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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,724 2,074 2,411
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.49% 16.94% 13.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.35% 39.18% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,883 1,454 1,866
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £547 £540 £560
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 12
10th Percentile £37.70 £36.00 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.43
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +93.49% -63.13%
75th Percentile £79.38 £67.50 £68.38
90th Percentile £87.38 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £50.59
% change year-on-year -1.75% +40.84% -30.22%

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 7,929 5,294 6,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.19% 43.24% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,461 3,585 5,081
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 65 69
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.36 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.75 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £58.50
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +67.12% +16.50% -38.69%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -3 286 £550 - 123
West London +5 88 £560 +13.71% 30
South London 0 81 £500 +0.50% 4
East London +4 16 £543 -7.26% 28
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 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 74 (2.72%) Confluence
4 58 (2.13%) Apache
5 26 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.70%) nginx
7 13 (0.48%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
9 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.37%) SAS
10 8 (0.29%) CMS
11 6 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 39 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.26%) Revit
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Endur
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.073%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.073%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.037%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,107 (40.64%) Azure
2 573 (21.04%) GCP
3 407 (14.94%) Amazon S3
4 406 (14.90%) Serverless
5 355 (13.03%) AWS Lambda
6 345 (12.67%) GitHub
7 215 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 203 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 188 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
10 186 (6.83%) Snowflake
11 167 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
12 163 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 146 (5.36%) Power Platform
14 135 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
15 125 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 114 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
17 99 (3.63%) SaaS
18 85 (3.12%) dbt
19 83 (3.05%) Amazon Bedrock
20 76 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (3.93%) Firewall
2 80 (2.94%) Network Security
3 68 (2.50%) VPN
4 66 (2.42%) DNS
5 47 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.36%) WAN
7 23 (0.84%) BGP
8 22 (0.81%) HTTP
9 21 (0.77%) SSL
10 19 (0.70%) DHCP
10 19 (0.70%) LAN
11 18 (0.66%) OSPF
12 15 (0.55%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.51%) NGFW
14 12 (0.44%) Internet
14 12 (0.44%) VLAN
15 10 (0.37%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.37%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
3 129 (4.74%) Data Lake
4 126 (4.63%) Power BI
5 124 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 116 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
7 113 (4.15%) NoSQL
8 107 (3.93%) SQL Server
9 105 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 86 (3.16%) DynamoDB
11 75 (2.75%) MongoDB
12 74 (2.72%) Metadata
13 73 (2.68%) Relational Database
13 73 (2.68%) Tableau
14 63 (2.31%) Big Data
15 45 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
16 41 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
16 41 (1.51%) BigQuery
17 39 (1.43%) MySQL
18 38 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 236 (8.66%) Git
2 234 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 220 (8.08%) GitLab
4 134 (4.92%) JIRA
5 40 (1.47%) JUnit
6 33 (1.21%) MLflow
7 32 (1.17%) Mockito
8 28 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 28 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 26 (0.95%) JMeter
10 23 (0.84%) Gradle
10 23 (0.84%) Maven
11 22 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.77%) Selenium
13 20 (0.73%) Postman
14 19 (0.70%) Bitbucket
15 18 (0.66%) Gatling
16 16 (0.59%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.55%) REST Assured
17 15 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 638 (23.42%) Finance
2 593 (21.77%) Social Skills
3 386 (14.17%) Public Sector
4 230 (8.44%) Banking
5 225 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (3.01%) Front Office
7 65 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 49 (1.80%) Retail
11 43 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (0.92%) Marketing
14 25 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (0.81%) Legal
16 19 (0.70%) Law
17 17 (0.62%) Military
18 13 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 546 (20.04%) Architect
2 423 (15.53%) Developer
3 413 (15.16%) Senior
4 301 (11.05%) Lead
5 297 (10.90%) Data Engineer
6 279 (10.24%) AWS Engineer
7 203 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (5.43%) Software Engineer
9 142 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 113 (4.15%) Senior Developer
12 107 (3.93%) AWS Architect
13 104 (3.82%) Analyst
14 103 (3.78%) Java Developer
