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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,758 2,088 2,397
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.56% 16.81% 13.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.64% 39.09% 34.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,901 1,466 1,861
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.13% -3.53%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £543 £560
% change year-on-year +1.38% -3.13% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 12
10th Percentile £37.70 £36.00 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +93.49% -65.44%
75th Percentile £79.38 £67.50 £59.88
90th Percentile £87.38 £84.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 7,961 5,341 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.99% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,464 3,627 5,108
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 68 70
10th Percentile £20.85 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -49.55%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.38 £55.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -3 290 £550 - 111
West London +4 87 £560 +13.71% 66
South London +2 81 £500 - 3
East London +6 16 £543 -7.26% 28
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
1 131 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 81 (2.94%) Confluence
4 56 (2.03%) Apache
5 29 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.65%) nginx
7 13 (0.47%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
8 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.36%) SAS
10 8 (0.29%) CMS
11 7 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 41 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.40%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.15%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Endur
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
4 4 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.073%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.073%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.036%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,119 (40.57%) Azure
2 567 (20.56%) GCP
3 411 (14.90%) Amazon S3
4 410 (14.87%) Serverless
5 356 (12.91%) AWS Lambda
6 343 (12.44%) GitHub
7 216 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
8 197 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 189 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
10 188 (6.82%) Snowflake
11 171 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
12 168 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 150 (5.44%) Power Platform
14 137 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
15 127 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 110 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
17 106 (3.84%) SaaS
18 93 (3.37%) dbt
19 91 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
20 80 (2.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 106 (3.84%) Firewall
2 82 (2.97%) Network Security
3 69 (2.50%) VPN
4 66 (2.39%) DNS
5 47 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.38%) WAN
7 25 (0.91%) BGP
8 23 (0.83%) HTTP
9 20 (0.73%) DHCP
10 19 (0.69%) OSPF
10 19 (0.69%) SSL
11 17 (0.62%) LAN
12 15 (0.54%) NGFW
13 14 (0.51%) Internet
13 14 (0.51%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.44%) VLAN
15 10 (0.36%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
16 9 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
3 131 (4.75%) Power BI
4 129 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
5 125 (4.53%) Data Lake
6 113 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
6 113 (4.10%) NoSQL
7 108 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 107 (3.88%) SQL Server
9 86 (3.12%) DynamoDB
10 78 (2.83%) Metadata
11 77 (2.79%) MongoDB
12 75 (2.72%) Tableau
13 72 (2.61%) Relational Database
14 63 (2.28%) Big Data
15 46 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
16 42 (1.52%) BigQuery
17 39 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
17 39 (1.41%) MySQL
18 36 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 245 (8.88%) Git
2 242 (8.77%) GitLab
2 242 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 144 (5.22%) JIRA
4 41 (1.49%) JUnit
5 32 (1.16%) MLflow
5 32 (1.16%) Mockito
6 29 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 28 (1.02%) JMeter
8 25 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.91%) Maven
9 22 (0.80%) Gradle
10 21 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 20 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 20 (0.73%) Postman
12 19 (0.69%) Gatling
12 19 (0.69%) Selenium
13 16 (0.58%) CircleCI
13 16 (0.58%) Snyk
14 14 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 661 (23.97%) Finance
2 592 (21.46%) Social Skills
3 395 (14.32%) Public Sector
4 236 (8.56%) Banking
5 231 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (2.97%) Front Office
7 67 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (2.03%) Retail
10 52 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 44 (1.60%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.31%) Telecoms
13 31 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (0.94%) Marketing
14 26 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (0.80%) Legal
16 21 (0.76%) Law
17 16 (0.58%) Military
18 15 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 536 (19.43%) Architect
2 414 (15.01%) Developer
2 414 (15.01%) Senior
3 304 (11.02%) Lead
4 298 (10.80%) Data Engineer
5 289 (10.48%) AWS Engineer
6 213 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 149 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
8 148 (5.37%) Software Engineer
