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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 254 205 285
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.74% 9.62% 10.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.90% 24.15% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 136 221
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -1.14% -12.00%
75th Percentile £669 £664 £675
90th Percentile £793 £731 £738
London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%

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 822 849 1,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.22% 39.82% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 554 754
10th Percentile £340 £400 £356
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £742
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £18.83 £26.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.97
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £30.88
90th Percentile £42.50 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £26.40 £30.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.70% -12.60% +32.46%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +5 243 £541 -2.91% 166
City of Westminster -1 2 £475 -9.52% 10
West End of London +1 1 - - 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 16 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.54%) Confluence
3 6 (2.36%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.39%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Notion
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (42.91%) Azure
2 59 (23.23%) GCP
3 41 (16.14%) AWS Lambda
3 41 (16.14%) Serverless
4 40 (15.75%) Amazon S3
5 31 (12.20%) GitHub
6 24 (9.45%) Snowflake
7 20 (7.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.12%) Power Platform
13 11 (4.33%) dbt
13 11 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (3.15%) Apigee
16 8 (3.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.30%) Firewall
2 12 (4.72%) DNS
3 8 (3.15%) Network Security
4 4 (1.57%) SSL
4 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.57%) VPN
5 3 (1.18%) DHCP
5 3 (1.18%) LAN
5 3 (1.18%) WAN
5 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.79%) 4G
6 2 (0.79%) 5G
6 2 (0.79%) BGP
6 2 (0.79%) OSPF
6 2 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (0.39%) DKIM
7 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.27%) Relational Database
2 16 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.72%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.72%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.33%) Power BI
6 10 (3.94%) MySQL
7 9 (3.54%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.54%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.54%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.76%) Tableau
10 6 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.36%) Big Data
11 5 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.97%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.97%) Metadata
12 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.57%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (11.81%) Git
2 20 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.69%) GitLab
4 15 (5.91%) JIRA
5 5 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.57%) JUnit
7 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.18%) Gatling
8 2 (0.79%) MLflow
8 2 (0.79%) Mockito
8 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.79%) Selenium
8 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.39%) ERwin
9 1 (0.39%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Postman
9 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (33.86%) Finance
2 50 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.17%) Banking
4 23 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.33%) Front Office
7 10 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.54%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.36%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.57%) Marketing
13 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Legal
13 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.79%) Back Office
14 2 (0.79%) Law
14 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.79%) Military
14 2 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (18.50%) Architect
2 42 (16.54%) Senior
3 38 (14.96%) Developer
4 30 (11.81%) Lead
5 27 (10.63%) Data Engineer
6 23 (9.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.12%) AWS Architect
9 13 (5.12%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.33%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Consultant
13 8 (3.15%) Java Developer
13 8 (3.15%) Security Architect
13 8 (3.15%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.15%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.36%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (2.36%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.69%) Node.js
2 16 (6.30%) React
3 12 (4.72%) Kafka
3 12 (4.72%) REST
3 12 (4.72%) Spring
4 11 (4.33%) .NET
4 11 (4.33%) Pandas
4 11 (4.33%) RESTful
5 10 (3.94%) HTML
5 10 (3.94%) NumPy
5 10 (3.94%) OAuth
5 10 (3.94%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.54%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.54%) CSS
6 9 (3.54%) scikit-learn
7 7 (2.76%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.36%) boto
8 6 (2.36%) PySpark
8 6 (2.36%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.97%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.93%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.54%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.54%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.54%) Derivative
3 9 (3.54%) Equities
3 9 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.76%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.36%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.97%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.51%) Linux
2 12 (4.72%) Windows
3 5 (1.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.25%) CI/CD
2 63 (24.80%) DevOps
3 52 (20.47%) Agile
3 52 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (17.72%) Analytics
5 38 (14.96%) AI
5 38 (14.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (13.39%) Microservices
8 31 (12.20%) Roadmaps
9 30 (11.81%) Migration
9 30 (11.81%) Software Engineering
10 29 (11.42%) Containerisation
10 29 (11.42%) Machine Learning
11 27 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (10.63%) ETL
12 25 (9.84%) Data Engineering
13 24 (9.45%) Data Modelling
14 22 (8.66%) Observability
15 21 (8.27%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 105 (41.34%) Python
2 70 (27.56%) SQL
3 51 (20.08%) Java
4 18 (7.09%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.54%) Bash
6 7 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.36%) C#
7 6 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.97%) C++
9 4 (1.57%) Go
9 4 (1.57%) PHP
9 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.18%) Korn
10 3 (1.18%) Perl
10 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.79%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.79%) Ruby
11 2 (0.79%) Scala
12 1 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 58 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 53 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.30%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.51%) Degree
5 7 (2.76%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.76%) PMP
6 6 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.97%) CISSP
7 5 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.18%) MCP
9 3 (1.18%) PhD
9 3 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.06%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.66%) GDPR
3 15 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.33%) NIST
5 10 (3.94%) QA
6 6 (2.36%) SLA
7 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.18%) NCSC
9 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.79%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.79%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.79%) PSD2
9 2 (0.79%) SEPA
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.39%) DICOM
10 1 (0.39%) GRC
10 1 (0.39%) HL7
10 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (19.29%) Docker
2 7 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.79%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 60 (23.62%) Terraform
2 39 (15.35%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.69%) Ansible
4 8 (3.15%) Grafana
5 7 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.57%) Argo
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.79%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.79%) Istio
8 2 (0.79%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.79%) SCCM
9 1 (0.39%) CASB
9 1 (0.39%) Kibana
9 1 (0.39%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.39%) Puppet
9 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.39%) vRealize
9 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.27%) Databricks
3 17 (6.69%) Oracle
4 10 (3.94%) Google
5 8 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.76%) IBM
7 6 (2.36%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.97%) F5
8 5 (1.97%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.97%) Splunk
9 4 (1.57%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.57%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.57%) VMware
10 3 (1.18%) Citrix
10 3 (1.18%) Confluent
10 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.18%) Informatica
10 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.18%) SAP