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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 294 271 266
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.35% 13.48% 10.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.37% 31.15% 27.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 185 200
10th Percentile £366 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £675
90th Percentile £775 £712 £776
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £55.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +26.13% -3.48% -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 968 870 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.66% 43.26% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 565 688
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £644 £669 £651
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 10
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -66.67%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £26.19
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £52.60
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -1 278 £525 -4.55% 212
West End of London -2 5 £650 +23.81%
City of Westminster -2 4 £650 +18.18% 1
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 (6.46%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.38%) Apache
2 7 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.04%) Confluence
4 4 (1.36%) CICS
5 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.34%) Notion
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.02%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 128 (43.54%) Azure
2 70 (23.81%) GCP
3 52 (17.69%) Serverless
4 47 (15.99%) Amazon S3
4 47 (15.99%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (15.99%) GitHub
5 25 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (8.50%) Snowflake
6 23 (7.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 20 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.42%) Amazon SageMaker
11 13 (4.42%) SaaS
12 12 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.74%) dbt
14 10 (3.40%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (3.40%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.42%) Network Security
2 11 (3.74%) Firewall
3 6 (2.04%) DNS
4 3 (1.02%) VPN
5 2 (0.68%) NAS
5 2 (0.68%) SAN
5 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) IPsec
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.34%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) VLAN
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.16%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.44%) Power BI
5 14 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (4.76%) Tableau
6 12 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.08%) Metadata
6 12 (4.08%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.74%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (3.06%) Data Lake
9 9 (3.06%) DB2
10 6 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.04%) MySQL
11 5 (1.70%) Big Data
11 5 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.36%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 37 (12.59%) Git
2 25 (8.50%) GitLab
3 22 (7.48%) Jenkins
4 18 (6.12%) JIRA
5 7 (2.38%) JUnit
6 6 (2.04%) Mockito
7 4 (1.36%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.02%) Gradle
8 3 (1.02%) Maven
8 3 (1.02%) Postman
9 2 (0.68%) Ant
9 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.68%) Gatling
9 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.68%) Mocha
9 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 95 (32.31%) Finance
2 66 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.61%) Banking
4 31 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.74%) Front Office
7 11 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.38%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.36%) Law
13 3 (1.02%) Back Office
13 3 (1.02%) Military
13 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.68%) Advertising
14 2 (0.68%) Marketing
14 2 (0.68%) Retail
14 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (20.75%) Architect
2 43 (14.63%) Developer
3 35 (11.90%) Senior
4 30 (10.20%) Data Engineer
5 25 (8.50%) Lead
6 21 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.46%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.76%) Project Manager
10 12 (4.08%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.74%) AWS Architect
11 11 (3.74%) Migration Manager
11 11 (3.74%) Migration Project Manager
11 11 (3.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 11 (3.74%) Snowflake Engineer
12 10 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.40%) Data Scientist
13 9 (3.06%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.54%) Kafka
2 23 (7.82%) React
2 23 (7.82%) Spring
3 22 (7.48%) Spring Boot
4 20 (6.80%) REST
4 20 (6.80%) RESTful
5 17 (5.78%) Node.js
6 11 (3.74%) JSON
7 10 (3.40%) Pandas
7 10 (3.40%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.06%) .NET
8 9 (3.06%) NumPy
8 9 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (2.72%) OAuth
9 8 (2.72%) PySpark
9 8 (2.72%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.72%) SOAP
10 7 (2.38%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.38%) boto
10 7 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.08%) Equities
5 10 (3.40%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.06%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.72%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.72%) Derivative
8 7 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.04%) Clustering
9 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.70%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.70%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.70%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.36%) LIMS
11 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.36%) NHS
11 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.44%) Linux
2 13 (4.42%) Windows
3 4 (1.36%) Android
3 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.36%) zOS
4 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (0.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) AIX
6 1 (0.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.14%) CI/CD
2 77 (26.19%) DevOps
3 70 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (21.77%) Agile
5 63 (21.43%) AI
6 49 (16.67%) Migration
7 48 (16.33%) Analytics
8 46 (15.65%) Microservices
9 42 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 42 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 40 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
11 36 (12.24%) Observability
12 35 (11.90%) Event-Driven
13 33 (11.22%) Data Engineering
13 33 (11.22%) Data Modelling
14 31 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (10.54%) Software Engineering
15 30 (10.20%) Test Automation
16 28 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 113 (38.44%) Python
2 73 (24.83%) SQL
3 55 (18.71%) Java
4 16 (5.44%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.08%) C#
5 12 (4.08%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.06%) Bash
7 7 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.70%) Ruby
8 5 (1.70%) Scala
9 4 (1.36%) Bicep
9 4 (1.36%) C++
9 4 (1.36%) JCL
10 3 (1.02%) Go
10 3 (1.02%) Korn
10 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.68%) PHP
11 2 (0.68%) R
12 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 72 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.10%) Degree
4 12 (4.08%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.08%) PMP
5 11 (3.74%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.72%) CISSP
7 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.04%) CISM
8 6 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.04%) PhD
9 5 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.02%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.68%) CCSP
12 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.84%) Data Quality
1 26 (8.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.82%) GDPR
2 23 (7.82%) NIST
3 8 (2.72%) QA
3 8 (2.72%) SLA
4 7 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.04%) NCSC
6 3 (1.02%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.68%) GRC
7 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.68%) PSD2
7 2 (0.68%) SEPA
8 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) DICOM
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) HL7
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 55 (18.71%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.68%) NFS
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (22.11%) Terraform
2 54 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.46%) Ansible
4 14 (4.76%) Grafana
5 12 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.02%) Argo
7 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.68%) Puppet
8 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.34%) Consul
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.34%) Salt
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (8.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.78%) Databricks
3 14 (4.76%) Google
4 13 (4.42%) Oracle
5 12 (4.08%) CyberArk
6 10 (3.40%) IBM
7 7 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.38%) Splunk
8 5 (1.70%) Citrix
8 5 (1.70%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.70%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.70%) VMware
9 4 (1.36%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.36%) Informatica
9 4 (1.36%) SAP
10 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.02%) Charles River
10 3 (1.02%) Cognos
10 3 (1.02%) Sage