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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,787 2,128 2,232
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.79% 15.89% 13.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.70% 36.38% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,984 1,456 1,648
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £72.25 £68.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +121.86% -63.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £85.63 £52.81
90th Percentile £83.38 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -25.82%

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 8,270 5,849 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.92% 43.67% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,957 4,544
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 97 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.01 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.25 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -5 271 £575 -1.29% 344
West London +13 97 £560 +35.76% 68
South London 0 80 £535 +0.47% 10
East London +11 14 £588 -12.96% 20
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
1 162 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 123 (4.41%) Apache Spark
3 107 (3.84%) Confluence
4 87 (3.12%) Apache
5 23 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.65%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) CICS
9 8 (0.29%) IIS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Mule
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.25%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) 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%) Cloudability
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.072%) Actimize
8 2 (0.072%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.072%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,256 (45.07%) Azure
2 651 (23.36%) GCP
3 375 (13.46%) Serverless
4 369 (13.24%) GitHub
5 368 (13.20%) Amazon S3
6 309 (11.09%) AWS Lambda
7 251 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
8 233 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
9 230 (8.25%) Snowflake
10 183 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 163 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
12 153 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 149 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
14 147 (5.27%) dbt
15 145 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
16 129 (4.63%) Power Platform
17 127 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 125 (4.49%) SaaS
19 105 (3.77%) Entra ID
20 97 (3.48%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.62%) Firewall
2 84 (3.01%) Network Security
3 62 (2.22%) DNS
4 58 (2.08%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 30 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.83%) DHCP
8 22 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 22 (0.79%) SSL
9 21 (0.75%) BGP
9 21 (0.75%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 18 (0.65%) HTTP
12 17 (0.61%) OSPF
13 16 (0.57%) MPLS
14 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
14 15 (0.54%) NGFW
15 13 (0.47%) LAN
16 12 (0.43%) IPsec
16 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 115 (4.13%) Power BI
6 112 (4.02%) SQL Server
7 107 (3.84%) Metadata
8 102 (3.66%) Data Lake
9 96 (3.44%) MongoDB
10 95 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 89 (3.19%) DynamoDB
12 87 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
13 78 (2.80%) Relational Database
14 71 (2.55%) Delta Lake
15 63 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
16 59 (2.12%) MySQL
17 51 (1.83%) Big Data
18 50 (1.79%) Redis
19 49 (1.76%) BigQuery
19 49 (1.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 320 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 312 (11.19%) Git
3 283 (10.15%) GitLab
4 153 (5.49%) JIRA
5 39 (1.40%) Maven
6 35 (1.26%) JUnit
7 34 (1.22%) JMeter
8 31 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 30 (1.08%) Cucumber
10 29 (1.04%) SonarQube
11 28 (1.00%) Selenium
12 27 (0.97%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.97%) Gradle
13 26 (0.93%) Mockito
14 21 (0.75%) Postman
15 20 (0.72%) Claude Code
16 18 (0.65%) Gatling
17 17 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
19 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 702 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 667 (23.93%) Finance
3 377 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 275 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 263 (9.44%) Banking
6 87 (3.12%) Retail
7 65 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.36%) Marketing
11 36 (1.29%) Legal
12 34 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 33 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.15%) Front Office
15 31 (1.11%) Law
16 28 (1.00%) Billing
16 28 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.93%) Military
19 24 (0.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 561 (20.13%) Architect
2 453 (16.25%) Senior
3 340 (12.20%) Developer
4 296 (10.62%) Lead
5 291 (10.44%) Data Engineer
6 260 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
7 230 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 133 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
9 113 (4.05%) AWS Architect
10 110 (3.95%) Analyst
11 109 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (3.73%) Java Developer
13 103 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 101 (3.62%) Data Architect
15 100 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
16 96 (3.44%) Software Engineer
17 87 (3.12%) Platform Engineer
18 82 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
