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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,331 1,959 2,307
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.01% 14.53% 12.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.06% 35.01% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,590 1,404 1,776
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £460 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +1.96% -5.43%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £76.67 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.68% -5.22% -14.18%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +35.14% +8.71% -20.23%

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 6,844 5,595 6,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.06% 41.49% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 3,743 5,047
10th Percentile £350 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.99 £21.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.63
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -1 272 £540 +0.23% 249
South London +7 86 £519 +6.10% 28
West London +10 49 £603 +5.42% 57
East London +4 8 £653 - 47
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
1 102 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (3.65%) Apache Spark
3 84 (3.60%) Confluence
4 59 (2.53%) Apache
5 35 (1.50%) nginx
6 14 (0.60%) Camunda
6 14 (0.60%) SAS
7 13 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.34%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) Traefik
10 3 (0.13%) CMS
10 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.086%) Drupal
11 2 (0.086%) Mule
11 2 (0.086%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 25 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.043%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.043%) Notion
7 1 (0.043%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.30%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.17%) Actimize
4 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.17%) Endur
5 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.086%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.086%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.043%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.043%) Maximo
7 1 (0.043%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.043%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 940 (40.33%) Azure
2 549 (23.55%) GCP
3 362 (15.53%) Serverless
4 331 (14.20%) Amazon S3
5 314 (13.47%) AWS Lambda
5 314 (13.47%) GitHub
6 209 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 180 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
8 172 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
9 159 (6.82%) Snowflake
10 139 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
11 134 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 134 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
12 132 (5.66%) Power Platform
13 106 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 66 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
15 64 (2.75%) dbt
16 62 (2.66%) Amazon Kinesis
17 54 (2.32%) AWS Step Functions
18 49 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.72%) Firewall
2 67 (2.87%) VPN
3 61 (2.62%) DNS
3 61 (2.62%) Network Security
4 41 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.20%) WAN
6 23 (0.99%) SSL
7 17 (0.73%) BGP
7 17 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.69%) LAN
9 15 (0.64%) DHCP
9 15 (0.64%) OSPF
10 14 (0.60%) HTTP
11 12 (0.51%) VLAN
12 9 (0.39%) 5G
12 9 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.39%) Wireless
12 9 (0.39%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.34%) 4G
14 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (5.06%) NoSQL
3 117 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (5.02%) Power BI
4 116 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
5 101 (4.33%) Data Lake
6 94 (4.03%) SQL Server
7 92 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
8 91 (3.90%) Relational Database
9 83 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 67 (2.87%) MongoDB
10 67 (2.87%) Tableau
11 63 (2.70%) DynamoDB
11 63 (2.70%) Metadata
12 58 (2.49%) MySQL
13 50 (2.15%) Big Data
14 49 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
15 42 (1.80%) BigQuery
16 38 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
17 34 (1.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 227 (9.74%) Git
2 211 (9.05%) Jenkins
3 200 (8.58%) GitLab
4 150 (6.44%) JIRA
5 41 (1.76%) JUnit
6 38 (1.63%) MLflow
7 29 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.24%) Cucumber
8 23 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 20 (0.86%) ERwin
9 20 (0.86%) Mockito
10 18 (0.77%) Maven
11 17 (0.73%) Selenium
11 17 (0.73%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.64%) JMeter
13 14 (0.60%) Gatling
14 13 (0.56%) ER Studio
15 11 (0.47%) Gradle
15 11 (0.47%) Postman
16 9 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 580 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 501 (21.49%) Finance
3 296 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 215 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 192 (8.24%) Banking
6 72 (3.09%) Front Office
7 57 (2.45%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 31 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.29%) Retail
13 27 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 23 (0.99%) Marketing
15 20 (0.86%) Military
16 18 (0.77%) Legal
17 14 (0.60%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 428 (18.36%) Developer
2 400 (17.16%) Architect
3 361 (15.49%) Senior
4 237 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
5 214 (9.18%) Data Engineer
6 200 (8.58%) Lead
7 199 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 136 (5.83%) Software Engineer
9 120 (5.15%) Senior Developer
10 107 (4.59%) Analyst
11 101 (4.33%) Python Engineer
12 96 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 94 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
