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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,157 2,104 2,560
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.25% 13.52% 13.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.67% 33.17% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,536 1,971
10th Percentile £400 £407 £413
25th Percentile £451 £501 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £806 £850 £790
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 11
10th Percentile £42.50 £38.28 £43.03
25th Percentile £65.38 £41.31 £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £49.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.44% -17.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £87.50 £65.56 £85.78
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.23 £87.50
England median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £51.78
% change year-on-year +84.06% -10.81% -3.67%

All Cloud 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 6,222 6,343 7,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.99% 40.77% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,229 4,324 5,550
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 37 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.55 £18.47
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +21.77%
75th Percentile £46.56 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.40 £74.38
England median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.00% +11.11%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +9 249 £575 - 146
South London +11 63 £525 +6.06% 44
West London -5 29 £525 -8.14% 66
East London - 7 £675 - 69
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
1 144 (6.68%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.87%) Confluence
3 78 (3.62%) Apache
4 73 (3.38%) Apache Spark
5 40 (1.85%) nginx
6 18 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.74%) SAS
8 14 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.42%) CMS
11 8 (0.37%) Camunda
12 5 (0.23%) Appian
12 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.14%) Traefik
15 2 (0.093%) Luigi
15 2 (0.093%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.19%) Trello
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.046%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.046%) Notion
6 1 (0.046%) Pro Tools
6 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.42%) Endur
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Actimize
6 2 (0.093%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.093%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.093%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.093%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.046%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.046%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 834 (38.66%) Azure
2 470 (21.79%) GCP
3 295 (13.68%) GitHub
4 282 (13.07%) Serverless
5 281 (13.03%) Amazon S3
6 245 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
7 180 (8.34%) GitHub Actions
8 176 (8.16%) Snowflake
9 165 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 127 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 127 (5.89%) Amazon EC2
11 119 (5.52%) dbt
12 115 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
12 115 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
13 91 (4.22%) Power Platform
14 74 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 65 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
16 55 (2.55%) SaaS
17 51 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
18 47 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 117 (5.42%) Firewall
2 67 (3.11%) DNS
3 55 (2.55%) Network Security
3 55 (2.55%) VPN
4 29 (1.34%) SSL
4 29 (1.34%) WAN
5 27 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.11%) HTTP
7 22 (1.02%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.93%) DHCP
9 15 (0.70%) BGP
9 15 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
9 15 (0.70%) SSH
10 13 (0.60%) LAN
10 13 (0.60%) OSPF
10 13 (0.60%) VLAN
11 11 (0.51%) FTP
12 10 (0.46%) IMAP
12 10 (0.46%) SMTP
13 9 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (5.47%) NoSQL
4 107 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
5 98 (4.54%) Amazon Athena
6 95 (4.40%) Data Lake
7 91 (4.22%) Relational Database
8 86 (3.99%) Power BI
9 80 (3.71%) SQL Server
10 72 (3.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 60 (2.78%) DynamoDB
12 59 (2.74%) MongoDB
13 56 (2.60%) Metadata
14 55 (2.55%) Apache Iceberg
15 54 (2.50%) MySQL
16 49 (2.27%) Tableau
17 48 (2.23%) Big Data
18 45 (2.09%) Apache Arrow
18 45 (2.09%) Dremio
19 44 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 243 (11.27%) Git
2 207 (9.60%) Jenkins
3 163 (7.56%) JIRA
4 156 (7.23%) GitLab
5 44 (2.04%) JUnit
6 25 (1.16%) Cypress.io
6 25 (1.16%) MLflow
7 24 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.07%) ERwin
9 21 (0.97%) CircleCI
9 21 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.97%) Selenium
10 19 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 18 (0.83%) Mockito
12 16 (0.74%) ER Studio
12 16 (0.74%) Maven
13 15 (0.70%) JMeter
14 14 (0.65%) Postman
15 13 (0.60%) Metasploit
16 12 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 557 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 503 (23.32%) Finance
3 236 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 221 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 215 (9.97%) Banking
6 104 (4.82%) Front Office
7 99 (4.59%) Investment Banking
8 38 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.39%) Marketing
11 29 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.25%) Retail
13 24 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 20 (0.93%) Military
15 19 (0.88%) Legal
16 18 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.70%) Manufacturing
18 14 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 430 (19.94%) Developer
2 385 (17.85%) Senior
3 304 (14.09%) Architect
4 263 (12.19%) AWS Engineer
5 174 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 163 (7.56%) Data Engineer