15 97 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
16 92 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
17 89 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
18 88 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 82 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 74 (2.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (11.34%) Kafka
2 247 (9.07%) React
3 234 (8.59%) REST
4 182 (6.68%) Node.js
5 173 (6.35%) Spring
6 165 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.18%) RESTful
8 101 (3.71%) .NET
9 83 (3.05%) PySpark
10 82 (3.01%) AngularJS
11 79 (2.90%) GraphQL
12 78 (2.86%) OAuth
13 70 (2.57%) SOAP
14 64 (2.35%) Redux
15 62 (2.28%) LDAP
16 58 (2.13%) HTML
17 54 (1.98%) Pandas
18 51 (1.87%) CSS
18 51 (1.87%) JSON
19 50 (1.84%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 479 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 159 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 82 (3.01%) AI Agents
4 82 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (2.97%) Security Posture
6 76 (2.79%) Fixed Income
7 73 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 56 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (1.98%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.69%) Derivative
13 43 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
14 40 (1.47%) Equities
15 34 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.06%) Mainframe
16 29 (1.06%) Public Cloud
17 28 (1.03%) Data Structures
18 27 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 194 (7.12%) Linux
2 89 (3.27%) Windows
3 36 (1.32%) Unix
4 29 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.44%) Android
7 9 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.26%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.037%) Debian
14 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,053 (38.66%) CI/CD
2 793 (29.11%) DevOps
3 637 (23.38%) Agile
4 563 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 544 (19.97%) AI
6 409 (15.01%) Microservices
7 392 (14.39%) Containerisation
8 377 (13.84%) Analytics
9 348 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
10 332 (12.19%) Migration
11 331 (12.15%) Software Engineering
12 311 (11.42%) Data Modelling
13 309 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
14 299 (10.98%) Data Engineering
15 291 (10.68%) Observability
16 271 (9.95%) Machine Learning
17 269 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
18 245 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
19 242 (8.88%) ETL
20 239 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,041 (38.22%) Python
2 592 (21.73%) SQL
3 485 (17.80%) Java
4 249 (9.14%) TypeScript
5 223 (8.19%) JavaScript
6 125 (4.59%) PowerShell
7 121 (4.44%) C#
8 113 (4.15%) Bash
9 89 (3.27%) Go
10 46 (1.69%) Scala
11 36 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.25%) Ruby
13 24 (0.88%) Bicep
14 23 (0.84%) R
15 22 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.55%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.51%) C++
19 13 (0.48%) Groovy
20 11 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 746 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 666 (24.45%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.36%) Degree
4 126 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 80 (2.94%) CISSP
6 69 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.32%) CISM
11 31 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 29 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 28 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.88%) PMP
15 23 (0.84%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.81%) CCNP
16 22 (0.81%) CCSP
17 15 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.15%) QA
3 102 (3.74%) GDPR
4 94 (3.45%) NIST
5 77 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 26 (0.95%) GRC
8 26 (0.95%) SLA
9 21 (0.77%) NCSC
10 19 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.62%) PMO
11 17 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.59%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.40%) WCAG
14 8 (0.29%) SEPA
14 8 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.26%) EU AI Act
15 7 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 480 (17.62%) Docker
2 98 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.62%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.15%) HDFS
9 4 (0.15%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) IAG
10 3 (0.11%) NFS
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.073%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.073%) Firmware
11 2 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.073%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.073%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 636 (23.35%) Terraform
2 540 (19.82%) Kubernetes
3 159 (5.84%) Grafana
4 155 (5.69%) Ansible
5 140 (5.14%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.77%) Kibana
7 21 (0.77%) Puppet
8 20 (0.73%) Argo
9 14 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.44%) Consul
12 9 (0.33%) Packer
12 9 (0.33%) QRadar
13 7 (0.26%) Istio
14 6 (0.22%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 210 (7.71%) Microsoft
2 121 (4.44%) Databricks
3 106 (3.89%) Google
4 96 (3.52%) Oracle
5 88 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 77 (2.83%) Splunk
7 73 (2.68%) CyberArk
8 57 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 57 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.84%) Cisco
10 38 (1.40%) VMware
11 36 (1.32%) Palo Alto
12 34 (1.25%) BeyondTrust
12 34 (1.25%) Centrify
13 32 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 32 (1.17%) Red Hat
13 32 (1.17%) SAP
14 30 (1.10%) Foundry
15 26 (0.95%) IBM
16 23 (0.84%) Fortinet