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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,152 2,069 2,441
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.99% 13.66% 12.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.10% 33.19% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 1,504 1,873
10th Percentile £400 £408 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £60.50 £38.28 £43.03
25th Percentile £68.25 £41.31 £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.84 £49.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.13% -17.92% +11.63%
75th Percentile £87.50 £65.56 £78.75
90th Percentile £93.88 £83.23 £87.50
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.98% - -16.04%

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 6,310 6,233 7,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.94% 41.16% 38.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 4,220 5,334
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% - -7.56%
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 110 42 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -4.28% +19.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.34% +33.12% +3.29%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 16 December 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 +7 255 £575 - 140
South London +12 61 £525 +5.00% 33
West London -4 30 £601 +9.32% 68
East London - 7 £675 - 57
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
1 134 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (4.23%) Confluence
3 74 (3.44%) Apache
4 67 (3.11%) Apache Spark
5 32 (1.49%) nginx
6 17 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.74%) SAS
8 14 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.37%) Camunda
10 8 (0.37%) CMS
11 6 (0.28%) Appian
12 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.14%) Traefik
15 2 (0.093%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.093%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.19%) Trello
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.046%) Notion
7 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
7 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Endur
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Actimize
6 2 (0.093%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.093%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.093%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.093%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 858 (39.87%) Azure
2 479 (22.26%) GCP
3 307 (14.27%) GitHub
4 291 (13.52%) Serverless
5 275 (12.78%) Amazon S3
6 252 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
7 194 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
8 163 (7.57%) Snowflake
9 162 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 129 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 125 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
12 122 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
13 120 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
14 103 (4.79%) dbt
15 96 (4.46%) Power Platform
16 80 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 71 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
18 56 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
19 52 (2.42%) Amazon Kinesis
20 46 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 119 (5.53%) Firewall
2 72 (3.35%) DNS
3 58 (2.70%) VPN
4 56 (2.60%) Network Security
5 32 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.39%) WAN
7 27 (1.25%) SSL
8 23 (1.07%) SD-WAN
9 22 (1.02%) HTTP
10 19 (0.88%) DHCP
11 15 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
12 14 (0.65%) BGP
12 14 (0.65%) LAN
12 14 (0.65%) SSH
13 13 (0.60%) VLAN
14 12 (0.56%) OSPF
15 10 (0.46%) FTP
15 10 (0.46%) IMAP
15 10 (0.46%) SMTP
16 9 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (5.25%) NoSQL
3 110 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
4 103 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
5 96 (4.46%) Data Lake
6 95 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
7 91 (4.23%) Relational Database
8 89 (4.14%) Power BI
9 82 (3.81%) SQL Server
10 69 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 60 (2.79%) DynamoDB
11 60 (2.79%) MongoDB
12 53 (2.46%) Metadata
13 50 (2.32%) MySQL
13 50 (2.32%) Tableau
14 47 (2.18%) Apache Iceberg
14 47 (2.18%) Big Data
15 43 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
16 42 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
17 37 (1.72%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 240 (11.15%) Git
2 215 (9.99%) Jenkins
3 167 (7.76%) GitLab
4 152 (7.06%) JIRA
5 43 (2.00%) JUnit
6 27 (1.25%) MLflow
7 25 (1.16%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 24 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.02%) CircleCI
9 22 (1.02%) Selenium
10 21 (0.98%) ERwin
11 20 (0.93%) Mockito
12 19 (0.88%) SonarQube
13 16 (0.74%) JMeter
14 15 (0.70%) Maven
15 14 (0.65%) ER Studio
15 14 (0.65%) Postman
16 13 (0.60%) Metasploit
17 12 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 540 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 487 (22.63%) Finance
3 247 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 217 (10.08%) Banking
5 213 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
6 93 (4.32%) Investment Banking
7 92 (4.28%) Front Office
8 37 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 31 (1.44%) Marketing
10 31 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.30%) Retail
12 22 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 21 (0.98%) Legal
13 21 (0.98%) Military
14 17 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.60%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 431 (20.03%) Developer
2 394 (18.31%) Senior
3 315 (14.64%) Architect
4 249 (11.57%) AWS Engineer
