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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,805 2,158 2,274
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.80% 15.98% 14.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.57% 36.90% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,974 1,493 1,714
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £479 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.13%
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 £73.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.11% +58.08% -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 8,356 5,848 6,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.12% 43.31% 41.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,712 3,977 4,689
10th Percentile £360 £342 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -3.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 50
10th Percentile £18.44 £23.00 £21.80
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £31.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +2.33% -31.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £67.03
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
% change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -6 284 £550 -5.98% 206
West London +6 97 £550 +29.41% 126
South London +1 77 £535 +0.71% 15
East London +10 14 £550 -9.47% 29
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
1 163 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.10%) Apache Spark
3 100 (3.57%) Confluence
4 89 (3.17%) Apache
5 28 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
6 12 (0.43%) SAS
7 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.32%) Camunda
8 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.21%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Mule
13 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 36 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 19 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.29%) Magento
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) Endur
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.071%) Shopify
7 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (44.81%) Azure
2 617 (22.00%) GCP
3 395 (14.08%) Serverless
4 384 (13.69%) Amazon S3
5 370 (13.19%) GitHub
6 333 (11.87%) AWS Lambda
7 248 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
8 234 (8.34%) Snowflake
9 201 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
10 178 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 158 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
12 153 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 144 (5.13%) dbt
14 142 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
15 138 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
16 132 (4.71%) Power Platform
17 129 (4.60%) SaaS
18 118 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 106 (3.78%) Entra ID
20 91 (3.24%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.89%) Firewall
2 86 (3.07%) Network Security
3 68 (2.42%) DNS
4 57 (2.03%) VPN
5 39 (1.39%) WAN
6 36 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 20 (0.71%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) HTTP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 16 (0.57%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.50%) OSPF
14 13 (0.46%) LAN
14 13 (0.46%) SAN
15 12 (0.43%) NGFW
16 11 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
3 145 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 120 (4.28%) NoSQL
4 120 (4.28%) Power BI
5 112 (3.99%) Data Lake
6 107 (3.81%) SQL Server
7 103 (3.67%) Metadata
8 95 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 91 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
10 89 (3.17%) MongoDB
11 86 (3.07%) DynamoDB
12 77 (2.75%) Relational Database
13 68 (2.42%) Delta Lake
14 59 (2.10%) Big Data
15 58 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
16 57 (2.03%) Tableau
17 50 (1.78%) MySQL
18 43 (1.53%) Redis
19 41 (1.46%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 297 (10.59%) Git
2 286 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 263 (9.38%) GitLab
4 153 (5.45%) JIRA
5 33 (1.18%) JMeter
6 32 (1.14%) JUnit
7 31 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 31 (1.11%) Maven
7 31 (1.11%) Selenium
8 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 26 (0.93%) Mockito
10 25 (0.89%) Postman
11 24 (0.86%) Gradle
12 23 (0.82%) Bitbucket
13 19 (0.68%) Claude Code
13 19 (0.68%) Cucumber
13 19 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.61%) Gatling
15 15 (0.53%) MLflow
16 12 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 695 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 659 (23.49%) Finance
3 389 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 280 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.09%) Banking
6 82 (2.92%) Retail
7 64 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 42 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (1.39%) Marketing
12 35 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 32 (1.14%) Front Office
14 29 (1.03%) Law
14 29 (1.03%) Legal
15 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (0.86%) Billing
17 23 (0.82%) Military
17 23 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 590 (21.03%) Architect
2 446 (15.90%) Senior
3 346 (12.34%) Developer
4 314 (11.19%) Data Engineer
5 298 (10.62%) Lead
6 262 (9.34%) AWS Engineer
7 200 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 152 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (4.06%) Analyst
10 112 (3.99%) AWS Architect
