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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,141 2,001 2,342
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.85% 13.81% 12.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.55% 33.69% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 1,445 1,789
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £461 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 11
10th Percentile £61.60 £45.45 £43.03
25th Percentile £68.25 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.15% -7.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £87.50 £75.38 £78.75
90th Percentile £94.00 £87.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £82.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +77.57% - -24.60%

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 6,382 5,939 6,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.26% 40.98% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,358 4,010 5,125
10th Percentile £343 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 44 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.56 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.17 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -12.51% +30.75%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.36 £28.50 £23.43
% change year-on-year -4.02% +21.66% +3.51%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +5 253 £550 - 219
South London +12 62 £525 +5.00% 14
West London 0 33 £603 +7.78% 49
East London +4 5 £675 - 30
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
1 121 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (4.06%) Confluence
3 71 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 66 (3.08%) Apache
5 32 (1.49%) nginx
6 16 (0.75%) SAS
6 16 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.47%) Camunda
8 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.33%) CMS
10 6 (0.28%) Appian
11 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.14%) Traefik
14 2 (0.093%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.093%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.19%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.047%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.047%) Notion
8 1 (0.047%) Pro Tools
8 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.23%) Endur
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Actimize
5 2 (0.093%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.093%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.093%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.093%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.093%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.047%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.047%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.047%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.047%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.047%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.047%) Summit
6 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 863 (40.31%) Azure
2 486 (22.70%) GCP
3 314 (14.67%) GitHub
3 314 (14.67%) Serverless
4 301 (14.06%) Amazon S3
5 276 (12.89%) AWS Lambda
6 196 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
7 165 (7.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 154 (7.19%) Snowflake
9 132 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
10 131 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 120 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
12 118 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
13 106 (4.95%) Power Platform
14 89 (4.16%) dbt
15 85 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 69 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
18 53 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
19 52 (2.43%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (5.18%) Firewall
2 66 (3.08%) DNS
3 55 (2.57%) VPN
4 51 (2.38%) Network Security
5 36 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.21%) SSL
7 25 (1.17%) WAN
8 21 (0.98%) HTTP
9 17 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.70%) DHCP
10 15 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
11 13 (0.61%) LAN
11 13 (0.61%) SSH
12 11 (0.51%) BGP
12 11 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.47%) FTP
13 10 (0.47%) IMAP
13 10 (0.47%) SMTP
13 10 (0.47%) VLAN
14 9 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (5.37%) NoSQL
3 114 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
4 112 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
5 101 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
5 101 (4.72%) Data Lake
6 94 (4.39%) Power BI
7 93 (4.34%) Relational Database
8 87 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 82 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 63 (2.94%) MongoDB
11 60 (2.80%) DynamoDB
12 54 (2.52%) Metadata
13 52 (2.43%) MySQL
14 49 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
14 49 (2.29%) Tableau
15 48 (2.24%) Big Data
16 46 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
17 45 (2.10%) Apache Iceberg
18 33 (1.54%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 231 (10.79%) Git
2 209 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 168 (7.85%) GitLab
4 149 (6.96%) JIRA
5 35 (1.63%) JUnit
6 27 (1.26%) Cypress.io
7 26 (1.21%) MLflow
8 25 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 22 (1.03%) Selenium
11 20 (0.93%) CircleCI
11 20 (0.93%) ERwin
12 16 (0.75%) JMeter
13 15 (0.70%) Mockito
14 14 (0.65%) ER Studio
14 14 (0.65%) Maven
14 14 (0.65%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.61%) Postman
16 12 (0.56%) Gatling
17 11 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 538 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 456 (21.30%) Finance
3 259 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 210 (9.81%) Banking
5 196 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
6 83 (3.88%) Investment Banking
7 66 (3.08%) Front Office
8 38 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.31%) Marketing
12 27 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.12%) Retail
15 23 (1.07%) Military
16 20 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.79%) Legal
18 16 (0.75%) Manufacturing
19 14 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
