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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,556 2,043 2,286
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.55% 16.12% 12.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.69% 38.01% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 1,482 1,761
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.30% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.80 £22.12
25th Percentile £44.00 £47.38 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.42% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £71.40
England median hourly rate £75.00 £71.25 £53.75
% change year-on-year +5.26% +32.56% -25.86%

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 7,586 5,375 6,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.20% 42.40% 37.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,230 3,733 4,969
10th Percentile £350 £356 £337
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £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 108 54 76
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -32.90%
75th Percentile £52.56 £53.75 £39.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £61.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.99
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.04% -30.63%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -1 292 £550 - 199
South London +6 89 £513 +7.89% 10
West London +6 71 £603 +6.64% 40
East London +1 12 £533 -8.97% 45
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
1 136 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.17%) Confluence
4 66 (2.58%) Apache
5 34 (1.33%) nginx
6 22 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.67%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
9 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.27%) CICS
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
12 5 (0.20%) CMS
12 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.078%) MQSeries
Applications
1 34 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.078%) Revit
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) 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 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (40.30%) Azure
2 565 (22.10%) GCP
3 391 (15.30%) Amazon S3
4 383 (14.98%) Serverless
5 333 (13.03%) AWS Lambda
6 328 (12.83%) GitHub
7 248 (9.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 192 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
10 159 (6.22%) Snowflake
11 151 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
12 148 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
13 144 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 144 (5.63%) Power Platform
14 115 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 98 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
16 73 (2.86%) SaaS
17 65 (2.54%) Amazon Kinesis
17 65 (2.54%) dbt
18 63 (2.46%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.83%) Firewall
2 62 (2.43%) Network Security
2 62 (2.43%) VPN
3 59 (2.31%) DNS
4 41 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.21%) WAN
6 19 (0.74%) BGP
7 17 (0.67%) HTTP
7 17 (0.67%) LAN
8 15 (0.59%) OSPF
9 13 (0.51%) DHCP
9 13 (0.51%) SSL
9 13 (0.51%) VLAN
10 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.35%) SAN
13 8 (0.31%) NAS
14 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (4.93%) Power BI
3 125 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 123 (4.81%) Data Lake
5 122 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
6 110 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
7 109 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
8 104 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (3.60%) SQL Server
10 80 (3.13%) Tableau
11 79 (3.09%) MongoDB
12 74 (2.90%) Relational Database
13 73 (2.86%) DynamoDB
14 70 (2.74%) Metadata
15 59 (2.31%) Big Data
16 48 (1.88%) MySQL
17 47 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
18 42 (1.64%) BigQuery
19 39 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
20 34 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 253 (9.90%) Git
2 216 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 213 (8.33%) GitLab
4 137 (5.36%) JIRA
5 43 (1.68%) MLflow
6 41 (1.60%) JUnit
7 33 (1.29%) Mockito
8 30 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.90%) Selenium
12 19 (0.74%) Maven
13 17 (0.67%) Gradle
14 16 (0.63%) Postman
15 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.55%) JMeter
16 13 (0.51%) Snyk
17 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 581 (22.73%) Finance
2 559 (21.87%) Social Skills
3 364 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 236 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 209 (8.18%) Banking
6 91 (3.56%) Front Office
7 64 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.17%) Retail
14 25 (0.98%) Legal
15 24 (0.94%) Marketing
16 18 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Billing
19 11 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 503 (19.68%) Architect
2 434 (16.98%) Developer
3 379 (14.83%) Senior
4 262 (10.25%) Data Engineer
5 256 (10.02%) Lead
6 243 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
7 194 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 144 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 123 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
10 117 (4.58%) Senior Developer
11 103 (4.03%) Analyst
12 101 (3.95%) AWS Architect
