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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,138 2,276 3,031
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 15.92% 14.09% 13.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.77% 34.17% 34.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,478 1,700 2,373
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £700 £760 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £525 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 13
10th Percentile £36.25 - £37.70
25th Percentile £40.63 £23.80 £79.06
Median hourly rate £63.75 £30.65 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.99% -63.94% +61.90%
75th Percentile £79.69 £52.81 £90.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £68.13 -
England median hourly rate £73.50 £46.18 £72.50
% change year-on-year +59.16% -36.30% +13.28%

All Cloud 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 5,815 6,660 8,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 41.24% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,955 4,663 6,448
10th Percentile £340 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -1.03%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £782
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 64
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -24.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £69.06
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £88.97
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +3 250 £585 +1.74% 224
South London +7 45 £558 +10.44% 29
West London -9 32 £419 -27.17% 66
East London +13 6 £608 -19.00% 52
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 171 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (4.68%) Confluence
3 92 (4.30%) Apache
4 66 (3.09%) Apache Spark
5 34 (1.59%) nginx
6 15 (0.70%) CMS
7 14 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.42%) SAS
11 6 (0.28%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.19%) JBoss
12 4 (0.19%) Luigi
13 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Traefik
14 2 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 9 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.047%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.047%) Pro Tools
7 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.047%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (0.70%) Endur
2 9 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.094%) Actimize
4 2 (0.094%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.094%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.094%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.094%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.094%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.094%) Shopify
5 1 (0.047%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.047%) Magento
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.047%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 772 (36.11%) Azure
2 506 (23.67%) GCP
3 283 (13.24%) Amazon S3
4 263 (12.30%) Serverless
5 253 (11.83%) GitHub
6 218 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
7 170 (7.95%) dbt
8 162 (7.58%) Snowflake
9 154 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 152 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
11 136 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
12 101 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 92 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
14 87 (4.07%) SaaS
15 83 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
16 74 (3.46%) Power Platform
17 72 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
18 67 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 49 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 143 (6.69%) Firewall
2 86 (4.02%) DNS
3 72 (3.37%) VPN
4 49 (2.29%) Network Security
5 42 (1.96%) HTTP
6 38 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.54%) BGP
7 33 (1.54%) WAN
8 32 (1.50%) SSL
9 29 (1.36%) OSPF
10 24 (1.12%) DHCP
10 24 (1.12%) LAN
11 21 (0.98%) VLAN
12 18 (0.84%) SSH
13 16 (0.75%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
15 12 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
15 12 (0.56%) Internet
15 12 (0.56%) MPLS
16 11 (0.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
3 117 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
4 109 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
5 107 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 94 (4.40%) NoSQL
7 88 (4.12%) Apache Iceberg
8 84 (3.93%) Apache Arrow
8 84 (3.93%) Dremio
9 75 (3.51%) DynamoDB
10 67 (3.13%) Power BI
11 64 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 58 (2.71%) SQL Server
13 57 (2.67%) Relational Database
14 48 (2.25%) Apache Ignite
14 48 (2.25%) MongoDB
15 44 (2.06%) Metadata
16 41 (1.92%) Big Data
17 40 (1.87%) MySQL
18 37 (1.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 212 (9.92%) Git
2 199 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 146 (6.83%) JIRA
4 106 (4.96%) GitLab
5 38 (1.78%) SonarQube
6 37 (1.73%) JUnit
7 31 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.40%) CircleCI
9 27 (1.26%) Maven
10 24 (1.12%) ERwin
11 22 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 22 (1.03%) Selenium
12 21 (0.98%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.98%) Metasploit
13 20 (0.94%) Burp Suite
14 18 (0.84%) MLflow
15 17 (0.80%) Mockito
15 17 (0.80%) Postman
16 16 (0.75%) Artifactory
16 16 (0.75%) ER Studio
General
1 529 (24.74%) Finance
2 521 (24.37%) Social Skills
3 243 (11.37%) Banking
4 232 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 209 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
6 167 (7.81%) Front Office
7 127 (5.94%) Investment Banking
8 41 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 38 (1.78%) Marketing
10 35 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 28 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.26%) Military
13 24 (1.12%) Retail
14 23 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (0.84%) Back Office
15 18 (0.84%) Legal
16 12 (0.56%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.47%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.42%) Automotive
18 9 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 480 (22.45%) Developer
2 365 (17.07%) Senior
3 355 (16.60%) Architect
4 284 (13.28%) AWS Engineer
5 203 (9.49%) Software Engineer
6 152 (7.11%) Lead
7 148 (6.92%) Data Engineer
