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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 2,792 2,212 2,289
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.92% 16.41% 14.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.61% 37.95% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,967 1,550 1,733
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £699 £763
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 6
10th Percentile £44.00 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £54.06 £39.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +91.68% -63.51%
75th Percentile £79.38 £79.06 £52.81
90th Percentile £81.25 £86.75 £68.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -37.59%

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 8,308 5,829 6,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.42% 43.24% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,674 3,984 4,756
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -3.52% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £653 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 46
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.95 £21.00
25th Percentile £23.42 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +2.78% -48.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.81 £40.25
90th Percentile £78.57 £67.95 £61.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.99
% change year-on-year +34.62% -3.65% -18.23%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -5 283 £550 -4.35% 122
West London +4 96 £550 +29.41% 132
South London +1 75 £535 +1.90% 10
East London +8 14 £525 -10.26% 26
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
1 152 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 95 (3.40%) Confluence
4 78 (2.79%) Apache
5 33 (1.18%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.43%) CMS
7 11 (0.39%) CICS
7 11 (0.39%) nginx
8 10 (0.36%) Camunda
8 10 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.29%) Magento
2 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.18%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.14%) Quorum
5 4 (0.14%) Ripple
6 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.072%) Endur
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,245 (44.59%) Azure
2 627 (22.46%) GCP
3 388 (13.90%) Serverless
4 369 (13.22%) Amazon S3
5 350 (12.54%) GitHub
6 329 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
7 230 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
8 223 (7.99%) Snowflake
9 195 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
10 168 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 155 (5.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 152 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
13 144 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
14 133 (4.76%) Power Platform
15 129 (4.62%) SaaS
16 127 (4.55%) dbt
17 126 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
18 117 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 97 (3.47%) Entra ID
20 93 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 106 (3.80%) Firewall
2 83 (2.97%) Network Security
3 71 (2.54%) DNS
4 61 (2.18%) VPN
5 42 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 38 (1.36%) WAN
7 26 (0.93%) DHCP
8 23 (0.82%) SSL
9 22 (0.79%) HTTP
10 20 (0.72%) Internet
11 19 (0.68%) BGP
12 18 (0.64%) SSH
13 15 (0.54%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.47%) HTTPS
14 13 (0.47%) LAN
14 13 (0.47%) OSPF
15 12 (0.43%) SAN
15 12 (0.43%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.39%) NGFW
17 10 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (5.87%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
4 122 (4.37%) Power BI
5 121 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.12%) Data Lake
7 106 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.58%) Metadata
9 98 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 97 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
11 88 (3.15%) MongoDB
12 84 (3.01%) DynamoDB
13 75 (2.69%) Relational Database
14 66 (2.36%) Delta Lake
15 59 (2.11%) Big Data
15 59 (2.11%) Tableau
16 52 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
17 41 (1.47%) BigQuery
17 41 (1.47%) Redis
18 40 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 286 (10.24%) Jenkins
2 283 (10.14%) Git
3 264 (9.46%) GitLab
4 150 (5.37%) JIRA
5 34 (1.22%) Cypress.io
5 34 (1.22%) JMeter
6 33 (1.18%) Selenium
7 31 (1.11%) JUnit
8 29 (1.04%) Maven
9 28 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 26 (0.93%) Mockito
11 24 (0.86%) Postman
12 23 (0.82%) Bitbucket
13 21 (0.75%) Gradle
14 20 (0.72%) REST Assured
15 19 (0.68%) Gatling
16 18 (0.64%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.64%) MLflow
17 17 (0.61%) Claude Code
18 13 (0.47%) CircleCI
General
1 671 (24.03%) Finance
2 649 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 401 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 256 (9.17%) Banking
5 254 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (2.69%) Retail
7 63 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.65%) Front Office
9 46 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 45 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 37 (1.33%) Marketing
12 35 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.00%) Law
14 28 (1.00%) Legal
15 25 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (0.75%) Billing
16 21 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 594 (21.28%) Architect
2 441 (15.80%) Senior
3 353 (12.64%) Developer
4 306 (10.96%) Lead
5 299 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 255 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
7 196 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 155 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
9 115 (4.12%) AWS Architect
10 108 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 106 (3.80%) Analyst
