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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,840 2,249 2,281
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.10% 16.45% 14.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.08% 38.41% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,990 1,576 1,746
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £831 £850
England median daily rate £550 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +44.67% -54.63%
75th Percentile £80.63 £70.63 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £71.70
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -35.19%

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 8,333 5,855 6,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.36% 42.82% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,679 4,028 4,781
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 87 52
10th Percentile £19.13 £22.80 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.94 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%
75th Percentile £54.88 £45.25 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.30 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -4 292 £550 -4.76% 193
West London +4 96 £555 +30.59% 61
South London +1 94 £535 +1.90% 15
East London +7 14 £525 -10.26% 25
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
1 149 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 97 (3.42%) Confluence
4 80 (2.82%) Apache
5 36 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.53%) nginx
7 13 (0.46%) SAS
8 12 (0.42%) CMS
9 11 (0.39%) CICS
10 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.28%) Camunda
12 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.18%) IIS
13 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 18 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
2 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.14%) Quorum
4 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.070%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.070%) Endur
6 2 (0.070%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.070%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.070%) Shopify
6 2 (0.070%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.035%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,230 (43.31%) Azure
2 628 (22.11%) GCP
3 397 (13.98%) Serverless
4 382 (13.45%) Amazon S3
5 366 (12.89%) GitHub
6 337 (11.87%) AWS Lambda
7 238 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
8 210 (7.39%) Snowflake
9 202 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
10 181 (6.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 166 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 165 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
13 140 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
14 137 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
15 132 (4.65%) Power Platform
16 124 (4.37%) SaaS
16 124 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 115 (4.05%) dbt
18 93 (3.27%) Amazon Bedrock
19 92 (3.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.91%) Firewall
2 90 (3.17%) Network Security
3 76 (2.68%) DNS
4 66 (2.32%) VPN
5 45 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.34%) WAN
7 27 (0.95%) DHCP
8 24 (0.85%) HTTP
9 22 (0.77%) SSL
10 21 (0.74%) BGP
11 18 (0.63%) Internet
12 16 (0.56%) SSH
13 15 (0.53%) OSPF
13 15 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 14 (0.49%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) HTTPS
15 13 (0.46%) LAN
16 12 (0.42%) VLAN
17 11 (0.39%) SAN
17 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
4 122 (4.30%) Power BI
5 121 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.15%) Data Lake
7 102 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
8 100 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 97 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 89 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 86 (3.03%) Metadata
12 80 (2.82%) MongoDB
13 71 (2.50%) Relational Database
14 63 (2.22%) Big Data
14 63 (2.22%) Tableau
15 59 (2.08%) Delta Lake
16 43 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
17 41 (1.44%) BigQuery
18 39 (1.37%) Redis
18 39 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 284 (10.00%) Git
2 279 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 261 (9.19%) GitLab
4 152 (5.35%) JIRA
5 34 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 34 (1.20%) JMeter
6 32 (1.13%) JUnit
6 32 (1.13%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.02%) Maven
8 28 (0.99%) Selenium
9 27 (0.95%) Mockito
10 24 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 24 (0.85%) MLflow
11 23 (0.81%) Postman
12 21 (0.74%) Gradle
13 20 (0.70%) Cucumber
13 20 (0.70%) Gatling
14 17 (0.60%) REST Assured
15 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.53%) Claude Code
General
1 703 (24.75%) Finance
2 628 (22.11%) Social Skills
3 416 (14.65%) Public Sector
4 261 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (9.12%) Banking
6 74 (2.61%) Front Office
6 74 (2.61%) Retail
7 62 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.30%) Marketing
12 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (0.99%) Legal
14 25 (0.88%) Law
14 25 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 21 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 605 (21.30%) Architect
2 453 (15.95%) Senior
3 385 (13.56%) Developer
4 317 (11.16%) Lead
5 291 (10.25%) Data Engineer
6 278 (9.79%) AWS Engineer
7 199 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 160 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
9 132 (4.65%) Software Engineer
