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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,824 2,198 2,289
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.08% 16.36% 14.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.87% 37.97% 34.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,997 1,533 1,739
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +91.68% -63.07%
75th Percentile £80.63 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.74%

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 8,337 5,789 6,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 43.10% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,706 3,960 4,768
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £21.55
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.69 £39.25
90th Percentile £77.29 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -5 282 £550 -5.17% 135
West London +5 96 £550 +29.41% 53
South London +1 75 £535 +1.90% 11
East London +7 14 £525 -10.26% 28
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
1 154 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 92 (3.26%) Confluence
4 79 (2.80%) Apache
5 36 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.42%) CMS
6 12 (0.42%) nginx
7 11 (0.39%) CICS
7 11 (0.39%) SAS
8 10 (0.35%) Camunda
8 10 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 34 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 7 (0.25%) 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 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
2 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.071%) Endur
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,250 (44.26%) Azure
2 631 (22.34%) GCP
3 387 (13.70%) Serverless
4 370 (13.10%) Amazon S3
5 354 (12.54%) GitHub
6 328 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
7 233 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
8 221 (7.83%) Snowflake
9 197 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
10 172 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 160 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 155 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
13 146 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
14 132 (4.67%) Power Platform
15 129 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
16 128 (4.53%) SaaS
17 123 (4.36%) dbt
18 116 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 99 (3.51%) Entra ID
20 93 (3.29%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.68%) Firewall
2 85 (3.01%) Network Security
3 73 (2.58%) DNS
4 61 (2.16%) VPN
5 42 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.27%) WAN
7 26 (0.92%) DHCP
8 23 (0.81%) HTTP
8 23 (0.81%) SSL
9 18 (0.64%) Internet
9 18 (0.64%) SSH
10 17 (0.60%) BGP
11 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
13 12 (0.42%) LAN
13 12 (0.42%) OSPF
13 12 (0.42%) SAN
14 11 (0.39%) NGFW
14 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.28%) NoSQL
5 120 (4.25%) Power BI
6 114 (4.04%) Data Lake
7 108 (3.82%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
8 98 (3.47%) Metadata
9 97 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 90 (3.19%) MongoDB
11 86 (3.05%) DynamoDB
12 72 (2.55%) Relational Database
13 66 (2.34%) Delta Lake
14 59 (2.09%) Big Data
14 59 (2.09%) Tableau
15 48 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
16 41 (1.45%) BigQuery
16 41 (1.45%) Redis
17 40 (1.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 287 (10.16%) Git
2 286 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 266 (9.42%) GitLab
4 148 (5.24%) JIRA
5 35 (1.24%) JMeter
6 34 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 32 (1.13%) Selenium
8 31 (1.10%) JUnit
9 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.99%) Maven
11 26 (0.92%) Mockito
12 25 (0.89%) Bitbucket
13 24 (0.85%) Postman
14 21 (0.74%) Gradle
15 20 (0.71%) Gatling
15 20 (0.71%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.64%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.64%) MLflow
17 16 (0.57%) Claude Code
18 13 (0.46%) CircleCI
General
1 686 (24.29%) Finance
2 653 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 409 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 256 (9.07%) Banking
5 252 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.62%) Retail
7 64 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (2.05%) Front Office
9 52 (1.84%) Investment Banking
10 48 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 38 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 37 (1.31%) Marketing
14 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.03%) Legal
16 28 (0.99%) Law
17 25 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (0.74%) Manufacturing
18 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
19 19 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 594 (21.03%) Architect
2 443 (15.69%) Senior
3 368 (13.03%) Developer
4 317 (11.23%) Lead
5 298 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 263 (9.31%) AWS Engineer
7 200 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 158 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
9 116 (4.11%) Software Engineer
10 115 (4.07%) AWS Architect
