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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,380 1,980 2,296
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.99% 14.74% 12.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.09% 35.38% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,418 1,760
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.62% -6.15%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £65.63 £49.56 £29.99
Median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile £89.38 £65.56 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £72.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £48.62
% change year-on-year +35.14% +14.16% -24.62%

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 6,981 5,596 6,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.66% 37.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,786 3,784 5,001
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £446
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 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 50 79
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +10.20% -2.56%
75th Percentile £54.25 £58.00 £53.38
90th Percentile £75.17 £74.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.15% -14.16%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 0 276 £550 - 209
South London +2 94 £517 +8.79% 19
West London +7 50 £603 +4.78% 57
East London +8 9 £630 - 38
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
1 109 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (3.74%) Apache Spark
3 84 (3.53%) Confluence
4 58 (2.44%) Apache
5 35 (1.47%) nginx
6 19 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.71%) SAS
8 14 (0.59%) Camunda
9 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.34%) Appian
12 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Traefik
13 3 (0.13%) CICS
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
13 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.084%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.084%) Drupal
Applications
1 25 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.13%) Trello
6 1 (0.042%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.042%) Notion
6 1 (0.042%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.17%) Actimize
5 4 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
5 4 (0.17%) Endur
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.084%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.084%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.042%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.042%) Maximo
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.042%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.042%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 959 (40.29%) Azure
2 558 (23.45%) GCP
3 361 (15.17%) Serverless
4 331 (13.91%) Amazon S3
5 320 (13.45%) GitHub
6 311 (13.07%) AWS Lambda
7 223 (9.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 183 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
10 159 (6.68%) Snowflake
11 144 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
12 141 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
13 133 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 131 (5.50%) Power Platform
15 108 (4.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 75 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (2.61%) dbt
18 59 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
19 52 (2.18%) AWS Step Functions
20 51 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.62%) Firewall
2 68 (2.86%) VPN
3 63 (2.65%) DNS
3 63 (2.65%) Network Security
4 43 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.22%) WAN
6 22 (0.92%) SSL
7 18 (0.76%) BGP
8 16 (0.67%) OSPF
8 16 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.63%) LAN
10 14 (0.59%) DHCP
11 13 (0.55%) HTTP
11 13 (0.55%) VLAN
12 9 (0.38%) 5G
12 9 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.38%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.34%) 4G
13 8 (0.34%) OpenVPN
14 7 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 119 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 116 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
4 115 (4.83%) Power BI
5 101 (4.24%) SQL Server
6 99 (4.16%) Data Lake
7 92 (3.87%) Relational Database
8 91 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
9 84 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 69 (2.90%) MongoDB
11 68 (2.86%) Tableau
12 67 (2.82%) DynamoDB
13 63 (2.65%) Metadata
14 59 (2.48%) MySQL
15 52 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
15 52 (2.18%) Big Data
16 45 (1.89%) BigQuery
17 37 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
18 35 (1.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 237 (9.96%) Git
2 208 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 203 (8.53%) GitLab
4 148 (6.22%) JIRA
5 46 (1.93%) JUnit
6 41 (1.72%) MLflow
7 34 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.97%) Mockito
10 22 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 21 (0.88%) Cypress.io
12 19 (0.80%) Maven
13 18 (0.76%) Selenium
14 17 (0.71%) ERwin
14 17 (0.71%) JMeter
15 16 (0.67%) Gatling
16 11 (0.46%) Gradle
16 11 (0.46%) Postman
17 10 (0.42%) ER Studio
17 10 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 582 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 527 (22.14%) Finance
3 317 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 215 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (8.24%) Banking
6 83 (3.49%) Front Office
7 57 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 56 (2.35%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 33 (1.39%) Retail
13 29 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.88%) Marketing
16 18 (0.76%) Legal
16 18 (0.76%) Military
17 14 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 439 (18.45%) Developer
2 415 (17.44%) Architect
3 374 (15.71%) Senior
4 238 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 217 (9.12%) Data Engineer
5 217 (9.12%) Lead
