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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,553 2,041 2,255
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.48% 16.12% 12.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.61% 37.99% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,765 1,481 1,736
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £464 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -5.66%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
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 £75.00 £71.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +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 7,595 5,373 6,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.08% 42.42% 37.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,233 3,733 4,924
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 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 54 72
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £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 £51.10 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £70.75 £71.88 £62.13
England median hourly rate £43.15 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +63.13% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -1 290 £550 - 284
South London +6 90 £513 +7.89% 9
West London +6 71 £603 +6.64% 37
East London +1 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
1 129 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.17%) Confluence
4 63 (2.47%) Apache
5 34 (1.33%) nginx
6 22 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.67%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) 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%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Cloudability
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 1,025 (40.15%) Azure
2 560 (21.93%) GCP
3 382 (14.96%) Amazon S3
3 382 (14.96%) Serverless
4 334 (13.08%) GitHub
5 332 (13.00%) AWS Lambda
6 245 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 196 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
8 172 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
9 156 (6.11%) Snowflake
10 150 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
11 148 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
12 146 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 141 (5.52%) Power Platform
14 113 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 100 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
16 73 (2.86%) SaaS
17 65 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
18 62 (2.43%) AWS Step Functions
19 61 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
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 (1.21%) WAN
7 19 (0.74%) 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
1 234 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (4.94%) NoSQL
3 123 (4.82%) Power BI
4 121 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.74%) Data Lake
5 108 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
6 106 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
7 103 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 92 (3.60%) SQL Server
9 79 (3.09%) Tableau
10 76 (2.98%) MongoDB
11 73 (2.86%) DynamoDB
12 72 (2.82%) Relational Database
13 71 (2.78%) Metadata
14 59 (2.31%) Big Data
15 48 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
16 44 (1.72%) MySQL
17 41 (1.61%) BigQuery
18 39 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
19 33 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 251 (9.83%) Git
2 218 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 212 (8.30%) GitLab
4 136 (5.33%) JIRA
5 43 (1.68%) MLflow
6 41 (1.61%) JUnit
7 33 (1.29%) 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 (0.74%) Maven
13 17 (0.67%) Gradle
14 16 (0.63%) Postman
15 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.55%) JMeter
16 13 (0.51%) Snyk
17 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 582 (22.80%) Finance
2 555 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 365 (14.30%) Public Sector
4 234 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (8.23%) Banking
6 90 (3.53%) Front Office
7 64 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 36 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 31 (1.21%) Retail
14 26 (1.02%) Legal
15 24 (0.94%) Marketing
16 15 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Billing
19 11 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 506 (19.82%) Architect
2 432 (16.92%) Developer
3 379 (14.85%) Senior
4 260 (10.18%) Lead
5 255 (9.99%) Data Engineer
6 243 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
7 195 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 142 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 125 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.62%) Senior Developer
11 103 (4.03%) Analyst
11 103 (4.03%) AWS Architect
12 100 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 98 (3.84%) Java Developer
14 96 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
15 90 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 88 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
17 85 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
18 80 (3.13%) Python Engineer
19 78 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (12.30%) Kafka
2 245 (9.60%) React
3 199 (7.79%) Node.js
4 193 (7.56%) REST
5 167 (6.54%) Spring
6 153 (5.99%) Spring Boot
7 147 (5.76%) RESTful
8 80 (3.13%) .NET
9 79 (3.09%) AngularJS
10 77 (3.02%) PySpark
11 72 (2.82%) OAuth
12 69 (2.70%) SOAP
13 66 (2.59%) GraphQL
14 62 (2.43%) HTML
15 61 (2.39%) Redux
16 58 (2.27%) CSS
16 58 (2.27%) LDAP
17 56 (2.19%) Pandas
18 48 (1.88%) OpenID
19 47 (1.84%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 404 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 143 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (2.90%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 70 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 65 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 58 (2.27%) AI Agents
10 57 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 47 (1.84%) Derivative
13 45 (1.76%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.45%) Equities
16 36 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.29%) Public Cloud
18 32 (1.25%) Data Structures
19 31 (1.21%) Mainframe
20 30 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 195 (7.64%) Linux
2 66 (2.59%) Windows
3 44 (1.72%) 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 2008
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (38.31%) CI/CD
2 730 (28.59%) DevOps
3 614 (24.05%) Agile
4 517 (20.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 459 (17.98%) AI
6 411 (16.10%) Microservices
7 381 (14.92%) Analytics
8 378 (14.81%) Containerisation
9 349 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
10 325 (12.73%) Software Engineering
11 294 (11.52%) Migration
12 292 (11.44%) Data Modelling
13 274 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
14 267 (10.46%) Data Engineering
15 263 (10.30%) Observability
16 253 (9.91%) Machine Learning
17 238 (9.32%) ETL
18 228 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
18 228 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
19 207 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (39.33%) Python
2 565 (22.13%) SQL
3 469 (18.37%) Java
4 225 (8.81%) TypeScript
5 224 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 109 (4.27%) C#
7 105 (4.11%) Go
8 103 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 101 (3.96%) Bash
10 43 (1.68%) Ruby
10 43 (1.68%) Scala
11 38 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 22 (0.86%) R
13 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.71%) Bicep
14 18 (0.71%) C++
15 17 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.35%) Groovy
17 8 (0.31%) C
17 8 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 737 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 654 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.05%) AWS Certification
4 119 (4.66%) Degree
5 71 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.35%) CISSP
7 58 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.72%) DV Cleared
11 36 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 33 (1.29%) 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
1 170 (6.66%) Data Quality
2 124 (4.86%) GDPR
3 92 (3.60%) QA
4 81 (3.17%) NIST
5 70 (2.74%) 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
10 14 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 13 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.51%) PMO
11 13 (0.51%) WCAG
12 11 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.27%) PSD2
15 6 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 521 (20.41%) Docker
2 80 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.20%) HDFS
9 4 (0.16%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) IAG
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.078%) Firmware
11 2 (0.078%) KVM
11 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.078%) Postfix
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 607 (23.78%) Terraform
2 536 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 137 (5.37%) Grafana
4 132 (5.17%) Ansible
5 119 (4.66%) 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 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 6 (0.24%) Istio
15 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 190 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 132 (5.17%) Databricks
3 95 (3.72%) Google
4 92 (3.60%) Oracle
5 77 (3.02%) ServiceNow
5 77 (3.02%) Splunk
6 60 (2.35%) CyberArk
7 57 (2.23%) OpenAI
8 46 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 43 (1.68%) Cisco
10 40 (1.57%) VMware
11 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.37%) Centrify
11 35 (1.37%) SAP
12 33 (1.29%) IBM
13 32 (1.25%) Dynatrace
14 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.90%) Confluent
17 21 (0.82%) Foundry