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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,551 2,042 2,281
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.33% 16.25% 12.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.54% 38.31% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,762 1,481 1,756
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £465 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
England median daily rate £530 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -3.64% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.88 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £39.06 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £48.25 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.97% +53.17% -58.00%
75th Percentile £76.25 £74.38 £64.75
90th Percentile £91.13 £96.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +7.14% +51.58% -38.43%

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 7,606 5,330 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.71% 42.40% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,240 3,707 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £439 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £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 102 53 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.58 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +25.38% -42.70%
75th Percentile £53.35 £48.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £72.50 £59.88
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -3 288 £550 - 225
South London +5 89 £513 +7.89% 11
West London +5 78 £603 +11.88% 43
East London +1 13 £525 -10.26% 43
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
1 120 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 71 (2.78%) Confluence
4 63 (2.47%) Apache
5 23 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 21 (0.82%) nginx
7 16 (0.63%) Camunda
8 12 (0.47%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) 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 (0.078%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.078%) IIS
14 2 (0.078%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.078%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 36 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
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 (0.27%) 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%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Magento
6 2 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.039%) Shopify
7 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (40.65%) Azure
2 570 (22.34%) GCP
3 383 (15.01%) Amazon S3
4 371 (14.54%) Serverless
5 324 (12.70%) GitHub
6 322 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
7 224 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 196 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.19%) Snowflake
11 152 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
12 143 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 142 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
13 142 (5.57%) Power Platform
14 111 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 99 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
16 75 (2.94%) SaaS
17 65 (2.55%) dbt
18 62 (2.43%) Amazon Kinesis
18 62 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.72%) Firewall
2 62 (2.43%) Network Security
3 59 (2.31%) DNS
4 57 (2.23%) VPN
5 42 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.18%) WAN
7 19 (0.74%) BGP
7 19 (0.74%) HTTP
8 17 (0.67%) LAN
9 15 (0.59%) OSPF
10 14 (0.55%) SSL
11 13 (0.51%) DHCP
11 13 (0.51%) VLAN
12 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
13 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.35%) SAN
14 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.31%) NAS
15 8 (0.31%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (4.78%) Data Lake
2 122 (4.78%) Power BI
3 114 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
3 114 (4.47%) NoSQL
4 109 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
5 104 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 101 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 98 (3.84%) SQL Server
8 77 (3.02%) MongoDB
9 76 (2.98%) Tableau
10 75 (2.94%) Metadata
11 73 (2.86%) Relational Database
12 70 (2.74%) DynamoDB
13 61 (2.39%) Big Data
14 48 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
15 45 (1.76%) MySQL
16 40 (1.57%) BigQuery
17 39 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
18 34 (1.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 230 (9.02%) Git
2 222 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 209 (8.19%) GitLab
4 124 (4.86%) JIRA
5 43 (1.69%) MLflow
6 42 (1.65%) JUnit
7 34 (1.33%) Mockito
8 25 (0.98%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.98%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 22 (0.86%) Selenium
11 20 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 19 (0.74%) Maven
12 19 (0.74%) Postman
13 18 (0.71%) Gradle
13 18 (0.71%) JMeter
14 14 (0.55%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.51%) Snyk
16 12 (0.47%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 592 (23.21%) Finance
2 541 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 356 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 227 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 213 (8.35%) Banking
6 91 (3.57%) Front Office
7 63 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 39 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.41%) Retail
12 35 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.06%) Marketing
14 26 (1.02%) Legal
15 16 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.55%) Law
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 11 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 511 (20.03%) Architect
2 432 (16.93%) Developer
3 388 (15.21%) Senior
4 269 (10.54%) Lead
5 265 (10.39%) Data Engineer
6 231 (9.06%) AWS Engineer
