AWS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 285 256 274
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.79% 12.59% 10.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.68% 29.94% 27.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 178 201
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £665
90th Percentile £788 £738 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 929 855 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.68% 42.04% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 561 705
10th Percentile £339 £363 £343
25th Percentile £445 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.30 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £104.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
% change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -23.94%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

AWS job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Central London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Central London

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
City of London 0 270 £538 -2.27% 277
West End of London +3 4 £650 +24.40% 18
City of Westminster +1 3 £650 +23.81% 15
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 2
AWS
London

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 19 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.46%) Confluence
4 5 (1.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) CICS
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.05%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 123 (43.16%) Azure
2 70 (24.56%) GCP
3 47 (16.49%) Serverless
4 46 (16.14%) GitHub
5 43 (15.09%) Amazon S3
5 43 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (9.12%) Snowflake
7 25 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (8.07%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (8.07%) Power Platform
9 20 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.56%) dbt
12 11 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (3.51%) SaaS
13 10 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.16%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (3.16%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.56%) Network Security
2 8 (2.81%) Firewall
3 6 (2.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.70%) DHCP
4 2 (0.70%) SSL
4 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.70%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) 2G
5 1 (0.35%) 4G
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) NAS
5 1 (0.35%) OSPF
5 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.32%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.32%) Power BI
3 16 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.91%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.91%) Tableau
6 12 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.21%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.86%) MySQL
8 10 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.51%) Metadata
8 10 (3.51%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.81%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.46%) Big Data
11 7 (2.46%) DB2
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.40%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (12.98%) Git
2 24 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.07%) GitLab
4 14 (4.91%) JIRA
5 7 (2.46%) JUnit
6 6 (2.11%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.75%) Mockito
8 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.40%) Postman
9 3 (1.05%) Gatling
10 2 (0.70%) Ant
10 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.70%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.70%) Mocha
10 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.70%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 96 (33.68%) Finance
2 65 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 45 (15.79%) Banking
4 25 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.91%) Front Office
7 13 (4.56%) Financial Institution
8 12 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.81%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.40%) Retail
13 3 (1.05%) Back Office
14 2 (0.70%) Advertising
14 2 (0.70%) Law
14 2 (0.70%) Legal
14 2 (0.70%) Military
14 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (21.05%) Architect
2 40 (14.04%) Developer
3 39 (13.68%) Senior
4 28 (9.82%) Data Engineer
5 27 (9.47%) Lead
6 23 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.21%) AWS Architect
9 12 (4.21%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.86%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.16%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.16%) Migration Manager
12 9 (3.16%) Migration Project Manager
12 9 (3.16%) Security Architect
12 9 (3.16%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.81%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.47%) Kafka
2 21 (7.37%) React
3 19 (6.67%) REST
4 16 (5.61%) Node.js
4 16 (5.61%) RESTful
5 13 (4.56%) Spring
6 12 (4.21%) .NET
6 12 (4.21%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.86%) Pandas
7 11 (3.86%) PyTorch
8 10 (3.51%) NumPy
8 10 (3.51%) scikit-learn
9 9 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.16%) TensorFlow
10 8 (2.81%) JSON
10 8 (2.81%) OAuth
10 8 (2.81%) PySpark
11 7 (2.46%) boto
11 7 (2.46%) HTML
11 7 (2.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.56%) Algorithms
4 13 (4.56%) Equities
5 12 (4.21%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.51%) Derivative
7 8 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.46%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.11%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.40%) Clustering
11 4 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.40%) LIMS
11 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.91%) Linux
2 13 (4.56%) Windows
3 3 (1.05%) Android
3 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.70%) Unix
4 2 (0.70%) zOS
5 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (37.19%) CI/CD
2 67 (23.51%) DevOps
3 65 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (21.05%) Agile
5 56 (19.65%) AI
6 44 (15.44%) Analytics
7 43 (15.09%) Migration
8 41 (14.39%) Machine Learning
9 39 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (12.98%) Microservices
12 36 (12.63%) Containerisation
13 34 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (11.58%) Roadmaps
15 32 (11.23%) Data Modelling
15 32 (11.23%) Test Automation
16 31 (10.88%) Data Engineering
16 31 (10.88%) Software Engineering
17 30 (10.53%) Observability
18 29 (10.18%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 113 (39.65%) Python
2 80 (28.07%) SQL
3 50 (17.54%) Java
4 18 (6.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.51%) C#
5 10 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.11%) Bash
6 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.75%) C++
8 4 (1.40%) Go
8 4 (1.40%) PHP
8 4 (1.40%) Ruby
8 4 (1.40%) Scala
8 4 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.05%) Korn
9 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.70%) JCL
10 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.35%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 65 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.32%) Degree
4 14 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.51%) PMP
6 9 (3.16%) CISSP
7 8 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.11%) CISM
9 6 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.11%) PhD
10 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.70%) CCSP
13 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.72%) GDPR
2 22 (7.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.32%) NIST
4 8 (2.81%) SLA
5 7 (2.46%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.46%) QA
6 3 (1.05%) NCSC
7 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.70%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.70%) PSD2
7 2 (0.70%) SEPA
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) DICOM
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 55 (19.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.70%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (23.16%) Terraform
2 50 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.67%) Ansible
4 10 (3.51%) Grafana
5 7 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.05%) Argo
7 3 (1.05%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) CASB
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.35%) QRadar
9 1 (0.35%) SCCM
9 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.96%) Databricks
2 17 (5.96%) Oracle
3 12 (4.21%) Google
4 11 (3.86%) IBM
5 10 (3.51%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.81%) Splunk
8 7 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.75%) Informatica
10 4 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.40%) SAP
10 4 (1.40%) VMware
11 3 (1.05%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.05%) Charles River
11 3 (1.05%) Cognos
11 3 (1.05%) Confluent
11 3 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.05%) Sage