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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 233 225 337
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.53% 9.62% 11.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.74% 24.32% 27.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 138 245
10th Percentile £404 £425 £400
25th Percentile £475 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £695 £688
90th Percentile £800 £824 £775
London median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £76.75 £46.50 £71.41
% change year-on-year +65.05% -34.88% +46.47%

All Cloud 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 758 925 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.75% 39.55% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 603 837
10th Percentile £340 £400 £329
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £680
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 10
10th Percentile £19.85 £29.40 £16.53
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £52.16 £49.38 £46.06
90th Percentile £63.81 £75.25 £54.63
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -25.71% -13.58% +42.73%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 +2 224 £575 - 509
City of Westminster +3 8 £563 +7.14% 3
West End of London +1 4 £650 +23.81% 4
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 (6.87%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.86%) Confluence
3 8 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.58%) Apache
5 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) Luigi
7 1 (0.43%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Endur
2 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (43.35%) Azure
2 48 (20.60%) GCP
3 40 (17.17%) Amazon S3
4 29 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (12.45%) Serverless
5 23 (9.87%) GitHub
6 21 (9.01%) Snowflake
7 18 (7.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (4.72%) dbt
9 11 (4.72%) SaaS
10 10 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.29%) Power Platform
11 9 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.58%) Firewall
2 12 (5.15%) DNS
3 5 (2.15%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.15%) VPN
4 4 (1.72%) LAN
4 4 (1.72%) Network Security
4 4 (1.72%) SSL
4 4 (1.72%) WAN
5 3 (1.29%) BGP
5 3 (1.29%) OSPF
6 2 (0.86%) 4G
6 2 (0.86%) 5G
6 2 (0.86%) DHCP
6 2 (0.86%) Internet
6 2 (0.86%) NAS
6 2 (0.86%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.86%) SSH
6 2 (0.86%) VLAN
6 2 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
1 19 (8.15%) Relational Database
2 17 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.29%) DynamoDB
4 9 (3.86%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.86%) MySQL
4 9 (3.86%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.86%) Power BI
5 7 (3.00%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.58%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.58%) Metadata
6 6 (2.58%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.15%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.15%) Big Data
7 5 (2.15%) Tableau
8 4 (1.72%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (9.87%) Git
2 15 (6.44%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.58%) JIRA
4 10 (4.29%) GitLab
5 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.29%) JUnit
6 3 (1.29%) MLflow
7 2 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.86%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.86%) Postman
7 2 (0.86%) Selenium
7 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.43%) ERwin
8 1 (0.43%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Mockito
8 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 76 (32.62%) Finance
2 55 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.73%) Banking
4 23 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.01%) Front Office
7 8 (3.43%) Legal
8 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.72%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.29%) Japanese Language
11 3 (1.29%) Marketing
11 3 (1.29%) Military
11 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Back Office
12 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.86%) Retail
12 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (18.88%) Architect
1 44 (18.88%) Senior
2 31 (13.30%) Developer
3 28 (12.02%) Data Engineer
4 21 (9.01%) Lead
5 15 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.72%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.72%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.29%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.86%) Consultant
10 9 (3.86%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.86%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.00%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.00%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.00%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (2.58%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.58%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.58%) React
2 18 (7.73%) Kafka
3 14 (6.01%) REST
4 13 (5.58%) Node.js
4 13 (5.58%) RESTful
5 12 (5.15%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.72%) GraphQL
6 11 (4.72%) Spring
7 10 (4.29%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.43%) CSS
8 8 (3.43%) HTML
8 8 (3.43%) OAuth
9 7 (3.00%) .NET
10 6 (2.58%) PySpark
11 5 (2.15%) Svelte
11 5 (2.15%) XML
12 4 (1.72%) JWT
12 4 (1.72%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.72%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.72%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.59%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.86%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.58%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.15%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.72%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.29%) Derivative
8 3 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.29%) Equities
8 3 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.29%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.86%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.01%) Linux
2 12 (5.15%) Windows
3 7 (3.00%) Unix
4 4 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.86%) Android
5 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) AIX
6 1 (0.43%) Solaris
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.33%) CI/CD
2 58 (24.89%) DevOps
3 56 (24.03%) Agile
4 41 (17.60%) Analytics
5 39 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (13.73%) Microservices
8 27 (11.59%) Software Engineering
9 26 (11.16%) Migration
10 25 (10.73%) AI
10 25 (10.73%) Data Modelling
10 25 (10.73%) Roadmaps
11 23 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (9.87%) ETL
12 22 (9.44%) Containerisation
12 22 (9.44%) Data Engineering
12 22 (9.44%) Machine Learning
13 20 (8.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (8.15%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 97 (41.63%) Python
2 53 (22.75%) SQL
3 44 (18.88%) Java
4 18 (7.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.87%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.29%) Bash
7 6 (2.58%) Go
8 5 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.29%) Perl
9 3 (1.29%) PHP
9 3 (1.29%) Scala
9 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.86%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.86%) C#
10 2 (0.86%) C++
10 2 (0.86%) COBOL
10 2 (0.86%) PromQL
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (16.31%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.73%) Degree
4 13 (5.58%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.58%) CISSP
6 6 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.29%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.86%) CASP
10 2 (0.86%) CCSP
10 2 (0.86%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.86%) GIAC
10 2 (0.86%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.43%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.01%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.72%) GDPR
2 11 (4.72%) QA
3 9 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.86%) NIST
4 3 (1.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (1.29%) NCSC
4 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.86%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.43%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (12.88%) Docker
2 12 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
3 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 42 (18.03%) Terraform
2 28 (12.02%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.15%) Ansible
4 8 (3.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.58%) Grafana
5 6 (2.58%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.29%) Argo
6 3 (1.29%) Puppet
7 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.86%) Packer
7 2 (0.86%) SCCM
7 2 (0.86%) SELinux
8 1 (0.43%) CASB
8 1 (0.43%) Icinga
8 1 (0.43%) Nagios
8 1 (0.43%) Observium
8 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.43%) QRadar
8 1 (0.43%) yum
Vendors
1 36 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.01%) Databricks
3 9 (3.86%) Google
3 9 (3.86%) Oracle
3 9 (3.86%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.43%) Splunk
5 6 (2.58%) IBM
5 6 (2.58%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.15%) F5
6 5 (2.15%) Informatica
7 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.29%) Adobe
8 3 (1.29%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.29%) Cisco
8 3 (1.29%) Tenable
9 2 (0.86%) Citrix
9 2 (0.86%) Dell
9 2 (0.86%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.86%) Okta
9 2 (0.86%) Sparx