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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,102 1,964 2,302
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.81% 13.94% 12.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.45% 33.95% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 1,416 1,762
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £460 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £819 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £43.03
25th Percentile £68.25 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.84 £55.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.65% -7.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87.50 £75.38 £78.75
90th Percentile £93.88 £87.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £78.34 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.63% - -24.60%

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 6,284 5,785 6,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.05% 37.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,295 3,894 5,061
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 43 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £23.80 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.40 £31.00 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% -12.22% +36.64%
75th Percentile £55.44 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.41 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +26.27% -0.03%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +2 254 £550 +1.15% 212
South London +9 62 £525 +1.16% 34
West London 0 33 £603 +7.78% 52
East London +3 4 £675 - 37
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
1 114 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (4.14%) Confluence
3 67 (3.19%) Apache Spark
4 61 (2.90%) Apache
5 32 (1.52%) nginx
6 16 (0.76%) SAS
6 16 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.48%) Camunda
8 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.33%) CMS
10 6 (0.29%) Appian
11 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.14%) Traefik
14 2 (0.095%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.095%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 13 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.19%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.048%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.048%) Notion
8 1 (0.048%) Pro Tools
8 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Actimize
5 3 (0.14%) Endur
6 2 (0.095%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.095%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.095%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.095%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.095%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.048%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.048%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.048%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.048%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.048%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.048%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.048%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 836 (39.77%) Azure
2 469 (22.31%) GCP
3 315 (14.99%) Serverless
4 308 (14.65%) GitHub
5 299 (14.22%) Amazon S3
6 277 (13.18%) AWS Lambda
7 193 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
8 164 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 147 (6.99%) Snowflake
10 133 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
11 131 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 120 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
13 118 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
14 103 (4.90%) Power Platform
15 85 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 80 (3.81%) dbt
17 66 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
18 62 (2.95%) Amazon Kinesis
19 52 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
20 50 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.19%) Firewall
2 64 (3.04%) DNS
3 54 (2.57%) VPN
4 49 (2.33%) Network Security
5 36 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.24%) SSL
7 24 (1.14%) WAN
8 18 (0.86%) HTTP
9 16 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.71%) DHCP
10 15 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
11 13 (0.62%) LAN
11 13 (0.62%) SSH
12 11 (0.52%) BGP
12 11 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.48%) FTP
13 10 (0.48%) IMAP
13 10 (0.48%) SMTP
13 10 (0.48%) VLAN
14 9 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
3 110 (5.23%) NoSQL
4 107 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
5 97 (4.61%) Data Lake
6 95 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
7 92 (4.38%) Relational Database
8 91 (4.33%) Power BI
9 85 (4.04%) SQL Server
10 79 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 62 (2.95%) MongoDB
12 59 (2.81%) DynamoDB
13 52 (2.47%) Metadata
13 52 (2.47%) MySQL
14 50 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 48 (2.28%) Tableau
16 46 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
16 46 (2.19%) Big Data
17 41 (1.95%) Apache Iceberg
18 29 (1.38%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 223 (10.61%) Git
2 204 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 168 (7.99%) GitLab
4 147 (6.99%) JIRA
5 34 (1.62%) JUnit
6 26 (1.24%) Cypress.io
6 26 (1.24%) MLflow
7 24 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.00%) Selenium
10 20 (0.95%) ERwin
11 18 (0.86%) CircleCI
12 15 (0.71%) JMeter
12 15 (0.71%) Mockito
13 14 (0.67%) ER Studio
13 14 (0.67%) Maven
14 13 (0.62%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.57%) Gatling
16 11 (0.52%) Postman
16 11 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 529 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 441 (20.98%) Finance
3 253 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 199 (9.47%) Banking
5 188 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 62 (2.95%) Front Office
8 37 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.24%) Marketing
12 25 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.09%) Military
13 23 (1.09%) Retail
14 21 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.81%) Legal
16 15 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 402 (19.12%) Developer
2 366 (17.41%) Senior
3 339 (16.13%) Architect
4 226 (10.75%) AWS Engineer
