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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,113 1,982 2,327
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.77% 13.85% 12.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.39% 33.78% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 1,431 1,775
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £780 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 11
10th Percentile £61.60 £45.45 £43.03
25th Percentile £68.25 £49.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.15% -7.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £87.50 £75.38 £78.75
90th Percentile £94.00 £87.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £82.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +77.57% - -24.60%

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 6,329 5,867 6,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.01% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,331 3,961 5,081
10th Percentile £344 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 43 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £20.88
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +31.96%
75th Percentile £54.31 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.36 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.87% +26.47% -2.17%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +4 253 £550 - 337
South London +11 62 £525 +1.16% 65
West London +2 33 £603 +7.78% 71
East London +6 5 £675 - 86
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
1 118 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (4.12%) Confluence
3 70 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 66 (3.12%) Apache
5 32 (1.51%) nginx
6 16 (0.76%) SAS
6 16 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.47%) Camunda
8 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.33%) CMS
10 6 (0.28%) Appian
11 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.14%) Traefik
14 2 (0.095%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.095%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 13 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.19%) Trello
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.047%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.047%) Notion
8 1 (0.047%) Pro Tools
8 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.24%) Endur
3 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Actimize
5 2 (0.095%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.095%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.095%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.095%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.095%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.047%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.047%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.047%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.047%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 849 (40.18%) Azure
2 478 (22.62%) GCP
3 314 (14.86%) Serverless
4 311 (14.72%) GitHub
5 298 (14.10%) Amazon S3
6 276 (13.06%) AWS Lambda
7 194 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
8 162 (7.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 151 (7.15%) Snowflake
10 131 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 131 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
11 119 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
12 118 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 104 (4.92%) Power Platform
14 84 (3.98%) dbt
14 84 (3.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 69 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
16 62 (2.93%) Amazon Kinesis
17 52 (2.46%) AWS Step Functions
17 52 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.16%) Firewall
2 64 (3.03%) DNS
3 54 (2.56%) VPN
4 50 (2.37%) Network Security
5 36 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.23%) SSL
7 25 (1.18%) WAN
8 18 (0.85%) HTTP
9 17 (0.80%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.71%) DHCP
10 15 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
11 13 (0.62%) LAN
11 13 (0.62%) SSH
12 11 (0.52%) BGP
12 11 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.47%) FTP
13 10 (0.47%) IMAP
13 10 (0.47%) SMTP
13 10 (0.47%) VLAN
14 9 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
3 111 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
3 111 (5.25%) NoSQL
4 99 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 98 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
6 92 (4.35%) Power BI
6 92 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 85 (4.02%) SQL Server
8 81 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 62 (2.93%) MongoDB
10 59 (2.79%) DynamoDB
11 52 (2.46%) Metadata
12 51 (2.41%) MySQL
13 49 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
13 49 (2.32%) Tableau
14 47 (2.22%) Big Data
15 45 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
16 43 (2.04%) Apache Iceberg
17 33 (1.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 229 (10.84%) Git
2 206 (9.75%) Jenkins
3 168 (7.95%) GitLab
4 148 (7.00%) JIRA
5 35 (1.66%) JUnit
6 27 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 26 (1.23%) MLflow
8 25 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 22 (1.04%) Selenium
11 20 (0.95%) ERwin
12 19 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 16 (0.76%) JMeter
14 15 (0.71%) Mockito
15 14 (0.66%) ER Studio
15 14 (0.66%) Maven
15 14 (0.66%) SonarQube
16 12 (0.57%) Gatling
16 12 (0.57%) Postman
17 11 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 533 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 446 (21.11%) Finance
3 257 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 205 (9.70%) Banking
5 192 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (3.74%) Investment Banking
7 64 (3.03%) Front Office
8 37 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 34 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.23%) Marketing
11 26 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.09%) Military
13 23 (1.09%) Retail
14 20 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.80%) Legal
16 15 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 402 (19.03%) Developer
2 374 (17.70%) Senior
