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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,179 1,987 2,289
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.90% 14.24% 12.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.57% 34.47% 33.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,513 1,426 1,774
10th Percentile £400 £407 £413
25th Percentile £459 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £41.70
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £75.09 £55.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -5.93% -8.88%
75th Percentile £88.13 £75.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.38 £87.15 £87.75
England median hourly rate £75.50 £50.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.51% +10.09% -27.28%

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 6,491 5,765 6,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.38% 41.31% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,468 3,859 5,041
10th Percentile £343 £352 £325
25th Percentile £421 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £776 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 47 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.71 £30.59 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% -5.88% +25.75%
75th Percentile £56.00 £46.68 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.50 £64.25 £63.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year +7.14% +18.59% +1.99%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 0 257 £539 +0.23% 210
South London +7 64 £525 +5.00% 42
West London +2 38 £603 +7.78% 65
East London +5 8 £610 - 44
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
1 112 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (3.85%) Confluence
3 74 (3.40%) Apache Spark
4 62 (2.85%) Apache
5 38 (1.74%) nginx
6 16 (0.73%) SAS
7 15 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.60%) Camunda
8 13 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.32%) Appian
9 7 (0.32%) CMS
10 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.14%) Traefik
13 2 (0.092%) Mule
13 2 (0.092%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.18%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.046%) Notion
9 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
9 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.18%) Actimize
3 4 (0.18%) Endur
4 3 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.092%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.092%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.092%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.092%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.046%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 862 (39.56%) Azure
2 484 (22.21%) GCP
3 341 (15.65%) Serverless
4 321 (14.73%) Amazon S3
5 308 (14.13%) GitHub
6 297 (13.63%) AWS Lambda
7 195 (8.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
9 152 (6.98%) Snowflake
10 148 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
11 139 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
12 132 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 128 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
14 112 (5.14%) Power Platform
15 98 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 76 (3.49%) dbt
17 69 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
18 66 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
19 55 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
20 50 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 115 (5.28%) Firewall
2 68 (3.12%) DNS
3 64 (2.94%) VPN
4 51 (2.34%) Network Security
5 40 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.24%) SSL
6 27 (1.24%) WAN
7 18 (0.83%) HTTP
8 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.69%) LAN
10 14 (0.64%) BGP
10 14 (0.64%) DHCP
11 12 (0.55%) OSPF
12 11 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.46%) SSH
13 10 (0.46%) VLAN
14 9 (0.41%) FTP
14 9 (0.41%) IMAP
14 9 (0.41%) SMTP
14 9 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (5.37%) NoSQL
4 109 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (4.54%) Power BI
6 98 (4.50%) Data Lake
7 97 (4.45%) Amazon Athena
8 89 (4.08%) Relational Database
9 88 (4.04%) SQL Server
10 82 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 67 (3.07%) MongoDB
12 65 (2.98%) DynamoDB
13 60 (2.75%) MySQL
14 58 (2.66%) Metadata
15 53 (2.43%) Tableau
16 50 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
16 50 (2.29%) Big Data
17 46 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
18 35 (1.61%) Apache Iceberg
19 34 (1.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 229 (10.51%) Git
2 214 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 188 (8.63%) GitLab
4 149 (6.84%) JIRA
5 39 (1.79%) JUnit
6 28 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 28 (1.28%) MLflow
7 26 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 24 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.06%) ERwin
10 20 (0.92%) Selenium
11 18 (0.83%) Mockito
11 18 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.73%) Maven
13 15 (0.69%) JMeter
14 14 (0.64%) ER Studio
15 12 (0.55%) Gatling
16 11 (0.50%) Postman
17 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
17 10 (0.46%) Gradle
General
1 553 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 455 (20.88%) Finance
3 256 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 196 (8.99%) Banking
5 193 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (2.98%) Investment Banking
7 55 (2.52%) Front Office
8 42 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.33%) Retail
12 27 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.15%) Marketing
14 23 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.01%) Military
16 17 (0.78%) Legal
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 402 (18.45%) Developer
2 365 (16.75%) Senior
3 350 (16.06%) Architect
4 231 (10.60%) AWS Engineer
5 197 (9.04%) Data Engineer
6 187 (8.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 154 (7.07%) Lead
8 116 (5.32%) Software Engineer
9 114 (5.23%) Senior Developer
