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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,856 2,243 2,395
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.36% 16.54% 13.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.55% 38.57% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,985 1,567 1,847
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £537 £568
% change year-on-year +2.52% -5.46% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 12
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £22.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +96.20% -66.61%
75th Percentile £80.63 £70.63 £59.88
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £71.95
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 8,267 5,816 6,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 42.89% 40.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,654 3,971 5,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 81 62
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.68
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -52.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -4 298 £550 -0.45% 103
West London +7 97 £560 +28.00% 50
South London +2 90 £519 -2.62% 7
East London +10 18 £540 -7.69% 34
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
1 139 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 98 (3.43%) Confluence
4 70 (2.45%) Apache
5 35 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.77%) nginx
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) Camunda
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
8 11 (0.39%) CMS
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Mule
11 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.28%) Revit
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.070%) Trello
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Endur
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.070%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.070%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.070%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.070%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.035%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.035%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 1,216 (42.58%) Azure
2 618 (21.64%) GCP
3 414 (14.50%) Serverless
4 411 (14.39%) Amazon S3
5 354 (12.39%) GitHub
6 351 (12.29%) AWS Lambda
7 226 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
8 203 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
9 190 (6.65%) Snowflake
10 180 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 175 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
12 173 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 144 (5.04%) Power Platform
14 141 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
15 126 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
15 126 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 125 (4.38%) SaaS
17 101 (3.54%) dbt
18 96 (3.36%) Amazon Bedrock
19 90 (3.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 117 (4.10%) Firewall
2 90 (3.15%) Network Security
3 75 (2.63%) DNS
4 72 (2.52%) VPN
5 52 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 39 (1.37%) WAN
7 26 (0.91%) HTTP
8 25 (0.88%) DHCP
9 23 (0.81%) BGP
10 18 (0.63%) SSL
11 17 (0.60%) OSPF
12 16 (0.56%) Internet
13 14 (0.49%) LAN
13 14 (0.49%) NGFW
13 14 (0.49%) OpenVPN
13 14 (0.49%) SSH
14 13 (0.46%) VXLAN
15 12 (0.42%) SAN
16 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
16 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
4 129 (4.52%) Power BI
5 120 (4.20%) Data Lake
6 114 (3.99%) NoSQL
7 106 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
8 103 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 99 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 90 (3.15%) DynamoDB
11 84 (2.94%) Metadata
12 72 (2.52%) Relational Database
12 72 (2.52%) Tableau
13 71 (2.49%) MongoDB
14 66 (2.31%) Big Data
15 44 (1.54%) BigQuery
15 44 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
16 42 (1.47%) Delta Lake
17 35 (1.23%) MySQL
18 34 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 276 (9.66%) Git
2 265 (9.28%) Jenkins
3 246 (8.61%) GitLab
4 155 (5.43%) JIRA
5 38 (1.33%) JUnit
6 34 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 31 (1.09%) JMeter
7 31 (1.09%) Maven
7 31 (1.09%) MLflow
7 31 (1.09%) Mockito
8 29 (1.02%) Cypress.io
9 24 (0.84%) Gradle
9 24 (0.84%) Selenium
10 23 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 23 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 22 (0.77%) Postman
12 19 (0.67%) Gatling
12 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
13 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 14 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 701 (24.54%) Finance
2 612 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 411 (14.39%) Public Sector
4 256 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 252 (8.82%) Banking
6 86 (3.01%) Front Office
7 67 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (2.35%) Retail
8 58 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 44 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 39 (1.37%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.16%) Marketing
14 27 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (0.91%) Legal
16 22 (0.77%) Law
16 22 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 591 (20.69%) Architect
2 432 (15.13%) Senior
3 411 (14.39%) Developer
4 326 (11.41%) Lead
5 294 (10.29%) AWS Engineer
6 288 (10.08%) Data Engineer
7 217 (7.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 165 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
9 148 (5.18%) Software Engineer
10 131 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 119 (4.17%) AWS Architect
12 113 (3.96%) Java Developer
13 108 (3.78%) Analyst
14 97 (3.40%) Senior Developer
15 95 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
