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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,883 2,245 2,437
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.52% 16.60% 13.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.77% 38.73% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,003 1,566 1,891
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £538 £563
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 12
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £52.25 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% +93.49% -65.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £59.88
90th Percentile £87.38 £80.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -36.74%

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 5,797 7,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.75% 42.86% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,694 3,941 5,150
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 80 64
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.92 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +20.20% +9.51% -52.05%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -5 297 £550 - 149
West London +5 96 £560 +24.44% 55
South London +2 89 £509 -3.10% 4
East London +8 16 £540 -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
1 140 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 93 (3.23%) Confluence
4 71 (2.46%) Apache
5 30 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.62%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.38%) Camunda
8 11 (0.38%) CICS
9 9 (0.31%) CMS
9 9 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.17%) IIS
10 5 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.14%) Mule
11 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.45%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.28%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.24%) Magento
5 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Endur
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.10%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.069%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.069%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.069%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.035%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 1,217 (42.21%) Azure
2 610 (21.16%) GCP
3 416 (14.43%) Serverless
4 415 (14.39%) Amazon S3
5 358 (12.42%) GitHub
6 354 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
7 228 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
8 209 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
9 198 (6.87%) Snowflake
10 193 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 176 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
12 173 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 154 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
14 148 (5.13%) Power Platform
15 124 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
15 124 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 122 (4.23%) SaaS
17 101 (3.50%) dbt
18 96 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
19 91 (3.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 113 (3.92%) Firewall
2 89 (3.09%) Network Security
3 73 (2.53%) VPN
4 71 (2.46%) DNS
5 48 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.32%) WAN
7 24 (0.83%) DHCP
7 24 (0.83%) HTTP
8 23 (0.80%) BGP
9 19 (0.66%) SSL
10 17 (0.59%) OSPF
11 16 (0.55%) Internet
12 14 (0.49%) LAN
12 14 (0.49%) NGFW
13 13 (0.45%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.42%) SAN
15 11 (0.38%) HTTPS
15 11 (0.38%) NAS
16 10 (0.35%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
4 133 (4.61%) Power BI
5 121 (4.20%) Data Lake
6 120 (4.16%) NoSQL
7 113 (3.92%) SQL Server
8 111 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
9 103 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 86 (2.98%) DynamoDB
11 85 (2.95%) Metadata
12 77 (2.67%) Tableau
13 75 (2.60%) MongoDB
13 75 (2.60%) Relational Database
14 68 (2.36%) Big Data
15 45 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
16 43 (1.49%) BigQuery
17 42 (1.46%) Delta Lake
18 39 (1.35%) MySQL
19 33 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 269 (9.33%) Git
2 268 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 256 (8.88%) GitLab
4 156 (5.41%) JIRA
5 40 (1.39%) JUnit
6 33 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.11%) MLflow
7 32 (1.11%) Mockito
8 31 (1.08%) JMeter
9 30 (1.04%) Maven
10 26 (0.90%) Cypress.io
11 24 (0.83%) Selenium
12 23 (0.80%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 23 (0.80%) Gradle
13 22 (0.76%) Postman
14 19 (0.66%) Gatling
14 19 (0.66%) REST Assured
15 16 (0.55%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 713 (24.73%) Finance
2 615 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 414 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 255 (8.84%) Banking
5 254 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (2.98%) Front Office
7 72 (2.50%) Retail
8 68 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 59 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 41 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 40 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.11%) Marketing
14 27 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (0.87%) Legal
17 22 (0.76%) Law
18 20 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
19 17 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 571 (19.81%) Architect
2 435 (15.09%) Senior
3 416 (14.43%) Developer
4 329 (11.41%) Lead
5 306 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 298 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
7 228 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 155 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 150 (5.20%) Software Engineer
10 133 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.09%) AWS Architect
12 112 (3.88%) Java Developer
13 106 (3.68%) Analyst
14 101 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
15 99 (3.43%) Senior Developer
