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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,817 2,213 2,288
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.02% 16.36% 14.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.83% 38.03% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,978 1,543 1,743
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 7
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +46.67% -54.82%
75th Percentile £80.63 £78.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.00 £71.70
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -38.43%

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 8,326 5,819 6,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.45% 43.01% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,668 3,979 4,777
10th Percentile £363 £336 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 90 52
10th Percentile £18.80 £22.95 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.12 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £77.11 £72.68 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £24.59
% change year-on-year +34.98% +6.95% -23.87%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -6 285 £550 -4.35% 169
West London +6 97 £560 +31.76% 72
South London +1 85 £535 +1.90% 15
East London +5 14 £525 -10.26% 24
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
1 153 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 93 (3.30%) Confluence
4 81 (2.88%) Apache
5 37 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.46%) nginx
6 13 (0.46%) SAS
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.28%) Camunda
11 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
13 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 35 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.28%) Revit
6 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
2 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.071%) Endur
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.071%) Shopify
6 2 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (43.88%) Azure
2 615 (21.83%) GCP
3 395 (14.02%) Serverless
4 378 (13.42%) Amazon S3
5 360 (12.78%) GitHub
6 334 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
7 238 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
8 220 (7.81%) Snowflake
9 197 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
10 176 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 165 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 160 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
14 135 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
15 131 (4.65%) Power Platform
16 125 (4.44%) SaaS
17 121 (4.30%) dbt
18 119 (4.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 96 (3.41%) Entra ID
20 92 (3.27%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.83%) Firewall
2 86 (3.05%) Network Security
3 75 (2.66%) DNS
4 64 (2.27%) VPN
5 43 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.28%) WAN
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) SSL
10 18 (0.64%) BGP
10 18 (0.64%) Internet
10 18 (0.64%) SSH
11 14 (0.50%) NGFW
11 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
12 13 (0.46%) OSPF
13 12 (0.43%) LAN
13 12 (0.43%) SAN
14 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
4 119 (4.22%) NoSQL
4 119 (4.22%) Power BI
5 117 (4.15%) Data Lake
6 103 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
6 103 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 98 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (3.37%) Metadata
9 87 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 86 (3.05%) MongoDB
11 71 (2.52%) Relational Database
12 62 (2.20%) Delta Lake
13 61 (2.17%) Big Data
14 59 (2.09%) Tableau
15 49 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
16 43 (1.53%) BigQuery
17 40 (1.42%) Redis
17 40 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 282 (10.01%) Jenkins
2 281 (9.98%) Git
3 260 (9.23%) GitLab
4 146 (5.18%) JIRA
5 35 (1.24%) JMeter
6 34 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 33 (1.17%) JUnit
8 31 (1.10%) SonarQube
9 30 (1.06%) Selenium
10 29 (1.03%) Maven
11 27 (0.96%) Mockito
12 23 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.82%) Postman
13 21 (0.75%) Gradle
13 21 (0.75%) MLflow
14 20 (0.71%) Gatling
15 19 (0.67%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.64%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.57%) Claude Code
18 14 (0.50%) CircleCI
General
1 682 (24.21%) Finance
2 638 (22.65%) Social Skills
3 407 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 256 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 254 (9.02%) Banking
6 74 (2.63%) Retail
7 61 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (2.13%) Front Office
9 53 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 47 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.31%) Marketing
13 33 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (0.99%) Legal
15 27 (0.96%) Law
16 26 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.75%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 590 (20.94%) Architect
2 448 (15.90%) Senior
3 365 (12.96%) Developer
4 311 (11.04%) Lead
5 297 (10.54%) Data Engineer
6 277 (9.83%) AWS Engineer
7 200 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 158 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
