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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,166 2,162 2,640
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.50% 13.68% 13.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.97% 33.52% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,496 1,574 2,038
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £455 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £579
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.71% -5.15%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £798
England median daily rate £525 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.59% -5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 12
10th Percentile £43.75 £28.78 £36.03
25th Percentile £60.63 £36.25 £52.94
Median hourly rate £76.75 £43.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.49% -27.12% +21.03%
75th Percentile £87.50 £55.75 £85.39
90th Percentile £93.13 £79.30 £87.41
England median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +84.06% -16.04% +12.82%

All Cloud 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 6,194 6,450 7,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.81% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,189 4,388 5,650
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 39 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.07 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.75 £24.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -7.89% +38.18%
75th Percentile £43.97 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.05 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 +6 252 £575 - 132
South London +11 60 £525 +7.14% 43
West London -10 24 £493 -13.82% 71
East London - 7 £675 - 67
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
1 148 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (5.12%) Confluence
3 84 (3.88%) Apache
4 76 (3.51%) Apache Spark
5 47 (2.17%) nginx
6 17 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.74%) SAS
8 14 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.60%) CMS
10 9 (0.42%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.32%) Camunda
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.18%) Appian
14 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.14%) Traefik
16 2 (0.092%) JBoss
16 2 (0.092%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) Trello
6 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
6 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (0.46%) Endur
2 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.18%) Actimize
6 2 (0.092%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.092%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.092%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.092%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 836 (38.60%) Azure
2 474 (21.88%) GCP
3 294 (13.57%) GitHub
4 291 (13.43%) Amazon S3
5 283 (13.07%) Serverless
6 246 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
7 180 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
8 174 (8.03%) Snowflake
9 162 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 131 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
11 129 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 125 (5.77%) dbt
13 116 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
14 111 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
15 92 (4.25%) Power Platform
16 69 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 66 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
18 64 (2.95%) SaaS
19 53 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
20 49 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (5.45%) Firewall
2 68 (3.14%) DNS
3 56 (2.59%) VPN
4 55 (2.54%) Network Security
5 31 (1.43%) WAN
6 28 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.25%) SSL
8 24 (1.11%) HTTP
9 21 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.88%) DHCP
11 18 (0.83%) BGP
12 17 (0.78%) LAN
12 17 (0.78%) SSH
13 16 (0.74%) OSPF
14 15 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
14 15 (0.69%) VLAN
15 11 (0.51%) FTP
16 10 (0.46%) IMAP
16 10 (0.46%) SMTP
17 9 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (5.22%) NoSQL
4 110 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 98 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
5 98 (4.52%) Data Lake
6 93 (4.29%) Relational Database
7 86 (3.97%) Power BI
8 78 (3.60%) SQL Server
9 73 (3.37%) DynamoDB
10 70 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 59 (2.72%) Apache Iceberg
12 58 (2.68%) Metadata
12 58 (2.68%) MySQL
13 57 (2.63%) MongoDB
14 49 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
14 49 (2.26%) Big Data
14 49 (2.26%) Dremio
15 46 (2.12%) Tableau
16 43 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 257 (11.87%) Git
2 211 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 168 (7.76%) JIRA
4 152 (7.02%) GitLab
5 46 (2.12%) JUnit
6 27 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 27 (1.25%) CircleCI
6 27 (1.25%) ERwin
7 26 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 25 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.02%) Maven
9 22 (1.02%) MLflow
10 21 (0.97%) Selenium
10 21 (0.97%) SonarQube
11 19 (0.88%) ER Studio
12 17 (0.78%) Mockito
13 14 (0.65%) JMeter
13 14 (0.65%) Metasploit
14 13 (0.60%) Postman
15 12 (0.55%) Vagrant
General
1 566 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 510 (23.55%) Finance
3 237 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 224 (10.34%) Banking
5 211 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 111 (5.12%) Front Office
7 106 (4.89%) Investment Banking
8 44 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.34%) Marketing
12 28 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.25%) Retail
14 24 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 20 (0.92%) Legal
15 20 (0.92%) Military
16 15 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 439 (20.27%) Developer
