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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,289 1,955 2,320
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.01% 14.51% 12.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.01% 34.95% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 1,401 1,794
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £461 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.62% -5.80%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £22.17
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.13 £29.99
Median hourly rate £76.67 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.14% -3.48% -14.18%
75th Percentile £88.75 £75.38 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.15 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.25 £48.62
% change year-on-year +14.94% +34.21% -24.04%

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 6,731 5,593 6,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.15% 41.52% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,614 3,741 5,109
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 49 78
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.07 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £34.00 £31.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +3.28% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £55.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £70.50 £68.75 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

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 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -1 266 £538 -1.38% 157
South London +7 80 £522 +6.76% 35
West London +11 49 £603 +5.42% 71
East London +5 8 £653 - 56
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 99 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 83 (3.63%) Confluence
3 57 (2.49%) Apache
4 34 (1.49%) nginx
5 14 (0.61%) Camunda
6 13 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.52%) SAS
8 8 (0.35%) Appian
9 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.13%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.13%) Traefik
9 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.087%) Drupal
10 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.044%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.044%) Notion
7 1 (0.044%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.17%) Actimize
5 4 (0.17%) Endur
6 3 (0.13%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.087%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.087%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.044%) Maximo
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.044%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.044%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.044%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.044%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 923 (40.32%) Azure
2 541 (23.63%) GCP
3 350 (15.29%) Serverless
4 320 (13.98%) Amazon S3
5 309 (13.50%) GitHub
6 306 (13.37%) AWS Lambda
7 206 (9.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 176 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 167 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
10 156 (6.82%) Snowflake
11 136 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
12 131 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 131 (5.72%) Power Platform
13 129 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
14 104 (4.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 65 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
16 62 (2.71%) dbt
17 61 (2.66%) Amazon Kinesis
18 52 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
19 49 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (4.67%) Firewall
2 64 (2.80%) VPN
3 61 (2.66%) DNS
4 58 (2.53%) Network Security
5 40 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.22%) WAN
7 23 (1.00%) SSL
8 17 (0.74%) BGP
8 17 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.70%) LAN
10 15 (0.66%) OSPF
11 14 (0.61%) DHCP
11 14 (0.61%) HTTP
12 12 (0.52%) VLAN
13 9 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.39%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.35%) 5G
15 7 (0.31%) 4G
15 7 (0.31%) OpenVPN
15 7 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 116 (5.07%) Power BI
4 115 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
5 113 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
6 98 (4.28%) Data Lake
7 93 (4.06%) SQL Server
8 90 (3.93%) Relational Database
9 88 (3.84%) Amazon Athena
10 81 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 67 (2.93%) MongoDB
12 66 (2.88%) Tableau
13 62 (2.71%) DynamoDB
13 62 (2.71%) Metadata
14 58 (2.53%) MySQL
15 50 (2.18%) Big Data
16 48 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
17 41 (1.79%) BigQuery
18 37 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
19 34 (1.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 222 (9.70%) Git
2 209 (9.13%) Jenkins
3 199 (8.69%) GitLab
4 149 (6.51%) JIRA
5 40 (1.75%) JUnit
6 36 (1.57%) MLflow
7 28 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 20 (0.87%) ERwin
10 19 (0.83%) Mockito
11 17 (0.74%) Maven
11 17 (0.74%) Selenium
12 16 (0.70%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.66%) JMeter
14 14 (0.61%) Gatling
15 13 (0.57%) ER Studio
16 11 (0.48%) Gradle
16 11 (0.48%) Postman
17 9 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 570 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 494 (21.58%) Finance
3 289 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 204 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 190 (8.30%) Banking
6 71 (3.10%) Front Office
7 57 (2.49%) Investment Banking
8 51 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 31 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.31%) Retail
13 26 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.00%) Marketing
15 20 (0.87%) Military
16 18 (0.79%) Legal
17 14 (0.61%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 421 (18.39%) Developer
2 394 (17.21%) Architect
3 357 (15.60%) Senior
4 229 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 209 (9.13%) Data Engineer
6 198 (8.65%) Lead
