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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,162 2,125 2,693
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.74% 13.70% 13.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.48% 33.50% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 1,550 2,075
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.13% -2.12%
75th Percentile £688 £731 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile £43.75 £26.29 £37.58
25th Percentile £60.63 £30.03 £49.69
Median hourly rate £76.75 £37.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.67% -36.44% +31.11%
75th Percentile £87.50 £47.25 £87.27
90th Percentile £93.13 £52.35 £90.00
England median hourly rate £80.00 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year +73.24% -12.04% -18.60%

All Cloud 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 6,094 6,343 7,863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.38% 40.88% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,124 4,308 5,779
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 35 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.40 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.19 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £32.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.82% -14.47% +47.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.10 £85.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 +3 240 £575 - 1,698
South London +9 54 £520 +6.12% 49
West London -10 25 £425 -26.09% 109
East London +9 7 £675 -10.00% 92
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
1 153 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (5.18%) Confluence
3 85 (3.93%) Apache
4 76 (3.52%) Apache Spark
5 48 (2.22%) nginx
6 17 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 15 (0.69%) SAS
9 12 (0.56%) CMS
10 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.37%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.32%) Camunda
13 6 (0.28%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.19%) Appian
14 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.14%) Drupal
15 3 (0.14%) JBoss
15 3 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 9 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
7 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.60%) Endur
2 7 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.14%) Actimize
5 2 (0.093%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.093%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.093%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.093%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.093%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.093%) Shopify
6 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.046%) Magento
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.046%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 827 (38.25%) Azure
2 479 (22.16%) GCP
3 294 (13.60%) GitHub
4 293 (13.55%) Amazon S3
5 275 (12.72%) Serverless
6 233 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
7 174 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
8 170 (7.86%) Snowflake
9 147 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 138 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
11 135 (6.24%) dbt
12 118 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 99 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
14 95 (4.39%) Power Platform
15 86 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
16 74 (3.42%) SaaS
17 70 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
18 64 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 62 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
20 51 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 117 (5.41%) Firewall
2 69 (3.19%) DNS
3 54 (2.50%) VPN
4 52 (2.41%) Network Security
5 29 (1.34%) WAN
6 28 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.25%) SSL
8 25 (1.16%) HTTP
9 20 (0.93%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.88%) BGP
10 19 (0.88%) DHCP
11 17 (0.79%) OSPF
11 17 (0.79%) SSH
12 16 (0.74%) LAN
12 16 (0.74%) VLAN
13 15 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
14 11 (0.51%) FTP
15 10 (0.46%) IMAP
15 10 (0.46%) SMTP
16 9 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 102 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
5 100 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
6 96 (4.44%) Data Lake
7 90 (4.16%) Relational Database
8 89 (4.12%) Power BI
9 72 (3.33%) DynamoDB
10 71 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 68 (3.15%) SQL Server
12 65 (3.01%) Apache Iceberg
13 55 (2.54%) Apache Arrow
13 55 (2.54%) Dremio
13 55 (2.54%) MySQL
14 51 (2.36%) Metadata
15 50 (2.31%) MongoDB
16 49 (2.27%) Tableau
17 45 (2.08%) Big Data
18 42 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 255 (11.79%) Git
2 204 (9.44%) Jenkins
3 167 (7.72%) JIRA
4 132 (6.11%) GitLab
5 46 (2.13%) JUnit
6 34 (1.57%) SonarQube
7 28 (1.30%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.25%) Cypress.io
8 27 (1.25%) ERwin
8 27 (1.25%) Maven
9 26 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 22 (1.02%) Metasploit
11 21 (0.97%) Selenium
12 20 (0.93%) Burp Suite
13 19 (0.88%) ER Studio
13 19 (0.88%) MLflow
14 16 (0.74%) Mockito
15 15 (0.69%) Artifactory
15 15 (0.69%) JMeter
General
1 561 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 506 (23.40%) Finance
3 238 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 222 (10.27%) Banking
5 216 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
6 118 (5.46%) Front Office
7 111 (5.13%) Investment Banking
8 48 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.30%) Marketing
10 28 (1.30%) Retail
11 26 (1.20%) Military
12 22 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (0.97%) Legal
14 15 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (0.65%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 444 (20.54%) Developer
2 374 (17.30%) Senior
3 328 (15.17%) Architect
4 264 (12.21%) AWS Engineer
