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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,439 1,994 2,292
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.02% 15.44% 12.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.27% 36.78% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,671 1,449 1,757
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.58%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.50 £73.75 £51.78
% change year-on-year +2.37% +42.44% -19.72%

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 7,116 5,422 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.83% 41.98% 37.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,890 3,749 4,961
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 43 79
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £23.99 £20.88
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -25.03%
75th Percentile £52.56 £55.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -1 281 £546 +1.16% 315
South London +4 94 £517 +8.79% 19
West London +6 51 £603 +6.64% 51
East London +3 9 £630 +7.69% 49
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
1 114 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.24%) Confluence
4 60 (2.46%) Apache
5 32 (1.31%) nginx
6 22 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.66%) SAS
8 15 (0.62%) Camunda
9 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.33%) Appian
12 3 (0.12%) CICS
12 3 (0.12%) CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.082%) Drupal
13 2 (0.082%) Mule
13 2 (0.082%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.041%) Notion
8 1 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.16%) Endur
4 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.082%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.041%) Maximo
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.041%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.041%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.041%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 987 (40.47%) Azure
2 566 (23.21%) GCP
3 368 (15.09%) Serverless
4 339 (13.90%) Amazon S3
5 329 (13.49%) GitHub
6 315 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
7 227 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (7.54%) GitHub Actions
9 173 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
10 165 (6.77%) Snowflake
11 142 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
11 142 (5.82%) Power Platform
12 136 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 129 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 112 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 80 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
16 62 (2.54%) dbt
17 57 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
17 57 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
18 55 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 97 (3.98%) Firewall
2 64 (2.62%) VPN
3 59 (2.42%) Network Security
4 51 (2.09%) DNS
5 39 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.44%) WAN
7 18 (0.74%) LAN
8 17 (0.70%) BGP
9 16 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.57%) HTTP
11 13 (0.53%) OSPF
12 12 (0.49%) DHCP
12 12 (0.49%) SSL
13 9 (0.37%) 5G
13 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
13 9 (0.37%) VLAN
13 9 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.33%) 4G
15 7 (0.29%) VXLAN
15 7 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (5.13%) Power BI
3 124 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 119 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 117 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 109 (4.47%) Data Lake
7 100 (4.10%) SQL Server
8 96 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
9 95 (3.90%) Relational Database
10 94 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 76 (3.12%) Tableau
12 72 (2.95%) MongoDB
13 69 (2.83%) Metadata
14 65 (2.67%) DynamoDB
15 58 (2.38%) Big Data
16 55 (2.26%) MySQL
17 54 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
18 44 (1.80%) BigQuery
19 34 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
19 34 (1.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 240 (9.84%) Git
2 214 (8.77%) GitLab
3 206 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 136 (5.58%) JIRA
5 46 (1.89%) JUnit
6 42 (1.72%) MLflow
7 33 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.07%) Mockito
10 22 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.90%) Selenium
10 22 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 18 (0.74%) Maven
12 16 (0.66%) Gatling
12 16 (0.66%) JMeter
13 12 (0.49%) Gradle
13 12 (0.49%) Postman
14 11 (0.45%) ERwin
14 11 (0.45%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 577 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 547 (22.43%) Finance
3 344 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 218 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (8.36%) Banking
6 95 (3.90%) Front Office
7 59 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 58 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 39 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.31%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.19%) Retail
14 21 (0.86%) Legal
15 19 (0.78%) Marketing
16 16 (0.66%) Military
17 14 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.53%) Billing
19 11 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 450 (18.45%) Developer
2 440 (18.04%) Architect
3 378 (15.50%) Senior
4 235 (9.64%) Lead
5 233 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
6 228 (9.35%) Data Engineer
7 189 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (6.03%) Software Engineer
