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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,562 2,034 2,281
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.82% 16.06% 12.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.21% 37.62% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,765 1,472 1,752
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -7.18%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £718
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 £76.71 £88.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £92.25 £97.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year +1.69% +37.21% -21.53%

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 7,488 5,406 6,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.31% 42.69% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,156 3,750 4,893
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £776 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 52 76
10th Percentile £18.64 £22.27 £17.39
25th Percentile £25.36 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52.96 £54.13 £41.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.13 £61.25
England median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +64.57% +27.59% -24.47%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 0 297 £543 -1.36% 189
South London +5 93 £513 +7.89% 9
West London +6 70 £603 +6.64% 33
East London +3 13 £540 -7.69% 27
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
1 137 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 76 (2.97%) Confluence
4 67 (2.62%) Apache
5 33 (1.29%) nginx
6 26 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 18 (0.70%) Camunda
8 17 (0.66%) SAS
9 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Appian
12 6 (0.23%) CMS
13 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.16%) CICS
14 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
16 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
16 2 (0.078%) Drupal
16 2 (0.078%) Mule
Applications
1 33 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.078%) Revit
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 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%) Endur
7 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,021 (39.85%) Azure
2 561 (21.90%) GCP
3 395 (15.42%) Serverless
4 394 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 345 (13.47%) AWS Lambda
6 328 (12.80%) GitHub
7 249 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 188 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
10 159 (6.21%) Snowflake
11 152 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
12 150 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
12 150 (5.85%) Power Platform
13 147 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 114 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 91 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
16 67 (2.62%) dbt
16 67 (2.62%) SaaS
17 66 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
18 65 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.75%) Firewall
2 62 (2.42%) VPN
3 60 (2.34%) DNS
4 57 (2.22%) Network Security
5 42 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.25%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 16 (0.62%) HTTP
10 15 (0.59%) DHCP
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
11 14 (0.55%) VLAN
12 12 (0.47%) SSL
13 11 (0.43%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.31%) SAN
16 7 (0.27%) NAS
16 7 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (5.23%) Power BI
3 130 (5.07%) NoSQL
4 125 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
5 120 (4.68%) Data Lake
5 120 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
6 114 (4.45%) Amazon Athena
7 103 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 93 (3.63%) SQL Server
9 88 (3.43%) Relational Database
10 86 (3.36%) Tableau
11 79 (3.08%) MongoDB
12 75 (2.93%) DynamoDB
12 75 (2.93%) Metadata
13 57 (2.22%) Big Data
14 50 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
15 49 (1.91%) MySQL
16 39 (1.52%) BigQuery
17 36 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
18 34 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 251 (9.80%) Git
2 215 (8.39%) GitLab
3 209 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 137 (5.35%) JIRA
5 43 (1.68%) JUnit
6 42 (1.64%) MLflow
7 31 (1.21%) Mockito
8 30 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 23 (0.90%) Selenium
11 23 (0.90%) SonarQube
12 19 (0.74%) Maven
13 17 (0.66%) Gradle
14 16 (0.62%) Postman
15 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.51%) JMeter
17 12 (0.47%) Snyk
18 11 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 569 (22.21%) Social Skills
2 565 (22.05%) Finance
3 371 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (8.12%) Banking
6 92 (3.59%) Front Office
7 65 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 37 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 36 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.09%) Retail
13 24 (0.94%) Legal
14 21 (0.82%) Marketing
15 17 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.55%) Law
16 14 (0.55%) Military
17 13 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 492 (19.20%) Architect
2 450 (17.56%) Developer
3 385 (15.03%) Senior
4 264 (10.30%) Data Engineer
5 253 (9.88%) Lead
6 244 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
7 194 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 144 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 123 (4.80%) Senior Developer
10 121 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
11 108 (4.22%) Analyst
12 100 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
12 100 (3.90%) Java Developer
13 99 (3.86%) AWS Architect
13 99 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 92 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 90 (3.51%) Python Engineer
16 85 (3.32%) Python Developer
17 83 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
17 83 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (12.72%) Kafka
2 249 (9.72%) React
3 209 (8.16%) Node.js
4 195 (7.61%) REST
5 160 (6.25%) Spring
6 147 (5.74%) RESTful
6 147 (5.74%) Spring Boot
7 82 (3.20%) AngularJS
8 79 (3.08%) PySpark
9 76 (2.97%) .NET
10 68 (2.65%) OAuth
11 66 (2.58%) GraphQL
12 63 (2.46%) SOAP
13 62 (2.42%) Pandas
14 61 (2.38%) HTML
15 60 (2.34%) Redux
16 59 (2.30%) CSS
17 53 (2.07%) LDAP
18 47 (1.83%) PyTorch
18 47 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 389 (15.18%) Cloud Native
2 138 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (2.89%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 67 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 65 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 64 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 57 (2.22%) Data Centre
10 56 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (2.11%) AI Agents
12 47 (1.83%) Derivative
13 43 (1.68%) Management Information System
14 42 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
15 41 (1.60%) Algorithms
16 37 (1.44%) Equities
17 34 (1.33%) Data Structures
17 34 (1.33%) Public Cloud
18 28 (1.09%) Mainframe
19 26 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 190 (7.42%) Linux
2 66 (2.58%) Windows
3 48 (1.87%) Unix
4 13 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) VMS
6 9 (0.35%) Android
7 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.23%) zOS
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.078%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 718 (28.02%) DevOps
3 620 (24.20%) Agile
4 512 (19.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 455 (17.76%) AI
6 414 (16.16%) Microservices
7 389 (15.18%) Analytics
8 372 (14.52%) Containerisation
9 360 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
10 327 (12.76%) Software Engineering
11 303 (11.83%) Data Modelling
12 292 (11.40%) Migration
13 278 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
14 271 (10.58%) Data Engineering
15 266 (10.38%) Observability
16 255 (9.95%) Machine Learning
17 249 (9.72%) ETL
18 228 (8.90%) Full-Stack Development
19 222 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
20 205 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,021 (39.85%) Python
2 590 (23.03%) SQL
3 467 (18.23%) Java
4 228 (8.90%) TypeScript
5 224 (8.74%) JavaScript
6 112 (4.37%) Go
7 106 (4.14%) C#
8 103 (4.02%) Bash
9 96 (3.75%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.72%) Scala
11 43 (1.68%) Ruby
12 38 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 22 (0.86%) R
14 19 (0.74%) C++
14 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.66%) Bicep
16 15 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.35%) Korn
18 8 (0.31%) C
18 8 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 749 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 661 (25.80%) SC Cleared
3 124 (4.84%) AWS Certification
4 119 (4.64%) Degree
5 71 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (2.07%) CISSP
7 51 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 34 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.05%) CISM
14 24 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.94%) PMP
15 19 (0.74%) CCNP
15 19 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (0.51%) CCSP
17 13 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 125 (4.88%) GDPR
3 91 (3.55%) QA
4 80 (3.12%) NIST
5 73 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.13%) NCSC
8 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 27 (1.05%) SLA
10 16 (0.62%) WCAG
11 15 (0.59%) GRC
12 13 (0.51%) ISO 20022
12 13 (0.51%) PMO
13 11 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.27%) PSD2
16 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 517 (20.18%) Docker
2 79 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.39%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) 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%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.039%) KVM
12 1 (0.039%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 604 (23.58%) Terraform
2 543 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 130 (5.07%) Ansible
4 129 (5.04%) Grafana
5 112 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.09%) Argo
8 19 (0.74%) Consul
8 19 (0.74%) Puppet
9 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.66%) Kibana
11 13 (0.51%) Packer
11 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.35%) QRadar
13 9 (0.35%) SCCM
14 7 (0.27%) Istio
14 7 (0.27%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 182 (7.10%) Microsoft
2 138 (5.39%) Databricks
3 95 (3.71%) Google
4 91 (3.55%) Oracle
5 81 (3.16%) Splunk
6 78 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.26%) CyberArk
8 53 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 41 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 39 (1.52%) Cisco
10 39 (1.52%) VMware
11 37 (1.44%) IBM
12 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.37%) Centrify
12 35 (1.37%) Dynatrace
13 34 (1.33%) SAP
14 25 (0.98%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.94%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.86%) Foundry
17 21 (0.82%) Confluent