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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 284 248 217
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.40% 12.77% 9.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.47% 32.21% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 173 134
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £699
90th Percentile £763 £788 £823
London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
London median hourly rate £68.50 £63.75 £30.65
% change year-on-year +7.45% +107.99% -63.94%

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 1,034 770 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.51% 39.65% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 531 637
10th Percentile £343 £331 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -1.17% -1.07%
75th Percentile £654 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
London median daily rate £545 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.11 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.60 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.80 £69.50
London median hourly rate £29.28 £31.00 £30.80
% change year-on-year -5.56% +0.67% -23.49%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -6 266 £553 -5.56% 283
West End of London -6 10 £553 -7.92% 25
City of Westminster -13 9 £525 -12.50% 54
Southwark -1 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 24 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.17%) Confluence
3 8 (2.82%) Apache
4 5 (1.76%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.70%) CICS
6 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (44.72%) Azure
2 70 (24.65%) GCP
3 45 (15.85%) GitHub
4 44 (15.49%) Serverless
5 38 (13.38%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (11.97%) Amazon S3
7 31 (10.92%) Snowflake
8 27 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.04%) dbt
10 18 (6.34%) Amazon Bedrock
10 18 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.63%) SaaS
12 15 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.93%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (4.58%) Power Platform
15 12 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.87%) OpenShift
17 9 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.63%) DNS
1 16 (5.63%) Firewall
2 9 (3.17%) DHCP
2 9 (3.17%) VPN
3 6 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.76%) BGP
5 4 (1.41%) Network Security
5 4 (1.41%) OSPF
5 4 (1.41%) VLAN
6 3 (1.06%) MPLS
6 3 (1.06%) Multicast
6 3 (1.06%) SMTP
7 2 (0.70%) Internet
7 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.70%) IPsec
7 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) WAN
7 2 (0.70%) Wireless
7 2 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (4.58%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.23%) Power BI
5 11 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (3.87%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.52%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.52%) Metadata
7 9 (3.17%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.82%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.82%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.46%) Big Data
10 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.76%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.76%) Tableau
12 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (11.97%) GitLab
2 32 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.10%) Git
4 21 (7.39%) JIRA
5 9 (3.17%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.17%) JUnit
6 8 (2.82%) Mockito
6 8 (2.82%) Postman
7 7 (2.46%) JMeter
8 6 (2.11%) Maven
9 4 (1.41%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.41%) Selenium
10 3 (1.06%) Gatling
10 3 (1.06%) Gradle
11 2 (0.70%) Appium
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 95 (33.45%) Finance
2 68 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.79%) Banking
4 37 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.92%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.46%) Back Office
7 7 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.11%) Retail
9 5 (1.76%) Front Office
9 5 (1.76%) Law
9 5 (1.76%) Military
10 4 (1.41%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.41%) Marketing
10 4 (1.41%) Police
10 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (22.54%) Architect
2 61 (21.48%) Senior
3 32 (11.27%) Data Engineer
4 30 (10.56%) Developer
5 25 (8.80%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (8.45%) Lead
7 16 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.23%) Analyst
10 12 (4.23%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.87%) AWS Data Engineer
11 11 (3.87%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.17%) Senior Architect
13 8 (2.82%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.82%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.82%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (2.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (20.77%) Terraform
2 34 (11.97%) Kafka
3 29 (10.21%) Spring
4 28 (9.86%) REST
4 28 (9.86%) Spring Boot
5 17 (5.99%) RESTful
6 14 (4.93%) .NET
6 14 (4.93%) PySpark
7 13 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
7 13 (4.58%) React
8 12 (4.23%) SOAP
9 10 (3.52%) Node.js
10 8 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (2.46%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.46%) JSON
12 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.11%) LangChain
12 6 (2.11%) OAuth
12 6 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (26.76%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.80%) AI Agents
4 17 (5.99%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.76%) Clustering
8 5 (1.76%) CMDB
8 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.41%) PKI
9 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.93%) Linux
2 13 (4.58%) Windows
3 9 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) zOS
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (45.42%) CI/CD
2 84 (29.58%) DevOps
3 72 (25.35%) AI
4 63 (22.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (21.13%) Agile
6 51 (17.96%) Containerisation
6 51 (17.96%) Microservices
7 49 (17.25%) Event-Driven
8 46 (16.20%) Data Engineering
8 46 (16.20%) Migration
9 45 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (15.49%) Analytics
11 40 (14.08%) Data Modelling
12 37 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (12.32%) Observability
14 35 (12.32%) Test Automation
15 33 (11.62%) Machine Learning
15 33 (11.62%) Software Engineering
16 31 (10.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 106 (37.32%) Python
2 61 (21.48%) SQL
3 54 (19.01%) Java
4 20 (7.04%) C#
5 17 (5.99%) PowerShell
6 16 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 16 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.23%) Bash
8 4 (1.41%) Bicep
8 4 (1.41%) Korn
8 4 (1.41%) Scala
8 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.06%) Ruby
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) Go
10 2 (0.70%) JCL
10 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.35%) R
11 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.87%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.17%) Degree
5 5 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.41%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.41%) PMP
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.06%) CCNP
7 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.70%) CISM
8 2 (0.70%) CISSP
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.70%) OSCP
8 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.56%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.99%) QA
3 10 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.17%) NIST
5 8 (2.82%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.46%) GDPR
7 5 (1.76%) NCSC
8 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.06%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.06%) SEPA
9 2 (0.70%) EMIR
9 2 (0.70%) MiFID
9 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.70%) PMO
9 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 49 (17.25%) Docker
2 9 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.06%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.06%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) NFS
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (22.89%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.51%) Ansible
3 17 (5.99%) Grafana
4 15 (5.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.76%) Puppet
6 4 (1.41%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.06%) Nagios
7 3 (1.06%) vMotion
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%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
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
8 1 (0.35%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 32 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.56%) Databricks
3 20 (7.04%) Google
4 17 (5.99%) Oracle
5 10 (3.52%) Citrix
5 10 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.52%) VMware
6 8 (2.82%) Cisco
6 8 (2.82%) SAP
7 7 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.11%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.11%) IBM
8 6 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.76%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.06%) HP
11 3 (1.06%) Splunk
11 3 (1.06%) Symantec
11 3 (1.06%) Workday