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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 293 281 230
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.25% 13.58% 10.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.28% 33.06% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 193 149
10th Percentile £426 £408 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -6.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £804
London median daily rate £573 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.43% -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 £54.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.03% +44.67% -54.55%

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 1,036 850 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.78% 41.08% 41.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 549 669
10th Percentile £350 £358 £375
25th Percentile £460 £449 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £664 £656
90th Percentile £750 £763 £751
London median daily rate £537 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +0.37% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -45.85%

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 3 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 3 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 -2 274 £550 -4.35% 180
West End of London -6 10 £650 +12.07% 10
City of Westminster -10 9 £650 +6.12% 30
Southwark -1 2 £600 -
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 1
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 16 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.73%) Confluence
3 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.71%) Apache
5 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.37%) CICS
6 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.68%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (40.27%) Azure
2 67 (22.87%) GCP
3 48 (16.38%) GitHub
4 45 (15.36%) Serverless
5 40 (13.65%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (13.31%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (8.87%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.17%) Power Platform
10 18 (6.14%) Amazon Bedrock
11 17 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.46%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (5.46%) SaaS
13 15 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (4.10%) dbt
16 11 (3.75%) OpenShift
16 11 (3.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.12%) Firewall
2 14 (4.78%) DNS
3 10 (3.41%) Network Security
4 7 (2.39%) DHCP
4 7 (2.39%) VPN
5 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.02%) SMTP
7 2 (0.68%) BGP
7 2 (0.68%) NGFW
7 2 (0.68%) OSPF
7 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
7 2 (0.68%) VLAN
7 2 (0.68%) X.509
8 1 (0.34%) Multicast
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.34%) VSAN
8 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.48%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (6.14%) DynamoDB
3 17 (5.80%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.80%) Power BI
4 15 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.41%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.07%) Tableau
10 8 (2.73%) Big Data
10 8 (2.73%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.73%) Db2
10 8 (2.73%) Metadata
11 7 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.71%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.71%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.37%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 33 (11.26%) GitLab
2 30 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.22%) Git
4 22 (7.51%) JIRA
5 11 (3.75%) JUnit
6 9 (3.07%) Mockito
6 9 (3.07%) Postman
7 6 (2.05%) JMeter
8 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.37%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.37%) Maven
9 3 (1.02%) Gradle
10 2 (0.68%) Ant
10 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.68%) Mocha
10 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
10 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 88 (30.03%) Finance
2 68 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.95%) Banking
4 32 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.41%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.39%) Front Office
9 7 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.05%) Retail
11 5 (1.71%) Back Office
11 5 (1.71%) Law
12 4 (1.37%) Military
12 4 (1.37%) Police
12 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Advertising
14 2 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (21.84%) Architect
2 53 (18.09%) Senior
3 35 (11.95%) Developer
4 26 (8.87%) Data Engineer
5 20 (6.83%) Lead
6 19 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.12%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.44%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.75%) Analyst
10 11 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.07%) Consultant
12 9 (3.07%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) Snowflake Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.73%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.97%) Kafka
2 32 (10.92%) Spring
3 31 (10.58%) Spring Boot
4 25 (8.53%) REST
5 23 (7.85%) RESTful
6 21 (7.17%) React
7 12 (4.10%) .NET
7 12 (4.10%) Node.js
7 12 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (4.10%) SOAP
8 11 (3.75%) PySpark
9 10 (3.41%) JSON
9 10 (3.41%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (2.73%) TensorFlow
11 7 (2.39%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.05%) Middleware
12 6 (2.05%) OAuth
12 6 (2.05%) Web Services
13 5 (1.71%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 70 (23.89%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.48%) AI Agents
4 12 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.07%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.73%) Clustering
7 8 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.39%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.05%) Equities
10 5 (1.71%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.37%) CMDB
11 4 (1.37%) DataPower
11 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.37%) LIMS
11 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.37%) PKI
11 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.46%) Linux
2 15 (5.12%) Windows
3 8 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.37%) Android
4 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.37%) zOS
5 3 (1.02%) Unix
6 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.34%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (39.93%) CI/CD
2 76 (25.94%) DevOps
3 71 (24.23%) AI
4 64 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (19.80%) Agile
6 51 (17.41%) Containerisation
7 50 (17.06%) Microservices
8 45 (15.36%) Event-Driven
9 43 (14.68%) Analytics
10 39 (13.31%) Data Engineering
10 39 (13.31%) Machine Learning
10 39 (13.31%) Migration
11 37 (12.63%) Data Modelling
11 37 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (12.63%) Test Automation
12 36 (12.29%) Observability
13 33 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (10.58%) Software Engineering
16 26 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 107 (36.52%) Python
2 61 (20.82%) SQL
3 58 (19.80%) Java
4 19 (6.48%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.80%) C#
6 15 (5.12%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.12%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.10%) Bash
8 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.71%) Ruby
10 4 (1.37%) Bicep
10 4 (1.37%) Go
10 4 (1.37%) JCL
10 4 (1.37%) Korn
11 3 (1.02%) Scala
12 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.34%) R
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.82%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.75%) Degree
4 9 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.39%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.39%) CISSP
6 6 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.05%) CISM
6 6 (2.05%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.05%) PMP
7 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.37%) CCNP
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.02%) PhD
8 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.68%) OSCP
9 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (5.46%) NIST
3 14 (4.78%) QA
4 13 (4.44%) GDPR
5 8 (2.73%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.37%) NCSC
8 3 (1.02%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.68%) EMIR
9 2 (0.68%) MiFID
9 2 (0.68%) SLA
9 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.34%) GRC
10 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.34%) PMO
10 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (17.41%) Docker
2 9 (3.07%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.02%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.02%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.68%) NFS
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (21.16%) Kubernetes
2 55 (18.77%) Terraform
3 26 (8.87%) Ansible
4 16 (5.46%) Grafana
5 14 (4.78%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.71%) Puppet
7 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.02%) Nagios
8 3 (1.02%) vMotion
9 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Bosun
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.34%) Packer
10 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.34%) QRadar
10 1 (0.34%) Salt
10 1 (0.34%) SELinux
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.46%) Google
3 14 (4.78%) Databricks
4 11 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.41%) Citrix
5 10 (3.41%) Oracle
6 9 (3.07%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.07%) VMware
7 7 (2.39%) Splunk
8 5 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.71%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.37%) Cisco
9 4 (1.37%) IBM
9 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.37%) SAP
10 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.02%) HP
10 3 (1.02%) Informatica
10 3 (1.02%) Symantec