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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,738 2,077 2,394
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.48% 16.85% 13.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.46% 39.14% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,891 1,456 1,855
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £469 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -0.86% -5.31%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £781 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £540 £560
% change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile £37.70 £36.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +124.79% -70.25%
75th Percentile £79.38 £67.50 £62.25
90th Percentile £87.38 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 7,945 5,307 6,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.02% 43.05% 39.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,454 3,598 5,085
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.98%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £779 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 66 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £70.63 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -2 289 £550 - 168
West London +4 86 £560 +13.71% 93
South London 0 81 £500 -2.44% 3
East London +5 16 £543 -7.26% 28
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
1 130 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 76 (2.78%) Confluence
4 57 (2.08%) Apache
5 26 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.69%) nginx
7 13 (0.47%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
8 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.37%) SAS
10 8 (0.29%) CMS
11 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 40 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.26%) Revit
8 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Endur
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
4 4 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.073%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.073%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.037%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,115 (40.72%) Azure
2 569 (20.78%) GCP
3 412 (15.05%) Serverless
4 411 (15.01%) Amazon S3
5 358 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
6 349 (12.75%) GitHub
7 218 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
8 204 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 190 (6.94%) Snowflake
10 185 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
11 171 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
12 168 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 149 (5.44%) Power Platform
14 133 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
15 127 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 118 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
17 101 (3.69%) SaaS
18 89 (3.25%) dbt
19 84 (3.07%) Amazon Bedrock
20 74 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.98%) Firewall
2 83 (3.03%) Network Security
3 69 (2.52%) VPN
4 67 (2.45%) DNS
5 47 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.39%) WAN
7 23 (0.84%) BGP
7 23 (0.84%) HTTP
8 21 (0.77%) SSL
9 20 (0.73%) DHCP
10 19 (0.69%) LAN
11 18 (0.66%) OSPF
12 15 (0.55%) NGFW
12 15 (0.55%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.47%) Internet
14 12 (0.44%) VLAN
15 10 (0.37%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.37%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
3 129 (4.71%) Power BI
4 128 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (4.60%) Data Lake
6 117 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
7 113 (4.13%) NoSQL
8 108 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 107 (3.91%) SQL Server
10 85 (3.10%) DynamoDB
11 77 (2.81%) MongoDB
12 75 (2.74%) Metadata
13 74 (2.70%) Tableau
14 73 (2.67%) Relational Database
15 64 (2.34%) Big Data
16 46 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
17 41 (1.50%) BigQuery
18 40 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
19 38 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
19 38 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 242 (8.84%) Git
2 240 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 230 (8.40%) GitLab
4 138 (5.04%) JIRA
5 40 (1.46%) JUnit
6 33 (1.21%) MLflow
7 31 (1.13%) Mockito
8 29 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.95%) JMeter
11 24 (0.88%) Maven
12 23 (0.84%) Gradle
13 22 (0.80%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.73%) Postman
14 20 (0.73%) Selenium
15 19 (0.69%) Bitbucket
16 18 (0.66%) Gatling
17 16 (0.58%) CircleCI
17 16 (0.58%) Snyk
18 14 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 649 (23.70%) Finance
2 589 (21.51%) Social Skills
3 385 (14.06%) Public Sector
4 229 (8.36%) Banking
5 227 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (2.96%) Front Office
7 65 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.94%) Retail
10 50 (1.83%) Investment Banking
11 43 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 32 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (0.91%) Marketing
17 21 (0.77%) Law
17 21 (0.77%) Legal
18 15 (0.55%) Military
18 15 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 542 (19.80%) Architect
2 422 (15.41%) Developer
3 413 (15.08%) Senior
4 301 (10.99%) Lead
5 299 (10.92%) Data Engineer
6 282 (10.30%) AWS Engineer
7 205 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 145 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 113 (4.13%) Senior Developer
12 112 (4.09%) AWS Architect
13 104 (3.80%) Java Developer
14 101 (3.69%) Analyst
15 97 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