9 123 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 108 (4.43%) Analyst
11 101 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
12 99 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
13 96 (3.94%) Python Engineer
14 94 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 94 (3.85%) Java Developer
15 90 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 86 (3.53%) AWS Architect
17 80 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 80 (3.28%) Python Developer
18 79 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (13.41%) Kafka
2 246 (10.09%) React
3 205 (8.41%) Node.js
4 187 (7.67%) REST
5 142 (5.82%) Spring
6 135 (5.54%) RESTful
7 125 (5.13%) Spring Boot
8 95 (3.90%) AngularJS
9 70 (2.87%) .NET
9 70 (2.87%) PySpark
10 69 (2.83%) CSS
11 67 (2.75%) GraphQL
12 66 (2.71%) HTML
13 63 (2.58%) SOAP
14 60 (2.46%) OAuth
14 60 (2.46%) Redux
15 59 (2.42%) gRPC
15 59 (2.42%) Pandas
16 55 (2.26%) PyTorch
17 53 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 353 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 118 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.20%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.95%) Security Posture
5 67 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 56 (2.30%) Derivative
8 55 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 49 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 48 (1.97%) AI Agents
12 44 (1.80%) Algorithms
12 44 (1.80%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
14 42 (1.72%) Equities
15 38 (1.56%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.52%) Data Structures
17 36 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
18 27 (1.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 183 (7.50%) Linux
2 61 (2.50%) Windows
3 44 (1.80%) Unix
4 12 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.45%) VMS
6 8 (0.33%) Android
7 7 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.21%) zOS
9 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.082%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (37.64%) CI/CD
2 682 (27.96%) DevOps
3 594 (24.35%) Agile
4 464 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 412 (16.89%) AI
6 383 (15.70%) Microservices
7 363 (14.88%) Analytics
8 354 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
9 342 (14.02%) Containerisation
10 314 (12.87%) Software Engineering
11 287 (11.77%) Data Modelling
12 258 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
12 258 (10.58%) Machine Learning
13 255 (10.46%) Data Engineering
14 245 (10.05%) Migration
15 240 (9.84%) ETL
16 239 (9.80%) Observability
17 205 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
18 200 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 194 (7.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 997 (40.88%) Python
2 572 (23.45%) SQL
3 436 (17.88%) Java
4 229 (9.39%) JavaScript
5 222 (9.10%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.72%) Go
7 100 (4.10%) C#
8 94 (3.85%) Bash
9 93 (3.81%) PowerShell
10 34 (1.39%) Ruby
10 34 (1.39%) Scala
11 31 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 28 (1.15%) C++
13 20 (0.82%) R
14 18 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.53%) Bicep
17 11 (0.45%) Rust
18 10 (0.41%) Korn
19 9 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 698 (28.62%) Security Cleared
2 610 (25.01%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 123 (5.04%) Degree
5 72 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 48 (1.97%) CISSP
8 41 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 31 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (1.03%) CISM
14 23 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.86%) PMP
16 18 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 17 (0.70%) CCNP
18 14 (0.57%) CCSP
19 12 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 118 (4.84%) GDPR
3 93 (3.81%) QA
4 71 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (2.75%) NIST
6 48 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.11%) NCSC
9 21 (0.86%) SLA
10 17 (0.70%) WCAG
11 14 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.49%) GRC
12 12 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.45%) PMO
14 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.33%) PSD2
16 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 509 (20.87%) Docker
2 62 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.37%) Squid
6 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.082%) NFS
9 2 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.082%) zsh
10 1 (0.041%) Ceph
10 1 (0.041%) iptables
10 1 (0.041%) KVM
10 1 (0.041%) Lustre
10 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 564 (23.12%) Terraform
2 532 (21.81%) Kubernetes
3 134 (5.49%) Ansible
4 108 (4.43%) Grafana
5 99 (4.06%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.31%) Argo
8 18 (0.74%) Consul
9 17 (0.70%) Puppet
10 16 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.53%) Packer
13 10 (0.41%) Kibana
13 10 (0.41%) SCCM
14 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.29%) QRadar
15 5 (0.21%) Istio
15 5 (0.21%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 166 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 144 (5.90%) Databricks
3 97 (3.98%) Google
4 88 (3.61%) Oracle
5 77 (3.16%) Splunk
6 59 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 49 (2.01%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.44%) Centrify
10 35 (1.44%) Cisco
11 34 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
12 32 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.31%) IBM
13 29 (1.19%) Palo Alto
14 28 (1.15%) Red Hat
14 28 (1.15%) VMware
15 27 (1.11%) SAP
16 24 (0.98%) Fortinet
17 20 (0.82%) Atlassian