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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 289 278 263
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.13% 14.53% 10.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.16% 33.99% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 196 186
10th Percentile £384 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £684
90th Percentile £771 £751 £825
London median daily rate £560 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -2.61% -0.86% -5.31%
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 £68.50 £53.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +28.04% +124.79% -70.25%

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 991 818 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.16% 42.76% 40.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 528 687
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.32%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 6
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £28.46 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £57.77 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.71% +29.20% -66.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.46 £26.19
90th Percentile £76.75 £95.50 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -2 273 £550 - 113
West End of London -5 8 £650 +18.18% 25
City of Westminster -6 8 £650 +6.12% 14
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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.73%) Confluence
3 4 (1.38%) Apache
3 4 (1.38%) CICS
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.04%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (41.52%) Azure
2 63 (21.80%) GCP
3 52 (17.99%) Serverless
4 46 (15.92%) GitHub
5 45 (15.57%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (14.19%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (7.61%) Snowflake
9 20 (6.92%) Power Platform
10 17 (5.88%) SaaS
11 16 (5.54%) Amazon Bedrock
11 16 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.81%) Amazon SageMaker
14 10 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.46%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (3.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.15%) Firewall
2 11 (3.81%) Network Security
3 9 (3.11%) DNS
4 6 (2.08%) DHCP
5 5 (1.73%) VPN
6 3 (1.04%) SMTP
6 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.69%) NGFW
8 1 (0.35%) BGP
8 1 (0.35%) IPsec
8 1 (0.35%) NAS
8 1 (0.35%) OSPF
8 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.35%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
8 1 (0.35%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.61%) DynamoDB
2 17 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 17 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.19%) Power BI
4 13 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (4.15%) Metadata
5 12 (4.15%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.81%) Tableau
7 8 (2.77%) Db2
7 8 (2.77%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.77%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (2.42%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.08%) Big Data
10 5 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.73%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.38%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 28 (9.69%) Git
1 28 (9.69%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.34%) GitLab
3 21 (7.27%) JIRA
4 9 (3.11%) JUnit
5 8 (2.77%) Mockito
5 8 (2.77%) Postman
6 4 (1.38%) Claude Code
6 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.38%) JMeter
7 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.04%) Gradle
7 3 (1.04%) Maven
8 2 (0.69%) Ant
8 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.69%) Gatling
8 2 (0.69%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.69%) Mocha
8 2 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 90 (31.14%) Finance
2 64 (22.15%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.11%) Banking
4 34 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.15%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.08%) Front Office
9 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.73%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.73%) Military
11 4 (1.38%) Law
11 4 (1.38%) Police
11 4 (1.38%) Retail
12 3 (1.04%) Marketing
13 2 (0.69%) Advertising
13 2 (0.69%) Back Office
13 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (21.80%) Architect
2 40 (13.84%) Senior
3 37 (12.80%) Developer
4 25 (8.65%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.61%) Lead
6 20 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.84%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.50%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (3.81%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.46%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.46%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.46%) Migration Project Manager
11 10 (3.46%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.77%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.77%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.46%) Kafka
2 30 (10.38%) Spring
2 30 (10.38%) Spring Boot
3 27 (9.34%) REST
4 21 (7.27%) React
5 20 (6.92%) RESTful
6 14 (4.84%) .NET
7 12 (4.15%) JSON
7 12 (4.15%) Node.js
8 11 (3.81%) PySpark
9 10 (3.46%) PyTorch
9 10 (3.46%) SOAP
10 9 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (2.42%) OAuth
11 7 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.42%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.08%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.08%) boto
12 6 (2.08%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 69 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.81%) AI Agents
3 11 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.11%) Clustering
5 9 (3.11%) Equities
6 8 (2.77%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.42%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.73%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.38%) DataPower
10 4 (1.38%) LIMS
10 4 (1.38%) NHS
10 4 (1.38%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.38%) PKI
10 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.54%) Linux
2 15 (5.19%) Windows
3 6 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.38%) Android
4 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.38%) zOS
5 2 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.83%) CI/CD
2 81 (28.03%) DevOps
3 72 (24.91%) AI
4 71 (24.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (21.80%) Agile
6 51 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 49 (16.96%) Migration
8 44 (15.22%) Event-Driven
9 43 (14.88%) Analytics
9 43 (14.88%) Machine Learning
10 42 (14.53%) Microservices
11 40 (13.84%) Observability
12 37 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (12.46%) Data Engineering
14 35 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
15 33 (11.42%) Data Modelling
15 33 (11.42%) Test Automation
16 28 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (9.69%) Roadmaps
17 27 (9.34%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 106 (36.68%) Python
2 61 (21.11%) SQL
3 55 (19.03%) Java
4 18 (6.23%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.54%) C#
6 15 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.46%) Bash
9 5 (1.73%) Ruby
9 5 (1.73%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.38%) Bicep
10 4 (1.38%) JCL
10 4 (1.38%) Scala
11 3 (1.04%) Go
11 3 (1.04%) Korn
12 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.35%) R
13 1 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 74 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.84%) Degree
4 11 (3.81%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.81%) PMP
5 9 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.08%) CISSP
6 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.73%) CISM
8 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.04%) CCNP
9 3 (1.04%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.04%) PhD
9 3 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.92%) Data Quality
1 20 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.57%) NIST
3 18 (6.23%) GDPR
4 9 (3.11%) QA
5 5 (1.73%) NCSC
5 5 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.38%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.38%) SLA
7 3 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.04%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.04%) SEPA
8 2 (0.69%) EMIR
8 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.69%) MiFID
8 2 (0.69%) PSD2
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (17.30%) Docker
2 9 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.04%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.04%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.69%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (20.76%) Kubernetes
2 57 (19.72%) Terraform
3 24 (8.30%) Ansible
4 17 (5.88%) Grafana
5 14 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.73%) Puppet
7 4 (1.38%) Argo
7 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.04%) Nagios
8 3 (1.04%) vMotion
9 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.69%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.69%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.35%) Consul
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.35%) Packer
10 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.35%) QRadar
10 1 (0.35%) Salt
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (9.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.84%) Google
3 13 (4.50%) CyberArk
3 13 (4.50%) Databricks
4 10 (3.46%) Citrix
4 10 (3.46%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.77%) Oracle
5 8 (2.77%) Splunk
5 8 (2.77%) VMware
6 6 (2.08%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.73%) IBM
7 5 (1.73%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.73%) SAP
8 4 (1.38%) Informatica
8 4 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.04%) Cisco
9 3 (1.04%) HP