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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,709 2,059 2,391
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.49% 16.84% 13.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.26% 39.00% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,879 1,444 1,848
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £469 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £781 £825 £850
England median daily rate £540 £540 £563
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 12
10th Percentile £36.80 £35.88 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.43
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.75 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.32% +69.08% -63.13%
75th Percentile £77.75 £58.31 £68.38
90th Percentile £88.25 £77.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £50.59
% change year-on-year - +38.37% -30.22%

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 7,907 5,279 6,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.29% 43.18% 39.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,459 3,570 5,043
10th Percentile £354 £356 £350
25th Percentile £429 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 64 69
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.34 £17.47
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% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £44.69 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £58.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.01 £21.46
% change year-on-year +69.97% +16.52% -38.69%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -3 283 £550 - 201
West London +6 86 £600 +21.83% 34
South London +1 82 £500 +1.01% 2
East London +3 16 £543 -7.26% 29
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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 72 (2.66%) Confluence
4 60 (2.21%) Apache
5 25 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.70%) nginx
7 13 (0.48%) Camunda
8 11 (0.41%) CICS
8 11 (0.41%) SAS
9 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.30%) CMS
11 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 39 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.33%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.22%) Revit
8 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Endur
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.074%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.074%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.074%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.037%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,100 (40.61%) Azure
2 576 (21.26%) GCP
3 403 (14.88%) Amazon S3
3 403 (14.88%) Serverless
4 354 (13.07%) AWS Lambda
5 342 (12.62%) GitHub
6 215 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
7 204 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
9 182 (6.72%) Snowflake
10 167 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
11 163 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 147 (5.43%) Power Platform
13 132 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
14 125 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 113 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
16 94 (3.47%) SaaS
17 85 (3.14%) dbt
18 75 (2.77%) Amazon Bedrock
19 73 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.06%) Firewall
2 79 (2.92%) Network Security
3 71 (2.62%) DNS
4 69 (2.55%) VPN
5 49 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.37%) WAN
7 23 (0.85%) BGP
8 22 (0.81%) HTTP
9 20 (0.74%) DHCP
10 19 (0.70%) LAN
10 19 (0.70%) SSL
11 18 (0.66%) OSPF
12 15 (0.55%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.52%) NGFW
14 12 (0.44%) Internet
14 12 (0.44%) VLAN
15 10 (0.37%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.37%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
3 129 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 127 (4.69%) Power BI
5 125 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
6 117 (4.32%) Amazon Athena
7 111 (4.10%) NoSQL
8 107 (3.95%) SQL Server
9 106 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (3.14%) DynamoDB
11 75 (2.77%) Metadata
11 75 (2.77%) MongoDB
12 74 (2.73%) Tableau
13 73 (2.69%) Relational Database
14 61 (2.25%) Big Data
15 44 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
16 41 (1.51%) BigQuery
17 40 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
18 39 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
18 39 (1.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 235 (8.67%) Git
2 234 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 215 (7.94%) GitLab
4 133 (4.91%) JIRA
5 39 (1.44%) JUnit
6 35 (1.29%) MLflow
7 32 (1.18%) Mockito
8 28 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 28 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 25 (0.92%) JMeter
10 22 (0.81%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.81%) Gradle
10 22 (0.81%) Maven
11 21 (0.78%) Selenium
12 20 (0.74%) Postman
13 19 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.63%) Gatling
15 16 (0.59%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.55%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 632 (23.33%) Finance
2 582 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 383 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 229 (8.45%) Banking
5 224 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (2.99%) Front Office
7 65 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (1.99%) Investment Banking
9 50 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (1.73%) Retail
11 43 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 35 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.96%) Marketing
16 25 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (0.81%) Legal
18 17 (0.63%) Law
19 15 (0.55%) Military
20 13 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 544 (20.08%) Architect
2 423 (15.61%) Developer
3 408 (15.06%) Senior
4 299 (11.04%) Data Engineer
4 299 (11.04%) Lead
5 276 (10.19%) AWS Engineer
6 197 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 148 (5.46%) Software Engineer