8 147 (6.88%) Python Engineer
9 145 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 141 (6.59%) Java Developer
11 112 (5.24%) AWS Developer
12 103 (4.82%) Java Engineer
13 94 (4.40%) AWS Software Engineer
13 94 (4.40%) Python Developer
14 91 (4.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 87 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
16 85 (3.98%) Senior Developer
17 80 (3.74%) Java Software Engineer
17 80 (3.74%) Python Software Engineer
18 77 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (13.66%) React
2 232 (10.85%) Kafka
3 200 (9.35%) Node.js
4 130 (6.08%) AngularJS
5 117 (5.47%) NumPy
5 117 (5.47%) Pandas
6 109 (5.10%) REST
7 106 (4.96%) Spring
8 101 (4.72%) SciPy
9 97 (4.54%) GraphQL
10 95 (4.44%) Spring Boot
11 89 (4.16%) gRPC
12 85 (3.98%) Vue
13 82 (3.84%) RESTful
14 74 (3.46%) Redux
15 62 (2.90%) .NET
16 55 (2.57%) HTML
17 49 (2.29%) Protocol Buffers
18 47 (2.20%) CSS
19 41 (1.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 198 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 148 (6.92%) Fixed Income
3 133 (6.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 117 (5.47%) Equities
5 106 (4.96%) Hedge funds
6 88 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
7 71 (3.32%) Derivative
8 58 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.48%) Product Ownership
10 48 (2.25%) Pricing Data
11 47 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
12 45 (2.10%) Management Information System
13 41 (1.92%) Data Centre
13 41 (1.92%) Public Cloud
14 38 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
15 36 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
16 33 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
16 33 (1.54%) Mobile App
16 33 (1.54%) Virtual Team
17 29 (1.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 187 (8.75%) Linux
2 88 (4.12%) Windows
3 42 (1.96%) Unix
4 24 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.70%) Ubuntu
5 15 (0.70%) VMS
6 12 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
7 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.47%) Android
9 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.42%) CentOS
10 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.094%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Debian
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (33.07%) CI/CD
2 656 (30.68%) Agile
3 559 (26.15%) DevOps
4 363 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 358 (16.74%) Software Engineering
6 343 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
7 315 (14.73%) Microservices
8 242 (11.32%) Analytics
9 222 (10.38%) Containerisation
10 198 (9.26%) Migration
11 179 (8.37%) Artificial Intelligence
12 172 (8.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 170 (7.95%) Data Modelling
14 161 (7.53%) ETL
15 160 (7.48%) TDD
16 157 (7.34%) Data Pipeline
17 156 (7.30%) Machine Learning
18 154 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 149 (6.97%) Cloud Security
19 149 (6.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 906 (42.38%) Python
2 484 (22.64%) Java
3 385 (18.01%) SQL
4 357 (16.70%) JavaScript
5 338 (15.81%) TypeScript
6 151 (7.06%) Bash
7 133 (6.22%) Go
8 95 (4.44%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.23%) C#
10 53 (2.48%) C++
11 35 (1.64%) Scala
12 33 (1.54%) Groovy
13 27 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 26 (1.22%) Perl
14 26 (1.22%) Rust
15 24 (1.12%) C
16 21 (0.98%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.89%) R
17 19 (0.89%) Ruby
18 17 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 460 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 403 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 148 (6.92%) Degree
4 143 (6.69%) AWS Certification
5 60 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 44 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 39 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.64%) CISSP
11 32 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 25 (1.17%) OSCP
13 23 (1.08%) CCNP
14 20 (0.94%) CREST Certified
15 19 (0.89%) CISM
16 16 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
17 15 (0.70%) PMI Certification
17 15 (0.70%) PMP
18 13 (0.61%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 95 (4.44%) QA
3 73 (3.41%) GDPR
4 66 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.95%) NIST
6 27 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.08%) NCSC
8 19 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.65%) WCAG
10 13 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.42%) SLA
12 8 (0.37%) MiFID
13 5 (0.23%) GRC
13 5 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.19%) EMIR
14 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 421 (19.69%) Docker
2 60 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.56%) Firmware
5 11 (0.51%) Postfix
6 10 (0.47%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.47%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.47%) Squid
7 8 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.37%) zsh
8 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.047%) etcd
10 1 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.047%) Snort
10 1 (0.047%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.047%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.047%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 472 (22.08%) Kubernetes
2 437 (20.44%) Terraform
3 157 (7.34%) Ansible
4 107 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 104 (4.86%) Grafana
6 40 (1.87%) Puppet
7 31 (1.45%) Progress Chef
7 31 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.89%) Nmap
9 18 (0.84%) Packer
10 17 (0.80%) Argo
10 17 (0.80%) Nessus
11 14 (0.65%) Consul
12 13 (0.61%) Kibana
12 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.47%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
14 9 (0.42%) QRadar
15 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 159 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 112 (5.24%) Google
3 106 (4.96%) Databricks
4 80 (3.74%) Splunk
5 56 (2.62%) Oracle
6 55 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.39%) Cisco
8 33 (1.54%) Arista
9 32 (1.50%) F5
10 28 (1.31%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.22%) CheckPoint
12 26 (1.22%) VMware
13 18 (0.84%) Atlassian
13 18 (0.84%) IBM
13 18 (0.84%) Informatica
13 18 (0.84%) Tenable
14 17 (0.80%) Dynatrace
15 16 (0.75%) Okta
16 15 (0.70%) OpenAI