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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 280 274 273
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.21% 14.52% 11.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.11% 34.04% 28.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 190 197
10th Percentile £388 £400 £415
25th Percentile £463 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £672 £668 £688
90th Percentile £775 £728 £793
London median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +30.84% +69.84% -59.35%

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 962 805 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.53% 42.66% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 515 687
10th Percentile £338 £363 £354
25th Percentile £453 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.63% -0.95% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £21.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £89.75 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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 29 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 29 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 -2 265 £550 - 97
West End of London -5 6 £650 +18.18%
City of Westminster -6 5 £650 +6.12% 5
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 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.14%) Confluence
3 5 (1.79%) Apache
4 4 (1.43%) CICS
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.07%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (40.36%) Azure
2 60 (21.43%) GCP
3 49 (17.50%) Serverless
4 46 (16.43%) GitHub
5 43 (15.36%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (13.93%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (8.21%) Snowflake
9 19 (6.79%) Power Platform
10 18 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.71%) SaaS
12 14 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (4.29%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (3.57%) Amazon Bedrock
16 10 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
17 9 (3.21%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) Network Security
2 9 (3.21%) Firewall
3 8 (2.86%) DNS
4 3 (1.07%) DHCP
4 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.71%) NGFW
5 2 (0.71%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) BGP
6 1 (0.36%) IPsec
6 1 (0.36%) NAS
6 1 (0.36%) OSPF
6 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) VLAN
6 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.86%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.43%) NoSQL
2 18 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.00%) Power BI
4 13 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.64%) Tableau
5 12 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.29%) Metadata
5 12 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.86%) DB2
9 7 (2.50%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.43%) Big Data
12 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 29 (10.36%) Git
2 27 (9.64%) GitLab
2 27 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.50%) JIRA
4 8 (2.86%) JUnit
4 8 (2.86%) Postman
5 7 (2.50%) Mockito
6 4 (1.43%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.43%) JMeter
7 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.07%) Gradle
7 3 (1.07%) Maven
8 2 (0.71%) Ant
8 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.71%) Gatling
8 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.71%) Mocha
8 2 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 92 (32.86%) Finance
2 60 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.21%) Banking
4 32 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.29%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.86%) Front Office
9 7 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Back Office
11 3 (1.07%) Law
11 3 (1.07%) Marketing
11 3 (1.07%) Military
11 3 (1.07%) Police
11 3 (1.07%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Advertising
12 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (22.14%) Architect
2 40 (14.29%) Developer
3 33 (11.79%) Senior
4 26 (9.29%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.21%) Lead
6 19 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.64%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.29%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (3.93%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (3.93%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.57%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.57%) Migration Project Manager
12 9 (3.21%) Consultant
12 9 (3.21%) Data Scientist
13 8 (2.86%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.50%) Kafka
2 28 (10.00%) Spring
2 28 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 22 (7.86%) REST
4 20 (7.14%) React
5 19 (6.79%) RESTful
6 13 (4.64%) .NET
7 11 (3.93%) JSON
7 11 (3.93%) PySpark
7 11 (3.93%) PyTorch
8 10 (3.57%) Node.js
9 9 (3.21%) SOAP
10 8 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (2.86%) TensorFlow
11 7 (2.50%) boto
11 7 (2.50%) Pandas
12 6 (2.14%) NumPy
12 6 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.14%) scikit-learn
12 6 (2.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (23.93%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.93%) Equities
4 10 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.14%) Clustering
9 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.79%) Derivative
9 5 (1.79%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.43%) DataPower
10 4 (1.43%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.43%) LIMS
10 4 (1.43%) NHS
10 4 (1.43%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.36%) Linux
2 12 (4.29%) Windows
3 4 (1.43%) Android
3 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.43%) zOS
4 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
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 (39.64%) CI/CD
2 76 (27.14%) DevOps
3 69 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (22.50%) AI
5 59 (21.07%) Agile
6 49 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 47 (16.79%) Migration
8 42 (15.00%) Analytics
9 41 (14.64%) Event-Driven
9 41 (14.64%) Observability
10 39 (13.93%) Machine Learning
10 39 (13.93%) Microservices
11 37 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (12.86%) Data Engineering
13 35 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (11.79%) Test Automation
15 30 (10.71%) Data Modelling
16 27 (9.64%) Roadmaps
17 26 (9.29%) Performance Tuning
17 26 (9.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (38.57%) Python
2 64 (22.86%) SQL
3 54 (19.29%) Java
4 17 (6.07%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.36%) C#
6 13 (4.64%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.57%) Bash
8 7 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.14%) Ruby
9 6 (2.14%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.79%) Scala
11 4 (1.43%) Bicep
11 4 (1.43%) JCL
12 3 (1.07%) Go
12 3 (1.07%) Korn
12 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.36%) C
14 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 66 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.64%) Degree
4 11 (3.93%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.93%) PMP
5 10 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.14%) CISSP
7 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.79%) CISM
8 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.43%) PhD
9 3 (1.07%) CCNP
9 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.14%) NIST
3 19 (6.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (6.43%) GDPR
5 8 (2.86%) QA
5 8 (2.86%) SLA
6 5 (1.79%) NCSC
7 4 (1.43%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.07%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.07%) SEPA
9 2 (0.71%) EMIR
9 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.71%) MiFID
9 2 (0.71%) PSD2
10 1 (0.36%) DICOM
10 1 (0.36%) HL7
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (17.86%) Docker
2 6 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.71%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 54 (19.29%) Terraform
3 20 (7.14%) Ansible
4 16 (5.71%) Grafana
5 15 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.07%) Argo
6 3 (1.07%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.71%) Puppet
7 2 (0.71%) 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%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.36%) QRadar
8 1 (0.36%) Salt
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.93%) CyberArk
2 11 (3.93%) Databricks
2 11 (3.93%) Oracle
3 10 (3.57%) Google
4 9 (3.21%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.86%) Citrix
5 8 (2.86%) IBM
6 7 (2.50%) Splunk
7 6 (2.14%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.14%) VMware
8 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.43%) SAP
10 3 (1.07%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.07%) Charles River
10 3 (1.07%) Cisco
10 3 (1.07%) Informatica