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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,786 2,145 2,251
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.75% 15.89% 13.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.66% 36.47% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,984 1,471 1,663
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 £688 £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 22 15 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £73.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +139.80% -64.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £87.50 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.00 £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 8,276 5,882 6,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.85% 43.57% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,705 3,990 4,567
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 97 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £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 £81.60 £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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -6 275 £575 -1.71% 321
West London +12 97 £560 +33.73% 104
South London +1 78 £535 -4.07% 14
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
1 160 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 106 (3.80%) Confluence
4 86 (3.09%) Apache
5 25 (0.90%) 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 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) 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 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
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%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.072%) Actimize
8 2 (0.072%) Endur
8 2 (0.072%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,249 (44.83%) Azure
2 639 (22.94%) GCP
3 376 (13.50%) Serverless
4 370 (13.28%) Amazon S3
5 365 (13.10%) GitHub
6 309 (11.09%) AWS Lambda
7 247 (8.87%) GitHub Actions
8 233 (8.36%) Snowflake
9 230 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
10 183 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 161 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
12 152 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 149 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
14 146 (5.24%) dbt
15 135 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
16 129 (4.63%) Power Platform
16 129 (4.63%) SaaS
17 126 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 105 (3.77%) Entra ID
19 96 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.59%) Firewall
2 84 (3.02%) Network Security
3 61 (2.19%) DNS
4 55 (1.97%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 31 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 24 (0.86%) DHCP
8 23 (0.83%) SSH
9 22 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.79%) SSL
10 21 (0.75%) BGP
11 20 (0.72%) Internet
12 17 (0.61%) HTTP
12 17 (0.61%) OSPF
13 16 (0.57%) MPLS
14 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
14 15 (0.54%) NGFW
15 13 (0.47%) LAN
15 13 (0.47%) SAN
16 12 (0.43%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 150 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.34%) NoSQL
5 114 (4.09%) Power BI
6 112 (4.02%) SQL Server
7 104 (3.73%) Metadata
8 103 (3.70%) Data Lake
9 96 (3.45%) MongoDB
10 92 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 88 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
12 85 (3.05%) DynamoDB
13 77 (2.76%) Relational Database
14 69 (2.48%) Delta Lake
15 63 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
16 61 (2.19%) MySQL
17 53 (1.90%) Tableau
18 51 (1.83%) Big Data
19 49 (1.76%) BigQuery
20 48 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 308 (11.06%) Jenkins
2 307 (11.02%) Git
3 275 (9.87%) GitLab
4 153 (5.49%) JIRA
5 37 (1.33%) Maven
6 33 (1.18%) JMeter
6 33 (1.18%) JUnit
7 31 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 28 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 28 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.97%) Selenium
10 25 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.90%) Gradle
11 24 (0.86%) Mockito
12 20 (0.72%) Claude Code
12 20 (0.72%) Postman
13 18 (0.65%) Gatling
14 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 697 (25.02%) Social Skills
2 672 (24.12%) Finance
3 380 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 270 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 265 (9.51%) Banking
6 87 (3.12%) Retail
7 62 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 37 (1.33%) Marketing
11 35 (1.26%) Legal
12 34 (1.22%) Front Office
13 33 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 33 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.01%) Law
16 27 (0.97%) Billing
16 27 (0.97%) Military
16 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (0.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 562 (20.17%) Architect
2 447 (16.04%) Senior
3 340 (12.20%) Developer
4 295 (10.59%) Lead
5 291 (10.45%) Data Engineer
6 261 (9.37%) AWS Engineer
7 223 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 133 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
9 110 (3.95%) Analyst
9 110 (3.95%) AWS Architect
10 108 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 104 (3.73%) Java Developer
12 103 (3.70%) Data Architect
13 100 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 99 (3.55%) Senior Data Engineer
