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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,784 2,141 2,279
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.90% 16.13% 14.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.68% 37.31% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,965 1,493 1,728
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £480 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +91.68% -63.94%
75th Percentile £78.75 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -38.43%

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 5,739 6,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.26% 43.23% 41.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,660 3,926 4,744
10th Percentile £360 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 53
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £30.00 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% -1.93% -30.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £44.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -6 283 £550 -4.76% 246
West London +7 96 £550 +29.41% 177
South London +1 76 £535 +0.71% 19
East London +9 14 £550 -5.98% 25
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
1 155 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 104 (3.74%) Confluence
4 83 (2.98%) Apache
5 29 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) nginx
7 10 (0.36%) Camunda
7 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 9 (0.32%) CICS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 6 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
2 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.072%) Endur
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.072%) Shopify
7 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (45.01%) Azure
2 616 (22.13%) GCP
3 394 (14.15%) Serverless
4 378 (13.58%) Amazon S3
5 358 (12.86%) GitHub
6 330 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
7 240 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
8 230 (8.26%) Snowflake
9 196 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
10 175 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 153 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 150 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
14 136 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
15 134 (4.81%) dbt
15 134 (4.81%) Power Platform
16 130 (4.67%) SaaS
17 121 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 106 (3.81%) Entra ID
19 92 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.92%) Firewall
2 86 (3.09%) Network Security
3 67 (2.41%) DNS
4 60 (2.16%) VPN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 37 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.97%) DHCP
8 24 (0.86%) SSL
9 20 (0.72%) BGP
9 20 (0.72%) SSH
10 19 (0.68%) HTTP
10 19 (0.68%) Internet
11 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
11 15 (0.54%) OSPF
11 15 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.50%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.47%) LAN
14 12 (0.43%) SAN
15 11 (0.40%) NGFW
16 10 (0.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
3 140 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
4 121 (4.35%) Power BI
5 119 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 113 (4.06%) Data Lake
7 102 (3.66%) Metadata
7 102 (3.66%) SQL Server
8 94 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
10 87 (3.13%) MongoDB
11 84 (3.02%) DynamoDB
12 80 (2.87%) Relational Database
13 68 (2.44%) Delta Lake
14 61 (2.19%) Big Data
15 56 (2.01%) Tableau
16 55 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
17 46 (1.65%) MySQL
18 43 (1.54%) Redis
19 41 (1.47%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 290 (10.42%) Git
2 287 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 261 (9.38%) GitLab
4 154 (5.53%) JIRA
5 33 (1.19%) Cypress.io
5 33 (1.19%) JMeter
6 32 (1.15%) Selenium
7 31 (1.11%) JUnit
8 30 (1.08%) Maven
9 28 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 25 (0.90%) Mockito
11 23 (0.83%) Gradle
11 23 (0.83%) Postman
12 22 (0.79%) Bitbucket
13 19 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.61%) Claude Code
14 17 (0.61%) Cucumber
14 17 (0.61%) Gatling
14 17 (0.61%) MLflow
15 12 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 687 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 651 (23.38%) Finance
3 399 (14.33%) Public Sector
4 274 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (9.20%) Banking
6 78 (2.80%) Retail
7 63 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 43 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.29%) Marketing
12 33 (1.19%) Front Office
13 32 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.04%) Law
14 29 (1.04%) Legal
15 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (0.83%) Billing
16 23 (0.83%) Military
17 21 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 583 (20.94%) Architect
2 440 (15.80%) Senior
3 337 (12.10%) Developer
4 311 (11.17%) Data Engineer
5 300 (10.78%) Lead
6 259 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
7 201 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 153 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
9 119 (4.27%) Analyst
10 111 (3.99%) AWS Architect
11 107 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 101 (3.63%) Java Developer
13 95 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
14 94 (3.38%) Data Architect
14 94 (3.38%) Software Engineer