11 107 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
12 102 (3.64%) Java Developer
12 102 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
13 100 (3.57%) Data Architect
14 97 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 93 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.32%) Software Engineer
16 81 (2.89%) Senior Developer
17 78 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
18 76 (2.71%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (24.99%) Terraform
2 317 (11.30%) Kafka
3 270 (9.63%) REST
4 205 (7.31%) React
5 185 (6.60%) Spring
6 169 (6.02%) Spring Boot
7 157 (5.60%) RESTful
8 120 (4.28%) Node.js
9 113 (4.03%) PySpark
10 91 (3.24%) .NET
11 88 (3.14%) OAuth
12 67 (2.39%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.28%) FastAPI
13 64 (2.28%) HTML
14 63 (2.25%) JSON
15 61 (2.17%) AngularJS
16 53 (1.89%) CSS
17 50 (1.78%) OAuth2
18 49 (1.75%) LangChain
19 47 (1.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 538 (19.18%) Cloud Native
2 190 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 141 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 129 (4.60%) AI Agents
5 118 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 83 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 66 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 66 (2.35%) Security Posture
10 49 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 45 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
12 39 (1.39%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.39%) Replication
13 38 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.25%) PKI
15 34 (1.21%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.18%) CMDB
16 33 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
17 28 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 231 (8.24%) Linux
2 123 (4.39%) Windows
3 55 (1.96%) Unix
4 45 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,167 (41.60%) CI/CD
2 879 (31.34%) DevOps
3 709 (25.28%) Agile
4 657 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 628 (22.39%) AI
6 456 (16.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 421 (15.01%) Microservices
8 403 (14.37%) Containerisation
9 377 (13.44%) Observability
10 368 (13.12%) Migration
11 366 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
12 361 (12.87%) Analytics
13 354 (12.62%) Data Pipeline
14 350 (12.48%) Software Engineering
15 349 (12.44%) Data Modelling
16 337 (12.01%) Data Engineering
17 324 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 321 (11.44%) Event-Driven
19 295 (10.52%) Machine Learning
20 290 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,038 (37.01%) Python
2 611 (21.78%) SQL
3 485 (17.29%) Java
4 212 (7.56%) TypeScript
5 199 (7.09%) JavaScript
6 165 (5.88%) Bash
7 141 (5.03%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.89%) C#
9 50 (1.78%) Scala
10 43 (1.53%) Go
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.14%) Bicep
13 28 (1.00%) Ruby
14 26 (0.93%) Groovy
14 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.71%) C++
15 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.71%) R
16 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 761 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 672 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 157 (5.60%) AWS Certification
4 144 (5.13%) Degree
5 89 (3.17%) CISSP
6 86 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 69 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 62 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 48 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.68%) CISM
12 27 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.75%) PMP
15 19 (0.68%) CCSP
16 18 (0.64%) CCNP
16 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (8.41%) Data Quality
2 153 (5.45%) QA
3 105 (3.74%) NIST
4 94 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 85 (3.03%) GDPR
6 39 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.11%) GRC
8 30 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (0.86%) SLA
11 23 (0.82%) NCSC
12 20 (0.71%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.71%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.64%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.53%) PMO
15 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 12 (0.43%) SEPA
17 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 8 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 497 (17.72%) Docker
2 90 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 609 (21.71%) Kubernetes
2 200 (7.13%) Grafana
3 189 (6.74%) Ansible
4 157 (5.60%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.25%) Argo
5 35 (1.25%) Kibana
6 32 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.86%) Puppet
8 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.36%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) Istio
11 9 (0.32%) QRadar
12 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
15 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 295 (10.52%) Microsoft
2 183 (6.52%) Databricks
3 135 (4.81%) Oracle
4 129 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 125 (4.46%) Google
6 106 (3.78%) Splunk
7 69 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 53 (1.89%) Cisco
8 53 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 53 (1.89%) VMware
9 50 (1.78%) CyberArk
9 50 (1.78%) SAP
10 42 (1.50%) Palo Alto
11 40 (1.43%) Informatica
12 33 (1.18%) IBM
13 32 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.03%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.96%) Foundry
16 26 (0.93%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft