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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,386 1,986 2,313
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.01% 14.80% 12.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.13% 35.48% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,629 1,420 1,770
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.62% -6.15%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
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 £89.38 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £48.62
% change year-on-year +35.14% +14.16% -24.62%

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 6,991 5,598 6,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.99% 41.72% 37.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,793 3,786 5,029
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £448
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 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 49 79
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.99% -2.56%
75th Percentile £54.25 £58.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £75.17 £74.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.42
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.41% -14.34%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 0 279 £550 - 190
South London +1 93 £517 +8.79% 20
West London +5 50 £603 +4.78% 57
East London +8 9 £630 - 42
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
1 111 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 83 (3.48%) Confluence
4 58 (2.43%) Apache
5 34 (1.42%) nginx
6 19 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.71%) SAS
8 14 (0.59%) Camunda
9 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.46%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.34%) Appian
12 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Traefik
13 3 (0.13%) CICS
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
13 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.084%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.084%) Drupal
Applications
1 25 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.084%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (0.084%) Trello
7 1 (0.042%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.17%) Actimize
5 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
5 4 (0.17%) Endur
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.084%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.084%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.042%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.042%) Maximo
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.042%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.042%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 965 (40.44%) Azure
2 562 (23.55%) GCP
3 360 (15.09%) Serverless
4 331 (13.87%) Amazon S3
5 320 (13.41%) GitHub
6 310 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
7 222 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 183 (7.67%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
10 162 (6.79%) Snowflake
11 144 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
12 139 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
13 132 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 130 (5.45%) Power Platform
15 107 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 76 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.60%) dbt
18 59 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
19 52 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
19 52 (2.18%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 109 (4.57%) Firewall
2 67 (2.81%) VPN
3 63 (2.64%) Network Security
4 61 (2.56%) DNS
5 43 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.22%) WAN
7 21 (0.88%) SSL
8 18 (0.75%) BGP
9 16 (0.67%) OSPF
9 16 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.63%) LAN
11 14 (0.59%) DHCP
11 14 (0.59%) HTTP
12 13 (0.54%) VLAN
13 9 (0.38%) 5G
13 9 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.38%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.34%) 4G
14 8 (0.34%) OpenVPN
15 7 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (5.03%) NoSQL
3 119 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
4 118 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
5 114 (4.78%) Power BI
6 100 (4.19%) Data Lake
6 100 (4.19%) SQL Server
7 91 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
7 91 (3.81%) Relational Database
8 86 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 70 (2.93%) MongoDB
10 68 (2.85%) Tableau
11 67 (2.81%) DynamoDB
12 63 (2.64%) Metadata
13 59 (2.47%) MySQL
14 52 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
14 52 (2.18%) Big Data
15 46 (1.93%) BigQuery
16 36 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
17 35 (1.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 238 (9.97%) Git
2 207 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 205 (8.59%) GitLab
4 147 (6.16%) JIRA
5 46 (1.93%) JUnit
6 41 (1.72%) MLflow
7 34 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.96%) Mockito
10 22 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 21 (0.88%) Cypress.io
12 19 (0.80%) Maven
13 18 (0.75%) JMeter
13 18 (0.75%) Selenium
14 17 (0.71%) ERwin
14 17 (0.71%) Gatling
15 11 (0.46%) Gradle
15 11 (0.46%) Postman
16 10 (0.42%) ER Studio
16 10 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 581 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 526 (22.05%) Finance
3 319 (13.37%) Public Sector
4 215 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (8.17%) Banking
6 83 (3.48%) Front Office
7 57 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 33 (1.38%) Retail
12 29 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 22 (0.92%) Marketing
15 18 (0.75%) Legal
15 18 (0.75%) Military
16 14 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 441 (18.48%) Developer
2 418 (17.52%) Architect
3 374 (15.67%) Senior
4 236 (9.89%) AWS Engineer
5 218 (9.14%) Data Engineer
5 218 (9.14%) Lead
6 198 (8.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 140 (5.87%) Software Engineer
