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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,803 2,127 2,412
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.66% 16.84% 13.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.92% 39.16% 34.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,940 1,494 1,878
10th Percentile £407 £400 £400
25th Percentile £473 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £538 £565
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.87% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 12
10th Percentile £39.50 £36.13 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +78.12% -65.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £64.44 £59.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £82.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -37.59%

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 8,027 5,431 6,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.98% 43.01% 39.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,527 3,689 5,117
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 71 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +20.82% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £55.25
England median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -3 293 £550 - 80
West London +3 89 £560 +13.71% 50
South London +2 84 £500 - 3
East London +9 16 £540 -7.69% 30
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
1 135 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 82 (2.93%) Confluence
4 60 (2.14%) Apache
5 31 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 13 (0.46%) Camunda
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 8 (0.29%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 43 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.18%) Magento
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Endur
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.071%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.036%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,150 (41.03%) Azure
2 583 (20.80%) GCP
3 412 (14.70%) Serverless
4 410 (14.63%) Amazon S3
5 358 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
6 349 (12.45%) GitHub
7 222 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
8 198 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 194 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
9 194 (6.92%) Snowflake
10 172 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
11 171 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 152 (5.42%) Power Platform
13 142 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
14 128 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 117 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
16 114 (4.07%) SaaS
17 98 (3.50%) dbt
18 91 (3.25%) Amazon Bedrock
19 84 (3.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.85%) Firewall
2 88 (3.14%) Network Security
3 71 (2.53%) VPN
4 68 (2.43%) DNS
5 46 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.46%) WAN
7 24 (0.86%) BGP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) DHCP
10 19 (0.68%) SSL
11 18 (0.64%) LAN
11 18 (0.64%) OSPF
12 16 (0.57%) Internet
13 14 (0.50%) NGFW
13 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.43%) VLAN
15 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
15 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
17 9 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
3 135 (4.82%) Power BI
4 133 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
5 122 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 118 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 113 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
8 110 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 106 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 87 (3.10%) DynamoDB
11 79 (2.82%) Metadata
11 79 (2.82%) MongoDB
12 76 (2.71%) Tableau
13 75 (2.68%) Relational Database
14 65 (2.32%) Big Data
15 46 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
16 41 (1.46%) BigQuery
16 41 (1.46%) MySQL
17 38 (1.36%) Delta Lake
18 37 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 255 (9.10%) Jenkins
2 253 (9.03%) Git
3 249 (8.88%) GitLab
4 147 (5.24%) JIRA
5 42 (1.50%) JUnit
6 34 (1.21%) Mockito
7 32 (1.14%) MLflow
8 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.03%) JMeter
10 27 (0.96%) Cucumber
11 26 (0.93%) Maven
12 23 (0.82%) Gradle
13 22 (0.78%) Cypress.io
13 22 (0.78%) Selenium
14 21 (0.75%) Postman
15 20 (0.71%) Bitbucket
16 18 (0.64%) Gatling
17 17 (0.61%) REST Assured
18 16 (0.57%) CircleCI
18 16 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 666 (23.76%) Finance
2 606 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 399 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 240 (8.56%) Banking
5 237 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (2.93%) Front Office
7 68 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 66 (2.35%) Retail
9 61 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 42 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (0.96%) Marketing
15 26 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.78%) Legal
17 21 (0.75%) Law
18 17 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 552 (19.69%) Architect
2 422 (15.06%) Senior
3 407 (14.52%) Developer
4 310 (11.06%) Lead
5 301 (10.74%) Data Engineer
6 290 (10.35%) AWS Engineer
7 219 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 154 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 152 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
10 133 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 114 (4.07%) AWS Architect