5 166 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 159 (7.35%) Data Engineer
6 159 (7.35%) Lead
7 157 (7.26%) Software Engineer
8 142 (6.57%) Python Engineer
9 133 (6.15%) Java Developer
10 100 (4.63%) AWS Developer
11 97 (4.49%) Senior Developer
12 94 (4.35%) Python Developer
13 91 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
14 84 (3.89%) Java Engineer
14 84 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
15 81 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
16 78 (3.61%) Analyst
17 73 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
18 69 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (11.93%) Kafka
2 257 (11.89%) React
3 183 (8.46%) Node.js
4 127 (5.87%) REST
5 125 (5.78%) AngularJS
6 118 (5.46%) Spring
7 101 (4.67%) RESTful
8 99 (4.58%) Spring Boot
9 97 (4.49%) NumPy
9 97 (4.49%) Pandas
10 87 (4.02%) gRPC
11 77 (3.56%) SciPy
12 76 (3.52%) GraphQL
13 72 (3.33%) Vue
14 62 (2.87%) CSS
15 60 (2.78%) HTML
16 59 (2.73%) .NET
17 49 (2.27%) FastAPI
18 48 (2.22%) OAuth
19 42 (1.94%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 234 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 99 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 94 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 89 (4.12%) Hedge funds
5 76 (3.52%) Equities
6 70 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 64 (2.96%) Derivative
8 59 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 48 (2.22%) Public Cloud
10 47 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
11 46 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
12 45 (2.08%) Management Information System
13 40 (1.85%) Security Posture
14 36 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 34 (1.57%) Pricing Data
16 33 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (1.43%) Data Centre
18 26 (1.20%) Data Structures
18 26 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 205 (9.48%) Linux
2 81 (3.75%) Windows
3 53 (2.45%) Unix
4 18 (0.83%) VMS
5 16 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 16 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
7 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.37%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Debian
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (36.45%) CI/CD
2 635 (29.37%) Agile
3 580 (26.83%) DevOps
4 396 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 346 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 339 (15.68%) Microservices
7 327 (15.12%) Software Engineering
8 270 (12.49%) Analytics
9 242 (11.19%) Containerisation
10 224 (10.36%) AI
11 212 (9.81%) Data Modelling
12 194 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
13 192 (8.88%) Migration
14 185 (8.56%) ETL
15 184 (8.51%) Machine Learning
16 174 (8.05%) Full-Stack Development
17 167 (7.72%) Data Engineering
18 164 (7.59%) Cloud Security
19 163 (7.54%) Observability
20 154 (7.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 944 (43.66%) Python
2 488 (22.57%) Java
3 467 (21.60%) SQL
4 280 (12.95%) TypeScript
5 272 (12.58%) JavaScript
6 149 (6.89%) Bash
7 131 (6.06%) Go
8 84 (3.89%) PowerShell
9 74 (3.42%) C#
10 57 (2.64%) C++
11 32 (1.48%) Scala
12 28 (1.30%) Perl
13 25 (1.16%) Groovy
14 24 (1.11%) Rust
14 24 (1.11%) Shell Script
15 23 (1.06%) C
16 21 (0.97%) Ruby
17 18 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.65%) PromQL
18 14 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 497 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 433 (20.03%) SC Cleared
3 143 (6.61%) Degree
4 114 (5.27%) AWS Certification
5 65 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.71%) CISSP
8 35 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 31 (1.43%) OSCP
11 28 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (1.02%) CREST Certified
15 19 (0.88%) CISM
16 14 (0.65%) CCNP
17 13 (0.60%) PhD
17 13 (0.60%) Tigerscheme
18 11 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.51%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 96 (4.44%) QA
3 77 (3.56%) GDPR
4 73 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (2.78%) NIST
6 40 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.20%) NCSC
8 20 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.83%) WCAG
10 17 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.74%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.42%) MiFID
13 9 (0.42%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.37%) GRC
15 7 (0.32%) SLA
16 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 491 (22.71%) Docker
2 47 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.51%) Postfix
5 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.46%) Squid
5 10 (0.46%) zsh
6 8 (0.37%) Firmware
6 8 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.046%) etcd
10 1 (0.046%) iptables
10 1 (0.046%) KVM
10 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 506 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 474 (21.92%) Terraform
3 153 (7.08%) Ansible
4 103 (4.76%) Grafana
5 101 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.25%) Argo
7 27 (1.25%) Packer
8 25 (1.16%) Puppet
9 22 (1.02%) Consul
10 21 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.93%) Nmap
12 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.79%) Nessus
13 12 (0.56%) SCCM
14 10 (0.46%) Kibana
14 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.37%) QRadar
16 7 (0.32%) Istio
16 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 156 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 113 (5.23%) Databricks
3 92 (4.26%) Splunk
4 86 (3.98%) Google
5 68 (3.15%) Oracle
5 68 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 34 (1.57%) Cisco
7 31 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 28 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.20%) Arista
10 25 (1.16%) F5
11 22 (1.02%) VMware
12 21 (0.97%) CheckPoint
12 21 (0.97%) IBM
13 19 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 18 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 18 (0.83%) Tenable
15 17 (0.79%) SAP
16 16 (0.74%) Atlassian
16 16 (0.74%) Informatica