9 129 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 111 (4.02%) AWS Architect
11 108 (3.92%) Senior Developer
12 104 (3.77%) Java Developer
13 101 (3.66%) Analyst
14 96 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
15 95 (3.44%) Cloud Architect
16 91 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
18 84 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 74 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (11.13%) Kafka
2 246 (8.92%) React
3 227 (8.23%) REST
4 179 (6.49%) Node.js
5 172 (6.24%) Spring
6 164 (5.95%) Spring Boot
7 144 (5.22%) RESTful
8 96 (3.48%) .NET
9 88 (3.19%) PySpark
10 83 (3.01%) GraphQL
11 81 (2.94%) OAuth
12 79 (2.86%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.32%) Redux
14 59 (2.14%) SOAP
15 56 (2.03%) HTML
15 56 (2.03%) Pandas
16 55 (1.99%) FastAPI
17 54 (1.96%) JSON
18 52 (1.89%) LDAP
18 52 (1.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 485 (17.59%) Cloud Native
2 168 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 90 (3.26%) AI Agents
5 78 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 78 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.76%) Fixed Income
7 75 (2.72%) Security Posture
8 63 (2.28%) Data Centre
9 61 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 54 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.60%) Derivative
14 39 (1.41%) Equities
15 33 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 31 (1.12%) Algorithms
16 31 (1.12%) Data Structures
17 30 (1.09%) Public Cloud
18 29 (1.05%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 201 (7.29%) Linux
2 100 (3.63%) Windows
3 39 (1.41%) Unix
4 31 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.40%) Android
7 10 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.15%) VMS
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.073%) CentOS
14 2 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,071 (38.83%) CI/CD
2 818 (29.66%) DevOps
3 661 (23.97%) Agile
4 581 (21.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 565 (20.49%) AI
6 413 (14.97%) Microservices
7 400 (14.50%) Containerisation
8 379 (13.74%) Analytics
9 347 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
10 333 (12.07%) Software Engineering
11 331 (12.00%) Migration
12 312 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
13 311 (11.28%) Data Modelling
14 302 (10.95%) Data Engineering
15 289 (10.48%) Observability
16 288 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 285 (10.33%) Machine Learning
18 254 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 242 (8.77%) Event-Driven
20 237 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,049 (38.03%) Python
2 595 (21.57%) SQL
3 478 (17.33%) Java
4 253 (9.17%) TypeScript
5 218 (7.90%) JavaScript
6 122 (4.42%) PowerShell
7 121 (4.39%) C#
8 117 (4.24%) Bash
9 89 (3.23%) Go
10 45 (1.63%) Scala
11 34 (1.23%) Ruby
11 34 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 26 (0.94%) Bicep
13 24 (0.87%) R
14 22 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 16 (0.58%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.51%) C++
17 14 (0.51%) Groovy
18 11 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 749 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 669 (24.26%) SC Cleared
3 144 (5.22%) Degree
4 131 (4.75%) AWS Certification
5 84 (3.05%) CISSP
6 66 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 59 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 53 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.38%) CISM
12 33 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 27 (0.98%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.91%) PMP
16 24 (0.87%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.80%) CCSP
18 21 (0.76%) CCNP
19 15 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
20 14 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 114 (4.13%) QA
3 102 (3.70%) GDPR
4 94 (3.41%) NIST
5 79 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.05%) GRC
9 27 (0.98%) SLA
10 21 (0.76%) NCSC
11 18 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 18 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.62%) PMO
13 12 (0.44%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.44%) WCAG
14 10 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.33%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.29%) SEPA
17 7 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 490 (17.77%) Docker
2 96 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.62%) Squid
6 9 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.15%) HDFS
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.073%) Firmware
10 2 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 661 (23.97%) Terraform
2 561 (20.34%) Kubernetes
3 163 (5.91%) Ansible
4 161 (5.84%) Grafana
5 142 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.87%) Puppet
8 21 (0.76%) Kibana
9 19 (0.69%) Argo
10 14 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.44%) Consul
13 10 (0.36%) Packer
14 9 (0.33%) QRadar
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
15 7 (0.25%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
16 5 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 220 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.53%) Databricks
3 107 (3.88%) Google
4 96 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 94 (3.41%) Oracle
6 78 (2.83%) Splunk
7 67 (2.43%) CyberArk
8 62 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 61 (2.21%) OpenAI
10 47 (1.70%) Cisco
11 39 (1.41%) VMware
12 36 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.23%) Foundry
14 32 (1.16%) Red Hat
14 32 (1.16%) SAP
15 30 (1.09%) Dynatrace
16 27 (0.98%) IBM
17 25 (0.91%) Informatica
17 25 (0.91%) MuleSoft
18 23 (0.83%) BeyondTrust