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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,554 2,010 2,316
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.29% 16.22% 13.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.69% 38.27% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,763 1,445 1,784
10th Percentile £402 £400 £406
25th Percentile £470 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.81%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £738
90th Percentile £786 £825 £825
England median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.75 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +23.70% -42.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £68.38
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £74.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.86% +29.55% -26.67%

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 7,581 5,252 6,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.41% 42.38% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,238 3,630 4,954
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -1 284 £550 - 230
South London +4 84 £500 +2.56% 7
West London +6 82 £603 +11.88% 34
East London +2 15 £540 -7.69% 47
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
1 120 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.62%) Confluence
4 63 (2.47%) Apache
5 23 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.70%) nginx
7 15 (0.59%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) CICS
11 5 (0.20%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.078%) Drupal
14 2 (0.078%) Mule
14 2 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Actimize
5 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (40.21%) Azure
2 559 (21.89%) GCP
3 386 (15.11%) Amazon S3
4 379 (14.84%) Serverless
5 329 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
5 329 (12.88%) GitHub
6 214 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 199 (7.79%) GitHub Actions
8 175 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
9 162 (6.34%) Snowflake
10 161 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
11 149 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 141 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
13 139 (5.44%) Power Platform
14 119 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 104 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
16 80 (3.13%) SaaS
17 67 (2.62%) dbt
18 66 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
19 63 (2.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.88%) Firewall
2 64 (2.51%) Network Security
3 62 (2.43%) DNS
4 57 (2.23%) VPN
5 46 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.29%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 19 (0.74%) HTTP
9 18 (0.70%) LAN
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 15 (0.59%) SSL
11 14 (0.55%) DHCP
12 13 (0.51%) VLAN
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) NGFW
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.31%) SAN
17 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (4.78%) Data Lake
3 118 (4.62%) Power BI
4 115 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
5 110 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
5 110 (4.31%) NoSQL
6 106 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
7 98 (3.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (3.72%) SQL Server
9 73 (2.86%) DynamoDB
9 73 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 73 (2.86%) Tableau
10 71 (2.78%) Metadata
10 71 (2.78%) Relational Database
11 60 (2.35%) Big Data
12 45 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
13 42 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 42 (1.64%) BigQuery
14 41 (1.61%) MySQL
15 37 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 224 (8.77%) Jenkins
2 222 (8.69%) Git
3 207 (8.10%) GitLab
4 120 (4.70%) JIRA
5 43 (1.68%) MLflow
6 40 (1.57%) JUnit
7 32 (1.25%) Mockito
8 27 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.82%) Gradle
10 21 (0.82%) JMeter
10 21 (0.82%) Maven
10 21 (0.82%) Selenium
11 20 (0.78%) Bitbucket
11 20 (0.78%) Postman
12 19 (0.74%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.51%) Snyk
15 12 (0.47%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 581 (22.75%) Finance
2 529 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 352 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 223 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (8.22%) Banking
6 87 (3.41%) Front Office
7 62 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.57%) Retail
11 39 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.06%) Marketing
16 24 (0.94%) Legal
17 21 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.55%) Military
19 12 (0.47%) Law
20 11 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 517 (20.24%) Architect
2 416 (16.29%) Developer
3 380 (14.88%) Senior
4 273 (10.69%) Data Engineer
5 272 (10.65%) Lead
6 233 (9.12%) AWS Engineer
7 185 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 142 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 129 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
10 113 (4.42%) Senior Developer
11 105 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (4.07%) AWS Architect
13 98 (3.84%) Analyst
14 96 (3.76%) Java Developer
15 95 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
16 86 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
17 81 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
18 79 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 75 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 71 (2.78%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (12.06%) Kafka
