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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,727 2,061 2,425
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.48% 16.83% 13.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.37% 39.12% 35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 1,441 1,878
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £465 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £579
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -0.65% -5.51%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £546 £540 £563
% change year-on-year +1.11% -4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile £37.70 £36.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 £23.05
Median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +124.79% -68.27%
75th Percentile £79.38 £67.50 £62.25
90th Percentile £87.38 £84.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.30%

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 7,935 5,269 6,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.14% 43.02% 39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,458 3,566 5,088
10th Percentile £356 £351 £350
25th Percentile £426 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.60 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -50.48%
75th Percentile £56.00 £48.13 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £72.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +61.02% +18.83% -38.69%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -3 285 £550 - 142
West London +5 86 £560 +13.71% 97
South London 0 81 £500 +0.50% 4
East London +4 16 £543 -7.26% 23
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
1 129 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 77 (2.82%) Confluence
4 57 (2.09%) Apache
5 26 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.70%) nginx
7 13 (0.48%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
9 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.37%) SAS
10 8 (0.29%) CMS
11 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 39 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.26%) Revit
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.15%) Endur
4 4 (0.15%) Magento
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.15%) Quorum
4 4 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.15%) Ripple
4 4 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.073%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.073%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.037%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,108 (40.63%) Azure
2 570 (20.90%) GCP
3 410 (15.03%) Amazon S3
3 410 (15.03%) Serverless
4 358 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
5 346 (12.69%) GitHub
6 217 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
7 203 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 189 (6.93%) Snowflake
9 186 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
10 170 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
11 168 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 147 (5.39%) Power Platform
13 133 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
14 127 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 115 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
16 100 (3.67%) SaaS
17 88 (3.23%) dbt
18 83 (3.04%) Amazon Bedrock
19 75 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (3.89%) Firewall
2 80 (2.93%) Network Security
3 67 (2.46%) VPN
4 66 (2.42%) DNS
5 47 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.39%) WAN
7 23 (0.84%) BGP
8 22 (0.81%) HTTP
9 21 (0.77%) SSL
10 19 (0.70%) DHCP
10 19 (0.70%) LAN
11 18 (0.66%) OSPF
12 15 (0.55%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.51%) NGFW
14 12 (0.44%) Internet
14 12 (0.44%) VLAN
15 10 (0.37%) OpenVPN
15 10 (0.37%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 128 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
4 127 (4.66%) Data Lake
4 127 (4.66%) Power BI
5 118 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
6 113 (4.14%) NoSQL
7 108 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 106 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 86 (3.15%) DynamoDB
10 76 (2.79%) MongoDB
11 74 (2.71%) Metadata
11 74 (2.71%) Tableau
12 72 (2.64%) Relational Database
13 63 (2.31%) Big Data
14 46 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
15 41 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 40 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
17 38 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
17 38 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 239 (8.76%) Git
2 236 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 226 (8.29%) GitLab
4 138 (5.06%) JIRA
5 40 (1.47%) JUnit
6 33 (1.21%) MLflow
7 32 (1.17%) Mockito
8 28 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.99%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.99%) JMeter
10 23 (0.84%) Maven
11 22 (0.81%) Cypress.io
11 22 (0.81%) Gradle
12 20 (0.73%) Postman
12 20 (0.73%) Selenium
13 19 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 19 (0.70%) Gatling
14 16 (0.59%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.59%) Snyk
15 14 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 641 (23.51%) Finance
2 591 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 386 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 228 (8.36%) Banking
5 225 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (3.01%) Front Office
7 65 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 57 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 51 (1.87%) Retail
10 43 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 36 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 25 (0.92%) Marketing
16 22 (0.81%) Legal
17 20 (0.73%) Law
18 17 (0.62%) Military
19 14 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 543 (19.91%) Architect
2 421 (15.44%) Developer
3 414 (15.18%) Senior
4 300 (11.00%) Data Engineer
4 300 (11.00%) Lead
5 279 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
6 203 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 147 (5.39%) Software Engineer
8 144 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
