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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,804 2,146 2,420
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.67% 16.90% 13.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.95% 39.29% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,942 1,506 1,884
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £472 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £781 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £538 £565
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.87% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 12
10th Percentile £39.50 £36.13 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +78.12% -65.97%
75th Percentile £80.63 £64.44 £59.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £82.00 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -37.59%

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 8,024 5,462 6,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.97% 43.02% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,524 3,711 5,118
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 72 68
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.55 £19.33
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +13.22% -47.38%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -3 292 £550 - 81
West London +3 89 £560 +15.45% 67
South London +2 82 £500 - 2
East London +9 16 £540 -7.69% 27
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
1 136 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 83 (2.96%) Confluence
4 62 (2.21%) Apache
5 31 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.64%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) Camunda
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 8 (0.29%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 43 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.29%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.18%) Magento
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Endur
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 (0.071%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.036%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.036%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,156 (41.23%) Azure
2 583 (20.79%) GCP
3 413 (14.73%) Serverless
4 407 (14.51%) Amazon S3
5 356 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
6 347 (12.38%) GitHub
7 220 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
8 199 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 194 (6.92%) Snowflake
10 193 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
11 172 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 171 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
13 152 (5.42%) Power Platform
14 143 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
15 127 (4.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 119 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
17 115 (4.10%) SaaS
18 99 (3.53%) dbt
19 93 (3.32%) Amazon Bedrock
20 85 (3.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.89%) Firewall
2 87 (3.10%) Network Security
3 70 (2.50%) VPN
4 69 (2.46%) DNS
5 46 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 39 (1.39%) WAN
7 24 (0.86%) BGP
8 23 (0.82%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) DHCP
10 19 (0.68%) SSL
11 18 (0.64%) OSPF
12 16 (0.57%) Internet
12 16 (0.57%) LAN
13 14 (0.50%) NGFW
13 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
14 11 (0.39%) VLAN
15 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
16 9 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
2 135 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
2 135 (4.81%) Power BI
3 121 (4.32%) Data Lake
4 119 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 112 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
6 110 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 105 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 87 (3.10%) DynamoDB
9 80 (2.85%) Metadata
10 77 (2.75%) MongoDB
11 76 (2.71%) Tableau
12 74 (2.64%) Relational Database
13 65 (2.32%) Big Data
14 46 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
15 42 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 40 (1.43%) MySQL
17 38 (1.36%) Delta Lake
18 37 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 255 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 253 (9.02%) Git
3 252 (8.99%) GitLab
4 149 (5.31%) JIRA
5 41 (1.46%) JUnit
6 33 (1.18%) Mockito
7 32 (1.14%) MLflow
8 30 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.03%) JMeter
10 25 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.89%) Maven
11 22 (0.78%) Gradle
11 22 (0.78%) Selenium
12 21 (0.75%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.75%) Postman
13 20 (0.71%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.64%) Gatling
15 17 (0.61%) REST Assured
16 16 (0.57%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 669 (23.86%) Finance
2 599 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 400 (14.27%) Public Sector
4 240 (8.56%) Banking
5 235 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (2.92%) Front Office
7 67 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (2.39%) Retail
8 60 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.89%) Investment Banking
10 42 (1.50%) Financial Institution
11 36 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 35 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (0.96%) Marketing
15 26 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.78%) Legal
17 21 (0.75%) Law
18 17 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 546 (19.47%) Architect
2 423 (15.09%) Senior
3 409 (14.59%) Developer
4 310 (11.06%) Lead
5 303 (10.81%) Data Engineer
6 292 (10.41%) AWS Engineer
7 219 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 153 (5.46%) Software Engineer
9 151 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
