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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,780 2,137 2,241
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.74% 15.95% 13.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.57% 36.45% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,979 1,467 1,650
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £68.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +121.86% -63.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £85.63 £52.81
90th Percentile - £87.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -25.82%

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 8,280 5,863 6,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.92% 43.75% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,721 3,976 4,550
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 99 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.77 £24.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.60% -22.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.00 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -5 269 £575 -1.71% 337
West London +14 96 £560 +37.76% 67
South London 0 78 £535 -1.15% 9
East London +11 13 £600 -11.11% 22
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
1 160 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (4.53%) Apache Spark
3 107 (3.85%) Confluence
4 89 (3.20%) Apache
5 23 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.65%) nginx
7 12 (0.43%) SAS
8 10 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) CICS
9 8 (0.29%) IIS
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Camunda
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 30 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.22%) Revit
7 4 (0.14%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
3 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.14%) Quorum
6 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.11%) Shopify
8 2 (0.072%) Actimize
8 2 (0.072%) Endur
8 2 (0.072%) Exchequer
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (45.22%) Azure
2 655 (23.56%) GCP
3 372 (13.38%) Serverless
4 369 (13.27%) GitHub
5 363 (13.06%) Amazon S3
6 304 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
7 252 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
8 232 (8.35%) Amazon EKS
9 228 (8.20%) Snowflake
10 180 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 162 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
12 154 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 144 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
13 144 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
13 144 (5.18%) dbt
14 127 (4.57%) SaaS
15 125 (4.50%) Power Platform
15 125 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 102 (3.67%) Entra ID
17 99 (3.56%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.60%) Firewall
2 84 (3.02%) Network Security
3 66 (2.37%) DNS
4 59 (2.12%) VPN
5 38 (1.37%) WAN
6 30 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 26 (0.94%) BGP
8 23 (0.83%) DHCP
9 22 (0.79%) Internet
9 22 (0.79%) OSPF
9 22 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.79%) SSL
10 21 (0.76%) SSH
11 19 (0.68%) HTTP
12 16 (0.58%) MPLS
13 15 (0.54%) HTTPS
13 15 (0.54%) NGFW
14 13 (0.47%) IPsec
14 13 (0.47%) LAN
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
4 123 (4.42%) NoSQL
5 113 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 111 (3.99%) Power BI
7 107 (3.85%) Metadata
8 100 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 95 (3.42%) MongoDB
10 90 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 89 (3.20%) DynamoDB
12 85 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
13 78 (2.81%) Relational Database
14 71 (2.55%) Delta Lake
15 64 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
16 62 (2.23%) MySQL
17 51 (1.83%) Big Data
18 50 (1.80%) BigQuery
19 48 (1.73%) Redis
20 47 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 319 (11.47%) Jenkins
2 312 (11.22%) Git
3 279 (10.04%) GitLab
4 149 (5.36%) JIRA
5 40 (1.44%) Maven
6 36 (1.29%) JUnit
7 34 (1.22%) JMeter
8 32 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 31 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 30 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 28 (1.01%) Gradle
11 28 (1.01%) Selenium
12 27 (0.97%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.97%) Mockito
13 21 (0.76%) Claude Code
13 21 (0.76%) Postman
14 18 (0.65%) Gatling
15 17 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 16 (0.58%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.36%) Artifactory
General
1 697 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 666 (23.96%) Finance
3 372 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 271 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 267 (9.60%) Banking
6 87 (3.13%) Retail
7 63 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.40%) Marketing
10 37 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 35 (1.26%) Legal
12 33 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (1.19%) Front Office
13 32 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (1.08%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.04%) Billing
15 29 (1.04%) Law
16 27 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (0.86%) Back Office
17 24 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 559 (20.11%) Architect
2 459 (16.51%) Senior
3 339 (12.19%) Developer
4 299 (10.76%) Lead
5 290 (10.43%) Data Engineer
6 259 (9.32%) AWS Engineer
7 229 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 132 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (3.99%) AWS Architect
10 108 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 107 (3.85%) Analyst
12 104 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 102 (3.67%) Java Developer
13 102 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
14 97 (3.49%) Data Architect
15 96 (3.45%) Software Engineer
16 86 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
17 83 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
