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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,827 2,263 2,378
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.27% 16.58% 13.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.43% 38.64% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 1,581 1,832
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £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 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 12
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +96.20% -66.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.63 £59.88
90th Percentile - £86.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -37.59%

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 8,212 5,856 6,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.45% 42.92% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,608 3,999 5,047
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 62
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.13
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £54.88 £46.56 £40.25
90th Percentile £74.88 £67.31 £65.65
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -4 295 £550 -2.65% 90
West London +7 96 £560 +28.00% 48
South London +2 90 £519 -4.20% 7
East London +9 17 £533 -8.97% 32
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
1 139 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 96 (3.40%) Confluence
4 69 (2.44%) Apache
5 35 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.71%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) CMS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.28%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.28%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.071%) Trello
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy AR System
9 1 (0.035%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,209 (42.77%) Azure
2 613 (21.68%) GCP
3 408 (14.43%) Serverless
4 402 (14.22%) Amazon S3
5 353 (12.49%) GitHub
6 345 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 225 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
8 197 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
9 191 (6.76%) Snowflake
10 171 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 170 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
12 167 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 142 (5.02%) Power Platform
14 136 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
15 126 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
16 124 (4.39%) SaaS
17 121 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 101 (3.57%) dbt
19 95 (3.36%) Amazon Bedrock
20 90 (3.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 115 (4.07%) Firewall
2 88 (3.11%) Network Security
3 73 (2.58%) DNS
4 70 (2.48%) VPN
5 52 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.31%) WAN
7 25 (0.88%) DHCP
7 25 (0.88%) HTTP
8 21 (0.74%) BGP
9 18 (0.64%) SSL
10 16 (0.57%) Internet
11 15 (0.53%) OSPF
12 14 (0.50%) LAN
12 14 (0.50%) NGFW
12 14 (0.50%) OpenVPN
12 14 (0.50%) SSH
13 13 (0.46%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.42%) SAN
15 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
15 11 (0.39%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
3 127 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 127 (4.49%) Power BI
4 118 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 114 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 104 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
7 103 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 99 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 90 (3.18%) DynamoDB
10 83 (2.94%) Metadata
11 72 (2.55%) Relational Database
11 72 (2.55%) Tableau
12 70 (2.48%) MongoDB
13 66 (2.33%) Big Data
14 44 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
15 43 (1.52%) BigQuery
16 42 (1.49%) Delta Lake
17 34 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
17 34 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 274 (9.69%) Git
2 262 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 244 (8.63%) GitLab
4 153 (5.41%) JIRA
5 38 (1.34%) JUnit
6 34 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 31 (1.10%) JMeter
7 31 (1.10%) Maven
7 31 (1.10%) MLflow
7 31 (1.10%) Mockito
8 29 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 24 (0.85%) Gradle
9 24 (0.85%) Selenium
10 23 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 23 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 22 (0.78%) Postman
12 19 (0.67%) Gatling
12 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
13 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 14 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 695 (24.58%) Finance
2 601 (21.26%) Social Skills
3 410 (14.50%) Public Sector
4 256 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 249 (8.81%) Banking
6 86 (3.04%) Front Office
7 67 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (2.37%) Retail
8 58 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 41 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.20%) Marketing
14 27 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (0.92%) Legal
16 22 (0.78%) Law
17 21 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 589 (20.83%) Architect
2 430 (15.21%) Senior
3 405 (14.33%) Developer
4 325 (11.50%) Lead
5 291 (10.29%) AWS Engineer
6 286 (10.12%) Data Engineer
7 214 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 164 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
9 144 (5.09%) Software Engineer
10 127 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 117 (4.14%) AWS Architect
12 112 (3.96%) Java Developer
13 108 (3.82%) Analyst
14 96 (3.40%) Senior Developer
15 93 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
17 87 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 87 (3.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 85 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
19 78 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (11.11%) Kafka
2 243 (8.60%) React
3 221 (7.82%) REST
4 183 (6.47%) Node.js
5 167 (5.91%) Spring
6 156 (5.52%) Spring Boot
7 140 (4.95%) RESTful
8 92 (3.25%) .NET
8 92 (3.25%) GraphQL
9 91 (3.22%) PySpark
10 80 (2.83%) OAuth
11 67 (2.37%) AngularJS
12 64 (2.26%) Redux
13 57 (2.02%) FastAPI
13 57 (2.02%) JSON
14 55 (1.95%) HTML
15 50 (1.77%) Pandas
16 49 (1.73%) CSS
17 47 (1.66%) LangChain
18 46 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 493 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 184 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 117 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 107 (3.78%) AI Agents
5 90 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 89 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.72%) Fixed Income
8 71 (2.51%) Data Centre
9 68 (2.41%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
11 49 (1.73%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.45%) Derivative
14 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 37 (1.31%) Equities
15 35 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 33 (1.17%) PKI
16 33 (1.17%) Public Cloud
17 32 (1.13%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 210 (7.43%) Linux
2 116 (4.10%) Windows
3 43 (1.52%) Unix
4 38 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.42%) Android
6 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) Solaris
8 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.071%) VMS
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,112 (39.33%) CI/CD
2 849 (30.03%) DevOps
3 705 (24.94%) Agile
4 589 (20.83%) AI
5 584 (20.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 415 (14.68%) Microservices
7 403 (14.26%) Containerisation
8 374 (13.23%) Analytics
9 360 (12.73%) Migration
10 357 (12.63%) Software Engineering
11 349 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
12 332 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
13 330 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 325 (11.50%) Observability
15 323 (11.43%) Data Modelling
16 320 (11.32%) Data Engineering
17 315 (11.14%) Machine Learning
18 290 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
19 277 (9.80%) Event-Driven
20 269 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (37.18%) Python
2 584 (20.66%) SQL
3 495 (17.51%) Java
4 267 (9.44%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.31%) JavaScript
6 139 (4.92%) Bash
7 119 (4.21%) PowerShell
8 117 (4.14%) C#
9 85 (3.01%) Go
10 46 (1.63%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.10%) Ruby
13 29 (1.03%) Bicep
14 25 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) R
16 19 (0.67%) Groovy
17 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 15 (0.53%) C++
19 14 (0.50%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 745 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 673 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 150 (5.31%) Degree
4 136 (4.81%) AWS Certification
5 91 (3.22%) CISSP
6 69 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 63 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 50 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 48 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.49%) CISM
12 34 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 30 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.78%) CCSP
15 20 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.71%) PMP
16 19 (0.67%) CCNP
17 17 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 123 (4.35%) QA
3 95 (3.36%) GDPR
4 94 (3.33%) NIST
5 79 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.13%) GRC
7 32 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 24 (0.85%) SLA
9 22 (0.78%) NCSC
10 18 (0.64%) HIPAA
10 18 (0.64%) PMO
10 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
13 13 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.39%) WCAG
15 10 (0.35%) SEPA
16 6 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 490 (17.33%) Docker
2 82 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) IAG
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.18%) vSphere
11 4 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Postfix
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.071%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.071%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 667 (23.59%) Terraform
2 590 (20.87%) Kubernetes
3 186 (6.58%) Grafana
4 168 (5.94%) Ansible
5 147 (5.20%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.99%) Argo
8 25 (0.88%) Kibana
9 23 (0.81%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.35%) Consul
13 10 (0.35%) Packer
13 10 (0.35%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 255 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 128 (4.53%) Databricks
3 120 (4.24%) ServiceNow
4 117 (4.14%) Google
5 104 (3.68%) Oracle
6 82 (2.90%) Splunk
7 69 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 48 (1.70%) Cisco
10 44 (1.56%) CyberArk
11 40 (1.41%) VMware
12 38 (1.34%) SAP
13 36 (1.27%) Foundry
13 36 (1.27%) Palo Alto
14 31 (1.10%) Red Hat
15 30 (1.06%) Dynatrace
15 30 (1.06%) MuleSoft
16 29 (1.03%) IBM
17 28 (0.99%) Informatica
18 22 (0.78%) Qualys