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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,550 2,030 2,256
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.44% 16.16% 12.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.55% 38.11% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,763 1,469 1,737
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.80 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £47.38 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £55.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.42% +24.72% -40.67%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £63.63
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £74.75 £71.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.91% +35.71% -27.84%

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 7,600 5,326 6,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.04% 42.40% 37.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,239 3,698 4,925
10th Percentile £350 £356 £341
25th Percentile £425 £440 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 53 72
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.53 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £51.46 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.50 £62.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -35.70%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -2 289 £550 - 217
South London +4 90 £513 +7.89% 9
West London +5 72 £603 +6.64% 32
East London +3 12 £533 -8.97% 40
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
1 127 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 82 (3.22%) Confluence
4 62 (2.43%) Apache
5 34 (1.33%) nginx
6 22 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.67%) Camunda
8 12 (0.47%) SAS
9 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.27%) CICS
11 6 (0.24%) Appian
12 5 (0.20%) CMS
13 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.078%) MQSeries
Applications
1 33 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.078%) Revit
8 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
8 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%) 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%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (40.12%) Azure
2 564 (22.12%) GCP
3 381 (14.94%) Amazon S3
4 380 (14.90%) Serverless
5 336 (13.18%) GitHub
6 330 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
7 244 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
9 172 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
10 156 (6.12%) Snowflake
11 151 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
12 146 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
13 145 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 143 (5.61%) Power Platform
15 113 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 99 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
17 71 (2.78%) SaaS
18 66 (2.59%) Amazon Kinesis
19 61 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
19 61 (2.39%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 97 (3.80%) Firewall
2 62 (2.43%) VPN
3 61 (2.39%) Network Security
4 59 (2.31%) DNS
5 41 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.22%) WAN
7 19 (0.75%) BGP
8 17 (0.67%) HTTP
8 17 (0.67%) LAN
9 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 13 (0.51%) DHCP
10 13 (0.51%) SSL
10 13 (0.51%) VLAN
11 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
12 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.35%) SAN
14 8 (0.31%) NAS
15 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (4.90%) Power BI
3 123 (4.82%) Data Lake
4 121 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
5 120 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 108 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
6 108 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
7 101 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 94 (3.69%) SQL Server
9 79 (3.10%) Tableau
10 75 (2.94%) MongoDB
11 72 (2.82%) Relational Database
12 71 (2.78%) DynamoDB
13 69 (2.71%) Metadata
14 59 (2.31%) Big Data
15 48 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
16 44 (1.73%) MySQL
17 41 (1.61%) BigQuery
18 40 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
19 34 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 251 (9.84%) Git
2 223 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 215 (8.43%) GitLab
4 137 (5.37%) JIRA
5 43 (1.69%) MLflow
6 42 (1.65%) JUnit
7 34 (1.33%) Mockito
8 30 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.90%) Selenium
12 19 (0.75%) Maven
13 17 (0.67%) Gradle
14 16 (0.63%) Postman
15 15 (0.59%) JMeter
16 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.51%) Snyk
18 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
18 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 580 (22.75%) Finance
2 552 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 366 (14.35%) Public Sector
4 230 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (8.12%) Banking
6 90 (3.53%) Front Office
7 63 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.22%) Retail
15 26 (1.02%) Legal
16 25 (0.98%) Marketing
17 14 (0.55%) Military
17 14 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.47%) Billing
18 12 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 504 (19.76%) Architect
2 430 (16.86%) Developer
3 379 (14.86%) Senior
4 260 (10.20%) Lead
5 258 (10.12%) Data Engineer
6 241 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
