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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,109 2,201 2,744
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.73% 13.99% 13.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.81% 33.98% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 1,615 2,135
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £458 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% - -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £708
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 13
10th Percentile £37.38 £27.54 £36.81
25th Percentile £45.63 £33.14 £47.50
Median hourly rate £73.50 £46.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.92% -45.59% +74.36%
75th Percentile £87.50 £62.81 £90.00
90th Percentile £91.88 £72.38 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £51.06
% change year-on-year +62.41% -9.55% -21.45%

All Cloud 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 5,889 6,477 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.92% 41.16% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 4,414 5,914
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £753 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 35 61
10th Percentile £19.17 £22.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -9.68% +21.09%
75th Percentile £45.06 £55.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.38 £72.15 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.10
% change year-on-year -29.15% +31.00% +20.44%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 0 231 £600 +4.35% 725
South London +6 52 £515 +1.98% 45
West London -9 25 £425 -26.09% 89
East London +12 8 £675 -10.00% 79
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
1 151 (7.16%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (4.55%) Confluence
3 88 (4.17%) Apache
4 74 (3.51%) Apache Spark
5 33 (1.56%) nginx
6 19 (0.90%) Jupyter
7 17 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.71%) SAS
9 12 (0.57%) CMS
10 10 (0.47%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.33%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.24%) Camunda
14 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.14%) Drupal
15 3 (0.14%) JBoss
15 3 (0.14%) Luigi
15 3 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 9 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) Trello
7 2 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.047%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.047%) Pro Tools
8 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 17 (0.81%) Endur
2 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.14%) Actimize
6 2 (0.095%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.095%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.095%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.095%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.095%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.095%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.095%) Shopify
7 1 (0.047%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.047%) Magento
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.047%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.047%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 800 (37.93%) Azure
2 484 (22.95%) GCP
3 272 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 271 (12.85%) GitHub
5 260 (12.33%) Serverless
6 217 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
7 170 (8.06%) Snowflake
8 164 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
9 143 (6.78%) dbt
10 133 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
11 128 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 109 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 90 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
14 87 (4.13%) Power Platform
15 81 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
16 75 (3.56%) SaaS
17 69 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
18 63 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 62 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
20 47 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 121 (5.74%) Firewall
2 70 (3.32%) DNS
3 54 (2.56%) VPN
4 51 (2.42%) Network Security
5 31 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.47%) WAN
6 28 (1.33%) HTTP
6 28 (1.33%) SSL
7 26 (1.23%) BGP
8 22 (1.04%) OSPF
9 19 (0.90%) LAN
9 19 (0.90%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.85%) DHCP
11 17 (0.81%) SSH
12 16 (0.76%) VLAN
13 15 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
14 11 (0.52%) FTP
15 10 (0.47%) IMAP
15 10 (0.47%) SMTP
16 9 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
4 100 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
5 98 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 97 (4.60%) NoSQL
7 88 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 81 (3.84%) Power BI
9 73 (3.46%) Apache Iceberg
10 70 (3.32%) DynamoDB
11 68 (3.22%) SQL Server
12 63 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 63 (2.99%) Apache Arrow
12 63 (2.99%) Dremio
13 50 (2.37%) Metadata
13 50 (2.37%) MySQL
14 48 (2.28%) Big Data
15 47 (2.23%) MongoDB
16 45 (2.13%) Tableau
17 42 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 235 (11.14%) Git
2 202 (9.58%) Jenkins
3 145 (6.88%) JIRA
4 113 (5.36%) GitLab
5 45 (2.13%) JUnit
6 33 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.28%) ERwin
7 27 (1.28%) Maven
8 26 (1.23%) CircleCI
9 25 (1.19%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.09%) Cypress.io
11 22 (1.04%) Metasploit
11 22 (1.04%) MLflow
12 20 (0.95%) Burp Suite
13 19 (0.90%) ER Studio
13 19 (0.90%) Selenium
14 17 (0.81%) Artifactory
15 16 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
16 15 (0.71%) Bitbucket
16 15 (0.71%) Mockito
General
1 534 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 505 (23.94%) Finance
3 225 (10.67%) Banking
4 223 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 202 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (6.21%) Front Office
7 113 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 45 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.38%) Marketing
11 26 (1.23%) Retail
12 25 (1.19%) Military
13 24 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 20 (0.95%) Legal
16 13 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.57%) Back Office
17 12 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 449 (21.29%) Developer
2 369 (17.50%) Senior
3 331 (15.69%) Architect
4 252 (11.95%) AWS Engineer
5 166 (7.87%) Software Engineer
6 161 (7.63%) Lead
7 152 (7.21%) Data Engineer
8 147 (6.97%) DevOps Engineer
9 142 (6.73%) Python Engineer
10 132 (6.26%) Java Developer
11 102 (4.84%) AWS Developer
12 93 (4.41%) Senior Developer
13 92 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
14 91 (4.31%) Python Developer
15 86 (4.08%) Java Engineer
16 78 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
17 76 (3.60%) Analyst
18 73 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
19 72 (3.41%) AWS Software Engineer
20 67 (3.18%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (12.19%) React
2 247 (11.71%) Kafka
3 177 (8.39%) Node.js
4 129 (6.12%) AngularJS
5 124 (5.88%) REST
6 115 (5.45%) Spring
7 103 (4.88%) Pandas
8 102 (4.84%) NumPy
9 97 (4.60%) Spring Boot
10 96 (4.55%) RESTful
11 89 (4.22%) gRPC
12 84 (3.98%) SciPy
13 83 (3.94%) GraphQL
14 76 (3.60%) Vue
15 60 (2.84%) .NET
16 57 (2.70%) HTML
17 55 (2.61%) CSS
18 48 (2.28%) FastAPI
19 47 (2.23%) Redux
20 44 (2.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 232 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 107 (5.07%) Fixed Income
2 107 (5.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 94 (4.46%) Hedge funds
4 93 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 88 (4.17%) Equities
6 67 (3.18%) Derivative
6 67 (3.18%) Product Ownership
7 61 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 47 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 47 (2.23%) Public Cloud
9 44 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 43 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
11 38 (1.80%) Pricing Data
11 38 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 38 (1.80%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.71%) Data Centre
13 34 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
14 28 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (1.23%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 184 (8.72%) Linux
2 82 (3.89%) Windows
3 51 (2.42%) Unix
4 17 (0.81%) VMS
5 16 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 14 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
7 12 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.47%) Android
8 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.38%) CentOS
10 7 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.095%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Debian
12 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (35.56%) CI/CD
2 624 (29.59%) Agile
3 566 (26.84%) DevOps
4 375 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 337 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
6 322 (15.27%) Software Engineering
7 319 (15.13%) Microservices
8 253 (12.00%) Analytics
9 234 (11.10%) Containerisation
10 218 (10.34%) AI
11 195 (9.25%) Data Modelling
12 192 (9.10%) Migration
13 185 (8.77%) Machine Learning
14 178 (8.44%) Data Pipeline
15 176 (8.35%) ETL
16 169 (8.01%) Full-Stack Development
17 165 (7.82%) Cloud Security
18 160 (7.59%) Data Engineering
19 159 (7.54%) Observability
20 158 (7.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 924 (43.81%) Python
2 483 (22.90%) Java
3 434 (20.58%) SQL
4 293 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 282 (13.37%) JavaScript
6 142 (6.73%) Bash
7 131 (6.21%) Go
8 81 (3.84%) PowerShell
9 70 (3.32%) C#
10 58 (2.75%) C++
11 33 (1.56%) Scala
12 26 (1.23%) Groovy
13 25 (1.19%) Perl
13 25 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.14%) C
14 24 (1.14%) Rust
15 18 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.81%) R
17 16 (0.76%) Ruby
18 14 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 455 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 393 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 148 (7.02%) Degree
4 112 (5.31%) AWS Certification
5 64 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 33 (1.56%) CISSP
8 32 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.47%) OSCP
10 30 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (1.04%) CREST Certified
13 16 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (0.71%) CCNP
14 15 (0.71%) CISM
15 13 (0.62%) Tigerscheme
16 12 (0.57%) PhD
17 11 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 11 (0.52%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 95 (4.50%) QA
3 71 (3.37%) GDPR
4 70 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.89%) NIST
6 35 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.23%) NCSC
8 19 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.81%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.76%) WCAG
12 12 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.47%) MiFID
13 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.38%) GRC
15 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.33%) SLA
16 5 (0.24%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.19%) EMIR
System Software
1 456 (21.62%) Docker
2 47 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.52%) Postfix
5 10 (0.47%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.47%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.47%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) Squid
5 10 (0.47%) zsh
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.047%) etcd
8 1 (0.047%) iptables
8 1 (0.047%) KVM
8 1 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.047%) Snort
8 1 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.047%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 485 (23.00%) Kubernetes
2 434 (20.58%) Terraform
3 151 (7.16%) Ansible
4 105 (4.98%) Grafana
5 102 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.33%) Puppet
8 24 (1.14%) Argo
9 23 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 20 (0.95%) Nmap
11 18 (0.85%) Packer
12 17 (0.81%) Nessus
13 15 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.66%) Consul
15 13 (0.62%) Kibana
16 11 (0.52%) SCCM
17 10 (0.47%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
19 8 (0.38%) QRadar
20 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 158 (7.49%) Microsoft
2 113 (5.36%) Databricks
3 88 (4.17%) Splunk
4 83 (3.94%) Google
5 67 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 59 (2.80%) Oracle
7 41 (1.94%) Cisco
8 32 (1.52%) Arista
9 31 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 29 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.28%) F5
12 22 (1.04%) CheckPoint
13 21 (1.00%) Fortinet
13 21 (1.00%) IBM
13 21 (1.00%) OpenAI
14 18 (0.85%) Tenable
14 18 (0.85%) VMware
15 17 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.76%) Informatica
16 16 (0.76%) SAP