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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,787 2,161 2,279
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.88% 16.14% 14.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.61% 37.38% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,964 1,510 1,728
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £477 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +91.68% -63.94%
75th Percentile £78.75 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -38.43%

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 8,291 5,781 6,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.29% 43.19% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,959 4,743
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £748 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 53
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £30.00 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% -1.93% -30.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £44.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -5 281 £550 -4.76% 219
West London +7 97 £555 +30.59% 175
South London 0 76 £535 +0.71% 18
East London +7 13 £550 -5.98% 27
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
1 153 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 100 (3.59%) Confluence
4 82 (2.94%) Apache
5 29 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) Camunda
7 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 6 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
2 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.072%) Endur
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.072%) Shopify
7 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,256 (45.07%) Azure
2 614 (22.03%) GCP
3 397 (14.24%) Serverless
4 377 (13.53%) Amazon S3
5 357 (12.81%) GitHub
6 332 (11.91%) AWS Lambda
7 238 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 228 (8.18%) Snowflake
9 196 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
10 174 (6.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 155 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 150 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
14 135 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
14 135 (4.84%) dbt
14 135 (4.84%) Power Platform
15 130 (4.66%) SaaS
16 122 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 107 (3.84%) Entra ID
18 95 (3.41%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.91%) Firewall
2 85 (3.05%) Network Security
3 70 (2.51%) DNS
4 60 (2.15%) VPN
5 40 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.36%) WAN
7 27 (0.97%) DHCP
8 23 (0.83%) SSL
9 22 (0.79%) HTTP
10 20 (0.72%) BGP
10 20 (0.72%) SSH
11 19 (0.68%) Internet
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.54%) OSPF
12 15 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.47%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
16 11 (0.39%) NGFW
17 10 (0.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
4 122 (4.38%) Power BI
5 116 (4.16%) Data Lake
5 116 (4.16%) NoSQL
6 103 (3.70%) Metadata
7 101 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 95 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
8 95 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 85 (3.05%) DynamoDB
10 82 (2.94%) MongoDB
11 78 (2.80%) Relational Database
12 70 (2.51%) Delta Lake
13 59 (2.12%) Big Data
14 56 (2.01%) Tableau
15 55 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
16 46 (1.65%) MySQL
17 43 (1.54%) Redis
18 40 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 285 (10.23%) Git
1 285 (10.23%) Jenkins
2 260 (9.33%) GitLab
3 150 (5.38%) JIRA
4 34 (1.22%) Cypress.io
5 33 (1.18%) JMeter
5 33 (1.18%) Selenium
6 28 (1.00%) JUnit
6 28 (1.00%) Maven
7 27 (0.97%) SonarQube
8 23 (0.83%) Postman
9 22 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 22 (0.79%) Gradle
9 22 (0.79%) Mockito
10 19 (0.68%) REST Assured
11 17 (0.61%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 17 (0.61%) Gatling
11 17 (0.61%) MLflow
12 12 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 683 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 657 (23.57%) Finance
3 396 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 270 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (9.19%) Banking
6 78 (2.80%) Retail
7 62 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 43 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.29%) Marketing
12 32 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 32 (1.15%) Front Office
13 29 (1.04%) Legal
14 28 (1.00%) Law
15 25 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (0.83%) Billing
16 23 (0.83%) Military
17 22 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 588 (21.10%) Architect
2 439 (15.75%) Senior
3 331 (11.88%) Developer
4 310 (11.12%) Data Engineer
5 297 (10.66%) Lead
6 261 (9.36%) AWS Engineer
7 203 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 154 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
9 115 (4.13%) Analyst
9 115 (4.13%) AWS Architect
10 107 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 98 (3.52%) Java Developer
12 97 (3.48%) Data Architect
13 95 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
