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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,542 2,030 2,280
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.34% 16.18% 12.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.44% 38.20% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,758 1,470 1,754
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £821
England median daily rate £530 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -3.64% -0.50% -6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.80 £22.12
25th Percentile £44.00 £47.38 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £55.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.42% +0.91% -26.67%
75th Percentile £76.25 £81.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.13 £97.00 £71.40
England median hourly rate £75.00 £71.25 £53.75
% change year-on-year +5.26% +32.56% -26.12%

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 7,601 5,314 6,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.88% 42.36% 37.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,243 3,693 4,977
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 52 71
10th Percentile £19.21 £22.40 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £38.44
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.13 £58.75
England median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -2 290 £550 - 206
South London +3 89 £513 +7.89% 13
West London +7 71 £603 +6.64% 40
East London +1 12 £533 -8.97% 45
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
1 123 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 71 (2.79%) Confluence
4 63 (2.48%) Apache
5 23 (0.90%) nginx
6 22 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.63%) Camunda
8 12 (0.47%) SAS
9 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) CICS
11 5 (0.20%) Appian
11 5 (0.20%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.079%) MQSeries
Applications
1 34 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.079%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.079%) Revit
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.28%) 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 (0.079%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.079%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.079%) Endur
6 2 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
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 1,030 (40.52%) Azure
2 565 (22.23%) GCP
3 380 (14.95%) Amazon S3
4 375 (14.75%) Serverless
5 331 (13.02%) GitHub
6 325 (12.79%) AWS Lambda
7 234 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 201 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
10 157 (6.18%) Snowflake
11 151 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
12 145 (5.70%) Power Platform
13 143 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
14 142 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 99 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
17 72 (2.83%) SaaS
18 64 (2.52%) Amazon Kinesis
19 62 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
20 61 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.78%) Firewall
2 61 (2.40%) Network Security
2 61 (2.40%) VPN
3 60 (2.36%) DNS
4 41 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.22%) WAN
6 19 (0.75%) BGP
7 18 (0.71%) 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 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (4.92%) Power BI
3 123 (4.84%) Data Lake
4 120 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
5 117 (4.60%) NoSQL
6 109 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
7 106 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
8 101 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 95 (3.74%) SQL Server
10 79 (3.11%) Tableau
11 76 (2.99%) MongoDB
12 71 (2.79%) Relational Database
13 70 (2.75%) DynamoDB
14 68 (2.68%) Metadata
15 62 (2.44%) Big Data
16 48 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
17 47 (1.85%) MySQL
18 41 (1.61%) BigQuery
19 40 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
20 33 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 241 (9.48%) Git
2 221 (8.69%) Jenkins
3 210 (8.26%) GitLab
4 126 (4.96%) JIRA
5 43 (1.69%) MLflow
6 42 (1.65%) JUnit
7 35 (1.38%) Mockito
8 26 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 25 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 25 (0.98%) Cypress.io
9 25 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.90%) Selenium
11 19 (0.75%) Maven
12 18 (0.71%) Gradle
13 17 (0.67%) Postman
14 16 (0.63%) JMeter
15 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.51%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.51%) Snyk
17 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 583 (22.93%) Finance
2 550 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 363 (14.28%) Public Sector
4 228 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (8.26%) Banking
6 89 (3.50%) Front Office
7 64 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.30%) Retail
14 27 (1.06%) Legal
14 27 (1.06%) Marketing
15 16 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.55%) Law
16 14 (0.55%) Military
17 11 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 504 (19.83%) Architect
2 434 (17.07%) Developer
3 382 (15.03%) Senior
4 263 (10.35%) Lead
5 257 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 235 (9.24%) AWS Engineer
7 186 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 142 (5.59%) Software Engineer
9 125 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
10 119 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 104 (4.09%) Analyst