8 125 (5.24%) Senior Developer
9 104 (4.36%) Analyst
10 103 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
11 101 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
12 96 (4.02%) Python Engineer
13 95 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 94 (3.94%) Java Developer
15 93 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 79 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 79 (3.31%) AWS Architect
17 78 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
17 78 (3.27%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (12.91%) Kafka
2 237 (9.93%) React
3 195 (8.17%) Node.js
4 179 (7.50%) REST
5 144 (6.04%) Spring
6 132 (5.53%) RESTful
7 123 (5.16%) Spring Boot
8 96 (4.02%) AngularJS
9 72 (3.02%) CSS
10 70 (2.93%) .NET
10 70 (2.93%) HTML
11 64 (2.68%) SOAP
12 63 (2.64%) PySpark
13 60 (2.51%) GraphQL
13 60 (2.51%) Pandas
14 58 (2.43%) gRPC
15 57 (2.39%) OAuth
15 57 (2.39%) PyTorch
16 54 (2.26%) NumPy
17 52 (2.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 345 (14.46%) Cloud Native
2 121 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.35%) Security Posture
4 66 (2.77%) Fixed Income
5 60 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 56 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 50 (2.10%) Derivative
9 45 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 43 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 41 (1.72%) Data Centre
12 39 (1.63%) AI Agents
12 39 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 38 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 38 (1.59%) Public Cloud
14 37 (1.55%) Equities
15 33 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
16 30 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
17 29 (1.22%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.09%) Linux
2 64 (2.68%) Windows
3 47 (1.97%) Unix
4 17 (0.71%) VMS
5 12 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.29%) Android
8 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.21%) CentOS
9 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.21%) zOS
10 3 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.13%) Solaris
10 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.042%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 913 (38.26%) CI/CD
2 671 (28.12%) DevOps
3 577 (24.18%) Agile
4 471 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 400 (16.76%) AI
6 379 (15.88%) Microservices
7 361 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
8 356 (14.92%) Analytics
9 329 (13.79%) Containerisation
10 308 (12.91%) Software Engineering
11 276 (11.57%) Data Modelling
12 251 (10.52%) Machine Learning
13 250 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
14 241 (10.10%) Data Engineering
15 235 (9.85%) Observability
16 232 (9.72%) ETL
17 223 (9.35%) Migration
18 201 (8.42%) Full-Stack Development
19 189 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
20 185 (7.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 992 (41.58%) Python
2 557 (23.34%) SQL
3 437 (18.32%) Java
4 227 (9.51%) JavaScript
5 212 (8.89%) TypeScript
6 112 (4.69%) Go
7 106 (4.44%) Bash
8 99 (4.15%) C#
9 92 (3.86%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.30%) Scala
10 31 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 29 (1.22%) Ruby
12 25 (1.05%) C++
13 20 (0.84%) R
14 15 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.54%) Bicep
16 11 (0.46%) PHP
16 11 (0.46%) Rust
17 10 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 680 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 596 (24.98%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.62%) AWS Certification
4 113 (4.74%) Degree
5 64 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (2.01%) CISSP
7 42 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.05%) CISM
12 23 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 20 (0.84%) PMP
14 18 (0.75%) OSCP
15 17 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.71%) CCNP
16 14 (0.59%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 107 (4.48%) GDPR
3 89 (3.73%) QA
4 69 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.64%) NIST
6 45 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.13%) NCSC
8 24 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.67%) SLA
10 13 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.54%) WCAG
11 12 (0.50%) GRC
11 12 (0.50%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.38%) PMO
14 8 (0.34%) PSD2
15 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 514 (21.54%) Docker
2 62 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.46%) Squid
5 10 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.17%) zsh
9 3 (0.13%) Postfix
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.084%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.084%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.042%) Ceph
11 1 (0.042%) etcd
11 1 (0.042%) KVM
Systems Management
1 565 (23.68%) Terraform
2 535 (22.42%) Kubernetes
3 139 (5.83%) Ansible
4 106 (4.44%) Grafana
5 94 (3.94%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (1.47%) Argo
8 18 (0.75%) Consul
9 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.71%) Puppet
10 14 (0.59%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.54%) Packer
12 12 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.46%) Kibana
13 11 (0.46%) SCCM
14 10 (0.42%) Nessus
15 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.29%) QRadar
16 6 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 153 (6.41%) Microsoft
2 145 (6.08%) Databricks
3 92 (3.86%) Oracle
4 86 (3.60%) Google
5 76 (3.19%) Splunk
6 65 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 46 (1.93%) CyberArk
8 43 (1.80%) OpenAI
9 36 (1.51%) Dynatrace
9 36 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.42%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.42%) Centrify
11 33 (1.38%) Palo Alto
12 32 (1.34%) Cisco
13 30 (1.26%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.22%) IBM
15 27 (1.13%) SAP
16 25 (1.05%) Fortinet
17 22 (0.92%) VMware
18 21 (0.88%) Atlassian