14 94 (3.37%) Software Engineer
15 93 (3.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 92 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
17 79 (2.83%) Cloud Architect
18 78 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
18 78 (2.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (24.94%) Terraform
2 305 (10.94%) Kafka
3 256 (9.19%) REST
4 201 (7.21%) React
5 175 (6.28%) Spring
6 160 (5.74%) Spring Boot
7 153 (5.49%) RESTful
8 123 (4.41%) Node.js
9 111 (3.98%) PySpark
10 92 (3.30%) .NET
11 87 (3.12%) OAuth
12 64 (2.30%) JSON
13 62 (2.22%) HTML
14 61 (2.19%) GraphQL
15 60 (2.15%) AngularJS
15 60 (2.15%) FastAPI
16 52 (1.87%) CSS
17 48 (1.72%) OAuth2
18 46 (1.65%) LangChain
19 44 (1.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 527 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 184 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 128 (4.59%) AI Agents
5 115 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 67 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 49 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 43 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 37 (1.33%) Replication
12 36 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.29%) PKI
13 35 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 34 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
15 33 (1.18%) CMDB
15 33 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 28 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 231 (8.29%) Linux
2 125 (4.49%) Windows
3 52 (1.87%) Unix
4 44 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (41.69%) CI/CD
2 870 (31.22%) DevOps
3 699 (25.08%) Agile
4 652 (23.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 619 (22.21%) AI
6 444 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 409 (14.68%) Microservices
8 396 (14.21%) Containerisation
9 371 (13.31%) Observability
10 368 (13.20%) Migration
11 363 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
12 359 (12.88%) Analytics
13 350 (12.56%) Data Pipeline
14 341 (12.24%) Data Modelling
15 339 (12.16%) Software Engineering
16 338 (12.13%) Data Engineering
17 320 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 309 (11.09%) Event-Driven
19 297 (10.66%) Machine Learning
20 283 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (37.10%) Python
2 597 (21.42%) SQL
3 474 (17.01%) Java
4 207 (7.43%) TypeScript
5 194 (6.96%) JavaScript
6 166 (5.96%) Bash
7 143 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.95%) C#
9 46 (1.65%) Scala
10 45 (1.61%) Go
11 34 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.18%) Bicep
13 29 (1.04%) Ruby
14 26 (0.93%) Groovy
15 25 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.68%) R
17 17 (0.61%) C++
18 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 753 (27.02%) Security Cleared
2 672 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 155 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 145 (5.20%) Degree
5 87 (3.12%) CISSP
6 78 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 72 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 65 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 55 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 46 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.61%) CISM
12 26 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 23 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.79%) PMP
15 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 17 (0.61%) CCNP
16 17 (0.61%) CCSP
17 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 146 (5.24%) QA
3 108 (3.88%) NIST
4 98 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 90 (3.23%) GDPR
6 40 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.11%) GRC
9 25 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.83%) SLA
11 21 (0.75%) NCSC
12 18 (0.65%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.50%) PMO
15 13 (0.47%) EU AI Act
16 12 (0.43%) SEPA
17 10 (0.36%) WCAG
18 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 488 (17.51%) Docker
2 91 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.22%) NFS
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 600 (21.53%) Kubernetes
2 196 (7.03%) Grafana
3 188 (6.75%) Ansible
4 154 (5.53%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.22%) Argo
6 33 (1.18%) Kibana
6 33 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.86%) Puppet
8 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.39%) Istio
10 10 (0.36%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) QRadar
12 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
14 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 292 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 178 (6.39%) Databricks
3 130 (4.66%) Oracle
4 127 (4.56%) Google
4 127 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 107 (3.84%) Splunk
6 70 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 56 (2.01%) VMware
8 54 (1.94%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.87%) CyberArk
10 51 (1.83%) Cisco
11 48 (1.72%) SAP
12 38 (1.36%) Informatica
12 38 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 35 (1.26%) IBM
14 32 (1.15%) Foundry
15 30 (1.08%) Dynatrace
16 27 (0.97%) Fortinet
16 27 (0.97%) MuleSoft
17 25 (0.90%) Red Hat