16 95 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 88 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
18 87 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 84 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
20 82 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (11.27%) Kafka
2 249 (8.64%) React
3 217 (7.53%) REST
4 188 (6.52%) Node.js
5 178 (6.17%) Spring
6 167 (5.79%) Spring Boot
7 150 (5.20%) RESTful
8 96 (3.33%) .NET
9 95 (3.30%) PySpark
10 92 (3.19%) GraphQL
11 79 (2.74%) OAuth
12 71 (2.46%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.22%) Redux
14 56 (1.94%) HTML
14 56 (1.94%) JSON
15 54 (1.87%) FastAPI
16 52 (1.80%) Pandas
17 49 (1.70%) CSS
18 46 (1.60%) LangChain
18 46 (1.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 513 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 180 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 99 (3.43%) AI Agents
5 91 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 90 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.67%) Fixed Income
8 70 (2.43%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.32%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 48 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (1.46%) Derivative
15 39 (1.35%) Equities
16 36 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 36 (1.25%) Public Cloud
17 33 (1.14%) Data Structures
18 32 (1.11%) Mainframe
18 32 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 220 (7.63%) Linux
2 118 (4.09%) Windows
3 43 (1.49%) Unix
4 35 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.42%) Android
6 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.24%) Solaris
8 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.24%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.10%) AIX
11 3 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.10%) VMS
12 2 (0.069%) CentOS
12 2 (0.069%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,152 (39.96%) CI/CD
2 876 (30.39%) DevOps
3 708 (24.56%) Agile
4 603 (20.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 595 (20.64%) AI
6 437 (15.16%) Microservices
7 427 (14.81%) Containerisation
8 393 (13.63%) Analytics
9 366 (12.70%) Migration
10 353 (12.24%) Software Engineering
11 352 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
12 342 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
13 327 (11.34%) Data Engineering
14 326 (11.31%) Data Modelling
14 326 (11.31%) Observability
15 323 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 312 (10.82%) Machine Learning
17 294 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
18 272 (9.43%) Event-Driven
19 270 (9.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,070 (37.11%) Python
2 601 (20.85%) SQL
3 512 (17.76%) Java
4 268 (9.30%) TypeScript
5 234 (8.12%) JavaScript
6 138 (4.79%) Bash
7 121 (4.20%) C#
8 115 (3.99%) PowerShell
9 90 (3.12%) Go
10 50 (1.73%) Scala
11 36 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.08%) Ruby
13 29 (1.01%) Bicep
14 24 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.69%) R
16 17 (0.59%) Groovy
16 17 (0.59%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.45%) C++
17 13 (0.45%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 763 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 683 (23.69%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.34%) Degree
4 134 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 90 (3.12%) CISSP
6 69 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 62 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.39%) CISM
12 33 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 33 (1.14%) Master's Degree
13 31 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.80%) CCSP
15 22 (0.76%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.76%) PMP
16 19 (0.66%) CCNP
17 16 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 121 (4.20%) QA
3 102 (3.54%) GDPR
4 97 (3.36%) NIST
5 80 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.04%) GRC
9 27 (0.94%) SLA
10 24 (0.83%) NCSC
11 18 (0.62%) PMO
11 18 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.59%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.59%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.55%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.45%) EU AI Act
15 12 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.38%) WCAG
17 9 (0.31%) SEPA
18 6 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 519 (18.00%) Docker
2 81 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.66%) Squid
6 9 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.21%) IAG
7 6 (0.21%) NFS
8 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.14%) vSphere
10 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.10%) Postfix
10 3 (0.10%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.069%) Firmware
11 2 (0.069%) HDFS
11 2 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 688 (23.86%) Terraform
2 616 (21.37%) Kubernetes
3 180 (6.24%) Grafana
4 171 (5.93%) Ansible
5 149 (5.17%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.01%) Argo
8 26 (0.90%) Puppet
9 24 (0.83%) Kibana
10 15 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.45%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.42%) Consul
12 12 (0.42%) Packer
13 10 (0.35%) QRadar
14 7 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.24%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.24%) Istio
15 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.17%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 244 (8.46%) Microsoft
2 136 (4.72%) Databricks
3 113 (3.92%) Google
4 110 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 105 (3.64%) Oracle
6 87 (3.02%) Splunk
7 72 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.01%) OpenAI
9 47 (1.63%) Cisco
10 46 (1.60%) CyberArk
11 39 (1.35%) VMware
12 38 (1.32%) SAP
13 36 (1.25%) Foundry
14 35 (1.21%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.08%) Informatica
15 31 (1.08%) MuleSoft
16 30 (1.04%) Dynatrace
17 29 (1.01%) IBM
17 29 (1.01%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.80%) Qualys