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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,825 2,189 2,292
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.07% 16.33% 14.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.81% 37.85% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,992 1,533 1,736
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 23 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% -63.51%
75th Percentile £80.00 £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% -36.52%

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 5,783 6,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.62% 43.14% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,711 3,956 4,766
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £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 99 90 48
10th Percentile £19.20 £22.95 £21.55
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -47.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.69 £39.25
90th Percentile £78.59 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -5 284 £550 -4.35% 124
West London +5 96 £550 +29.41% 74
South London +1 75 £535 +1.90% 8
East London +5 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
2 114 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 94 (3.33%) Confluence
4 78 (2.76%) Apache
5 36 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.42%) CMS
7 11 (0.39%) CICS
7 11 (0.39%) nginx
8 10 (0.35%) Camunda
8 10 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.35%) SAS
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
12 3 (0.11%) Mule
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
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%) Cloudability
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 ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,255 (44.42%) Azure
2 633 (22.41%) GCP
3 389 (13.77%) Serverless
4 372 (13.17%) Amazon S3
5 352 (12.46%) GitHub
6 330 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
7 231 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
8 223 (7.89%) Snowflake
9 197 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
10 173 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 160 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 156 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
14 132 (4.67%) Power Platform
15 129 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
15 129 (4.57%) SaaS
16 126 (4.46%) dbt
17 117 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 98 (3.47%) Entra ID
19 94 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.79%) Firewall
2 85 (3.01%) Network Security
3 73 (2.58%) DNS
4 61 (2.16%) VPN
5 42 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.35%) WAN
7 26 (0.92%) DHCP
8 23 (0.81%) SSL
9 22 (0.78%) HTTP
10 19 (0.67%) BGP
10 19 (0.67%) Internet
11 18 (0.64%) SSH
12 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
13 13 (0.46%) LAN
13 13 (0.46%) OSPF
14 12 (0.42%) SAN
14 12 (0.42%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.39%) NGFW
16 10 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.28%) Power BI
5 120 (4.25%) NoSQL
6 116 (4.11%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.86%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.54%) Metadata
9 99 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
9 99 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (3.12%) MongoDB
11 86 (3.04%) DynamoDB
12 74 (2.62%) Relational Database
13 66 (2.34%) Delta Lake
14 59 (2.09%) Big Data
14 59 (2.09%) Tableau
15 51 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
16 41 (1.45%) BigQuery
16 41 (1.45%) Redis
17 40 (1.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 287 (10.16%) Git
1 287 (10.16%) Jenkins
2 266 (9.42%) GitLab
3 149 (5.27%) JIRA
4 34 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 34 (1.20%) JMeter
5 33 (1.17%) Selenium
6 31 (1.10%) JUnit
7 28 (0.99%) Maven
7 28 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 26 (0.92%) Mockito
9 25 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 24 (0.85%) Postman
11 21 (0.74%) Gradle
12 20 (0.71%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.67%) Gatling
14 18 (0.64%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.64%) MLflow
15 17 (0.60%) Claude Code
16 13 (0.46%) CircleCI
General
1 682 (24.14%) Finance
2 655 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 410 (14.51%) Public Sector
4 257 (9.10%) Banking
5 253 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.62%) Retail
7 63 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (2.02%) Front Office
9 53 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 48 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 37 (1.31%) Marketing
13 35 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (0.99%) Law
15 28 (0.99%) Legal
16 25 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.74%) Billing
17 21 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 597 (21.13%) Architect
2 444 (15.72%) Senior
3 367 (12.99%) Developer
4 316 (11.19%) Lead
5 300 (10.62%) Data Engineer
6 263 (9.31%) AWS Engineer
7 201 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 157 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 115 (4.07%) Software Engineer
10 114 (4.04%) AWS Architect
11 111 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 107 (3.79%) Analyst
