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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,436 1,994 2,304
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.04% 15.45% 12.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.31% 36.75% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,670 1,447 1,763
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.43%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £776 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.50 £65.25 £51.78
% change year-on-year +15.71% +26.02% -19.72%

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 7,099 5,426 6,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.83% 42.03% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,876 3,750 4,969
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
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 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 43 79
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £23.99 £20.88
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -23.94%
75th Percentile £52.56 £55.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -3 279 £550 +1.62% 338
South London +4 94 £517 +8.79% 43
West London +8 50 £603 +8.07% 70
East London +3 9 £630 +7.69% 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
1 112 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.28%) Confluence
4 60 (2.46%) Apache
5 32 (1.31%) nginx
6 23 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.66%) SAS
8 15 (0.62%) Camunda
9 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.33%) Appian
12 3 (0.12%) CICS
12 3 (0.12%) CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.082%) Drupal
13 2 (0.082%) Mule
13 2 (0.082%) OpenROAD
13 2 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.041%) Notion
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.16%) Endur
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.082%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.041%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.041%) Maximo
6 1 (0.041%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.041%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.041%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 983 (40.35%) Azure
2 565 (23.19%) GCP
3 368 (15.11%) Serverless
4 339 (13.92%) Amazon S3
5 330 (13.55%) GitHub
6 315 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
7 227 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 186 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
9 173 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
10 165 (6.77%) Snowflake
11 142 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
11 142 (5.83%) Power Platform
12 136 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 128 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 112 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 79 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
16 61 (2.50%) dbt
17 57 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
17 57 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
18 55 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 99 (4.06%) Firewall
2 64 (2.63%) VPN
3 57 (2.34%) Network Security
4 51 (2.09%) DNS
5 39 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.40%) WAN
7 18 (0.74%) LAN
8 17 (0.70%) BGP
9 16 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.53%) HTTP
10 13 (0.53%) OSPF
11 12 (0.49%) DHCP
11 12 (0.49%) SSL
12 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
12 9 (0.37%) VLAN
12 9 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.33%) 5G
14 7 (0.29%) 4G
14 7 (0.29%) NGFW
14 7 (0.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (5.13%) Power BI
3 123 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
4 119 (4.89%) NoSQL
5 117 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 108 (4.43%) Data Lake
7 101 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 96 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
9 95 (3.90%) Relational Database
10 92 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 76 (3.12%) Tableau
12 72 (2.96%) MongoDB
13 69 (2.83%) Metadata
14 66 (2.71%) DynamoDB
15 56 (2.30%) Big Data
16 54 (2.22%) MySQL
17 53 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
18 44 (1.81%) BigQuery
19 34 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
19 34 (1.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 240 (9.85%) Git
2 213 (8.74%) GitLab
3 209 (8.58%) Jenkins
4 136 (5.58%) JIRA
5 49 (2.01%) JUnit
6 42 (1.72%) MLflow
7 35 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.31%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.07%) Mockito
10 22 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 21 (0.86%) Selenium
12 19 (0.78%) Maven
13 18 (0.74%) JMeter
14 16 (0.66%) Gatling
15 13 (0.53%) Gradle
16 12 (0.49%) Postman
17 11 (0.45%) ERwin
17 11 (0.45%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 573 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 547 (22.45%) Finance
3 342 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 216 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 206 (8.46%) Banking
6 95 (3.90%) Front Office
7 59 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 58 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 39 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.23%) Retail
12 30 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 21 (0.86%) Legal
14 19 (0.78%) Marketing
15 16 (0.66%) Military
16 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.49%) Billing
18 11 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 451 (18.51%) Developer
2 436 (17.90%) Architect
3 379 (15.56%) Senior
4 236 (9.69%) Lead
5 233 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
6 225 (9.24%) Data Engineer
7 188 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (6.03%) Software Engineer
9 125 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 108 (4.43%) Analyst
