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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 278 280 275
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.22% 14.67% 11.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.02% 33.90% 28.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 195 202
10th Percentile £378 £400 £413
25th Percentile £464 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £669 £653 £675
90th Percentile £775 £723 £788
London median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -8.00%
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 £68.50 £46.75 £31.50
% change year-on-year +46.52% +48.41% -58.00%

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 958 826 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.68% 43.27% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 531 693
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £453 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 7
10th Percentile £20.35 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £44.47 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.34% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £43.75 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.53 £89.75 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
% change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -40.91%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -4 262 £550 - 159
West End of London -5 6 £650 +21.50% 7
City of Westminster -3 5 £650 +8.33% 9
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 18 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.16%) Confluence
3 5 (1.80%) Apache
4 4 (1.44%) CICS
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Notion
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 111 (39.93%) Azure
2 62 (22.30%) GCP
3 51 (18.35%) Serverless
4 45 (16.19%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (16.19%) GitHub
5 40 (14.39%) Amazon S3
6 27 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (8.27%) Snowflake
8 19 (6.83%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.76%) SaaS
11 15 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.32%) Amazon SageMaker
13 12 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.60%) Amazon Bedrock
15 10 (3.60%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (3.24%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.96%) Network Security
2 8 (2.88%) Firewall
3 6 (2.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.72%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) DHCP
5 1 (0.36%) IPsec
5 1 (0.36%) NAS
5 1 (0.36%) NGFW
5 1 (0.36%) OSPF
5 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
5 1 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.91%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.04%) Power BI
5 13 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (4.68%) Tableau
6 12 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.32%) Metadata
7 11 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.60%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.88%) DB2
10 7 (2.52%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.16%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.44%) Big Data
13 4 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.44%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 29 (10.43%) Git
2 27 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.35%) GitLab
4 22 (7.91%) JIRA
5 8 (2.88%) JUnit
5 8 (2.88%) Postman
6 7 (2.52%) Mockito
7 4 (1.44%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.44%) JMeter
8 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.08%) Gradle
8 3 (1.08%) Maven
9 2 (0.72%) Ant
9 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.72%) Gatling
9 2 (0.72%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.72%) Mocha
9 2 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 93 (33.45%) Finance
2 57 (20.50%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.67%) Banking
4 28 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.32%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.24%) Front Office
7 9 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Back Office
10 3 (1.08%) Law
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Police
10 3 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Advertising
11 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (21.22%) Architect
2 41 (14.75%) Developer
3 33 (11.87%) Senior
4 26 (9.35%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.27%) Lead
6 19 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.68%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.32%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.96%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (3.96%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 11 (3.96%) Snowflake Engineer
12 10 (3.60%) Consultant
12 10 (3.60%) Migration Manager
12 10 (3.60%) Migration Project Manager
13 9 (3.24%) Data Scientist
14 8 (2.88%) AWS Architect
14 8 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.59%) Kafka
2 28 (10.07%) Spring
2 28 (10.07%) Spring Boot
3 21 (7.55%) React
3 21 (7.55%) REST
4 19 (6.83%) RESTful
5 12 (4.32%) .NET
6 11 (3.96%) JSON
6 11 (3.96%) Node.js
6 11 (3.96%) PySpark
6 11 (3.96%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.24%) SOAP
8 8 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (2.88%) Pandas
8 8 (2.88%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.52%) boto
9 7 (2.52%) NumPy
10 6 (2.16%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.16%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.74%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.32%) Equities
4 10 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.88%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.16%) Clustering
7 6 (2.16%) Derivative
8 5 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.80%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.44%) DataPower
9 4 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.44%) LIMS
9 4 (1.44%) NHS
9 4 (1.44%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.44%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.04%) Linux
2 10 (3.60%) Windows
3 4 (1.44%) Android
3 4 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.44%) zOS
4 2 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (39.93%) CI/CD
2 78 (28.06%) DevOps
3 68 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (22.66%) AI
5 59 (21.22%) Agile
6 48 (17.27%) Containerisation
7 46 (16.55%) Migration
8 43 (15.47%) Analytics
9 40 (14.39%) Event-Driven
9 40 (14.39%) Observability
10 39 (14.03%) Machine Learning
11 38 (13.67%) Microservices
12 36 (12.95%) Data Engineering
13 35 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (11.51%) Test Automation
15 29 (10.43%) Data Modelling
16 27 (9.71%) Roadmaps
17 26 (9.35%) Validation
18 25 (8.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 107 (38.49%) Python
2 64 (23.02%) SQL
3 53 (19.06%) Java
4 18 (6.47%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.76%) C#
6 13 (4.68%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.60%) Bash
8 7 (2.52%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.80%) Ruby
10 5 (1.80%) Scala
11 4 (1.44%) Bicep
11 4 (1.44%) JCL
12 3 (1.08%) Go
12 3 (1.08%) Korn
12 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.72%) C++
13 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (24.46%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.32%) Degree
4 11 (3.96%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.96%) PMP
5 9 (3.24%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.16%) CISSP
7 5 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.80%) CISM
7 5 (1.80%) PhD
8 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.72%) CCNP
10 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.19%) NIST
3 19 (6.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (6.47%) GDPR
5 8 (2.88%) SLA
6 7 (2.52%) QA
7 5 (1.80%) NCSC
8 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.08%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.08%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.08%) SEPA
10 2 (0.72%) EMIR
10 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.72%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.72%) MiFID
10 2 (0.72%) PSD2
11 1 (0.36%) DICOM
11 1 (0.36%) HL7
11 1 (0.36%) PMO
11 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (18.35%) Docker
2 4 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.72%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 54 (19.42%) Terraform
3 19 (6.83%) Ansible
4 16 (5.76%) Grafana
5 15 (5.40%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.08%) Argo
6 3 (1.08%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.72%) Puppet
7 2 (0.72%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.36%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) QRadar
8 1 (0.36%) Salt
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.96%) CyberArk
2 11 (3.96%) Databricks
3 10 (3.60%) Google
4 9 (3.24%) Oracle
5 8 (2.88%) Citrix
5 8 (2.88%) IBM
5 8 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.52%) Splunk
7 5 (1.80%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.80%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.80%) SAP
8 4 (1.44%) VMware
9 3 (1.08%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.08%) Charles River
9 3 (1.08%) Informatica
9 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto