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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 301 267 268
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.67% 13.50% 10.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.65% 30.97% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 185 198
10th Percentile £370 £413 £410
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £650
90th Percentile £775 £701 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £60.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +16.18% +4.78% -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 982 862 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.35% 43.58% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 563 683
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £729 £749
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £54.05 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.47 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 April 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 April 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 +1 285 £550 - 282
West End of London +2 5 £650 +24.40% 6
City of Westminster -2 4 £650 +23.81% 4
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 1
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 22 (7.31%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.33%) Apache
4 6 (1.99%) Confluence
5 3 (1.00%) CICS
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Camunda
7 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Notion
2 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.00%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 135 (44.85%) Azure
2 76 (25.25%) GCP
3 48 (15.95%) GitHub
3 48 (15.95%) Serverless
4 44 (14.62%) Amazon S3
5 43 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (9.63%) Snowflake
7 25 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (7.64%) Power Platform
9 22 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (7.31%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (4.65%) dbt
12 13 (4.32%) SaaS
13 12 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.65%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.32%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.32%) Network Security
2 10 (3.32%) Firewall
3 5 (1.66%) DNS
4 3 (1.00%) VPN
5 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.33%) 2G
6 1 (0.33%) 4G
6 1 (0.33%) 5G
6 1 (0.33%) BGP
6 1 (0.33%) DHCP
6 1 (0.33%) IPsec
6 1 (0.33%) LAN
6 1 (0.33%) NAS
6 1 (0.33%) OSPF
6 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.33%) SAN
6 1 (0.33%) SSL
6 1 (0.33%) VLAN
6 1 (0.33%) WAN
6 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.64%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.31%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.98%) Power BI
5 16 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.65%) Tableau
7 12 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (3.99%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.99%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.99%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.65%) Metadata
9 9 (2.99%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.66%) DB2
11 7 (2.33%) Big Data
11 7 (2.33%) MySQL
12 6 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (1.33%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 39 (12.96%) Git
2 24 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.64%) GitLab
4 16 (5.32%) JIRA
5 7 (2.33%) JUnit
6 6 (1.99%) Mockito
7 5 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.00%) Gradle
9 3 (1.00%) Maven
9 3 (1.00%) Postman
10 2 (0.66%) Ant
10 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.66%) Gatling
10 2 (0.66%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.66%) Mocha
10 2 (0.66%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.66%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 102 (33.89%) Finance
2 68 (22.59%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.62%) Banking
4 27 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.98%) Financial Institution
7 12 (3.99%) Front Office
8 11 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.33%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.00%) Back Office
12 3 (1.00%) Law
12 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.00%) Retail
12 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Advertising
13 2 (0.66%) Legal
13 2 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (20.60%) Architect
2 45 (14.95%) Developer
3 37 (12.29%) Senior
4 31 (10.30%) Data Engineer
5 28 (9.30%) Lead
6 21 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.65%) Project Manager
9 12 (3.99%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.65%) AWS Architect
10 11 (3.65%) Migration Manager
10 11 (3.65%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (3.65%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (3.65%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.32%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.32%) Consultant
12 9 (2.99%) Data Scientist
12 9 (2.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.96%) Kafka
2 23 (7.64%) Spring
3 22 (7.31%) Spring Boot
4 21 (6.98%) React
4 21 (6.98%) REST
5 20 (6.64%) RESTful
6 17 (5.65%) Node.js
7 10 (3.32%) JSON
7 10 (3.32%) Pandas
7 10 (3.32%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.99%) .NET
8 9 (2.99%) NumPy
8 9 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (2.99%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.66%) OAuth
9 8 (2.66%) PySpark
9 8 (2.66%) SOAP
9 8 (2.66%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.33%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.33%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.32%) Equities
5 12 (3.99%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.65%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.32%) Derivative
8 8 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.99%) Clustering
9 6 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.99%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.33%) LIMS
11 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.98%) Linux
2 13 (4.32%) Windows
3 4 (1.33%) Android
3 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.00%) zOS
5 2 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (0.66%) Unix
6 1 (0.33%) AIX
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (38.87%) CI/CD
2 76 (25.25%) DevOps
3 69 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (21.26%) Agile
5 63 (20.93%) AI
6 50 (16.61%) Analytics
6 50 (16.61%) Migration
7 46 (15.28%) Microservices
8 45 (14.95%) Machine Learning
9 44 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (13.62%) Containerisation
11 39 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
12 37 (12.29%) Data Engineering
13 36 (11.96%) Data Modelling
13 36 (11.96%) Observability
14 34 (11.30%) Event-Driven
14 34 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (10.96%) Software Engineering
16 32 (10.63%) Test Automation
17 31 (10.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 119 (39.53%) Python
2 79 (26.25%) SQL
3 56 (18.60%) Java
4 16 (5.32%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.99%) C#
5 12 (3.99%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.33%) Bash
7 6 (1.99%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.99%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.66%) C++
8 5 (1.66%) Ruby
8 5 (1.66%) Scala
9 4 (1.33%) Go
10 3 (1.00%) Bicep
10 3 (1.00%) JCL
10 3 (1.00%) Korn
10 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.66%) PHP
11 2 (0.66%) R
12 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 69 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 66 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.65%) Degree
4 12 (3.99%) PMI Certification
4 12 (3.99%) PMP
5 11 (3.65%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.66%) CISSP
7 7 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.99%) CISM
8 6 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.99%) PhD
9 5 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.00%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.66%) CCSP
12 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.97%) GDPR
2 24 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (6.98%) NIST
4 10 (3.32%) QA
5 8 (2.66%) SLA
6 7 (2.33%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.33%) NCSC
8 2 (0.66%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
8 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.66%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.66%) PSD2
8 2 (0.66%) SEPA
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) DICOM
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) HL7
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (18.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.66%) NFS
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.66%) vSphere
4 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (21.59%) Terraform
2 57 (18.94%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.31%) Ansible
4 13 (4.32%) Grafana
5 11 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.00%) Argo
7 3 (1.00%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.66%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.33%) CASB
9 1 (0.33%) Consul
9 1 (0.33%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.33%) QRadar
9 1 (0.33%) SCCM
9 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.31%) Databricks
3 15 (4.98%) Oracle
4 14 (4.65%) Google
5 12 (3.99%) CyberArk
5 12 (3.99%) IBM
6 7 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.33%) Splunk
7 5 (1.66%) Informatica
7 5 (1.66%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.66%) VMware
8 4 (1.33%) Citrix
8 4 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.33%) SAP
9 3 (1.00%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.00%) Charles River
9 3 (1.00%) Cognos
9 3 (1.00%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.00%) Sage