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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,779 2,091 2,404
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.65% 16.76% 13.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.84% 39.01% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 1,466 1,868
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £470 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.13% -3.69%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £544 £563
% change year-on-year +1.15% -3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 12
10th Percentile £38.60 £36.00 £22.10
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.43
Median hourly rate £67.00 £53.50 £27.65
Median % change year-on-year +25.23% +93.49% -65.44%
75th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £59.88
90th Percentile £86.50 £84.00 £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 7,976 5,360 6,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.95% 39.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,474 3,638 5,135
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £514 £514 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 66 70
10th Percentile £20.85 £22.75 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +21.77% -49.55%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.05 £70.63 £55.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -2 294 £550 - 96
West London +4 88 £560 +13.71% 46
South London +2 80 £500 - 3
East London +6 16 £540 -7.69% 27
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 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 82 (2.95%) Confluence
4 56 (2.02%) Apache
5 29 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.65%) nginx
7 13 (0.47%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
8 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.40%) SAS
9 8 (0.29%) CMS
10 7 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 42 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.43%) AutoCAD
3 12 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.29%) Revit
5 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Endur
5 4 (0.14%) Magento
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
5 4 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.072%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.072%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.036%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,129 (40.63%) Azure
2 575 (20.69%) GCP
3 414 (14.90%) Amazon S3
3 414 (14.90%) Serverless
4 359 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
5 343 (12.34%) GitHub
6 217 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
7 199 (7.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 189 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
8 189 (6.80%) Snowflake
9 173 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
10 169 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 152 (5.47%) Power Platform
12 138 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
13 129 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 111 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
15 108 (3.89%) SaaS
16 93 (3.35%) dbt
17 92 (3.31%) Amazon Bedrock
18 80 (2.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.89%) Firewall
2 83 (2.99%) Network Security
3 70 (2.52%) VPN
4 66 (2.37%) DNS
5 47 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.44%) WAN
7 25 (0.90%) BGP
8 23 (0.83%) HTTP
9 20 (0.72%) DHCP
10 19 (0.68%) OSPF
11 18 (0.65%) LAN
11 18 (0.65%) SSL
12 16 (0.58%) NGFW
13 14 (0.50%) Internet
13 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.43%) VLAN
15 10 (0.36%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.36%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.36%) SD-WAN
16 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
3 133 (4.79%) Power BI
4 129 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (4.53%) Data Lake
6 113 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
6 113 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 107 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 107 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 86 (3.09%) DynamoDB
9 79 (2.84%) Metadata
10 77 (2.77%) MongoDB
11 75 (2.70%) Tableau
12 73 (2.63%) Relational Database
13 63 (2.27%) Big Data
14 46 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
15 42 (1.51%) BigQuery
16 39 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
16 39 (1.40%) MySQL
17 36 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 248 (8.92%) Jenkins
2 247 (8.89%) Git
3 245 (8.82%) GitLab
4 147 (5.29%) JIRA
5 40 (1.44%) JUnit
6 32 (1.15%) MLflow
6 32 (1.15%) Mockito
7 29 (1.04%) JMeter
7 29 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 26 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 25 (0.90%) Maven
10 22 (0.79%) Gradle
11 21 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.72%) Bitbucket
12 20 (0.72%) Postman
13 19 (0.68%) Gatling
13 19 (0.68%) Selenium
14 16 (0.58%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.58%) Snyk
15 14 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 665 (23.93%) Finance
2 595 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 399 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 237 (8.53%) Banking
5 230 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (2.95%) Front Office
7 67 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (2.05%) Retail
10 53 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 43 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 36 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 31 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (0.94%) Marketing
14 26 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (0.79%) Legal
16 21 (0.76%) Law
17 16 (0.58%) Military
17 16 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 543 (19.54%) Architect
2 416 (14.97%) Senior
3 414 (14.90%) Developer
4 306 (11.01%) Lead
5 299 (10.76%) Data Engineer