20 12 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 412 (19.24%) Developer
2 377 (17.61%) Senior
3 344 (16.07%) Architect
4 230 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
5 174 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 171 (7.99%) Data Engineer
7 145 (6.77%) Lead
8 123 (5.74%) Python Engineer
9 117 (5.46%) Senior Developer
9 117 (5.46%) Software Engineer
10 94 (4.39%) Analyst
11 93 (4.34%) Java Developer
12 87 (4.06%) AWS Developer
13 86 (4.02%) Python Developer
14 82 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
15 81 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
16 79 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
17 74 (3.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 73 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
19 63 (2.94%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (12.38%) Kafka
2 210 (9.81%) React
3 157 (7.33%) Node.js
4 155 (7.24%) REST
5 125 (5.84%) Spring
6 115 (5.37%) RESTful
7 107 (5.00%) Spring Boot
8 102 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 79 (3.69%) gRPC
10 77 (3.60%) Pandas
11 75 (3.50%) NumPy
12 73 (3.41%) HTML
13 72 (3.36%) CSS
14 58 (2.71%) .NET
15 56 (2.62%) Vue
16 54 (2.52%) FastAPI
17 51 (2.38%) SciPy
18 50 (2.34%) LDAP
18 50 (2.34%) SOAP
19 49 (2.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 264 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 109 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.04%) Security Posture
4 63 (2.94%) Hedge funds
5 61 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 55 (2.57%) Derivative
7 51 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 48 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 47 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (2.20%) Fixed Income
10 45 (2.10%) Equities
10 45 (2.10%) Onboarding
11 42 (1.96%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 37 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 36 (1.68%) Public Cloud
14 34 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (1.45%) Algorithms
16 29 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
17 28 (1.31%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 191 (8.92%) Linux
2 79 (3.69%) Windows
3 47 (2.20%) Unix
4 23 (1.07%) VMS
5 18 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.47%) Android
8 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.33%) CentOS
11 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.093%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.093%) zOS
13 1 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (38.53%) CI/CD
2 600 (28.02%) DevOps
3 514 (24.01%) Agile
4 428 (19.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 344 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 343 (16.02%) Microservices
7 297 (13.87%) Analytics
8 293 (13.69%) AI
9 291 (13.59%) Software Engineering
10 260 (12.14%) Containerisation
11 224 (10.46%) Data Modelling
12 209 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
13 200 (9.34%) Observability
14 199 (9.29%) Migration
15 196 (9.15%) Machine Learning
16 193 (9.01%) Data Engineering
17 186 (8.69%) ETL
18 166 (7.75%) Full-Stack Development
19 164 (7.66%) Test Automation
20 158 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 929 (43.39%) Python
2 496 (23.17%) SQL
3 426 (19.90%) Java
4 212 (9.90%) JavaScript
5 196 (9.15%) TypeScript
6 116 (5.42%) Bash
7 103 (4.81%) Go
8 98 (4.58%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.06%) C#
10 36 (1.68%) C++
11 32 (1.49%) Ruby
12 25 (1.17%) Scala
13 21 (0.98%) Rust
14 20 (0.93%) Shell Script
15 19 (0.89%) R
16 17 (0.79%) Groovy
16 17 (0.79%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.70%) Perl
17 15 (0.70%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 566 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 496 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.07%) AWS Certification
4 122 (5.70%) Degree
5 65 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.59%) CISSP
8 33 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.98%) MCP
14 19 (0.89%) CISM
15 18 (0.84%) OSCP
16 15 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.65%) PMP
18 13 (0.61%) CCNP
19 11 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 97 (4.53%) GDPR
3 86 (4.02%) QA
4 74 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.90%) NIST
6 37 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.12%) NCSC
8 20 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.75%) WCAG
10 14 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.65%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.47%) SLA
12 9 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.37%) GRC
14 7 (0.33%) MiFID
15 6 (0.28%) PSD2
15 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 485 (22.65%) Docker
2 68 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.51%) Squid
4 11 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.47%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.47%) Postfix
6 8 (0.37%) zsh
7 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.093%) KVM
9 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.047%) Firmware
10 1 (0.047%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 506 (23.63%) Terraform
2 488 (22.79%) Kubernetes
3 137 (6.40%) Ansible
4 109 (5.09%) Grafana
5 94 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.59%) Argo
7 26 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.89%) Puppet
9 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.84%) Nessus
10 16 (0.75%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.65%) SCCM
12 12 (0.56%) Kibana
13 10 (0.47%) Packer
13 10 (0.47%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.42%) Consul
14 9 (0.42%) QRadar
15 8 (0.37%) Istio
16 7 (0.33%) Rancher
16 7 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 143 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.54%) Databricks
3 83 (3.88%) Oracle
4 80 (3.74%) Google
5 78 (3.64%) Splunk
6 59 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.73%) CyberArk
8 35 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.54%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 31 (1.45%) BeyondTrust
10 31 (1.45%) Centrify
10 31 (1.45%) Cisco
11 26 (1.21%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 23 (1.07%) IBM
14 21 (0.98%) SAP
14 21 (0.98%) VMware
15 20 (0.93%) F5
16 19 (0.89%) CheckPoint