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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,531 2,007 2,295
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.03% 15.89% 12.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.36% 37.37% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,730 1,471 1,763
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.50%
75th Percentile £675 £692 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 14
10th Percentile £35.00 £46.50 £22.14
25th Percentile £65.63 £51.75 £29.85
Median hourly rate £75.59 £55.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -3.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.81 £67.50 £61.88
90th Percentile £94.63 £84.00 £70.85
England median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +31.82% -19.71%

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 7,366 5,370 6,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.73% 42.52% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,056 3,763 4,960
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 80
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £24.29 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -25.37%
75th Percentile £51.81 £54.13 £51.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £62.63
England median hourly rate £40.78 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +27.68% -18.32%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -1 293 £550 +3.29% 301
South London +3 94 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +8 62 £603 +6.64% 42
East London +5 11 £630 +7.69% 33
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
1 128 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.20%) Confluence
4 69 (2.73%) Apache
5 33 (1.30%) nginx
6 23 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 18 (0.71%) Camunda
8 17 (0.67%) SAS
9 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Appian
12 5 (0.20%) CMS
13 4 (0.16%) CICS
13 4 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.079%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.079%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.040%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.040%) Notion
9 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Actimize
3 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.079%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.079%) Endur
5 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.040%) Maximo
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.040%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.040%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (40.93%) Azure
2 579 (22.88%) GCP
3 380 (15.01%) Serverless
4 363 (14.34%) Amazon S3
5 342 (13.51%) GitHub
6 326 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
7 238 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 196 (7.74%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
10 158 (6.24%) Snowflake
11 152 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
12 150 (5.93%) Power Platform
13 142 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
14 134 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 88 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
17 64 (2.53%) dbt
18 63 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
19 60 (2.37%) Amazon Kinesis
19 60 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 99 (3.91%) Firewall
2 70 (2.77%) VPN
3 61 (2.41%) DNS
4 60 (2.37%) Network Security
5 45 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.46%) WAN
7 20 (0.79%) BGP
8 18 (0.71%) LAN
9 17 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.63%) HTTP
11 15 (0.59%) OSPF
12 14 (0.55%) VLAN
13 13 (0.51%) DHCP
13 13 (0.51%) SSL
14 10 (0.40%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.36%) 5G
15 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.32%) 4G
17 7 (0.28%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (5.25%) Power BI
3 121 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
3 121 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 116 (4.58%) Data Lake
6 101 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
7 97 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 93 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 90 (3.56%) Relational Database
10 80 (3.16%) Tableau
11 72 (2.84%) Metadata
12 71 (2.81%) DynamoDB
13 70 (2.77%) MongoDB
14 57 (2.25%) Big Data
15 52 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
16 50 (1.98%) MySQL
17 40 (1.58%) BigQuery
18 36 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
19 32 (1.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 256 (10.11%) Git
2 219 (8.65%) GitLab
3 212 (8.38%) Jenkins
4 139 (5.49%) JIRA
5 46 (1.82%) MLflow
6 45 (1.78%) JUnit
7 30 (1.19%) Mockito
8 29 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 25 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 22 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 21 (0.83%) Selenium
12 20 (0.79%) Maven
13 18 (0.71%) JMeter
14 16 (0.63%) Gradle
15 14 (0.55%) Gatling
15 14 (0.55%) Postman
15 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
16 11 (0.43%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 582 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 573 (22.64%) Finance
3 358 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 233 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (8.34%) Banking
6 89 (3.52%) Front Office
7 64 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.62%) Financial Institution
10 40 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 38 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.19%) Retail
14 25 (0.99%) Legal
15 21 (0.83%) Marketing
16 18 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.55%) Law
17 14 (0.55%) Military
18 13 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 476 (18.81%) Architect
2 447 (17.66%) Developer
3 392 (15.49%) Senior
4 244 (9.64%) Data Engineer
5 243 (9.60%) Lead
6 230 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 191 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 150 (5.93%) Software Engineer