7 197 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 133 (5.81%) Software Engineer
9 118 (5.16%) Senior Developer
10 104 (4.54%) Analyst
11 97 (4.24%) Python Engineer
12 93 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
13 92 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
14 87 (3.80%) Java Developer
15 85 (3.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 85 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
16 81 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
16 81 (3.54%) Python Developer
17 74 (3.23%) AWS Architect
18 73 (3.19%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (13.06%) Kafka
2 225 (9.83%) React
3 175 (7.65%) Node.js
4 164 (7.16%) REST
5 135 (5.90%) Spring
6 121 (5.29%) RESTful
7 116 (5.07%) Spring Boot
8 97 (4.24%) AngularJS
9 71 (3.10%) CSS
9 71 (3.10%) HTML
10 65 (2.84%) .NET
11 62 (2.71%) Pandas
12 60 (2.62%) gRPC
13 58 (2.53%) SOAP
14 57 (2.49%) NumPy
15 56 (2.45%) OAuth
15 56 (2.45%) PySpark
16 54 (2.36%) Vue
17 53 (2.32%) PyTorch
18 52 (2.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 321 (14.02%) Cloud Native
2 117 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.41%) Security Posture
4 60 (2.62%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 58 (2.53%) Fixed Income
7 53 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 47 (2.05%) Derivative
8 47 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 45 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 43 (1.88%) Algorithms
11 38 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 37 (1.62%) Public Cloud
13 36 (1.57%) Equities
13 36 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
14 35 (1.53%) AI Agents
14 35 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 35 (1.53%) Hedge funds
15 30 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 29 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 192 (8.39%) Linux
2 65 (2.84%) Windows
3 50 (2.18%) Unix
4 19 (0.83%) VMS
5 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.35%) Android
7 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.22%) CentOS
10 3 (0.13%) zOS
11 2 (0.087%) Solaris
11 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.044%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.044%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 875 (38.23%) CI/CD
2 628 (27.44%) DevOps
3 545 (23.81%) Agile
4 450 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 363 (15.86%) Microservices
6 359 (15.68%) AI
7 351 (15.33%) Analytics
7 351 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
8 302 (13.19%) Containerisation
9 296 (12.93%) Software Engineering
10 257 (11.23%) Data Modelling
11 238 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
12 231 (10.09%) Machine Learning
13 226 (9.87%) Data Engineering
14 220 (9.61%) ETL
15 219 (9.57%) Observability
16 205 (8.96%) Migration
17 193 (8.43%) Full-Stack Development
18 179 (7.82%) Test Automation
19 174 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 963 (42.07%) Python
2 531 (23.20%) SQL
3 424 (18.52%) Java
4 214 (9.35%) JavaScript
5 197 (8.61%) TypeScript
6 105 (4.59%) Go
7 104 (4.54%) Bash
8 97 (4.24%) C#
9 89 (3.89%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.35%) Scala
11 30 (1.31%) C++
11 30 (1.31%) Ruby
12 28 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.74%) R
14 16 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.66%) Rust
16 13 (0.57%) PHP
16 13 (0.57%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.48%) Bicep
17 11 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 636 (27.79%) Security Cleared
2 564 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.64%) AWS Certification
4 118 (5.16%) Degree
5 64 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 43 (1.88%) CISSP
8 39 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 32 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (0.87%) CISM
14 18 (0.79%) OSCP
15 17 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 16 (0.70%) CCNP
16 16 (0.70%) PMP
17 14 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (0.52%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 104 (4.54%) GDPR
3 80 (3.49%) QA
4 71 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.66%) NIST
6 42 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.18%) NCSC
8 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 14 (0.61%) SLA
10 13 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.52%) WCAG
12 11 (0.48%) GRC
13 10 (0.44%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.35%) PMO
15 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.26%) PSD2
15 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.22%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 498 (21.76%) Docker
2 62 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.52%) Squid
5 9 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.26%) zsh
7 5 (0.22%) HDFS
8 4 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.17%) Postfix
8 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.044%) NFS
11 1 (0.044%) NLBS
11 1 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 543 (23.72%) Terraform
2 523 (22.85%) Kubernetes
3 136 (5.94%) Ansible
4 97 (4.24%) Grafana
5 88 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 37 (1.62%) Argo
8 17 (0.74%) Consul
8 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.74%) Puppet
9 15 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.52%) Kibana
10 12 (0.52%) Nessus
10 12 (0.52%) Packer
11 11 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.48%) SCCM
12 8 (0.35%) QRadar
13 7 (0.31%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.26%) WSUS
15 5 (0.22%) Nmap
Vendors
1 151 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.42%) Databricks
3 89 (3.89%) Oracle
4 87 (3.80%) Google
5 77 (3.36%) Splunk
6 60 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 43 (1.88%) OpenAI
9 37 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.49%) Centrify
10 34 (1.49%) Cisco
11 32 (1.40%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 30 (1.31%) IBM
13 27 (1.18%) Red Hat
14 26 (1.14%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.05%) SAP
16 20 (0.87%) VMware
17 18 (0.79%) Atlassian