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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,526 2,007 2,322
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.30% 16.23% 13.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.69% 38.27% 34.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,740 1,447 1,783
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £468 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £738
90th Percentile £782 £825 £825
England median daily rate £537 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.36% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.75 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +23.70% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £74.75 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.91% +29.55% -25.68%

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 7,498 5,244 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.45% 42.42% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,174 3,623 4,969
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -1 279 £550 - 223
South London +4 84 £500 +2.56% 8
West London +6 82 £603 +11.88% 35
East London 0 13 £525 -10.26% 51
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
1 120 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.32%) Apache Spark
3 66 (2.61%) Confluence
4 63 (2.49%) Apache
5 23 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.71%) nginx
7 15 (0.59%) Camunda
8 11 (0.44%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.32%) CICS
11 5 (0.20%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.079%) Drupal
14 2 (0.079%) Mule
14 2 (0.079%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.040%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.040%) Notion
9 1 (0.040%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.079%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.079%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.079%) Endur
6 2 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.040%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.040%) Maximo
7 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,020 (40.38%) Azure
2 562 (22.25%) GCP
3 382 (15.12%) Amazon S3
4 371 (14.69%) Serverless
5 323 (12.79%) GitHub
6 322 (12.75%) AWS Lambda
7 209 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 194 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.25%) Snowflake
11 155 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
12 148 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 140 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
14 139 (5.50%) Power Platform
15 116 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 103 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
17 77 (3.05%) SaaS
18 67 (2.65%) dbt
19 65 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
20 63 (2.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.96%) Firewall
2 65 (2.57%) Network Security
3 60 (2.38%) DNS
4 56 (2.22%) VPN
5 46 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.15%) WAN
7 20 (0.79%) BGP
8 19 (0.75%) HTTP
9 16 (0.63%) LAN
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 15 (0.59%) SSL
11 14 (0.55%) DHCP
12 13 (0.51%) VLAN
13 11 (0.44%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.40%) NGFW
14 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.36%) Internet
15 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (4.79%) Data Lake
3 118 (4.67%) Power BI
4 110 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 109 (4.32%) Amazon Athena
5 109 (4.32%) NoSQL
6 105 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
7 99 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 94 (3.72%) SQL Server
9 75 (2.97%) MongoDB
10 73 (2.89%) DynamoDB
11 72 (2.85%) Relational Database
11 72 (2.85%) Tableau
12 70 (2.77%) Metadata
13 60 (2.38%) Big Data
14 46 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
15 43 (1.70%) MySQL
16 41 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
16 41 (1.62%) BigQuery
17 37 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 223 (8.83%) Git
2 220 (8.71%) Jenkins
3 207 (8.19%) GitLab
4 117 (4.63%) JIRA
5 43 (1.70%) JUnit
5 43 (1.70%) MLflow
6 35 (1.39%) Mockito
7 27 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 23 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 21 (0.83%) Gradle
10 21 (0.83%) JMeter
10 21 (0.83%) Maven
10 21 (0.83%) Selenium
11 19 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.75%) Postman
12 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.51%) Snyk
14 12 (0.48%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 579 (22.92%) Finance
2 526 (20.82%) Social Skills
3 352 (13.94%) Public Sector
4 224 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (8.35%) Banking
6 87 (3.44%) Front Office
7 62 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 38 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.50%) Retail
11 35 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.03%) Marketing
14 24 (0.95%) Legal
15 18 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.55%) Military
17 12 (0.48%) Law
18 11 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 506 (20.03%) Architect
2 418 (16.55%) Developer
3 381 (15.08%) Senior
4 269 (10.65%) Lead
5 268 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 230 (9.11%) AWS Engineer
7 183 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 140 (5.54%) Software Engineer
9 126 (4.99%) Solutions Architect
10 114 (4.51%) Senior Developer
11 104 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 102 (4.04%) AWS Architect
13 99 (3.92%) Analyst
14 98 (3.88%) Java Developer
15 94 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
