%) BGP
11 18 (0.64%) HTTP
12 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
13 14 (0.50%) MPLS
13 14 (0.50%) NGFW
13 14 (0.50%) OSPF
14 13 (0.46%) SAN
15 12 (0.43%) IPsec
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.25%) Power BI
5 117 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 112 (3.97%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.86%) SQL Server
8 108 (3.83%) Metadata
9 95 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
10 90 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 90 (3.19%) DynamoDB
11 89 (3.15%) MongoDB
12 79 (2.80%) Relational Database
13 68 (2.41%) Delta Lake
14 60 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
15 59 (2.09%) Tableau
16 57 (2.02%) MySQL
17 55 (1.95%) Big Data
18 45 (1.60%) Redis
19 43 (1.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 304 (10.78%) Jenkins
2 299 (10.60%) Git
3 268 (9.50%) GitLab
4 156 (5.53%) JIRA
5 36 (1.28%) Maven
6 34 (1.21%) JMeter
6 34 (1.21%) JUnit
7 31 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.06%) Selenium
9 29 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 25 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 25 (0.89%) Mockito
12 23 (0.82%) Gradle
13 22 (0.78%) Postman
14 18 (0.64%) Claude Code
14 18 (0.64%) Gatling
15 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.39%) Artifactory
General
1 707 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 670 (23.75%) Finance
3 384 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 281 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 260 (9.22%) Banking
6 83 (2.94%) Retail
7 64 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (1.63%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.35%) Marketing
11 36 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 35 (1.24%) Legal
13 34 (1.21%) Front Office
13 34 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.03%) Law
16 27 (0.96%) Military
17 26 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 23 (0.82%) Billing
18 23 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 592 (20.99%) Architect
2 449 (15.92%) Senior
3 342 (12.12%) Developer
4 306 (10.85%) Data Engineer
5 302 (10.71%) Lead
6 268 (9.50%) AWS Engineer
7 211 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (3.97%) AWS Architect
10 111 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 110 (3.90%) Analyst
12 104 (3.69%) Data Architect
13 102 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
14 101 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 101 (3.58%) Java Developer
15 91 (3.23%) Software Engineer
16 90 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
17 82 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
18 76 (2.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 76 (2.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 720 (25.52%) Terraform
2 322 (11.41%) Kafka
3 286 (10.14%) REST
4 195 (6.91%) React
5 181 (6.42%) Spring
6 166 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 155 (5.49%) RESTful
8 123 (4.36%) Node.js
9 114 (4.04%) PySpark
10 99 (3.51%) .NET
11 98 (3.47%) OAuth
12 74 (2.62%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.34%) FastAPI
14 65 (2.30%) HTML
15 63 (2.23%) AngularJS
15 63 (2.23%) JSON
16 56 (1.99%) OAuth2
16 56 (1.99%) SOAP
17 54 (1.91%) CSS
18 50 (1.77%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 551 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 181 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 140 (4.96%) AI Agents
5 129 (4.57%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (2.41%) Security Posture
9 66 (2.34%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 47 (1.67%) Management Information System
12 42 (1.49%) PKI
13 41 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 41 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.45%) Replication
14 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
15 36 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
16 35 (1.24%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.17%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.06%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 246 (8.72%) Linux
2 127 (4.50%) Windows
3 57 (2.02%) Unix
4 49 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.28%) 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
11 5 (0.18%) zOS
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
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 1,180 (41.83%) CI/CD
2 898 (31.83%) DevOps
3 715 (25.35%) Agile
4 671 (23.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 632 (22.40%) AI
6 476 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 414 (14.68%) Microservices
8 409 (14.50%) Containerisation
9 401 (14.21%) Observability
10 376 (13.33%) Migration
11 366 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
12 357 (12.66%) Analytics
13 354 (12.55%) Software Engineering
14 344 (12.19%) Data Pipeline
15 342 (12.12%) Data Modelling
16 338 (11.98%) Data Engineering
17 330 (11.70%) Event-Driven
18 328 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
19 314 (11.13%) Technical Leadership
20 294 (10.42%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,027 (36.41%) Python
2 612 (21.69%) SQL
3 481 (17.05%) Java
4 207 (7.34%) JavaScript
5 206 (7.30%) TypeScript
6 172 (6.10%) Bash
7 140 (4.96%) PowerShell
8 114 (4.04%) C#
9 54 (1.91%) Scala
10 53 (1.88%) Go
11 36 (1.28%) Bicep
11 36 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.10%) Groovy
13 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.71%) C++
16 19 (0.67%) R
17 18 (0.64%) Ruby
18 13 (0.46%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 779 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 687 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 175 (6.20%) AWS Certification
4 147 (5.21%) Degree
5 91 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 90 (3.19%) CISSP
7 76 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 66 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 65 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 52 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.70%) CISM
13 32 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.78%) CCSP
15 20 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (0.64%) PMP
18 17 (0.60%) CCNP
18 17 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 164 (5.81%) QA
3 108 (3.83%) NIST
4 104 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (2.69%) GDPR
6 37 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.06%) GRC
8 29 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.99%) NCSC
10 24 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (0.85%) SLA
11 20 (0.71%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
13 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.53%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.46%) SEPA
16 11 (0.39%) PMO
17 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 504 (17.87%) Docker
2 95 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 639 (22.65%) Kubernetes
2 214 (7.59%) Grafana
3 203 (7.20%) Ansible
4 162 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 42 (1.49%) Kibana
6 35 (1.24%) Argo
7 34 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (0.99%) Puppet
9 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) Packer
11 10 (0.35%) Istio
11 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.21%) Control-M
15 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 6 (0.21%) QRadar
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
16 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 296 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 193 (6.84%) Databricks
3 139 (4.93%) Google
3 139 (4.93%) Oracle
4 127 (4.50%) ServiceNow
5 111 (3.93%) Splunk
6 68 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 56 (1.99%) OpenAI
8 54 (1.91%) CyberArk
8 54 (1.91%) VMware
9 52 (1.84%) SAP
10 51 (1.81%) Cisco
11 44 (1.56%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.42%) Dynatrace
13 38 (1.35%) IBM
13 38 (1.35%) Informatica
14 30 (1.06%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.96%) Red Hat
16 25 (0.89%) Foundry
16 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft