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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,562 2,036 2,308
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.78% 16.07% 12.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.07% 37.75% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,771 1,469 1,768
10th Percentile £400 £400 £408
25th Percentile £463 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.81%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.80 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £47.38 £28.26
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £76.69 £81.25 £63.63
90th Percentile £91.88 £97.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +31.82% -19.71%

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 7,520 5,393 6,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.37% 42.58% 37.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,742 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 78
10th Percentile £19.68 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.42 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52.56 £54.13 £40.72
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £45.23 £26.81 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.69% +29.09% -24.47%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 0 296 £543 -1.36% 278
South London +5 94 £513 +7.89% 9
West London +7 73 £603 +6.64% 37
East London +2 13 £540 -7.69% 46
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 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 78 (3.04%) Confluence
4 68 (2.65%) Apache
5 34 (1.33%) nginx
6 26 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.66%) Camunda
7 17 (0.66%) SAS
8 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.27%) Appian
9 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.23%) CMS
11 5 (0.20%) CICS
11 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.078%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 33 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.43%) 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%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
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%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,021 (39.85%) Azure
2 556 (21.70%) GCP
3 400 (15.61%) Amazon S3
4 396 (15.46%) Serverless
5 347 (13.54%) AWS Lambda
6 325 (12.69%) GitHub
7 250 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 189 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
9 172 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
10 159 (6.21%) Snowflake
11 152 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
12 150 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
13 148 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 148 (5.78%) Power Platform
14 112 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 92 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
16 70 (2.73%) SaaS
17 69 (2.69%) Amazon Kinesis
18 66 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
18 66 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.71%) Firewall
2 63 (2.46%) VPN
3 61 (2.38%) DNS
4 59 (2.30%) Network Security
5 42 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.25%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 16 (0.62%) HTTP
10 15 (0.59%) DHCP
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 15 (0.59%) VLAN
11 12 (0.47%) SSL
12 11 (0.43%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
13 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.35%) SAN
15 8 (0.31%) NAS
16 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 132 (5.15%) Power BI
3 127 (4.96%) NoSQL
4 125 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
5 120 (4.68%) Data Lake
6 118 (4.61%) Amazon Athena
7 115 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
8 106 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (3.59%) SQL Server
10 88 (3.43%) Relational Database
11 86 (3.36%) Tableau
12 80 (3.12%) MongoDB
13 77 (3.01%) DynamoDB
14 76 (2.97%) Metadata
15 58 (2.26%) Big Data
16 48 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
16 48 (1.87%) MySQL
17 39 (1.52%) BigQuery
18 38 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
19 35 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 254 (9.91%) Git
2 215 (8.39%) GitLab
3 210 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 140 (5.46%) JIRA
5 44 (1.72%) JUnit
6 42 (1.64%) MLflow
7 32 (1.25%) Mockito
8 30 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 26 (1.01%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.94%) Selenium
11 24 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.78%) Maven
13 17 (0.66%) Gradle
14 16 (0.62%) Postman
15 13 (0.51%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.51%) JMeter
15 13 (0.51%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.47%) Snyk
16 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 571 (22.29%) Finance
2 568 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 371 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 242 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (8.12%) Banking
6 92 (3.59%) Front Office
7 66 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.13%) Retail
14 24 (0.94%) Legal
15 23 (0.90%) Marketing
16 17 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Law
17 14 (0.55%) Military
18 13 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 491 (19.16%) Architect
2 448 (17.49%) Developer
3 385 (15.03%) Senior
4 266 (10.38%) Data Engineer
5 256 (9.99%) Lead
6 246 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
7 193 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 144 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 123 (4.80%) Senior Developer
10 119 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
11 110 (4.29%) Analyst
12 102 (3.98%) Java Developer
13 101 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
14 100 (3.90%) AWS Architect
15 99 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
16 93 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.40%) Python Engineer
18 85 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
19 83 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
19 83 (3.24%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (12.69%) Kafka
2 253 (9.88%) React
3 207 (8.08%) Node.js
4 195 (7.61%) REST
5 163 (6.36%) Spring
6 149 (5.82%) RESTful
6 149 (5.82%) Spring Boot
7 83 (3.24%) AngularJS
8 81 (3.16%) PySpark
9 75 (2.93%) .NET
10 70 (2.73%) OAuth
11 65 (2.54%) GraphQL
11 65 (2.54%) SOAP
12 62 (2.42%) Pandas
13 61 (2.38%) HTML
14 60 (2.34%) Redux
15 59 (2.30%) CSS
16 53 (2.07%) LDAP
17 47 (1.83%) JSON
17 47 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 392 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (2.93%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 69 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 67 (2.62%) Security Posture
7 66 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 64 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 58 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 56 (2.19%) Data Centre
11 54 (2.11%) AI Agents
12 47 (1.83%) Derivative
13 43 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.68%) Management Information System
14 41 (1.60%) Algorithms
15 38 (1.48%) Equities
16 34 (1.33%) Public Cloud
17 33 (1.29%) Data Structures
18 29 (1.13%) Mainframe
19 26 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 193 (7.53%) Linux
2 68 (2.65%) Windows
3 47 (1.83%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) VMS
6 9 (0.35%) Android
7 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.27%) zOS
9 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.078%) AIX
13 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
14 1 (0.039%) Debian
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (38.17%) CI/CD
2 719 (28.06%) DevOps
3 618 (24.12%) Agile
4 514 (20.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 448 (17.49%) AI
6 415 (16.20%) Microservices
7 386 (15.07%) Analytics
8 371 (14.48%) Containerisation
9 359 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
10 324 (12.65%) Software Engineering
11 301 (11.75%) Data Modelling
12 292 (11.40%) Migration
13 276 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
14 272 (10.62%) Data Engineering
15 262 (10.23%) Observability
16 252 (9.84%) Machine Learning
17 249 (9.72%) ETL
18 230 (8.98%) Full-Stack Development
19 224 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
20 205 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,020 (39.81%) Python
2 588 (22.95%) SQL
3 471 (18.38%) Java
4 229 (8.94%) TypeScript
5 226 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 110 (4.29%) Go
7 105 (4.10%) C#
8 104 (4.06%) Bash
9 98 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.72%) Scala
11 42 (1.64%) Ruby
12 38 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 21 (0.82%) R
14 19 (0.74%) C++
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.70%) Bicep
16 15 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.31%) C
17 8 (0.31%) Korn
17 8 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 746 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 661 (25.80%) SC Cleared
3 126 (4.92%) AWS Certification
4 121 (4.72%) Degree
5 72 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (2.19%) CISSP
7 54 (2.11%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 34 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 28 (1.09%) CISM
13 24 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.94%) PMP
14 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 19 (0.74%) CCNP
16 14 (0.55%) CCSP
16 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 123 (4.80%) GDPR
3 91 (3.55%) QA
4 82 (3.20%) NIST
5 75 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.09%) NCSC
7 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.05%) SLA
9 15 (0.59%) GRC
9 15 (0.59%) WCAG
10 14 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 13 (0.51%) PMO
12 11 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.27%) PSD2
15 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.20%) HL7
16 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 516 (20.14%) Docker
2 79 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.66%) 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
1 606 (23.65%) Terraform
2 540 (21.08%) Kubernetes
3 131 (5.11%) Ansible
4 130 (5.07%) Grafana
5 113 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.05%) Argo
8 20 (0.78%) Puppet
9 19 (0.74%) Consul
10 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (0.62%) Kibana
12 13 (0.51%) Packer
12 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.47%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.35%) QRadar
14 9 (0.35%) SCCM
15 7 (0.27%) Istio
16 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
17 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
18 4 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 184 (7.18%) Microsoft
2 139 (5.43%) Databricks
3 94 (3.67%) Google
4 93 (3.63%) Oracle
5 80 (3.12%) Splunk
6 75 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 60 (2.34%) CyberArk
8 55 (2.15%) OpenAI
9 44 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 40 (1.56%) Cisco
10 40 (1.56%) VMware
11 36 (1.41%) IBM
12 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.37%) Centrify
13 34 (1.33%) Dynatrace
13 34 (1.33%) SAP
14 25 (0.98%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.90%) Confluent
16 22 (0.86%) Foundry