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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,288 1,974 2,291
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.01% 14.52% 12.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.89% 34.79% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,419 1,770
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £461 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £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 14
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £22.14
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £29.85
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.14% +20.18% -28.95%

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 6,752 5,674 6,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.73% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,616 3,791 5,077
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 49 76
10th Percentile £18.17 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.25 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +4.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £55.25 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £73.25 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -2 262 £538 -1.38% 150
South London +7 79 £519 +6.10% 27
West London +8 49 £603 +4.78% 62
East London +10 9 £630 - 48
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 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 83 (3.63%) Confluence
4 62 (2.71%) Apache
5 34 (1.49%) nginx
6 14 (0.61%) Camunda
7 13 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.57%) SAS
8 12 (0.52%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.35%) Appian
10 6 (0.26%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.13%) Drupal
12 3 (0.13%) Traefik
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.13%) WordPress
13 2 (0.087%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.17%) Trello
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.044%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.044%) Notion
8 1 (0.044%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.17%) Actimize
5 4 (0.17%) Endur
6 3 (0.13%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.087%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.087%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.044%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.044%) Maximo
8 1 (0.044%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.044%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.044%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.044%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 918 (40.12%) Azure
2 533 (23.30%) GCP
3 351 (15.34%) Serverless
4 336 (14.69%) Amazon S3
5 320 (13.99%) GitHub
6 307 (13.42%) AWS Lambda
7 207 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
9 168 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
10 156 (6.82%) Snowflake
11 141 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
12 134 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 133 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
13 133 (5.81%) Power Platform
14 106 (4.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 73 (3.19%) dbt
16 66 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
17 65 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
18 52 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
19 48 (2.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (4.63%) Firewall
2 64 (2.80%) VPN
3 62 (2.71%) DNS
4 55 (2.40%) Network Security
5 40 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.22%) WAN
7 23 (1.01%) SSL
8 17 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.70%) BGP
10 15 (0.66%) HTTP
10 15 (0.66%) LAN
11 14 (0.61%) DHCP
11 14 (0.61%) OSPF
12 11 (0.48%) VLAN
13 9 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.39%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.35%) 5G
14 8 (0.35%) Wireless
15 7 (0.31%) OpenVPN
15 7 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (5.20%) NoSQL
4 118 (5.16%) Power BI
5 110 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
6 100 (4.37%) Data Lake
7 94 (4.11%) SQL Server
8 91 (3.98%) Relational Database
9 90 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
10 82 (3.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 67 (2.93%) MongoDB
12 66 (2.88%) Tableau
13 64 (2.80%) DynamoDB
14 60 (2.62%) Metadata
15 59 (2.58%) MySQL
16 51 (2.23%) Big Data
17 50 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
18 42 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
18 42 (1.84%) BigQuery
19 35 (1.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 234 (10.23%) Git
2 210 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 199 (8.70%) GitLab
4 149 (6.51%) JIRA
5 40 (1.75%) JUnit
6 36 (1.57%) MLflow
7 28 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.92%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.87%) ERwin
11 19 (0.83%) Mockito
12 17 (0.74%) Maven
13 16 (0.70%) Selenium
13 16 (0.70%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.66%) JMeter
15 14 (0.61%) Gatling
16 13 (0.57%) ER Studio
17 11 (0.48%) Gradle
17 11 (0.48%) Postman
18 9 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
General
1 574 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 491 (21.46%) Finance
3 287 (12.54%) Public Sector
4 206 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (8.57%) Banking
6 62 (2.71%) Front Office
7 59 (2.58%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 30 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.31%) Retail
13 26 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.01%) Marketing
15 21 (0.92%) Military
16 18 (0.79%) Legal
17 16 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.61%) Manufacturing
19 12 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 412 (18.01%) Developer
2 386 (16.87%) Architect
3 368 (16.08%) Senior
4 236 (10.31%) AWS Engineer
5 224 (9.79%) Data Engineer
