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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,620 1,988 2,339
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.32% 16.45% 13.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.93% 38.47% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,816 1,410 1,817
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £473 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £549 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -0.18% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.63 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.05
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.73% +48.41% -59.35%
75th Percentile £77.25 £64.44 £69.75
90th Percentile £90.38 £83.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +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 7,722 5,168 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.20% 42.77% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,343 3,538 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 54 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.71 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +11.67% -50.48%
75th Percentile £54.81 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 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 27 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 27 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 -3 279 £550 - 159
West London +6 87 £600 +21.26% 34
South London 0 81 £500 +1.01% 12
East London +3 16 £543 -7.26% 41
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
1 129 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 66 (2.52%) Confluence
4 63 (2.40%) Apache
5 22 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.69%) nginx
7 15 (0.57%) Camunda
8 11 (0.42%) CICS
8 11 (0.42%) SAS
9 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.23%) CMS
12 4 (0.15%) Appian
12 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) IIS
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.076%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.076%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 39 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.15%) Revit
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.038%) Notion
10 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Endur
5 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.076%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.076%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.038%) Actimize
7 1 (0.038%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.038%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.038%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.038%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,066 (40.69%) Azure
2 564 (21.53%) GCP
3 390 (14.89%) Amazon S3
4 384 (14.66%) Serverless
5 337 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
6 336 (12.82%) GitHub
7 208 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
8 204 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 174 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
9 174 (6.64%) Snowflake
10 164 (6.26%) Amazon EC2
11 154 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 143 (5.46%) Power Platform
13 131 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
14 120 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 110 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
16 80 (3.05%) SaaS
17 79 (3.02%) dbt
18 71 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
19 68 (2.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.85%) Firewall
2 69 (2.63%) Network Security
3 65 (2.48%) DNS
4 59 (2.25%) VPN
5 47 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.26%) WAN
7 21 (0.80%) BGP
8 20 (0.76%) HTTP
9 18 (0.69%) LAN
10 17 (0.65%) SSL
11 16 (0.61%) DHCP
11 16 (0.61%) OSPF
12 13 (0.50%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.46%) VLAN
14 11 (0.42%) NGFW
15 10 (0.38%) OpenVPN
16 9 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.31%) SAN
17 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
18 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (4.92%) Data Lake
3 122 (4.66%) Power BI
4 117 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
5 115 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
6 111 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 107 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
8 100 (3.82%) SQL Server
9 95 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 82 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 74 (2.82%) Metadata
11 74 (2.82%) MongoDB
11 74 (2.82%) Tableau
12 73 (2.79%) Relational Database
13 59 (2.25%) Big Data
14 43 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
15 42 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
16 41 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 41 (1.56%) BigQuery
16 41 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 229 (8.74%) Git
2 224 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 206 (7.86%) GitLab
4 122 (4.66%) JIRA
5 40 (1.53%) JUnit
6 38 (1.45%) MLflow
7 32 (1.22%) Mockito
8 27 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 26 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 24 (0.92%) JMeter
11 22 (0.84%) Selenium
12 21 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.80%) Maven
12 21 (0.80%) Postman
13 20 (0.76%) Gradle
14 19 (0.73%) Bitbucket
15 16 (0.61%) Gatling
16 15 (0.57%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 616 (23.51%) Finance
2 555 (21.18%) Social Skills
3 370 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 226 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (8.63%) Banking
5 84 (3.21%) Front Office
6 62 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 48 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (1.68%) Retail
10 41 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (0.99%) Marketing
15 23 (0.88%) Legal
15 23 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.50%) Law
16 13 (0.50%) Military
17 12 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 530 (20.23%) Architect
2 418 (15.95%) Developer
3 392 (14.96%) Senior
4 293 (11.18%) Lead
5 281 (10.73%) Data Engineer
