AWS Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,046 2,351 3,566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.69% 13.47% 14.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.83% 34.58% 36.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 1,828 2,682
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £463 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year - -7.26% +3.33%
75th Percentile £700 £744 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 25
10th Percentile £35.75 £22.08 £40.15
25th Percentile £38.13 £23.05 £62.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £31.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.84% -58.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £61.38 £69.75 £88.30
90th Percentile £80.50 £72.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £71.25 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% -26.67% +7.14%

All Cloud 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 5,269 6,799 9,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.98% 38.95% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,585 5,014 7,279
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £427 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 64 77
10th Percentile £22.27 £16.70 £19.57
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -50.48% +31.25%
75th Percentile £43.75 £38.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in London

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 +1 280 £550 - 220
South London -2 40 £495 -3.41% 13
West London -3 28 £495 -1.04% 51
East London +19 8 £585 +0.65% 53
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 163 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
2 123 (6.01%) Apache
3 88 (4.30%) Apache Spark
4 82 (4.01%) Confluence
5 23 (1.12%) nginx
6 16 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.68%) CMS
9 12 (0.59%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.44%) SAS
11 7 (0.34%) JBoss
11 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.24%) Camunda
12 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.20%) WordPress
14 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
15 2 (0.098%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 12 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.24%) Trello
6 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (0.64%) Endur
2 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.098%) Actimize
4 2 (0.098%) assyst
4 2 (0.098%) Magento
4 2 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.098%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.098%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.049%) Oracle TCA
5 1 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.049%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.049%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.049%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 748 (36.56%) Azure
2 467 (22.83%) GCP
3 297 (14.52%) Serverless
4 245 (11.97%) Amazon S3
5 243 (11.88%) AWS Lambda
6 184 (8.99%) GitHub
7 166 (8.11%) dbt
8 145 (7.09%) Snowflake
9 136 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 121 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
11 113 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
12 82 (4.01%) SaaS
13 78 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
14 76 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
16 65 (3.18%) Power Platform
17 63 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
18 59 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 58 (2.83%) OpenShift
20 51 (2.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.74%) Firewall
2 74 (3.62%) DNS
3 73 (3.57%) VPN
4 56 (2.74%) Network Security
5 47 (2.30%) WAN
6 43 (2.10%) TCP/IP
7 39 (1.91%) BGP
8 38 (1.86%) HTTP
9 31 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 30 (1.47%) DHCP
11 28 (1.37%) OSPF
12 21 (1.03%) LAN
13 20 (0.98%) MPLS
14 19 (0.93%) VLAN
15 16 (0.78%) Internet
16 15 (0.73%) IPsec
16 15 (0.73%) SSL
17 12 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 11 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
19 10 (0.49%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (7.33%) Amazon Athena
3 119 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
4 116 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (5.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 102 (4.99%) Dremio
7 98 (4.79%) NoSQL
8 95 (4.64%) Apache Arrow
9 93 (4.55%) Data Lake
10 73 (3.57%) DynamoDB
11 60 (2.93%) Power BI
12 59 (2.88%) Relational Database
13 58 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 54 (2.64%) Apache Ignite
15 51 (2.49%) MongoDB
16 50 (2.44%) Tableau
17 49 (2.39%) Redis
18 47 (2.30%) SQL Server
19 45 (2.20%) Big Data
20 43 (2.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 192 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 171 (8.36%) Git
3 124 (6.06%) JIRA
4 116 (5.67%) GitLab
5 43 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 38 (1.86%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.81%) Artifactory
8 36 (1.76%) Maven
9 34 (1.66%) JUnit
10 33 (1.61%) Selenium
11 28 (1.37%) Cucumber
12 27 (1.32%) Bitbucket
13 25 (1.22%) Postman
14 23 (1.12%) CircleCI
15 18 (0.88%) JMeter
16 17 (0.83%) IntelliJ
16 17 (0.83%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 15 (0.73%) Gradle
18 15 (0.73%) MLflow
General
1 527 (25.76%) Finance
2 432 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 249 (12.17%) Banking
4 230 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 196 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
6 182 (8.90%) Front Office
7 104 (5.08%) Investment Banking
8 32 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (1.37%) Marketing
10 26 (1.27%) Retail
11 25 (1.22%) Military
12 24 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (1.03%) Retail Banking
14 20 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (0.88%) Law
16 16 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.68%) Back Office
17 14 (0.68%) Legal
18 11 (0.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 505 (24.68%) Developer
2 362 (17.69%) Architect
3 320 (15.64%) Senior
4 269 (13.15%) AWS Engineer
5 187 (9.14%) Data Engineer
5 187 (9.14%) Software Engineer
6 181 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 150 (7.33%) Lead
