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 citing AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	17	14	15
Rank change year-on-year	-3	+1	-4
Contract jobs citing AWS	273	231	226
As % of all contract jobs in Central London	11.71%	12.45%	9.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category	27.49%	30.43%	24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	195	165	139
10^th Percentile	£425	£396	£425
25^th Percentile	£500	£480	£498
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£600	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-4.17%	+4.35%	-
75^th Percentile	£715	£688	£700
90^th Percentile	£775	£800	£838
London median daily rate	£570	£555	£600
% change year-on-year	+2.70%	-7.50%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£55.00	-	-
Median hourly rate	£60.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£65.00	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
London median hourly rate	£77.50	£73.50	£46.25
% change year-on-year	+5.44%	+58.92%	-45.59%

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 citing cloud computing skills in Central London.

	6 months to 25 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	993	759	937
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London	42.60%	40.92%	40.08%
Number of daily rates quoted	701	554	613
10^th Percentile	£350	£334	£389
25^th Percentile	£456	£434	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£563
Median % change year-on-year	-	-2.22%	+2.27%
75^th Percentile	£658	£662	£675
90^th Percentile	£763	£750	£751
London median daily rate	£550	£525	£550
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	-4.55%	-1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	12	4
10^th Percentile	£18.55	£19.36	£29.40
25^th Percentile	£22.67	£25.04	£33.00
Median hourly rate	£27.00	£34.00	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	-20.59%	-2.86%	+68.67%
75^th Percentile	£56.56	£53.31	£49.38
90^th Percentile	£67.38	£64.69	£75.25
London median hourly rate	£28.40	£26.30	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+7.97%	-24.86%	-13.58%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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 25 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.

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 25 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
City of London	-5	251	£575	-	268
West End of London	-6	9	£553	-15.00%	21
City of Westminster	-11	8	£525	-12.50%	62
Southwark	-	2	£600	-	3
AWS London

AWS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AWS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region citing AWS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	45.1%	123
2	Azure	44.7%	122
3	Python	34.4%	94
4	DevOps	27.8%	76
5	AI	26.0%	71
6	GCP	24.5%	67
6	Infrastructure as Code	24.5%	67
8	Terraform	23.8%	65
9	SQL	23.1%	63
10	Agile	20.5%	56
10	Kubernetes	20.5%	56
12	Security Cleared	20.1%	55
13	Migration	19.0%	52
14	Stakeholder Management	17.6%	48
15	Java	16.8%	46
15	Serverless	16.8%	46
17	Microservices	16.5%	45
18	Docker	15.4%	42
18	SC Cleared	15.4%	42
20	Containerisation	15.0%	41
20	Event-Driven	15.0%	41
20	GitHub	15.0%	41
23	Data Engineering	14.3%	39
23	Data Modelling	14.3%	39
23	Microsoft	14.3%	39
23	Observability	14.3%	39
27	AWS Lambda	13.9%	38
27	Test Automation	13.9%	38
29	Roadmaps	12.8%	35
30	Data Pipeline	12.5%	34

AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	44.7%	122
2	GCP	24.5%	67
3	Serverless	16.8%	46
4	GitHub	15.0%	41
5	AWS Lambda	13.9%	38
6	Amazon S3	11.4%	31
7	GitHub Actions	9.5%	26
8	Snowflake	9.2%	25
9	Amazon EKS	8.1%	22
10	dbt	7.0%	19
11	Amazon Bedrock	6.2%	17
12	Amazon ECS	5.9%	16
13	Azure DevOps	5.5%	15
14	AWS CloudFormation	5.1%	14
15	Amazon EC2	4.8%	13
15	OpenShift	4.8%	13
15	Power Platform	4.8%	13
15	SaaS	4.8%	13
19	Amazon SQS	4.0%	11
20	Amazon CloudWatch	3.7%	10