14 88 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
14 88 (3.78%) Java Developer
15 87 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 82 (3.52%) Python Developer
17 81 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
18 75 (3.22%) AWS Architect
19 74 (3.17%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (12.96%) Kafka
2 228 (9.78%) React
3 178 (7.64%) Node.js
4 169 (7.25%) REST
5 136 (5.83%) Spring
6 123 (5.28%) RESTful
7 117 (5.02%) Spring Boot
8 100 (4.29%) AngularJS
9 72 (3.09%) CSS
9 72 (3.09%) HTML
10 68 (2.92%) .NET
11 64 (2.75%) Pandas
12 61 (2.62%) gRPC
13 59 (2.53%) NumPy
13 59 (2.53%) SOAP
14 58 (2.49%) PySpark
15 56 (2.40%) OAuth
16 54 (2.32%) PyTorch
16 54 (2.32%) Vue
17 53 (2.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 323 (13.86%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.43%) Security Posture
4 60 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (2.57%) Product Ownership
5 58 (2.49%) Fixed Income
6 53 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 47 (2.02%) Derivative
7 47 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 45 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 37 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 37 (1.59%) Equities
11 37 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 37 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 35 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 35 (1.50%) Hedge funds
13 30 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
14 29 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.28%) Linux
2 65 (2.79%) Windows
3 50 (2.15%) Unix
4 19 (0.82%) VMS
5 12 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.34%) Android
7 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.21%) CentOS
10 3 (0.13%) zOS
11 2 (0.086%) Solaris
11 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (38.27%) CI/CD
2 640 (27.46%) DevOps
3 556 (23.85%) Agile
4 458 (19.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 373 (16.00%) AI
5 373 (16.00%) Microservices
6 360 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
7 356 (15.27%) Analytics
8 308 (13.21%) Containerisation
9 304 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 263 (11.28%) Data Modelling
11 248 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
12 238 (10.21%) Machine Learning
13 229 (9.82%) Data Engineering
14 225 (9.65%) ETL
14 225 (9.65%) Observability
15 211 (9.05%) Migration
16 195 (8.37%) Full-Stack Development
17 181 (7.76%) Test Automation
18 175 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 983 (42.17%) Python
2 544 (23.34%) SQL
3 429 (18.40%) Java
4 221 (9.48%) JavaScript
5 202 (8.67%) TypeScript
6 108 (4.63%) Go
7 106 (4.55%) Bash
8 100 (4.29%) C#
9 89 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.33%) Scala
11 30 (1.29%) C++
11 30 (1.29%) Ruby
12 29 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.77%) R
14 16 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.64%) Rust
16 13 (0.56%) PHP
16 13 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.47%) Bicep
17 11 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 646 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 570 (24.45%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.58%) AWS Certification
4 121 (5.19%) Degree
5 65 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 44 (1.89%) CISSP
8 41 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 36 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 23 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.90%) CISM
15 18 (0.77%) OSCP
16 17 (0.73%) PMI Certification
17 16 (0.69%) CCNP
17 16 (0.69%) PMP
18 15 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 12 (0.51%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 106 (4.55%) GDPR
3 82 (3.52%) QA
4 71 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.66%) NIST
6 43 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.16%) NCSC
8 25 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 14 (0.60%) SLA
10 13 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.56%) WCAG
11 12 (0.51%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.47%) GRC
13 9 (0.39%) PMO
14 8 (0.34%) PSD2
15 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 509 (21.84%) Docker
2 63 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.51%) Squid
5 9 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.26%) zsh
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
8 4 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.17%) Postfix
8 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) NLBS
11 1 (0.043%) Samba
11 1 (0.043%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 551 (23.64%) Terraform
2 532 (22.82%) Kubernetes
3 136 (5.83%) Ansible
4 99 (4.25%) Grafana
5 88 (3.78%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 36 (1.54%) Argo
8 17 (0.73%) Consul
8 17 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.73%) Puppet
9 15 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.51%) Kibana
10 12 (0.51%) Nessus
10 12 (0.51%) Packer
11 11 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.47%) SCCM
12 8 (0.34%) QRadar
13 7 (0.30%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.26%) Istio
14 6 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 154 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 151 (6.48%) Databricks
3 89 (3.82%) Oracle
4 88 (3.78%) Google
5 78 (3.35%) Splunk
6 60 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 46 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 44 (1.89%) CyberArk
9 37 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 36 (1.54%) Cisco
11 34 (1.46%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.46%) Centrify
11 34 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.33%) Dynatrace
13 30 (1.29%) IBM
14 27 (1.16%) Red Hat
15 26 (1.12%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.03%) SAP
17 20 (0.86%) VMware
18 19 (0.82%) Atlassian