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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,202 2,159 2,596
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.51% 13.66% 13.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.97% 33.48% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,521 1,572 2,004
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £454 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £578
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.76% -5.20%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £792
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.16% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 12
10th Percentile £43.75 £28.78 £36.03
25th Percentile £60.63 £36.25 £52.94
Median hourly rate £76.75 £43.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.49% -27.12% +21.03%
75th Percentile £87.50 £55.75 £85.39
90th Percentile £93.13 £79.30 £87.41
England median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +84.06% -19.69% +17.95%

All Cloud 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 6,297 6,449 7,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.35% 40.80% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,260 4,389 5,594
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 39 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.07 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.88 £24.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -7.28% +30.17%
75th Percentile £46.19 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £68.05 £74.13
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.74 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.50% +27.30% +17.78%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +6 254 £575 - 135
South London +10 64 £525 +7.14% 41
West London -12 24 £493 -13.82% 69
East London - 7 £675 - 65
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
1 148 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (5.09%) Confluence
3 85 (3.86%) Apache
4 76 (3.45%) Apache Spark
5 47 (2.13%) nginx
6 18 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.73%) SAS
8 14 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.59%) CMS
10 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.41%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.32%) Camunda
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.18%) Appian
14 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.14%) Traefik
16 2 (0.091%) JBoss
16 2 (0.091%) Luigi
Applications
1 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) Trello
6 1 (0.045%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.045%) Pro Tools
6 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (0.45%) Endur
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.23%) Actimize
4 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.091%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.091%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.045%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.045%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.045%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.045%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.045%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.045%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.045%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 849 (38.56%) Azure
2 480 (21.80%) GCP
3 298 (13.53%) GitHub
4 296 (13.44%) Amazon S3
5 291 (13.22%) Serverless
6 253 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
7 182 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
8 174 (7.90%) Snowflake
9 166 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 132 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 132 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
11 125 (5.68%) dbt
12 119 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
13 113 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
14 93 (4.22%) Power Platform
15 69 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 67 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
17 64 (2.91%) SaaS
18 54 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
19 49 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 120 (5.45%) Firewall
2 69 (3.13%) DNS
3 57 (2.59%) VPN
4 55 (2.50%) Network Security
5 33 (1.50%) WAN
6 30 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.27%) SSL
8 24 (1.09%) HTTP
9 22 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.95%) DHCP
11 18 (0.82%) BGP
11 18 (0.82%) LAN
11 18 (0.82%) SSH
12 16 (0.73%) OSPF
12 16 (0.73%) VLAN
13 15 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
14 11 (0.50%) FTP
15 10 (0.45%) IMAP
15 10 (0.45%) SMTP
16 9 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
3 117 (5.31%) NoSQL
4 112 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
5 100 (4.54%) Amazon Athena
6 98 (4.45%) Data Lake
7 93 (4.22%) Relational Database
8 87 (3.95%) Power BI
9 79 (3.59%) SQL Server
10 73 (3.32%) DynamoDB
11 72 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 59 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
12 59 (2.68%) Metadata
12 59 (2.68%) MongoDB
12 59 (2.68%) MySQL
13 49 (2.23%) Apache Arrow
13 49 (2.23%) Big Data
13 49 (2.23%) Dremio
14 47 (2.13%) Tableau
15 43 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 262 (11.90%) Git
2 214 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 169 (7.67%) JIRA
4 155 (7.04%) GitLab
5 46 (2.09%) JUnit
6 27 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 27 (1.23%) CircleCI
6 27 (1.23%) ERwin
7 26 (1.18%) Cypress.io
8 25 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 23 (1.04%) MLflow
10 22 (1.00%) Maven
11 21 (0.95%) Selenium
12 20 (0.91%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.86%) ER Studio
14 17 (0.77%) Mockito
15 14 (0.64%) JMeter
16 13 (0.59%) Metasploit
16 13 (0.59%) Postman
17 12 (0.54%) Vagrant
General
1 574 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 514 (23.34%) Finance
3 242 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 227 (10.31%) Banking
5 218 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
6 111 (5.04%) Front Office
7 106 (4.81%) Investment Banking
8 44 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.36%) Marketing
12 28 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.27%) Retail
13 24 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 21 (0.95%) Legal
