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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,785 2,131 2,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.79% 15.82% 14.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.64% 36.53% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,972 1,481 1,716
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £757
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £63.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +107.99% -63.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £79.69 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -36.30%

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 8,280 5,834 6,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.99% 43.32% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,684 3,973 4,699
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 94 46
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £71.13
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -6 281 £553 -5.56% 380
West London +8 96 £560 +33.73% 139
South London +1 75 £535 -4.07% 14
East London +11 15 £525 -13.58% 28
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
1 160 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.13%) Apache Spark
3 103 (3.70%) Confluence
4 88 (3.16%) Apache
5 28 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
10 8 (0.29%) Camunda
10 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.22%) IIS
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.29%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.072%) Endur
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) Shopify
8 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,249 (44.85%) Azure
2 621 (22.30%) GCP
3 392 (14.08%) Serverless
4 382 (13.72%) Amazon S3
5 366 (13.14%) GitHub
6 328 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
7 250 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
8 231 (8.29%) Snowflake
9 209 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
10 186 (6.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 160 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
12 151 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 145 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
13 145 (5.21%) dbt
14 138 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
15 133 (4.78%) Power Platform
16 129 (4.63%) SaaS
17 121 (4.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 111 (3.99%) Entra ID
19 95 (3.41%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.88%) Firewall
2 80 (2.87%) Network Security
3 68 (2.44%) DNS
4 57 (2.05%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 36 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.97%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
10 19 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.65%) HTTP
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.54%) OSPF
13 14 (0.50%) MPLS
13 14 (0.50%) NGFW
14 13 (0.47%) SAN
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
3 146 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.31%) Power BI
5 117 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 111 (3.99%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.91%) SQL Server
8 106 (3.81%) Metadata
9 95 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
10 92 (3.30%) DynamoDB
11 89 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 87 (3.12%) MongoDB
13 78 (2.80%) Relational Database
14 68 (2.44%) Delta Lake
15 59 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
15 59 (2.12%) Tableau
16 55 (1.97%) Big Data
17 52 (1.87%) MySQL
18 44 (1.58%) Redis
19 43 (1.54%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 297 (10.66%) Jenkins
2 293 (10.52%) Git
3 265 (9.52%) GitLab
4 152 (5.46%) JIRA
5 33 (1.18%) JMeter
5 33 (1.18%) Maven
6 30 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.04%) Cypress.io
7 29 (1.04%) Selenium
8 28 (1.01%) JUnit
9 27 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 23 (0.83%) Gradle
11 22 (0.79%) Mockito
11 22 (0.79%) Postman
12 20 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 18 (0.65%) Claude Code
13 18 (0.65%) Gatling
14 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
15 12 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 11 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 697 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 662 (23.77%) Finance
3 382 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 280 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.16%) Banking
6 82 (2.94%) Retail
7 62 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.36%) Marketing
11 37 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 35 (1.26%) Legal
13 32 (1.15%) Front Office
13 32 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.04%) Law
15 26 (0.93%) Military
15 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (0.83%) Billing
Job Titles
1 584 (20.97%) Architect
2 446 (16.01%) Senior
3 338 (12.14%) Developer
4 305 (10.95%) Data Engineer
5 300 (10.77%) Lead
6 263 (9.44%) AWS Engineer
7 207 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (4.02%) Analyst
10 111 (3.99%) AWS Architect
10 111 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 102 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 102 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
12 100 (3.59%) Java Developer
13 99 (3.55%) Data Architect
14 92 (3.30%) Software Engineer
15 90 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
16 79 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
17 78 (2.80%) Senior Developer
18 74 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 710 (25.49%) Terraform
2 316 (11.35%) Kafka
3 273 (9.80%) REST
4 197 (7.07%) React
5 180 (6.46%) Spring
6 165 (5.92%) Spring Boot
7 153 (5.49%) RESTful
8 122 (4.38%) Node.js
9 112 (4.02%) PySpark
10 96 (3.45%) .NET
11 92 (3.30%) OAuth
12 68 (2.44%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.33%) FastAPI
14 64 (2.30%) HTML
15 62 (2.23%) AngularJS
15 62 (2.23%) JSON
16 53 (1.90%) CSS
17 52 (1.87%) OAuth2
18 50 (1.80%) SOAP
19 48 (1.72%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 538 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 135 (4.85%) AI Agents
5 127 (4.56%) Product Ownership
6 89 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.48%) Security Posture
8 67 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.33%) Data Centre
10 60 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.44%) PKI
13 40 (1.44%) Replication
14 37 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
15 36 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
16 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
17 29 (1.04%) CMDB
18 28 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 236 (8.47%) Linux
2 123 (4.42%) Windows
3 56 (2.01%) Unix
4 46 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.47%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.22%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,159 (41.62%) CI/CD
2 883 (31.71%) DevOps
3 706 (25.35%) Agile
4 662 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 628 (22.55%) AI
6 467 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 415 (14.90%) Microservices
8 402 (14.43%) Containerisation
9 389 (13.97%) Observability
10 366 (13.14%) Migration
11 365 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (12.78%) Analytics
13 351 (12.60%) Software Engineering
14 341 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
15 339 (12.17%) Data Modelling
16 336 (12.06%) Data Engineering
17 326 (11.71%) Event-Driven
18 320 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 305 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
20 290 (10.41%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (36.52%) Python
2 605 (21.72%) SQL
3 471 (16.91%) Java
4 210 (7.54%) TypeScript
5 201 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 168 (6.03%) Bash
7 138 (4.96%) PowerShell
8 112 (4.02%) C#
9 52 (1.87%) Scala
10 46 (1.65%) Go
11 35 (1.26%) Bicep
12 34 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 29 (1.04%) Groovy
14 24 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.72%) R
15 20 (0.72%) Ruby
16 19 (0.68%) C++
17 13 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 768 (27.58%) Security Cleared
2 677 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 168 (6.03%) AWS Certification
4 141 (5.06%) Degree
5 87 (3.12%) CISSP
5 87 (3.12%) DV Cleared
6 77 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 65 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 63 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 62 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 47 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.69%) CISM
11 27 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 21 (0.75%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.72%) CCSP
13 20 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 20 (0.72%) PMP
14 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (0.61%) CCNP
16 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 159 (5.71%) QA
3 102 (3.66%) NIST
4 96 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (2.76%) GDPR
6 37 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.08%) GRC
8 28 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.93%) NCSC
10 25 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (0.86%) SLA
12 20 (0.72%) ISO 20022
13 18 (0.65%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.65%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
14 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.47%) SEPA
16 11 (0.39%) PMO
17 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 495 (17.77%) Docker
2 91 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.22%) NFS
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 623 (22.37%) Kubernetes
2 213 (7.65%) Grafana
3 197 (7.07%) Ansible
4 164 (5.89%) Prometheus
5 40 (1.44%) Kibana
6 34 (1.22%) Argo
7 33 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (0.97%) Puppet
9 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.32%) Istio
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.29%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.22%) Control-M
14 6 (0.22%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
15 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 290 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 187 (6.71%) Databricks
3 137 (4.92%) Oracle
4 131 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 129 (4.63%) Google
6 111 (3.99%) Splunk
7 69 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 55 (1.97%) Cisco
9 54 (1.94%) SAP
10 53 (1.90%) VMware
11 52 (1.87%) CyberArk
11 52 (1.87%) OpenAI
12 45 (1.62%) Palo Alto
13 39 (1.40%) Informatica
14 38 (1.36%) Dynatrace
15 32 (1.15%) IBM
16 30 (1.08%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.97%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.90%) MuleSoft
19 22 (0.79%) Foundry