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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,153 2,073 2,375
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.95% 13.82% 12.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.87% 33.60% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 1,502 1,816
10th Percentile £400 £408 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £833 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £555
% change year-on-year -8.70% +3.60% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 11
10th Percentile £67.10 £45.45 £43.03
25th Percentile £68.25 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.15% -7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87.50 £75.38 £78.75
90th Percentile £94.00 £87.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.98% - -19.69%

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 6,356 6,170 7,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.13% 41.13% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,345 4,173 5,193
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £424 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 43 62
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.09
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.56% +23.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.09 £65.00 £73.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%

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 December 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 December 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 December 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 +6 257 £550 -4.35% 385
South London +10 62 £525 +5.00% 44
West London +2 34 £603 +7.78% 66
East London - 8 £675 - 50
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
1 131 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (4.18%) Confluence
3 74 (3.44%) Apache
4 71 (3.30%) Apache Spark
5 32 (1.49%) nginx
6 17 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.74%) SAS
8 13 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.37%) Camunda
11 7 (0.33%) CMS
12 6 (0.28%) Appian
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.14%) Traefik
16 2 (0.093%) Anypoint
16 2 (0.093%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 14 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.19%) Trello
8 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
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 (0.33%) Endur
1 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Actimize
5 2 (0.093%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.093%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.093%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.093%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 871 (40.46%) Azure
2 483 (22.43%) GCP
3 306 (14.21%) GitHub
4 299 (13.89%) Serverless
5 283 (13.14%) Amazon S3
6 263 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
7 195 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
8 163 (7.57%) Snowflake
9 162 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 129 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 127 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
12 119 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
12 119 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
13 101 (4.69%) Power Platform
14 99 (4.60%) dbt
15 85 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 75 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
17 55 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
18 54 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
19 48 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 122 (5.67%) Firewall
2 72 (3.34%) DNS
3 59 (2.74%) VPN
4 56 (2.60%) Network Security
5 35 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.39%) SSL
7 28 (1.30%) WAN
8 22 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 21 (0.98%) HTTP
10 20 (0.93%) DHCP
11 15 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
12 14 (0.65%) BGP
12 14 (0.65%) SSH
13 13 (0.60%) LAN
13 13 (0.60%) VLAN
14 12 (0.56%) OSPF
15 11 (0.51%) Wireless
16 10 (0.46%) FTP
16 10 (0.46%) IMAP
16 10 (0.46%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (10.54%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (5.25%) NoSQL
3 111 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
5 100 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
6 99 (4.60%) Data Lake
7 93 (4.32%) Power BI
8 90 (4.18%) Relational Database
9 88 (4.09%) SQL Server
10 78 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 60 (2.79%) MongoDB
12 58 (2.69%) DynamoDB
13 54 (2.51%) Metadata
14 51 (2.37%) Tableau
15 49 (2.28%) Big Data
15 49 (2.28%) MySQL
16 47 (2.18%) Apache Iceberg
17 45 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 45 (2.09%) Apache Cassandra
18 34 (1.58%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 238 (11.05%) Git
2 213 (9.89%) Jenkins
3 169 (7.85%) GitLab
4 152 (7.06%) JIRA
5 37 (1.72%) JUnit
6 27 (1.25%) MLflow
7 25 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 24 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 23 (1.07%) Selenium
10 22 (1.02%) CircleCI
11 21 (0.98%) Cucumber
12 20 (0.93%) ERwin
13 17 (0.79%) Mockito
14 16 (0.74%) JMeter
15 15 (0.70%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.65%) ER Studio
16 14 (0.65%) Postman
17 13 (0.60%) Maven
18 11 (0.51%) Vagrant
19 10 (0.46%) Gatling
General
1 540 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 478 (22.20%) Finance
3 251 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 215 (9.99%) Banking
5 207 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (4.18%) Investment Banking
7 85 (3.95%) Front Office
8 37 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 31 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 30 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.35%) Marketing
13 26 (1.21%) Retail
14 25 (1.16%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.07%) Military
16 22 (1.02%) Legal
17 17 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.65%) Manufacturing