19 76 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 74 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 735 (26.37%) Terraform
2 337 (12.09%) Kafka
3 300 (10.76%) REST
4 197 (7.07%) React
5 180 (6.46%) Spring
6 165 (5.92%) Spring Boot
7 150 (5.38%) RESTful
8 109 (3.91%) Node.js
8 109 (3.91%) PySpark
9 99 (3.55%) .NET
9 99 (3.55%) OAuth
10 71 (2.55%) GraphQL
11 69 (2.48%) HTML
12 68 (2.44%) FastAPI
13 67 (2.40%) AngularJS
14 64 (2.30%) JSON
15 60 (2.15%) SOAP
16 58 (2.08%) CSS
17 55 (1.97%) OAuth2
18 50 (1.79%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 554 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 180 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 151 (5.42%) AI Agents
4 148 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 132 (4.74%) Product Ownership
6 81 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 75 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 71 (2.55%) Security Posture
9 69 (2.48%) Data Centre
10 58 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.79%) Management Information System
12 48 (1.72%) Data Structures
13 46 (1.65%) PKI
13 46 (1.65%) Replication
14 40 (1.44%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
15 36 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 35 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.11%) Virtual Team
18 30 (1.08%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 260 (9.33%) Linux
2 126 (4.52%) Windows
3 55 (1.97%) Unix
4 51 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.39%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.22%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.14%) CentOS
11 4 (0.14%) zOS
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.11%) Solaris
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,195 (42.88%) CI/CD
2 907 (32.54%) DevOps
3 726 (26.05%) Agile
4 688 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 634 (22.75%) AI
6 484 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 412 (14.78%) Observability
8 411 (14.75%) Microservices
9 401 (14.39%) Containerisation
10 366 (13.13%) Software Engineering
11 365 (13.10%) Migration
12 359 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
13 341 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 337 (12.09%) Data Engineering
15 336 (12.06%) Analytics
15 336 (12.06%) Data Modelling
16 332 (11.91%) Event-Driven
17 330 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
18 312 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
18 312 (11.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (36.67%) Python
2 624 (22.39%) SQL
3 471 (16.90%) Java
4 213 (7.64%) JavaScript
5 203 (7.28%) TypeScript
6 191 (6.85%) Bash
7 151 (5.42%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.91%) C#
9 55 (1.97%) Go
10 52 (1.87%) Scala
11 36 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.26%) Bicep
12 35 (1.26%) Groovy
13 23 (0.83%) C++
13 23 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.57%) R
15 16 (0.57%) Ruby
16 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 786 (28.20%) Security Cleared
2 690 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 182 (6.53%) AWS Certification
4 146 (5.24%) Degree
5 96 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 90 (3.23%) CISSP
7 75 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 73 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 65 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 63 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 51 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.79%) CISM
13 32 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.83%) CCSP
15 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.65%) PMP
18 17 (0.61%) Master's Degree
19 16 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (9.08%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.81%) QA
3 104 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (3.59%) NIST
5 74 (2.66%) GDPR
6 38 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.08%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) NCSC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (0.75%) SLA
10 20 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
12 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.47%) SEPA
14 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.32%) PMO
16 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 521 (18.69%) Docker
2 84 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) IAG
9 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.14%) NFS
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.072%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 657 (23.57%) Kubernetes
2 219 (7.86%) Grafana
3 199 (7.14%) Ansible
4 164 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 52 (1.87%) Kibana
6 41 (1.47%) Argo
7 31 (1.11%) Puppet
8 26 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.50%) Istio
9 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) Packer
11 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.25%) QRadar
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
14 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.18%) logstash
14 5 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 305 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 204 (7.32%) Databricks
3 157 (5.63%) Google
4 145 (5.20%) Oracle
5 114 (4.09%) ServiceNow
6 111 (3.98%) Splunk
7 66 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.08%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.83%) Cisco
9 51 (1.83%) SAP
10 50 (1.79%) VMware
11 48 (1.72%) CyberArk
12 44 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 40 (1.44%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.40%) Informatica
15 36 (1.29%) IBM
16 32 (1.15%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.83%) Foundry
18 23 (0.83%) MuleSoft