3 342 (16.19%) Architect
4 229 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
5 173 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 170 (8.05%) Data Engineer
7 144 (6.81%) Lead
8 120 (5.68%) Python Engineer
9 115 (5.44%) Senior Developer
10 114 (5.40%) Software Engineer
11 94 (4.45%) Analyst
12 90 (4.26%) Java Developer
13 83 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
14 82 (3.88%) AWS Developer
14 82 (3.88%) Python Developer
15 80 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
16 79 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
17 75 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
19 62 (2.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (12.45%) Kafka
2 205 (9.70%) React
3 156 (7.38%) REST
4 155 (7.34%) Node.js
5 124 (5.87%) Spring
6 114 (5.40%) RESTful
7 106 (5.02%) Spring Boot
8 95 (4.50%) AngularJS
9 79 (3.74%) gRPC
10 75 (3.55%) Pandas
11 72 (3.41%) NumPy
12 69 (3.27%) HTML
13 68 (3.22%) CSS
14 56 (2.65%) .NET
15 53 (2.51%) FastAPI
15 53 (2.51%) LDAP
15 53 (2.51%) SOAP
15 53 (2.51%) Vue
16 49 (2.32%) OAuth
16 49 (2.32%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 262 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 108 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (3.22%) Security Posture
4 61 (2.89%) Hedge funds
4 61 (2.89%) Product Ownership
5 55 (2.60%) Derivative
6 50 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 49 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 48 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 46 (2.18%) Fixed Income
10 44 (2.08%) Equities
10 44 (2.08%) Onboarding
11 41 (1.94%) Management Information System
12 36 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 36 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
13 35 (1.66%) Public Cloud
14 32 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (1.42%) Algorithms
16 29 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
17 28 (1.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.76%) Linux
2 75 (3.55%) Windows
3 46 (2.18%) Unix
4 23 (1.09%) VMS
5 16 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.43%) Android
9 8 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.24%) CentOS
11 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.095%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.095%) zOS
13 1 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 594 (28.11%) DevOps
3 507 (23.99%) Agile
4 422 (19.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 343 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
6 340 (16.09%) Microservices
7 292 (13.82%) Analytics
8 291 (13.77%) AI
9 287 (13.58%) Software Engineering
10 256 (12.12%) Containerisation
11 221 (10.46%) Data Modelling
12 210 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
13 198 (9.37%) Observability
14 197 (9.32%) Migration
15 190 (8.99%) Data Engineering
15 190 (8.99%) Machine Learning
16 184 (8.71%) ETL
17 162 (7.67%) Full-Stack Development
17 162 (7.67%) Test Automation
18 157 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 919 (43.49%) Python
2 488 (23.10%) SQL
3 418 (19.78%) Java
4 205 (9.70%) JavaScript
5 191 (9.04%) TypeScript
6 113 (5.35%) Bash
7 102 (4.83%) Go
8 98 (4.64%) PowerShell
9 83 (3.93%) C#
10 33 (1.56%) C++
11 31 (1.47%) Ruby
12 24 (1.14%) Scala
13 20 (0.95%) Rust
13 20 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.90%) R
15 17 (0.80%) Groovy
16 16 (0.76%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.71%) Perl
17 15 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 568 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 498 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.01%) AWS Certification
4 122 (5.77%) Degree
5 65 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.56%) CISSP
7 33 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (0.99%) MCP
12 18 (0.85%) CISM
12 18 (0.85%) OSCP
13 15 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (0.66%) PMP
15 13 (0.62%) CCNP
16 11 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 95 (4.50%) GDPR
3 86 (4.07%) QA
4 71 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.79%) NIST
6 36 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.09%) NCSC
8 19 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.71%) WCAG
10 14 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.52%) SLA
13 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.38%) GRC
15 7 (0.33%) MiFID
16 6 (0.28%) PSD2
17 5 (0.24%) HL7
17 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.24%) SEPA
17 5 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 476 (22.53%) Docker
2 70 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.52%) Squid
4 11 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.47%) Dovecot
5 10 (0.47%) Postfix
6 8 (0.38%) zsh
7 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.095%) KVM
9 2 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.047%) Snort
10 1 (0.047%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 501 (23.71%) Terraform
2 480 (22.72%) Kubernetes
3 132 (6.25%) Ansible
4 111 (5.25%) Grafana
5 95 (4.50%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.61%) Argo
7 26 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.90%) Puppet
9 18 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.80%) Nessus
11 15 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.62%) SCCM
13 12 (0.57%) Kibana
14 10 (0.47%) Packer
14 10 (0.47%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.43%) Consul
15 9 (0.43%) QRadar
16 8 (0.38%) Istio
17 7 (0.33%) Rancher
17 7 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 141 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.53%) Databricks
3 82 (3.88%) Oracle
4 79 (3.74%) Splunk
5 75 (3.55%) Google
6 58 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.89%) CyberArk
8 35 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.61%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (1.61%) Centrify
9 34 (1.61%) OpenAI
10 33 (1.56%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.47%) Cisco
12 26 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 26 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 23 (1.09%) IBM
14 21 (0.99%) VMware
15 20 (0.95%) F5
15 20 (0.95%) SAP
16 19 (0.90%) CheckPoint