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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,793 2,090 2,410
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.67% 16.71% 13.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.90% 38.94% 34.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,927 1,465 1,873
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.13% -3.29%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £541 £563
% change year-on-year +1.62% -3.78% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 12
10th Percentile £39.50 £36.00 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +93.49% -65.44%
75th Percentile £80.63 £67.50 £59.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £84.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.74%

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 8,002 5,367 6,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.92% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,496 3,644 5,122
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 67 70
10th Percentile £21.55 £22.80 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% +20.82% -49.55%
75th Percentile £56.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £70.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -2 295 £550 - 93
West London +2 89 £560 +13.71% 43
South London +2 80 £500 - 2
East London +7 16 £540 -7.69% 26
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
1 133 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 82 (2.94%) Confluence
4 59 (2.11%) Apache
5 30 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 13 (0.47%) Camunda
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 8 (0.29%) CMS
10 7 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 43 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 21 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
4 12 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.29%) Revit
6 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Endur
5 4 (0.14%) Magento
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.072%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.072%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.036%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,134 (40.60%) Azure
2 579 (20.73%) GCP
3 420 (15.04%) Serverless
4 418 (14.97%) Amazon S3
5 365 (13.07%) AWS Lambda
6 347 (12.42%) GitHub
7 217 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
8 198 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 192 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
10 191 (6.84%) Snowflake
11 174 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
12 172 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 156 (5.59%) Power Platform
14 140 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
15 129 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 112 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
17 111 (3.97%) SaaS
18 95 (3.40%) dbt
19 91 (3.26%) Amazon Bedrock
20 80 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.83%) Firewall
2 84 (3.01%) Network Security
3 70 (2.51%) VPN
4 66 (2.36%) DNS
5 46 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.43%) WAN
7 24 (0.86%) BGP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
9 20 (0.72%) DHCP
10 18 (0.64%) LAN
10 18 (0.64%) OSPF
10 18 (0.64%) SSL
11 15 (0.54%) NGFW
12 14 (0.50%) Internet
12 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.43%) VLAN
14 10 (0.36%) HTTPS
14 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
3 137 (4.91%) Power BI
4 131 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (4.51%) Data Lake
6 117 (4.19%) NoSQL
7 116 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
8 109 (3.90%) SQL Server
9 108 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (3.15%) DynamoDB
11 81 (2.90%) Metadata
12 79 (2.83%) MongoDB
13 76 (2.72%) Tableau
14 75 (2.69%) Relational Database
15 62 (2.22%) Big Data
16 46 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
17 43 (1.54%) BigQuery
18 40 (1.43%) MySQL
19 38 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
20 36 (1.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 250 (8.95%) Git
2 249 (8.92%) Jenkins
3 247 (8.84%) GitLab
4 149 (5.33%) JIRA
5 41 (1.47%) JUnit
6 33 (1.18%) Mockito
7 32 (1.15%) MLflow
8 29 (1.04%) JMeter
8 29 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.90%) Maven
11 22 (0.79%) Gradle
12 21 (0.75%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.75%) Postman
13 20 (0.72%) Bitbucket
14 19 (0.68%) Gatling
14 19 (0.68%) Selenium
15 16 (0.57%) CircleCI
15 16 (0.57%) Snyk
16 14 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 664 (23.77%) Finance
2 595 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 398 (14.25%) Public Sector
4 238 (8.52%) Banking
5 235 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (2.94%) Front Office
7 67 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 59 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (2.08%) Retail
10 53 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 42 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (0.90%) Marketing
17 21 (0.75%) Law
17 21 (0.75%) Legal
18 15 (0.54%) Military
18 15 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 544 (19.48%) Architect
2 422 (15.11%) Senior
3 414 (14.82%) Developer
4 304 (10.88%) Lead
5 303 (10.85%) Data Engineer
6 292 (10.45%) AWS Engineer
7 214 (7.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 152 (5.44%) Software Engineer
9 151 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
10 132 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 113 (4.05%) AWS Architect