13 106 (3.75%) Java Developer
14 97 (3.43%) Data Architect
15 93 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 90 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
17 87 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
18 86 (3.04%) Senior Developer
19 81 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
20 78 (2.76%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 687 (24.32%) Terraform
2 322 (11.40%) Kafka
3 256 (9.06%) REST
4 228 (8.07%) React
5 176 (6.23%) Spring
6 162 (5.73%) Spring Boot
7 158 (5.59%) RESTful
8 148 (5.24%) Node.js
9 110 (3.89%) PySpark
10 88 (3.12%) .NET
11 78 (2.76%) OAuth
12 76 (2.69%) GraphQL
13 64 (2.27%) AngularJS
14 62 (2.19%) JSON
15 59 (2.09%) FastAPI
16 58 (2.05%) HTML
17 49 (1.73%) CSS
18 45 (1.59%) LangChain
19 44 (1.56%) OAuth2
19 44 (1.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 521 (18.44%) Cloud Native
2 185 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 122 (4.32%) AI Agents
5 111 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 67 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 66 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 64 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.70%) Fixed Income
11 48 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
11 48 (1.70%) Management Information System
12 39 (1.38%) Replication
13 38 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
15 35 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
16 34 (1.20%) PKI
16 34 (1.20%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.17%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 230 (8.14%) Linux
2 126 (4.46%) Windows
3 53 (1.88%) Unix
4 43 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.42%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.14%) VMS
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,161 (41.10%) CI/CD
2 873 (30.90%) DevOps
3 712 (25.20%) Agile
4 632 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 620 (21.95%) AI
6 431 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 415 (14.69%) Microservices
8 397 (14.05%) Containerisation
9 373 (13.20%) Migration
10 361 (12.78%) Software Engineering
11 360 (12.74%) Observability
12 358 (12.67%) Analytics
13 353 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 344 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
15 343 (12.14%) Data Modelling
16 331 (11.72%) Data Engineering
17 312 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 308 (10.90%) Machine Learning
19 302 (10.69%) Event-Driven
20 280 (9.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,052 (37.24%) Python
2 608 (21.52%) SQL
3 491 (17.38%) Java
4 238 (8.42%) TypeScript
5 221 (7.82%) JavaScript
6 156 (5.52%) Bash
7 146 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.93%) C#
9 61 (2.16%) Go
10 43 (1.52%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.17%) Bicep
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 25 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.85%) Groovy
16 21 (0.74%) R
17 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.67%) C++
19 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 762 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 679 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.24%) AWS Certification
4 146 (5.17%) Degree
5 85 (3.01%) CISSP
6 74 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 69 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 66 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 49 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 44 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.56%) CISM
12 24 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.78%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.74%) PMP
16 19 (0.67%) CCNP
17 15 (0.53%) CCSP
17 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 147 (5.20%) QA
3 102 (3.61%) NIST
4 91 (3.22%) GDPR
4 91 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.10%) GRC
6 31 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 28 (0.99%) SLA
8 23 (0.81%) NCSC
9 22 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 14 (0.50%) PMO
14 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.39%) SEPA
16 10 (0.35%) WCAG
17 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 490 (17.35%) Docker
2 84 (2.97%) 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
1 602 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 197 (6.97%) Grafana
3 183 (6.48%) Ansible
4 159 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.10%) Argo
6 31 (1.10%) Kibana
7 25 (0.88%) Puppet
8 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.39%) Istio
11 10 (0.35%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.21%) Control-M
15 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 270 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 169 (5.98%) Databricks
3 129 (4.57%) Google
4 128 (4.53%) Oracle
5 127 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 91 (3.22%) Splunk
7 69 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.02%) VMware
9 49 (1.73%) Cisco
9 49 (1.73%) CyberArk
9 49 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 46 (1.63%) SAP
11 37 (1.31%) Informatica
12 36 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.17%) IBM
14 31 (1.10%) Dynatrace
14 31 (1.10%) Foundry
15 26 (0.92%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
16 25 (0.88%) Fortinet