2 386 (17.82%) Senior
3 312 (14.40%) Architect
4 266 (12.28%) AWS Engineer
5 171 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 164 (7.57%) Data Engineer
7 156 (7.20%) Lead
8 152 (7.02%) Software Engineer
9 144 (6.65%) Python Engineer
10 125 (5.77%) Java Developer
11 102 (4.71%) AWS Developer
12 101 (4.66%) Senior Developer
13 91 (4.20%) Python Developer
14 88 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
15 87 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
15 87 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
16 85 (3.92%) Analyst
17 81 (3.74%) Java Engineer
18 77 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 70 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (12.28%) Kafka
2 246 (11.36%) React
3 176 (8.13%) Node.js
4 134 (6.19%) REST
5 121 (5.59%) Spring
6 117 (5.40%) AngularJS
7 109 (5.03%) RESTful
8 99 (4.57%) Spring Boot
9 90 (4.16%) NumPy
9 90 (4.16%) Pandas
10 87 (4.02%) gRPC
11 71 (3.28%) SciPy
12 69 (3.19%) GraphQL
13 67 (3.09%) Vue
14 66 (3.05%) CSS
15 64 (2.95%) HTML
16 61 (2.82%) .NET
17 47 (2.17%) OAuth
18 46 (2.12%) FastAPI
19 43 (1.99%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 244 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 107 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.02%) Fixed Income
4 84 (3.88%) Hedge funds
5 81 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 74 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 68 (3.14%) Equities
8 64 (2.95%) Derivative
9 55 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
10 52 (2.40%) Onboarding
11 49 (2.26%) Public Cloud
12 45 (2.08%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.85%) Security Posture
15 36 (1.66%) Data Centre
16 32 (1.48%) Pricing Data
16 32 (1.48%) Virtual Team
17 31 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
19 26 (1.20%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 206 (9.51%) Linux
2 85 (3.92%) Windows
3 50 (2.31%) Unix
4 21 (0.97%) VMS
5 16 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 16 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.37%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.092%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Debian
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (37.67%) CI/CD
2 631 (29.13%) Agile
3 597 (27.56%) DevOps
4 409 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 349 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
6 347 (16.02%) Microservices
7 327 (15.10%) Software Engineering
8 279 (12.88%) Analytics
9 251 (11.59%) Containerisation
10 238 (10.99%) AI
11 215 (9.93%) Data Modelling
12 210 (9.70%) Data Pipeline
13 199 (9.19%) Migration
14 192 (8.86%) Machine Learning
15 184 (8.49%) ETL
16 171 (7.89%) Observability
17 170 (7.85%) Data Engineering
18 169 (7.80%) Full-Stack Development
19 159 (7.34%) Test Automation
20 154 (7.11%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 952 (43.95%) Python
2 492 (22.71%) Java
3 478 (22.07%) SQL
4 268 (12.37%) TypeScript
5 256 (11.82%) JavaScript
6 147 (6.79%) Bash
7 131 (6.05%) Go
8 85 (3.92%) C#
9 79 (3.65%) PowerShell
10 53 (2.45%) C++
11 33 (1.52%) Scala
12 25 (1.15%) Perl
13 24 (1.11%) Ruby
14 23 (1.06%) Groovy
14 23 (1.06%) Rust
15 21 (0.97%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.92%) C
17 18 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.69%) R
19 14 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 501 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 433 (19.99%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.42%) Degree
4 128 (5.91%) AWS Certification
5 67 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.66%) CISSP
9 35 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.11%) OSCP
14 17 (0.78%) CISM
15 14 (0.65%) CCNP
15 14 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.60%) CREST Certified
16 13 (0.60%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 94 (4.34%) QA
3 84 (3.88%) GDPR
4 75 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.72%) NIST
6 38 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 20 (0.92%) NCSC
8 19 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.78%) WCAG
10 16 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.69%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.46%) GRC
13 9 (0.42%) MiFID
14 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.32%) SLA
16 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 497 (22.95%) Docker
2 42 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.51%) Postfix
5 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.42%) zsh
7 7 (0.32%) Firmware
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.092%) vSphere
10 1 (0.046%) etcd
10 1 (0.046%) Snort
10 1 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.046%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 509 (23.50%) Kubernetes
2 495 (22.85%) Terraform
3 147 (6.79%) Ansible
4 114 (5.26%) Grafana
5 103 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.39%) Argo
7 29 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (1.29%) Puppet
9 25 (1.15%) Packer
10 22 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.92%) Consul
12 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.78%) Nessus
13 12 (0.55%) Nmap
13 12 (0.55%) SCCM
14 11 (0.51%) Kibana
15 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.42%) QRadar
17 8 (0.37%) Istio
18 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 150 (6.93%) Microsoft
2 128 (5.91%) Databricks
3 84 (3.88%) Splunk
4 81 (3.74%) Google
5 75 (3.46%) Oracle
6 69 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 34 (1.57%) Cisco
7 34 (1.57%) Palo Alto
8 28 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.15%) F5
9 25 (1.15%) VMware
10 24 (1.11%) IBM
11 23 (1.06%) Arista
12 22 (1.02%) CheckPoint
13 20 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 20 (0.92%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.88%) Fortinet
15 17 (0.78%) Informatica
15 17 (0.78%) SAP
15 17 (0.78%) Tenable