12 107 (3.83%) Senior Developer
13 105 (3.76%) Java Developer
14 103 (3.69%) Analyst
15 97 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
16 96 (3.44%) Cloud Architect
17 92 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 88 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
19 85 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 75 (2.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (11.10%) Kafka
2 247 (8.84%) React
3 222 (7.95%) REST
4 177 (6.34%) Node.js
5 174 (6.23%) Spring
6 166 (5.94%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.19%) RESTful
8 95 (3.40%) .NET
9 90 (3.22%) PySpark
10 85 (3.04%) GraphQL
11 81 (2.90%) OAuth
12 79 (2.83%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.29%) Redux
14 57 (2.04%) SOAP
15 56 (2.01%) FastAPI
16 54 (1.93%) HTML
16 54 (1.93%) Pandas
17 53 (1.90%) JSON
18 52 (1.86%) OpenID
19 50 (1.79%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 491 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 168 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 89 (3.19%) AI Agents
5 81 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 78 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.72%) Fixed Income
8 73 (2.61%) Security Posture
9 65 (2.33%) Data Centre
10 59 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
11 56 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 56 (2.01%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.58%) Derivative
14 39 (1.40%) Equities
15 33 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
16 31 (1.11%) Data Structures
17 30 (1.07%) Algorithms
17 30 (1.07%) Public Cloud
18 29 (1.04%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 204 (7.30%) Linux
2 103 (3.69%) Windows
3 39 (1.40%) Unix
4 32 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.39%) Android
7 10 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.072%) CentOS
13 2 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,092 (39.10%) CI/CD
2 827 (29.61%) DevOps
3 676 (24.20%) Agile
4 587 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 575 (20.59%) AI
6 414 (14.82%) Microservices
7 402 (14.39%) Containerisation
8 384 (13.75%) Analytics
9 352 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
10 343 (12.28%) Software Engineering
11 335 (11.99%) Migration
12 318 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
13 310 (11.10%) Data Modelling
14 308 (11.03%) Data Engineering
15 299 (10.71%) Observability
16 291 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
17 290 (10.38%) Machine Learning
18 259 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 241 (8.63%) Event-Driven
20 240 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,058 (37.88%) Python
2 598 (21.41%) SQL
3 481 (17.22%) Java
4 258 (9.24%) TypeScript
5 222 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 121 (4.33%) C#
7 118 (4.22%) Bash
7 118 (4.22%) PowerShell
8 91 (3.26%) Go
9 45 (1.61%) Scala
10 34 (1.22%) Ruby
10 34 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 26 (0.93%) Bicep
12 23 (0.82%) R
13 22 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.61%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.50%) Groovy
17 13 (0.47%) C++
18 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 754 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 671 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 150 (5.37%) Degree
4 130 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 86 (3.08%) CISSP
6 70 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 63 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 56 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (1.40%) CISM
11 33 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 29 (1.04%) Master's Degree
14 25 (0.90%) PMI Certification
14 25 (0.90%) PMP
15 23 (0.82%) CCSP
16 22 (0.79%) CCNP
17 16 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 119 (4.26%) QA
3 103 (3.69%) GDPR
4 98 (3.51%) NIST
5 82 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.04%) GRC
9 27 (0.97%) SLA
10 22 (0.79%) NCSC
11 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.61%) PMO
13 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.43%) WCAG
14 11 (0.39%) EU AI Act
14 11 (0.39%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.29%) SEPA
16 7 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 492 (17.62%) Docker
2 92 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.57%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.14%) IAG
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 2 (0.072%) Firmware
10 2 (0.072%) HDFS
10 2 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 670 (23.99%) Terraform
2 571 (20.44%) Kubernetes
3 169 (6.05%) Ansible
4 164 (5.87%) Grafana
5 144 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.90%) Puppet
8 21 (0.75%) Kibana
9 19 (0.68%) Argo
10 14 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.43%) Consul
13 11 (0.39%) Packer
14 9 (0.32%) QRadar
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
17 5 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 225 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.44%) Databricks
3 106 (3.80%) Google
4 98 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 93 (3.33%) Oracle
6 77 (2.76%) Splunk
7 64 (2.29%) CyberArk
8 63 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 60 (2.15%) OpenAI
10 47 (1.68%) Cisco
11 38 (1.36%) VMware
12 36 (1.29%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.18%) Foundry
13 33 (1.18%) Red Hat
14 31 (1.11%) Dynatrace
14 31 (1.11%) SAP
15 28 (1.00%) Informatica
16 26 (0.93%) IBM
16 26 (0.93%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.82%) Fortinet