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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 266 233 281
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.65% 11.27% 10.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.33% 27.22% 27.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 162 210
10th Percentile £356 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -0.91% -15.06%
75th Percentile £662 £661 £663
90th Percentile £800 £736 £746
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -5.74%

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 877 856 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.72% 41.39% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 556 728
10th Percentile £338 £369 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £28.13 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -36.67%
75th Percentile £44.72 - £23.75
90th Percentile £52.16 £41.88 £49.95
London median hourly rate £33.25 £31.50 £30.11
% change year-on-year +5.56% +4.62% -11.44%

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 February 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 February 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 +4 252 £525 -4.55% 114
West End of London +3 2 £650 +25.00% 8
City of Westminster -2 1 £650 +23.81% 5
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 16 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.26%) Confluence
4 4 (1.50%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Notion
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (43.23%) Azure
2 67 (25.19%) GCP
3 44 (16.54%) Serverless
4 42 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (13.53%) Amazon S3
6 34 (12.78%) GitHub
7 25 (9.40%) Snowflake
8 19 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.77%) Power Platform
10 11 (4.14%) dbt
11 10 (3.76%) Amazon SageMaker
11 10 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.38%) SaaS
12 9 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.01%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.51%) Network Security
2 11 (4.14%) Firewall
3 10 (3.76%) DNS
4 3 (1.13%) BGP
4 3 (1.13%) DHCP
4 3 (1.13%) OSPF
4 3 (1.13%) SSL
4 3 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.13%) VPN
5 2 (0.75%) 4G
5 2 (0.75%) 5G
5 2 (0.75%) IPsec
5 2 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.75%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.38%) 2G
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.38%) DKIM
6 1 (0.38%) NAS
6 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.39%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.64%) Power BI
4 14 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.89%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.14%) MySQL
6 11 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.14%) Tableau
7 10 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.76%) Metadata
8 9 (3.38%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.63%) Big Data
11 4 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.50%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.50%) DB2
12 3 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (12.03%) Git
2 19 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.39%) GitLab
4 12 (4.51%) JIRA
5 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.13%) Gatling
6 3 (1.13%) JUnit
7 2 (0.75%) Ant
7 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.75%) ERwin
7 2 (0.75%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.75%) MLflow
7 2 (0.75%) Mockito
7 2 (0.75%) Postman
7 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.75%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.38%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 93 (34.96%) Finance
2 60 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.79%) Banking
4 23 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.89%) Front Office
7 11 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.38%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.50%) Retail
12 3 (1.13%) Legal
12 3 (1.13%) Marketing
13 2 (0.75%) Back Office
13 2 (0.75%) Law
13 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.75%) Military
13 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (21.43%) Architect
2 38 (14.29%) Senior
3 34 (12.78%) Developer
4 28 (10.53%) Lead
5 26 (9.77%) Data Engineer
6 25 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.89%) AWS Architect
9 11 (4.14%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (4.14%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.38%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.38%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.01%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (2.63%) Data Scientist
13 7 (2.63%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.52%) Kafka
2 18 (6.77%) React
3 15 (5.64%) Node.js
4 14 (5.26%) REST
5 13 (4.89%) .NET
6 12 (4.51%) PyTorch
7 11 (4.14%) NumPy
7 11 (4.14%) Pandas
7 11 (4.14%) RESTful
8 10 (3.76%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.76%) scikit-learn
8 10 (3.76%) TensorFlow
9 9 (3.38%) HTML
10 8 (3.01%) CSS
10 8 (3.01%) OAuth
10 8 (3.01%) Spring
11 7 (2.63%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.26%) boto
12 6 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.89%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.76%) Equities
4 10 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.76%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.38%) Derivative
5 9 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.88%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.64%) Linux
2 12 (4.51%) Windows
3 4 (1.50%) Android
3 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (35.34%) CI/CD
2 60 (22.56%) DevOps
3 57 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (19.55%) AI
5 51 (19.17%) Agile
6 49 (18.42%) Analytics
7 40 (15.04%) Machine Learning
8 38 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (13.16%) Microservices
11 34 (12.78%) Migration
12 32 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (11.28%) Containerisation
13 30 (11.28%) Software Engineering
14 29 (10.90%) Data Engineering
14 29 (10.90%) Data Modelling
14 29 (10.90%) ETL
15 27 (10.15%) Generative AI
15 27 (10.15%) Observability
15 27 (10.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 111 (41.73%) Python
2 74 (27.82%) SQL
3 47 (17.67%) Java
4 15 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.01%) Bash
5 8 (3.01%) C#
6 6 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.26%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.88%) C++
8 4 (1.50%) PHP
9 3 (1.13%) Go
9 3 (1.13%) Korn
9 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.13%) Ruby
9 3 (1.13%) Scala
10 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.75%) Perl
10 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.38%) ProC
11 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (22.18%) Security Cleared
2 56 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.52%) Degree
4 14 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.01%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.01%) PMP
7 7 (2.63%) CISSP
8 6 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.26%) PhD
9 5 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.50%) CISM
10 4 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.15%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.89%) GDPR
3 18 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (5.26%) NIST
5 7 (2.63%) QA
6 6 (2.26%) SLA
7 4 (1.50%) NCSC
7 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.75%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.75%) GRC
8 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.75%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.75%) PSD2
8 2 (0.75%) SEPA
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.38%) DICOM
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) HL7
9 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 50 (18.80%) Docker
2 4 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.75%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (22.93%) Terraform
2 44 (16.54%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.14%) Ansible
4 8 (3.01%) Grafana
5 6 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.13%) Argo
7 3 (1.13%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.38%) CASB
9 1 (0.38%) Istio
9 1 (0.38%) Kibana
9 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.38%) QRadar
9 1 (0.38%) SCCM
9 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.52%) Databricks
3 16 (6.02%) Oracle
4 11 (4.14%) Google
4 11 (4.14%) IBM
5 8 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.63%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.63%) Splunk
7 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.50%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.50%) Informatica
8 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.13%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.13%) Confluent
9 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.13%) F5
9 3 (1.13%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.13%) Sage
9 3 (1.13%) SAP