15 93 (3.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 92 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
17 82 (2.95%) Senior Developer
18 77 (2.77%) AWS DevOps
18 77 (2.77%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 690 (24.78%) Terraform
2 307 (11.03%) Kafka
3 261 (9.38%) REST
4 203 (7.29%) React
5 179 (6.43%) Spring
6 164 (5.89%) Spring Boot
7 154 (5.53%) RESTful
8 123 (4.42%) Node.js
9 109 (3.92%) PySpark
10 91 (3.27%) .NET
11 84 (3.02%) OAuth
12 63 (2.26%) GraphQL
12 63 (2.26%) JSON
13 61 (2.19%) AngularJS
13 61 (2.19%) HTML
14 60 (2.16%) FastAPI
15 51 (1.83%) CSS
16 48 (1.72%) OAuth2
17 47 (1.69%) LangChain
18 45 (1.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 531 (19.07%) Cloud Native
2 183 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 126 (4.53%) AI Agents
5 117 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 85 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 67 (2.41%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 49 (1.76%) Management Information System
11 43 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
12 37 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.33%) Replication
13 36 (1.29%) PKI
14 35 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 34 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
15 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.19%) CMDB
17 28 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 230 (8.26%) Linux
2 125 (4.49%) Windows
3 53 (1.90%) Unix
4 44 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.11%) AIX
11 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (41.81%) CI/CD
2 866 (31.11%) DevOps
3 707 (25.40%) Agile
4 648 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 621 (22.31%) AI
6 444 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 411 (14.76%) Microservices
8 397 (14.26%) Containerisation
9 369 (13.25%) Observability
10 367 (13.18%) Migration
11 362 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (12.79%) Analytics
13 352 (12.64%) Data Pipeline
14 344 (12.36%) Data Modelling
15 340 (12.21%) Software Engineering
16 335 (12.03%) Data Engineering
17 320 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 310 (11.14%) Event-Driven
19 297 (10.67%) Machine Learning
20 283 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (37.25%) Python
2 597 (21.44%) SQL
3 478 (17.17%) Java
4 211 (7.58%) TypeScript
5 194 (6.97%) JavaScript
6 163 (5.85%) Bash
7 143 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.92%) C#
9 47 (1.69%) Scala
10 45 (1.62%) Go
11 34 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.19%) Bicep
13 29 (1.04%) Ruby
14 26 (0.93%) Groovy
14 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.68%) R
16 17 (0.61%) C++
17 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 760 (27.30%) Security Cleared
2 678 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.53%) AWS Certification
4 147 (5.28%) Degree
5 87 (3.13%) CISSP
6 81 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 71 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 66 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 54 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 46 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (1.62%) CISM
13 26 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.83%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.83%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.79%) PMP
16 17 (0.61%) CCNP
16 17 (0.61%) CCSP
16 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
17 16 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (8.19%) Data Quality
2 146 (5.24%) QA
3 107 (3.84%) NIST
4 97 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 90 (3.23%) GDPR
6 39 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.11%) GRC
9 25 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.83%) SLA
11 20 (0.72%) NCSC
12 18 (0.65%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.50%) PMO
15 13 (0.47%) EU AI Act
16 12 (0.43%) SEPA
17 9 (0.32%) WCAG
18 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 490 (17.60%) Docker
2 90 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.22%) NFS
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
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%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 599 (21.52%) Kubernetes
2 199 (7.15%) Grafana
3 187 (6.72%) Ansible
4 156 (5.60%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.22%) Argo
5 34 (1.22%) Kibana
6 30 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.86%) Puppet
8 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.40%) Istio
10 10 (0.36%) Packer
11 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.32%) QRadar
12 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
14 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 291 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 179 (6.43%) Databricks
3 131 (4.71%) Google
3 131 (4.71%) Oracle
4 128 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 107 (3.84%) Splunk
6 72 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 58 (2.08%) VMware
8 52 (1.87%) CyberArk
8 52 (1.87%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.83%) Cisco
10 48 (1.72%) SAP
11 38 (1.36%) Informatica
11 38 (1.36%) Palo Alto
12 35 (1.26%) IBM
13 30 (1.08%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.04%) Foundry
15 27 (0.97%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.97%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.90%) Red Hat