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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,405 2,010 2,298
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.99% 15.40% 12.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.24% 36.64% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,649 1,455 1,760
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £781 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.00 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £90.00 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.25 £51.78
% change year-on-year +14.94% +26.02% -19.72%

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 7,024 5,486 6,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.79% 42.02% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,820 3,786 4,985
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 44 78
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -2 273 £546 +0.69% 293
South London +4 92 £515 +8.42% 50
West London +6 51 £603 +8.07% 78
East London +3 9 £630 +7.69% 71
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
1 113 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.28%) Confluence
4 62 (2.58%) Apache
5 32 (1.33%) nginx
6 23 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.71%) SAS
8 14 (0.58%) Camunda
9 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.46%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.33%) Appian
12 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) CICS
13 3 (0.12%) CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.083%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.083%) Drupal
14 2 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) Notion
6 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.17%) Actimize
4 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
4 4 (0.17%) Endur
4 4 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.083%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.083%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.042%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.042%) Maximo
7 1 (0.042%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.042%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.042%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 976 (40.58%) Azure
2 566 (23.53%) GCP
3 363 (15.09%) Serverless
4 326 (13.56%) Amazon S3
5 321 (13.35%) GitHub
6 310 (12.89%) AWS Lambda
7 224 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 180 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
9 172 (7.15%) Amazon EKS
10 166 (6.90%) Snowflake
11 140 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
12 135 (5.61%) Power Platform
13 134 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
14 125 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 109 (4.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 78 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
17 63 (2.62%) dbt
18 56 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
19 54 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
20 51 (2.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (4.16%) Firewall
2 63 (2.62%) VPN
3 57 (2.37%) Network Security
4 52 (2.16%) DNS
5 39 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.33%) WAN
7 17 (0.71%) LAN
8 16 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.62%) BGP
9 15 (0.62%) HTTP
10 14 (0.58%) SSL
11 12 (0.50%) OSPF
12 11 (0.46%) DHCP
13 10 (0.42%) VLAN
14 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
14 9 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.33%) 5G
16 7 (0.29%) 4G
16 7 (0.29%) NGFW
16 7 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (4.95%) NoSQL
3 118 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (4.91%) Power BI
4 114 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
5 105 (4.37%) Data Lake
6 101 (4.20%) SQL Server
7 94 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
8 93 (3.87%) Relational Database
9 88 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 72 (2.99%) Tableau
11 71 (2.95%) MongoDB
12 65 (2.70%) Metadata
13 64 (2.66%) DynamoDB
14 55 (2.29%) MySQL
15 52 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
15 52 (2.16%) Big Data
16 44 (1.83%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
18 33 (1.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 236 (9.81%) Git
2 207 (8.61%) GitLab
3 205 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 138 (5.74%) JIRA
5 47 (1.95%) JUnit
6 42 (1.75%) MLflow
7 35 (1.46%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.00%) Mockito
10 22 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 21 (0.87%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.83%) Selenium
13 19 (0.79%) Maven
14 17 (0.71%) JMeter
15 16 (0.67%) Gatling
16 12 (0.50%) ERwin
16 12 (0.50%) Gradle
17 11 (0.46%) Postman
18 10 (0.42%) REST Assured
18 10 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 567 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 541 (22.49%) Finance
3 333 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 209 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (8.44%) Banking
6 96 (3.99%) Front Office
7 56 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 55 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 31 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (1.29%) Retail
13 28 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 21 (0.87%) Marketing
15 18 (0.75%) Legal
16 16 (0.67%) Military
17 14 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.54%) Manufacturing
19 12 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 447 (18.59%) Developer
2 429 (17.84%) Architect
3 377 (15.68%) Senior
4 234 (9.73%) AWS Engineer
5 232 (9.65%) Lead
6 215 (8.94%) Data Engineer
7 191 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 150 (6.24%) Software Engineer
