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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,591 2,003 2,336
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.27% 16.41% 13.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.91% 38.44% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,793 1,425 1,814
10th Percentile £405 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £742
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £546 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -0.73% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.63 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.19 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £46.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.52% +48.41% -59.35%
75th Percentile £76.25 £64.44 £69.75
90th Percentile £91.13 £83.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +29.55% -26.67%

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 7,641 5,211 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.08% 42.69% 38.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,285 3,579 5,005
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.57 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.88 £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 £53.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -4 277 £550 +0.69% 145
South London +2 86 £500 +1.01% 6
West London +5 85 £603 +21.77% 31
East London +2 16 £543 -7.26% 36
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
1 127 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (4.28%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.59%) Confluence
4 62 (2.39%) Apache
5 23 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.69%) nginx
7 15 (0.58%) Camunda
8 11 (0.42%) SAS
9 10 (0.39%) CICS
10 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) CMS
12 4 (0.15%) Appian
12 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.12%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.077%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 40 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) Notion
9 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.15%) Magento
5 4 (0.15%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.077%) Actimize
7 2 (0.077%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.077%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.039%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.039%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,050 (40.52%) Azure
2 559 (21.57%) GCP
3 389 (15.01%) Amazon S3
4 382 (14.74%) Serverless
5 335 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
6 334 (12.89%) GitHub
7 206 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 203 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
10 171 (6.60%) Snowflake
11 166 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
12 150 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 143 (5.52%) Power Platform
14 132 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
15 119 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 110 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
17 78 (3.01%) SaaS
18 76 (2.93%) dbt
19 74 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
20 66 (2.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.78%) Firewall
2 69 (2.66%) Network Security
3 63 (2.43%) DNS
4 58 (2.24%) VPN
5 47 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.20%) WAN
7 21 (0.81%) BGP
8 20 (0.77%) HTTP
9 17 (0.66%) LAN
9 17 (0.66%) SSL
10 16 (0.62%) OSPF
11 15 (0.58%) DHCP
12 12 (0.46%) VLAN
12 12 (0.46%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.42%) NGFW
14 10 (0.39%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.31%) SAN
16 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
17 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (4.94%) Data Lake
3 122 (4.71%) Power BI
4 118 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 113 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
6 109 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 108 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
8 99 (3.82%) SQL Server
9 95 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 80 (3.09%) DynamoDB
11 75 (2.89%) Tableau
12 74 (2.86%) MongoDB
13 72 (2.78%) Metadata
13 72 (2.78%) Relational Database
14 60 (2.32%) Big Data
15 43 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
16 42 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
16 42 (1.62%) BigQuery
17 41 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
18 40 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 229 (8.84%) Git
2 224 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 204 (7.87%) GitLab
4 121 (4.67%) JIRA
5 41 (1.58%) JUnit
6 39 (1.51%) MLflow
7 33 (1.27%) Mockito
8 27 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 26 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.89%) JMeter
11 22 (0.85%) Selenium
12 21 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.81%) Maven
12 21 (0.81%) Postman
13 20 (0.77%) Gradle
14 19 (0.73%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.58%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.58%) Gatling
15 15 (0.58%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 606 (23.39%) Finance
2 540 (20.84%) Social Skills
3 363 (14.01%) Public Sector
4 222 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 221 (8.53%) Banking
6 84 (3.24%) Front Office
7 61 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 47 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.66%) Retail
11 40 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.04%) Marketing
16 23 (0.89%) Legal
17 22 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.50%) Law
18 13 (0.50%) Military
19 12 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 522 (20.15%) Architect
2 417 (16.09%) Developer
3 393 (15.17%) Senior
4 284 (10.96%) Lead
5 280 (10.81%) Data Engineer
6 247 (9.53%) AWS Engineer
