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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,343 1,959 2,305
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.98% 14.46% 12.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.10% 34.85% 33.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,598 1,410 1,775
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £460 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £76.67 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.68% -5.22% -14.18%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +35.14% +8.71% -20.23%

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 6,870 5,621 6,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.93% 41.49% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,704 3,775 5,050
10th Percentile £348 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
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 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 80
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.56
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -1 272 £538 -0.23% 249
South London +7 90 £519 +6.10% 23
West London +9 51 £603 +5.42% 52
East London +5 8 £653 - 39
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
1 103 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 86 (3.67%) Confluence
4 59 (2.52%) Apache
5 34 (1.45%) nginx
6 15 (0.64%) SAS
7 14 (0.60%) Camunda
7 14 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.34%) Appian
10 4 (0.17%) Traefik
11 3 (0.13%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.085%) Drupal
12 2 (0.085%) Mule
12 2 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.043%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.043%) Notion
7 1 (0.043%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.17%) Actimize
4 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.17%) Endur
5 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.085%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.085%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.085%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.043%) Maximo
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.043%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 947 (40.42%) Azure
2 550 (23.47%) GCP
3 363 (15.49%) Serverless
4 334 (14.26%) Amazon S3
5 318 (13.57%) GitHub
6 313 (13.36%) AWS Lambda
7 214 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 185 (7.90%) GitHub Actions
9 169 (7.21%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.74%) Snowflake
11 142 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
12 136 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 136 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
13 134 (5.72%) Power Platform
14 107 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 69 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
16 64 (2.73%) Amazon Kinesis
17 62 (2.65%) dbt
18 52 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
19 49 (2.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.69%) Firewall
2 67 (2.86%) VPN
3 60 (2.56%) DNS
4 59 (2.52%) Network Security
5 41 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.20%) WAN
7 23 (0.98%) SSL
8 17 (0.73%) BGP
8 17 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.68%) LAN
10 15 (0.64%) DHCP
10 15 (0.64%) OSPF
11 14 (0.60%) HTTP
12 12 (0.51%) VLAN
13 9 (0.38%) 5G
13 9 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.38%) Wireless
13 9 (0.38%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.34%) 4G
15 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (9.99%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 120 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
4 119 (5.08%) Power BI
5 117 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
6 102 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 95 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 93 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
9 92 (3.93%) Relational Database
10 85 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 68 (2.90%) Tableau
12 67 (2.86%) MongoDB
13 65 (2.77%) DynamoDB
14 63 (2.69%) Metadata
15 58 (2.48%) MySQL
16 52 (2.22%) Big Data
17 51 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
18 45 (1.92%) BigQuery
19 37 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
20 35 (1.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 229 (9.77%) Git
2 212 (9.05%) Jenkins
3 200 (8.54%) GitLab
4 149 (6.36%) JIRA
5 44 (1.88%) JUnit
6 40 (1.71%) MLflow
7 30 (1.28%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.85%) Mockito
11 19 (0.81%) ERwin
12 18 (0.77%) Selenium
12 18 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 17 (0.73%) Maven
14 16 (0.68%) JMeter
15 14 (0.60%) Gatling
16 12 (0.51%) ER Studio
17 11 (0.47%) Gradle
17 11 (0.47%) Postman
18 9 (0.38%) REST Assured
General
1 580 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 509 (21.72%) Finance
3 299 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 216 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 193 (8.24%) Banking
6 70 (2.99%) Front Office
7 58 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.37%) Retail
12 31 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 31 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 23 (0.98%) Marketing
15 19 (0.81%) Military
16 18 (0.77%) Legal
17 14 (0.60%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 432 (18.44%) Developer
2 406 (17.33%) Architect
3 371 (15.83%) Senior
4 236 (10.07%) AWS Engineer
5 218 (9.30%) Data Engineer
6 202 (8.62%) Lead
7 198 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 133 (5.68%) Software Engineer
9 125 (5.34%) Senior Developer
10 107 (4.57%) Analyst
11 98 (4.18%) Python Engineer
12 97 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
13 95 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
14 92 (3.93%) Java Developer
15 91 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