9 124 (5.16%) Senior Developer
10 105 (4.37%) Analyst
11 99 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
12 98 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
13 97 (4.03%) Python Engineer
14 94 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
14 94 (3.91%) Java Developer
15 90 (3.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 84 (3.49%) AWS Architect
17 80 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 79 (3.28%) Python Developer
19 77 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (13.26%) Kafka
2 243 (10.10%) React
3 208 (8.65%) Node.js
4 180 (7.48%) REST
5 142 (5.90%) Spring
6 133 (5.53%) RESTful
7 122 (5.07%) Spring Boot
8 96 (3.99%) AngularJS
9 70 (2.91%) .NET
9 70 (2.91%) CSS
10 68 (2.83%) HTML
11 66 (2.74%) GraphQL
11 66 (2.74%) PySpark
12 63 (2.62%) SOAP
13 60 (2.49%) OAuth
13 60 (2.49%) Redux
14 59 (2.45%) Pandas
15 58 (2.41%) gRPC
16 56 (2.33%) PyTorch
17 54 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 345 (14.35%) Cloud Native
2 115 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (3.28%) Fixed Income
4 75 (3.12%) Security Posture
5 66 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 63 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 56 (2.33%) Derivative
8 55 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 46 (1.91%) AI Agents
11 45 (1.87%) Algorithms
11 45 (1.87%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.79%) Equities
13 42 (1.75%) Management Information System
14 41 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
15 39 (1.62%) Public Cloud
16 38 (1.58%) Data Structures
17 32 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
19 28 (1.16%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 186 (7.73%) Linux
2 63 (2.62%) Windows
3 45 (1.87%) Unix
4 11 (0.46%) VMS
4 11 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.29%) Android
7 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.21%) zOS
9 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (38.00%) CI/CD
2 679 (28.23%) DevOps
3 589 (24.49%) Agile
4 457 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 410 (17.05%) AI
6 378 (15.72%) Microservices
7 358 (14.89%) Analytics
8 350 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
9 332 (13.80%) Containerisation
10 311 (12.93%) Software Engineering
11 276 (11.48%) Data Modelling
12 255 (10.60%) Machine Learning
13 247 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
14 244 (10.15%) Data Engineering
15 238 (9.90%) Observability
16 235 (9.77%) Migration
17 228 (9.48%) ETL
18 204 (8.48%) Full-Stack Development
19 199 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
20 190 (7.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 981 (40.79%) Python
2 558 (23.20%) SQL
3 430 (17.88%) Java
4 230 (9.56%) JavaScript
5 223 (9.27%) TypeScript
6 116 (4.82%) Go
7 101 (4.20%) C#
8 98 (4.07%) Bash
9 90 (3.74%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.29%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.25%) Ruby
11 30 (1.25%) Scala
12 26 (1.08%) C++
13 20 (0.83%) R
14 17 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.58%) Bicep
17 11 (0.46%) PHP
17 11 (0.46%) Rust
18 10 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 684 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 596 (24.78%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.32%) AWS Certification
4 118 (4.91%) Degree
5 67 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (1.95%) CISSP
7 46 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 41 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.96%) CISM
14 22 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 19 (0.79%) PMP
16 18 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 17 (0.71%) CCNP
18 16 (0.67%) OSCP
19 14 (0.58%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.62%) GDPR
3 92 (3.83%) QA
4 69 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (2.66%) NIST
6 46 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.16%) NCSC
9 20 (0.83%) SLA
10 15 (0.62%) WCAG
11 13 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.50%) GRC
12 12 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.37%) PMO
15 8 (0.33%) PSD2
16 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.21%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 507 (21.08%) Docker
2 63 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.37%) Squid
6 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.083%) NFS
9 2 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.083%) zsh
10 1 (0.042%) Ceph
10 1 (0.042%) iptables
10 1 (0.042%) KVM
10 1 (0.042%) Lustre
10 1 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 559 (23.24%) Terraform
2 530 (22.04%) Kubernetes
3 136 (5.65%) Ansible
4 102 (4.24%) Grafana
5 94 (3.91%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.33%) Argo
8 18 (0.75%) Consul
9 17 (0.71%) Puppet
10 16 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.54%) Packer
12 12 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.46%) Kibana
14 10 (0.42%) SCCM
15 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.29%) QRadar
16 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.21%) Kubeflow
16 5 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 160 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 142 (5.90%) Databricks
3 90 (3.74%) Google
3 90 (3.74%) Oracle
4 75 (3.12%) Splunk
5 59 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 47 (1.95%) CyberArk
8 38 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (1.41%) Centrify
9 34 (1.41%) Cisco
10 31 (1.29%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.29%) IBM
11 28 (1.16%) Palo Alto
11 28 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 28 (1.16%) VMware
12 27 (1.12%) SAP
13 24 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 21 (0.87%) Atlassian