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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,819 2,119 2,232
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.75% 15.84% 13.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.52% 36.19% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,005 1,456 1,648
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £73.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +139.80% -63.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £52.81
90th Percentile £83.38 £91.25 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -21.73%

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 8,411 5,856 6,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.77% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,804 3,979 4,535
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -3.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 102 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.10 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -16.19% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.88 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -6 272 £575 -4.17% 321
West London +12 95 £560 +35.76% 61
South London 0 79 £530 -0.24% 10
East London +10 13 £600 -11.11% 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
1 154 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 112 (3.97%) Confluence
4 88 (3.12%) Apache
5 22 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.67%) nginx
7 14 (0.50%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CMS
9 8 (0.28%) CICS
9 8 (0.28%) IIS
9 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.18%) Camunda
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Traefik
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Mule
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 17 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.39%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.21%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.035%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Shopify
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.071%) Actimize
7 2 (0.071%) Endur
7 2 (0.071%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,270 (45.05%) Azure
2 664 (23.55%) GCP
3 383 (13.59%) Serverless
4 374 (13.27%) GitHub
5 366 (12.98%) Amazon S3
6 308 (10.93%) AWS Lambda
7 254 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
8 241 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
9 233 (8.27%) Snowflake
10 185 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 168 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
12 162 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 148 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
14 146 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
15 143 (5.07%) dbt
16 132 (4.68%) SaaS
17 131 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 125 (4.43%) Power Platform
19 104 (3.69%) Entra ID
20 100 (3.55%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 103 (3.65%) Firewall
2 86 (3.05%) Network Security
3 67 (2.38%) DNS
4 60 (2.13%) VPN
5 39 (1.38%) WAN
6 31 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.96%) BGP
8 24 (0.85%) Internet
9 23 (0.82%) DHCP
9 23 (0.82%) SD-WAN
10 22 (0.78%) OSPF
10 22 (0.78%) SSL
11 21 (0.74%) SSH
12 19 (0.67%) HTTP
13 16 (0.57%) MPLS
14 15 (0.53%) HTTPS
14 15 (0.53%) NGFW
15 13 (0.46%) IPsec
15 13 (0.46%) LAN
16 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
3 156 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
4 119 (4.22%) NoSQL
5 116 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 111 (3.94%) Power BI
7 108 (3.83%) Metadata
8 99 (3.51%) Data Lake
9 94 (3.33%) MongoDB
10 92 (3.26%) DynamoDB
11 88 (3.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 83 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
13 77 (2.73%) Relational Database
14 71 (2.52%) Delta Lake
15 64 (2.27%) MySQL
16 59 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 51 (1.81%) BigQuery
18 49 (1.74%) Redis
19 46 (1.63%) Big Data
19 46 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 318 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 316 (11.21%) Git
3 280 (9.93%) GitLab
4 154 (5.46%) JIRA
5 40 (1.42%) Maven
6 36 (1.28%) JUnit
7 35 (1.24%) JMeter
8 33 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 32 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
11 28 (0.99%) Gradle
11 28 (0.99%) Selenium
12 27 (0.96%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.96%) Mockito
13 22 (0.78%) Claude Code
14 21 (0.74%) Postman
15 18 (0.64%) Gatling
16 17 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
18 11 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 716 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 679 (24.09%) Finance
3 376 (13.34%) Public Sector
4 271 (9.61%) Banking
5 270 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (3.16%) Retail
7 62 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.38%) Marketing
9 39 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 36 (1.28%) Legal
11 33 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (1.17%) Front Office
12 31 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.03%) Billing
14 29 (1.03%) Law
15 27 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (0.89%) Back Office
17 24 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 569 (20.18%) Architect
2 461 (16.35%) Senior
3 341 (12.10%) Developer
4 298 (10.57%) Lead
5 287 (10.18%) Data Engineer
6 261 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
7 233 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 135 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 113 (4.01%) AWS Architect
10 110 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 109 (3.87%) Analyst
12 104 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 101 (3.58%) Java Developer
14 99 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
15 97 (3.44%) Software Engineer
16 96 (3.41%) Data Architect