15 94 (3.37%) Software Engineer
16 89 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
17 82 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
18 76 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 74 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 730 (26.20%) Terraform
2 331 (11.88%) Kafka
3 297 (10.66%) REST
4 195 (7.00%) React
5 177 (6.35%) Spring
6 162 (5.81%) Spring Boot
7 149 (5.35%) RESTful
8 109 (3.91%) Node.js
9 106 (3.80%) PySpark
10 96 (3.45%) .NET
10 96 (3.45%) OAuth
11 75 (2.69%) GraphQL
12 68 (2.44%) FastAPI
13 66 (2.37%) HTML
14 65 (2.33%) JSON
15 63 (2.26%) AngularJS
16 59 (2.12%) SOAP
17 56 (2.01%) CSS
18 54 (1.94%) OAuth2
19 48 (1.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 553 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 180 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 145 (5.20%) AI Agents
5 131 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 85 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 73 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 68 (2.44%) Security Posture
10 61 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.69%) Data Structures
13 46 (1.65%) PKI
13 46 (1.65%) Replication
14 39 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.40%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
16 33 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
17 32 (1.15%) Virtual Team
18 30 (1.08%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 257 (9.22%) Linux
2 124 (4.45%) Windows
3 56 (2.01%) Unix
4 52 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.47%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.22%) 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 (0.072%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (42.46%) CI/CD
2 891 (31.98%) DevOps
3 713 (25.59%) Agile
4 683 (24.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 627 (22.51%) AI
6 480 (17.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 403 (14.47%) Microservices
7 403 (14.47%) Observability
8 395 (14.18%) Containerisation
9 366 (13.14%) Migration
10 355 (12.74%) Software Engineering
11 350 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
12 337 (12.10%) Data Modelling
13 335 (12.02%) Analytics
14 333 (11.95%) Data Engineering
15 331 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 331 (11.88%) Event-Driven
16 328 (11.77%) Data Pipeline
17 310 (11.13%) Technical Leadership
18 297 (10.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (36.79%) Python
2 617 (22.15%) SQL
3 465 (16.69%) Java
4 207 (7.43%) JavaScript
5 201 (7.21%) TypeScript
6 188 (6.75%) Bash
7 147 (5.28%) PowerShell
8 112 (4.02%) C#
9 56 (2.01%) Go
10 54 (1.94%) Scala
11 37 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.29%) Bicep
13 31 (1.11%) Groovy
14 24 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.79%) C++
16 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.61%) R
18 15 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
20 13 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 781 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 687 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 181 (6.50%) AWS Certification
4 142 (5.10%) Degree
5 92 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 87 (3.12%) CISSP
7 73 (2.62%) Azure Certification
8 71 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 65 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 61 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.72%) CISM
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.79%) CCSP
14 22 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.65%) PMP
17 17 (0.61%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.81%) QA
3 102 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (3.63%) NIST
5 73 (2.62%) GDPR
6 38 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.08%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 28 (1.01%) 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 (0.54%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.47%) 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
1 510 (18.31%) Docker
2 86 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.29%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) IAG
7 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
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 (0.072%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 652 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 219 (7.86%) Grafana
3 201 (7.21%) Ansible
4 166 (5.96%) Prometheus
5 47 (1.69%) Kibana
6 41 (1.47%) Argo
7 31 (1.11%) Puppet
8 26 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.50%) Istio
10 13 (0.47%) 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 (0.22%) Control-M
15 6 (0.22%) 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
1 301 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 199 (7.14%) Databricks
3 151 (5.42%) Google
4 142 (5.10%) Oracle
5 113 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 112 (4.02%) Splunk
7 65 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.83%) Cisco
9 51 (1.83%) VMware
10 50 (1.79%) SAP
11 49 (1.76%) CyberArk
12 45 (1.62%) Palo Alto
13 39 (1.40%) Dynatrace
13 39 (1.40%) Informatica
14 35 (1.26%) IBM
15 33 (1.18%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.93%) Red Hat
17 23 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
17 23 (0.83%) MuleSoft