8 130 (6.35%) Python Engineer
9 120 (5.87%) Java Developer
10 110 (5.38%) AWS Developer
11 105 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 93 (4.55%) Python Developer
13 88 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
14 84 (4.11%) AWS Software Engineer
15 83 (4.06%) AWS Architect
16 79 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 77 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
18 74 (3.62%) Java Engineer
18 74 (3.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (13.29%) React
2 213 (10.41%) Kafka
3 188 (9.19%) Node.js
4 110 (5.38%) Spring
5 105 (5.13%) Pandas
6 102 (4.99%) NumPy
7 97 (4.74%) AngularJS
7 97 (4.74%) REST
8 89 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 84 (4.11%) SciPy
10 81 (3.96%) Redux
11 79 (3.86%) GraphQL
11 79 (3.86%) RESTful
12 76 (3.71%) .NET
13 75 (3.67%) PySpark
14 74 (3.62%) Vue
15 52 (2.54%) gRPC
15 52 (2.54%) HTML
16 41 (2.00%) CSS
17 38 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 140 (6.84%) Fixed Income
2 107 (5.23%) Cloud Native
3 99 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 98 (4.79%) Hedge funds
5 92 (4.50%) Equities
6 66 (3.23%) Derivative
6 66 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 64 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 48 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 46 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
10 44 (2.15%) Data Centre
11 42 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 41 (2.00%) Management Information System
13 37 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (1.71%) Product Ownership
15 28 (1.37%) Mobile App
16 26 (1.27%) PKI
17 23 (1.12%) Algorithms
17 23 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
18 21 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 184 (8.99%) Linux
2 99 (4.84%) Windows
3 39 (1.91%) Unix
4 35 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.64%) Android
7 9 (0.44%) CentOS
8 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.29%) Rocky
10 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.20%) Solaris
12 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.098%) AIX
13 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.098%) zOS
14 1 (0.049%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (28.10%) Agile
2 557 (27.22%) CI/CD
3 551 (26.93%) DevOps
4 357 (17.45%) Software Engineering
5 320 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
6 268 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 262 (12.81%) Microservices
8 229 (11.19%) Containerisation
9 209 (10.22%) Analytics
10 183 (8.94%) Asset Management
11 182 (8.90%) Migration
12 158 (7.72%) Full-Stack Development
13 153 (7.48%) TDD
14 152 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 150 (7.33%) Data Engineering
16 149 (7.28%) Test Automation
17 144 (7.04%) Mentoring
18 143 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence
19 138 (6.74%) ETL
20 136 (6.65%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 854 (41.74%) Python
2 450 (21.99%) Java
3 369 (18.04%) SQL
4 325 (15.88%) JavaScript
5 275 (13.44%) TypeScript
6 107 (5.23%) Bash
7 101 (4.94%) PowerShell
8 99 (4.84%) Go
9 90 (4.40%) C#
10 55 (2.69%) C++
11 31 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 30 (1.47%) Kotlin
12 30 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 29 (1.42%) Scala
14 22 (1.08%) Groovy
14 22 (1.08%) Perl
15 19 (0.93%) Ruby
15 19 (0.93%) Rust
16 18 (0.88%) Bicep
16 18 (0.88%) C
Qualifications
1 510 (24.93%) Security Cleared
2 456 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 140 (6.84%) Degree
4 136 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 65 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 46 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 42 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.96%) CISSP
10 35 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.66%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.12%) CCNP
13 19 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
14 17 (0.83%) CISM
14 17 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.83%) PMP
15 16 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.73%) OSCP
17 14 (0.68%) CEH
17 14 (0.68%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.76%) QA
2 71 (3.47%) GDPR
3 60 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (2.54%) NIST
5 24 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 19 (0.93%) HIPAA
8 18 (0.88%) NCSC
9 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.49%) GRC
11 9 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.34%) WCAG
13 6 (0.29%) SLA
14 5 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.24%) MiFID
15 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 358 (17.50%) Docker
2 63 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.44%) Firmware
7 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.20%) Platform Symphony
10 3 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.15%) Lustre
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.098%) FreeRADIUS
11 2 (0.098%) iptables
11 2 (0.098%) vSphere
11 2 (0.098%) zsh
12 1 (0.049%) Postfix
12 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 494 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 409 (19.99%) Terraform
3 180 (8.80%) Ansible
4 81 (3.96%) Grafana
5 75 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.39%) Puppet
7 31 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.03%) Kibana
9 20 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (0.93%) Packer
11 18 (0.88%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.59%) Argo
12 12 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
13 11 (0.54%) SCCM
14 10 (0.49%) Consul
15 9 (0.44%) Nagios
15 9 (0.44%) Nmap
16 8 (0.39%) Podman
17 6 (0.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 152 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 125 (6.11%) Google
3 105 (5.13%) Oracle
4 73 (3.57%) Splunk
5 72 (3.52%) Databricks
6 53 (2.59%) Cisco
7 45 (2.20%) VMware
8 32 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.27%) IBM
11 25 (1.22%) F5
11 25 (1.22%) Fortinet
12 21 (1.03%) Arista
13 20 (0.98%) Palo Alto
14 19 (0.93%) CheckPoint
15 18 (0.88%) SolarWinds
16 17 (0.83%) Okta
17 16 (0.78%) CyberArk
18 15 (0.73%) Informatica
19 14 (0.68%) Atlassian