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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 282 245 278
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 13.03% 12.06% 10.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.99% 28.76% 28.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 173 204
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.14%
75th Percentile £653 £664 £675
90th Percentile £800 £735 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%

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 910 852 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.03% 41.95% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 555 708
10th Percentile £333 £375 £348
25th Percentile £433 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £747
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.07 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 - £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.50 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.21 £30.11
% change year-on-year +15.87% +0.32% -11.44%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +2 266 £538 -2.27% 239
West End of London +5 4 £650 +25.00% 1
City of Westminster +1 3 £650 +23.81% 16
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 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 19 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.13%) Confluence
4 5 (1.77%) Apache
5 2 (0.71%) CICS
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.06%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 122 (43.26%) Azure
2 71 (25.18%) GCP
3 46 (16.31%) Serverless
4 44 (15.60%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (14.54%) Amazon S3
5 41 (14.54%) GitHub
6 26 (9.22%) Snowflake
7 23 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (7.80%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (7.09%) Power Platform
11 18 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.26%) dbt
13 11 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.55%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (3.19%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (3.19%) SaaS
15 9 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.61%) Network Security
2 11 (3.90%) Firewall
3 9 (3.19%) DNS
4 3 (1.06%) BGP
4 3 (1.06%) DHCP
4 3 (1.06%) OSPF
4 3 (1.06%) SSL
4 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.06%) VPN
5 2 (0.71%) 4G
5 2 (0.71%) 5G
5 2 (0.71%) IPsec
5 2 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.71%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.35%) 2G
6 1 (0.35%) DKIM
6 1 (0.35%) MPLS
6 1 (0.35%) NAS
6 1 (0.35%) VLAN
6 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.03%) Relational Database
3 16 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (5.67%) DynamoDB
3 16 (5.67%) Power BI
4 14 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.26%) Tableau
6 11 (3.90%) MySQL
7 10 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.55%) Metadata
7 10 (3.55%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.19%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.48%) Big Data
9 7 (2.48%) DB2
10 5 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.42%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 34 (12.06%) Git
2 22 (7.80%) GitLab
2 22 (7.80%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.96%) JIRA
4 6 (2.13%) JUnit
5 5 (1.77%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.42%) Mockito
7 3 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.06%) Gatling
7 3 (1.06%) Postman
8 2 (0.71%) Ant
8 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.71%) MLflow
8 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.71%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.35%) ERwin
9 1 (0.35%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.35%) Mocha
General
1 96 (34.04%) Finance
2 65 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.60%) Banking
4 25 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.61%) Front Office
7 12 (4.26%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.48%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.42%) Retail
13 2 (0.71%) Back Office
13 2 (0.71%) Law
13 2 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (20.92%) Architect
2 38 (13.48%) Developer
3 37 (13.12%) Senior
4 28 (9.93%) Data Engineer
4 28 (9.93%) Lead
5 24 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (7.80%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (4.26%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.90%) AWS Architect
9 11 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.55%) Python Engineer
11 8 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.84%) Consultant
11 8 (2.84%) Data Scientist
11 8 (2.84%) Java Developer
11 8 (2.84%) Migration Manager
11 8 (2.84%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.51%) Kafka
2 18 (6.38%) React
2 18 (6.38%) REST
3 15 (5.32%) Node.js
3 15 (5.32%) RESTful
4 13 (4.61%) PyTorch
5 12 (4.26%) .NET
5 12 (4.26%) Pandas
5 12 (4.26%) Spring
6 11 (3.90%) NumPy
6 11 (3.90%) scikit-learn
6 11 (3.90%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.90%) TensorFlow
7 10 (3.55%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.84%) HTML
8 8 (2.84%) OAuth
9 7 (2.48%) boto
9 7 (2.48%) CSS
9 7 (2.48%) JSON
9 7 (2.48%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.96%) Algorithms
4 12 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.90%) Equities
5 11 (3.90%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.19%) Derivative
7 8 (2.84%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.77%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.42%) LIMS
11 3 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.32%) Linux
2 11 (3.90%) Windows
3 3 (1.06%) Android
3 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.71%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) zOS
5 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (35.82%) CI/CD
2 63 (22.34%) DevOps
2 63 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (20.21%) AI
4 55 (19.50%) Agile
5 47 (16.67%) Analytics
6 41 (14.54%) Machine Learning
7 40 (14.18%) Migration
7 40 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (13.12%) Microservices
10 32 (11.35%) Containerisation
10 32 (11.35%) Data Engineering
10 32 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (11.35%) ETL
10 32 (11.35%) Software Engineering
11 30 (10.64%) Roadmaps
12 29 (10.28%) Data Modelling
12 29 (10.28%) Observability
13 28 (9.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (39.72%) Python
2 82 (29.08%) SQL
3 48 (17.02%) Java
4 17 (6.03%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.19%) C#
6 7 (2.48%) Bash
6 7 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.77%) C++
9 4 (1.42%) Go
9 4 (1.42%) PHP
9 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.06%) Korn
10 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.06%) Ruby
10 3 (1.06%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) JCL
11 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 65 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.74%) Degree
4 15 (5.32%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.55%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.55%) PMP
6 9 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.84%) CISSP
8 7 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.13%) PhD
10 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.77%) CISM
11 4 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.71%) CCSP
13 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.80%) GDPR
3 20 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (6.03%) NIST
5 8 (2.84%) SLA
6 7 (2.48%) QA
7 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.71%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.71%) GRC
9 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.71%) PSD2
9 2 (0.71%) SEPA
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) DICOM
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 55 (19.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.71%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (23.40%) Terraform
2 49 (17.38%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.74%) Ansible
4 10 (3.55%) Grafana
5 7 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.06%) Argo
7 3 (1.06%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.35%) CASB
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.35%) QRadar
9 1 (0.35%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.03%) Databricks
3 16 (5.67%) Oracle
4 11 (3.90%) Google
4 11 (3.90%) IBM
5 9 (3.19%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.84%) Splunk
7 6 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.42%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.42%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.42%) Informatica
8 4 (1.42%) SAP
8 4 (1.42%) VMware
9 3 (1.06%) Cognos
9 3 (1.06%) Confluent
9 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.06%) Sage