10 118 (4.15%) AWS Architect
11 117 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 113 (3.98%) Analyst
13 111 (3.91%) Java Developer
14 93 (3.27%) Senior Developer
15 92 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
16 90 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
17 87 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 87 (3.06%) Data Architect
18 84 (2.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 82 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (11.13%) Kafka
2 240 (8.45%) React
3 239 (8.42%) REST
4 174 (6.13%) Spring
5 172 (6.06%) Node.js
6 157 (5.53%) Spring Boot
7 149 (5.25%) RESTful
8 100 (3.52%) PySpark
9 91 (3.20%) .NET
10 86 (3.03%) GraphQL
11 78 (2.75%) OAuth
12 68 (2.39%) AngularJS
13 61 (2.15%) JSON
14 60 (2.11%) FastAPI
15 58 (2.04%) Redux
16 56 (1.97%) HTML
17 50 (1.76%) CSS
18 46 (1.62%) OAuth2
19 44 (1.55%) LangChain
19 44 (1.55%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 509 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 184 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 128 (4.51%) Onboarding
4 117 (4.12%) AI Agents
5 102 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.32%) Security Posture
9 63 (2.22%) Fixed Income
10 60 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 56 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 41 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
16 36 (1.27%) Derivative
16 36 (1.27%) PKI
17 32 (1.13%) CMDB
17 32 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
17 32 (1.13%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 220 (7.75%) Linux
2 121 (4.26%) Windows
3 46 (1.62%) Unix
4 42 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.32%) Android
8 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Solaris
8 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
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 (0.070%) CentOS
12 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,139 (40.11%) CI/CD
2 861 (30.32%) DevOps
3 721 (25.39%) Agile
4 604 (21.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 601 (21.16%) AI
6 421 (14.82%) Microservices
7 405 (14.26%) Containerisation
8 386 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 372 (13.10%) Analytics
10 367 (12.92%) Software Engineering
11 365 (12.85%) Migration
12 352 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
13 350 (12.32%) Observability
14 346 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
15 345 (12.15%) Data Modelling
16 329 (11.58%) Data Engineering
17 310 (10.92%) Machine Learning
18 302 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
19 284 (10.00%) Event-Driven
20 276 (9.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (36.69%) Python
2 597 (21.02%) SQL
3 497 (17.50%) Java
4 259 (9.12%) TypeScript
5 239 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 155 (5.46%) Bash
7 131 (4.61%) PowerShell
8 114 (4.01%) C#
9 71 (2.50%) Go
10 45 (1.58%) Scala
11 35 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.13%) Bicep
13 29 (1.02%) Ruby
14 25 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.74%) R
16 20 (0.70%) Groovy
17 18 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.60%) C++
19 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 766 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 686 (24.15%) SC Cleared
3 147 (5.18%) Degree
4 143 (5.04%) AWS Certification
5 88 (3.10%) CISSP
6 68 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 66 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 65 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.55%) CISM
12 42 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 26 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.74%) CCSP
15 21 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.74%) PMP
16 19 (0.67%) CCNP
17 18 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 140 (4.93%) QA
3 94 (3.31%) NIST
4 91 (3.20%) GDPR
5 84 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.06%) GRC
9 27 (0.95%) SLA
10 23 (0.81%) NCSC
11 19 (0.67%) PMO
11 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.63%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.56%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.53%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.49%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
17 12 (0.42%) WCAG
18 10 (0.35%) SEPA
19 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 509 (17.92%) Docker
2 82 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.46%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) vSphere
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.070%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 670 (23.59%) Terraform
2 601 (21.16%) Kubernetes
3 189 (6.65%) Grafana
4 176 (6.20%) Ansible
5 151 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.09%) Argo
8 26 (0.92%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.35%) Istio
12 10 (0.35%) Packer
13 9 (0.32%) QRadar
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) Consul
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 252 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.32%) Databricks
3 127 (4.47%) ServiceNow
4 123 (4.33%) Google
5 109 (3.84%) Oracle
6 87 (3.06%) Splunk
7 69 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.76%) Cisco
9 50 (1.76%) VMware
10 46 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 44 (1.55%) SAP
12 38 (1.34%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.20%) Foundry
14 33 (1.16%) IBM
15 31 (1.09%) Dynatrace
16 27 (0.95%) Informatica
17 26 (0.92%) MuleSoft
18 25 (0.88%) Red Hat
19 24 (0.85%) Fortinet