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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,637 1,985 2,340
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.37% 16.43% 13.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.96% 38.32% 34.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,826 1,405 1,822
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £743
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £544 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.09% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.63 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.05
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.73% +48.41% -59.35%
75th Percentile £76.75 £64.44 £69.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £83.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +29.55% -26.67%

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 7,765 5,180 6,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.32% 42.87% 38.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 3,537 5,025
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 57 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.75 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -3 279 £550 - 117
West London +6 88 £600 +21.26% 32
South London 0 82 £500 +1.01% 13
East London +2 16 £543 -7.26% 35
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
1 129 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 66 (2.50%) Confluence
4 62 (2.35%) Apache
5 23 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.68%) nginx
7 15 (0.57%) Camunda
8 11 (0.42%) CICS
9 10 (0.38%) SAS
10 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.23%) CMS
13 4 (0.15%) Appian
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 40 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.15%) Revit
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.038%) Notion
10 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Endur
5 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.11%) Quorum
5 3 (0.11%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.076%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.076%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.038%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.038%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,076 (40.80%) Azure
2 569 (21.58%) GCP
3 389 (14.75%) Amazon S3
4 385 (14.60%) Serverless
5 338 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
6 335 (12.70%) GitHub
7 209 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
8 204 (7.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 177 (6.71%) Snowflake
10 176 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 164 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
12 156 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 146 (5.54%) Power Platform
14 132 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
15 120 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 112 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
17 81 (3.07%) dbt
17 81 (3.07%) SaaS
18 71 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
19 69 (2.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.98%) Firewall
2 70 (2.65%) Network Security
3 66 (2.50%) DNS
4 60 (2.28%) VPN
5 49 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.29%) WAN
7 21 (0.80%) BGP
7 21 (0.80%) HTTP
8 19 (0.72%) LAN
9 18 (0.68%) SSL
10 16 (0.61%) DHCP
10 16 (0.61%) OSPF
11 13 (0.49%) NGFW
11 13 (0.49%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.46%) VLAN
13 10 (0.38%) OpenVPN
13 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.34%) Internet
15 8 (0.30%) SAN
15 8 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (4.89%) Data Lake
3 124 (4.70%) Power BI
4 121 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
5 117 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 114 (4.32%) NoSQL
7 106 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
8 100 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 96 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (3.22%) DynamoDB
11 75 (2.84%) Tableau
12 74 (2.81%) MongoDB
13 73 (2.77%) Metadata
14 71 (2.69%) Relational Database
15 60 (2.28%) Big Data
16 43 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
17 42 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
17 42 (1.59%) BigQuery
18 41 (1.55%) MySQL
19 40 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 232 (8.80%) Git
2 228 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 206 (7.81%) GitLab
4 121 (4.59%) JIRA
5 40 (1.52%) JUnit
6 37 (1.40%) MLflow
7 33 (1.25%) Mockito
8 27 (1.02%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 24 (0.91%) JMeter
10 22 (0.83%) Selenium
11 21 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 21 (0.80%) Gradle
11 21 (0.80%) Maven
11 21 (0.80%) Postman
12 20 (0.76%) Bitbucket
13 17 (0.64%) Gatling
14 16 (0.61%) REST Assured
15 15 (0.57%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 619 (23.47%) Finance
2 560 (21.24%) Social Skills
3 369 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 228 (8.65%) Banking
5 226 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (3.19%) Front Office
7 62 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 57 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.63%) Retail
11 41 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 32 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.99%) Marketing
16 23 (0.87%) Legal
16 23 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.53%) Law
18 12 (0.46%) Military
18 12 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 534 (20.25%) Architect
2 419 (15.89%) Developer
3 398 (15.09%) Senior
4 295 (11.19%) Lead
5 285 (10.81%) Data Engineer
6 259 (9.82%) AWS Engineer
7 192 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 141 (5.35%) Software Engineer
9 136 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.47%) Senior Developer
11 114 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (3.94%) AWS Architect
13 103 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
14 99 (3.75%) Java Developer
15 98 (3.72%) Analyst
16 87 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
17 85 (3.22%) AWS DevOps
18 80 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 80 (3.03%) Python Developer
19 77 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (11.64%) Kafka
2 241 (9.14%) React
3 214 (8.12%) REST
4 178 (6.75%) Node.js
5 167 (6.33%) Spring
6 160 (6.07%) Spring Boot
7 142 (5.38%) RESTful
8 94 (3.56%) .NET
9 83 (3.15%) AngularJS
10 82 (3.11%) PySpark
11 76 (2.88%) GraphQL
12 72 (2.73%) OAuth
13 70 (2.65%) SOAP
14 62 (2.35%) LDAP
14 62 (2.35%) Redux
15 58 (2.20%) Pandas
16 54 (2.05%) HTML
17 50 (1.90%) OpenID
18 49 (1.86%) CSS
18 49 (1.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 445 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 143 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (3.22%) Onboarding
4 77 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 75 (2.84%) Security Posture
6 73 (2.77%) Fixed Income
7 72 (2.73%) Product Ownership
8 69 (2.62%) AI Agents
9 68 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (2.05%) Data Centre
12 53 (2.01%) Management Information System
13 49 (1.86%) Derivative
14 43 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
15 42 (1.59%) Equities
16 32 (1.21%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.18%) Mainframe
18 30 (1.14%) Algorithms
19 28 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 186 (7.05%) Linux
2 81 (3.07%) Windows
3 38 (1.44%) Unix
4 22 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.46%) Android
7 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.30%) zOS
8 7 (0.27%) Solaris
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) VMS
9 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.038%) CentOS
13 1 (0.038%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 998 (37.85%) CI/CD
2 761 (28.86%) DevOps
3 606 (22.98%) Agile
4 529 (20.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 498 (18.89%) AI
6 393 (14.90%) Microservices
7 377 (14.30%) Analytics
8 363 (13.77%) Containerisation
9 333 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
10 319 (12.10%) Software Engineering
11 317 (12.02%) Migration
12 308 (11.68%) Data Modelling
13 290 (11.00%) Data Pipeline
14 285 (10.81%) Data Engineering
15 275 (10.43%) Observability
16 254 (9.63%) Machine Learning
17 247 (9.37%) ETL
18 246 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
19 233 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
20 230 (8.72%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,020 (38.68%) Python
2 582 (22.07%) SQL
3 472 (17.90%) Java
4 236 (8.95%) TypeScript
5 217 (8.23%) JavaScript
6 123 (4.66%) PowerShell
7 118 (4.47%) C#
8 105 (3.98%) Bash
9 94 (3.56%) Go
10 47 (1.78%) Scala
11 37 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.33%) Ruby
13 22 (0.83%) Bicep
14 21 (0.80%) R
15 18 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.61%) C++
18 11 (0.42%) Groovy
18 11 (0.42%) JCL
19 10 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 728 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 649 (24.61%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.50%) Degree
4 115 (4.36%) AWS Certification
5 74 (2.81%) CISSP
6 69 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
9 49 (1.86%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.25%) CISM
11 33 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.87%) PMP
15 22 (0.83%) CCNP
15 22 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.76%) CCSP
17 16 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.21%) GDPR
3 106 (4.02%) QA
4 92 (3.49%) NIST
5 74 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.21%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.21%) SLA
8 25 (0.95%) NCSC
9 23 (0.87%) GRC
10 19 (0.72%) ISO 20022
11 16 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.53%) PMO
13 11 (0.42%) WCAG
14 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.30%) SEPA
15 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 478 (18.13%) Docker
2 93 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.64%) Squid
6 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.15%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) IAG
8 3 (0.11%) NFS
8 3 (0.11%) Postfix
8 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.11%) vSphere
9 2 (0.076%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.076%) Firmware
9 2 (0.076%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.038%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 596 (22.60%) Terraform
2 525 (19.91%) Kubernetes
3 148 (5.61%) Grafana
4 137 (5.20%) Ansible
5 131 (4.97%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.80%) Kibana
8 19 (0.72%) Argo
9 18 (0.68%) Puppet
10 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.46%) Consul
14 10 (0.38%) QRadar
15 9 (0.34%) Packer
16 7 (0.27%) Istio
17 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
18 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
18 5 (0.19%) SCCM
19 4 (0.15%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 203 (7.70%) Microsoft
2 122 (4.63%) Databricks
3 103 (3.91%) Google
4 91 (3.45%) Oracle
5 88 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 74 (2.81%) Splunk
7 67 (2.54%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 56 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 48 (1.82%) Cisco
11 35 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.33%) Centrify
11 35 (1.33%) VMware
12 32 (1.21%) Dynatrace
12 32 (1.21%) Palo Alto
13 31 (1.18%) Red Hat
13 31 (1.18%) SAP
14 29 (1.10%) IBM
15 26 (0.99%) Foundry
16 23 (0.87%) Fortinet