11 100 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
12 98 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
13 96 (3.94%) Java Developer
13 96 (3.94%) Python Engineer
14 95 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 89 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 86 (3.53%) AWS Architect
17 80 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 79 (3.24%) Python Developer
19 78 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (13.42%) Kafka
2 247 (10.14%) React
3 206 (8.46%) Node.js
4 185 (7.59%) REST
5 145 (5.95%) Spring
6 135 (5.54%) RESTful
7 125 (5.13%) Spring Boot
8 96 (3.94%) AngularJS
9 70 (2.87%) .NET
9 70 (2.87%) PySpark
10 68 (2.79%) CSS
11 66 (2.71%) GraphQL
12 65 (2.67%) HTML
13 63 (2.59%) SOAP
14 60 (2.46%) OAuth
14 60 (2.46%) Redux
15 59 (2.42%) Pandas
16 58 (2.38%) gRPC
17 55 (2.26%) PyTorch
18 54 (2.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 346 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 117 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.20%) Fixed Income
4 71 (2.91%) Security Posture
5 67 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 56 (2.30%) Derivative
7 56 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 49 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 47 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 44 (1.81%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
12 43 (1.77%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.72%) Equities
14 38 (1.56%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.52%) Data Structures
16 35 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
17 28 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
18 27 (1.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 184 (7.55%) Linux
2 62 (2.55%) Windows
3 44 (1.81%) Unix
4 13 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.45%) VMS
6 8 (0.33%) Android
7 7 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.21%) zOS
9 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.082%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.041%) CentOS
12 1 (0.041%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 920 (37.77%) CI/CD
2 681 (27.96%) DevOps
3 591 (24.26%) Agile
4 463 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 409 (16.79%) AI
6 382 (15.68%) Microservices
7 364 (14.94%) Analytics
8 355 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
9 341 (14.00%) Containerisation
10 312 (12.81%) Software Engineering
11 287 (11.78%) Data Modelling
12 257 (10.55%) Data Pipeline
13 256 (10.51%) Machine Learning
14 254 (10.43%) Data Engineering
15 241 (9.89%) Migration
16 238 (9.77%) ETL
16 238 (9.77%) Observability
17 207 (8.50%) Full-Stack Development
18 200 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
19 194 (7.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 992 (40.72%) Python
2 569 (23.36%) SQL
3 435 (17.86%) Java
4 229 (9.40%) JavaScript
5 223 (9.15%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.72%) Go
7 100 (4.11%) C#
8 95 (3.90%) Bash
9 93 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 32 (1.31%) Ruby
10 32 (1.31%) Scala
11 31 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.11%) C++
13 20 (0.82%) R
14 18 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.53%) Bicep
17 11 (0.45%) Rust
18 10 (0.41%) Korn
19 9 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 695 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 607 (24.92%) SC Cleared
3 131 (5.38%) AWS Certification
4 122 (5.01%) Degree
5 72 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 46 (1.89%) CISSP
8 41 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.94%) CISM
12 23 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 21 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 21 (0.86%) PMP
14 18 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.70%) CCNP
16 14 (0.57%) CCSP
17 13 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 116 (4.76%) GDPR
3 92 (3.78%) QA
4 71 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (2.75%) NIST
6 47 (1.93%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.11%) NCSC
9 20 (0.82%) SLA
10 16 (0.66%) WCAG
11 14 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.49%) GRC
12 12 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.45%) PMO
14 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.33%) PSD2
16 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 508 (20.85%) Docker
2 62 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.37%) Squid
6 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.082%) NFS
9 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.082%) zsh
10 1 (0.041%) KVM
10 1 (0.041%) Lustre
10 1 (0.041%) NLBS
10 1 (0.041%) Postfix
10 1 (0.041%) Samba
Systems Management
1 564 (23.15%) Terraform
2 532 (21.84%) Kubernetes
3 136 (5.58%) Ansible
4 106 (4.35%) Grafana
5 97 (3.98%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.31%) Argo
8 18 (0.74%) Consul
9 17 (0.70%) Puppet
10 16 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.53%) Packer
12 10 (0.41%) Kibana
12 10 (0.41%) SCCM
13 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.29%) QRadar
14 5 (0.21%) Istio
14 5 (0.21%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 165 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 144 (5.91%) Databricks
3 97 (3.98%) Google
4 87 (3.57%) Oracle
5 77 (3.16%) Splunk
6 58 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 50 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 49 (2.01%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.44%) Centrify
10 35 (1.44%) Cisco
11 34 (1.40%) BeyondTrust
12 31 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 31 (1.27%) IBM
13 30 (1.23%) VMware
14 29 (1.19%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.15%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.11%) SAP
17 24 (0.99%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.86%) Atlassian