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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,531 1,996 2,299
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.02% 15.80% 12.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.30% 37.22% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,726 1,462 1,766
10th Percentile £400 £402 £407
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 14
10th Percentile £35.00 £46.50 £22.14
25th Percentile £65.63 £51.75 £29.85
Median hourly rate £75.59 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £67.50 £61.88
90th Percentile £94.63 £84.00 £70.85
England median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +31.82% -15.71%

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 7,378 5,363 6,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.78% 42.46% 37.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,054 3,755 4,966
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 79
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +10.79% -25.03%
75th Percentile £51.10 £54.13 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.05% +29.46% -17.58%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -1 296 £550 +2.33% 301
South London +3 94 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +12 61 £603 +6.64% 42
East London +2 11 £630 +7.69% 33
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
1 126 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.16%) Confluence
4 69 (2.73%) Apache
5 33 (1.30%) nginx
6 23 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.67%) Camunda
7 17 (0.67%) SAS
8 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.32%) Appian
11 5 (0.20%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) CICS
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.079%) Drupal
14 2 (0.079%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.040%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.040%) Notion
9 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.16%) Endur
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.079%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.040%) Maximo
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.040%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (41.29%) Azure
2 585 (23.11%) GCP
3 380 (15.01%) Serverless
4 361 (14.26%) Amazon S3
5 339 (13.39%) GitHub
6 325 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
7 238 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 193 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
9 176 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
10 157 (6.20%) Snowflake
11 153 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
12 148 (5.85%) Power Platform
13 144 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
14 135 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 115 (4.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 88 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
17 64 (2.53%) dbt
18 63 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
19 60 (2.37%) AWS Step Functions
19 60 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 102 (4.03%) Firewall
2 71 (2.81%) VPN
3 62 (2.45%) DNS
4 60 (2.37%) Network Security
5 45 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.50%) WAN
7 20 (0.79%) BGP
8 19 (0.75%) LAN
9 17 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.63%) HTTP
11 15 (0.59%) OSPF
12 14 (0.55%) VLAN
13 13 (0.51%) DHCP
14 12 (0.47%) SSL
15 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.36%) 5G
16 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
17 8 (0.32%) 4G
18 7 (0.28%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (5.18%) Power BI
3 123 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
4 121 (4.78%) NoSQL
5 114 (4.50%) Data Lake
6 100 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
7 97 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 93 (3.67%) Relational Database
9 92 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 79 (3.12%) Tableau
11 73 (2.88%) DynamoDB
12 72 (2.84%) MongoDB
13 71 (2.81%) Metadata
14 57 (2.25%) Big Data
15 53 (2.09%) Apache Cassandra
15 53 (2.09%) MySQL
16 40 (1.58%) BigQuery
17 36 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
18 32 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 255 (10.08%) Git
2 217 (8.57%) GitLab
3 210 (8.30%) Jenkins
4 139 (5.49%) JIRA
5 45 (1.78%) JUnit
6 44 (1.74%) MLflow
7 30 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.19%) Mockito
8 29 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 24 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 21 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.79%) Maven
11 20 (0.79%) Selenium
12 17 (0.67%) JMeter
13 16 (0.63%) Gradle
14 14 (0.55%) Gatling
15 13 (0.51%) Postman
15 13 (0.51%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.40%) Snyk
General
1 586 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 572 (22.60%) Finance
3 358 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 235 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (8.34%) Banking
6 89 (3.52%) Front Office
7 63 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.58%) Financial Institution
10 39 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 38 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.15%) Retail
15 25 (0.99%) Legal
16 21 (0.83%) Marketing
17 18 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.59%) Military
19 14 (0.55%) Law
20 13 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 479 (18.93%) Architect
2 448 (17.70%) Developer
3 390 (15.41%) Senior
4 244 (9.64%) Lead
5 240 (9.48%) Data Engineer
6 228 (9.01%) AWS Engineer
7 187 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 151 (5.97%) Software Engineer