14 21 (0.95%) Military
15 15 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 449 (20.39%) Developer
2 394 (17.89%) Senior
3 315 (14.31%) Architect
4 267 (12.13%) AWS Engineer
5 175 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 166 (7.54%) Data Engineer
7 156 (7.08%) Lead
8 153 (6.95%) Software Engineer
9 144 (6.54%) Python Engineer
10 126 (5.72%) Java Developer
11 104 (4.72%) AWS Developer
12 101 (4.59%) Senior Developer
13 91 (4.13%) Python Developer
14 89 (4.04%) Analyst
15 88 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
15 88 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
16 87 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
17 82 (3.72%) Java Engineer
18 78 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 72 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (12.31%) Kafka
2 248 (11.26%) React
3 181 (8.22%) Node.js
4 137 (6.22%) REST
5 130 (5.90%) Spring
6 117 (5.31%) AngularJS
7 113 (5.13%) RESTful
8 105 (4.77%) Spring Boot
9 91 (4.13%) Pandas
10 90 (4.09%) NumPy
11 87 (3.95%) gRPC
12 71 (3.22%) SciPy
13 70 (3.18%) GraphQL
14 67 (3.04%) HTML
14 67 (3.04%) Vue
15 66 (3.00%) CSS
16 62 (2.82%) .NET
17 48 (2.18%) OAuth
18 47 (2.13%) FastAPI
19 44 (2.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 249 (11.31%) Cloud Native
2 110 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (3.95%) Fixed Income
4 84 (3.81%) Hedge funds
5 81 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 76 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 68 (3.09%) Equities
8 64 (2.91%) Derivative
9 55 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
10 53 (2.41%) Onboarding
11 49 (2.23%) Public Cloud
12 45 (2.04%) Management Information System
13 44 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.82%) Security Posture
15 36 (1.63%) Data Centre
16 32 (1.45%) Pricing Data
16 32 (1.45%) Virtual Team
17 31 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
19 27 (1.23%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 209 (9.49%) Linux
2 85 (3.86%) Windows
3 51 (2.32%) Unix
4 21 (0.95%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.45%) Android
7 10 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.36%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.091%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.045%) AIX
12 1 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.045%) Debian
12 1 (0.045%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (37.74%) CI/CD
2 640 (29.06%) Agile
3 607 (27.57%) DevOps
4 413 (18.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 361 (16.39%) Microservices
6 358 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
7 330 (14.99%) Software Engineering
8 281 (12.76%) Analytics
9 260 (11.81%) Containerisation
10 243 (11.04%) AI
11 219 (9.95%) Data Modelling
12 213 (9.67%) Data Pipeline
13 202 (9.17%) Migration
14 194 (8.81%) Machine Learning
15 188 (8.54%) ETL
16 175 (7.95%) Observability
17 173 (7.86%) Full-Stack Development
18 172 (7.81%) Data Engineering
19 163 (7.40%) Test Automation
20 154 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 961 (43.64%) Python
2 498 (22.62%) Java
3 483 (21.93%) SQL
4 271 (12.31%) TypeScript
5 261 (11.85%) JavaScript
6 148 (6.72%) Bash
7 131 (5.95%) Go
8 86 (3.91%) C#
9 81 (3.68%) PowerShell
10 53 (2.41%) C++
11 33 (1.50%) Scala
12 26 (1.18%) Perl
13 25 (1.14%) Ruby
14 23 (1.04%) Groovy
14 23 (1.04%) Rust
15 21 (0.95%) C
15 21 (0.95%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.86%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.68%) PHP
17 15 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 518 (23.52%) Security Cleared
2 448 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 140 (6.36%) Degree
4 129 (5.86%) AWS Certification
5 67 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (1.77%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.63%) CISSP
9 35 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.04%) OSCP
14 17 (0.77%) CISM
15 14 (0.64%) CCNP
15 14 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.59%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.54%) CREST Certified
17 12 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 95 (4.31%) QA
3 85 (3.86%) GDPR
4 75 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.68%) NIST
6 38 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 19 (0.86%) NCSC
7 19 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.77%) WCAG
9 15 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.45%) GRC
10 10 (0.45%) MiFID
11 8 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.32%) SLA
13 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 507 (23.02%) Docker
2 43 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.50%) Postfix
5 10 (0.45%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.45%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.45%) Squid
5 10 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.41%) zsh
7 7 (0.32%) Firmware
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.091%) iptables
9 2 (0.091%) KVM
9 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.091%) vSphere
10 1 (0.045%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 520 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 501 (22.75%) Terraform
3 148 (6.72%) Ansible
4 114 (5.18%) Grafana
5 103 (4.68%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.36%) Argo
7 29 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (1.27%) Puppet
9 25 (1.14%) Packer
10 22 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.91%) Consul
12 18 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.77%) Nessus
14 13 (0.59%) SCCM
15 11 (0.50%) Kibana
15 11 (0.50%) Nmap
16 10 (0.45%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.41%) QRadar
18 8 (0.36%) Istio
19 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 153 (6.95%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.86%) Databricks
3 87 (3.95%) Splunk
4 82 (3.72%) Google
5 76 (3.45%) Oracle
6 69 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.63%) Cisco
8 34 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.14%) F5
10 25 (1.14%) IBM
10 25 (1.14%) VMware
11 23 (1.04%) Arista
12 22 (1.00%) CheckPoint
12 22 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 20 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 20 (0.91%) Fortinet
14 18 (0.82%) SAP
15 17 (0.77%) Informatica
15 17 (0.77%) Tenable