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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,578 2,024 2,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.90% 15.98% 12.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.28% 37.54% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,775 1,475 1,767
10th Percentile £400 £403 £403
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £702
90th Percentile £781 £820 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £47.38 £22.12
25th Percentile £44.00 £52.63 £29.72
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% +4.78% -23.33%
75th Percentile £83.38 £88.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £97.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £51.78
% change year-on-year +1.69% +42.44% -21.85%

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 7,520 5,391 6,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.47% 42.58% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,761 4,924
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 52 78
10th Percentile £18.10 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -1 301 £550 +1.38% 301
South London +4 94 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +7 67 £603 +15.58% 42
East London +3 12 £543 -7.26% 33
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
1 133 (5.16%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 76 (2.95%) Confluence
4 71 (2.75%) Apache
5 33 (1.28%) nginx
6 26 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.66%) SAS
8 16 (0.62%) Camunda
9 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.43%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Appian
12 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 5 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.16%) CICS
13 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.078%) Drupal
15 2 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.039%) Notion
7 1 (0.039%) Revit
7 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%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.039%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (40.34%) Azure
2 572 (22.19%) GCP
3 394 (15.28%) Serverless
4 379 (14.70%) Amazon S3
5 338 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
6 330 (12.80%) GitHub
7 246 (9.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 189 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
9 175 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
10 165 (6.40%) Snowflake
11 154 (5.97%) Power Platform
12 152 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
13 144 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 144 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
14 112 (4.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 88 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
16 70 (2.72%) dbt
17 66 (2.56%) SaaS
18 65 (2.52%) Amazon Kinesis
18 65 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (3.76%) Firewall
2 64 (2.48%) VPN
3 60 (2.33%) DNS
4 58 (2.25%) Network Security
5 43 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.28%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 16 (0.62%) HTTP
10 15 (0.58%) DHCP
10 15 (0.58%) OSPF
11 14 (0.54%) VLAN
12 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.47%) SSL
13 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.35%) 5G
14 9 (0.35%) VXLAN
15 8 (0.31%) 4G
16 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (5.31%) Power BI
3 125 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
4 124 (4.81%) NoSQL
5 123 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
6 121 (4.69%) Data Lake
7 110 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
8 95 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (3.61%) SQL Server
10 88 (3.41%) Tableau
11 85 (3.30%) Relational Database
12 76 (2.95%) DynamoDB
13 75 (2.91%) Metadata
14 72 (2.79%) MongoDB
15 54 (2.09%) Big Data
16 52 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
17 51 (1.98%) MySQL
18 39 (1.51%) BigQuery
19 34 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
20 31 (1.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 257 (9.97%) Git
2 211 (8.18%) GitLab
3 204 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 134 (5.20%) JIRA
5 44 (1.71%) JUnit
6 42 (1.63%) MLflow
7 31 (1.20%) Mockito
8 30 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 28 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 23 (0.89%) Selenium
11 23 (0.89%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.81%) Maven
13 17 (0.66%) Gradle
14 16 (0.62%) Postman
15 15 (0.58%) JMeter
16 14 (0.54%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.47%) CircleCI
18 11 (0.43%) Snyk
18 11 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 581 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 576 (22.34%) Finance
3 367 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 244 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 212 (8.22%) Banking
6 94 (3.65%) Front Office
7 65 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 38 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (1.05%) Legal
12 27 (1.05%) Retail
13 21 (0.81%) Marketing
14 18 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (0.58%) Military
16 13 (0.50%) Billing
17 12 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 494 (19.16%) Architect
2 453 (17.57%) Developer
3 398 (15.44%) Senior
4 259 (10.05%) Data Engineer
5 251 (9.74%) Lead
6 238 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
7 193 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (5.74%) Software Engineer
9 127 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 115 (4.46%) Analyst
12 100 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
13 97 (3.76%) AWS Architect
