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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,166 2,137 2,537
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.08% 13.60% 13.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.49% 33.19% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 1,557 1,952
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £451 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £700
90th Percentile £804 £838 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £60.50 £38.28 £43.03
25th Percentile £68.25 £41.31 £56.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £49.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.51% -17.92% +11.63%
75th Percentile £87.50 £65.56 £85.78
90th Percentile £93.88 £83.23 £87.50
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £51.06
% change year-on-year +82.98% -9.55% -7.17%

All Cloud 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 6,280 6,438 7,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.71% 40.96% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,283 4,388 5,498
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 38 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +21.77%
75th Percentile £46.56 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.14% +26.00% +11.11%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +6 248 £575 - 140
South London +9 64 £525 +6.06% 34
West London -6 29 £600 +4.99% 65
East London - 7 £675 - 63
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
1 142 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.85%) Confluence
3 74 (3.42%) Apache
4 68 (3.14%) Apache Spark
5 40 (1.85%) nginx
6 18 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.69%) SAS
8 14 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.37%) Camunda
10 8 (0.37%) CMS
11 5 (0.23%) Appian
11 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.14%) Traefik
14 2 (0.092%) Luigi
14 2 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.18%) Trello
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.046%) Notion
7 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
7 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Endur
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Actimize
6 2 (0.092%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.092%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.092%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.092%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 833 (38.46%) Azure
2 466 (21.51%) GCP
3 302 (13.94%) GitHub
4 289 (13.34%) Serverless
5 287 (13.25%) Amazon S3
6 251 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
7 185 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 172 (7.94%) Snowflake
9 170 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 131 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 129 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
12 121 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
13 119 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
14 115 (5.31%) dbt
15 97 (4.48%) Power Platform
16 76 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 64 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
18 54 (2.49%) SaaS
19 52 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
20 49 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 116 (5.36%) Firewall
2 70 (3.23%) DNS
3 55 (2.54%) Network Security
3 55 (2.54%) VPN
4 29 (1.34%) SSL
5 28 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.29%) WAN
6 24 (1.11%) HTTP
7 22 (1.02%) SD-WAN
8 21 (0.97%) DHCP
9 15 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
9 15 (0.69%) SSH
10 14 (0.65%) BGP
11 13 (0.60%) VLAN
12 12 (0.55%) LAN
12 12 (0.55%) OSPF
13 10 (0.46%) FTP
13 10 (0.46%) IMAP
13 10 (0.46%) SMTP
14 9 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (5.31%) NoSQL
3 114 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
5 98 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
6 94 (4.34%) Data Lake
7 92 (4.25%) Relational Database
8 90 (4.16%) Power BI
9 80 (3.69%) SQL Server
10 71 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 60 (2.77%) DynamoDB
12 59 (2.72%) MongoDB
13 56 (2.59%) Metadata
13 56 (2.59%) MySQL
14 53 (2.45%) Apache Iceberg
15 49 (2.26%) Tableau
16 48 (2.22%) Big Data
17 45 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
18 43 (1.99%) Apache Arrow
18 43 (1.99%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 247 (11.40%) Git
2 213 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 163 (7.53%) JIRA
4 161 (7.43%) GitLab
5 44 (2.03%) JUnit
6 26 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 26 (1.20%) MLflow
7 25 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 23 (1.06%) ERwin
9 22 (1.02%) CircleCI
10 21 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.97%) Selenium
11 19 (0.88%) SonarQube
12 18 (0.83%) Mockito
13 16 (0.74%) ER Studio
13 16 (0.74%) Maven
14 15 (0.69%) JMeter
15 14 (0.65%) Postman
16 13 (0.60%) Metasploit
17 12 (0.55%) Vagrant
General
1 547 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 505 (23.31%) Finance
3 242 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 219 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 215 (9.93%) Banking
6 103 (4.76%) Front Office
7 94 (4.34%) Investment Banking
8 37 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.43%) Marketing
12 29 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.25%) Retail
14 23 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 20 (0.92%) Legal
15 20 (0.92%) Military
16 17 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.69%) Manufacturing
18 14 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 434 (20.04%) Developer
2 387 (17.87%) Senior
3 302 (13.94%) Architect
4 260 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
5 179 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 162 (7.48%) Data Engineer
7 161 (7.43%) Lead
8 140 (6.46%) Python Engineer
8 140 (6.46%) Software Engineer
9 122 (5.63%) Java Developer