2 232 (9.08%) React
3 197 (7.71%) REST
4 179 (7.01%) Node.js
5 170 (6.66%) Spring
6 159 (6.23%) Spring Boot
7 140 (5.48%) RESTful
8 88 (3.45%) .NET
9 83 (3.25%) PySpark
10 74 (2.90%) AngularJS
11 71 (2.78%) GraphQL
12 69 (2.70%) OAuth
13 66 (2.58%) SOAP
14 62 (2.43%) Redux
15 60 (2.35%) LDAP
16 57 (2.23%) HTML
16 57 (2.23%) Pandas
17 49 (1.92%) CSS
17 49 (1.92%) OpenID
18 47 (1.84%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 424 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 144 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.98%) Fixed Income
5 71 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 66 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.55%) AI Agents
8 64 (2.51%) Product Ownership
9 57 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.96%) Data Centre
11 47 (1.84%) Derivative
11 47 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.64%) Equities
14 35 (1.37%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.25%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.21%) Mainframe
17 26 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (6.97%) Linux
2 71 (2.78%) Windows
3 40 (1.57%) Unix
4 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.27%) VMS
8 7 (0.27%) zOS
9 6 (0.23%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.078%) AIX
13 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
14 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (37.82%) CI/CD
2 732 (28.66%) DevOps
3 582 (22.79%) Agile
4 513 (20.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 482 (18.87%) AI
6 399 (15.62%) Microservices
7 372 (14.57%) Containerisation
8 364 (14.25%) Analytics
9 337 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
10 312 (12.22%) Software Engineering
11 297 (11.63%) Data Modelling
12 296 (11.59%) Migration
13 276 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
14 273 (10.69%) Data Engineering
15 270 (10.57%) Observability
16 255 (9.98%) Machine Learning
17 242 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
18 239 (9.36%) ETL
19 226 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 212 (8.30%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 992 (38.84%) Python
2 556 (21.77%) SQL
3 465 (18.21%) Java
4 228 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 215 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.42%) C#
7 112 (4.39%) PowerShell
8 103 (4.03%) Bash
9 99 (3.88%) Go
10 42 (1.64%) Scala
11 38 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.41%) Ruby
13 21 (0.82%) R
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.70%) Bicep
15 18 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.63%) C++
17 11 (0.43%) PHP
18 10 (0.39%) Groovy
18 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 722 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 640 (25.06%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.21%) Degree
4 117 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 70 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (2.62%) CISSP
7 56 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 49 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.80%) DV Cleared
10 36 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.17%) CISM
13 25 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 24 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.94%) PMP
15 21 (0.82%) CCNP
16 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 19 (0.74%) CCSP
18 13 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.42%) GDPR
3 96 (3.76%) QA
4 87 (3.41%) NIST
5 72 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.17%) SLA
9 23 (0.90%) NCSC
10 22 (0.86%) GRC
11 18 (0.70%) ISO 20022
12 15 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.55%) PMO
14 13 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.43%) WCAG
16 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.27%) MiFID
17 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 7 (0.27%) SEPA
18 5 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 478 (18.72%) Docker
2 87 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.63%) Squid
6 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 4 (0.16%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.078%) Firmware
9 2 (0.078%) KVM
9 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.078%) Postfix
9 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 578 (22.63%) Terraform
2 517 (20.24%) Kubernetes
3 142 (5.56%) Grafana
4 126 (4.93%) Ansible
5 122 (4.78%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.74%) Argo
8 18 (0.70%) Kibana
9 17 (0.67%) Puppet
10 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.43%) Consul
12 11 (0.43%) QRadar
13 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
13 6 (0.23%) Packer
13 6 (0.23%) SCCM
14 5 (0.20%) Istio
14 5 (0.20%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.16%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 191 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 128 (5.01%) Databricks
3 93 (3.64%) Google
4 82 (3.21%) Oracle
4 82 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 72 (2.82%) Splunk
6 63 (2.47%) CyberArk
7 61 (2.39%) OpenAI
8 53 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 46 (1.80%) Cisco
10 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
10 35 (1.37%) Centrify
10 35 (1.37%) SAP
11 34 (1.33%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.25%) VMware
13 31 (1.21%) IBM
14 28 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.02%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.86%) Confluent
16 22 (0.86%) Foundry