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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,816 2,257 2,307
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.18% 16.60% 14.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.20% 38.72% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,967 1,581 1,770
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £788 £838 £850
England median daily rate £550 £531 £575
% change year-on-year +3.65% -7.72% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 9
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.46
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +72.22% -61.82%
75th Percentile £80.63 £70.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £69.35
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -34.03%

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 8,233 5,829 6,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.47% 42.87% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,994 4,860
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 53
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.60 £20.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -44.39%
75th Percentile £55.56 £45.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £67.11 £65.30
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -3 292 £550 -4.76% 155
West London +8 97 £555 +26.86% 66
South London +1 86 £522 -1.55% 6
East London +8 14 £525 -10.26% 29
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
1 141 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (3.84%) Apache Spark
3 97 (3.44%) Confluence
4 73 (2.59%) Apache
5 36 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.53%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) CMS
7 12 (0.43%) SAS
8 11 (0.39%) CICS
9 9 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
10 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.14%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.28%) Revit
7 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Trello
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.28%) Magento
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
7 3 (0.11%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.071%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.071%) Endur
8 2 (0.071%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.036%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.036%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 1,221 (43.36%) Azure
2 629 (22.34%) GCP
3 397 (14.10%) Serverless
4 389 (13.81%) Amazon S3
5 355 (12.61%) GitHub
6 335 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
7 226 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
8 197 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
9 195 (6.92%) Snowflake
10 169 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 162 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
12 161 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 136 (4.83%) Power Platform
14 134 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
15 129 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
16 121 (4.30%) SaaS
17 117 (4.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 107 (3.80%) dbt
19 93 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
20 91 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 112 (3.98%) Firewall
2 92 (3.27%) Network Security
3 73 (2.59%) DNS
4 67 (2.38%) VPN
5 47 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.35%) WAN
7 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 24 (0.85%) HTTP
9 22 (0.78%) BGP
10 20 (0.71%) SSL
11 18 (0.64%) Internet
12 16 (0.57%) OSPF
12 16 (0.57%) VXLAN
13 15 (0.53%) SSH
14 14 (0.50%) LAN
15 13 (0.46%) NGFW
16 12 (0.43%) VLAN
17 11 (0.39%) HTTPS
17 11 (0.39%) SAN
18 10 (0.36%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (4.37%) Power BI
4 122 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
5 119 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.19%) Data Lake
7 101 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
8 99 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 98 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 85 (3.02%) Metadata
12 75 (2.66%) MongoDB
13 72 (2.56%) Relational Database
14 63 (2.24%) Big Data
15 62 (2.20%) Tableau
16 51 (1.81%) Delta Lake
17 41 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
18 38 (1.35%) BigQuery
19 35 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
20 33 (1.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 271 (9.62%) Git
2 262 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 244 (8.66%) GitLab
4 151 (5.36%) JIRA
5 33 (1.17%) JMeter
5 33 (1.17%) JUnit
6 31 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 30 (1.07%) MLflow
8 29 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 28 (0.99%) Maven
10 27 (0.96%) Mockito
11 23 (0.82%) Selenium
12 21 (0.75%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.75%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.75%) Gradle
12 21 (0.75%) Postman
13 19 (0.67%) Gatling
13 19 (0.67%) REST Assured
14 15 (0.53%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 708 (25.14%) Finance
2 609 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 411 (14.60%) Public Sector
4 259 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (9.06%) Banking
6 87 (3.09%) Front Office
7 70 (2.49%) Retail
8 61 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 45 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 39 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.24%) Marketing
13 33 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (0.99%) Legal
15 27 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (0.89%) Law
17 23 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 599 (21.27%) Architect
2 434 (15.41%) Senior
3 397 (14.10%) Developer
4 323 (11.47%) Lead
5 283 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 278 (9.87%) AWS Engineer
7 203 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 164 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
9 142 (5.04%) Software Engineer
10 122 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 117 (4.15%) AWS Architect
12 112 (3.98%) Java Developer
13 110 (3.91%) Analyst
14 96 (3.41%) Senior Developer
15 90 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
16 88 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
17 86 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 84 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 83 (2.95%) Cloud Architect
20 82 (2.91%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (11.36%) Kafka
2 248 (8.81%) React
3 237 (8.42%) REST
4 185 (6.57%) Node.js
5 166 (5.89%) Spring
6 154 (5.47%) Spring Boot
7 145 (5.15%) RESTful
8 95 (3.37%) GraphQL
8 95 (3.37%) PySpark
9 89 (3.16%) .NET
10 77 (2.73%) OAuth
11 71 (2.52%) AngularJS
12 68 (2.41%) Redux
13 61 (2.17%) FastAPI
13 61 (2.17%) JSON
14 56 (1.99%) HTML
15 50 (1.78%) CSS
16 46 (1.63%) LangChain
16 46 (1.63%) OAuth2
17 45 (1.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 498 (17.68%) Cloud Native
2 191 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 111 (3.94%) AI Agents
5 98 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 85 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.70%) Fixed Income
8 71 (2.52%) Data Centre
9 65 (2.31%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 51 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.67%) Management Information System
14 41 (1.46%) Derivative
15 40 (1.42%) Data Structures
16 38 (1.35%) Equities
17 37 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
18 35 (1.24%) PKI
19 33 (1.17%) CMDB
20 32 (1.14%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 210 (7.46%) Linux
2 119 (4.23%) Windows
3 42 (1.49%) Unix
4 40 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) Solaris
9 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 2 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.071%) VMS
14 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,114 (39.56%) CI/CD
2 839 (29.79%) DevOps
3 715 (25.39%) Agile
4 596 (21.16%) AI
5 589 (20.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 417 (14.81%) Microservices
7 402 (14.28%) Containerisation
8 373 (13.25%) Analytics
9 368 (13.07%) Software Engineering
10 354 (12.57%) Migration
11 353 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 348 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
13 339 (12.04%) Observability
14 331 (11.75%) Data Pipeline
15 329 (11.68%) Data Modelling
16 325 (11.54%) Data Engineering
17 312 (11.08%) Machine Learning
18 294 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 280 (9.94%) Event-Driven
20 268 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (37.00%) Python
2 580 (20.60%) SQL
3 497 (17.65%) Java
4 266 (9.45%) TypeScript
5 239 (8.49%) JavaScript
6 146 (5.18%) Bash
7 120 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.87%) C#
9 85 (3.02%) Go
10 45 (1.60%) Scala
11 34 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.10%) Bicep
13 30 (1.07%) Ruby
14 27 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.75%) Groovy
16 20 (0.71%) R
17 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 16 (0.57%) C++
19 15 (0.53%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 747 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 671 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.26%) Degree
4 135 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 87 (3.09%) CISSP
6 67 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 65 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 63 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 48 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.49%) CISM
12 36 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 26 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.75%) CCNP
16 20 (0.71%) CCSP
16 20 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.71%) PMP
17 18 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 135 (4.79%) QA
3 95 (3.37%) GDPR
4 94 (3.34%) NIST
5 79 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.14%) GRC
7 32 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 24 (0.85%) SLA
9 20 (0.71%) NCSC
10 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 18 (0.64%) PMO
12 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.57%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.46%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.39%) WCAG
17 10 (0.36%) SEPA
18 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 490 (17.40%) Docker
2 82 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.50%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
6 9 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) NFS
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) vSphere
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.071%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 650 (23.08%) Terraform
2 588 (20.88%) Kubernetes
3 189 (6.71%) Grafana
4 168 (5.97%) Ansible
5 151 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.10%) Argo
8 25 (0.89%) Kibana
9 24 (0.85%) Puppet
10 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 10 (0.36%) QRadar
13 9 (0.32%) Istio
14 8 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) Consul
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 247 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 140 (4.97%) Databricks
3 124 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 118 (4.19%) Google
5 104 (3.69%) Oracle
6 85 (3.02%) Splunk
7 69 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 56 (1.99%) OpenAI
9 51 (1.81%) Cisco
10 46 (1.63%) CyberArk
10 46 (1.63%) VMware
11 43 (1.53%) SAP
12 38 (1.35%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.21%) Foundry
14 30 (1.07%) IBM
15 29 (1.03%) Dynatrace
16 26 (0.92%) Informatica
16 26 (0.92%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.85%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.82%) Fortinet