18 77 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 74 (2.66%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 737 (26.51%) Terraform
2 337 (12.12%) Kafka
3 300 (10.79%) REST
4 196 (7.05%) React
5 177 (6.37%) Spring
6 164 (5.90%) Spring Boot
7 152 (5.47%) RESTful
8 111 (3.99%) PySpark
9 109 (3.92%) Node.js
10 99 (3.56%) OAuth
11 97 (3.49%) .NET
12 72 (2.59%) GraphQL
13 69 (2.48%) HTML
14 68 (2.45%) FastAPI
15 67 (2.41%) AngularJS
16 63 (2.27%) JSON
17 62 (2.23%) SOAP
18 58 (2.09%) CSS
19 55 (1.98%) OAuth2
20 50 (1.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 550 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 182 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 153 (5.50%) AI Agents
4 144 (5.18%) Onboarding
5 133 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 81 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
8 72 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 70 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 56 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 49 (1.76%) Data Structures
13 47 (1.69%) Replication
14 46 (1.65%) PKI
15 40 (1.44%) Public Cloud
16 38 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
17 35 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
18 33 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
19 31 (1.12%) Virtual Team
20 29 (1.04%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 258 (9.28%) Linux
2 125 (4.50%) Windows
3 55 (1.98%) Unix
4 51 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.22%) VMS
11 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) CentOS
12 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.11%) Solaris
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.036%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (42.91%) CI/CD
2 901 (32.41%) DevOps
3 723 (26.01%) Agile
4 693 (24.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 630 (22.66%) AI
6 482 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 413 (14.86%) Observability
8 408 (14.68%) Microservices
9 399 (14.35%) Containerisation
10 369 (13.27%) Software Engineering
11 366 (13.17%) Migration
12 350 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
13 342 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 339 (12.19%) Data Engineering
15 338 (12.16%) Data Modelling
16 335 (12.05%) Event-Driven
17 334 (12.01%) Data Pipeline
18 329 (11.83%) Analytics
19 315 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
20 312 (11.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (37.01%) Python
2 617 (22.19%) SQL
3 465 (16.73%) Java
4 212 (7.63%) JavaScript
5 203 (7.30%) TypeScript
6 189 (6.80%) Bash
7 151 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 109 (3.92%) C#
9 56 (2.01%) Go
10 51 (1.83%) Scala
11 36 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 35 (1.26%) Bicep
12 35 (1.26%) Groovy
13 23 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.76%) C++
15 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.58%) R
17 16 (0.58%) Ruby
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 783 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 688 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 184 (6.62%) AWS Certification
4 146 (5.25%) Degree
5 96 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 90 (3.24%) CISSP
7 75 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 73 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 65 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 64 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 51 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.80%) CISM
13 32 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (0.83%) CCSP
15 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (0.68%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 18 (0.65%) PMP
18 16 (0.58%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (9.06%) Data Quality
2 164 (5.90%) QA
3 104 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (3.56%) NIST
5 74 (2.66%) GDPR
6 38 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.04%) GRC
8 29 (1.04%) NCSC
9 21 (0.76%) ISO 20022
9 21 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 19 (0.68%) SLA
12 16 (0.58%) EU AI Act
13 15 (0.54%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.47%) SEPA
15 12 (0.43%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.32%) PMO
17 7 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 518 (18.63%) Docker
2 81 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 6 (0.22%) IAG
9 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.14%) NFS
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.072%) Ceph
12 2 (0.072%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 654 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 215 (7.73%) Grafana
3 199 (7.16%) Ansible
4 160 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 51 (1.83%) Kibana
6 41 (1.47%) Argo
7 29 (1.04%) Puppet
8 26 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.50%) Istio
9 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.40%) Packer
11 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.25%) QRadar
13 6 (0.22%) Control-M
13 6 (0.22%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.22%) Nagios
14 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.18%) Nessus
14 5 (0.18%) Podman
Vendors
1 308 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 206 (7.41%) Databricks
3 159 (5.72%) Google
4 150 (5.40%) Oracle
5 110 (3.96%) Splunk
6 109 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 66 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 59 (2.12%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.76%) Cisco
9 49 (1.76%) SAP
9 49 (1.76%) VMware
10 47 (1.69%) CyberArk
11 44 (1.58%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.44%) Dynatrace
13 39 (1.40%) Informatica
14 37 (1.33%) IBM
15 30 (1.08%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.94%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.86%) Foundry
18 23 (0.83%) MuleSoft