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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,785 2,138 2,276
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.80% 15.92% 14.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.63% 36.74% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,964 1,478 1,700
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £760
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.50 £63.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +107.99% -63.94%
75th Percentile £80.63 £79.69 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -36.30%

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 8,282 5,820 6,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.03% 43.33% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 3,960 4,663
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 94 48
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -5 282 £550 -5.98% 389
West London +7 95 £560 +33.73% 146
South London +1 76 £535 -4.07% 16
East London +10 14 £550 -9.47% 29
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
1 157 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 100 (3.59%) Confluence
4 87 (3.12%) Apache
5 28 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.50%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
8 11 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.32%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.22%) IIS
10 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 6 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.072%) Endur
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.072%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,246 (44.74%) Azure
2 616 (22.12%) GCP
3 394 (14.15%) Serverless
4 382 (13.72%) Amazon S3
5 365 (13.11%) GitHub
6 330 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
7 247 (8.87%) GitHub Actions
8 231 (8.29%) Snowflake
9 207 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
10 184 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 159 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
12 152 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 145 (5.21%) dbt
14 144 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
15 138 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
16 134 (4.81%) Power Platform
17 128 (4.60%) SaaS
18 121 (4.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 106 (3.81%) Entra ID
20 93 (3.34%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.91%) Firewall
2 81 (2.91%) Network Security
3 69 (2.48%) DNS
4 57 (2.05%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 37 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.97%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) BGP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 18 (0.65%) HTTP
11 18 (0.65%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.54%) OSPF
13 14 (0.50%) NGFW
14 13 (0.47%) MPLS
14 13 (0.47%) SAN
14 13 (0.47%) VXLAN
15 12 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.34%) Power BI
5 118 (4.24%) NoSQL
6 111 (3.99%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.91%) SQL Server
8 105 (3.77%) Metadata
9 95 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
10 93 (3.34%) DynamoDB
11 90 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 88 (3.16%) MongoDB
13 77 (2.76%) Relational Database
14 69 (2.48%) Delta Lake
15 59 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
15 59 (2.12%) Tableau
16 56 (2.01%) Big Data
17 52 (1.87%) MySQL
18 44 (1.58%) Redis
19 42 (1.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 294 (10.56%) Git
2 291 (10.45%) Jenkins
3 260 (9.34%) GitLab
4 150 (5.39%) JIRA
5 33 (1.18%) Maven
6 32 (1.15%) JMeter
7 30 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 29 (1.04%) JUnit
9 28 (1.01%) Cypress.io
10 27 (0.97%) Selenium
11 25 (0.90%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.83%) Gradle
12 23 (0.83%) Mockito
13 22 (0.79%) Postman
14 19 (0.68%) Cucumber
15 18 (0.65%) Claude Code
15 18 (0.65%) Gatling
16 16 (0.57%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 695 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 662 (23.77%) Finance
3 380 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 281 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 252 (9.05%) Banking
6 83 (2.98%) Retail
7 62 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (1.58%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 38 (1.36%) Marketing
12 36 (1.29%) Legal
13 35 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.15%) Front Office
15 30 (1.08%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.04%) Law
17 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 25 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.86%) Military
20 23 (0.83%) Billing
Job Titles
1 585 (21.01%) Architect
2 449 (16.12%) Senior
3 341 (12.24%) Developer
4 307 (11.02%) Data Engineer
5 297 (10.66%) Lead
6 259 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
7 207 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (4.02%) Analyst
9 112 (4.02%) AWS Architect
10 111 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 103 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
12 101 (3.63%) Java Developer
13 98 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 98 (3.52%) Data Architect
14 92 (3.30%) Software Engineer
15 91 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
