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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,562 2,004 2,321
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.82% 15.85% 12.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.20% 37.29% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,760 1,458 1,782
10th Percentile £400 £403 £406
25th Percentile £463 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £47.38 £22.12
25th Percentile £44.00 £52.63 £29.72
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% +4.78% -23.33%
75th Percentile £76.73 £88.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £92.63 £97.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year +1.69% +37.21% -18.87%

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 7,492 5,374 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.51% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,152 3,739 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £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 103 51 76
10th Percentile £18.30 £22.27 £17.39
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £41.19
90th Percentile £69.87 £73.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -23.78%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -1 294 £550 - 301
South London +4 95 £513 +7.89% 12
West London +7 69 £603 +6.64% 42
East London +3 13 £540 -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
1 131 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 76 (2.97%) Confluence
4 68 (2.65%) Apache
5 33 (1.29%) nginx
6 26 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.66%) SAS
8 16 (0.62%) Camunda
9 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Appian
12 6 (0.23%) CMS
13 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.16%) CICS
14 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
16 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
16 2 (0.078%) Drupal
16 2 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.078%) Revit
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.16%) Actimize
4 4 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.078%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.078%) Endur
6 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.039%) Maximo
7 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.039%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.039%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,034 (40.36%) Azure
2 566 (22.09%) GCP
3 391 (15.26%) Serverless
4 385 (15.03%) Amazon S3
5 336 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
6 327 (12.76%) GitHub
7 246 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 185 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
9 175 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
10 161 (6.28%) Snowflake
11 154 (6.01%) Power Platform
12 153 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
13 146 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 144 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
15 114 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 91 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
17 66 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
17 66 (2.58%) dbt
17 66 (2.58%) SaaS
18 64 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.83%) Firewall
2 62 (2.42%) VPN
3 60 (2.34%) DNS
4 58 (2.26%) Network Security
5 42 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.25%) WAN
7 20 (0.78%) BGP
8 18 (0.70%) LAN
9 16 (0.62%) HTTP
10 15 (0.59%) DHCP
10 15 (0.59%) OSPF
11 14 (0.55%) VLAN
12 12 (0.47%) SSL
13 11 (0.43%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.31%) 5G
15 8 (0.31%) SAN
16 7 (0.27%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (5.35%) Power BI
3 124 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
3 124 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 121 (4.72%) Data Lake
5 111 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
6 100 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 92 (3.59%) SQL Server
8 86 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 86 (3.36%) Tableau
9 77 (3.01%) Metadata
10 74 (2.89%) DynamoDB
10 74 (2.89%) MongoDB
11 53 (2.07%) Big Data
12 51 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
13 49 (1.91%) MySQL
14 39 (1.52%) BigQuery
15 34 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
16 31 (1.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 253 (9.88%) Git
2 214 (8.35%) GitLab
3 201 (7.85%) Jenkins
4 138 (5.39%) JIRA
5 43 (1.68%) JUnit
6 42 (1.64%) MLflow
7 31 (1.21%) Mockito
8 30 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 23 (0.90%) Selenium
11 23 (0.90%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.78%) Maven
13 17 (0.66%) Gradle
14 16 (0.62%) Postman
15 14 (0.55%) JMeter
15 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.47%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.43%) Snyk
17 11 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 576 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 574 (22.40%) Finance
3 371 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 237 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (8.24%) Banking
6 92 (3.59%) Front Office
7 65 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (1.99%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (1.09%) Retail
14 26 (1.01%) Legal
15 21 (0.82%) Marketing
16 17 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.59%) Military
18 14 (0.55%) Law
19 13 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 490 (19.13%) Architect
2 451 (17.60%) Developer
3 387 (15.11%) Senior
4 260 (10.15%) Data Engineer
5 248 (9.68%) Lead
6 241 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
7 193 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (5.74%) Software Engineer