8 139 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 121 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 114 (4.21%) Senior Developer
11 109 (4.02%) AWS Architect
12 102 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
13 100 (3.69%) Analyst
13 100 (3.69%) Java Developer
14 89 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
15 87 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
16 85 (3.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 80 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 76 (2.81%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (11.37%) Kafka
2 242 (8.93%) React
3 228 (8.42%) REST
4 181 (6.68%) Node.js
5 170 (6.28%) Spring
6 162 (5.98%) Spring Boot
7 142 (5.24%) RESTful
8 98 (3.62%) .NET
9 88 (3.25%) PySpark
10 82 (3.03%) AngularJS
11 78 (2.88%) GraphQL
12 77 (2.84%) OAuth
13 72 (2.66%) SOAP
14 64 (2.36%) Redux
15 63 (2.33%) LDAP
16 56 (2.07%) HTML
17 54 (1.99%) Pandas
18 51 (1.88%) JSON
19 50 (1.85%) CSS
19 50 (1.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 474 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 155 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (3.25%) Onboarding
4 82 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 76 (2.81%) AI Agents
7 75 (2.77%) Fixed Income
8 73 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 68 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
10 62 (2.29%) Data Centre
11 57 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 53 (1.96%) Management Information System
13 46 (1.70%) Derivative
14 43 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
15 40 (1.48%) Equities
16 34 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.14%) PKI
18 30 (1.11%) Data Structures
19 29 (1.07%) Mainframe
19 29 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (7.05%) Linux
2 90 (3.32%) Windows
3 37 (1.37%) Unix
4 31 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.44%) Android
7 9 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.30%) Solaris
9 7 (0.26%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.074%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.037%) CentOS
14 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (38.35%) CI/CD
2 786 (29.01%) DevOps
3 630 (23.26%) Agile
4 554 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 531 (19.60%) AI
6 403 (14.88%) Microservices
7 381 (14.06%) Analytics
8 379 (13.99%) Containerisation
9 345 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
10 329 (12.14%) Migration
11 326 (12.03%) Software Engineering
12 311 (11.48%) Data Modelling
12 311 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
13 299 (11.04%) Data Engineering
14 286 (10.56%) Observability
15 269 (9.93%) Machine Learning
16 261 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 247 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 244 (9.01%) ETL
19 235 (8.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (38.43%) Python
2 595 (21.96%) SQL
3 482 (17.79%) Java
4 245 (9.04%) TypeScript
5 220 (8.12%) JavaScript
6 130 (4.80%) PowerShell
7 118 (4.36%) C#
8 112 (4.13%) Bash
9 89 (3.29%) Go
10 47 (1.73%) Scala
11 37 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.29%) Ruby
13 24 (0.89%) Bicep
14 22 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.81%) R
15 19 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 15 (0.55%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.52%) C++
18 13 (0.48%) Groovy
19 11 (0.41%) JCL
Qualifications
1 745 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 665 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.35%) Degree
4 123 (4.54%) AWS Certification
5 80 (2.95%) CISSP
6 69 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (1.88%) DV Cleared
10 46 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.33%) CISM
12 29 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.89%) PMP
15 23 (0.85%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.81%) CCNP
17 21 (0.78%) CCSP
18 15 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
19 13 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 112 (4.13%) QA
3 105 (3.88%) GDPR
4 95 (3.51%) NIST
5 79 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.14%) SLA
9 26 (0.96%) GRC
10 22 (0.81%) NCSC
11 19 (0.70%) ISO 20022
12 17 (0.63%) PMO
12 17 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.59%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.41%) WCAG
15 8 (0.30%) SEPA
15 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.26%) EU AI Act
16 7 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 476 (17.57%) Docker
2 101 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.63%) Squid
6 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.15%) HDFS
9 4 (0.15%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) IAG
10 3 (0.11%) NFS
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.074%) Firmware
11 2 (0.074%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.074%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.074%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 625 (23.07%) Terraform
2 534 (19.71%) Kubernetes
3 155 (5.72%) Grafana
4 152 (5.61%) Ansible
5 138 (5.09%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.85%) Kibana
8 22 (0.81%) Puppet
9 16 (0.59%) Argo
10 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.44%) Consul
14 10 (0.37%) QRadar
15 9 (0.33%) Packer
16 7 (0.26%) Istio
17 6 (0.22%) Karpenter
17 6 (0.22%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 214 (7.90%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.61%) Databricks
3 105 (3.88%) Google
4 95 (3.51%) Oracle
5 90 (3.32%) ServiceNow
6 77 (2.84%) Splunk
7 70 (2.58%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.14%) Salesforce
9 56 (2.07%) OpenAI
10 49 (1.81%) Cisco
11 38 (1.40%) VMware
12 35 (1.29%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.29%) Centrify
13 34 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 32 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 32 (1.18%) Red Hat
14 32 (1.18%) SAP
15 28 (1.03%) IBM
16 27 (1.00%) Foundry
17 26 (0.96%) Qualys