9 117 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 116 (4.12%) Software Engineer
11 115 (4.08%) AWS Architect
12 108 (3.83%) Analyst
12 108 (3.83%) Java Developer
13 95 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
14 92 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 91 (3.23%) Senior Developer
16 88 (3.12%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.12%) Data Architect
17 82 (2.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 79 (2.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (11.25%) Kafka
2 248 (8.80%) REST
3 224 (7.95%) React
4 176 (6.25%) Spring
5 159 (5.64%) Spring Boot
6 153 (5.43%) Node.js
7 151 (5.36%) RESTful
8 105 (3.73%) PySpark
9 88 (3.12%) .NET
10 78 (2.77%) GraphQL
11 76 (2.70%) OAuth
12 66 (2.34%) AngularJS
13 62 (2.20%) JSON
14 60 (2.13%) FastAPI
15 56 (1.99%) HTML
16 50 (1.77%) CSS
17 45 (1.60%) LangChain
17 45 (1.60%) Redux
18 44 (1.56%) OAuth2
19 43 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 507 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 120 (4.26%) AI Agents
5 101 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.34%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 58 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 47 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.56%) Management Information System
14 40 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
16 36 (1.28%) Replication
17 34 (1.21%) CMDB
17 34 (1.21%) PKI
18 33 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
19 30 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 228 (8.09%) Linux
2 123 (4.37%) Windows
3 47 (1.67%) Unix
4 44 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Solaris
9 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.11%) AIX
10 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.11%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.071%) CentOS
11 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,146 (40.68%) CI/CD
2 868 (30.81%) DevOps
3 707 (25.10%) Agile
4 616 (21.87%) AI
4 616 (21.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 414 (14.70%) Microservices
6 411 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 398 (14.13%) Containerisation
8 371 (13.17%) Migration
9 362 (12.85%) Analytics
10 355 (12.60%) Observability
10 355 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
11 353 (12.53%) Software Engineering
12 346 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
13 344 (12.21%) Data Modelling
14 328 (11.64%) Data Engineering
15 308 (10.93%) Machine Learning
16 305 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 289 (10.26%) Event-Driven
18 271 (9.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (36.88%) Python
2 599 (21.26%) SQL
3 490 (17.39%) Java
4 243 (8.63%) TypeScript
5 224 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 157 (5.57%) Bash
7 142 (5.04%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.94%) C#
9 61 (2.17%) Go
10 43 (1.53%) Scala
11 35 (1.24%) Bicep
12 34 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.99%) Ruby
14 26 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) Groovy
16 21 (0.75%) R
17 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.64%) C++
19 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 753 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 671 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.18%) AWS Certification
3 146 (5.18%) Degree
4 87 (3.09%) CISSP
5 68 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 67 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 65 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 46 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 46 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.63%) CISM
10 26 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 25 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 23 (0.82%) PMP
13 18 (0.64%) CCNP
14 17 (0.60%) CCSP
15 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 142 (5.04%) QA
3 101 (3.59%) NIST
4 95 (3.37%) GDPR
5 87 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.06%) GRC
9 28 (0.99%) SLA
10 24 (0.85%) NCSC
11 21 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.53%) PMO
14 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.35%) SEPA
16 10 (0.35%) WCAG
17 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 491 (17.43%) Docker
2 83 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.11%) Firmware
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 679 (24.10%) Terraform
2 599 (21.26%) Kubernetes
3 193 (6.85%) Grafana
4 177 (6.28%) Ansible
5 155 (5.50%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.06%) Argo
8 29 (1.03%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) Istio
13 9 (0.32%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 257 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 161 (5.72%) Databricks
3 128 (4.54%) ServiceNow
4 127 (4.51%) Google
5 120 (4.26%) Oracle
6 88 (3.12%) Splunk
7 70 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 55 (1.95%) VMware
9 50 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 49 (1.74%) CyberArk
11 48 (1.70%) Cisco
12 47 (1.67%) SAP
13 35 (1.24%) Palo Alto
14 33 (1.17%) IBM
15 32 (1.14%) Informatica
16 31 (1.10%) Dynatrace
16 31 (1.10%) Foundry
17 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.89%) MuleSoft
19 23 (0.82%) Fortinet