9 123 (4.86%) Senior Developer
9 123 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
10 113 (4.46%) Analyst
11 97 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
11 97 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 95 (3.75%) AWS Architect
13 94 (3.71%) Python Engineer
14 91 (3.60%) Java Developer
15 88 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 85 (3.36%) Python Developer
17 83 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 78 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (13.24%) Kafka
2 251 (9.92%) React
3 207 (8.18%) Node.js
4 198 (7.82%) REST
5 146 (5.77%) Spring
6 140 (5.53%) RESTful
7 133 (5.25%) Spring Boot
8 91 (3.60%) AngularJS
9 76 (3.00%) PySpark
10 71 (2.81%) .NET
11 67 (2.65%) OAuth
12 66 (2.61%) SOAP
13 63 (2.49%) GraphQL
14 62 (2.45%) CSS
15 60 (2.37%) Redux
16 59 (2.33%) HTML
16 59 (2.33%) Pandas
17 55 (2.17%) gRPC
18 53 (2.09%) LDAP
19 49 (1.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 375 (14.82%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (3.00%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.88%) Security Posture
5 68 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 67 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.57%) Onboarding
8 62 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.17%) Data Centre
10 54 (2.13%) AI Agents
11 51 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
12 50 (1.98%) Derivative
13 45 (1.78%) Management Information System
14 44 (1.74%) Algorithms
15 39 (1.54%) Equities
16 38 (1.50%) Public Cloud
17 37 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
18 34 (1.34%) Data Structures
19 28 (1.11%) Mainframe
20 26 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.47%) Linux
2 70 (2.77%) Windows
3 49 (1.94%) Unix
4 12 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.43%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Android
6 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.24%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.079%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.040%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 958 (37.85%) CI/CD
2 710 (28.05%) DevOps
3 624 (24.65%) Agile
4 496 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 450 (17.78%) AI
6 403 (15.92%) Microservices
7 382 (15.09%) Analytics
8 362 (14.30%) Containerisation
9 358 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
10 332 (13.12%) Software Engineering
11 300 (11.85%) Data Modelling
12 275 (10.87%) Data Engineering
13 273 (10.79%) Migration
14 272 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
15 266 (10.51%) Machine Learning
16 260 (10.27%) Observability
17 249 (9.84%) ETL
18 216 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
19 212 (8.38%) Full-Stack Development
20 203 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,023 (40.42%) Python
2 582 (22.99%) SQL
3 455 (17.98%) Java
4 233 (9.21%) TypeScript
5 224 (8.85%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.54%) Go
7 103 (4.07%) C#
8 100 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 97 (3.83%) Bash
10 42 (1.66%) Ruby
11 39 (1.54%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.42%) Scala
13 25 (0.99%) C++
14 22 (0.87%) R
15 18 (0.71%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.55%) Bicep
16 14 (0.55%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.36%) Korn
17 9 (0.36%) Rust
18 8 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 726 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 637 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 126 (4.98%) AWS Certification
4 123 (4.86%) Degree
5 71 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (2.25%) CISSP
7 49 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 41 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.19%) CISM
13 25 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 25 (0.99%) PMP
14 19 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 19 (0.75%) CCNP
15 18 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.55%) OSCP
17 13 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 131 (5.18%) GDPR
3 93 (3.67%) QA
4 78 (3.08%) NIST
5 75 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.07%) NCSC
9 21 (0.83%) SLA
10 16 (0.63%) WCAG
11 15 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.59%) PMO
12 14 (0.55%) GRC
13 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.28%) PSD2
17 6 (0.24%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 523 (20.66%) Docker
2 75 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.40%) Squid
5 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.079%) IAG
10 2 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.040%) Lustre
11 1 (0.040%) NLBS
11 1 (0.040%) Postfix
11 1 (0.040%) Samba
Systems Management
1 591 (23.35%) Terraform
2 541 (21.37%) Kubernetes
3 133 (5.25%) Ansible
4 121 (4.78%) Grafana
5 110 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.15%) Argo
8 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.71%) Consul
10 16 (0.63%) Puppet
11 15 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.51%) Packer
13 12 (0.47%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.40%) SCCM
15 9 (0.36%) Kibana
15 9 (0.36%) QRadar
16 7 (0.28%) Karpenter
17 6 (0.24%) Istio
18 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
18 5 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 190 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 142 (5.61%) Databricks
3 95 (3.75%) Google
4 94 (3.71%) Oracle
5 84 (3.32%) Splunk
6 75 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 56 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 51 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 40 (1.58%) Cisco
10 39 (1.54%) IBM
11 36 (1.42%) Dynatrace
11 36 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 35 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.38%) Centrify
12 35 (1.38%) VMware
13 31 (1.22%) SAP
14 28 (1.11%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 21 (0.83%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.83%) Informatica