13 100 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
14 98 (3.83%) Java Developer
15 97 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
16 91 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
18 84 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
19 81 (3.17%) Python Engineer
20 79 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (12.32%) Kafka
2 245 (9.59%) React
3 199 (7.79%) Node.js
4 194 (7.59%) REST
5 164 (6.42%) Spring
6 150 (5.87%) Spring Boot
7 146 (5.71%) RESTful
8 79 (3.09%) AngularJS
9 78 (3.05%) .NET
10 76 (2.97%) PySpark
11 73 (2.86%) OAuth
12 69 (2.70%) SOAP
13 67 (2.62%) GraphQL
14 62 (2.43%) HTML
15 60 (2.35%) Redux
16 58 (2.27%) CSS
16 58 (2.27%) LDAP
17 57 (2.23%) Pandas
18 48 (1.88%) OpenID
19 47 (1.84%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 401 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (2.90%) Fixed Income
4 71 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 70 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.62%) Security Posture
7 65 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 57 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 57 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 52 (2.03%) Data Centre
11 47 (1.84%) Derivative
12 44 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (1.49%) Equities
15 37 (1.45%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.29%) Public Cloud
17 32 (1.25%) Data Structures
18 31 (1.21%) Mainframe
19 28 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 195 (7.63%) Linux
2 66 (2.58%) Windows
3 44 (1.72%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) VMS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) 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 2008
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 977 (38.22%) CI/CD
2 725 (28.36%) DevOps
3 609 (23.83%) Agile
4 522 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 460 (18.00%) AI
6 410 (16.04%) Microservices
7 385 (15.06%) Analytics
8 376 (14.71%) Containerisation
9 350 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
10 326 (12.75%) Software Engineering
11 293 (11.46%) Data Modelling
12 292 (11.42%) Migration
13 277 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
14 273 (10.68%) Data Engineering
15 262 (10.25%) Observability
16 255 (9.98%) Machine Learning
17 243 (9.51%) ETL
18 229 (8.96%) Full-Stack Development
19 224 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
20 203 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,007 (39.40%) Python
2 571 (22.34%) SQL
3 468 (18.31%) Java
4 224 (8.76%) TypeScript
5 221 (8.65%) JavaScript
6 110 (4.30%) C#
7 108 (4.23%) Go
8 104 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 102 (3.99%) Bash
10 43 (1.68%) Scala
11 41 (1.60%) Ruby
12 38 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 22 (0.86%) R
14 19 (0.74%) Bicep
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.70%) C++
16 15 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.35%) Perl
18 8 (0.31%) C
18 8 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 735 (28.76%) Security Cleared
2 652 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.05%) AWS Certification
4 121 (4.73%) Degree
5 72 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.35%) CISSP
7 58 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 36 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.17%) CISM
13 24 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.94%) PMP
14 21 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 21 (0.82%) CCNP
15 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.63%) CCSP
17 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 125 (4.89%) GDPR
3 91 (3.56%) QA
4 81 (3.17%) NIST
5 69 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.06%) SLA
9 23 (0.90%) NCSC
10 14 (0.55%) GRC
10 14 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 13 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.51%) PMO
11 13 (0.51%) WCAG
12 10 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.27%) PSD2
15 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 519 (20.31%) Docker
2 80 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.20%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) IAG
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.078%) Firmware
11 2 (0.078%) KVM
11 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.078%) Postfix
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 611 (23.90%) Terraform
2 534 (20.89%) Kubernetes
3 132 (5.16%) Ansible
3 132 (5.16%) Grafana
4 116 (4.54%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (1.02%) Argo
7 20 (0.78%) Consul
7 20 (0.78%) Puppet
8 16 (0.63%) Kibana
8 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 13 (0.51%) Packer
9 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.43%) QRadar
11 7 (0.27%) Istio
11 7 (0.27%) SCCM
12 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 191 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 134 (5.24%) Databricks
3 96 (3.76%) Google
4 92 (3.60%) Oracle
5 79 (3.09%) Splunk
6 77 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 60 (2.35%) CyberArk
8 57 (2.23%) OpenAI
9 46 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 43 (1.68%) Cisco
11 40 (1.56%) VMware
12 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.37%) Centrify
12 35 (1.37%) SAP
13 33 (1.29%) IBM
14 32 (1.25%) Dynatrace
15 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.90%) Confluent
18 22 (0.86%) Foundry