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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,822 2,127 2,231
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.76% 15.89% 13.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.56% 36.32% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,007 1,461 1,647
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 £688 £743
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 6
10th Percentile £49.80 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £77.50 £73.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% +139.80% -63.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £52.81
90th Percentile £85.50 £91.25 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -21.73%

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 8,408 5,857 6,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.75% 41.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,808 3,982 4,526
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 102 40
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.10 £23.62
25th Percentile £21.42 £24.77 £24.06
Median hourly rate £28.40 £26.40 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% -17.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £57.38 £47.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.88 £67.03
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -4 271 £575 -4.17% 95
West London +11 94 £560 +35.76% 50
South London 0 79 £530 -0.24% 3
East London +10 13 £600 -11.11% 26
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 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
2 118 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 112 (3.97%) Confluence
4 88 (3.12%) Apache
5 22 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.67%) nginx
7 14 (0.50%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CMS
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.28%) CICS
10 8 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Camunda
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) Traefik
13 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 30 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 17 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.39%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.21%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.035%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Shopify
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.071%) Actimize
7 2 (0.071%) Endur
7 2 (0.071%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,277 (45.25%) Azure
2 670 (23.74%) GCP
3 380 (13.47%) Serverless
4 373 (13.22%) GitHub
5 363 (12.86%) Amazon S3
6 305 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
7 253 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
8 242 (8.58%) Amazon EKS
9 231 (8.19%) Snowflake
10 184 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 168 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
12 164 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 149 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
14 145 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
15 142 (5.03%) dbt
16 131 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 130 (4.61%) SaaS
18 125 (4.43%) Power Platform
19 104 (3.69%) Entra ID
20 101 (3.58%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 103 (3.65%) Firewall
2 85 (3.01%) Network Security
3 68 (2.41%) DNS
4 60 (2.13%) VPN
5 39 (1.38%) WAN
6 31 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 28 (0.99%) BGP
8 25 (0.89%) Internet
9 23 (0.82%) DHCP
9 23 (0.82%) OSPF
9 23 (0.82%) SD-WAN
10 22 (0.78%) SSL
11 21 (0.74%) SSH
12 19 (0.67%) HTTP
13 16 (0.57%) MPLS
14 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
14 15 (0.53%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) IPsec
15 13 (0.46%) LAN
16 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 173 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
3 158 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
4 119 (4.22%) NoSQL
5 117 (4.15%) SQL Server
6 111 (3.93%) Power BI
7 110 (3.90%) Metadata
8 99 (3.51%) Data Lake
9 93 (3.30%) MongoDB
10 91 (3.22%) DynamoDB
11 86 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 80 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
13 78 (2.76%) Relational Database
14 71 (2.52%) Delta Lake
15 66 (2.34%) MySQL
16 59 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 51 (1.81%) BigQuery
18 48 (1.70%) Redis
19 45 (1.59%) Big Data
19 45 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 316 (11.20%) Jenkins
2 315 (11.16%) Git
3 279 (9.89%) GitLab
4 154 (5.46%) JIRA
5 40 (1.42%) Maven
6 36 (1.28%) JUnit
7 35 (1.24%) JMeter
8 33 (1.17%) Bitbucket
8 33 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.99%) Gradle
10 28 (0.99%) Mockito
11 27 (0.96%) Selenium
12 26 (0.92%) Cypress.io
13 22 (0.78%) Claude Code
14 21 (0.74%) Postman
15 18 (0.64%) Gatling
16 17 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
18 11 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 719 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 679 (24.06%) Finance
3 375 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 272 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 270 (9.57%) Banking
6 88 (3.12%) Retail
7 61 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 38 (1.35%) Marketing
9 38 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 36 (1.28%) Legal
11 33 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (1.17%) Front Office
12 31 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.03%) Billing
14 29 (1.03%) Law
15 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (0.89%) Back Office
17 24 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 571 (20.23%) Architect
2 464 (16.44%) Senior
3 340 (12.05%) Developer
4 296 (10.49%) Lead
5 288 (10.21%) Data Engineer
6 262 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
7 232 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 137 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (3.93%) Analyst
9 111 (3.93%) AWS Architect
9 111 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 107 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 102 (3.61%) Java Developer
12 99 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
