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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 283 260 217
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.21% 13.05% 9.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.85% 32.42% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 179 137
10th Percentile £425 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £695
90th Percentile £759 £788 £821
London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £30.65
% change year-on-year +19.15% +91.68% -63.51%

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 1,016 802 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.25% 40.26% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 532 650
10th Percentile £363 £333 £375
25th Percentile £460 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £760 £751
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.46 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £79.48 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% +2.90% -43.50%

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 26 August 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 26 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
City of London -4 268 £550 -4.35% 90
City of Westminster -12 9 £525 -12.50% 4
West End of London -8 8 £525 -9.48% 3
Southwark -3 2 £600 -
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 21 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.47%) Confluence
3 6 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.41%) Apache
5 3 (1.06%) CICS
5 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.71%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 120 (42.40%) Azure
2 66 (23.32%) GCP
3 43 (15.19%) Serverless
4 41 (14.49%) GitHub
5 37 (13.07%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (12.37%) Amazon S3
7 29 (10.25%) Snowflake
8 24 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.36%) dbt
10 17 (6.01%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.01%) SaaS
11 16 (5.65%) Amazon Bedrock
12 15 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.24%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.89%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.95%) DNS
2 13 (4.59%) Firewall
3 7 (2.47%) DHCP
4 6 (2.12%) VPN
5 5 (1.77%) Network Security
6 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.06%) SMTP
8 2 (0.71%) BGP
8 2 (0.71%) Internet
8 2 (0.71%) Multicast
8 2 (0.71%) NGFW
8 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.71%) SSH
8 2 (0.71%) VLAN
8 2 (0.71%) X.509
9 1 (0.35%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.35%) VSAN
9 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (5.30%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.30%) Power BI
3 14 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.59%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.18%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.83%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.47%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.47%) Metadata
9 7 (2.47%) Tableau
10 6 (2.12%) Big Data
10 6 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.77%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.77%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 33 (11.66%) GitLab
2 29 (10.25%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.48%) Git
4 20 (7.07%) JIRA
5 9 (3.18%) JUnit
5 9 (3.18%) Postman
6 8 (2.83%) Mockito
7 6 (2.12%) JMeter
8 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.41%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.41%) Maven
9 4 (1.41%) Selenium
10 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.06%) Gradle
11 2 (0.71%) Appium
11 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.71%) Gatling
11 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 90 (31.80%) Finance
2 64 (22.61%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.07%) Banking
4 33 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.83%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.12%) Retail
10 5 (1.77%) Law
10 5 (1.77%) Military
11 4 (1.41%) Back Office
11 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.41%) Front Office
11 4 (1.41%) Police
12 3 (1.06%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.06%) Marketing
12 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (21.91%) Architect
2 52 (18.37%) Senior
3 34 (12.01%) Developer
4 28 (9.89%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (7.77%) Lead
6 14 (4.95%) Senior Developer
6 14 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (4.24%) Analyst
7 12 (4.24%) Java Developer
8 11 (3.89%) Technical Architect
9 10 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (3.18%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.18%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (3.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.18%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (2.83%) Consultant
11 8 (2.83%) Data Analyst
11 8 (2.83%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.73%) Terraform
2 33 (11.66%) Kafka
3 29 (10.25%) Spring
4 28 (9.89%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.13%) REST
6 20 (7.07%) RESTful
7 19 (6.71%) React
8 13 (4.59%) .NET
8 13 (4.59%) PySpark
9 12 (4.24%) Node.js
9 12 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (3.53%) SOAP
11 9 (3.18%) JSON
12 7 (2.47%) OAuth
13 6 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (1.77%) .NET Core
14 5 (1.77%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.77%) Django
14 5 (1.77%) LangChain
14 5 (1.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 72 (25.44%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.77%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.47%) Clustering
7 7 (2.47%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.12%) CMDB
8 6 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.41%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.41%) PKI
9 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) DataPower
10 3 (1.06%) Equities
10 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.06%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.95%) Windows
2 13 (4.59%) Linux
3 9 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.41%) Unix
5 3 (1.06%) zOS
6 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.35%) AIX
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.35%) Solaris
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (42.76%) CI/CD
2 83 (29.33%) DevOps
3 67 (23.67%) AI
4 64 (22.61%) Agile
5 60 (21.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (17.67%) Microservices
7 48 (16.96%) Containerisation
7 48 (16.96%) Migration
8 44 (15.55%) Event-Driven
9 42 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (13.78%) Analytics
10 39 (13.78%) Data Modelling
11 38 (13.43%) Data Engineering
11 38 (13.43%) Test Automation
12 34 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (11.66%) Machine Learning
13 33 (11.66%) Observability
13 33 (11.66%) Software Engineering
14 32 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (9.19%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 108 (38.16%) Python
2 58 (20.49%) SQL
3 55 (19.43%) Java
4 20 (7.07%) C#
4 20 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.71%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.65%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.24%) Bash
8 5 (1.77%) Ruby
8 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.41%) Bicep
9 4 (1.41%) Korn
10 3 (1.06%) JCL
10 3 (1.06%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.71%) Go
11 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.35%) R
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.53%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.83%) Degree
5 6 (2.12%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.12%) PMP
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.06%) CCNP
7 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.06%) CISM
7 3 (1.06%) CISSP
7 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.06%) SnowPro
7 3 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.71%) OSCP
9 1 (0.35%) GPEN
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.42%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.01%) QA
3 15 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.24%) GDPR
4 12 (4.24%) NIST
5 8 (2.83%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.41%) NCSC
8 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.06%) SLA
9 2 (0.71%) EMIR
9 2 (0.71%) MiFID
9 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.71%) PMO
9 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (16.61%) Docker
2 10 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.18%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.06%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.06%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.71%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) Firmware
7 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (20.85%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.48%) Ansible
3 14 (4.95%) Grafana
3 14 (4.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.77%) Puppet
5 4 (1.41%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.06%) Nagios
6 3 (1.06%) vMotion
7 2 (0.71%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.35%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Bosun
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.35%) Salt
8 1 (0.35%) SELinux
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.42%) Databricks
3 18 (6.36%) Google
4 15 (5.30%) Oracle
5 11 (3.89%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.89%) VMware
6 10 (3.53%) Citrix
7 9 (3.18%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.83%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.12%) SAP
10 5 (1.77%) Cisco
10 5 (1.77%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.41%) Splunk
12 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.06%) HP
12 3 (1.06%) IBM
12 3 (1.06%) Informatica
12 3 (1.06%) Symantec