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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,194 1,948 2,325
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.76% 14.37% 12.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.38% 34.55% 33.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 1,389 1,805
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £460 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £689
90th Percentile £775 £815 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £22.14
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £29.85
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.14% +20.18% -28.95%

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 6,572 5,638 6,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.60% 37.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,499 3,739 5,144
10th Percentile £347 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £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 94 48 78
10th Percentile £18.06 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.12 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.08 £32.75 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +8.77% +5.65%
75th Percentile £55.44 £56.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £69.38 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.81 £27.50 £22.23
% change year-on-year +30.22% +23.73% -11.10%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -2 252 £525 -4.55% 238
South London +9 63 £519 +6.10% 28
West London +10 46 £603 +7.78% 62
East London +6 9 £630 - 53
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
1 108 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 79 (3.60%) Confluence
3 60 (2.73%) Apache
4 33 (1.50%) nginx
5 14 (0.64%) Camunda
5 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.64%) SAS
6 13 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 13 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.36%) Appian
8 6 (0.27%) CMS
9 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.14%) Drupal
10 3 (0.14%) Traefik
10 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.091%) Mule
11 2 (0.091%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.18%) Trello
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.046%) Notion
9 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.18%) Actimize
4 4 (0.18%) Endur
5 3 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.091%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.091%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.091%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.091%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.046%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.046%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.046%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 884 (40.29%) Azure
2 502 (22.88%) GCP
3 337 (15.36%) Serverless
4 316 (14.40%) Amazon S3
5 303 (13.81%) GitHub
6 295 (13.45%) AWS Lambda
7 199 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 176 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
9 161 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
10 154 (7.02%) Snowflake
11 136 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
12 124 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 123 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
14 121 (5.52%) Power Platform
15 97 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 69 (3.14%) dbt
17 66 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
18 62 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
19 51 (2.32%) AWS Step Functions
20 47 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (4.79%) Firewall
2 61 (2.78%) VPN
3 60 (2.73%) DNS
4 50 (2.28%) Network Security
5 38 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.19%) WAN
7 22 (1.00%) SSL
8 17 (0.77%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.68%) HTTP
10 14 (0.64%) DHCP
10 14 (0.64%) LAN
11 13 (0.59%) BGP
12 12 (0.55%) OSPF
13 10 (0.46%) VLAN
14 9 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.41%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.36%) 5G
15 8 (0.36%) Wireless
16 7 (0.32%) 4G
16 7 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (5.20%) NoSQL
3 113 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
4 108 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
4 108 (4.92%) Power BI
5 95 (4.33%) Data Lake
6 90 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 90 (4.10%) SQL Server
7 86 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
8 78 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 64 (2.92%) MongoDB
10 61 (2.78%) DynamoDB
10 61 (2.78%) Tableau
11 58 (2.64%) MySQL
12 57 (2.60%) Metadata
13 49 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
14 47 (2.14%) Big Data
15 42 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
16 37 (1.69%) BigQuery
17 32 (1.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 223 (10.16%) Git
2 204 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 191 (8.71%) GitLab
4 143 (6.52%) JIRA
5 40 (1.82%) JUnit
6 31 (1.41%) MLflow
7 27 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 25 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 20 (0.91%) ERwin
11 19 (0.87%) Mockito
12 17 (0.77%) Maven
12 17 (0.77%) Selenium
13 15 (0.68%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.64%) JMeter
15 13 (0.59%) ER Studio
15 13 (0.59%) Gatling
16 11 (0.50%) Gradle
17 10 (0.46%) Postman
18 9 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 552 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 469 (21.38%) Finance
3 269 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 193 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 186 (8.48%) Banking
6 61 (2.78%) Front Office
7 55 (2.51%) Investment Banking
8 46 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.32%) Retail
12 28 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.05%) Marketing
15 21 (0.96%) Military
16 18 (0.82%) Legal
17 16 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
19 12 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 399 (18.19%) Developer
2 366 (16.68%) Architect
3 345 (15.72%) Senior
4 230 (10.48%) AWS Engineer
5 212 (9.66%) Data Engineer
6 189 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 175 (7.98%) Lead