16 90 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
17 89 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 86 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 86 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
19 78 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (11.20%) Kafka
2 247 (8.65%) React
3 226 (7.91%) REST
4 184 (6.44%) Node.js
5 170 (5.95%) Spring
6 159 (5.57%) Spring Boot
7 144 (5.04%) RESTful
8 94 (3.29%) GraphQL
9 92 (3.22%) .NET
9 92 (3.22%) PySpark
10 81 (2.84%) OAuth
11 69 (2.42%) AngularJS
12 65 (2.28%) Redux
13 57 (2.00%) FastAPI
13 57 (2.00%) JSON
14 55 (1.93%) HTML
15 51 (1.79%) Pandas
16 49 (1.72%) CSS
17 47 (1.65%) LangChain
18 46 (1.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 501 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 186 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 118 (4.13%) Onboarding
4 106 (3.71%) AI Agents
5 89 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 88 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.70%) Fixed Income
8 73 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 68 (2.38%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 49 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.44%) Derivative
15 37 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (1.30%) Equities
16 35 (1.23%) Data Structures
17 34 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 33 (1.16%) PKI
19 32 (1.12%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 215 (7.53%) Linux
2 116 (4.06%) Windows
3 43 (1.51%) Unix
4 38 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.42%) Android
6 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.25%) Solaris
8 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.25%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.070%) CentOS
12 2 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.070%) VMS
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,125 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 859 (30.08%) DevOps
3 712 (24.93%) Agile
4 592 (20.73%) AI
4 592 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 426 (14.92%) Microservices
6 407 (14.25%) Containerisation
7 376 (13.17%) Analytics
8 364 (12.75%) Software Engineering
9 361 (12.64%) Migration
10 354 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
11 333 (11.66%) Data Pipeline
12 331 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 327 (11.45%) Observability
14 323 (11.31%) Data Modelling
15 321 (11.24%) Data Engineering
16 316 (11.06%) Machine Learning
17 294 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 281 (9.84%) Event-Driven
19 271 (9.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,058 (37.04%) Python
2 585 (20.48%) SQL
3 501 (17.54%) Java
4 268 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 237 (8.30%) JavaScript
6 140 (4.90%) Bash
7 119 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 118 (4.13%) C#
9 87 (3.05%) Go
10 47 (1.65%) Scala
11 35 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.09%) Ruby
13 29 (1.02%) Bicep
14 25 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.77%) R
16 19 (0.67%) Groovy
17 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 15 (0.53%) C++
19 14 (0.49%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 749 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 676 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 150 (5.25%) Degree
4 141 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 91 (3.19%) CISSP
6 69 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 63 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 50 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.47%) CISM
12 36 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 30 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 22 (0.77%) CCSP
16 21 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 21 (0.74%) PMP
17 19 (0.67%) CCNP
18 17 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
19 16 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 123 (4.31%) QA
3 97 (3.40%) GDPR
4 95 (3.33%) NIST
5 80 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.12%) GRC
7 32 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 26 (0.91%) SLA
9 22 (0.77%) NCSC
10 18 (0.63%) HIPAA
10 18 (0.63%) PMO
10 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.56%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
13 13 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.39%) WCAG
15 10 (0.35%) SEPA
16 6 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 503 (17.61%) Docker
2 82 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.28%) IAG
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.18%) vSphere
11 4 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Firmware
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.11%) Postfix
12 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.070%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 679 (23.77%) Terraform
2 600 (21.01%) Kubernetes
3 186 (6.51%) Grafana
4 169 (5.92%) Ansible
5 150 (5.25%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.98%) Argo
8 25 (0.88%) Kibana
9 23 (0.81%) Puppet
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.42%) Consul
12 12 (0.42%) Packer
13 11 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.35%) QRadar
15 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
16 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.25%) Istio
17 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 255 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.62%) Databricks
3 120 (4.20%) ServiceNow
4 119 (4.17%) Google
5 103 (3.61%) Oracle
6 83 (2.91%) Splunk
7 69 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 48 (1.68%) Cisco
10 45 (1.58%) CyberArk
11 40 (1.40%) SAP
11 40 (1.40%) VMware
12 36 (1.26%) Foundry
12 36 (1.26%) Palo Alto
13 31 (1.09%) Dynatrace
13 31 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.05%) IBM
14 30 (1.05%) MuleSoft
15 28 (0.98%) Informatica
16 22 (0.77%) Qualys