14 96 (3.72%) Java Developer
15 95 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
16 93 (3.61%) Python Engineer
17 91 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 86 (3.34%) Python Developer
19 82 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
20 80 (3.10%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (12.84%) Kafka
2 252 (9.78%) React
3 213 (8.26%) Node.js
4 194 (7.53%) REST
5 156 (6.05%) Spring
6 143 (5.55%) Spring Boot
7 142 (5.51%) RESTful
8 84 (3.26%) AngularJS
9 79 (3.06%) PySpark
10 74 (2.87%) .NET
11 68 (2.64%) OAuth
12 66 (2.56%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.48%) Pandas
14 63 (2.44%) SOAP
15 61 (2.37%) Redux
16 59 (2.29%) CSS
16 59 (2.29%) HTML
17 53 (2.06%) LDAP
18 49 (1.90%) gRPC
18 49 (1.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 386 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 141 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (2.99%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 70 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 70 (2.72%) Security Posture
6 66 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 62 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 57 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 54 (2.09%) AI Agents
11 51 (1.98%) Derivative
12 44 (1.71%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.67%) Algorithms
14 40 (1.55%) Equities
15 39 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
16 36 (1.40%) Data Structures
17 33 (1.28%) Public Cloud
18 28 (1.09%) Mainframe
19 26 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 186 (7.21%) Linux
2 65 (2.52%) Windows
3 43 (1.67%) Unix
4 13 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) VMS
6 9 (0.35%) Android
7 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.23%) zOS
10 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.078%) AIX
13 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.078%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 965 (37.43%) CI/CD
2 718 (27.85%) DevOps
3 625 (24.24%) Agile
4 503 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 457 (17.73%) AI
6 412 (15.98%) Microservices
7 389 (15.09%) Analytics
8 365 (14.16%) Containerisation
8 365 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
9 334 (12.96%) Software Engineering
10 305 (11.83%) Data Modelling
11 288 (11.17%) Migration
12 280 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
13 274 (10.63%) Data Engineering
14 265 (10.28%) Machine Learning
15 264 (10.24%) Observability
16 251 (9.74%) ETL
17 228 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
18 222 (8.61%) Full-Stack Development
19 209 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,027 (39.84%) Python
2 586 (22.73%) SQL
3 463 (17.96%) Java
4 234 (9.08%) TypeScript
5 220 (8.53%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.50%) Go
7 106 (4.11%) C#
8 100 (3.88%) Bash
9 98 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.71%) Ruby
11 38 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 37 (1.44%) Scala
13 23 (0.89%) R
14 21 (0.81%) C++
15 20 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.66%) Bicep
17 13 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.35%) Korn
19 8 (0.31%) PHP
19 8 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 748 (29.01%) Security Cleared
2 659 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 124 (4.81%) AWS Certification
3 124 (4.81%) Degree
4 73 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (2.13%) CISSP
6 52 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 46 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 39 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 35 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.09%) CISM
12 25 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 25 (0.97%) PMP
13 19 (0.74%) CCNP
13 19 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.50%) CCSP
15 13 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 128 (4.97%) GDPR
3 94 (3.65%) QA
4 78 (3.03%) NIST
5 74 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.05%) NCSC
9 25 (0.97%) SLA
10 16 (0.62%) WCAG
11 14 (0.54%) GRC
12 13 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.50%) PMO
13 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.23%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 509 (19.74%) Docker
2 77 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.39%) Squid
6 8 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.078%) IAG
11 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.039%) Ceph
12 1 (0.039%) iptables
12 1 (0.039%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 598 (23.20%) Terraform
2 542 (21.02%) Kubernetes
3 130 (5.04%) Ansible
4 120 (4.65%) Grafana
5 108 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.16%) Argo
8 19 (0.74%) Consul
9 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.66%) Puppet
11 15 (0.58%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.50%) Packer
13 12 (0.47%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.39%) Kibana
15 9 (0.35%) QRadar
15 9 (0.35%) SCCM
16 7 (0.27%) Istio
16 7 (0.27%) Karpenter
17 5 (0.19%) Rancher
17 5 (0.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 188 (7.29%) Microsoft
2 143 (5.55%) Databricks
3 94 (3.65%) Google
4 92 (3.57%) Oracle
5 86 (3.34%) Splunk
6 75 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 53 (2.06%) OpenAI
9 40 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 39 (1.51%) IBM
11 38 (1.47%) Cisco
12 37 (1.44%) VMware
13 36 (1.40%) Dynatrace
14 35 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
14 35 (1.36%) Centrify
15 32 (1.24%) SAP
16 28 (1.09%) Palo Alto
17 26 (1.01%) Red Hat
18 22 (0.85%) Foundry
19 20 (0.78%) Fortinet