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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,645 2,000 2,360
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.38% 16.50% 13.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.99% 38.57% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,833 1,410 1,836
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £543 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.23% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.75 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £38.13 £23.05
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% +69.84% -59.35%
75th Percentile £76.75 £61.38 £69.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -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 7,781 5,185 6,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 42.79% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,377 3,532 5,032
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -0.95% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £786 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 58 67
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.06 £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 £55.94 £46.56 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -3 280 £550 - 115
West London +7 87 £600 +21.26% 33
South London +1 83 £500 +1.01% 13
East London +2 16 £543 -7.26% 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 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 68 (2.57%) Confluence
4 62 (2.34%) Apache
5 23 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.68%) nginx
7 15 (0.57%) Camunda
8 11 (0.42%) CICS
9 10 (0.38%) SAS
10 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.23%) CMS
13 4 (0.15%) Appian
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 39 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.15%) Revit
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.038%) Notion
10 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Endur
5 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.11%) Quorum
5 3 (0.11%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) Ripple
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.076%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.076%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.038%) Actimize
7 1 (0.038%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1,080 (40.83%) Azure
2 569 (21.51%) GCP
3 393 (14.86%) Amazon S3
4 386 (14.59%) Serverless
5 338 (12.78%) AWS Lambda
6 335 (12.67%) GitHub
7 208 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
8 204 (7.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 177 (6.69%) Snowflake
10 175 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
11 166 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
12 157 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 146 (5.52%) Power Platform
14 132 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
15 122 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 111 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
17 83 (3.14%) dbt
17 83 (3.14%) SaaS
18 71 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
18 71 (2.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 106 (4.01%) Firewall
2 72 (2.72%) Network Security
3 69 (2.61%) DNS
4 62 (2.34%) VPN
5 50 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.29%) WAN
7 21 (0.79%) BGP
7 21 (0.79%) HTTP
8 19 (0.72%) LAN
8 19 (0.72%) SSL
9 18 (0.68%) DHCP
10 16 (0.60%) OSPF
11 14 (0.53%) NGFW
12 13 (0.49%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.45%) VLAN
14 10 (0.38%) OpenVPN
14 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.34%) Internet
16 8 (0.30%) SAN
16 8 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (4.88%) Data Lake
3 124 (4.69%) Power BI
4 122 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
5 116 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
6 114 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 108 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
8 103 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 96 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 85 (3.21%) DynamoDB
11 74 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 74 (2.80%) Tableau
12 72 (2.72%) Metadata
13 71 (2.68%) Relational Database
14 60 (2.27%) Big Data
15 44 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
16 42 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
16 42 (1.59%) BigQuery
17 41 (1.55%) MySQL
18 40 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 233 (8.81%) Git
2 228 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 209 (7.90%) GitLab
4 124 (4.69%) JIRA
5 40 (1.51%) JUnit
6 37 (1.40%) MLflow
7 33 (1.25%) Mockito
8 27 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 26 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.87%) JMeter
11 21 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 21 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 21 (0.79%) Gradle
11 21 (0.79%) Maven
11 21 (0.79%) Selenium
12 20 (0.76%) Postman
13 16 (0.60%) Gatling
14 15 (0.57%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 626 (23.67%) Finance
2 563 (21.29%) Social Skills
3 370 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 227 (8.58%) Banking
5 226 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 83 (3.14%) Front Office
7 63 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 57 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.63%) Retail
11 42 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (0.98%) Marketing
15 23 (0.87%) Legal
15 23 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.53%) Law
17 12 (0.45%) Back Office
17 12 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 539 (20.38%) Architect
2 418 (15.80%) Developer
3 400 (15.12%) Senior
4 293 (11.08%) Lead
5 290 (10.96%) Data Engineer
6 259 (9.79%) AWS Engineer
7 191 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 144 (5.44%) Software Engineer
9 137 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