13 97 (3.44%) Software Engineer
14 93 (3.30%) Data Architect
15 90 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
16 85 (3.01%) AWS DevOps
17 78 (2.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 74 (2.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 754 (26.72%) Terraform
2 338 (11.98%) Kafka
3 301 (10.67%) REST
4 191 (6.77%) React
5 179 (6.34%) Spring
6 167 (5.92%) Spring Boot
7 151 (5.35%) RESTful
8 112 (3.97%) Node.js
9 110 (3.90%) PySpark
10 99 (3.51%) .NET
10 99 (3.51%) OAuth
11 73 (2.59%) GraphQL
12 71 (2.52%) FastAPI
13 69 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 65 (2.30%) SOAP
15 63 (2.23%) JSON
16 62 (2.20%) HTML
17 56 (1.98%) OAuth2
18 53 (1.88%) CSS
18 53 (1.88%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 559 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 185 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (5.60%) AI Agents
4 146 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 131 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 85 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 74 (2.62%) Data Centre
9 72 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 56 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 49 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 47 (1.67%) Replication
14 45 (1.59%) PKI
15 40 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
15 40 (1.42%) Public Cloud
16 35 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (1.10%) Virtual Team
18 30 (1.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 260 (9.21%) Linux
2 129 (4.57%) Windows
3 52 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 52 (1.84%) Unix
4 48 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 12 (0.43%) Android
7 10 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) macOS
9 6 (0.21%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.14%) CentOS
11 4 (0.14%) zOS
12 3 (0.11%) Solaris
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.035%) AIX
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,206 (42.74%) CI/CD
2 917 (32.49%) DevOps
3 726 (25.73%) Agile
4 708 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 647 (22.93%) AI
6 495 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 425 (15.06%) Observability
8 418 (14.81%) Microservices
9 406 (14.39%) Containerisation
10 375 (13.29%) Software Engineering
11 374 (13.25%) Migration
12 354 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
13 353 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 344 (12.19%) Event-Driven
15 340 (12.05%) Data Engineering
16 339 (12.01%) Data Modelling
17 336 (11.91%) Data Pipeline
18 333 (11.80%) Analytics
19 323 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
20 306 (10.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (36.75%) Python
2 614 (21.76%) SQL
3 463 (16.41%) Java
4 206 (7.30%) TypeScript
5 204 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 193 (6.84%) Bash
7 153 (5.42%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.93%) C#
9 58 (2.06%) Go
10 43 (1.52%) Scala
11 38 (1.35%) Bicep
12 37 (1.31%) Groovy
12 37 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 23 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.78%) C++
15 21 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.60%) R
17 16 (0.57%) Ruby
18 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 804 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 710 (25.16%) SC Cleared
3 195 (6.91%) AWS Certification
4 147 (5.21%) Degree
5 97 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 92 (3.26%) CISSP
7 76 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 70 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 65 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 62 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 54 (1.91%) CISM
12 51 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 19 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.67%) PMP
17 16 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (9.11%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.99%) QA
3 109 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (3.54%) NIST
5 76 (2.69%) GDPR
6 38 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) GRC
8 29 (1.03%) NCSC
9 22 (0.78%) SLA
10 21 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 21 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 19 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
12 16 (0.57%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.46%) SEPA
14 10 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.32%) PMO
16 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 528 (18.71%) Docker
2 82 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.39%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 6 (0.21%) IAG
9 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) NFS
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.071%) Ceph
12 2 (0.071%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.071%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 666 (23.60%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.51%) Grafana
3 202 (7.16%) Ansible
4 161 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 46 (1.63%) Kibana
6 43 (1.52%) Argo
7 29 (1.03%) Puppet
8 26 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.57%) Istio
10 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.28%) QRadar
14 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.21%) Control-M
15 6 (0.21%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 6 (0.21%) Podman
16 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 316 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 211 (7.48%) Databricks
3 165 (5.85%) Google
4 154 (5.46%) Oracle
5 114 (4.04%) ServiceNow
6 110 (3.90%) Splunk
7 67 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 61 (2.16%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.74%) Cisco
9 49 (1.74%) SAP
10 47 (1.67%) VMware
11 46 (1.63%) Palo Alto
12 45 (1.59%) CyberArk
13 42 (1.49%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.38%) Informatica
15 38 (1.35%) IBM
16 30 (1.06%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.92%) Foundry
17 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.89%) CrowdStrike