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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 292 279 255
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.07% 14.16% 10.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.88% 33.82% 26.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 196 177
10th Percentile £406 £400 £415
25th Percentile £465 £473 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.81% -10.56%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £754 £769 £835
London median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -0.08%
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 £53.50 £27.65
% change year-on-year +30.84% +93.49% -65.97%

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 1,011 825 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.32% 41.86% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 529 693
10th Percentile £345 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 6
10th Percentile £19.87 £24.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £27.54 £26.45 £14.88
Median hourly rate £54.60 £34.65 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.58% +40.00% -52.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £93.25 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +10.94% +18.65% -50.96%

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 July 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 July 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 -3 277 £550 - 233
West End of London -2 8 £650 +5.69% 36
City of Westminster -6 8 £650 +4.00% 38
Lambeth - 1 £350 -
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 17 (5.82%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.40%) Confluence
3 4 (1.37%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.37%) CICS
3 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.03%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (40.75%) Azure
2 65 (22.26%) GCP
3 48 (16.44%) Serverless
4 45 (15.41%) GitHub
5 41 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (13.01%) Amazon S3
7 26 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (8.56%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.19%) Power Platform
10 20 (6.85%) Amazon Bedrock
11 17 (5.82%) SaaS
12 16 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.42%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (3.42%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (3.42%) dbt
15 10 (3.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.11%) Firewall
2 10 (3.42%) Network Security
3 9 (3.08%) DNS
4 6 (2.05%) DHCP
5 5 (1.71%) VPN
6 3 (1.03%) SMTP
6 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) NGFW
7 2 (0.68%) X.509
8 1 (0.34%) BGP
8 1 (0.34%) IPsec
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) OSPF
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.34%) SAN
8 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.19%) DynamoDB
2 16 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (5.48%) NoSQL
2 16 (5.48%) Power BI
3 15 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.77%) Metadata
5 11 (3.77%) Tableau
6 10 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.74%) Big Data
7 8 (2.74%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.74%) Db2
7 8 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.71%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.71%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 31 (10.62%) GitLab
2 30 (10.27%) Git
3 28 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.88%) JIRA
5 11 (3.77%) JUnit
6 10 (3.42%) Mockito
7 9 (3.08%) Postman
8 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.37%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.37%) JMeter
9 4 (1.37%) Maven
10 3 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.03%) Gradle
11 2 (0.68%) Ant
11 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.68%) Mocha
11 2 (0.68%) webpack
12 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 90 (30.82%) Finance
2 67 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.67%) Banking
4 33 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.77%) Financial Institution
6 11 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.05%) Front Office
10 5 (1.71%) Retail
11 4 (1.37%) Law
11 4 (1.37%) Military
11 4 (1.37%) Police
11 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
13 2 (0.68%) Advertising
13 2 (0.68%) Back Office
13 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (23.29%) Architect
2 42 (14.38%) Senior
3 33 (11.30%) Developer
4 23 (7.88%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.53%) Lead
6 18 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.45%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.11%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (3.77%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.08%) Consultant
11 9 (3.08%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.74%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.74%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.74%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (2.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.99%) Kafka
2 30 (10.27%) Spring
3 29 (9.93%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.22%) REST
5 21 (7.19%) RESTful
6 20 (6.85%) React
7 12 (4.11%) .NET
7 12 (4.11%) Node.js
8 11 (3.77%) SOAP
9 10 (3.42%) PySpark
10 9 (3.08%) JSON
10 9 (3.08%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.40%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.05%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.05%) Middleware
13 6 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.05%) Web Services
14 5 (1.71%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.71%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 67 (22.95%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.48%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.08%) Clustering
6 9 (3.08%) Equities
7 8 (2.74%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.74%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.05%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.71%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) DataPower
11 4 (1.37%) LIMS
11 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.37%) PKI
12 3 (1.03%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.79%) Windows
2 13 (4.45%) Linux
3 6 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.37%) Android
4 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.37%) zOS
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%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (40.07%) CI/CD
2 75 (25.68%) AI
2 75 (25.68%) DevOps
3 67 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (21.92%) Agile
5 48 (16.44%) Containerisation
5 48 (16.44%) Migration
6 46 (15.75%) Analytics
7 45 (15.41%) Machine Learning
8 43 (14.73%) Microservices
9 41 (14.04%) Event-Driven
10 38 (13.01%) Data Engineering
11 36 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (12.33%) Test Automation
12 35 (11.99%) Observability
13 34 (11.64%) Data Modelling
14 33 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (9.25%) Generative AI
16 27 (9.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (34.59%) Python
2 55 (18.84%) SQL
3 52 (17.81%) Java
4 17 (5.82%) C#
4 17 (5.82%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.48%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.42%) Bash
8 5 (1.71%) Ruby
8 5 (1.71%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.37%) Bicep
9 4 (1.37%) JCL
9 4 (1.37%) Scala
10 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.68%) Go
10 2 (0.68%) Korn
11 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.34%) R
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.79%) Degree
4 9 (3.08%) PMI Certification
4 9 (3.08%) PMP
5 7 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.05%) CISSP
6 6 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.71%) CISM
8 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.03%) CCNP
9 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.03%) PhD
9 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.16%) GDPR
2 18 (6.16%) NIST
3 17 (5.82%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.08%) QA
5 8 (2.74%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.71%) NCSC
6 5 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.03%) SLA
8 2 (0.68%) EMIR
8 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.68%) MiFID
8 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.34%) PMO
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (16.10%) Docker
2 9 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.03%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.03%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.68%) NFS
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (20.55%) Kubernetes
2 55 (18.84%) Terraform
3 24 (8.22%) Ansible
4 14 (4.79%) Grafana
5 12 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.71%) Puppet
7 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.03%) Nagios
8 3 (1.03%) vMotion
9 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Karpenter
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
Vendors
1 27 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.79%) Databricks
2 14 (4.79%) Google
3 11 (3.77%) CyberArk
3 11 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.42%) Citrix
5 8 (2.74%) VMware
6 7 (2.40%) Oracle
6 7 (2.40%) Splunk
7 5 (1.71%) IBM
7 5 (1.71%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.37%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.37%) Informatica
8 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.03%) Charles River
9 3 (1.03%) HP
9 3 (1.03%) Symantec