8 119 (5.42%) Software Engineer
9 115 (5.24%) Senior Developer
10 98 (4.47%) Python Engineer
11 97 (4.42%) Analyst
12 91 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
13 88 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
14 83 (3.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 83 (3.78%) Java Developer
15 80 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
16 77 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
16 77 (3.51%) Python Developer
17 73 (3.33%) AWS Developer
18 71 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (13.08%) Kafka
2 207 (9.43%) React
3 163 (7.43%) REST
4 156 (7.11%) Node.js
5 134 (6.11%) Spring
6 119 (5.42%) RESTful
7 117 (5.33%) Spring Boot
8 94 (4.28%) AngularJS
9 71 (3.24%) HTML
10 70 (3.19%) CSS
11 63 (2.87%) gRPC
12 60 (2.73%) .NET
12 60 (2.73%) Pandas
13 57 (2.60%) SOAP
14 55 (2.51%) NumPy
14 55 (2.51%) PySpark
15 54 (2.46%) OAuth
16 51 (2.32%) Vue
17 50 (2.28%) LDAP
18 48 (2.19%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 312 (14.22%) Cloud Native
2 113 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (3.46%) Security Posture
4 57 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 53 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 53 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (2.05%) Fixed Income
6 45 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 43 (1.96%) Derivative
7 43 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 41 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 38 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 37 (1.69%) Hedge funds
11 36 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 36 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 33 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 33 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.50%) Equities
13 30 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 30 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 187 (8.52%) Linux
2 66 (3.01%) Windows
3 48 (2.19%) Unix
4 20 (0.91%) VMS
5 13 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.41%) Android
6 9 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.23%) CentOS
9 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Solaris
11 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (38.74%) CI/CD
2 604 (27.53%) DevOps
3 510 (23.25%) Agile
4 430 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 348 (15.86%) AI
5 348 (15.86%) Microservices
6 338 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
7 330 (15.04%) Analytics
8 286 (13.04%) Containerisation
9 277 (12.63%) Software Engineering
10 247 (11.26%) Data Modelling
11 237 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
12 219 (9.98%) Data Engineering
13 211 (9.62%) Machine Learning
14 208 (9.48%) Observability
15 205 (9.34%) ETL
16 199 (9.07%) Migration
17 180 (8.20%) Full-Stack Development
18 168 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
19 167 (7.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 930 (42.39%) Python
2 522 (23.79%) SQL
3 413 (18.82%) Java
4 193 (8.80%) JavaScript
5 182 (8.30%) TypeScript
6 104 (4.74%) Bash
7 97 (4.42%) Go
8 91 (4.15%) C#
8 91 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 30 (1.37%) C++
9 30 (1.37%) Scala
10 29 (1.32%) Ruby
11 24 (1.09%) Shell Script
12 18 (0.82%) R
13 16 (0.73%) Rust
14 15 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.64%) PHP
16 13 (0.59%) Groovy
17 12 (0.55%) Bicep
17 12 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 599 (27.30%) Security Cleared
2 530 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 123 (5.61%) AWS Certification
4 114 (5.20%) Degree
5 62 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 38 (1.73%) CISSP
8 32 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (0.87%) CISM
13 18 (0.82%) OSCP
13 18 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.77%) PMP
15 15 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.64%) CCNP
17 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 10 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 107 (4.88%) GDPR
3 78 (3.56%) QA
4 71 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.78%) NIST
6 36 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.23%) NCSC
8 24 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.73%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.59%) SLA
12 12 (0.55%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.50%) GRC
14 9 (0.41%) WCAG
15 8 (0.36%) PSD2
16 7 (0.32%) SEPA
17 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.27%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 477 (21.74%) Docker
2 62 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.59%) Squid
5 11 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.27%) DFS Replication
6 6 (0.27%) Dovecot
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.27%) Postfix
6 6 (0.27%) zsh
7 4 (0.18%) HDFS
7 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.091%) KVM
9 2 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) Ceph
10 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 518 (23.61%) Terraform
2 503 (22.93%) Kubernetes
3 131 (5.97%) Ansible
4 100 (4.56%) Grafana
5 92 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (1.60%) Argo
8 18 (0.82%) Puppet
9 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.73%) Consul
10 16 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.64%) Nessus
12 13 (0.59%) Kibana
13 12 (0.55%) Packer
13 12 (0.55%) SCCM
14 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.36%) QRadar
16 7 (0.32%) Karpenter
16 7 (0.32%) Rancher
17 6 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 150 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 145 (6.61%) Databricks
3 85 (3.87%) Google
4 84 (3.83%) Oracle
5 75 (3.42%) Splunk
6 58 (2.64%) ServiceNow
7 44 (2.01%) CyberArk
8 38 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 35 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.55%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.55%) Centrify
11 32 (1.46%) Cisco
12 30 (1.37%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.19%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.14%) Red Hat
16 24 (1.09%) IBM
17 22 (1.00%) SAP
18 21 (0.96%) VMware
19 17 (0.77%) Informatica