6 257 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
7 190 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 142 (5.42%) Software Engineer
9 135 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
10 117 (4.47%) Senior Developer
11 112 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (3.97%) AWS Architect
13 102 (3.89%) Cloud Architect
14 100 (3.82%) Java Developer
15 99 (3.78%) Analyst
16 85 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
16 85 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
17 81 (3.09%) Python Developer
18 80 (3.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 77 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (11.72%) Kafka
2 239 (9.12%) React
3 210 (8.02%) REST
4 175 (6.68%) Node.js
5 163 (6.22%) Spring
6 157 (5.99%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.38%) RESTful
8 92 (3.51%) .NET
9 84 (3.21%) PySpark
10 83 (3.17%) AngularJS
11 75 (2.86%) GraphQL
12 72 (2.75%) OAuth
13 70 (2.67%) SOAP
14 62 (2.37%) LDAP
14 62 (2.37%) Redux
15 58 (2.21%) Pandas
16 54 (2.06%) HTML
17 50 (1.91%) JSON
17 50 (1.91%) OpenID
18 49 (1.87%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 437 (16.68%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (3.24%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 74 (2.82%) Fixed Income
6 72 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 71 (2.71%) Product Ownership
8 69 (2.63%) AI Agents
9 68 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (1.98%) Data Centre
12 50 (1.91%) Management Information System
13 48 (1.83%) Derivative
14 42 (1.60%) Equities
14 42 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
15 33 (1.26%) Algorithms
16 31 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
16 31 (1.18%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.18%) Mainframe
17 28 (1.07%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 181 (6.91%) Linux
2 78 (2.98%) Windows
3 38 (1.45%) Unix
4 20 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.42%) Android
5 11 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) zOS
7 7 (0.27%) Solaris
8 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) VMS
9 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.038%) CentOS
13 1 (0.038%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 990 (37.79%) CI/CD
2 752 (28.70%) DevOps
3 602 (22.98%) Agile
4 523 (19.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 499 (19.05%) AI
6 390 (14.89%) Microservices
7 377 (14.39%) Analytics
8 362 (13.82%) Containerisation
9 330 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
10 315 (12.02%) Software Engineering
11 314 (11.98%) Migration
12 303 (11.56%) Data Modelling
13 288 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
14 286 (10.92%) Data Engineering
15 272 (10.38%) Observability
16 256 (9.77%) Machine Learning
17 245 (9.35%) ETL
18 241 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 231 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
20 227 (8.66%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (38.74%) Python
2 578 (22.06%) SQL
3 467 (17.82%) Java
4 231 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 217 (8.28%) JavaScript
6 119 (4.54%) PowerShell
7 116 (4.43%) C#
8 103 (3.93%) Bash
9 94 (3.59%) Go
10 45 (1.72%) Scala
11 37 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.34%) Ruby
13 21 (0.80%) R
14 20 (0.76%) Bicep
15 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.61%) C++
18 11 (0.42%) Groovy
18 11 (0.42%) JCL
19 10 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 725 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 646 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 141 (5.38%) Degree
4 113 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 70 (2.67%) CISSP
6 67 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 49 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 31 (1.18%) CISM
13 30 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 26 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 23 (0.88%) PMP
16 22 (0.84%) PMI Certification
17 21 (0.80%) CCNP
18 20 (0.76%) CCSP
19 16 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
20 14 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.24%) GDPR
3 105 (4.01%) QA
4 91 (3.47%) NIST
5 72 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.22%) SLA
8 25 (0.95%) NCSC
9 23 (0.88%) GRC
10 19 (0.73%) ISO 20022
11 16 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.53%) PMO
13 11 (0.42%) WCAG
14 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) SEPA
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 473 (18.05%) Docker
2 93 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.65%) Squid
4 17 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.15%) HDFS
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.11%) IAG
7 3 (0.11%) NFS
7 3 (0.11%) Postfix
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.11%) vSphere
8 2 (0.076%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.076%) Firmware
8 2 (0.076%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.038%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 590 (22.52%) Terraform
2 521 (19.89%) Kubernetes
3 148 (5.65%) Grafana
4 133 (5.08%) Ansible
5 131 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.80%) Kibana
8 19 (0.73%) Argo
8 19 (0.73%) Puppet
9 15 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.46%) Consul
12 10 (0.38%) QRadar
13 9 (0.34%) Packer
14 7 (0.27%) Istio
15 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
16 5 (0.19%) SCCM
17 4 (0.15%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 198 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.73%) Databricks
3 98 (3.74%) Google
4 91 (3.47%) Oracle
5 88 (3.36%) ServiceNow
6 73 (2.79%) Splunk
7 67 (2.56%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.21%) OpenAI
9 56 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 49 (1.87%) Cisco
11 35 (1.34%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.34%) Centrify
11 35 (1.34%) VMware
12 32 (1.22%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.22%) SAP
13 31 (1.18%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.11%) IBM
14 29 (1.11%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.99%) Foundry
16 22 (0.84%) Fortinet