10 117 (4.42%) Senior Developer
11 114 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (3.97%) AWS Architect
13 104 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
14 98 (3.71%) Java Developer
15 97 (3.67%) Analyst
16 86 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
17 83 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
18 80 (3.02%) Python Developer
19 78 (2.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 76 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (11.57%) Kafka
2 239 (9.04%) React
3 215 (8.13%) REST
4 177 (6.69%) Node.js
5 168 (6.35%) Spring
6 159 (6.01%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.33%) RESTful
8 95 (3.59%) .NET
9 82 (3.10%) AngularJS
9 82 (3.10%) PySpark
10 76 (2.87%) GraphQL
11 74 (2.80%) OAuth
12 70 (2.65%) SOAP
13 62 (2.34%) LDAP
13 62 (2.34%) Redux
14 57 (2.16%) Pandas
15 53 (2.00%) HTML
16 49 (1.85%) JSON
16 49 (1.85%) OpenID
17 48 (1.81%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 452 (17.09%) Cloud Native
2 145 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 77 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (2.87%) Security Posture
6 73 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 72 (2.72%) Fixed Income
8 70 (2.65%) AI Agents
9 68 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 56 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 54 (2.04%) Management Information System
12 48 (1.81%) Derivative
13 43 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.55%) Equities
15 32 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
16 31 (1.17%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.17%) Mainframe
17 30 (1.13%) Algorithms
18 29 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.15%) Linux
2 84 (3.18%) Windows
3 37 (1.40%) Unix
4 25 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.45%) Android
7 9 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.30%) zOS
9 7 (0.26%) Solaris
10 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.19%) VMS
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (38.07%) CI/CD
2 764 (28.88%) DevOps
3 612 (23.14%) Agile
4 538 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 502 (18.98%) AI
6 393 (14.86%) Microservices
7 376 (14.22%) Analytics
8 365 (13.80%) Containerisation
9 336 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
10 322 (12.17%) Migration
11 321 (12.14%) Software Engineering
12 307 (11.61%) Data Modelling
13 293 (11.08%) Data Pipeline
14 285 (10.78%) Data Engineering
15 278 (10.51%) Observability
16 254 (9.60%) Machine Learning
17 253 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
18 247 (9.34%) ETL
19 234 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
20 229 (8.66%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (38.75%) Python
2 585 (22.12%) SQL
3 471 (17.81%) Java
4 236 (8.92%) TypeScript
5 215 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 126 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 117 (4.42%) C#
8 108 (4.08%) Bash
9 94 (3.55%) Go
10 47 (1.78%) Scala
11 36 (1.36%) Ruby
11 36 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 23 (0.87%) Bicep
13 21 (0.79%) R
14 18 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.57%) C++
17 11 (0.42%) Groovy
17 11 (0.42%) JCL
18 10 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 733 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 651 (24.61%) SC Cleared
3 144 (5.44%) Degree
4 116 (4.39%) AWS Certification
5 75 (2.84%) CISSP
6 68 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 52 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
9 49 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.21%) CISM
12 31 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 27 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 23 (0.87%) PMP
16 22 (0.83%) CCNP
16 22 (0.83%) PMI Certification
17 21 (0.79%) CCSP
18 15 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
19 13 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 110 (4.16%) GDPR
3 108 (4.08%) QA
4 93 (3.52%) NIST
5 75 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.21%) SLA
8 30 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.91%) NCSC
10 23 (0.87%) GRC
11 19 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.57%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.53%) PMO
15 11 (0.42%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.42%) WCAG
16 8 (0.30%) SEPA
16 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.26%) PSD2
18 5 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 479 (18.11%) Docker
2 96 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.64%) Squid
6 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.15%) HDFS
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 3 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.076%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.076%) Firmware
10 2 (0.076%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.038%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 602 (22.76%) Terraform
2 527 (19.92%) Kubernetes
3 151 (5.71%) Grafana
4 142 (5.37%) Ansible
5 134 (5.07%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.79%) Kibana
8 19 (0.72%) Puppet
9 18 (0.68%) Argo
10 16 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.45%) Consul
14 10 (0.38%) QRadar
15 9 (0.34%) Packer
16 7 (0.26%) Istio
17 6 (0.23%) Karpenter
18 5 (0.19%) PingFederate
18 5 (0.19%) SCCM
19 4 (0.15%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 207 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.65%) Databricks
3 102 (3.86%) Google
4 92 (3.48%) Oracle
5 87 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 76 (2.87%) Splunk
7 68 (2.57%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 52 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 49 (1.85%) Cisco
11 37 (1.40%) VMware
12 35 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.32%) Centrify
13 33 (1.25%) Palo Alto
14 32 (1.21%) Dynatrace
15 31 (1.17%) Red Hat
16 30 (1.13%) SAP
17 29 (1.10%) IBM
18 26 (0.98%) Foundry
19 24 (0.91%) Qualys