7 157 (7.28%) Lead
8 144 (6.68%) Software Engineer
9 142 (6.58%) Python Engineer
10 121 (5.61%) Java Developer
11 101 (4.68%) Senior Developer
12 96 (4.45%) AWS Developer
13 90 (4.17%) Analyst
14 89 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
15 87 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
15 87 (4.03%) Python Developer
15 87 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
16 78 (3.62%) Java Engineer
17 77 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 68 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (12.42%) Kafka
2 238 (11.03%) React
3 175 (8.11%) Node.js
4 135 (6.26%) REST
5 125 (5.80%) Spring
6 112 (5.19%) RESTful
7 111 (5.15%) AngularJS
8 108 (5.01%) Spring Boot
9 88 (4.08%) Pandas
10 87 (4.03%) gRPC
11 86 (3.99%) NumPy
12 67 (3.11%) SciPy
13 66 (3.06%) CSS
14 65 (3.01%) HTML
14 65 (3.01%) Vue
15 62 (2.87%) .NET
15 62 (2.87%) GraphQL
16 49 (2.27%) FastAPI
17 43 (1.99%) OAuth
18 41 (1.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 249 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 107 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (3.80%) Fixed Income
4 79 (3.66%) Hedge funds
5 74 (3.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 72 (3.34%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.92%) Equities
8 62 (2.87%) Derivative
9 51 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
10 47 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 44 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
12 41 (1.90%) Public Cloud
12 41 (1.90%) Security Posture
13 40 (1.85%) Management Information System
14 33 (1.53%) Data Centre
15 32 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 32 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (1.48%) Virtual Team
16 30 (1.39%) Pricing Data
17 27 (1.25%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 200 (9.27%) Linux
2 81 (3.76%) Windows
3 47 (2.18%) Unix
4 21 (0.97%) VMS
5 18 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Android
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.37%) CentOS
10 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (38.15%) CI/CD
2 601 (27.86%) Agile
3 596 (27.63%) DevOps
4 408 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 355 (16.46%) Microservices
6 350 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
7 319 (14.79%) Software Engineering
8 277 (12.84%) Analytics
9 259 (12.01%) Containerisation
10 248 (11.50%) AI
11 215 (9.97%) Data Modelling
12 209 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
13 195 (9.04%) Migration
14 191 (8.85%) Machine Learning
15 184 (8.53%) ETL
16 176 (8.16%) Observability
17 173 (8.02%) Data Engineering
18 160 (7.42%) Full-Stack Development
19 156 (7.23%) Test Automation
20 154 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 943 (43.72%) Python
2 482 (22.35%) SQL
3 481 (22.30%) Java
4 253 (11.73%) JavaScript
5 247 (11.45%) TypeScript
6 145 (6.72%) Bash
7 126 (5.84%) Go
8 84 (3.89%) C#
9 77 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 45 (2.09%) C++
11 30 (1.39%) Scala
12 24 (1.11%) Ruby
13 23 (1.07%) Perl
13 23 (1.07%) Rust
14 20 (0.93%) Shell Script
15 19 (0.88%) Groovy
16 17 (0.79%) C
17 16 (0.74%) R
18 15 (0.70%) PHP
19 14 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 502 (23.27%) Security Cleared
2 433 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 133 (6.17%) Degree
4 125 (5.80%) AWS Certification
5 63 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 36 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 35 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 34 (1.58%) CISSP
10 30 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (1.07%) OSCP
13 18 (0.83%) CISM
14 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.60%) CCNP
16 12 (0.56%) PMI Certification
17 11 (0.51%) CREST Certified
17 11 (0.51%) PhD
17 11 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.22%) QA
3 88 (4.08%) GDPR
4 73 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (2.78%) NIST
6 36 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.97%) NCSC
9 17 (0.79%) WCAG
10 16 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.74%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.46%) GRC
12 8 (0.37%) MiFID
12 8 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.32%) SLA
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 506 (23.46%) Docker
2 42 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.46%) DFS Replication
4 10 (0.46%) Dovecot
4 10 (0.46%) Postfix
4 10 (0.46%) Squid
4 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.37%) zsh
6 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.23%) Firmware
8 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.093%) iptables
9 2 (0.093%) KVM
9 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.093%) vSphere
10 1 (0.046%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 508 (23.55%) Kubernetes
2 498 (23.09%) Terraform
3 142 (6.58%) Ansible
4 108 (5.01%) Grafana
5 95 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.44%) Argo
7 29 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.21%) Puppet
9 22 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.88%) Packer
11 17 (0.79%) Consul
11 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.79%) Nessus
12 13 (0.60%) SCCM
13 11 (0.51%) Nmap
14 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.42%) QRadar
16 8 (0.37%) Istio
16 8 (0.37%) Kibana
16 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 148 (6.86%) Microsoft
2 133 (6.17%) Databricks
3 86 (3.99%) Google
4 82 (3.80%) Splunk
5 72 (3.34%) Oracle
6 69 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 33 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 32 (1.48%) Cisco
9 30 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 24 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 23 (1.07%) F5
11 23 (1.07%) VMware
12 22 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 22 (1.02%) IBM
13 21 (0.97%) Arista
13 21 (0.97%) SAP
14 20 (0.93%) Fortinet
15 19 (0.88%) Dynatrace
16 17 (0.79%) Informatica
16 17 (0.79%) Tenable