10 132 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 114 (4.07%) AWS Architect
12 105 (3.74%) Java Developer
13 103 (3.67%) Senior Developer
14 102 (3.64%) Analyst
15 98 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
16 93 (3.32%) Cloud Architect
17 92 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 88 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 85 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
20 78 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (11.16%) Kafka
2 242 (8.63%) React
3 220 (7.85%) REST
4 177 (6.31%) Node.js
5 173 (6.17%) Spring
6 165 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 147 (5.24%) RESTful
8 97 (3.46%) .NET
9 94 (3.35%) PySpark
10 89 (3.17%) GraphQL
11 82 (2.92%) OAuth
12 74 (2.64%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.28%) Redux
14 55 (1.96%) JSON
15 54 (1.93%) FastAPI
16 52 (1.85%) OpenID
16 52 (1.85%) Pandas
16 52 (1.85%) SOAP
17 49 (1.75%) HTML
18 45 (1.60%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 497 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 174 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (3.67%) Onboarding
4 92 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 83 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 82 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.71%) Fixed Income
8 74 (2.64%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 57 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (1.93%) Management Information System
12 51 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.53%) Derivative
15 39 (1.39%) Equities
16 34 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
17 33 (1.18%) Public Cloud
18 31 (1.11%) Data Structures
19 30 (1.07%) Algorithms
19 30 (1.07%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 211 (7.52%) Linux
2 109 (3.89%) Windows
3 40 (1.43%) Unix
4 34 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.39%) Android
6 11 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.29%) Solaris
8 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
12 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,100 (39.23%) CI/CD
2 842 (30.03%) DevOps
3 683 (24.36%) Agile
4 589 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 582 (20.76%) AI
6 416 (14.84%) Microservices
7 408 (14.55%) Containerisation
8 387 (13.80%) Analytics
9 347 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
10 345 (12.30%) Migration
10 345 (12.30%) Software Engineering
11 325 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
12 316 (11.27%) Data Modelling
13 315 (11.23%) Data Engineering
14 304 (10.84%) Observability
15 301 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 296 (10.56%) Machine Learning
17 273 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 248 (8.84%) Test Automation
19 247 (8.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1,059 (37.77%) Python
2 591 (21.08%) SQL
3 488 (17.40%) Java
4 260 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 222 (7.92%) JavaScript
6 126 (4.49%) Bash
7 121 (4.32%) C#
8 118 (4.21%) PowerShell
9 91 (3.25%) Go
10 47 (1.68%) Scala
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.18%) Ruby
13 29 (1.03%) Bicep
14 23 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) R
16 17 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.57%) Groovy
18 13 (0.46%) C++
18 13 (0.46%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 750 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 667 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.49%) Degree
4 130 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 88 (3.14%) CISSP
6 70 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 58 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 54 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (1.39%) CISM
12 33 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.82%) CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.82%) PMP
15 21 (0.75%) CCNP
16 16 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 122 (4.35%) QA
3 102 (3.64%) GDPR
4 96 (3.42%) NIST
5 82 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) GRC
9 27 (0.96%) SLA
10 22 (0.78%) NCSC
11 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.61%) PMO
13 16 (0.57%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.43%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.43%) WCAG
15 11 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.25%) SEPA
17 6 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 500 (17.83%) Docker
2 85 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.78%) 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
8 4 (0.14%) NFS
8 4 (0.14%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.071%) Firmware
10 2 (0.071%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 680 (24.25%) Terraform
2 590 (21.04%) Kubernetes
3 169 (6.03%) Ansible
4 168 (5.99%) Grafana
5 147 (5.24%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.93%) Puppet
8 24 (0.86%) Kibana
9 19 (0.68%) Argo
10 15 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.43%) Consul
14 11 (0.39%) Packer
15 10 (0.36%) QRadar
16 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.25%) Istio
17 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
18 5 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 230 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 129 (4.60%) Databricks
3 107 (3.82%) Google
4 104 (3.71%) ServiceNow
5 96 (3.42%) Oracle
6 80 (2.85%) Splunk
7 70 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 61 (2.18%) OpenAI
9 56 (2.00%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.71%) Cisco
11 39 (1.39%) VMware
12 35 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.21%) Foundry
14 32 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 32 (1.14%) Red Hat
15 31 (1.11%) Informatica
16 30 (1.07%) SAP
17 28 (1.00%) IBM
17 28 (1.00%) MuleSoft
18 22 (0.78%) Fortinet