12 104 (3.71%) Java Developer
13 103 (3.67%) Senior Developer
14 101 (3.60%) Analyst
15 97 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
15 97 (3.46%) Cloud Architect
16 91 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 86 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
19 76 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (11.13%) Kafka
2 242 (8.63%) React
3 219 (7.81%) REST
4 177 (6.31%) Node.js
5 174 (6.21%) Spring
6 166 (5.92%) Spring Boot
7 146 (5.21%) RESTful
8 96 (3.42%) .NET
9 94 (3.35%) PySpark
10 87 (3.10%) GraphQL
11 82 (2.93%) OAuth
12 73 (2.60%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.28%) Redux
14 55 (1.96%) FastAPI
15 54 (1.93%) SOAP
16 53 (1.89%) JSON
17 52 (1.86%) OpenID
17 52 (1.86%) Pandas
18 50 (1.78%) HTML
19 46 (1.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 496 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 175 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 90 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 81 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 80 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.71%) Fixed Income
8 73 (2.60%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 57 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (1.93%) Management Information System
12 53 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.53%) Derivative
15 39 (1.39%) Equities
16 35 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
17 32 (1.14%) Public Cloud
18 31 (1.11%) Data Structures
19 30 (1.07%) Algorithms
19 30 (1.07%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 208 (7.42%) Linux
2 106 (3.78%) Windows
3 40 (1.43%) Unix
4 32 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.39%) Android
7 10 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,095 (39.07%) CI/CD
2 841 (30.00%) DevOps
3 682 (24.33%) Agile
4 583 (20.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 577 (20.59%) AI
6 416 (14.84%) Microservices
7 407 (14.52%) Containerisation
8 386 (13.77%) Analytics
9 351 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
10 346 (12.34%) Software Engineering
11 340 (12.13%) Migration
12 325 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
13 316 (11.27%) Data Modelling
14 314 (11.20%) Data Engineering
15 302 (10.77%) Observability
16 299 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 295 (10.52%) Machine Learning
18 269 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 248 (8.85%) Test Automation
20 242 (8.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,057 (37.71%) Python
2 591 (21.08%) SQL
3 487 (17.37%) Java
4 258 (9.20%) TypeScript
5 221 (7.88%) JavaScript
6 123 (4.39%) Bash
7 120 (4.28%) C#
8 119 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 92 (3.28%) Go
10 46 (1.64%) Scala
11 34 (1.21%) Ruby
11 34 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 28 (1.00%) Bicep
13 23 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.78%) R
15 17 (0.61%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.54%) Groovy
16 15 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.46%) C++
18 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 753 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 668 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.49%) Degree
4 129 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 87 (3.10%) CISSP
6 70 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 57 (2.03%) DV Cleared
9 54 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.36%) CISM
12 32 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.86%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.86%) PMP
15 23 (0.82%) CCSP
16 20 (0.71%) CCNP
17 16 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 122 (4.35%) QA
3 103 (3.67%) GDPR
4 97 (3.46%) NIST
5 82 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) GRC
9 27 (0.96%) SLA
10 23 (0.82%) NCSC
11 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.61%) PMO
13 16 (0.57%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.43%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.43%) WCAG
15 11 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.25%) SEPA
17 6 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 498 (17.77%) Docker
2 87 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.57%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.14%) IAG
8 4 (0.14%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 2 (0.071%) Firmware
10 2 (0.071%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 675 (24.08%) Terraform
2 582 (20.76%) Kubernetes
3 168 (5.99%) Ansible
4 164 (5.85%) Grafana
5 144 (5.14%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.89%) Puppet
8 24 (0.86%) Kibana
9 18 (0.64%) Argo
10 14 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.43%) Consul
13 11 (0.39%) Packer
14 10 (0.36%) QRadar
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
17 5 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 226 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.64%) Databricks
3 106 (3.78%) Google
4 102 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 98 (3.50%) Oracle
6 79 (2.82%) Splunk
7 69 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 61 (2.18%) OpenAI
9 58 (2.07%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.71%) Cisco
11 38 (1.36%) VMware
12 35 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.21%) Foundry
14 33 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 32 (1.14%) Dynatrace
16 31 (1.11%) Informatica
17 30 (1.07%) SAP
18 28 (1.00%) IBM
19 27 (0.96%) MuleSoft
20 22 (0.78%) Fortinet