9 124 (4.84%) Senior Developer
10 122 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
11 109 (4.25%) Analyst
12 100 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
13 98 (3.83%) AWS Architect
13 98 (3.83%) Java Developer
14 97 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
15 91 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 91 (3.55%) Python Engineer
16 86 (3.36%) Python Developer
17 82 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
17 82 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (12.80%) Kafka
2 250 (9.76%) React
3 211 (8.24%) Node.js
4 194 (7.57%) REST
5 158 (6.17%) Spring
6 144 (5.62%) Spring Boot
7 143 (5.58%) RESTful
8 84 (3.28%) AngularJS
9 79 (3.08%) PySpark
10 76 (2.97%) .NET
11 68 (2.65%) OAuth
12 65 (2.54%) GraphQL
13 63 (2.46%) SOAP
14 62 (2.42%) Pandas
15 60 (2.34%) Redux
16 57 (2.22%) CSS
16 57 (2.22%) HTML
17 53 (2.07%) LDAP
18 49 (1.91%) Vue
19 47 (1.83%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 386 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (2.93%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 69 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 67 (2.62%) Security Posture
7 64 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 57 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 56 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 55 (2.15%) AI Agents
11 49 (1.91%) Derivative
12 44 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.64%) Algorithms
13 42 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (1.48%) Equities
15 36 (1.41%) Data Structures
16 34 (1.33%) Public Cloud
17 29 (1.13%) Mainframe
18 26 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 186 (7.26%) Linux
2 66 (2.58%) Windows
3 44 (1.72%) Unix
4 13 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) VMS
6 9 (0.35%) Android
7 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.23%) zOS
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.078%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (37.98%) CI/CD
2 720 (28.10%) DevOps
3 617 (24.08%) Agile
4 507 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 455 (17.76%) AI
6 413 (16.12%) Microservices
7 395 (15.42%) Analytics
8 369 (14.40%) Containerisation
9 362 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
10 328 (12.80%) Software Engineering
11 302 (11.79%) Data Modelling
12 287 (11.20%) Migration
13 278 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
14 271 (10.58%) Data Engineering
15 266 (10.38%) Observability
16 257 (10.03%) Machine Learning
17 250 (9.76%) ETL
18 225 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
19 220 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
20 204 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,021 (39.85%) Python
2 586 (22.87%) SQL
3 463 (18.07%) Java
4 227 (8.86%) TypeScript
5 219 (8.55%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.41%) Go
7 106 (4.14%) C#
8 104 (4.06%) Bash
9 97 (3.79%) PowerShell
10 44 (1.72%) Ruby
11 38 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 37 (1.44%) Scala
13 23 (0.90%) C++
14 22 (0.86%) R
15 19 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.66%) Bicep
17 15 (0.59%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.35%) C
18 9 (0.35%) Korn
19 8 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 746 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 658 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 124 (4.84%) AWS Certification
4 121 (4.72%) Degree
5 72 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (2.07%) CISSP
7 51 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 47 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 35 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 27 (1.05%) CISM
12 25 (0.98%) PMI Certification
12 25 (0.98%) PMP
13 19 (0.74%) CCNP
13 19 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.51%) CCSP
15 13 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 125 (4.88%) GDPR
3 92 (3.59%) QA
4 79 (3.08%) NIST
5 73 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.05%) NCSC
8 27 (1.05%) SLA
9 16 (0.62%) WCAG
10 15 (0.59%) GRC
11 13 (0.51%) PMO
12 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.27%) PSD2
17 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 5 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 514 (20.06%) Docker
2 79 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.39%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) HDFS
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.078%) Firmware
10 2 (0.078%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.039%) Ceph
11 1 (0.039%) KVM
Systems Management
1 598 (23.34%) Terraform
2 546 (21.31%) Kubernetes
3 131 (5.11%) Ansible
4 123 (4.80%) Grafana
5 111 (4.33%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.13%) Argo
8 19 (0.74%) Consul
8 19 (0.74%) Puppet
9 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.51%) Packer
10 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.43%) Kibana
13 9 (0.35%) QRadar
13 9 (0.35%) SCCM
14 7 (0.27%) Istio
14 7 (0.27%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 186 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 141 (5.50%) Databricks
3 95 (3.71%) Google
4 92 (3.59%) Oracle
5 80 (3.12%) ServiceNow
6 77 (3.01%) Splunk
7 58 (2.26%) CyberArk
8 53 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 41 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 39 (1.52%) Cisco
11 37 (1.44%) IBM
11 37 (1.44%) VMware
12 36 (1.41%) Dynatrace
13 35 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.37%) Centrify
14 34 (1.33%) SAP
15 26 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 25 (0.98%) Red Hat
17 22 (0.86%) Foundry
18 21 (0.82%) Fortinet