9 123 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 114 (4.18%) Senior Developer
11 108 (3.96%) AWS Architect
12 104 (3.81%) Java Developer
13 102 (3.74%) Analyst
14 96 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
15 92 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
16 90 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
17 88 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 82 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 74 (2.71%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (11.33%) Kafka
2 246 (9.02%) React
3 235 (8.62%) REST
4 182 (6.67%) Node.js
5 173 (6.34%) Spring
6 165 (6.05%) Spring Boot
7 142 (5.21%) RESTful
8 100 (3.67%) .NET
9 87 (3.19%) PySpark
10 82 (3.01%) AngularJS
11 79 (2.90%) GraphQL
11 79 (2.90%) OAuth
12 69 (2.53%) SOAP
13 64 (2.35%) Redux
14 62 (2.27%) LDAP
15 58 (2.13%) HTML
16 54 (1.98%) Pandas
17 53 (1.94%) JSON
18 51 (1.87%) CSS
18 51 (1.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 479 (17.57%) Cloud Native
2 161 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (3.34%) Onboarding
4 82 (3.01%) AI Agents
5 81 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (2.97%) Security Posture
6 76 (2.79%) Fixed Income
7 73 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (2.31%) Data Centre
10 56 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (1.98%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.65%) Derivative
13 43 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.43%) Equities
15 34 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 29 (1.06%) Mainframe
16 29 (1.06%) Public Cloud
17 28 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 195 (7.15%) Linux
2 91 (3.34%) Windows
3 37 (1.36%) Unix
4 30 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.44%) Android
7 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Solaris
9 7 (0.26%) zOS
10 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.15%) VMS
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.073%) CentOS
14 2 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,058 (38.80%) CI/CD
2 801 (29.37%) DevOps
3 643 (23.58%) Agile
4 570 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 546 (20.02%) AI
6 411 (15.07%) Microservices
7 393 (14.41%) Containerisation
8 377 (13.82%) Analytics
9 349 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
10 329 (12.06%) Migration
10 329 (12.06%) Software Engineering
11 311 (11.40%) Data Modelling
12 310 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
13 300 (11.00%) Data Engineering
14 289 (10.60%) Observability
15 273 (10.01%) Machine Learning
16 271 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
17 246 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
18 240 (8.80%) ETL
19 239 (8.76%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (38.39%) Python
2 593 (21.75%) SQL
3 485 (17.79%) Java
4 247 (9.06%) TypeScript
5 221 (8.10%) JavaScript
6 126 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 119 (4.36%) C#
8 113 (4.14%) Bash
9 88 (3.23%) Go
10 45 (1.65%) Scala
11 35 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.25%) Ruby
13 24 (0.88%) Bicep
14 23 (0.84%) R
15 21 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.55%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.48%) C++
18 13 (0.48%) Groovy
19 11 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 748 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 669 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.32%) Degree
4 129 (4.73%) AWS Certification
5 81 (2.97%) CISSP
6 68 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 55 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 54 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 37 (1.36%) CISM
12 31 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 29 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.92%) PMP
16 24 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.81%) CCNP
17 22 (0.81%) CCSP
18 16 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
19 15 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 111 (4.07%) QA
3 102 (3.74%) GDPR
4 97 (3.56%) NIST
5 79 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.03%) GRC
9 26 (0.95%) SLA
10 21 (0.77%) NCSC
11 19 (0.70%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.62%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.62%) PMO
14 12 (0.44%) WCAG
15 11 (0.40%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.33%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.29%) SEPA
18 7 (0.26%) EU AI Act
18 7 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 483 (17.71%) Docker
2 98 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.62%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.15%) HDFS
9 4 (0.15%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) IAG
10 3 (0.11%) NFS
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.073%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.073%) Firmware
11 2 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.073%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.073%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 643 (23.58%) Terraform
2 544 (19.95%) Kubernetes
3 161 (5.90%) Grafana
4 157 (5.76%) Ansible
5 140 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.81%) Puppet
8 21 (0.77%) Kibana
9 20 (0.73%) Argo
10 14 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.44%) Consul
13 10 (0.37%) Packer
14 9 (0.33%) QRadar
15 7 (0.26%) Istio
16 6 (0.22%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 5 (0.18%) PingFederate
18 4 (0.15%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 211 (7.74%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.51%) Databricks
3 106 (3.89%) Google
4 94 (3.45%) Oracle
5 90 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 78 (2.86%) Splunk
7 73 (2.68%) CyberArk
8 58 (2.13%) OpenAI
9 57 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 50 (1.83%) Cisco
11 38 (1.39%) VMware
12 36 (1.32%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.21%) BeyondTrust
13 33 (1.21%) Centrify
13 33 (1.21%) Red Hat
14 32 (1.17%) SAP
15 31 (1.14%) Dynatrace
15 31 (1.14%) Foundry
16 26 (0.95%) IBM
17 23 (0.84%) Fortinet