16 81 (2.91%) Senior Developer
17 78 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
18 76 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 710 (25.49%) Terraform
2 314 (11.27%) Kafka
3 269 (9.66%) REST
4 197 (7.07%) React
5 182 (6.54%) Spring
6 166 (5.96%) Spring Boot
7 155 (5.57%) RESTful
8 121 (4.34%) Node.js
9 114 (4.09%) PySpark
10 94 (3.38%) .NET
11 92 (3.30%) OAuth
12 67 (2.41%) GraphQL
13 65 (2.33%) FastAPI
14 64 (2.30%) HTML
15 63 (2.26%) JSON
16 61 (2.19%) AngularJS
17 53 (1.90%) CSS
18 52 (1.87%) OAuth2
19 50 (1.80%) SOAP
20 47 (1.69%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 534 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 187 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 131 (4.70%) AI Agents
5 124 (4.45%) Product Ownership
6 84 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 68 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.30%) Data Centre
10 60 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 47 (1.69%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 40 (1.44%) Replication
14 38 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 38 (1.36%) PKI
15 33 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
15 33 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 30 (1.08%) CMDB
17 28 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 236 (8.47%) Linux
2 122 (4.38%) Windows
3 56 (2.01%) Unix
4 45 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.39%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,163 (41.76%) CI/CD
2 882 (31.67%) DevOps
3 707 (25.39%) Agile
4 663 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 624 (22.41%) AI
6 462 (16.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 419 (15.04%) Microservices
8 401 (14.40%) Containerisation
9 386 (13.86%) Observability
10 365 (13.11%) Migration
10 365 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
11 357 (12.82%) Analytics
12 350 (12.57%) Software Engineering
13 343 (12.32%) Data Modelling
13 343 (12.32%) Data Pipeline
14 333 (11.96%) Data Engineering
15 326 (11.71%) Event-Driven
16 322 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 298 (10.70%) Technical Leadership
18 289 (10.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (36.80%) Python
2 600 (21.54%) SQL
3 477 (17.13%) Java
4 208 (7.47%) TypeScript
5 199 (7.15%) JavaScript
6 168 (6.03%) Bash
7 139 (4.99%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.91%) C#
9 48 (1.72%) Scala
10 44 (1.58%) Go
11 34 (1.22%) Bicep
11 34 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 28 (1.01%) Groovy
13 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.86%) Ruby
15 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.72%) R
16 18 (0.65%) C++
17 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 766 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 677 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 160 (5.75%) AWS Certification
4 140 (5.03%) Degree
5 88 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 87 (3.12%) CISSP
7 72 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 62 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 58 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 49 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (1.62%) CISM
13 28 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.75%) PMP
16 20 (0.72%) CCSP
17 19 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 18 (0.65%) CCNP
18 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 157 (5.64%) QA
3 104 (3.73%) NIST
4 96 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (2.80%) GDPR
6 36 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.11%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.93%) NCSC
10 25 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.83%) SLA
12 20 (0.72%) ISO 20022
13 19 (0.68%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.65%) HIPAA
15 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
16 15 (0.54%) EU AI Act
17 13 (0.47%) SEPA
18 12 (0.43%) PMO
19 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
20 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 493 (17.70%) Docker
2 88 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.22%) NFS
8 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 621 (22.30%) Kubernetes
2 207 (7.43%) Grafana
3 194 (6.97%) Ansible
4 162 (5.82%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.29%) Kibana
6 34 (1.22%) Argo
7 33 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.93%) Puppet
9 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.32%) Istio
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.22%) Control-M
15 6 (0.22%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) Nessus
16 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 290 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 186 (6.68%) Databricks
3 136 (4.88%) Oracle
4 129 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 123 (4.42%) Google
6 109 (3.91%) Splunk
7 69 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.94%) Cisco
8 54 (1.94%) VMware
9 52 (1.87%) OpenAI
10 51 (1.83%) SAP
11 50 (1.80%) CyberArk
12 44 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 38 (1.36%) Informatica
14 37 (1.33%) Dynatrace
15 33 (1.18%) IBM
16 29 (1.04%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.97%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.90%) MuleSoft
19 24 (0.86%) Foundry