7 185 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 142 (5.57%) Software Engineer
9 128 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.63%) Senior Developer
11 103 (4.04%) Analyst
11 103 (4.04%) AWS Architect
12 98 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 96 (3.76%) Java Developer
14 92 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
15 87 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
16 86 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
17 81 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 78 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 73 (2.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (12.39%) Kafka
2 237 (9.29%) React
3 198 (7.76%) REST
4 183 (7.17%) Node.js
5 173 (6.78%) Spring
6 160 (6.27%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.68%) RESTful
8 87 (3.41%) .NET
9 81 (3.18%) PySpark
10 79 (3.10%) AngularJS
11 67 (2.63%) OAuth
12 66 (2.59%) GraphQL
12 66 (2.59%) SOAP
13 62 (2.43%) HTML
13 62 (2.43%) Redux
14 58 (2.27%) LDAP
15 56 (2.20%) Pandas
16 54 (2.12%) CSS
17 49 (1.92%) OpenID
18 45 (1.76%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 409 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 77 (3.02%) Fixed Income
5 72 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 69 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 67 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 64 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
9 59 (2.31%) AI Agents
10 57 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 49 (1.92%) Derivative
13 46 (1.80%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 41 (1.61%) Equities
16 37 (1.45%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.29%) Mainframe
18 32 (1.25%) Data Structures
19 30 (1.18%) Public Cloud
20 29 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 183 (7.17%) Linux
2 74 (2.90%) Windows
3 39 (1.53%) Unix
4 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.31%) VMS
8 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.27%) zOS
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 2019
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (38.02%) CI/CD
2 731 (28.66%) DevOps
3 595 (23.32%) Agile
4 513 (20.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 470 (18.42%) AI
6 409 (16.03%) Microservices
7 378 (14.82%) Containerisation
8 372 (14.58%) Analytics
9 342 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
10 319 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 296 (11.60%) Migration
12 294 (11.52%) Data Modelling
13 275 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
14 271 (10.62%) Data Engineering
15 269 (10.54%) Observability
16 256 (10.04%) Machine Learning
17 237 (9.29%) ETL
18 236 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
19 228 (8.94%) Full-Stack Development
20 213 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 993 (38.93%) Python
2 557 (21.83%) SQL
3 470 (18.42%) Java
4 225 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 221 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.51%) C#
7 109 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 102 (4.00%) Bash
8 102 (4.00%) Go
9 43 (1.69%) Scala
10 38 (1.49%) Ruby
10 38 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 23 (0.90%) R
12 20 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 19 (0.74%) Bicep
14 17 (0.67%) C++
14 17 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.43%) PHP
16 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 725 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 643 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.06%) Degree
4 118 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 71 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (2.47%) CISSP
7 57 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 48 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 38 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.06%) CISM
14 24 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 23 (0.90%) PMI Certification
15 23 (0.90%) PMP
16 21 (0.82%) CCNP
17 20 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
18 18 (0.71%) CCSP
19 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 121 (4.74%) GDPR
3 96 (3.76%) QA
4 86 (3.37%) NIST
5 74 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.18%) SLA
9 23 (0.90%) NCSC
10 19 (0.74%) GRC
11 16 (0.63%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.55%) PMO
12 14 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.43%) WCAG
14 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.27%) PSD2
16 6 (0.24%) MiFID
16 6 (0.24%) SEPA
17 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 494 (19.36%) Docker
2 81 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 6 (0.24%) 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 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.078%) Firmware
10 2 (0.078%) KVM
10 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.078%) Postfix
11 1 (0.039%) Samba
Systems Management
1 588 (23.05%) Terraform
2 521 (20.42%) Kubernetes
3 143 (5.61%) Grafana
4 130 (5.10%) Ansible
5 123 (4.82%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.94%) Argo
8 21 (0.82%) 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 9 (0.35%) Packer
15 6 (0.24%) Istio
15 6 (0.24%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.24%) SCCM
16 5 (0.20%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 194 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 132 (5.17%) Databricks
3 94 (3.68%) Google
4 87 (3.41%) Oracle
5 79 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 75 (2.94%) Splunk
7 62 (2.43%) CyberArk
8 60 (2.35%) OpenAI
9 51 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.65%) Cisco
11 36 (1.41%) VMware
12 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.37%) Centrify
12 35 (1.37%) SAP
13 34 (1.33%) Dynatrace
14 33 (1.29%) IBM
15 25 (0.98%) Palo Alto
15 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
16 23 (0.90%) Confluent
17 22 (0.86%) Foundry