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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,588 1,994 2,338
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.30% 16.30% 13.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.91% 38.31% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,795 1,424 1,810
10th Percentile £405 £400 £406
25th Percentile £471 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £699 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £838
England median daily rate £545 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.63 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £46.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.52% +48.41% -58.00%
75th Percentile £76.25 £64.44 £69.75
90th Percentile £91.13 £83.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +31.82% -26.67%

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 7,631 5,205 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.18% 42.54% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,283 3,579 4,996
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £20.87 £23.01 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -40.91%
75th Percentile £53.94 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £41.78 £26.45 £21.37
% change year-on-year +57.96% +23.77% -34.04%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -3 278 £550 - 191
South London +4 86 £500 +1.78% 8
West London +7 85 £603 +11.88% 34
East London +3 16 £543 -7.26% 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
1 122 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.59%) Confluence
4 62 (2.40%) Apache
5 23 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.70%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
9 10 (0.39%) CICS
9 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.19%) CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Appian
11 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.12%) IIS
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.077%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 40 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.15%) Magento
5 4 (0.15%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.077%) Actimize
7 2 (0.077%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.077%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.039%) Shopify
8 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (40.38%) Azure
2 557 (21.52%) GCP
3 389 (15.03%) Amazon S3
4 383 (14.80%) Serverless
5 335 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
6 332 (12.83%) GitHub
7 206 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 201 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
10 167 (6.45%) Snowflake
11 165 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
12 149 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 141 (5.45%) Power Platform
14 133 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
15 118 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 107 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
17 78 (3.01%) SaaS
18 73 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
18 73 (2.82%) dbt
19 66 (2.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.86%) Firewall
2 69 (2.67%) Network Security
3 63 (2.43%) DNS
4 59 (2.28%) VPN
5 48 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.28%) WAN
7 21 (0.81%) BGP
8 20 (0.77%) HTTP
9 18 (0.70%) LAN
10 17 (0.66%) SSL
11 16 (0.62%) DHCP
11 16 (0.62%) OSPF
12 13 (0.50%) VLAN
13 12 (0.46%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.43%) NGFW
15 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
16 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
16 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.31%) SAN
18 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (4.87%) Data Lake
3 120 (4.64%) Power BI
4 119 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
5 111 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 110 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
6 110 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
7 98 (3.79%) SQL Server
8 96 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 78 (3.01%) DynamoDB
10 75 (2.90%) Tableau
11 74 (2.86%) MongoDB
12 72 (2.78%) Relational Database
13 71 (2.74%) Metadata
14 59 (2.28%) Big Data
15 43 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
16 42 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
17 41 (1.58%) BigQuery
17 41 (1.58%) MySQL
18 39 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 231 (8.93%) Git
2 222 (8.58%) Jenkins
3 202 (7.81%) GitLab
4 121 (4.68%) JIRA
5 41 (1.58%) JUnit
6 39 (1.51%) MLflow
7 33 (1.28%) Mockito
8 27 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 25 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.89%) JMeter
11 22 (0.85%) Selenium
12 21 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.81%) Gradle
12 21 (0.81%) Maven
12 21 (0.81%) Postman
13 19 (0.73%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.58%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.54%) Gatling
15 14 (0.54%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 599 (23.15%) Finance
2 536 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 363 (14.03%) Public Sector
4 224 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 216 (8.35%) Banking
6 83 (3.21%) Front Office
7 61 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.66%) Retail
11 40 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.31%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.04%) Marketing
16 23 (0.89%) Legal
17 22 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.54%) Military
19 12 (0.46%) Law
19 12 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 522 (20.17%) Architect
2 421 (16.27%) Developer
3 392 (15.15%) Senior
4 282 (10.90%) Lead
5 277 (10.70%) Data Engineer
6 243 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
7 188 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 140 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 130 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.56%) Senior Developer