6 195 (8.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 184 (8.04%) Lead
8 124 (5.42%) Software Engineer
9 120 (5.24%) Senior Developer
10 104 (4.55%) Analyst
11 98 (4.28%) Python Engineer
12 94 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
13 93 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
14 86 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 85 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
15 85 (3.72%) Java Developer
16 81 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
17 78 (3.41%) Python Developer
18 74 (3.23%) AWS Developer
19 72 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (12.94%) Kafka
2 215 (9.40%) React
3 165 (7.21%) Node.js
3 165 (7.21%) REST
4 134 (5.86%) Spring
5 120 (5.24%) RESTful
6 116 (5.07%) Spring Boot
7 96 (4.20%) AngularJS
8 72 (3.15%) CSS
8 72 (3.15%) HTML
9 65 (2.84%) .NET
10 64 (2.80%) gRPC
10 64 (2.80%) Pandas
11 59 (2.58%) NumPy
12 57 (2.49%) SOAP
13 56 (2.45%) OAuth
13 56 (2.45%) PySpark
14 54 (2.36%) PyTorch
15 52 (2.27%) LDAP
15 52 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 324 (14.16%) Cloud Native
2 120 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.41%) Security Posture
4 58 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 55 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 53 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 48 (2.10%) Fixed Income
8 47 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 45 (1.97%) Derivative
10 43 (1.88%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.88%) Management Information System
11 39 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 38 (1.66%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.62%) Hedge funds
14 35 (1.53%) Data Structures
15 34 (1.49%) Equities
16 32 (1.40%) AI Agents
17 31 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 192 (8.39%) Linux
2 67 (2.93%) Windows
3 50 (2.19%) Unix
4 21 (0.92%) VMS
5 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.48%) Android
7 10 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.22%) CentOS
10 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.13%) zOS
12 1 (0.044%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.044%) Solaris
12 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.044%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (38.72%) CI/CD
2 626 (27.36%) DevOps
3 538 (23.51%) Agile
4 455 (19.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 363 (15.87%) AI
5 363 (15.87%) Microservices
6 351 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
7 350 (15.30%) Analytics
8 305 (13.33%) Containerisation
9 287 (12.54%) Software Engineering
10 263 (11.49%) Data Modelling
11 249 (10.88%) Data Pipeline
12 232 (10.14%) Data Engineering
13 229 (10.01%) Machine Learning
14 220 (9.62%) ETL
14 220 (9.62%) Observability
15 208 (9.09%) Migration
16 190 (8.30%) Full-Stack Development
17 180 (7.87%) Test Automation
18 172 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 972 (42.48%) Python
2 546 (23.86%) SQL
3 423 (18.49%) Java
4 207 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 190 (8.30%) TypeScript
6 103 (4.50%) Bash
7 100 (4.37%) Go
8 97 (4.24%) C#
9 91 (3.98%) PowerShell
10 32 (1.40%) Scala
11 30 (1.31%) C++
11 30 (1.31%) Ruby
12 28 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 16 (0.70%) R
14 15 (0.66%) Rust
15 14 (0.61%) PHP
16 13 (0.57%) Groovy
17 12 (0.52%) Bicep
17 12 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 636 (27.80%) Security Cleared
2 564 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.59%) AWS Certification
4 120 (5.24%) Degree
5 64 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 41 (1.79%) CISSP
8 36 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 32 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.83%) CISM
13 18 (0.79%) OSCP
13 18 (0.79%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 17 (0.74%) PMP
15 16 (0.70%) CCNP
16 13 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 106 (4.63%) GDPR
3 78 (3.41%) QA
4 71 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.67%) NIST
6 40 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.18%) NCSC
8 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.66%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.61%) SLA
11 13 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.48%) GRC
13 11 (0.48%) WCAG
14 8 (0.35%) PMO
14 8 (0.35%) PSD2
15 7 (0.31%) SEPA
16 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 504 (22.03%) Docker
2 62 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.61%) Squid
5 10 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.26%) DFS Replication
6 6 (0.26%) Dovecot
6 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.26%) Postfix
6 6 (0.26%) zsh
7 5 (0.22%) HDFS
8 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.044%) Ceph
11 1 (0.044%) iptables
11 1 (0.044%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 544 (23.78%) Terraform
2 528 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 133 (5.81%) Ansible
4 101 (4.41%) Grafana
5 92 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 37 (1.62%) Argo
8 17 (0.74%) Consul
8 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.74%) Puppet
9 16 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.61%) Nessus
11 13 (0.57%) Kibana
12 12 (0.52%) Packer
13 11 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.48%) SCCM
14 8 (0.35%) QRadar
15 7 (0.31%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 153 (6.69%) Microsoft
2 148 (6.47%) Databricks
3 87 (3.80%) Google
3 87 (3.80%) Oracle
4 76 (3.32%) Splunk
5 63 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 44 (1.92%) CyberArk
7 40 (1.75%) OpenAI
8 36 (1.57%) Cisco
8 36 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (1.49%) Centrify
10 32 (1.40%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.35%) Dynatrace
12 26 (1.14%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.14%) Red Hat
13 24 (1.05%) IBM
13 24 (1.05%) SAP
14 21 (0.92%) VMware
15 18 (0.79%) Atlassian