6 198 (8.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 141 (5.92%) Software Engineer
8 125 (5.25%) Senior Developer
9 105 (4.41%) Analyst
10 101 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
10 101 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
11 98 (4.12%) Python Engineer
12 95 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
13 93 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 93 (3.91%) Java Developer
14 79 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 79 (3.32%) Python Developer
15 78 (3.28%) AWS Architect
15 78 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (12.94%) Kafka
2 237 (9.96%) React
3 193 (8.11%) Node.js
4 178 (7.48%) REST
5 143 (6.01%) Spring
6 130 (5.46%) RESTful
7 122 (5.13%) Spring Boot
8 97 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 72 (3.03%) CSS
10 70 (2.94%) HTML
11 67 (2.82%) .NET
12 64 (2.69%) SOAP
13 63 (2.65%) PySpark
14 61 (2.56%) GraphQL
14 61 (2.56%) Pandas
15 58 (2.44%) gRPC
16 57 (2.39%) OAuth
16 57 (2.39%) PyTorch
17 55 (2.31%) NumPy
18 52 (2.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 341 (14.33%) Cloud Native
2 120 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.36%) Security Posture
4 66 (2.77%) Fixed Income
5 61 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 60 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 52 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 51 (2.14%) Derivative
10 45 (1.89%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 39 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 38 (1.60%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
14 38 (1.60%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.55%) Equities
16 33 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (1.30%) Hedge funds
18 29 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 194 (8.15%) Linux
2 65 (2.73%) Windows
3 47 (1.97%) Unix
4 18 (0.76%) VMS
5 12 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.29%) Android
8 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.21%) CentOS
9 5 (0.21%) zOS
10 4 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.13%) Solaris
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (38.28%) CI/CD
2 669 (28.11%) DevOps
3 577 (24.24%) Agile
4 472 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 399 (16.76%) AI
6 376 (15.80%) Microservices
7 360 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
8 359 (15.08%) Analytics
9 326 (13.70%) Containerisation
10 308 (12.94%) Software Engineering
11 272 (11.43%) Data Modelling
12 252 (10.59%) Machine Learning
13 250 (10.50%) Data Pipeline
14 241 (10.13%) Data Engineering
15 233 (9.79%) Observability
16 228 (9.58%) ETL
17 221 (9.29%) Migration
18 202 (8.49%) Full-Stack Development
19 188 (7.90%) Stakeholder Management
20 186 (7.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 994 (41.76%) Python
2 557 (23.40%) SQL
3 434 (18.24%) Java
4 228 (9.58%) JavaScript
5 212 (8.91%) TypeScript
6 112 (4.71%) Go
7 107 (4.50%) Bash
8 100 (4.20%) C#
9 92 (3.87%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.30%) Scala
10 31 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 29 (1.22%) Ruby
12 26 (1.09%) C++
13 20 (0.84%) R
14 15 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.55%) Bicep
16 12 (0.50%) Rust
17 11 (0.46%) PHP
18 10 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 674 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 591 (24.83%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.67%) AWS Certification
4 114 (4.79%) Degree
5 64 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (2.02%) CISSP
7 43 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.05%) CISM
12 23 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.80%) PMP
14 18 (0.76%) OSCP
15 17 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.71%) CCNP
16 14 (0.59%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 106 (4.45%) GDPR
3 89 (3.74%) QA
4 68 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (2.61%) NIST
6 44 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.13%) NCSC
8 24 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.67%) SLA
10 13 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.55%) WCAG
11 12 (0.50%) GRC
11 12 (0.50%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.38%) PMO
14 8 (0.34%) PSD2
15 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 514 (21.60%) Docker
2 62 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.50%) Squid
5 10 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.21%) HDFS
7 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.17%) Postfix
8 4 (0.17%) zsh
9 3 (0.13%) DFS Replication
9 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.042%) NFS
11 1 (0.042%) NLBS
11 1 (0.042%) Samba
Systems Management
1 564 (23.70%) Terraform
2 533 (22.39%) Kubernetes
3 140 (5.88%) Ansible
4 107 (4.50%) Grafana
5 95 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (1.47%) Argo
8 18 (0.76%) Consul
9 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.71%) Puppet
10 14 (0.59%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.55%) Packer
12 12 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.46%) Kibana
13 11 (0.46%) Nessus
13 11 (0.46%) SCCM
14 7 (0.29%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.29%) QRadar
15 6 (0.25%) Istio
15 6 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 153 (6.43%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.13%) Databricks
3 92 (3.87%) Oracle
4 87 (3.66%) Google
5 76 (3.19%) Splunk
6 63 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.89%) CyberArk
8 44 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 36 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.47%) Dynatrace
11 34 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.43%) Centrify
12 33 (1.39%) Cisco
12 33 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 30 (1.26%) IBM
13 30 (1.26%) Red Hat
14 27 (1.13%) SAP
15 25 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 22 (0.92%) VMware
17 21 (0.88%) Atlassian