11 106 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 103 (3.98%) AWS Architect
13 101 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
14 100 (3.86%) Analyst
15 99 (3.83%) Java Developer
16 85 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
17 81 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
18 78 (3.01%) Python Developer
19 77 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 76 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (11.98%) Kafka
2 238 (9.20%) React
3 205 (7.92%) REST
4 178 (6.88%) Node.js
5 174 (6.72%) Spring
6 164 (6.34%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.45%) RESTful
8 91 (3.52%) .NET
9 83 (3.21%) PySpark
10 82 (3.17%) AngularJS
11 76 (2.94%) GraphQL
12 70 (2.70%) OAuth
13 67 (2.59%) SOAP
14 62 (2.40%) Redux
15 61 (2.36%) LDAP
16 57 (2.20%) HTML
16 57 (2.20%) Pandas
17 49 (1.89%) CSS
17 49 (1.89%) OpenID
18 45 (1.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 427 (16.50%) Cloud Native
2 142 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 74 (2.86%) Fixed Income
5 73 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.74%) Security Posture
7 67 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 66 (2.55%) AI Agents
8 66 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.93%) Data Centre
11 48 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.82%) Derivative
13 44 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (1.62%) Equities
15 33 (1.28%) Algorithms
16 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.20%) Mainframe
18 25 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 177 (6.84%) Linux
2 73 (2.82%) Windows
3 39 (1.51%) Unix
4 17 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) Android
6 9 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.27%) zOS
9 6 (0.23%) Solaris
10 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.19%) VMS
11 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.077%) AIX
13 2 (0.077%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
14 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 984 (38.02%) CI/CD
2 742 (28.67%) DevOps
3 592 (22.87%) Agile
4 515 (19.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 486 (18.78%) AI
6 399 (15.42%) Microservices
7 370 (14.30%) Containerisation
8 369 (14.26%) Analytics
9 329 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
10 310 (11.98%) Software Engineering
11 308 (11.90%) Migration
12 302 (11.67%) Data Modelling
13 280 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
14 278 (10.74%) Data Engineering
15 271 (10.47%) Observability
16 249 (9.62%) Machine Learning
17 243 (9.39%) ETL
18 233 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 230 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
20 221 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 997 (38.52%) Python
2 567 (21.91%) SQL
3 466 (18.01%) Java
4 231 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 220 (8.50%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.44%) C#
7 113 (4.37%) PowerShell
8 100 (3.86%) Bash
9 94 (3.63%) Go
10 43 (1.66%) Scala
11 36 (1.39%) Ruby
12 35 (1.35%) Shell Script
13 21 (0.81%) R
14 19 (0.73%) Bicep
14 19 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.62%) C++
16 10 (0.39%) JCL
16 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 728 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 650 (25.12%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.18%) Degree
4 112 (4.33%) AWS Certification
5 69 (2.67%) CISSP
6 66 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 49 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.16%) CISM
12 29 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 26 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 22 (0.85%) PMP
16 21 (0.81%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.77%) CCNP
17 20 (0.77%) CCSP
18 16 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
19 14 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 110 (4.25%) GDPR
3 99 (3.83%) QA
4 88 (3.40%) NIST
5 72 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.20%) SLA
8 30 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.97%) NCSC
10 22 (0.85%) GRC
11 20 (0.77%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.54%) PMO
14 11 (0.43%) WCAG
15 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.31%) SEPA
17 7 (0.27%) PSD2
18 6 (0.23%) MiFID
19 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 480 (18.55%) Docker
2 91 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.15%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.12%) Postfix
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.077%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.077%) Firmware
9 2 (0.077%) KVM
9 2 (0.077%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 582 (22.49%) Terraform
2 525 (20.29%) Kubernetes
3 145 (5.60%) Grafana
4 132 (5.10%) Ansible
5 127 (4.91%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.77%) Kibana
8 17 (0.66%) Argo
8 17 (0.66%) Puppet
9 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.46%) Consul
11 12 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.39%) QRadar
13 7 (0.27%) Packer
14 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
14 6 (0.23%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) Istio
15 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 194 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.75%) Databricks
3 92 (3.55%) Google
4 86 (3.32%) Oracle
5 84 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 74 (2.86%) Splunk
7 66 (2.55%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.24%) OpenAI
9 53 (2.05%) Salesforce
10 49 (1.89%) Cisco
11 35 (1.35%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.35%) Centrify
12 33 (1.28%) SAP
12 33 (1.28%) VMware
13 32 (1.24%) Dynatrace
14 30 (1.16%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.12%) IBM
16 27 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 23 (0.89%) Foundry
18 22 (0.85%) Fortinet