7 190 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 141 (5.44%) Software Engineer
9 132 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 107 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 103 (3.98%) AWS Architect
13 101 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
14 98 (3.78%) Analyst
14 98 (3.78%) Java Developer
15 85 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
16 83 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
17 80 (3.09%) Python Developer
18 78 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 78 (3.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (11.96%) Kafka
2 237 (9.15%) React
3 210 (8.10%) REST
4 177 (6.83%) Node.js
5 171 (6.60%) Spring
6 161 (6.21%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.44%) RESTful
8 92 (3.55%) .NET
9 82 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 82 (3.16%) PySpark
10 76 (2.93%) GraphQL
11 71 (2.74%) OAuth
12 67 (2.59%) SOAP
13 62 (2.39%) Redux
14 60 (2.32%) LDAP
15 57 (2.20%) HTML
15 57 (2.20%) Pandas
16 49 (1.89%) CSS
16 49 (1.89%) OpenID
17 46 (1.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 430 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 142 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (3.24%) Onboarding
4 74 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 74 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.74%) Security Posture
6 69 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 66 (2.55%) AI Agents
7 66 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 50 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.85%) Management Information System
11 47 (1.81%) Derivative
12 44 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.62%) Equities
14 33 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 30 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
16 30 (1.16%) Mainframe
17 25 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 176 (6.79%) Linux
2 74 (2.86%) Windows
3 38 (1.47%) Unix
4 18 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.39%) Android
5 10 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.27%) zOS
8 6 (0.23%) Solaris
9 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.077%) AIX
12 2 (0.077%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 986 (38.05%) CI/CD
2 746 (28.79%) DevOps
3 591 (22.81%) Agile
4 518 (19.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 488 (18.83%) AI
6 398 (15.36%) Microservices
7 374 (14.43%) Analytics
8 368 (14.20%) Containerisation
9 328 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
10 313 (12.08%) Software Engineering
11 307 (11.85%) Migration
12 302 (11.66%) Data Modelling
13 286 (11.04%) Data Pipeline
14 281 (10.85%) Data Engineering
15 270 (10.42%) Observability
16 249 (9.61%) Machine Learning
17 244 (9.42%) ETL
18 234 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management
19 228 (8.80%) Full-Stack Development
20 226 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (38.79%) Python
2 570 (22.00%) SQL
3 467 (18.02%) Java
4 231 (8.92%) TypeScript
5 219 (8.45%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.48%) C#
7 114 (4.40%) PowerShell
8 100 (3.86%) Bash
9 94 (3.63%) Go
10 44 (1.70%) Scala
11 35 (1.35%) Ruby
11 35 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 21 (0.81%) R
13 20 (0.77%) Bicep
14 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.62%) C++
17 10 (0.39%) JCL
17 10 (0.39%) T-SQL
18 9 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 725 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 647 (24.97%) SC Cleared
3 136 (5.25%) Degree
4 111 (4.28%) AWS Certification
5 69 (2.66%) CISSP
6 66 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 49 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.16%) CISM
11 30 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 28 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (0.85%) PMP
15 21 (0.81%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.77%) CCNP
16 20 (0.77%) CCSP
17 16 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 110 (4.25%) GDPR
3 102 (3.94%) QA
4 88 (3.40%) NIST
5 72 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.20%) SLA
8 30 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.96%) NCSC
10 22 (0.85%) GRC
11 20 (0.77%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.54%) PMO
14 11 (0.42%) WCAG
15 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.31%) SEPA
17 7 (0.27%) PSD2
18 6 (0.23%) MiFID
19 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 480 (18.53%) Docker
2 90 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.62%) Squid
6 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.15%) HDFS
7 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.12%) NFS
8 3 (0.12%) Postfix
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.077%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.077%) Firmware
9 2 (0.077%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.039%) KVM
Systems Management
1 585 (22.58%) Terraform
2 524 (20.22%) Kubernetes
3 148 (5.71%) Grafana
4 132 (5.09%) Ansible
5 130 (5.02%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.77%) Kibana
8 18 (0.69%) Argo
9 17 (0.66%) Puppet
10 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.46%) Consul
12 12 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.39%) QRadar
14 8 (0.31%) Packer
15 6 (0.23%) Istio
15 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
15 6 (0.23%) SCCM
16 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 195 (7.53%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.75%) Databricks
3 91 (3.51%) Google
4 89 (3.43%) Oracle
5 84 (3.24%) ServiceNow
6 72 (2.78%) Splunk
7 66 (2.55%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.24%) OpenAI
9 53 (2.05%) Salesforce
10 48 (1.85%) Cisco
11 35 (1.35%) BeyondTrust
11 35 (1.35%) Centrify
12 33 (1.27%) SAP
12 33 (1.27%) VMware
13 32 (1.24%) Dynatrace
14 30 (1.16%) IBM
14 30 (1.16%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.08%) Red Hat
16 23 (0.89%) Foundry
17 22 (0.85%) Confluent