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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,816 2,242 2,364
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.21% 16.53% 13.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.30% 38.62% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,952 1,568 1,820
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £768
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.37% -6.57% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 12
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +96.20% -66.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £59.88
90th Percentile - £86.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -37.59%

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 8,211 5,805 6,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.80% 40.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,603 3,962 5,014
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 79 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.89 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.73% -50.94%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £67.50 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -37.14%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -5 293 £550 -4.35% 162
West London +7 99 £560 +28.00% 50
South London +2 90 £519 -4.20% 9
East London +9 17 £533 -8.97% 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
1 137 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 98 (3.48%) Confluence
4 69 (2.45%) Apache
5 35 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.71%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
7 12 (0.43%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.28%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.71%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.071%) Trello
9 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.071%) Endur
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.036%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.036%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,210 (42.97%) Azure
2 620 (22.02%) GCP
3 403 (14.31%) Serverless
4 395 (14.03%) Amazon S3
5 348 (12.36%) GitHub
6 339 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
7 221 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
8 198 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
9 192 (6.82%) Snowflake
10 168 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 167 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
12 166 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 140 (4.97%) Power Platform
14 134 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
15 126 (4.47%) SaaS
16 125 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
17 120 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 100 (3.55%) dbt
19 93 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
20 89 (3.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 115 (4.08%) Firewall
2 90 (3.20%) Network Security
3 76 (2.70%) DNS
4 72 (2.56%) VPN
5 53 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.28%) WAN
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 25 (0.89%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) BGP
10 18 (0.64%) SSL
11 16 (0.57%) Internet
11 16 (0.57%) OSPF
12 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.50%) OpenVPN
13 14 (0.50%) SSH
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
14 13 (0.46%) NGFW
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
15 12 (0.43%) VLAN
16 11 (0.39%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (4.47%) Power BI
4 123 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
5 118 (4.19%) NoSQL
6 117 (4.15%) Data Lake
7 102 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
7 102 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (3.16%) DynamoDB
10 83 (2.95%) Metadata
11 72 (2.56%) Relational Database
12 71 (2.52%) MongoDB
13 70 (2.49%) Tableau
14 65 (2.31%) Big Data
15 43 (1.53%) BigQuery
15 43 (1.53%) Delta Lake
16 42 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
17 34 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
18 32 (1.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 270 (9.59%) Git
2 261 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 243 (8.63%) GitLab
4 152 (5.40%) JIRA
5 35 (1.24%) JUnit
6 34 (1.21%) SonarQube
7 31 (1.10%) JMeter
8 30 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.07%) MLflow
9 29 (1.03%) Maven
10 28 (0.99%) Mockito
11 24 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 24 (0.85%) Selenium
12 22 (0.78%) Gradle
13 21 (0.75%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.75%) Postman
14 19 (0.67%) Gatling
14 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
15 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 697 (24.75%) Finance
2 603 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 410 (14.56%) Public Sector
4 257 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 250 (8.88%) Banking
6 86 (3.05%) Front Office
7 66 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (2.34%) Retail
8 59 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 44 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.21%) Marketing
13 28 (0.99%) Legal
14 27 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (0.78%) Law
15 22 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 597 (21.20%) Architect
2 430 (15.27%) Senior
3 402 (14.28%) Developer
4 320 (11.36%) Lead
5 282 (10.01%) AWS Engineer
6 281 (9.98%) Data Engineer
7 212 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 165 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
9 140 (4.97%) Software Engineer
10 124 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 117 (4.15%) AWS Architect
12 113 (4.01%) Java Developer
13 110 (3.91%) Analyst
14 96 (3.41%) Senior Developer
15 93 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
17 87 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 85 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
19 83 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 79 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (11.19%) Kafka
2 242 (8.59%) React
3 225 (7.99%) REST
4 182 (6.46%) Node.js
5 165 (5.86%) Spring
6 153 (5.43%) Spring Boot
7 139 (4.94%) RESTful
8 93 (3.30%) GraphQL
9 91 (3.23%) PySpark
10 89 (3.16%) .NET
11 80 (2.84%) OAuth
12 66 (2.34%) AngularJS
13 65 (2.31%) Redux
14 59 (2.10%) JSON
15 57 (2.02%) FastAPI
16 56 (1.99%) HTML
17 50 (1.78%) CSS
18 49 (1.74%) Pandas
19 46 (1.63%) LangChain
19 46 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 493 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 106 (3.76%) AI Agents
5 91 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 89 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.73%) Fixed Income
8 69 (2.45%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.38%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 47 (1.67%) Management Information System
13 41 (1.46%) Derivative
14 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 37 (1.31%) Equities
15 36 (1.28%) Data Structures
16 34 (1.21%) CMDB
17 33 (1.17%) PKI
18 32 (1.14%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 214 (7.60%) Linux
2 117 (4.15%) Windows
3 43 (1.53%) Unix
4 39 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.071%) VMS
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,103 (39.17%) CI/CD
2 843 (29.94%) DevOps
3 701 (24.89%) Agile
4 592 (21.02%) AI
5 587 (20.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 413 (14.67%) Microservices
7 400 (14.20%) Containerisation
8 371 (13.17%) Analytics
9 358 (12.71%) Migration
10 353 (12.54%) Software Engineering
11 347 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
12 331 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 329 (11.68%) Data Pipeline
14 328 (11.65%) Observability
15 322 (11.43%) Data Modelling
16 317 (11.26%) Data Engineering
17 312 (11.08%) Machine Learning
18 288 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
19 277 (9.84%) Event-Driven
20 271 (9.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (36.97%) Python
2 583 (20.70%) SQL
3 495 (17.58%) Java
4 264 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 233 (8.27%) JavaScript
6 143 (5.08%) Bash
7 121 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.94%) C#
9 87 (3.09%) Go
10 44 (1.56%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.07%) Bicep
12 30 (1.07%) Ruby
13 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.75%) R
15 20 (0.71%) Groovy
16 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.53%) C++
17 15 (0.53%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 739 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 665 (23.62%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.26%) Degree
4 133 (4.72%) AWS Certification
5 89 (3.16%) CISSP
6 68 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 61 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.49%) CISM
12 35 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 22 (0.78%) CCSP
16 20 (0.71%) CCNP
17 19 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 19 (0.67%) PMP
18 17 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
19 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 125 (4.44%) QA
3 96 (3.41%) GDPR
4 95 (3.37%) NIST
5 79 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.17%) GRC
7 33 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 24 (0.85%) SLA
9 21 (0.75%) NCSC
10 18 (0.64%) PMO
10 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
13 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.39%) WCAG
16 10 (0.36%) SEPA
17 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 487 (17.29%) Docker
2 82 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.18%) vSphere
10 4 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.071%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 665 (23.62%) Terraform
2 591 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 190 (6.75%) Grafana
4 172 (6.11%) Ansible
5 151 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.03%) Argo
8 25 (0.89%) Kibana
9 23 (0.82%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.36%) Consul
13 10 (0.36%) Packer
13 10 (0.36%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 252 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 129 (4.58%) Databricks
3 123 (4.37%) ServiceNow
4 119 (4.23%) Google
5 104 (3.69%) Oracle
6 83 (2.95%) Splunk
7 70 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.74%) Cisco
10 44 (1.56%) CyberArk
11 42 (1.49%) VMware
12 41 (1.46%) SAP
13 36 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 34 (1.21%) Foundry
15 31 (1.10%) Dynatrace
16 30 (1.07%) MuleSoft
16 30 (1.07%) Red Hat
17 29 (1.03%) IBM
18 28 (0.99%) Informatica
19 23 (0.82%) Qualys