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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,494 1,979 2,301
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.99% 15.53% 12.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.25% 36.90% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,698 1,437 1,764
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £46.50 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £51.75 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £67.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £94.63 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £76.00 £71.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% +35.71% -19.23%

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 7,282 5,363 6,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.78% 42.09% 37.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,989 3,721 4,959
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 46 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.30 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.21 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +15.87% +1.64% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.63 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.63 £64.40
England median hourly rate £37.31 £27.13 £21.19
% change year-on-year +37.55% +28.04% -15.26%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -2 290 £550 +2.80% 307
South London +3 94 £513 +7.89% 26
West London +12 58 £603 -2.03% 50
East London 0 10 £588 +0.43% 40
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
1 119 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.05%) Confluence
4 63 (2.53%) Apache
5 33 (1.32%) nginx
6 22 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.64%) Camunda
7 16 (0.64%) SAS
8 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.32%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.12%) CICS
12 3 (0.12%) CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.080%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.080%) OpenROAD
13 2 (0.080%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.040%) Notion
8 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.16%) Endur
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.080%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.040%) Maximo
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.040%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.040%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (40.70%) Azure
2 571 (22.89%) GCP
3 379 (15.20%) Serverless
4 355 (14.23%) Amazon S3
5 341 (13.67%) GitHub
6 324 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
7 234 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 191 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
9 179 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
10 167 (6.70%) Snowflake
11 149 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
12 146 (5.85%) Power Platform
13 141 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
14 132 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 115 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 85 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
18 61 (2.45%) dbt
19 59 (2.37%) Amazon Kinesis
20 57 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.93%) Firewall
2 66 (2.65%) VPN
3 61 (2.45%) Network Security
4 56 (2.25%) DNS
5 42 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.44%) WAN
7 19 (0.76%) BGP
7 19 (0.76%) LAN
8 16 (0.64%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.60%) OSPF
10 14 (0.56%) HTTP
11 12 (0.48%) DHCP
11 12 (0.48%) SSL
12 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
12 10 (0.40%) VLAN
13 9 (0.36%) 5G
13 9 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.32%) 4G
14 8 (0.32%) VXLAN
15 7 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (5.17%) Power BI
3 128 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
5 121 (4.85%) NoSQL
6 113 (4.53%) Data Lake
7 101 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
9 96 (3.85%) Relational Database
10 95 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 77 (3.09%) Tableau
12 75 (3.01%) MongoDB
13 71 (2.85%) DynamoDB
14 69 (2.77%) Metadata
15 60 (2.41%) Big Data
16 54 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
16 54 (2.17%) MySQL
17 41 (1.64%) BigQuery
18 35 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
19 33 (1.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 257 (10.30%) Git
2 215 (8.62%) GitLab
3 209 (8.38%) Jenkins
4 134 (5.37%) JIRA
5 46 (1.84%) JUnit
6 43 (1.72%) MLflow
7 30 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 30 (1.20%) Mockito
8 25 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 21 (0.84%) Selenium
10 19 (0.76%) Maven
10 19 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.68%) JMeter
12 15 (0.60%) Gradle
13 14 (0.56%) Gatling
14 13 (0.52%) Postman
14 13 (0.52%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.40%) Zephyr
16 9 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 576 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 557 (22.33%) Finance
3 354 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 224 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 206 (8.26%) Banking
6 93 (3.73%) Front Office
7 62 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 57 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.08%) Retail
14 22 (0.88%) Legal
15 20 (0.80%) Marketing
16 16 (0.64%) Military
16 16 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.52%) Billing
17 13 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 454 (18.20%) Architect
2 452 (18.12%) Developer
3 386 (15.48%) Senior
4 241 (9.66%) Lead
5 234 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 229 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
7 189 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 151 (6.05%) Software Engineer
