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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,780 2,140 2,242
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.76% 15.93% 13.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.65% 36.39% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,982 1,469 1,653
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £72.25 £68.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +121.86% -63.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £85.63 £52.81
90th Percentile £83.38 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -25.82%

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 8,261 5,881 6,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.88% 43.77% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,715 3,981 4,565
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.83%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 99 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £27.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -12.90% -23.46%
75th Percentile £58.31 £47.13 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -6 270 £575 -1.71% 338
West London +15 96 £560 +37.76% 66
South London 0 79 £535 +0.47% 9
East London +10 13 £600 -11.11% 22
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
1 162 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
2 123 (4.42%) Apache Spark
3 107 (3.85%) Confluence
4 87 (3.13%) Apache
5 23 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.65%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) SAS
8 10 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) CICS
9 8 (0.29%) IIS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.11%) Mule
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.11%) Traefik
12 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.25%) Revit
6 4 (0.14%) Trello
7 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Cloudability
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.072%) Actimize
8 2 (0.072%) Endur
8 2 (0.072%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (45.07%) Azure
2 651 (23.42%) GCP
3 374 (13.45%) Serverless
4 368 (13.24%) GitHub
5 366 (13.17%) Amazon S3
6 306 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
7 251 (9.03%) GitHub Actions
8 232 (8.35%) Amazon EKS
9 228 (8.20%) Snowflake
10 182 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 161 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
12 154 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 146 (5.25%) dbt
14 145 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
15 144 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
16 127 (4.57%) Power Platform
16 127 (4.57%) SaaS
17 125 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 102 (3.67%) Entra ID
19 97 (3.49%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.60%) Firewall
2 83 (2.99%) Network Security
3 65 (2.34%) DNS
4 59 (2.12%) VPN
5 38 (1.37%) WAN
6 30 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.90%) BGP
8 23 (0.83%) DHCP
9 22 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.79%) SSL
10 21 (0.76%) Internet
10 21 (0.76%) OSPF
10 21 (0.76%) SSH
11 18 (0.65%) HTTP
12 16 (0.58%) MPLS
13 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.54%) NGFW
14 13 (0.47%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) IPsec
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.42%) NoSQL
5 113 (4.06%) Power BI
5 113 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 108 (3.88%) Metadata
7 101 (3.63%) Data Lake
8 95 (3.42%) MongoDB
9 92 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 89 (3.20%) DynamoDB
11 86 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
12 76 (2.73%) Relational Database
13 71 (2.55%) Delta Lake
14 64 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
15 60 (2.16%) MySQL
16 51 (1.83%) Big Data
17 50 (1.80%) Redis
18 49 (1.76%) BigQuery
18 49 (1.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 318 (11.44%) Jenkins
2 310 (11.15%) Git
3 279 (10.04%) GitLab
4 151 (5.43%) JIRA
5 39 (1.40%) Maven
6 35 (1.26%) JUnit
7 34 (1.22%) JMeter
8 32 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 30 (1.08%) Cucumber
10 29 (1.04%) SonarQube
11 28 (1.01%) Selenium
12 27 (0.97%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.97%) Gradle
13 26 (0.94%) Mockito
14 21 (0.76%) Claude Code
14 21 (0.76%) Postman
15 18 (0.65%) Gatling
16 17 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 16 (0.58%) REST Assured
18 10 (0.36%) Artifactory
General
1 697 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 664 (23.88%) Finance
3 374 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 271 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 263 (9.46%) Banking
6 86 (3.09%) Retail
7 64 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (2.01%) Investment Banking
9 38 (1.37%) Marketing
10 37 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.26%) Legal
12 33 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (1.15%) Front Office
13 32 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.04%) Law
15 28 (1.01%) Billing
15 28 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (0.86%) Back Office
17 24 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 560 (20.14%) Architect
2 454 (16.33%) Senior
3 337 (12.12%) Developer
4 299 (10.76%) Lead
5 292 (10.50%) Data Engineer
6 260 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
7 229 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 131 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (4.03%) AWS Architect
10 109 (3.92%) Analyst
11 108 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 103 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 101 (3.63%) Data Architect
13 101 (3.63%) Java Developer
13 101 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
14 97 (3.49%) Software Engineer
15 86 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
16 83 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