6 289 (10.40%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (7.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 152 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
9 151 (5.43%) Software Engineer
10 130 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 112 (4.03%) AWS Architect
12 107 (3.85%) Senior Developer
13 105 (3.78%) Java Developer
14 102 (3.67%) Analyst
15 96 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
16 95 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
17 91 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 87 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
19 84 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 74 (2.66%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (11.05%) Kafka
2 247 (8.89%) React
3 226 (8.13%) REST
4 178 (6.41%) Node.js
5 172 (6.19%) Spring
6 164 (5.90%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.22%) RESTful
8 96 (3.45%) .NET
9 88 (3.17%) PySpark
10 83 (2.99%) GraphQL
11 80 (2.88%) OAuth
12 79 (2.84%) AngularJS
13 64 (2.30%) Redux
14 58 (2.09%) SOAP
15 55 (1.98%) FastAPI
15 55 (1.98%) HTML
15 55 (1.98%) Pandas
16 54 (1.94%) JSON
17 51 (1.84%) LDAP
17 51 (1.84%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 487 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 169 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 91 (3.27%) AI Agents
5 80 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 78 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.73%) Fixed Income
8 74 (2.66%) Security Posture
9 65 (2.34%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 56 (2.02%) Management Information System
12 55 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
13 45 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.58%) Derivative
15 39 (1.40%) Equities
16 33 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.12%) Data Structures
18 30 (1.08%) Algorithms
18 30 (1.08%) Public Cloud
19 29 (1.04%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 202 (7.27%) Linux
2 101 (3.63%) Windows
3 39 (1.40%) Unix
4 31 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.40%) Android
7 10 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.072%) CentOS
13 2 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,079 (38.83%) CI/CD
2 823 (29.61%) DevOps
3 666 (23.97%) Agile
4 588 (21.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 567 (20.40%) AI
6 414 (14.90%) Microservices
7 399 (14.36%) Containerisation
8 380 (13.67%) Analytics
9 348 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
10 340 (12.23%) Software Engineering
11 335 (12.05%) Migration
12 314 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
13 310 (11.16%) Data Modelling
14 304 (10.94%) Data Engineering
15 291 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 290 (10.44%) Observability
17 286 (10.29%) Machine Learning
18 257 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 243 (8.74%) Event-Driven
20 238 (8.56%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (38.00%) Python
2 593 (21.34%) SQL
3 481 (17.31%) Java
4 255 (9.18%) TypeScript
5 221 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 123 (4.43%) C#
7 120 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 118 (4.25%) Bash
9 89 (3.20%) Go
10 45 (1.62%) Scala
11 34 (1.22%) Ruby
11 34 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 26 (0.94%) Bicep
13 24 (0.86%) R
14 22 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.61%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.50%) C++
17 14 (0.50%) Groovy
18 11 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 755 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 672 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.25%) Degree
4 131 (4.71%) AWS Certification
5 85 (3.06%) CISSP
6 67 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 62 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 55 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.37%) CISM
12 33 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 27 (0.97%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.90%) PMI Certification
15 25 (0.90%) PMP
16 23 (0.83%) CCSP
17 22 (0.79%) CCNP
18 15 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
19 14 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 116 (4.17%) QA
3 103 (3.71%) GDPR
4 97 (3.49%) NIST
5 81 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.04%) GRC
9 27 (0.97%) SLA
10 22 (0.79%) NCSC
11 18 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 18 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.61%) PMO
13 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.43%) WCAG
14 11 (0.40%) EU AI Act
14 11 (0.40%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.29%) SEPA
16 7 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 491 (17.67%) Docker
2 94 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.58%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.14%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.11%) HDFS
9 3 (0.11%) IAG
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.072%) Firmware
10 2 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 669 (24.07%) Terraform
2 563 (20.26%) Kubernetes
3 169 (6.08%) Ansible
4 162 (5.83%) Grafana
5 143 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (0.90%) Puppet
8 21 (0.76%) Kibana
9 19 (0.68%) Argo
10 14 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.43%) Consul
13 11 (0.40%) Packer
14 9 (0.32%) QRadar
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.25%) Istio
15 7 (0.25%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
16 5 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 223 (8.02%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.50%) Databricks
3 108 (3.89%) Google
4 97 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 93 (3.35%) Oracle
6 78 (2.81%) Splunk
7 66 (2.37%) CyberArk
8 63 (2.27%) Salesforce
9 60 (2.16%) OpenAI
10 47 (1.69%) Cisco
11 39 (1.40%) VMware
12 37 (1.33%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.22%) Foundry
14 33 (1.19%) Red Hat
15 32 (1.15%) SAP
16 30 (1.08%) Dynatrace
17 27 (0.97%) IBM
18 26 (0.94%) Informatica
18 26 (0.94%) MuleSoft
19 24 (0.86%) Fortinet