12 105 (3.76%) Java Developer
12 105 (3.76%) Software Engineer
13 97 (3.47%) Data Architect
14 92 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 89 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
16 88 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
17 86 (3.08%) Senior Developer
18 80 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
19 75 (2.69%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 679 (24.32%) Terraform
2 316 (11.32%) Kafka
3 258 (9.24%) REST
4 216 (7.74%) React
5 177 (6.34%) Spring
6 163 (5.84%) Spring Boot
7 159 (5.69%) RESTful
8 136 (4.87%) Node.js
9 109 (3.90%) PySpark
10 89 (3.19%) .NET
11 78 (2.79%) OAuth
12 68 (2.44%) GraphQL
13 63 (2.26%) JSON
14 62 (2.22%) AngularJS
15 58 (2.08%) HTML
16 57 (2.04%) FastAPI
17 49 (1.76%) CSS
18 44 (1.58%) LangChain
18 44 (1.58%) OAuth2
19 43 (1.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 519 (18.59%) Cloud Native
2 186 (6.66%) Distributed Systems
3 133 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 122 (4.37%) AI Agents
5 111 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 86 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.36%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 47 (1.68%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 36 (1.29%) Fixed Income
14 35 (1.25%) Replication
15 34 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
15 34 (1.22%) PKI
15 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.18%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 229 (8.20%) Linux
2 123 (4.41%) Windows
3 52 (1.86%) Unix
4 43 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.43%) Android
8 8 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.25%) zOS
10 5 (0.18%) Solaris
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.14%) VMS
12 3 (0.11%) AIX
12 3 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.072%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,151 (41.22%) CI/CD
2 865 (30.98%) DevOps
3 696 (24.93%) Agile
4 627 (22.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 613 (21.96%) AI
6 427 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 414 (14.83%) Microservices
8 394 (14.11%) Containerisation
9 370 (13.25%) Migration
10 359 (12.86%) Observability
11 354 (12.68%) Analytics
11 354 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
12 349 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 342 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
14 341 (12.21%) Data Modelling
15 327 (11.71%) Data Engineering
16 309 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 304 (10.89%) Event-Driven
18 302 (10.82%) Machine Learning
19 278 (9.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (36.93%) Python
2 604 (21.63%) SQL
3 484 (17.34%) Java
4 224 (8.02%) TypeScript
5 207 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 156 (5.59%) Bash
7 143 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 112 (4.01%) C#
9 53 (1.90%) Go
10 43 (1.54%) Scala
11 35 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.18%) Bicep
13 28 (1.00%) Ruby
14 25 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.86%) Groovy
16 20 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.72%) R
17 19 (0.68%) C++
18 14 (0.50%) T-SQL
19 11 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 751 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 668 (23.93%) SC Cleared
3 147 (5.27%) Degree
4 145 (5.19%) AWS Certification
5 83 (2.97%) CISSP
6 74 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 69 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 66 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 50 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 44 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
12 42 (1.50%) CISM
13 24 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 22 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 21 (0.75%) PMP
17 19 (0.68%) CCNP
18 15 (0.54%) CCSP
18 15 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 148 (5.30%) QA
3 101 (3.62%) NIST
4 91 (3.26%) GDPR
5 90 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.11%) GRC
7 31 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.00%) SLA
9 22 (0.79%) NCSC
9 22 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 14 (0.50%) PMO
14 13 (0.47%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.39%) SEPA
16 9 (0.32%) WCAG
17 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 487 (17.44%) Docker
2 84 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.32%) IAG
7 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.25%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.11%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.11%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 600 (21.49%) Kubernetes
2 197 (7.06%) Grafana
3 181 (6.48%) Ansible
4 158 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.11%) Argo
6 31 (1.11%) Kibana
7 24 (0.86%) Puppet
8 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.39%) Istio
11 10 (0.36%) Packer
12 9 (0.32%) QRadar
13 8 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.21%) Control-M
16 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
16 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 266 (9.53%) Microsoft
2 169 (6.05%) Databricks
3 129 (4.62%) Google
4 128 (4.58%) Oracle
5 127 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 92 (3.30%) Splunk
7 68 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.01%) VMware
9 49 (1.76%) Cisco
9 49 (1.76%) CyberArk
9 49 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 46 (1.65%) SAP
11 37 (1.33%) Informatica
12 36 (1.29%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.18%) IBM
14 31 (1.11%) Dynatrace
14 31 (1.11%) Foundry
15 26 (0.93%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.90%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.86%) Fortinet