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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,794 2,105 2,271
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.81% 15.86% 14.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.75% 36.51% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,982 1,463 1,686
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £695 £751
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -64.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £80.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 8,279 5,766 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.44% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 3,926 4,623
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 92 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -21.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -6 279 £574 -1.97% 348
West London +6 96 £560 +33.73% 140
South London +1 74 £535 -5.38% 14
East London +12 14 £550 -9.47% 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
1 161 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 106 (3.79%) Confluence
4 89 (3.19%) Apache
5 28 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.47%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
10 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.21%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 28 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.072%) Shopify
7 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,254 (44.88%) Azure
2 636 (22.76%) GCP
3 393 (14.07%) Serverless
4 380 (13.60%) Amazon S3
5 366 (13.10%) GitHub
6 328 (11.74%) AWS Lambda
7 247 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
8 232 (8.30%) Snowflake
9 214 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
10 187 (6.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 161 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
12 158 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 150 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
14 145 (5.19%) dbt
15 136 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
16 134 (4.80%) Power Platform
17 132 (4.72%) SaaS
18 123 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 111 (3.97%) Entra ID
20 99 (3.54%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.76%) Firewall
2 80 (2.86%) Network Security
3 63 (2.25%) DNS
4 54 (1.93%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 32 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 26 (0.93%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 21 (0.75%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
10 19 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.64%) BGP
11 18 (0.64%) HTTP
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
13 14 (0.50%) MPLS
13 14 (0.50%) NGFW
13 14 (0.50%) OSPF
14 13 (0.47%) SAN
15 12 (0.43%) IPsec
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.29%) Power BI
5 116 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 112 (4.01%) Data Lake
7 108 (3.87%) Metadata
7 108 (3.87%) SQL Server
8 94 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
9 90 (3.22%) DynamoDB
10 89 (3.19%) MongoDB
11 88 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 78 (2.79%) Relational Database
13 68 (2.43%) Delta Lake
14 59 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
14 59 (2.11%) Tableau
15 55 (1.97%) Big Data
16 54 (1.93%) MySQL
17 45 (1.61%) Redis
18 43 (1.54%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 302 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 298 (10.67%) Git
3 266 (9.52%) GitLab
4 154 (5.51%) JIRA
5 36 (1.29%) Maven
6 34 (1.22%) JMeter
6 34 (1.22%) JUnit
7 31 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.07%) Selenium
9 28 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 25 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 25 (0.89%) Mockito
12 23 (0.82%) Gradle
13 22 (0.79%) Postman
14 18 (0.64%) Claude Code
14 18 (0.64%) Gatling
15 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 703 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 663 (23.73%) Finance
3 381 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 280 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.13%) Banking
6 83 (2.97%) Retail
7 64 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.36%) Marketing
11 36 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
12 35 (1.25%) Legal
13 34 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.15%) Front Office
15 29 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.00%) Law
17 27 (0.97%) Military
18 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
19 23 (0.82%) Billing
19 23 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 584 (20.90%) Architect
2 444 (15.89%) Senior
3 337 (12.06%) Developer
4 304 (10.88%) Data Engineer
5 299 (10.70%) Lead
6 268 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
7 209 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 145 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 110 (3.94%) Analyst
10 110 (3.94%) AWS Architect
11 102 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 102 (3.65%) Data Architect
11 102 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
12 101 (3.61%) Java Developer
13 90 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
14 89 (3.19%) Software Engineer
15 82 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
16 76 (2.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 73 (2.61%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 715 (25.59%) Terraform
2 315 (11.27%) Kafka
3 280 (10.02%) REST
4 194 (6.94%) React
5 181 (6.48%) Spring
6 166 (5.94%) Spring Boot
7 154 (5.51%) RESTful
8 122 (4.37%) Node.js
9 113 (4.04%) PySpark
10 99 (3.54%) .NET
11 96 (3.44%) OAuth
12 72 (2.58%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.36%) FastAPI
14 65 (2.33%) HTML
15 63 (2.25%) AngularJS
16 62 (2.22%) JSON
17 55 (1.97%) OAuth2
18 54 (1.93%) CSS
19 53 (1.90%) SOAP
20 49 (1.75%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 540 (19.33%) Cloud Native
2 179 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 139 (4.97%) AI Agents
5 126 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 67 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 67 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 65 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 60 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 47 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 41 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.43%) PKI
12 40 (1.43%) Replication
13 37 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 36 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
15 35 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 30 (1.07%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 241 (8.63%) Linux
2 124 (4.44%) Windows
3 55 (1.97%) Unix
4 49 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.47%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.21%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) zOS
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,168 (41.80%) CI/CD
2 891 (31.89%) DevOps
3 709 (25.38%) Agile
4 666 (23.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 629 (22.51%) AI
6 471 (16.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 413 (14.78%) Microservices
8 406 (14.53%) Containerisation
9 394 (14.10%) Observability
10 367 (13.14%) Migration
11 365 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (12.74%) Analytics
13 350 (12.53%) Software Engineering
14 342 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
15 340 (12.17%) Data Modelling
16 335 (11.99%) Data Engineering
17 327 (11.70%) Event-Driven
18 323 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 308 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
20 291 (10.42%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (36.47%) Python
2 605 (21.65%) SQL
3 478 (17.11%) Java
4 206 (7.37%) TypeScript
5 203 (7.27%) JavaScript
6 170 (6.08%) Bash
7 136 (4.87%) PowerShell
8 112 (4.01%) C#
9 54 (1.93%) Scala
10 52 (1.86%) Go
11 35 (1.25%) Bicep
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.11%) Groovy
13 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.68%) C++
15 19 (0.68%) R
16 18 (0.64%) Ruby
17 13 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 772 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 681 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 173 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 145 (5.19%) Degree
5 90 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 88 (3.15%) CISSP
7 76 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 65 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 63 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (1.68%) CISM
13 30 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 21 (0.75%) CCSP
15 20 (0.72%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (0.64%) PMP
18 17 (0.61%) CCNP
19 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 163 (5.83%) QA
3 108 (3.87%) NIST
4 104 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (2.68%) GDPR
6 37 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.07%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.93%) NCSC
10 24 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (0.86%) SLA
11 20 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
13 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.47%) SEPA
16 11 (0.39%) PMO
17 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 499 (17.86%) Docker
2 93 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
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
1 629 (22.51%) Kubernetes
2 213 (7.62%) Grafana
3 201 (7.19%) Ansible
4 161 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 42 (1.50%) Kibana
6 34 (1.22%) Argo
6 34 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (0.97%) Puppet
8 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.39%) Packer
10 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.32%) Istio
10 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.21%) Control-M
13 6 (0.21%) Nagios
13 6 (0.21%) QRadar
14 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
14 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 292 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 190 (6.80%) Databricks
3 139 (4.97%) Google
4 137 (4.90%) Oracle
5 126 (4.51%) ServiceNow
6 110 (3.94%) Splunk
7 67 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.00%) OpenAI
9 53 (1.90%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.90%) VMware
10 51 (1.83%) Cisco
10 51 (1.83%) SAP
11 44 (1.57%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.40%) Dynatrace
13 38 (1.36%) Informatica
14 37 (1.32%) IBM
15 30 (1.07%) Fortinet
16 27 (0.97%) Red Hat
17 25 (0.89%) Foundry
18 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft