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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,796 2,133 2,296
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.81% 15.85% 14.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.74% 36.49% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 1,487 1,707
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £697 £754
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £63.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +107.99% -63.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £79.69 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -36.30%

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 8,287 5,846 6,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.94% 43.44% 41.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,690 3,987 4,681
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £31.00 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.34% -24.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -5 280 £570 -2.56% 388
West London +6 94 £560 +33.73% 139
South London +1 75 £535 -5.38% 13
East London +11 15 £525 -13.58% 33
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
1 160 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 104 (3.72%) Confluence
4 88 (3.15%) Apache
5 28 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.46%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
10 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.21%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 28 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.072%) Endur
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.072%) Shopify
7 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,254 (44.85%) Azure
2 633 (22.64%) GCP
3 396 (14.16%) Serverless
4 383 (13.70%) Amazon S3
5 370 (13.23%) GitHub
6 331 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
7 250 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
8 231 (8.26%) Snowflake
9 213 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
10 187 (6.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 162 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
12 157 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 149 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
14 144 (5.15%) dbt
15 139 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
16 133 (4.76%) Power Platform
17 131 (4.69%) SaaS
18 124 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 115 (4.11%) Entra ID
20 98 (3.51%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.76%) Firewall
2 80 (2.86%) Network Security
3 64 (2.29%) DNS
4 55 (1.97%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 34 (1.22%) TCP/IP
7 26 (0.93%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 21 (0.75%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
10 19 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.64%) BGP
11 18 (0.64%) HTTP
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
13 14 (0.50%) MPLS
13 14 (0.50%) NGFW
13 14 (0.50%) OSPF
14 13 (0.46%) SAN
15 12 (0.43%) IPsec
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 119 (4.26%) Power BI
5 118 (4.22%) NoSQL
6 113 (4.04%) Data Lake
7 110 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 107 (3.83%) Metadata
9 95 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
10 93 (3.33%) DynamoDB
11 89 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 89 (3.18%) MongoDB
12 78 (2.79%) Relational Database
13 68 (2.43%) Delta Lake
14 60 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
15 58 (2.07%) Tableau
16 55 (1.97%) Big Data
17 53 (1.90%) MySQL
18 45 (1.61%) Redis
19 43 (1.54%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 297 (10.62%) Git
1 297 (10.62%) Jenkins
2 265 (9.48%) GitLab
3 153 (5.47%) JIRA
4 36 (1.29%) Maven
5 33 (1.18%) JMeter
6 32 (1.14%) JUnit
7 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 29 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 29 (1.04%) Selenium
9 28 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 24 (0.86%) Mockito
11 23 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.82%) Gradle
12 22 (0.79%) Postman
13 18 (0.64%) Claude Code
13 18 (0.64%) Gatling
14 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 11 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 704 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 665 (23.78%) Finance
3 380 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 283 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 257 (9.19%) Banking
6 82 (2.93%) Retail
7 64 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.36%) Marketing
11 37 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 35 (1.25%) Legal
13 34 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.14%) Front Office
15 29 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.00%) Law
17 27 (0.97%) Military
18 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
19 23 (0.82%) Billing
19 23 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 586 (20.96%) Architect
2 448 (16.02%) Senior
3 339 (12.12%) Developer
4 306 (10.94%) Data Engineer
5 299 (10.69%) Lead
6 267 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
7 208 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 110 (3.93%) Analyst
10 110 (3.93%) AWS Architect
11 103 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
12 102 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 101 (3.61%) Java Developer
14 99 (3.54%) Data Architect
15 92 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
16 90 (3.22%) Software Engineer
17 81 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
18 76 (2.72%) Senior Developer
19 75 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 716 (25.61%) Terraform
2 314 (11.23%) Kafka
3 280 (10.01%) REST
4 196 (7.01%) React
5 181 (6.47%) Spring
6 166 (5.94%) Spring Boot
7 154 (5.51%) RESTful
8 121 (4.33%) Node.js
9 113 (4.04%) PySpark
10 99 (3.54%) .NET
11 97 (3.47%) OAuth
12 72 (2.58%) GraphQL
13 66 (2.36%) FastAPI
14 64 (2.29%) HTML
15 62 (2.22%) AngularJS
15 62 (2.22%) JSON
16 54 (1.93%) OAuth2
16 54 (1.93%) SOAP
17 53 (1.90%) CSS
18 49 (1.75%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 542 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 179 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (5.33%) Onboarding
4 139 (4.97%) AI Agents
5 126 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 88 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
7 68 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 65 (2.32%) Data Centre
10 60 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 49 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.47%) Replication
13 40 (1.43%) PKI
14 37 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
15 36 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
16 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.18%) Public Cloud
18 29 (1.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 240 (8.58%) Linux
2 124 (4.43%) Windows
3 55 (1.97%) Unix
4 48 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.46%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.21%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.18%) Solaris
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.036%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (41.70%) CI/CD
2 888 (31.76%) DevOps
3 708 (25.32%) Agile
4 667 (23.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 634 (22.68%) AI
6 471 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 411 (14.70%) Microservices
8 403 (14.41%) Containerisation
9 394 (14.09%) Observability
10 368 (13.16%) Migration
10 368 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
11 354 (12.66%) Analytics
12 349 (12.48%) Software Engineering
13 342 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
14 339 (12.12%) Data Modelling
15 336 (12.02%) Data Engineering
16 328 (11.73%) Event-Driven
17 322 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 309 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
19 291 (10.41%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (36.62%) Python
2 610 (21.82%) SQL
3 476 (17.02%) Java
4 209 (7.47%) TypeScript
5 203 (7.26%) JavaScript
6 170 (6.08%) Bash
7 138 (4.94%) PowerShell
8 114 (4.08%) C#
9 54 (1.93%) Scala
10 51 (1.82%) Go
11 35 (1.25%) Bicep
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.11%) Groovy
13 25 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.72%) R
16 19 (0.68%) C++
16 19 (0.68%) Ruby
17 13 (0.46%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 770 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 680 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 174 (6.22%) AWS Certification
4 144 (5.15%) Degree
5 91 (3.25%) CISSP
6 87 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.79%) Azure Certification
8 68 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 63 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 62 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.79%) CISM
12 30 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 21 (0.75%) CCSP
14 20 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.64%) PMP
17 17 (0.61%) CCNP
18 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 163 (5.83%) QA
3 107 (3.83%) NIST
4 100 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (2.75%) GDPR
6 37 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.07%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.93%) NCSC
10 25 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (0.86%) SLA
12 20 (0.72%) ISO 20022
13 18 (0.64%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
14 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.46%) SEPA
16 11 (0.39%) PMO
17 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 498 (17.81%) Docker
2 92 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.18%) NFS
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 628 (22.46%) Kubernetes
2 215 (7.69%) Grafana
3 199 (7.12%) Ansible
4 163 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 42 (1.50%) Kibana
6 34 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (1.18%) Argo
8 28 (1.00%) Puppet
9 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) Istio
11 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.25%) QRadar
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) Nessus
15 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 293 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 189 (6.76%) Databricks
3 138 (4.94%) Oracle
4 137 (4.90%) Google
5 130 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 112 (4.01%) Splunk
7 67 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.00%) OpenAI
9 54 (1.93%) SAP
10 53 (1.90%) CyberArk
11 52 (1.86%) Cisco
11 52 (1.86%) VMware
12 44 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 39 (1.39%) Dynatrace
14 38 (1.36%) Informatica
15 36 (1.29%) IBM
16 30 (1.07%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.97%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.89%) Foundry
18 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft