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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 292 259 270
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.63% 13.15% 10.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.29% 30.47% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 181 199
10th Percentile £366 £413 £411
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £657 £638 £671
90th Percentile £775 £700 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £74.50 £55.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +34.23% -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 964 850 986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.70% 43.15% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 555 695
10th Percentile £350 £375 £346
25th Percentile £453 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £728 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.32 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.11 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £49.83 £35.00 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.63 £50.25
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 2 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 2 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 -3 276 £540 - 282
West End of London +2 5 £650 +24.40% 6
City of Westminster -3 4 £650 +23.81% 4
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 20 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.05%) Apache
4 5 (1.71%) Confluence
5 3 (1.03%) CICS
6 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Notion
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.03%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 134 (45.89%) Azure
2 75 (25.68%) GCP
3 48 (16.44%) GitHub
3 48 (16.44%) Serverless
4 43 (14.73%) Amazon S3
4 43 (14.73%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (8.90%) Snowflake
6 23 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (7.88%) Power Platform
7 21 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (4.79%) dbt
11 12 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.11%) SaaS
12 10 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.42%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (3.08%) Amazon SageMaker
14 8 (2.74%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.45%) Network Security
2 9 (3.08%) Firewall
3 5 (1.71%) DNS
4 3 (1.03%) VPN
5 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) 2G
6 1 (0.34%) 4G
6 1 (0.34%) 5G
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) IPsec
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) NAS
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.34%) SAN
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 22 (7.53%) DynamoDB
1 22 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.16%) Power BI
3 16 (5.48%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.79%) Tableau
6 13 (4.45%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.45%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.77%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.42%) Metadata
10 8 (2.74%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.74%) DB2
10 8 (2.74%) MySQL
11 7 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.40%) Big Data
12 5 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.37%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 37 (12.67%) Git
2 23 (7.88%) GitLab
2 23 (7.88%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.79%) JIRA
4 7 (2.40%) JUnit
5 6 (2.05%) Mockito
6 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.03%) Postman
9 2 (0.68%) Ant
9 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.68%) Gatling
9 2 (0.68%) Gradle
9 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.68%) Maven
9 2 (0.68%) Mocha
9 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 100 (34.25%) Finance
2 67 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.73%) Banking
4 28 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.14%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.11%) Front Office
8 11 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.40%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.03%) Back Office
12 3 (1.03%) Law
12 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.03%) Retail
12 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Advertising
13 2 (0.68%) Legal
13 2 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (20.89%) Architect
2 44 (15.07%) Developer
3 36 (12.33%) Senior
4 28 (9.59%) Data Engineer
5 27 (9.25%) Lead
6 21 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (4.79%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.77%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.77%) Migration Manager
10 11 (3.77%) Migration Project Manager
11 10 (3.42%) AWS Architect
11 10 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.42%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.42%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.08%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.96%) Kafka
2 20 (6.85%) React
2 20 (6.85%) REST
2 20 (6.85%) Spring
3 19 (6.51%) RESTful
3 19 (6.51%) Spring Boot
4 17 (5.82%) Node.js
5 10 (3.42%) JSON
5 10 (3.42%) Pandas
5 10 (3.42%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.08%) .NET
6 9 (3.08%) NumPy
6 9 (3.08%) scikit-learn
7 8 (2.74%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.74%) OAuth
7 8 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (2.74%) PySpark
7 8 (2.74%) SOAP
7 8 (2.74%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.40%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.89%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.45%) Equities
5 12 (4.11%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.42%) Derivative
8 8 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.05%) Clustering
9 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.05%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.37%) LIMS
11 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.37%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.79%) Linux
2 12 (4.11%) Windows
3 3 (1.03%) Android
3 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.03%) zOS
4 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.36%) CI/CD
2 72 (24.66%) DevOps
3 67 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (21.58%) Agile
4 63 (21.58%) AI
5 48 (16.44%) Analytics
6 47 (16.10%) Migration
7 45 (15.41%) Microservices
8 44 (15.07%) Machine Learning
8 44 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (13.01%) Containerisation
10 37 (12.67%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (11.64%) Data Modelling
12 33 (11.30%) Data Engineering
12 33 (11.30%) Observability
12 33 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (10.96%) Roadmaps
13 32 (10.96%) Software Engineering
14 31 (10.62%) Test Automation
15 30 (10.27%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 114 (39.04%) Python
2 81 (27.74%) SQL
3 53 (18.15%) Java
4 16 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.77%) C#
5 11 (3.77%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.05%) Bash
6 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.71%) C++
7 5 (1.71%) Ruby
7 5 (1.71%) Scala
8 4 (1.37%) Go
9 3 (1.03%) JCL
9 3 (1.03%) Korn
9 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.68%) Bicep
10 2 (0.68%) PHP
10 2 (0.68%) R
11 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 66 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.82%) Degree
4 12 (4.11%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.11%) PMP
5 11 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.74%) CISSP
7 7 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.05%) CISM
8 6 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.05%) PhD
9 5 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.03%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.68%) CCSP
12 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.93%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.22%) GDPR
2 24 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.19%) NIST
4 10 (3.42%) QA
5 8 (2.74%) SLA
6 7 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.37%) NCSC
8 2 (0.68%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.68%) GRC
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.68%) PSD2
8 2 (0.68%) SEPA
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) DICOM
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (19.18%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.68%) NFS
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.68%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (22.26%) Terraform
2 54 (18.49%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.16%) Ansible
4 12 (4.11%) Grafana
5 9 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.03%) Argo
7 3 (1.03%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.34%) CASB
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.82%) Databricks
3 16 (5.48%) Oracle
4 14 (4.79%) Google
5 12 (4.11%) CyberArk
5 12 (4.11%) IBM
6 7 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.40%) Splunk
7 6 (2.05%) Informatica
8 5 (1.71%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.71%) VMware
9 4 (1.37%) SAP
10 3 (1.03%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.03%) Charles River
10 3 (1.03%) Cognos
10 3 (1.03%) Confluent
10 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.03%) Sage