11 111 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 107 (3.79%) Analyst
13 106 (3.75%) Java Developer
14 94 (3.33%) Data Architect
15 92 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 90 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
17 86 (3.05%) Senior Developer
18 85 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
19 81 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
20 78 (2.76%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (24.22%) Terraform
2 323 (11.44%) Kafka
3 256 (9.07%) REST
4 226 (8.00%) React
5 176 (6.23%) Spring
6 161 (5.70%) Spring Boot
7 158 (5.59%) RESTful
8 149 (5.28%) Node.js
9 108 (3.82%) PySpark
10 89 (3.15%) .NET
11 77 (2.73%) OAuth
12 76 (2.69%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.27%) AngularJS
14 62 (2.20%) JSON
15 59 (2.09%) FastAPI
16 58 (2.05%) HTML
17 49 (1.74%) CSS
18 45 (1.59%) LangChain
19 44 (1.56%) OAuth2
19 44 (1.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 521 (18.45%) Cloud Native
2 186 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 120 (4.25%) AI Agents
5 108 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 67 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 66 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.70%) Fixed Income
11 48 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
11 48 (1.70%) Management Information System
12 38 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 37 (1.31%) Replication
14 35 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
15 34 (1.20%) CMDB
15 34 (1.20%) PKI
15 34 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 231 (8.18%) Linux
2 128 (4.53%) Windows
3 52 (1.84%) Unix
4 44 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Solaris
9 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,160 (41.08%) CI/CD
2 872 (30.88%) DevOps
3 712 (25.21%) Agile
4 628 (22.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 616 (21.81%) AI
6 432 (15.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 415 (14.70%) Microservices
8 397 (14.06%) Containerisation
9 375 (13.28%) Migration
10 361 (12.78%) Analytics
11 359 (12.71%) Software Engineering
12 358 (12.68%) Observability
13 356 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
14 345 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
15 344 (12.18%) Data Modelling
16 330 (11.69%) Data Engineering
17 309 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 306 (10.84%) Machine Learning
19 303 (10.73%) Event-Driven
20 280 (9.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (37.00%) Python
2 606 (21.46%) SQL
3 490 (17.35%) Java
4 238 (8.43%) TypeScript
5 220 (7.79%) JavaScript
6 157 (5.56%) Bash
7 145 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 112 (3.97%) C#
9 61 (2.16%) Go
10 43 (1.52%) Scala
11 34 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.17%) Bicep
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.81%) Groovy
16 21 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.74%) R
17 19 (0.67%) C++
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 761 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 677 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.17%) AWS Certification
4 145 (5.13%) Degree
5 86 (3.05%) CISSP
6 74 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 68 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 66 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 49 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 45 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.59%) CISM
12 25 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 24 (0.85%) PMP
14 18 (0.64%) CCNP
15 17 (0.60%) CCSP
16 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 145 (5.13%) QA
3 102 (3.61%) NIST
4 93 (3.29%) GDPR
5 92 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.10%) GRC
7 31 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) SLA
9 25 (0.89%) NCSC
10 22 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
12 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.50%) PMO
15 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.39%) SEPA
17 10 (0.35%) WCAG
18 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 490 (17.35%) Docker
2 83 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 606 (21.46%) Kubernetes
2 196 (6.94%) Grafana
3 182 (6.44%) Ansible
4 158 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.10%) Argo
6 31 (1.10%) Kibana
7 25 (0.89%) Puppet
8 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.39%) Istio
10 11 (0.39%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) QRadar
12 8 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 267 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 166 (5.88%) Databricks
3 129 (4.57%) Google
4 127 (4.50%) ServiceNow
5 126 (4.46%) Oracle
6 92 (3.26%) Splunk
7 69 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.05%) VMware
9 50 (1.77%) CyberArk
10 49 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 48 (1.70%) SAP
12 46 (1.63%) Cisco
13 34 (1.20%) IBM
13 34 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 33 (1.17%) Informatica
15 32 (1.13%) Dynatrace
16 31 (1.10%) Foundry
17 26 (0.92%) MuleSoft
17 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.81%) Fortinet