16 88 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 80 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
17 80 (3.41%) Python Developer
18 76 (3.24%) AWS Architect
19 75 (3.20%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (13.15%) Kafka
2 229 (9.77%) React
3 178 (7.60%) Node.js
4 171 (7.30%) REST
5 141 (6.02%) Spring
6 125 (5.34%) RESTful
7 120 (5.12%) Spring Boot
8 99 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 74 (3.16%) CSS
10 72 (3.07%) HTML
11 68 (2.90%) .NET
12 63 (2.69%) Pandas
13 60 (2.56%) gRPC
13 60 (2.56%) SOAP
14 59 (2.52%) PySpark
15 57 (2.43%) NumPy
15 57 (2.43%) OAuth
15 57 (2.43%) PyTorch
16 54 (2.30%) Vue
17 53 (2.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 332 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 120 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.41%) Security Posture
4 61 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.43%) Fixed Income
7 53 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (2.05%) Derivative
9 47 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 45 (1.92%) Algorithms
10 45 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 39 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 38 (1.62%) AI Agents
12 38 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
13 37 (1.58%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.54%) Equities
15 35 (1.49%) Data Structures
16 34 (1.45%) Hedge funds
17 30 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
17 30 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.24%) Linux
2 63 (2.69%) Windows
3 48 (2.05%) Unix
4 19 (0.81%) VMS
5 12 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.30%) Android
6 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.21%) CentOS
9 3 (0.13%) zOS
10 2 (0.085%) Solaris
10 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 902 (38.50%) CI/CD
2 644 (27.49%) DevOps
3 557 (23.77%) Agile
4 465 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 381 (16.26%) AI
6 376 (16.05%) Microservices
7 359 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
8 358 (15.28%) Analytics
9 316 (13.49%) Containerisation
10 301 (12.85%) Software Engineering
11 266 (11.35%) Data Modelling
12 250 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
13 243 (10.37%) Machine Learning
14 236 (10.07%) Data Engineering
15 229 (9.77%) Observability
16 228 (9.73%) ETL
17 212 (9.05%) Migration
18 194 (8.28%) Full-Stack Development
19 182 (7.77%) Test Automation
20 181 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 985 (42.04%) Python
2 551 (23.52%) SQL
3 433 (18.48%) Java
4 220 (9.39%) JavaScript
5 200 (8.54%) TypeScript
6 107 (4.57%) Go
7 104 (4.44%) Bash
8 101 (4.31%) C#
9 89 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.32%) Scala
11 30 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.24%) C++
12 29 (1.24%) Ruby
13 18 (0.77%) R
14 15 (0.64%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.60%) Rust
16 13 (0.55%) Bicep
16 13 (0.55%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.47%) Korn
17 11 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 652 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 572 (24.41%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 119 (5.08%) Degree
5 64 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 44 (1.88%) CISSP
8 42 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 36 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (1.41%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 21 (0.90%) CISM
14 18 (0.77%) OSCP
15 17 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 16 (0.68%) CCNP
16 16 (0.68%) PMP
17 15 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (0.51%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 106 (4.52%) GDPR
3 83 (3.54%) QA
4 68 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.65%) NIST
6 42 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.11%) NCSC
8 24 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.60%) SLA
10 13 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.55%) WCAG
11 12 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.47%) GRC
12 11 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.38%) PMO
14 7 (0.30%) PSD2
15 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.21%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 518 (22.11%) Docker
2 62 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.51%) Squid
5 9 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.26%) zsh
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
8 4 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.17%) Postfix
8 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) NFS
11 1 (0.043%) NLBS
11 1 (0.043%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 555 (23.69%) Terraform
2 534 (22.79%) Kubernetes
3 136 (5.80%) Ansible
4 100 (4.27%) Grafana
5 89 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (1.49%) Argo
8 17 (0.73%) Consul
8 17 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.73%) Puppet
9 15 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.51%) Kibana
10 12 (0.51%) Nessus
10 12 (0.51%) Packer
11 11 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.47%) SCCM
12 7 (0.30%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.30%) QRadar
13 6 (0.26%) Istio
13 6 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 154 (6.57%) Microsoft
2 151 (6.44%) Databricks
3 90 (3.84%) Oracle
4 89 (3.80%) Google
5 78 (3.33%) Splunk
6 63 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 46 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 44 (1.88%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 36 (1.54%) Cisco
11 34 (1.45%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.45%) Centrify
12 33 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.37%) Dynatrace
14 30 (1.28%) IBM
15 27 (1.15%) Red Hat
16 26 (1.11%) SAP
17 25 (1.07%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.85%) VMware
19 19 (0.81%) Atlassian