9 125 (4.94%) Senior Developer
10 120 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
11 113 (4.46%) Analyst
12 97 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 96 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
14 94 (3.71%) AWS Architect
14 94 (3.71%) Python Engineer
15 93 (3.67%) Java Developer
16 87 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 84 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 83 (3.28%) Python Developer
19 78 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (13.35%) Kafka
2 252 (9.96%) React
3 208 (8.22%) Node.js
4 197 (7.78%) REST
5 145 (5.73%) Spring
6 142 (5.61%) RESTful
7 132 (5.22%) Spring Boot
8 91 (3.60%) AngularJS
9 74 (2.92%) PySpark
10 71 (2.81%) .NET
11 66 (2.61%) SOAP
12 65 (2.57%) CSS
12 65 (2.57%) OAuth
13 63 (2.49%) GraphQL
14 62 (2.45%) HTML
15 60 (2.37%) Redux
16 58 (2.29%) Pandas
17 56 (2.21%) gRPC
18 52 (2.05%) LDAP
19 50 (1.98%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 375 (14.82%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (3.00%) Fixed Income
4 75 (2.96%) Security Posture
5 68 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 64 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 63 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.17%) Data Centre
9 54 (2.13%) AI Agents
10 51 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.98%) Derivative
12 46 (1.82%) Management Information System
13 44 (1.74%) Algorithms
14 39 (1.54%) Equities
14 39 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (1.50%) Public Cloud
16 35 (1.38%) Data Structures
17 28 (1.11%) Mainframe
18 26 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 188 (7.43%) Linux
2 73 (2.88%) Windows
3 49 (1.94%) Unix
4 12 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
6 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.24%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.079%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (37.73%) CI/CD
2 707 (27.93%) DevOps
3 627 (24.77%) Agile
4 495 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 446 (17.62%) AI
6 404 (15.96%) Microservices
7 378 (14.93%) Analytics
8 364 (14.38%) Containerisation
9 361 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
10 335 (13.24%) Software Engineering
11 301 (11.89%) Data Modelling
12 272 (10.75%) Data Engineering
13 271 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
14 268 (10.59%) Migration
15 266 (10.51%) Machine Learning
16 257 (10.15%) Observability
17 247 (9.76%) ETL
18 215 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
19 212 (8.38%) Full-Stack Development
20 204 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (40.46%) Python
2 582 (22.99%) SQL
3 454 (17.94%) Java
4 232 (9.17%) TypeScript
5 227 (8.97%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.58%) Go
7 104 (4.11%) C#
8 100 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 98 (3.87%) Bash
10 41 (1.62%) Ruby
11 37 (1.46%) Scala
11 37 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 25 (0.99%) C++
13 22 (0.87%) R
14 18 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.55%) Bicep
15 14 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.36%) Korn
16 9 (0.36%) PHP
16 9 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 725 (28.64%) Security Cleared
2 636 (25.13%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 125 (4.94%) Degree
5 71 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (2.25%) CISSP
7 50 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 43 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 42 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.19%) CISM
13 24 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.95%) PMP
14 19 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 19 (0.75%) CCNP
15 18 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.63%) OSCP
17 13 (0.51%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 129 (5.10%) GDPR
3 93 (3.67%) QA
4 77 (3.04%) NIST
5 74 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.07%) NCSC
9 21 (0.83%) SLA
10 16 (0.63%) WCAG
11 15 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.59%) PMO
12 14 (0.55%) GRC
13 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.28%) PSD2
17 6 (0.24%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 521 (20.58%) Docker
2 75 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.40%) Squid
5 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.079%) IAG
10 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.040%) Ceph
11 1 (0.040%) iptables
11 1 (0.040%) KVM
11 1 (0.040%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 591 (23.35%) Terraform
2 542 (21.41%) Kubernetes
3 135 (5.33%) Ansible
4 119 (4.70%) Grafana
5 108 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.15%) Argo
8 20 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.71%) Consul
10 16 (0.63%) Puppet
11 15 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.51%) Packer
13 10 (0.40%) SCCM
14 9 (0.36%) Kibana
14 9 (0.36%) QRadar
15 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
16 6 (0.24%) Istio
17 5 (0.20%) Rancher
17 5 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 189 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 142 (5.61%) Databricks
3 97 (3.83%) Google
4 96 (3.79%) Oracle
5 84 (3.32%) Splunk
6 75 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 55 (2.17%) CyberArk
8 52 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 41 (1.62%) Cisco
10 38 (1.50%) IBM
11 37 (1.46%) Salesforce
12 36 (1.42%) Dynatrace
13 35 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.38%) Centrify
14 34 (1.34%) VMware
15 31 (1.22%) SAP
16 29 (1.15%) Palo Alto
17 26 (1.03%) Red Hat
18 22 (0.87%) Fortinet
19 21 (0.83%) Informatica