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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,431 2,007 2,296
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.06% 15.51% 12.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.35% 36.87% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,668 1,455 1,758
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 £777 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -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 £76.00 £65.25 £51.78
% change year-on-year +16.48% +26.02% -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 7,077 5,444 6,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.83% 42.06% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,860 3,752 4,986
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 £675 £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 102 43 78
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £51.81 £55.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.88
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -2 279 £550 +1.62% 139
South London +4 94 £519 +9.17% 61
West London +8 49 £603 +8.07% 77
East London +4 9 £630 +7.69% 75
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
1 113 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.29%) Confluence
4 61 (2.51%) Apache
5 32 (1.32%) nginx
6 23 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.70%) SAS
8 15 (0.62%) Camunda
9 13 (0.53%) 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%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.58%) 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%) 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%) 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
5 2 (0.082%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.041%) Maximo
6 1 (0.041%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.041%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.041%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 981 (40.35%) Azure
2 564 (23.20%) GCP
3 368 (15.14%) Serverless
4 338 (13.90%) Amazon S3
5 326 (13.41%) GitHub
6 315 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
7 226 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 185 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
9 173 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
10 166 (6.83%) Snowflake
11 141 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
12 140 (5.76%) Power Platform
13 137 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
14 127 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 79 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.55%) dbt
18 57 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
18 57 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
19 55 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 100 (4.11%) Firewall
2 65 (2.67%) VPN
3 57 (2.34%) Network Security
4 51 (2.10%) DNS
5 40 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.40%) WAN
7 18 (0.74%) LAN
8 17 (0.70%) BGP
9 16 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.53%) HTTP
10 13 (0.53%) OSPF
11 12 (0.49%) DHCP
11 12 (0.49%) SSL
12 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
12 9 (0.37%) VLAN
12 9 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.33%) 5G
14 7 (0.29%) 4G
14 7 (0.29%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (5.06%) Power BI
3 122 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (4.94%) NoSQL
5 116 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
6 108 (4.44%) Data Lake
7 103 (4.24%) SQL Server
8 96 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
9 94 (3.87%) Relational Database
10 92 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 73 (3.00%) Tableau
12 72 (2.96%) MongoDB
13 68 (2.80%) Metadata
14 66 (2.71%) DynamoDB
15 56 (2.30%) Big Data
16 54 (2.22%) MySQL
17 53 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
18 45 (1.85%) BigQuery
19 34 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
19 34 (1.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 238 (9.79%) Git
2 209 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 208 (8.56%) GitLab
4 136 (5.59%) JIRA
5 48 (1.97%) JUnit
6 42 (1.73%) MLflow
7 35 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 25 (1.03%) Mockito
10 22 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.82%) Selenium
12 19 (0.78%) Maven
13 17 (0.70%) JMeter
14 16 (0.66%) Gatling
15 13 (0.53%) Gradle
16 11 (0.45%) ERwin
16 11 (0.45%) Postman
17 10 (0.41%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.37%) Snyk
General
1 569 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 542 (22.30%) Finance
3 338 (13.90%) Public Sector
4 211 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (8.35%) Banking
6 96 (3.95%) Front Office
7 58 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.48%) Financial Institution
12 31 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.23%) Retail
14 29 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.86%) Legal
16 19 (0.78%) Marketing
17 16 (0.66%) Military
18 14 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.49%) Billing
20 11 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 449 (18.47%) Developer
2 433 (17.81%) Architect
3 378 (15.55%) Senior
4 236 (9.71%) AWS Engineer
4 236 (9.71%) Lead
5 224 (9.21%) Data Engineer
6 190 (7.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 147 (6.05%) Software Engineer
8 125 (5.14%) Senior Developer
