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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 237 215
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.38% 12.42% 9.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.32% 31.35% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 166 132
10th Percentile £425 £369 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +1.30% -3.36%
75th Percentile £708 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £838
London median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £72.25 £68.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year +6.25% +121.86% -63.94%

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 992 756 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.66% 39.62% 39.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 538 614
10th Percentile £331 £337 £390
25th Percentile £455 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £762 £753 £775
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £21.75 £25.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £46.88 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £64.88 £65.57 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
% change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -4 252 £575 -1.71% 265
West End of London -4 9 £553 -7.92% 17
City of Westminster -10 8 £525 -11.02% 55
Southwark - 2 £600 - 2
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 21 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.32%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.32%) Confluence
3 7 (2.58%) Apache
4 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (46.49%) Azure
2 68 (25.09%) GCP
3 43 (15.87%) Serverless
4 41 (15.13%) GitHub
5 37 (13.65%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (11.44%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.96%) Snowflake
8 26 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (7.38%) dbt
10 16 (5.90%) Amazon Bedrock
11 15 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.80%) Power Platform
12 13 (4.80%) SaaS
13 12 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.43%) OpenShift
14 11 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (3.32%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.27%) DNS
2 16 (5.90%) Firewall
3 11 (4.06%) VPN
4 9 (3.32%) DHCP
5 6 (2.21%) BGP
6 5 (1.85%) Network Security
6 5 (1.85%) OSPF
6 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.48%) VLAN
8 3 (1.11%) MPLS
8 3 (1.11%) Multicast
8 3 (1.11%) NGFW
8 3 (1.11%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.11%) SMTP
8 3 (1.11%) WAN
8 3 (1.11%) Wireless
9 2 (0.74%) Internet
9 2 (0.74%) IPsec
9 2 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.74%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.90%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.43%) Power BI
4 11 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.32%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.32%) Metadata
5 9 (3.32%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.32%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.58%) Big Data
6 7 (2.58%) Delta Lake
6 7 (2.58%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.85%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (1.48%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (12.18%) GitLab
2 32 (11.81%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.75%) Git
4 19 (7.01%) JIRA
5 9 (3.32%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.95%) JUnit
6 8 (2.95%) Postman
7 7 (2.58%) JMeter
7 7 (2.58%) Mockito
8 4 (1.48%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.48%) Maven
8 4 (1.48%) Selenium
9 3 (1.11%) Gatling
10 2 (0.74%) Appium
10 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.74%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 93 (34.32%) Finance
2 65 (23.99%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.24%) Banking
4 35 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.96%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.32%) Back Office
7 9 (3.32%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.21%) Front Office
8 6 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.21%) Retail
9 5 (1.85%) Military
10 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Law
10 4 (1.48%) Marketing
10 4 (1.48%) Police
11 3 (1.11%) Billing
11 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (26.57%) Architect
2 59 (21.77%) Senior
3 28 (10.33%) Data Engineer
4 25 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.86%) Lead
6 23 (8.49%) Developer
7 20 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.54%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (4.43%) Data Architect
10 11 (4.06%) Analyst
10 11 (4.06%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.69%) AWS Architect
11 10 (3.69%) AWS Data Engineer
11 10 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.32%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.32%) Senior Architect
13 8 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (2.58%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.58%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (22.51%) Terraform
2 28 (10.33%) Kafka
3 27 (9.96%) REST
4 22 (8.12%) Spring
5 21 (7.75%) Spring Boot
6 15 (5.54%) .NET
6 15 (5.54%) PySpark
7 12 (4.43%) React
7 12 (4.43%) RESTful
8 11 (4.06%) SOAP
9 10 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (3.32%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (2.95%) Node.js
11 8 (2.95%) Web Services
12 7 (2.58%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.58%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.58%) JSON
12 7 (2.58%) OAuth
13 6 (2.21%) LangChain
13 6 (2.21%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 70 (25.83%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.96%) AI Agents
3 23 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.90%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.54%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.32%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.21%) CMDB
9 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.48%) PKI
10 4 (1.48%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.48%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.11%) Clustering
11 3 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.54%) Linux
2 14 (5.17%) Windows
3 10 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.85%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (44.28%) CI/CD
2 77 (28.41%) DevOps
3 71 (26.20%) AI
4 62 (22.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (20.66%) Agile
6 48 (17.71%) Migration
7 47 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (15.50%) Containerisation
8 42 (15.50%) Microservices
9 40 (14.76%) Data Engineering
10 39 (14.39%) Event-Driven
11 38 (14.02%) Analytics
12 37 (13.65%) Data Modelling
13 36 (13.28%) Observability
14 35 (12.92%) Test Automation
15 32 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (11.81%) Machine Learning
15 32 (11.81%) Roadmaps
15 32 (11.81%) Software Engineering
16 30 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 96 (35.42%) Python
2 62 (22.88%) SQL
3 47 (17.34%) Java
4 22 (8.12%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.01%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.27%) C#
7 14 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.43%) Bash
9 5 (1.85%) Korn
10 3 (1.11%) Bicep
10 3 (1.11%) Ruby
10 3 (1.11%) Scala
10 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.74%) Go
11 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.37%) Rust
12 1 (0.37%) Solidity
12 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.06%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.69%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.32%) Degree
6 5 (1.85%) CISSP
6 5 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.48%) PMP
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.11%) CCNP
8 3 (1.11%) CISM
8 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.33%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.80%) QA
3 12 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.95%) EU AI Act
4 8 (2.95%) NIST
5 6 (2.21%) GDPR
6 4 (1.48%) NCSC
6 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.11%) SEPA
8 2 (0.74%) EMIR
8 2 (0.74%) MiFID
8 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) PSD2
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (15.13%) Docker
2 9 (3.32%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.48%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.11%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (21.40%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.96%) Ansible
3 14 (5.17%) Grafana
4 11 (4.06%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.85%) Puppet
6 4 (1.48%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.11%) Nagios
7 3 (1.11%) vMotion
8 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.37%) Bosun
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.37%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Packer
9 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.37%) Salt
9 1 (0.37%) SCCM
9 1 (0.37%) SELinux
9 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.70%) Databricks
3 19 (7.01%) Google
4 17 (6.27%) Oracle
5 11 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.69%) Cisco
6 10 (3.69%) VMware
7 8 (2.95%) SAP
8 7 (2.58%) Citrix
8 7 (2.58%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.58%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.21%) IBM
9 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.85%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.11%) HP
11 3 (1.11%) Informatica
11 3 (1.11%) Symantec
11 3 (1.11%) Workday