18 14 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 425 (19.74%) Developer
2 388 (18.02%) Senior
3 326 (15.14%) Architect
4 243 (11.29%) AWS Engineer
5 178 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 169 (7.85%) Data Engineer
7 154 (7.15%) Lead
8 131 (6.08%) Python Engineer
9 129 (5.99%) Software Engineer
10 113 (5.25%) Senior Developer
11 102 (4.74%) Java Developer
12 92 (4.27%) Analyst
13 91 (4.23%) AWS Developer
14 86 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
14 86 (3.99%) Python Developer
15 84 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
16 77 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 77 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
17 67 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
18 64 (2.97%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (12.54%) Kafka
2 221 (10.26%) React
3 173 (8.04%) Node.js
4 145 (6.73%) REST
5 123 (5.71%) Spring
6 114 (5.29%) RESTful
7 105 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 100 (4.64%) AngularJS
9 82 (3.81%) Pandas
10 81 (3.76%) gRPC
11 80 (3.72%) NumPy
12 67 (3.11%) HTML
13 64 (2.97%) CSS
14 62 (2.88%) .NET
15 57 (2.65%) SciPy
16 56 (2.60%) GraphQL
16 56 (2.60%) Vue
17 51 (2.37%) FastAPI
18 46 (2.14%) PySpark
19 44 (2.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 259 (12.03%) Cloud Native
2 103 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.20%) Hedge funds
4 67 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 65 (3.02%) Fixed Income
6 58 (2.69%) Derivative
6 58 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 58 (2.69%) Security Posture
7 51 (2.37%) Equities
7 51 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 39 (1.81%) Management Information System
10 38 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.72%) Data Centre
11 37 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 31 (1.44%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.30%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 198 (9.20%) Linux
2 83 (3.86%) Windows
3 50 (2.32%) Unix
4 22 (1.02%) VMS
5 19 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
8 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.33%) CentOS
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.093%) zOS
12 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 612 (28.43%) DevOps
3 541 (25.13%) Agile
4 426 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 343 (15.93%) Microservices
6 342 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
7 305 (14.17%) Software Engineering
8 295 (13.70%) Analytics
9 268 (12.45%) AI
10 263 (12.22%) Containerisation
11 215 (9.99%) Data Modelling
12 206 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
12 206 (9.57%) Migration
13 196 (9.10%) Machine Learning
14 190 (8.82%) Observability
15 188 (8.73%) Data Engineering
16 181 (8.41%) ETL
17 167 (7.76%) Test Automation
18 163 (7.57%) Full-Stack Development
19 159 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 935 (43.43%) Python
2 485 (22.53%) SQL
3 451 (20.95%) Java
4 232 (10.78%) JavaScript
5 213 (9.89%) TypeScript
6 128 (5.95%) Bash
7 120 (5.57%) Go
8 97 (4.51%) PowerShell
9 91 (4.23%) C#
10 38 (1.76%) C++
11 30 (1.39%) Ruby
12 26 (1.21%) Scala
13 23 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 21 (0.98%) Rust
15 18 (0.84%) Groovy
16 17 (0.79%) Perl
16 17 (0.79%) R
17 16 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.60%) PHP
19 12 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 540 (25.08%) Security Cleared
2 474 (22.02%) SC Cleared
3 131 (6.08%) AWS Certification
4 130 (6.04%) Degree
5 65 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 35 (1.63%) CISSP
8 33 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 32 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (0.88%) CISM
12 19 (0.88%) OSCP
13 16 (0.74%) CCNP
14 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.65%) MCP
16 13 (0.60%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.56%) PMP
18 11 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 100 (4.64%) GDPR
3 83 (3.86%) QA
4 79 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.07%) NIST
6 37 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.02%) NCSC
8 21 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 15 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.70%) WCAG
11 11 (0.51%) SLA
12 9 (0.42%) GRC
13 8 (0.37%) MiFID
14 7 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.28%) ISO 20022
16 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.23%) HL7
16 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 501 (23.27%) Docker
2 59 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.51%) Squid
6 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.46%) Postfix
7 8 (0.37%) zsh
8 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.23%) Firmware
10 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.14%) vSphere
11 2 (0.093%) KVM
11 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 517 (24.01%) Terraform
2 504 (23.41%) Kubernetes
3 144 (6.69%) Ansible
4 110 (5.11%) Grafana
5 95 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.58%) Argo
7 26 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.07%) Puppet
9 20 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.84%) Nessus
11 15 (0.70%) SCCM
12 12 (0.56%) Kibana
13 11 (0.51%) Packer
14 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.42%) Consul
15 9 (0.42%) QRadar
16 8 (0.37%) Istio
16 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
17 7 (0.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 151 (7.01%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.60%) Databricks
3 85 (3.95%) Google
4 82 (3.81%) Oracle
5 79 (3.67%) Splunk
6 65 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.58%) Cisco
9 33 (1.53%) Palo Alto
10 29 (1.35%) CyberArk
11 28 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.16%) VMware
13 24 (1.11%) F5
13 24 (1.11%) IBM
14 23 (1.07%) Dynatrace
15 22 (1.02%) CheckPoint
15 22 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 22 (1.02%) SAP
16 21 (0.98%) BeyondTrust
17 20 (0.93%) Centrify