9 126 (5.05%) Senior Developer
10 110 (4.41%) Analyst
11 108 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
12 96 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
12 96 (3.85%) Python Engineer
13 95 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
14 93 (3.73%) Java Developer
15 91 (3.65%) AWS Architect
16 87 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 82 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
18 81 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 81 (3.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (13.43%) Kafka
2 256 (10.26%) React
3 208 (8.34%) Node.js
4 192 (7.70%) REST
5 145 (5.81%) Spring
6 139 (5.57%) RESTful
7 129 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 94 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 71 (2.85%) PySpark
10 70 (2.81%) .NET
11 68 (2.73%) CSS
12 66 (2.65%) GraphQL
12 66 (2.65%) SOAP
13 64 (2.57%) HTML
14 63 (2.53%) OAuth
15 60 (2.41%) Redux
16 59 (2.37%) Pandas
17 56 (2.25%) gRPC
17 56 (2.25%) Vue
18 51 (2.04%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 372 (14.92%) Cloud Native
2 128 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 75 (3.01%) Security Posture
5 68 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 54 (2.17%) Derivative
10 53 (2.13%) Data Centre
11 50 (2.00%) AI Agents
11 50 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 46 (1.84%) Management Information System
13 45 (1.80%) Algorithms
14 42 (1.68%) Equities
15 37 (1.48%) Public Cloud
16 35 (1.40%) Data Structures
17 34 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
18 26 (1.04%) Mainframe
19 25 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 184 (7.38%) Linux
2 65 (2.61%) Windows
3 44 (1.76%) Unix
4 12 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.44%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
6 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.20%) zOS
9 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.080%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (37.85%) CI/CD
2 691 (27.71%) DevOps
3 615 (24.66%) Agile
4 484 (19.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 431 (17.28%) AI
6 394 (15.80%) Microservices
7 365 (14.64%) Analytics
8 360 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
9 359 (14.39%) Containerisation
10 323 (12.95%) Software Engineering
11 297 (11.91%) Data Modelling
12 268 (10.75%) Data Engineering
13 264 (10.59%) Data Pipeline
13 264 (10.59%) Machine Learning
14 255 (10.22%) Migration
15 246 (9.86%) ETL
16 244 (9.78%) Observability
17 216 (8.66%) Full-Stack Development
18 208 (8.34%) Stakeholder Management
19 200 (8.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,021 (40.94%) Python
2 587 (23.54%) SQL
3 448 (17.96%) Java
4 230 (9.22%) TypeScript
5 228 (9.14%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.61%) Go
7 103 (4.13%) C#
8 100 (4.01%) PowerShell
9 98 (3.93%) Bash
10 40 (1.60%) Ruby
11 35 (1.40%) Scala
12 34 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.08%) C++
14 20 (0.80%) R
15 19 (0.76%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.52%) Bicep
18 10 (0.40%) Korn
18 10 (0.40%) Rust
19 9 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 717 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 627 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 126 (5.05%) AWS Certification
4 125 (5.01%) Degree
5 72 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (2.13%) CISSP
7 47 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 41 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.36%) Master's Degree
12 31 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.16%) CISM
14 24 (0.96%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.96%) PMP
15 21 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 18 (0.72%) CCNP
18 14 (0.56%) CCSP
18 14 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 128 (5.13%) GDPR
3 92 (3.69%) QA
4 74 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (2.85%) NIST
6 47 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.08%) NCSC
9 21 (0.84%) SLA
10 17 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 17 (0.68%) WCAG
11 14 (0.56%) GRC
12 13 (0.52%) PMO
13 12 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.32%) PSD2
16 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 521 (20.89%) Docker
2 64 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.40%) Squid
6 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) NFS
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.040%) Ceph
10 1 (0.040%) iptables
10 1 (0.040%) KVM
10 1 (0.040%) Lustre
10 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.040%) zsh
Systems Management
1 586 (23.50%) Terraform
2 543 (21.77%) Kubernetes
3 133 (5.33%) Ansible
4 115 (4.61%) Grafana
5 106 (4.25%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (1.36%) Argo
8 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.72%) Consul
10 17 (0.68%) Puppet
11 15 (0.60%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.52%) Packer
14 10 (0.40%) SCCM
15 9 (0.36%) Kibana
15 9 (0.36%) QRadar
16 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
17 6 (0.24%) Istio
18 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
18 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 180 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 140 (5.61%) Databricks
3 98 (3.93%) Google
4 94 (3.77%) Oracle
5 79 (3.17%) Splunk
6 63 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 50 (2.00%) CyberArk
9 39 (1.56%) Cisco
10 38 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 35 (1.40%) Centrify
12 34 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
12 34 (1.36%) Dynatrace
12 34 (1.36%) IBM
13 31 (1.24%) VMware
14 30 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.20%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.20%) SAP
15 24 (0.96%) Fortinet
16 20 (0.80%) Atlassian