7 193 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 141 (5.53%) Software Engineer
9 125 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
10 117 (4.59%) Senior Developer
11 104 (4.08%) Analyst
12 103 (4.04%) AWS Architect
13 100 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 96 (3.76%) Java Developer
15 95 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 88 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
17 83 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
18 77 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 77 (3.02%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (12.31%) Kafka
2 242 (9.49%) React
3 194 (7.61%) Node.js
4 192 (7.53%) REST
5 168 (6.59%) Spring
6 154 (6.04%) Spring Boot
7 149 (5.84%) RESTful
8 81 (3.18%) .NET
9 77 (3.02%) AngularJS
9 77 (3.02%) PySpark
10 69 (2.71%) SOAP
11 68 (2.67%) OAuth
12 65 (2.55%) GraphQL
13 61 (2.39%) HTML
13 61 (2.39%) Redux
14 58 (2.27%) LDAP
15 57 (2.24%) CSS
16 56 (2.20%) Pandas
17 48 (1.88%) OpenID
18 47 (1.84%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 403 (15.80%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (2.90%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 70 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.55%) Security Posture
7 63 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 58 (2.27%) AI Agents
10 57 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 46 (1.80%) Derivative
13 44 (1.73%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.45%) Equities
16 36 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.29%) Public Cloud
18 32 (1.25%) Data Structures
18 32 (1.25%) Mainframe
19 30 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 198 (7.76%) Linux
2 68 (2.67%) Windows
3 44 (1.73%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) VMS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 980 (38.43%) CI/CD
2 734 (28.78%) DevOps
3 613 (24.04%) Agile
4 517 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 458 (17.96%) AI
6 408 (16.00%) Microservices
7 378 (14.82%) Analytics
7 378 (14.82%) Containerisation
8 348 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
9 322 (12.63%) Software Engineering
10 295 (11.57%) Migration
11 292 (11.45%) Data Modelling
12 274 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
13 266 (10.43%) Data Engineering
14 264 (10.35%) Observability
15 252 (9.88%) Machine Learning
16 238 (9.33%) ETL
17 230 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
18 226 (8.86%) Full-Stack Development
19 208 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 998 (39.14%) Python
2 562 (22.04%) SQL
3 468 (18.35%) Java
4 225 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 223 (8.75%) JavaScript
6 110 (4.31%) C#
7 105 (4.12%) Go
8 104 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 103 (4.04%) Bash
10 43 (1.69%) Ruby
11 42 (1.65%) Scala
12 39 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 22 (0.86%) R
14 19 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.71%) Bicep
16 17 (0.67%) C++
16 17 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.35%) Groovy
18 8 (0.31%) C
18 8 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 739 (28.98%) Security Cleared
2 656 (25.73%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 120 (4.71%) Degree
5 71 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.35%) CISSP
7 58 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 47 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 36 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.18%) CISM
14 24 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.94%) PMP
15 21 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 21 (0.82%) CCNP
16 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.63%) CCSP
18 14 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 123 (4.82%) GDPR
3 92 (3.61%) QA
4 81 (3.18%) NIST
5 70 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.10%) SLA
8 23 (0.90%) NCSC
9 15 (0.59%) GRC
9 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.51%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.51%) PMO
10 13 (0.51%) WCAG
11 11 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.27%) PSD2
14 6 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 515 (20.20%) Docker
2 80 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.078%) Firmware
10 2 (0.078%) KVM
10 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.078%) Postfix
10 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 605 (23.73%) Terraform
2 535 (20.98%) Kubernetes
3 138 (5.41%) Grafana
4 129 (5.06%) Ansible
5 119 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.98%) Argo
8 20 (0.78%) Consul
8 20 (0.78%) Puppet
9 18 (0.71%) Kibana
10 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.59%) Packer
12 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.43%) QRadar
14 6 (0.24%) Istio
14 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.24%) SCCM
15 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 188 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 131 (5.14%) Databricks
3 95 (3.73%) Google
4 93 (3.65%) Oracle
5 77 (3.02%) ServiceNow
5 77 (3.02%) Splunk
6 60 (2.35%) CyberArk
7 57 (2.24%) OpenAI
8 46 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 43 (1.69%) Cisco
10 39 (1.53%) VMware
11 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.37%) Centrify
11 35 (1.37%) SAP
12 33 (1.29%) Dynatrace
12 33 (1.29%) IBM
13 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 23 (0.90%) Confluent
16 21 (0.82%) Foundry