17 90 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
18 86 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
19 79 (2.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 74 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 755 (26.78%) Terraform
2 340 (12.06%) Kafka
3 300 (10.64%) REST
4 193 (6.85%) React
5 177 (6.28%) Spring
6 164 (5.82%) Spring Boot
7 150 (5.32%) RESTful
8 111 (3.94%) Node.js
9 110 (3.90%) PySpark
10 100 (3.55%) OAuth
11 99 (3.51%) .NET
12 73 (2.59%) GraphQL
13 70 (2.48%) FastAPI
14 68 (2.41%) AngularJS
15 64 (2.27%) SOAP
16 63 (2.23%) JSON
17 62 (2.20%) HTML
18 56 (1.99%) OAuth2
19 53 (1.88%) CSS
20 51 (1.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 563 (19.97%) Cloud Native
2 185 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 157 (5.57%) AI Agents
4 145 (5.14%) Onboarding
5 131 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 74 (2.63%) Security Posture
9 73 (2.59%) Data Centre
10 57 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 52 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 50 (1.77%) Data Structures
13 47 (1.67%) Replication
14 46 (1.63%) PKI
15 40 (1.42%) Public Cloud
16 39 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
17 35 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
19 31 (1.10%) Virtual Team
20 30 (1.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 260 (9.22%) Linux
2 130 (4.61%) Windows
3 52 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 52 (1.84%) Unix
4 48 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 12 (0.43%) Android
7 10 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) macOS
9 6 (0.21%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.14%) CentOS
11 4 (0.14%) zOS
12 3 (0.11%) Solaris
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,207 (42.82%) CI/CD
2 921 (32.67%) DevOps
3 728 (25.82%) Agile
4 709 (25.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 642 (22.77%) AI
6 494 (17.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 423 (15.01%) Observability
8 416 (14.76%) Microservices
9 405 (14.37%) Containerisation
10 374 (13.27%) Migration
11 373 (13.23%) Software Engineering
12 353 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 352 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
14 342 (12.13%) Event-Driven
15 338 (11.99%) Data Engineering
15 338 (11.99%) Data Modelling
16 336 (11.92%) Data Pipeline
17 332 (11.78%) Analytics
18 322 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
19 309 (10.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,038 (36.82%) Python
2 613 (21.75%) SQL
3 462 (16.39%) Java
4 207 (7.34%) TypeScript
5 204 (7.24%) JavaScript
6 193 (6.85%) Bash
7 153 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 110 (3.90%) C#
9 57 (2.02%) Go
10 44 (1.56%) Scala
11 38 (1.35%) Bicep
12 37 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.28%) Groovy
14 23 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.78%) C++
16 20 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 17 (0.60%) R
18 16 (0.57%) Ruby
19 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 799 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 705 (25.01%) SC Cleared
3 195 (6.92%) AWS Certification
4 148 (5.25%) Degree
5 97 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 93 (3.30%) CISSP
7 76 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 70 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 65 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 63 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 54 (1.92%) CISM
12 51 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) CCSP
14 23 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 19 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.67%) PMP
17 16 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (9.05%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.92%) QA
3 109 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (3.55%) NIST
5 76 (2.70%) GDPR
6 38 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.03%) GRC
8 29 (1.03%) NCSC
9 21 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (0.74%) SLA
9 21 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 20 (0.71%) ISO 20022
11 16 (0.57%) EU AI Act
11 16 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.46%) SEPA
13 10 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.32%) PMO
15 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 527 (18.69%) Docker
2 82 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 6 (0.21%) IAG
9 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) NFS
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.071%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.071%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.071%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 665 (23.59%) Kubernetes
2 213 (7.56%) Grafana
3 202 (7.17%) Ansible
4 162 (5.75%) Prometheus
5 46 (1.63%) Kibana
6 42 (1.49%) Argo
7 29 (1.03%) Puppet
8 26 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.57%) Istio
10 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.39%) Packer
12 10 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.25%) QRadar
14 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 6 (0.21%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.21%) Nagios
14 6 (0.21%) Podman
15 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 315 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 211 (7.48%) Databricks
3 164 (5.82%) Google
4 153 (5.43%) Oracle
5 113 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 110 (3.90%) Splunk
7 67 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 60 (2.13%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.77%) Cisco
10 49 (1.74%) SAP
11 47 (1.67%) CyberArk
11 47 (1.67%) VMware
12 46 (1.63%) Palo Alto
13 42 (1.49%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.38%) Informatica
15 37 (1.31%) IBM
16 30 (1.06%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.92%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
19 24 (0.85%) Foundry