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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,526 2,042 2,281
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.30% 16.25% 12.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.45% 38.34% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,748 1,481 1,756
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £465 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £678 £699 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
England median daily rate £530 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -3.64% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.88 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £39.06 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £48.25 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.97% +53.17% -58.00%
75th Percentile £76.25 £74.38 £64.75
90th Percentile £91.13 £96.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +7.14% +51.58% -38.43%

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 7,552 5,326 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.74% 42.37% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 3,706 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
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 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.42 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%
75th Percentile £53.35 £50.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £73.13 £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -4 285 £550 - 274
South London +5 89 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +7 76 £603 +6.64% 44
East London +1 12 £533 -8.97% 47
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
1 121 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.16%) Apache Spark
3 69 (2.73%) Confluence
4 63 (2.49%) Apache
5 22 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 21 (0.83%) nginx
7 16 (0.63%) Camunda
8 12 (0.48%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.32%) CICS
11 5 (0.20%) Appian
11 5 (0.20%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.079%) MQSeries
Applications
1 34 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.36%) 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%) 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%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (40.74%) Azure
2 565 (22.37%) GCP
3 375 (14.85%) Amazon S3
4 364 (14.41%) Serverless
5 320 (12.67%) GitHub
6 315 (12.47%) AWS Lambda
7 227 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 194 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
9 167 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.25%) Snowflake
11 147 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
12 143 (5.66%) Power Platform
13 141 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 141 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
14 109 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 98 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
16 74 (2.93%) SaaS
17 63 (2.49%) dbt
18 62 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
18 62 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.72%) Firewall
2 61 (2.41%) Network Security
3 58 (2.30%) DNS
4 57 (2.26%) VPN
5 41 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.19%) WAN
7 19 (0.75%) BGP
8 18 (0.71%) HTTP
9 17 (0.67%) LAN
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
11 13 (0.51%) DHCP
11 13 (0.51%) SSL
11 13 (0.51%) VLAN
12 11 (0.44%) VXLAN
13 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.36%) SAN
14 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.32%) NAS
16 7 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (4.87%) Power BI
3 122 (4.83%) Data Lake
4 114 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
4 114 (4.51%) NoSQL
5 108 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
6 105 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
7 100 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (3.76%) SQL Server
9 77 (3.05%) Tableau
10 76 (3.01%) MongoDB
11 71 (2.81%) DynamoDB
11 71 (2.81%) Metadata
11 71 (2.81%) Relational Database
12 61 (2.41%) Big Data
13 47 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
14 45 (1.78%) MySQL
15 41 (1.62%) BigQuery
16 39 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
17 33 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 230 (9.11%) Git
2 215 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 206 (8.16%) GitLab
4 123 (4.87%) JIRA
5 43 (1.70%) MLflow
6 42 (1.66%) JUnit
7 35 (1.39%) Mockito
8 25 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.91%) Selenium
10 22 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 21 (0.83%) Cypress.io
12 19 (0.75%) Maven
13 18 (0.71%) Gradle
14 17 (0.67%) Postman
15 16 (0.63%) JMeter
16 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.51%) Snyk
18 12 (0.48%) REST Assured
18 12 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 580 (22.96%) Finance
2 541 (21.42%) Social Skills
3 358 (14.17%) Public Sector
4 224 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 209 (8.27%) Banking
6 89 (3.52%) Front Office
7 64 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 34 (1.35%) Retail
15 27 (1.07%) Legal
15 27 (1.07%) Marketing
16 16 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Law
18 13 (0.51%) Military
19 11 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 505 (19.99%) Architect
2 431 (17.06%) Developer
3 381 (15.08%) Senior
4 265 (10.49%) Lead
5 261 (10.33%) Data Engineer
6 232 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
7 185 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 140 (5.54%) Software Engineer
9 126 (4.99%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.67%) Senior Developer
11 103 (4.08%) Analyst
12 101 (4.00%) AWS Architect
13 97 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
14 96 (3.80%) Java Developer