16 87 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
17 82 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
18 79 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 76 (3.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 71 (2.81%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (12.15%) Kafka
2 235 (9.30%) React
3 195 (7.72%) REST
4 178 (7.05%) Node.js
5 173 (6.85%) Spring
6 162 (6.41%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.58%) RESTful
8 87 (3.44%) .NET
9 83 (3.29%) PySpark
10 77 (3.05%) AngularJS
11 69 (2.73%) OAuth
12 67 (2.65%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.61%) SOAP
14 62 (2.45%) Redux
15 60 (2.38%) HTML
16 59 (2.34%) LDAP
17 56 (2.22%) Pandas
18 52 (2.06%) CSS
19 49 (1.94%) OpenID
20 46 (1.82%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 417 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 75 (2.97%) Fixed Income
5 71 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.81%) Security Posture
6 64 (2.53%) AI Agents
6 64 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 57 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 50 (1.98%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 47 (1.86%) Derivative
12 42 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.62%) Equities
14 35 (1.39%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.27%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.27%) Mainframe
16 28 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (7.05%) Linux
2 71 (2.81%) Windows
3 40 (1.58%) Unix
4 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.44%) Android
6 9 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.28%) VMS
8 7 (0.28%) zOS
9 6 (0.24%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.040%) CentOS
14 1 (0.040%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (37.81%) CI/CD
2 726 (28.74%) DevOps
3 576 (22.80%) Agile
4 505 (19.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 479 (18.96%) AI
6 401 (15.87%) Microservices
7 369 (14.61%) Containerisation
8 365 (14.45%) Analytics
9 339 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (12.23%) Software Engineering
11 294 (11.64%) Migration
12 292 (11.56%) Data Modelling
13 275 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
14 273 (10.81%) Data Engineering
15 268 (10.61%) Observability
16 253 (10.02%) Machine Learning
17 236 (9.34%) ETL
18 233 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 226 (8.95%) Full-Stack Development
20 209 (8.27%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 981 (38.84%) Python
2 553 (21.89%) SQL
3 463 (18.33%) Java
4 224 (8.87%) TypeScript
5 219 (8.67%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.51%) C#
7 111 (4.39%) PowerShell
8 101 (4.00%) Bash
9 98 (3.88%) Go
10 42 (1.66%) Scala
11 39 (1.54%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.43%) Ruby
13 21 (0.83%) R
14 19 (0.75%) Bicep
14 19 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.71%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.63%) C++
17 11 (0.44%) PHP
18 10 (0.40%) Groovy
18 10 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 719 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 636 (25.18%) SC Cleared
3 131 (5.19%) Degree
4 114 (4.51%) AWS Certification
5 69 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 66 (2.61%) CISSP
7 57 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 49 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 36 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.15%) CISM
13 25 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.91%) PMP
15 21 (0.83%) CCNP
16 20 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 19 (0.75%) CCSP
18 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.47%) GDPR
3 96 (3.80%) QA
4 88 (3.48%) NIST
5 72 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 30 (1.19%) SLA
8 23 (0.91%) NCSC
9 21 (0.83%) GRC
10 18 (0.71%) ISO 20022
11 14 (0.55%) PMO
11 14 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.44%) WCAG
14 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.28%) PSD2
15 7 (0.28%) SEPA
16 6 (0.24%) MiFID
17 5 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 478 (18.92%) Docker
2 86 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.63%) Squid
6 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 4 (0.16%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.079%) Firmware
9 2 (0.079%) KVM
9 2 (0.079%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.079%) Postfix
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 570 (22.57%) Terraform
2 513 (20.31%) Kubernetes
3 142 (5.62%) Grafana
4 124 (4.91%) Ansible
5 122 (4.83%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.75%) Argo
8 18 (0.71%) Kibana
9 17 (0.67%) Puppet
10 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.44%) Consul
12 11 (0.44%) QRadar
13 6 (0.24%) Istio
13 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
13 6 (0.24%) Packer
13 6 (0.24%) SCCM
14 5 (0.20%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.16%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 191 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 128 (5.07%) Databricks
3 95 (3.76%) Google
4 84 (3.33%) Oracle
5 80 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 72 (2.85%) Splunk
7 62 (2.45%) CyberArk
8 60 (2.38%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.98%) Salesforce
10 44 (1.74%) Cisco
11 35 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.39%) Centrify
11 35 (1.39%) SAP
12 32 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.27%) IBM
12 32 (1.27%) VMware
13 28 (1.11%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.03%) Red Hat
15 22 (0.87%) Confluent
15 22 (0.87%) Foundry