10 107 (4.91%) Python Engineer
11 92 (4.22%) Analyst
12 91 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
13 84 (3.85%) Python Developer
14 83 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 82 (3.76%) Java Developer
16 78 (3.58%) AWS Developer
17 77 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
18 76 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
19 75 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
20 74 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (12.67%) Kafka
2 203 (9.32%) React
3 155 (7.11%) REST
4 152 (6.98%) Node.js
5 137 (6.29%) Spring
6 125 (5.74%) RESTful
7 118 (5.42%) Spring Boot
8 96 (4.41%) AngularJS
9 73 (3.35%) HTML
10 71 (3.26%) gRPC
11 68 (3.12%) CSS
12 66 (3.03%) Pandas
13 63 (2.89%) NumPy
14 59 (2.71%) .NET
15 56 (2.57%) PySpark
16 55 (2.52%) OAuth
17 54 (2.48%) SOAP
18 51 (2.34%) LDAP
19 50 (2.29%) Vue
20 49 (2.25%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 295 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 112 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 62 (2.85%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.25%) Hedge funds
7 46 (2.11%) Derivative
8 45 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 44 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 43 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 40 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 39 (1.79%) Data Centre
12 39 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 38 (1.74%) Fixed Income
14 36 (1.65%) Equities
15 35 (1.61%) Public Cloud
16 32 (1.47%) AI Agents
17 31 (1.42%) Algorithms
17 31 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (1.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 195 (8.95%) Linux
2 74 (3.40%) Windows
3 49 (2.25%) Unix
4 23 (1.06%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.37%) Android
9 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.23%) CentOS
11 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.14%) zOS
13 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Solaris
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (38.32%) CI/CD
2 615 (28.22%) DevOps
3 519 (23.82%) Agile
4 433 (19.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 353 (16.20%) Microservices
6 352 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
7 325 (14.92%) AI
8 313 (14.36%) Analytics
9 288 (13.22%) Containerisation
10 283 (12.99%) Software Engineering
11 234 (10.74%) Data Modelling
12 224 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
13 208 (9.55%) Observability
14 207 (9.50%) Data Engineering
15 199 (9.13%) Machine Learning
16 197 (9.04%) ETL
17 189 (8.67%) Migration
18 175 (8.03%) Full-Stack Development
19 167 (7.66%) Test Automation
20 166 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 937 (43.00%) Python
2 502 (23.04%) SQL
3 417 (19.14%) Java
4 199 (9.13%) JavaScript
5 184 (8.44%) TypeScript
6 112 (5.14%) Bash
7 94 (4.31%) PowerShell
8 91 (4.18%) Go
9 90 (4.13%) C#
10 33 (1.51%) Scala
11 31 (1.42%) C++
12 29 (1.33%) Ruby
13 22 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.83%) R
14 18 (0.83%) Rust
15 16 (0.73%) Groovy
16 14 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.60%) Perl
18 12 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 600 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 526 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.15%) AWS Certification
4 121 (5.55%) Degree
5 69 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 39 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.65%) CISSP
9 32 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (1.06%) MCP
14 19 (0.87%) CISM
14 19 (0.87%) PMI Certification
15 18 (0.83%) OSCP
15 18 (0.83%) PMP
16 15 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.60%) CCNP
18 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 101 (4.64%) GDPR
3 79 (3.63%) QA
4 68 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 58 (2.66%) NIST
6 34 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.19%) NCSC
8 24 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.55%) SLA
12 10 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.46%) WCAG
13 7 (0.32%) GRC
14 6 (0.28%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.23%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) SEPA
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 506 (23.22%) Docker
2 62 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.69%) Squid
4 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.41%) DFS Replication
6 9 (0.41%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.41%) Postfix
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.32%) zsh
8 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.092%) KVM
10 2 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.046%) Ceph
11 1 (0.046%) iptables
Systems Management
1 524 (24.05%) Terraform
2 503 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 138 (6.33%) Ansible
4 105 (4.82%) Grafana
5 94 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.61%) Argo
7 33 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.06%) Puppet
9 20 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.73%) Consul
10 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.73%) Nessus
11 12 (0.55%) Packer
11 12 (0.55%) SCCM
12 11 (0.50%) Kibana
13 9 (0.41%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.41%) Proxmox
14 8 (0.37%) Istio
14 8 (0.37%) QRadar
15 7 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 144 (6.61%) Databricks
2 142 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 87 (3.99%) Oracle
4 85 (3.90%) Google
5 78 (3.58%) Splunk
6 57 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.97%) CyberArk
8 37 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 36 (1.65%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.65%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.56%) Centrify
11 33 (1.51%) Cisco
12 30 (1.38%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.24%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.10%) Red Hat
15 22 (1.01%) F5
15 22 (1.01%) IBM
15 22 (1.01%) SAP
15 22 (1.01%) VMware