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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,873 2,261 2,416
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.53% 16.61% 13.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.82% 38.74% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 1,579 1,876
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £490
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% -66.61%
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% -36.52%

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 8,251 5,836 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.72% 42.88% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,663 3,970 5,120
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £789
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.27% -2.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 80 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.92 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +20.20% +9.51% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £67.50 £64.60
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -3 295 £550 - 286
West London +4 95 £560 +28.00% 195
South London +2 90 £513 -2.38% 6
East London +9 16 £540 -7.69% 35
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
1 138 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 93 (3.24%) Confluence
4 69 (2.40%) Apache
5 31 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.63%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.38%) Camunda
8 11 (0.38%) CICS
8 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) Mule
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.77%) 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 (0.070%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.070%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.035%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.035%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (42.22%) Azure
2 607 (21.13%) GCP
3 412 (14.34%) Serverless
4 406 (14.13%) Amazon S3
5 356 (12.39%) GitHub
6 349 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
7 226 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
8 208 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
9 193 (6.72%) Snowflake
10 187 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 174 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
12 172 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 151 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
14 147 (5.12%) Power Platform
15 124 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
15 124 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 122 (4.25%) SaaS
17 100 (3.48%) dbt
18 95 (3.31%) Amazon Bedrock
19 91 (3.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 113 (3.93%) Firewall
2 89 (3.10%) Network Security
3 73 (2.54%) VPN
4 71 (2.47%) DNS
5 48 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.32%) WAN
7 24 (0.84%) DHCP
7 24 (0.84%) HTTP
8 23 (0.80%) BGP
9 19 (0.66%) SSL
10 17 (0.59%) OSPF
11 16 (0.56%) 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
1 212 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
4 132 (4.59%) Power BI
5 119 (4.14%) Data Lake
6 116 (4.04%) NoSQL
7 112 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 109 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
9 101 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (2.96%) DynamoDB
10 85 (2.96%) Metadata
11 76 (2.65%) Tableau
12 74 (2.58%) Relational Database
13 73 (2.54%) MongoDB
14 68 (2.37%) Big Data
15 45 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
16 42 (1.46%) BigQuery
16 42 (1.46%) Delta Lake
17 39 (1.36%) MySQL
18 32 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 268 (9.33%) Git
2 267 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 255 (8.88%) GitLab
4 155 (5.40%) JIRA
5 38 (1.32%) JUnit
6 33 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.11%) Mockito
8 31 (1.08%) JMeter
8 31 (1.08%) Maven
8 31 (1.08%) MLflow
9 26 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 24 (0.84%) Gradle
10 24 (0.84%) Selenium
11 23 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 22 (0.77%) Postman
13 19 (0.66%) Gatling
13 19 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 16 (0.56%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 707 (24.61%) Finance
2 615 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 414 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 255 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 254 (8.84%) Banking
6 86 (2.99%) Front Office
7 72 (2.51%) Retail
8 68 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 58 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 41 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 40 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (1.08%) Marketing
15 27 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
16 26 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (0.87%) Legal
18 22 (0.77%) Law
19 20 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
20 17 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 572 (19.91%) Architect
2 433 (15.07%) Senior
3 416 (14.48%) Developer
4 328 (11.42%) Lead
5 301 (10.48%) Data Engineer
6 296 (10.30%) AWS Engineer
7 227 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 155 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
9 149 (5.19%) Software Engineer
10 132 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.11%) AWS Architect
12 111 (3.86%) Java Developer
13 106 (3.69%) Analyst
14 100 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
15 97 (3.38%) Senior Developer
16 94 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 88 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
18 86 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 84 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
20 83 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (11.03%) Kafka
2 250 (8.70%) React
3 216 (7.52%) REST
4 188 (6.54%) Node.js
5 175 (6.09%) Spring
6 164 (5.71%) Spring Boot
7 149 (5.19%) RESTful
8 97 (3.38%) .NET
9 94 (3.27%) PySpark
10 93 (3.24%) GraphQL
11 79 (2.75%) OAuth
12 71 (2.47%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.23%) Redux
14 57 (1.98%) HTML
15 56 (1.95%) JSON
16 54 (1.88%) FastAPI
17 52 (1.81%) Pandas
18 50 (1.74%) CSS
19 46 (1.60%) LangChain
19 46 (1.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 508 (17.68%) Cloud Native
2 179 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 100 (3.48%) AI Agents
5 91 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 90 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.65%) Fixed Income
8 70 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 48 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (1.46%) Derivative
15 38 (1.32%) Equities
16 36 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
17 35 (1.22%) Public Cloud
18 32 (1.11%) Data Structures
18 32 (1.11%) Mainframe
18 32 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 220 (7.66%) Linux
2 118 (4.11%) Windows
3 42 (1.46%) Unix
4 35 (1.22%) 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 (0.070%) CentOS
12 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,143 (39.78%) CI/CD
2 872 (30.35%) DevOps
3 704 (24.50%) Agile
4 599 (20.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 592 (20.61%) AI
6 433 (15.07%) Microservices
7 422 (14.69%) Containerisation
8 387 (13.47%) Analytics
9 366 (12.74%) Migration
10 352 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
10 352 (12.25%) Software Engineering
11 340 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
12 324 (11.28%) Data Engineering
12 324 (11.28%) Data Modelling
13 322 (11.21%) Observability
13 322 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 309 (10.76%) Machine Learning
15 295 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 269 (9.36%) Event-Driven
16 269 (9.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (37.03%) Python
2 597 (20.78%) SQL
3 509 (17.72%) Java
4 269 (9.36%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.18%) JavaScript
6 138 (4.80%) Bash
7 121 (4.21%) C#
8 115 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 89 (3.10%) Go
10 48 (1.67%) Scala
11 35 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.08%) Ruby
13 29 (1.01%) Bicep
14 24 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.70%) 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
1 762 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 683 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.36%) Degree
4 133 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 90 (3.13%) CISSP
6 69 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 62 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.39%) CISM
12 33 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 31 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 23 (0.80%) CCSP
16 21 (0.73%) PMI Certification
16 21 (0.73%) PMP
17 19 (0.66%) CCNP
18 16 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
19 15 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 120 (4.18%) QA
3 99 (3.45%) GDPR
4 96 (3.34%) NIST
5 79 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.04%) GRC
9 26 (0.90%) SLA
10 24 (0.84%) NCSC
11 18 (0.63%) PMO
11 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.59%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.56%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.56%) 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
1 513 (17.86%) Docker
2 81 (2.82%) 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 (0.070%) Firmware
11 2 (0.070%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 682 (23.74%) Terraform
2 610 (21.23%) Kubernetes
3 180 (6.27%) Grafana
4 171 (5.95%) Ansible
5 149 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.01%) Argo
8 25 (0.87%) Puppet
9 24 (0.84%) 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 (8.49%) Microsoft
2 133 (4.63%) Databricks
3 113 (3.93%) Google
4 111 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 106 (3.69%) Oracle
6 87 (3.03%) Splunk
7 71 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 47 (1.64%) Cisco
10 45 (1.57%) CyberArk
11 39 (1.36%) VMware
12 38 (1.32%) SAP
13 36 (1.25%) Foundry
14 35 (1.22%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.08%) MuleSoft
16 30 (1.04%) Dynatrace
16 30 (1.04%) Informatica
17 29 (1.01%) IBM
17 29 (1.01%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.80%) Qualys