17 77 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 74 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 734 (26.40%) Terraform
2 338 (12.16%) Kafka
3 300 (10.79%) REST
4 198 (7.12%) React
5 178 (6.40%) Spring
6 164 (5.90%) Spring Boot
7 150 (5.40%) RESTful
8 110 (3.96%) Node.js
8 110 (3.96%) PySpark
9 99 (3.56%) .NET
9 99 (3.56%) OAuth
10 72 (2.59%) GraphQL
11 69 (2.48%) HTML
12 68 (2.45%) FastAPI
13 67 (2.41%) AngularJS
14 64 (2.30%) JSON
15 61 (2.19%) SOAP
16 58 (2.09%) CSS
17 55 (1.98%) OAuth2
18 50 (1.80%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 551 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 181 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 150 (5.40%) AI Agents
4 144 (5.18%) Onboarding
5 133 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 81 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 73 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 71 (2.55%) Data Centre
9 70 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 57 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 48 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 47 (1.69%) Replication
14 46 (1.65%) PKI
15 39 (1.40%) Public Cloud
16 38 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
17 35 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
17 35 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
18 31 (1.12%) Virtual Team
19 29 (1.04%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 256 (9.21%) Linux
2 125 (4.50%) Windows
3 54 (1.94%) Unix
4 51 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.40%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.22%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.14%) CentOS
11 4 (0.14%) zOS
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.11%) Solaris
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,188 (42.73%) CI/CD
2 900 (32.37%) DevOps
3 724 (26.04%) Agile
4 691 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 629 (22.63%) AI
6 484 (17.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 410 (14.75%) Observability
8 409 (14.71%) Microservices
9 399 (14.35%) Containerisation
10 367 (13.20%) Software Engineering
11 365 (13.13%) Migration
12 351 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
13 339 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 339 (12.19%) Data Modelling
14 337 (12.12%) Data Engineering
15 334 (12.01%) Event-Driven
16 330 (11.87%) Data Pipeline
17 329 (11.83%) Analytics
18 314 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
19 310 (11.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (36.83%) Python
2 620 (22.30%) SQL
3 467 (16.80%) Java
4 214 (7.70%) JavaScript
5 204 (7.34%) TypeScript
6 188 (6.76%) Bash
7 150 (5.40%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.96%) C#
9 56 (2.01%) Go
10 52 (1.87%) Scala
11 36 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.26%) Groovy
13 34 (1.22%) Bicep
14 23 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.76%) C++
16 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.58%) R
17 16 (0.58%) Ruby
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 783 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 689 (24.78%) SC Cleared
3 183 (6.58%) AWS Certification
4 145 (5.22%) Degree
5 94 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 90 (3.24%) CISSP
7 74 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 73 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 65 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 63 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 51 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.80%) CISM
13 32 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.83%) CCSP
15 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.65%) PMP
18 17 (0.61%) Master's Degree
19 16 (0.58%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (9.10%) Data Quality
2 163 (5.86%) QA
3 104 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (3.53%) NIST
5 73 (2.63%) GDPR
6 38 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.04%) GRC
7 29 (1.04%) NCSC
7 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.76%) ISO 20022
8 21 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (0.72%) SLA
9 20 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.58%) EU AI Act
11 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.47%) SEPA
13 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.32%) PMO
15 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 517 (18.60%) Docker
2 81 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.22%) IAG
9 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) NFS
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.072%) Ceph
12 2 (0.072%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 653 (23.49%) Kubernetes
2 215 (7.73%) Grafana
3 199 (7.16%) Ansible
4 160 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 51 (1.83%) Kibana
6 41 (1.47%) Argo
7 29 (1.04%) Puppet
8 26 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.50%) Istio
9 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.40%) Packer
11 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.25%) QRadar
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
14 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.18%) Nessus
14 5 (0.18%) Podman
Vendors
1 305 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 202 (7.27%) Databricks
3 157 (5.65%) Google
4 149 (5.36%) Oracle
5 112 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 110 (3.96%) Splunk
7 67 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.09%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.80%) SAP
10 49 (1.76%) Cisco
10 49 (1.76%) VMware
11 47 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 44 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 40 (1.44%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.40%) Informatica
15 37 (1.33%) IBM
16 30 (1.08%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.94%) Red Hat
18 24 (0.86%) MuleSoft
19 23 (0.83%) Foundry