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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,790 2,184 2,287
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.88% 16.32% 14.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.63% 37.75% 34.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 1,532 1,740
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £476 £462 £500
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 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +91.68% -63.51%
75th Percentile £78.75 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
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 8,295 5,785 6,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.26% 43.22% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,961 4,763
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.05 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +4.55% -43.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £76.06 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.00
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.07% -15.15%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -5 282 £550 -4.76% 212
West London +6 97 £550 +29.41% 175
South London +2 74 £535 +0.47% 21
East London +6 13 £550 -5.98% 27
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
1 152 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 99 (3.55%) Confluence
4 79 (2.83%) Apache
5 31 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) Camunda
7 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.11%) Mule
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
2 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.072%) Endur
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,249 (44.77%) Azure
2 623 (22.33%) GCP
3 391 (14.01%) Serverless
4 375 (13.44%) Amazon S3
5 351 (12.58%) GitHub
6 328 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
7 230 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
8 224 (8.03%) Snowflake
9 197 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
10 170 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 154 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 152 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
14 138 (4.95%) Power Platform
15 129 (4.62%) dbt
16 128 (4.59%) SaaS
17 127 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
18 122 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 103 (3.69%) Entra ID
20 95 (3.41%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 106 (3.80%) Firewall
2 82 (2.94%) Network Security
3 70 (2.51%) DNS
4 58 (2.08%) VPN
5 39 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.36%) WAN
7 26 (0.93%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
8 23 (0.82%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) Internet
9 20 (0.72%) SSH
10 18 (0.65%) BGP
11 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
11 15 (0.54%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.50%) LAN
13 13 (0.47%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.43%) OSPF
14 12 (0.43%) SAN
15 11 (0.39%) NGFW
16 10 (0.36%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
2 167 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
3 139 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
4 125 (4.48%) Power BI
5 119 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 113 (4.05%) Data Lake
7 103 (3.69%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.58%) Metadata
9 97 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 94 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
11 86 (3.08%) MongoDB
12 83 (2.97%) DynamoDB
13 77 (2.76%) Relational Database
14 67 (2.40%) Delta Lake
15 59 (2.11%) Tableau
16 58 (2.08%) Big Data
17 53 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
18 42 (1.51%) MySQL
18 42 (1.51%) Redis
19 40 (1.43%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 286 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 285 (10.22%) Git
3 264 (9.46%) GitLab
4 150 (5.38%) JIRA
5 34 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 33 (1.18%) JMeter
6 33 (1.18%) Selenium
7 30 (1.08%) JUnit
8 28 (1.00%) Maven
9 27 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.82%) Mockito
10 23 (0.82%) Postman
11 22 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.79%) Gradle
12 19 (0.68%) REST Assured
13 18 (0.65%) Gatling
14 17 (0.61%) Claude Code
14 17 (0.61%) MLflow
15 16 (0.57%) Cucumber
16 12 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 666 (23.87%) Finance
2 665 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 397 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 260 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 254 (9.10%) Banking
6 76 (2.72%) Retail
7 63 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 47 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 44 (1.58%) Front Office
11 43 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.29%) Marketing
13 34 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.04%) Legal
15 28 (1.00%) Law
16 25 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (0.72%) Manufacturing
18 20 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 590 (21.15%) Architect
2 440 (15.77%) Senior
3 353 (12.65%) Developer
4 303 (10.86%) Lead
5 301 (10.79%) Data Engineer
6 259 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
7 199 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 152 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 116 (4.16%) AWS Architect
10 106 (3.80%) Analyst
10 106 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 105 (3.76%) Software Engineer
12 103 (3.69%) Java Developer
13 95 (3.41%) Data Architect
14 92 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 91 (3.26%) Senior Data Engineer
16 90 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
17 82 (2.94%) Senior Developer
18 79 (2.83%) Cloud Architect
19 78 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (24.52%) Terraform
2 313 (11.22%) Kafka
3 255 (9.14%) REST
4 217 (7.78%) React
5 176 (6.31%) Spring
6 161 (5.77%) Spring Boot
7 152 (5.45%) RESTful
8 138 (4.95%) Node.js
9 108 (3.87%) PySpark
10 92 (3.30%) .NET
11 85 (3.05%) OAuth
12 68 (2.44%) GraphQL
13 63 (2.26%) JSON
14 62 (2.22%) AngularJS
15 61 (2.19%) HTML
16 58 (2.08%) FastAPI
17 51 (1.83%) CSS
18 45 (1.61%) LangChain
18 45 (1.61%) OAuth2
19 44 (1.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 520 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 184 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 126 (4.52%) AI Agents
5 113 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 48 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 44 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 37 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 36 (1.29%) Replication
13 35 (1.25%) PKI
14 34 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 33 (1.18%) CMDB
15 33 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (8.32%) Linux
2 126 (4.52%) Windows
3 52 (1.86%) Unix
4 44 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
11 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,157 (41.47%) CI/CD
2 863 (30.93%) DevOps
3 702 (25.16%) Agile
4 634 (22.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 611 (21.90%) AI
6 437 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 411 (14.73%) Microservices
8 393 (14.09%) Containerisation
9 374 (13.41%) Migration
10 366 (13.12%) Observability
11 356 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 355 (12.72%) Analytics
13 348 (12.47%) Software Engineering
14 344 (12.33%) Data Pipeline
15 337 (12.08%) Data Modelling
16 331 (11.86%) Data Engineering
17 316 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 302 (10.82%) Event-Driven
19 295 (10.57%) Machine Learning
20 278 (9.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (36.95%) Python
2 596 (21.36%) SQL
3 483 (17.31%) Java
4 222 (7.96%) TypeScript
5 208 (7.46%) JavaScript
6 160 (5.73%) Bash
7 144 (5.16%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.98%) C#
9 53 (1.90%) Go
10 44 (1.58%) Scala
11 33 (1.18%) Bicep
11 33 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.04%) Ruby
13 26 (0.93%) Groovy
13 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.68%) R
15 18 (0.65%) C++
16 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 747 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 666 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 151 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 151 (5.41%) Degree
4 84 (3.01%) CISSP
5 77 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 73 (2.62%) Azure Certification
7 67 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 53 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (1.54%) CISM
11 24 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 24 (0.86%) PMI Certification
12 23 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 23 (0.82%) PMP
13 17 (0.61%) CCNP
14 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.54%) CCSP
15 15 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 143 (5.13%) QA
3 107 (3.84%) NIST
4 96 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 92 (3.30%) GDPR
6 41 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.11%) GRC
9 27 (0.97%) SLA
10 23 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.75%) NCSC
12 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.61%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.50%) PMO
15 13 (0.47%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.39%) SEPA
17 10 (0.36%) WCAG
18 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 488 (17.49%) Docker
2 86 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
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%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 597 (21.40%) Kubernetes
2 196 (7.03%) Grafana
3 185 (6.63%) Ansible
4 157 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 33 (1.18%) Kibana
5 33 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.15%) Argo
7 24 (0.86%) Puppet
8 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.39%) Istio
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.22%) Control-M
14 6 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.22%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 280 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 171 (6.13%) Databricks
3 129 (4.62%) Oracle
3 129 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 127 (4.55%) Google
5 99 (3.55%) Splunk
6 69 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 58 (2.08%) VMware
8 53 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.83%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.79%) Cisco
11 47 (1.68%) SAP
12 37 (1.33%) Informatica
13 36 (1.29%) Palo Alto
14 35 (1.25%) IBM
15 32 (1.15%) Foundry
16 30 (1.08%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 25 (0.90%) Fortinet
18 25 (0.90%) Red Hat