15 91 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
16 88 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
17 87 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
18 82 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 78 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 74 (2.93%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (12.35%) Kafka
2 239 (9.46%) React
3 192 (7.60%) REST
4 188 (7.44%) Node.js
5 170 (6.73%) Spring
6 156 (6.18%) Spring Boot
7 146 (5.78%) RESTful
8 85 (3.37%) .NET
9 78 (3.09%) PySpark
10 75 (2.97%) AngularJS
11 66 (2.61%) OAuth
11 66 (2.61%) SOAP
12 65 (2.57%) GraphQL
13 62 (2.45%) Redux
14 59 (2.34%) HTML
15 58 (2.30%) LDAP
16 57 (2.26%) Pandas
17 52 (2.06%) CSS
18 48 (1.90%) OpenID
19 46 (1.82%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 401 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (3.01%) Fixed Income
3 76 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 70 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.61%) Security Posture
6 64 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 57 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 52 (2.06%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.90%) Derivative
11 44 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 42 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.58%) Equities
14 37 (1.46%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.31%) Mainframe
16 32 (1.27%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.23%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 181 (7.17%) Linux
2 73 (2.89%) Windows
3 39 (1.54%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.40%) Android
6 8 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.32%) VMS
7 7 (0.28%) zOS
8 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.079%) AIX
12 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.040%) CentOS
13 1 (0.040%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 961 (38.04%) CI/CD
2 722 (28.58%) DevOps
3 589 (23.32%) Agile
4 509 (20.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 465 (18.41%) AI
6 408 (16.15%) Microservices
7 373 (14.77%) Analytics
8 372 (14.73%) Containerisation
9 341 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
10 316 (12.51%) Software Engineering
11 296 (11.72%) Migration
12 290 (11.48%) Data Modelling
13 271 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
14 267 (10.57%) Data Engineering
15 266 (10.53%) Observability
16 256 (10.13%) Machine Learning
17 235 (9.30%) ETL
18 233 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 230 (9.11%) Full-Stack Development
20 209 (8.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 977 (38.68%) Python
2 552 (21.85%) SQL
3 465 (18.41%) Java
4 225 (8.91%) TypeScript
5 220 (8.71%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.47%) C#
7 104 (4.12%) PowerShell
8 102 (4.04%) Go
9 97 (3.84%) Bash
10 43 (1.70%) Scala
11 38 (1.50%) Ruby
11 38 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 23 (0.91%) R
13 20 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.67%) Bicep
14 17 (0.67%) C++
14 17 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.44%) PHP
16 9 (0.36%) Groovy
17 8 (0.32%) C
Qualifications
1 718 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 635 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 125 (4.95%) Degree
4 121 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 71 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (2.41%) CISSP
7 56 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.19%) CISM
14 26 (1.03%) PMI Certification
14 26 (1.03%) PMP
15 22 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 21 (0.83%) CCNP
17 20 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.67%) CCSP
19 15 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 120 (4.75%) GDPR
3 94 (3.72%) QA
4 83 (3.29%) NIST
5 72 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.15%) SLA
9 23 (0.91%) NCSC
10 18 (0.71%) GRC
11 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.55%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.51%) PMO
13 13 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.48%) WCAG
15 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.28%) PSD2
17 6 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.24%) MiFID
18 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 493 (19.52%) Docker
2 79 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.44%) Squid
6 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.079%) Firmware
10 2 (0.079%) KVM
10 2 (0.079%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.079%) Postfix
11 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 583 (23.08%) Terraform
2 519 (20.55%) Kubernetes
3 139 (5.50%) Grafana
4 129 (5.11%) Ansible
5 119 (4.71%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.95%) Argo
8 20 (0.79%) Puppet
9 18 (0.71%) Kibana
10 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.55%) Consul
12 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.48%) QRadar
14 8 (0.32%) Packer
15 6 (0.24%) Istio
15 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.24%) SCCM
16 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 191 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.11%) Databricks
3 94 (3.72%) Google
4 86 (3.40%) Oracle
5 79 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 75 (2.97%) Splunk
7 62 (2.45%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.30%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.98%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.66%) Cisco
11 37 (1.46%) VMware
12 35 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.39%) Centrify
12 35 (1.39%) SAP
13 34 (1.35%) Dynatrace
14 33 (1.31%) IBM
15 25 (0.99%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.95%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.91%) Confluent
18 21 (0.83%) Foundry