5 175 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 173 (8.23%) Data Engineer
7 145 (6.90%) Lead
8 116 (5.52%) Python Engineer
9 115 (5.47%) Senior Developer
10 111 (5.28%) Software Engineer
11 94 (4.47%) Analyst
12 88 (4.19%) Java Developer
13 84 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
14 83 (3.95%) Python Developer
15 82 (3.90%) AWS Developer
16 80 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
17 77 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
18 76 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 72 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
20 62 (2.95%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (12.42%) Kafka
2 204 (9.71%) React
3 155 (7.37%) Node.js
4 152 (7.23%) REST
5 123 (5.85%) Spring
6 111 (5.28%) RESTful
7 106 (5.04%) Spring Boot
8 93 (4.42%) AngularJS
9 77 (3.66%) gRPC
10 71 (3.38%) Pandas
11 70 (3.33%) HTML
12 69 (3.28%) CSS
12 69 (3.28%) NumPy
13 56 (2.66%) .NET
14 53 (2.52%) LDAP
14 53 (2.52%) SOAP
14 53 (2.52%) Vue
15 52 (2.47%) FastAPI
16 49 (2.33%) OAuth
16 49 (2.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 261 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 109 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (3.24%) Security Posture
4 59 (2.81%) Hedge funds
5 58 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 53 (2.52%) Derivative
7 50 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 47 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 46 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 45 (2.14%) Fixed Income
11 43 (2.05%) Equities
11 43 (2.05%) Onboarding
12 41 (1.95%) Management Information System
13 36 (1.71%) Data Centre
13 36 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
14 33 (1.57%) Public Cloud
15 31 (1.47%) Algorithms
16 29 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.38%) Data Structures
17 28 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 188 (8.94%) Linux
2 74 (3.52%) Windows
3 47 (2.24%) Unix
4 23 (1.09%) VMS
5 16 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.38%) Android
9 7 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.24%) CentOS
11 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.095%) Solaris
12 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.095%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.095%) zOS
13 1 (0.048%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (38.11%) CI/CD
2 582 (27.69%) DevOps
3 501 (23.83%) Agile
4 420 (19.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 335 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
6 333 (15.84%) Microservices
7 292 (13.89%) AI
8 289 (13.75%) Analytics
9 283 (13.46%) Software Engineering
10 251 (11.94%) Containerisation
11 218 (10.37%) Data Modelling
12 208 (9.90%) Data Pipeline
13 197 (9.37%) Observability
14 194 (9.23%) Migration
15 191 (9.09%) Data Engineering
16 189 (8.99%) Machine Learning
17 181 (8.61%) ETL
18 164 (7.80%) Full-Stack Development
19 160 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
20 158 (7.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 907 (43.15%) Python
2 483 (22.98%) SQL
3 406 (19.31%) Java
4 205 (9.75%) JavaScript
5 190 (9.04%) TypeScript
6 112 (5.33%) Bash
7 99 (4.71%) Go
8 98 (4.66%) PowerShell
9 83 (3.95%) C#
10 33 (1.57%) C++
11 32 (1.52%) Ruby
12 25 (1.19%) Scala
13 20 (0.95%) Rust
13 20 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.90%) R
15 17 (0.81%) Groovy
16 15 (0.71%) Perl
16 15 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.67%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 570 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 500 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 126 (5.99%) AWS Certification
4 118 (5.61%) Degree
5 62 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.57%) CISSP
7 33 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.00%) MCP
13 18 (0.86%) CISM
13 18 (0.86%) OSCP
14 16 (0.76%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.71%) PMP
15 15 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.62%) CCNP
17 11 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 97 (4.61%) GDPR
3 85 (4.04%) QA
4 73 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.90%) NIST
6 36 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.09%) NCSC
8 20 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.71%) WCAG
10 14 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.52%) SLA
13 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.38%) GRC
15 6 (0.29%) MiFID
15 6 (0.29%) PSD2
16 5 (0.24%) HL7
16 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) SEPA
16 5 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 476 (22.65%) Docker
2 70 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.52%) Squid
6 10 (0.48%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.48%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.48%) Postfix
7 8 (0.38%) zsh
8 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.14%) vSphere
11 2 (0.095%) KVM
11 2 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.048%) Ceph
12 1 (0.048%) iptables
Systems Management
1 501 (23.83%) Terraform
2 477 (22.69%) Kubernetes
3 130 (6.18%) Ansible
4 110 (5.23%) Grafana
5 93 (4.42%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.62%) Argo
7 26 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.90%) Puppet
9 18 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.81%) Nessus
11 15 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.67%) SCCM
13 12 (0.57%) Kibana
14 10 (0.48%) Packer
14 10 (0.48%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.43%) Consul
15 9 (0.43%) QRadar
16 8 (0.38%) Istio
17 7 (0.33%) Rancher
17 7 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 139 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.47%) Databricks
3 84 (4.00%) Oracle
4 78 (3.71%) Splunk
5 72 (3.43%) Google
6 58 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 41 (1.95%) CyberArk
8 35 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.62%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (1.62%) Centrify
9 34 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 33 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.47%) Cisco
12 26 (1.24%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.19%) Dynatrace
14 22 (1.05%) VMware
15 21 (1.00%) IBM
16 20 (0.95%) F5
16 20 (0.95%) SAP
17 19 (0.90%) CheckPoint