12 102 (4.01%) AWS Architect
13 101 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 97 (3.82%) Java Developer
15 90 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
16 88 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
17 87 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
18 82 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 78 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 74 (2.91%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (12.35%) Kafka
2 243 (9.56%) React
3 195 (7.67%) REST
4 193 (7.59%) Node.js
5 171 (6.73%) Spring
6 157 (6.18%) Spring Boot
7 151 (5.94%) RESTful
8 83 (3.27%) .NET
9 78 (3.07%) PySpark
10 76 (2.99%) AngularJS
11 68 (2.68%) SOAP
12 66 (2.60%) OAuth
13 65 (2.56%) GraphQL
14 62 (2.44%) Redux
15 59 (2.32%) HTML
16 58 (2.28%) LDAP
17 56 (2.20%) CSS
17 56 (2.20%) Pandas
18 48 (1.89%) OpenID
19 47 (1.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 403 (15.85%) Cloud Native
2 140 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (2.95%) Onboarding
4 74 (2.91%) Fixed Income
5 73 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.60%) Security Posture
7 65 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 63 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 58 (2.28%) AI Agents
10 57 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (2.05%) Data Centre
12 46 (1.81%) Derivative
13 44 (1.73%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (1.49%) Equities
16 37 (1.46%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.30%) Mainframe
17 33 (1.30%) Public Cloud
18 32 (1.26%) Data Structures
19 30 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 190 (7.47%) Linux
2 73 (2.87%) Windows
3 41 (1.61%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) VMS
7 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.28%) zOS
9 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
14 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 974 (38.32%) CI/CD
2 730 (28.72%) DevOps
3 601 (23.64%) Agile
4 514 (20.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 461 (18.14%) AI
6 411 (16.17%) Microservices
7 378 (14.87%) Containerisation
8 375 (14.75%) Analytics
9 345 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
10 322 (12.67%) Software Engineering
11 298 (11.72%) Migration
12 293 (11.53%) Data Modelling
13 273 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
14 267 (10.50%) Observability
15 265 (10.42%) Data Engineering
16 253 (9.95%) Machine Learning
17 237 (9.32%) ETL
18 232 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
19 230 (9.05%) Full-Stack Development
20 212 (8.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 990 (38.95%) Python
2 559 (21.99%) SQL
3 470 (18.49%) Java
4 229 (9.01%) TypeScript
5 226 (8.89%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.45%) C#
7 106 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 103 (4.05%) Go
9 100 (3.93%) Bash
10 43 (1.69%) Scala
11 42 (1.65%) Ruby
12 40 (1.57%) Shell Script
13 23 (0.90%) R
14 20 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.71%) Bicep
16 17 (0.67%) C++
16 17 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.43%) PHP
18 9 (0.35%) Groovy
19 8 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 730 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 646 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.04%) AWS Certification
4 126 (4.96%) Degree
5 72 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (2.40%) CISSP
7 58 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 36 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.18%) CISM
14 26 (1.02%) PMI Certification
14 26 (1.02%) PMP
15 22 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 21 (0.83%) CCNP
17 20 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.67%) CCSP
19 15 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 123 (4.84%) GDPR
3 95 (3.74%) QA
4 82 (3.23%) NIST
5 72 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.10%) SLA
9 23 (0.90%) NCSC
10 18 (0.71%) GRC
11 15 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 13 (0.51%) PMO
12 13 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.47%) WCAG
14 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.28%) PSD2
16 6 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 502 (19.75%) Docker
2 81 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.079%) Firmware
10 2 (0.079%) KVM
10 2 (0.079%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.079%) Postfix
11 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 589 (23.17%) Terraform
2 527 (20.73%) Kubernetes
3 139 (5.47%) Grafana
4 130 (5.11%) Ansible
5 119 (4.68%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.94%) Argo
8 20 (0.79%) Puppet
9 18 (0.71%) Kibana
10 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.55%) Consul
12 13 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.47%) QRadar
14 8 (0.31%) Packer
15 6 (0.24%) Istio
15 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.24%) SCCM
16 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 193 (7.59%) Microsoft
2 130 (5.11%) Databricks
3 95 (3.74%) Google
4 91 (3.58%) Oracle
5 78 (3.07%) Splunk
6 77 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 61 (2.40%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.28%) OpenAI
9 48 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 43 (1.69%) Cisco
11 39 (1.53%) VMware
12 35 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.38%) Centrify
12 35 (1.38%) SAP
13 34 (1.34%) Dynatrace
14 33 (1.30%) IBM
15 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.90%) Confluent
18 21 (0.83%) Foundry