16 93 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
17 89 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 89 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
18 82 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 74 (2.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (11.29%) Kafka
2 243 (8.88%) React
3 232 (8.47%) REST
4 184 (6.72%) Node.js
5 173 (6.32%) Spring
6 165 (6.03%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.30%) RESTful
8 100 (3.65%) .NET
9 87 (3.18%) PySpark
10 82 (2.99%) GraphQL
11 80 (2.92%) AngularJS
11 80 (2.92%) OAuth
12 65 (2.37%) SOAP
13 64 (2.34%) Redux
14 58 (2.12%) LDAP
15 57 (2.08%) HTML
16 54 (1.97%) Pandas
17 53 (1.94%) JSON
18 51 (1.86%) OpenID
19 50 (1.83%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 482 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 165 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 83 (3.03%) AI Agents
5 82 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (2.85%) Security Posture
7 76 (2.78%) Fixed Income
8 75 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 65 (2.37%) Data Centre
10 64 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 57 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 53 (1.94%) Management Information System
13 44 (1.61%) Derivative
14 43 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
15 39 (1.42%) Equities
16 33 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.13%) Data Structures
18 30 (1.10%) Algorithms
19 29 (1.06%) Mainframe
19 29 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 198 (7.23%) Linux
2 93 (3.40%) Windows
3 38 (1.39%) Unix
4 31 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.44%) Android
7 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.26%) zOS
10 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.15%) VMS
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.073%) CentOS
14 2 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,067 (38.97%) CI/CD
2 809 (29.55%) DevOps
3 647 (23.63%) Agile
4 575 (21.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 550 (20.09%) AI
6 412 (15.05%) Microservices
7 397 (14.50%) Containerisation
8 377 (13.77%) Analytics
9 349 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
10 333 (12.16%) Migration
11 331 (12.09%) Software Engineering
12 313 (11.43%) Data Modelling
13 310 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
14 300 (10.96%) Data Engineering
15 290 (10.59%) Observability
16 278 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 276 (10.08%) Machine Learning
18 251 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 240 (8.77%) ETL
20 239 (8.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (38.09%) Python
2 593 (21.66%) SQL
3 484 (17.68%) Java
4 249 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 220 (8.04%) JavaScript
6 124 (4.53%) PowerShell
7 120 (4.38%) C#
8 113 (4.13%) Bash
9 88 (3.21%) Go
10 45 (1.64%) Scala
11 35 (1.28%) Ruby
12 34 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 26 (0.95%) Bicep
14 23 (0.84%) R
15 22 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.55%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.51%) Groovy
19 13 (0.47%) C++
20 11 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 746 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 666 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.30%) Degree
4 130 (4.75%) AWS Certification
5 83 (3.03%) CISSP
6 67 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 56 (2.05%) DV Cleared
9 54 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.39%) CISM
12 33 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (1.02%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.91%) PMP
16 24 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.80%) CCNP
17 22 (0.80%) CCSP
18 15 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.05%) QA
3 102 (3.73%) GDPR
4 98 (3.58%) NIST
5 81 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.02%) GRC
9 26 (0.95%) SLA
10 21 (0.77%) NCSC
11 19 (0.69%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.62%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.62%) PMO
14 12 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.44%) WCAG
15 9 (0.33%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.29%) SEPA
17 7 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 488 (17.82%) Docker
2 95 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.62%) Squid
6 9 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.15%) HDFS
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.073%) Firmware
10 2 (0.073%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 649 (23.70%) Terraform
2 553 (20.20%) Kubernetes
3 161 (5.88%) Grafana
4 160 (5.84%) Ansible
5 141 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.84%) Puppet
8 21 (0.77%) Kibana
9 19 (0.69%) Argo
10 14 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.44%) Consul
13 10 (0.37%) Packer
14 9 (0.33%) QRadar
15 7 (0.26%) Istio
15 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.15%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 215 (7.85%) Microsoft
2 127 (4.64%) Databricks
3 108 (3.94%) Google
4 94 (3.43%) Oracle
5 90 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 78 (2.85%) Splunk
7 69 (2.52%) CyberArk
8 60 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 57 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 50 (1.83%) Cisco
11 39 (1.42%) VMware
12 37 (1.35%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.21%) Foundry
13 33 (1.21%) Red Hat
14 32 (1.17%) SAP
15 31 (1.13%) Dynatrace
16 29 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
16 29 (1.06%) Centrify
17 27 (0.99%) IBM
18 23 (0.84%) MuleSoft