9 106 (4.36%) Analyst
10 100 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
11 99 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
12 96 (3.95%) Python Engineer
13 95 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 95 (3.91%) Java Developer
14 90 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 85 (3.50%) AWS Architect
16 81 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 79 (3.25%) Python Developer
18 78 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (13.37%) Kafka
2 245 (10.08%) React
3 208 (8.56%) Node.js
4 183 (7.53%) REST
5 144 (5.92%) Spring
6 133 (5.47%) RESTful
7 124 (5.10%) Spring Boot
8 95 (3.91%) AngularJS
9 71 (2.92%) .NET
10 69 (2.84%) PySpark
11 68 (2.80%) CSS
12 67 (2.76%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.71%) HTML
14 62 (2.55%) SOAP
15 60 (2.47%) OAuth
15 60 (2.47%) Redux
16 58 (2.39%) gRPC
17 57 (2.34%) Pandas
18 55 (2.26%) PyTorch
19 53 (2.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 344 (14.15%) Cloud Native
2 116 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (3.17%) Fixed Income
4 71 (2.92%) Security Posture
5 68 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 56 (2.30%) Derivative
7 56 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 48 (1.97%) Data Centre
10 47 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 45 (1.85%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
12 43 (1.77%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.73%) Equities
14 38 (1.56%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.52%) Data Structures
16 33 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
17 29 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
18 27 (1.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 184 (7.57%) Linux
2 63 (2.59%) Windows
3 44 (1.81%) Unix
4 13 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.45%) VMS
6 7 (0.29%) Android
6 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
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
1 921 (37.89%) CI/CD
2 682 (28.05%) DevOps
3 590 (24.27%) Agile
4 462 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 410 (16.87%) AI
6 380 (15.63%) Microservices
7 363 (14.93%) Analytics
8 353 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
9 335 (13.78%) Containerisation
10 310 (12.75%) Software Engineering
11 284 (11.68%) Data Modelling
12 256 (10.53%) Machine Learning
13 255 (10.49%) Data Pipeline
14 252 (10.37%) Data Engineering
15 241 (9.91%) Observability
16 239 (9.83%) Migration
17 235 (9.67%) ETL
18 206 (8.47%) Full-Stack Development
19 199 (8.19%) Stakeholder Management
20 189 (7.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 995 (40.93%) Python
2 568 (23.36%) SQL
3 434 (17.85%) Java
4 229 (9.42%) JavaScript
5 224 (9.21%) TypeScript
6 116 (4.77%) Go
7 101 (4.15%) C#
8 95 (3.91%) Bash
9 94 (3.87%) PowerShell
10 32 (1.32%) Scala
11 31 (1.28%) Ruby
11 31 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.07%) C++
13 20 (0.82%) R
14 17 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.53%) Bicep
17 11 (0.45%) Rust
18 10 (0.41%) Korn
19 9 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 694 (28.55%) Security Cleared
2 607 (24.97%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.35%) AWS Certification
4 122 (5.02%) Degree
5 71 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 46 (1.89%) CISSP
8 41 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.36%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 23 (0.95%) CISM
13 23 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
14 20 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.82%) PMP
15 18 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 17 (0.70%) CCNP
17 14 (0.58%) CCSP
18 13 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 118 (4.85%) GDPR
3 92 (3.78%) QA
4 72 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (2.76%) NIST
6 45 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.11%) NCSC
9 20 (0.82%) SLA
10 15 (0.62%) WCAG
11 14 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.45%) GRC
14 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.37%) PMO
16 8 (0.33%) PSD2
17 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 510 (20.98%) Docker
2 62 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.58%) 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
1 566 (23.28%) Terraform
2 533 (21.93%) Kubernetes
3 136 (5.59%) Ansible
4 107 (4.40%) Grafana
5 97 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.32%) Argo
8 18 (0.74%) Consul
9 17 (0.70%) Puppet
10 16 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.53%) Packer
12 10 (0.41%) Kibana
12 10 (0.41%) SCCM
13 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.29%) QRadar
14 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.21%) Istio
14 5 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 164 (6.75%) Microsoft
2 144 (5.92%) Databricks
3 96 (3.95%) Google
4 87 (3.58%) Oracle
5 77 (3.17%) Splunk
6 57 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 50 (2.06%) OpenAI
8 49 (2.02%) CyberArk
9 38 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.44%) Centrify
10 35 (1.44%) Cisco
11 34 (1.40%) BeyondTrust
12 31 (1.28%) Dynatrace
12 31 (1.28%) IBM
13 30 (1.23%) VMware
14 29 (1.19%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.15%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.11%) SAP
17 24 (0.99%) Fortinet
18 21 (0.86%) Atlassian