10 104 (4.80%) Senior Developer
11 96 (4.43%) AWS Developer
12 92 (4.25%) Analyst
13 90 (4.16%) Python Developer
14 88 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
14 88 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
15 86 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
16 78 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 75 (3.46%) Java Engineer
18 67 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (12.60%) Kafka
2 240 (11.08%) React
3 173 (7.99%) Node.js
4 133 (6.14%) REST
5 127 (5.86%) Spring
6 114 (5.26%) RESTful
7 110 (5.08%) AngularJS
7 110 (5.08%) Spring Boot
8 88 (4.06%) Pandas
9 86 (3.97%) gRPC
9 86 (3.97%) NumPy
10 65 (3.00%) SciPy
11 64 (2.95%) CSS
12 63 (2.91%) HTML
13 62 (2.86%) GraphQL
13 62 (2.86%) Vue
14 61 (2.82%) .NET
15 49 (2.26%) FastAPI
16 42 (1.94%) JSON
17 41 (1.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 252 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 105 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.69%) Fixed Income
4 76 (3.51%) Hedge funds
5 73 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 71 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 63 (2.91%) Equities
8 61 (2.82%) Derivative
9 49 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 46 (2.12%) Onboarding
11 44 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
12 41 (1.89%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.89%) Security Posture
13 39 (1.80%) Public Cloud
14 33 (1.52%) Data Centre
15 32 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
16 31 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (1.29%) Algorithms
17 28 (1.29%) Pricing Data
17 28 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 203 (9.37%) Linux
2 82 (3.79%) Windows
3 48 (2.22%) Unix
4 21 (0.97%) VMS
5 18 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.37%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.092%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.092%) zOS
12 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (38.55%) CI/CD
2 604 (27.89%) DevOps
3 599 (27.65%) Agile
4 413 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 359 (16.57%) Microservices
6 345 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 319 (14.73%) Software Engineering
8 280 (12.93%) Analytics
9 263 (12.14%) Containerisation
10 255 (11.77%) AI
11 214 (9.88%) Data Modelling
12 205 (9.46%) Data Pipeline
13 196 (9.05%) Migration
14 193 (8.91%) Machine Learning
15 185 (8.54%) ETL
16 184 (8.49%) Observability
17 174 (8.03%) Data Engineering
18 162 (7.48%) Full-Stack Development
19 157 (7.25%) Test Automation
20 152 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 948 (43.77%) Python
2 482 (22.25%) SQL
3 479 (22.11%) Java
4 246 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 245 (11.31%) TypeScript
6 145 (6.69%) Bash
7 131 (6.05%) Go
8 85 (3.92%) C#
9 76 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 44 (2.03%) C++
11 29 (1.34%) Scala
12 27 (1.25%) Ruby
13 23 (1.06%) Perl
14 22 (1.02%) Rust
15 20 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.88%) Groovy
17 16 (0.74%) C
18 15 (0.69%) PHP
18 15 (0.69%) R
19 14 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 508 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 436 (20.13%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.09%) Degree
4 126 (5.82%) AWS Certification
5 63 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 36 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 35 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 34 (1.57%) CISSP
10 30 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.06%) OSCP
13 18 (0.83%) CISM
14 14 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (0.55%) CCNP
15 12 (0.55%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.51%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.51%) PhD
16 11 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 90 (4.16%) GDPR
3 88 (4.06%) QA
4 74 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.82%) NIST
6 38 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.02%) NCSC
7 22 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.78%) WCAG
9 16 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.46%) GRC
11 8 (0.37%) MiFID
12 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.32%) SLA
12 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 511 (23.59%) Docker
2 41 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.46%) Postfix
5 10 (0.46%) Squid
6 8 (0.37%) zsh
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.23%) Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.092%) iptables
10 2 (0.092%) KVM
10 2 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.092%) vSphere
11 1 (0.046%) etcd
11 1 (0.046%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 513 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 507 (23.41%) Terraform
3 143 (6.60%) Ansible
4 113 (5.22%) Grafana
5 100 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.48%) Argo
7 26 (1.20%) Puppet
7 26 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.88%) Packer
10 18 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (0.83%) Nessus
11 17 (0.78%) Consul
12 14 (0.65%) SCCM
13 11 (0.51%) Nmap
14 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.42%) QRadar
16 8 (0.37%) Istio
16 8 (0.37%) Kibana
16 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 150 (6.93%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.19%) Databricks
3 84 (3.88%) Google
4 83 (3.83%) Splunk
5 73 (3.37%) Oracle
6 71 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 34 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 31 (1.43%) Cisco
9 30 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 27 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.15%) VMware
12 24 (1.11%) F5
12 24 (1.11%) IBM
13 21 (0.97%) CheckPoint
13 21 (0.97%) SAP
14 20 (0.92%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.88%) Arista
15 19 (0.88%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.78%) Tenable
17 16 (0.74%) Informatica