5 182 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 157 (7.30%) Data Engineer
7 155 (7.20%) Lead
8 134 (6.23%) Python Engineer
9 129 (5.99%) Software Engineer
10 115 (5.34%) Java Developer
11 110 (5.11%) Senior Developer
12 93 (4.32%) AWS Developer
13 89 (4.14%) Analyst
14 88 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
15 87 (4.04%) Python Developer
16 86 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
17 81 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
18 79 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 68 (3.16%) Java Engineer
20 67 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (12.59%) Kafka
2 225 (10.46%) React
3 172 (7.99%) Node.js
4 133 (6.18%) REST
5 127 (5.90%) Spring
6 116 (5.39%) RESTful
7 111 (5.16%) Spring Boot
8 99 (4.60%) AngularJS
9 83 (3.86%) gRPC
10 81 (3.76%) Pandas
11 79 (3.67%) NumPy
12 63 (2.93%) CSS
13 62 (2.88%) HTML
14 60 (2.79%) .NET
15 58 (2.70%) SciPy
16 57 (2.65%) GraphQL
17 55 (2.56%) Vue
18 49 (2.28%) FastAPI
19 42 (1.95%) JSON
20 41 (1.91%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 250 (11.62%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (3.30%) Hedge funds
4 69 (3.21%) Fixed Income
5 67 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 60 (2.79%) Derivative
8 54 (2.51%) Equities
9 52 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 47 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 46 (2.14%) Security Posture
12 40 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
12 40 (1.86%) Public Cloud
13 38 (1.77%) Management Information System
14 36 (1.67%) Data Centre
14 36 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
15 30 (1.39%) Algorithms
16 29 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
17 27 (1.25%) Replication
18 26 (1.21%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 194 (9.01%) Linux
2 86 (4.00%) Windows
3 49 (2.28%) Unix
4 22 (1.02%) VMS
5 20 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.37%) CentOS
10 7 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.093%) zOS
12 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (38.85%) CI/CD
2 611 (28.39%) DevOps
3 552 (25.65%) Agile
4 417 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 353 (16.40%) Microservices
6 337 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
7 306 (14.22%) Software Engineering
8 287 (13.34%) Analytics
9 262 (12.17%) Containerisation
10 255 (11.85%) AI
11 207 (9.62%) Data Modelling
12 203 (9.43%) Migration
13 200 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
14 194 (9.01%) Machine Learning
15 187 (8.69%) Observability
16 182 (8.46%) Data Engineering
17 174 (8.09%) ETL
18 166 (7.71%) Full-Stack Development
19 157 (7.30%) Test Automation
20 153 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 926 (43.03%) Python
2 472 (21.93%) SQL
3 463 (21.51%) Java
4 233 (10.83%) JavaScript
5 227 (10.55%) TypeScript
6 140 (6.51%) Bash
7 126 (5.86%) Go
8 86 (4.00%) C#
8 86 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 40 (1.86%) C++
10 28 (1.30%) Ruby
11 27 (1.25%) Scala
12 23 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 21 (0.98%) Rust
14 20 (0.93%) Perl
15 18 (0.84%) Groovy
16 16 (0.74%) R
17 15 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.70%) PHP
18 14 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 517 (24.02%) Security Cleared
2 448 (20.82%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.13%) Degree
4 128 (5.95%) AWS Certification
5 64 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 33 (1.53%) CISSP
9 31 (1.44%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (1.07%) OSCP
14 18 (0.84%) CISM
15 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.60%) CCNP
17 12 (0.56%) PMI Certification
18 11 (0.51%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.51%) PhD
18 11 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 96 (4.46%) GDPR
3 86 (4.00%) QA
4 76 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.88%) NIST
6 38 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.12%) NCSC
8 22 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.79%) WCAG
10 16 (0.74%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.51%) SLA
12 9 (0.42%) GRC
13 8 (0.37%) MiFID
14 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.23%) HL7
15 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 502 (23.33%) Docker
2 50 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.46%) Postfix
5 10 (0.46%) Squid
6 8 (0.37%) zsh
7 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.23%) Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.093%) KVM
10 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.093%) vSphere
11 1 (0.046%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 513 (23.84%) Terraform
2 505 (23.47%) Kubernetes
3 146 (6.78%) Ansible
4 110 (5.11%) Grafana
5 96 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.53%) Argo
7 26 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.16%) Puppet
9 21 (0.98%) Progress Chef
10 20 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (0.84%) Nessus
12 15 (0.70%) SCCM
13 12 (0.56%) Packer
14 11 (0.51%) Kibana
14 11 (0.51%) Nmap
14 11 (0.51%) QRadar
15 10 (0.46%) Consul
15 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.37%) Istio
16 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 152 (7.06%) Microsoft
2 137 (6.37%) Databricks
3 82 (3.81%) Google
3 82 (3.81%) Splunk
4 78 (3.62%) Oracle
5 72 (3.35%) ServiceNow
6 36 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 35 (1.63%) Cisco
8 31 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 27 (1.25%) OpenAI
10 25 (1.16%) IBM
10 25 (1.16%) VMware
11 24 (1.12%) F5
12 23 (1.07%) CheckPoint
13 22 (1.02%) Dynatrace
14 21 (0.98%) Fortinet
14 21 (0.98%) SAP
15 19 (0.88%) Arista
16 18 (0.84%) Tenable
17 16 (0.74%) CyberArk