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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 278 247 215
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.29% 12.77% 9.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.44% 32.04% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 174 128
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £578
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +0.87% -3.75%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £725
90th Percentile £763 £796 £838
London median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
London median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £30.65
% change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -65.94%

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 1,013 771 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.15% 39.87% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 544 623
10th Percentile £337 £335 £386
25th Percentile £456 £432 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £774
London median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.36 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.96 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £86.43 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £30.59
% change year-on-year +0.18% -6.83% -23.53%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -3 260 £575 -1.71% 274
West End of London -5 9 £553 -7.92% 28
City of Westminster -13 8 £525 -11.02% 51
Southwark 0 2 £600 -
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 23 (8.27%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.60%) Confluence
3 9 (3.24%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.88%) Apache
5 5 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) nginx
7 2 (0.72%) SAS
8 1 (0.36%) CICS
8 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.72%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 125 (44.96%) Azure
2 68 (24.46%) GCP
3 43 (15.47%) Serverless
4 42 (15.11%) GitHub
5 37 (13.31%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (11.51%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.15%) Snowflake
8 25 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.83%) dbt
10 18 (6.47%) Amazon Bedrock
10 18 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.40%) SaaS
12 14 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.32%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.32%) OpenShift
13 12 (4.32%) Power Platform
14 11 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.40%) DNS
1 15 (5.40%) Firewall
2 9 (3.24%) DHCP
2 9 (3.24%) VPN
3 6 (2.16%) BGP
4 5 (1.80%) OSPF
4 5 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.44%) Network Security
5 4 (1.44%) VLAN
6 3 (1.08%) MPLS
6 3 (1.08%) Multicast
6 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.08%) SMTP
6 3 (1.08%) WAN
6 3 (1.08%) Wireless
7 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.72%) IPsec
7 2 (0.72%) NGFW
7 2 (0.72%) SSH
7 2 (0.72%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (4.32%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (3.96%) Power BI
5 10 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.60%) Metadata
5 10 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.88%) Delta Lake
6 8 (2.88%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.88%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.52%) Big Data
8 6 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.80%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.44%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.51%) GitLab
2 31 (11.15%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.55%) Git
4 20 (7.19%) JIRA
5 9 (3.24%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.88%) JUnit
6 8 (2.88%) Postman
7 7 (2.52%) JMeter
7 7 (2.52%) Mockito
8 5 (1.80%) Maven
9 4 (1.44%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.44%) Selenium
10 3 (1.08%) Gatling
11 2 (0.72%) Appium
11 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.72%) Gradle
11 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (33.81%) Finance
2 64 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.11%) Banking
4 36 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.07%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.52%) Back Office
7 7 (2.52%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.16%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.16%) Retail
9 5 (1.80%) Front Office
9 5 (1.80%) Military
10 4 (1.44%) Law
10 4 (1.44%) Marketing
11 3 (1.08%) Billing
11 3 (1.08%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.08%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (24.10%) Architect
2 60 (21.58%) Senior
3 31 (11.15%) Data Engineer
4 25 (8.99%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (8.99%) Developer
5 24 (8.63%) Lead
6 18 (6.47%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (4.68%) Data Architect
9 12 (4.32%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.96%) Analyst
10 11 (3.96%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (3.24%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.24%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.24%) Senior Architect
12 8 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) Consultant
12 8 (2.88%) Technical Architect
13 7 (2.52%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.86%) Terraform
2 29 (10.43%) Kafka
3 27 (9.71%) REST
4 25 (8.99%) Spring
5 24 (8.63%) Spring Boot
6 14 (5.04%) .NET
6 14 (5.04%) RESTful
7 13 (4.68%) PySpark
7 13 (4.68%) React
8 11 (3.96%) SOAP
9 10 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (3.24%) Node.js
11 8 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (2.52%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.52%) Web Services
13 6 (2.16%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.16%) LangChain
13 6 (2.16%) Middleware
13 6 (2.16%) OAuth
13 6 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 73 (26.26%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.99%) AI Agents
3 24 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.76%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.04%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.88%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.16%) CMDB
7 6 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.44%) PKI
9 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.44%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.08%) Clustering
10 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.40%) Linux
2 14 (5.04%) Windows
3 10 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) AIX
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (44.96%) CI/CD
2 82 (29.50%) DevOps
3 71 (25.54%) AI
4 62 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (20.14%) Agile
6 48 (17.27%) Migration
7 47 (16.91%) Microservices
8 45 (16.19%) Containerisation
8 45 (16.19%) Data Engineering
9 44 (15.83%) Event-Driven
9 44 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (15.11%) Analytics
11 38 (13.67%) Data Modelling
12 37 (13.31%) Observability
13 35 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (12.59%) Test Automation
14 34 (12.23%) Machine Learning
14 34 (12.23%) Software Engineering
15 32 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (10.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 99 (35.61%) Python
2 59 (21.22%) SQL
3 49 (17.63%) Java
4 19 (6.83%) C#
4 19 (6.83%) PowerShell
5 18 (6.47%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.40%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.32%) Bash
8 5 (1.80%) Korn
9 4 (1.44%) Bicep
10 3 (1.08%) Ruby
10 3 (1.08%) Scala
10 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.72%) Go
11 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.36%) JCL
12 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.96%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.24%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.24%) Degree
5 5 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.44%) PMP
7 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) CCNP
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.72%) CISM
8 2 (0.72%) CISSP
8 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.72%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.07%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.40%) QA
3 11 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.88%) EU AI Act
4 8 (2.88%) NIST
5 7 (2.52%) GDPR
6 5 (1.80%) NCSC
7 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.08%) SEPA
8 2 (0.72%) EMIR
8 2 (0.72%) MiFID
8 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.72%) PMO
8 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (15.83%) Docker
2 9 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.44%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (22.66%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.07%) Ansible
3 16 (5.76%) Grafana
4 14 (5.04%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.80%) Puppet
6 4 (1.44%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.08%) Nagios
7 3 (1.08%) vMotion
8 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Netcool
9 1 (0.36%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.36%) Salt
9 1 (0.36%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) SELinux
9 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.79%) Databricks
3 18 (6.47%) Google
4 17 (6.12%) Oracle
5 11 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.60%) Citrix
6 10 (3.60%) VMware
7 9 (3.24%) Cisco
8 8 (2.88%) SAP
9 7 (2.52%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.52%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.16%) IBM
10 6 (2.16%) OpenAI
10 6 (2.16%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.80%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.80%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.08%) F5
12 3 (1.08%) HP
12 3 (1.08%) Splunk
12 3 (1.08%) Workday