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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 253 207 313
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.76% 8.84% 11.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.89% 22.28% 27.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 130 239
10th Percentile £413 £418 £400
25th Percentile £486 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +1.32% -9.20%
75th Percentile £672 £672 £680
90th Percentile £788 £738 £763
London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.08%

All Cloud 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 819 929 1,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.30% 39.68% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 602 820
10th Percentile £335 £394 £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 £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £19.53 £31.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £43.33 - £34.44
90th Percentile £55.83 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.15 £35.00 £36.57
% change year-on-year -25.29% -4.28% +17.95%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 +8 240 £550 -4.35% 109
City of Westminster +2 6 £475 -9.52% 3
West End of London +4 2 £475 -9.52% 3
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 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.56%) Confluence
3 6 (2.37%) Apache
4 4 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) CICS
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Luigi
6 1 (0.40%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Notion
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (43.48%) Azure
2 58 (22.92%) GCP
3 40 (15.81%) Amazon S3
4 36 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (14.23%) Serverless
5 31 (12.25%) GitHub
6 25 (9.88%) Snowflake
7 21 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.14%) Power Platform
12 13 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (4.74%) dbt
13 12 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.16%) SaaS
16 7 (2.77%) Apigee
16 7 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.51%) Firewall
2 13 (5.14%) DNS
3 7 (2.77%) Network Security
4 5 (1.98%) VPN
5 4 (1.58%) SSL
5 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.19%) DHCP
6 3 (1.19%) LAN
6 3 (1.19%) WAN
6 3 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.79%) 4G
7 2 (0.79%) 5G
7 2 (0.79%) BGP
7 2 (0.79%) NAS
7 2 (0.79%) OSPF
7 2 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.40%) DKIM
8 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.74%) Power BI
5 11 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.95%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.95%) MySQL
7 9 (3.56%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.16%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.16%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.16%) Tableau
9 7 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.77%) Big Data
10 6 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.98%) Metadata
12 3 (1.19%) DataStage
12 3 (1.19%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (12.65%) Git
2 18 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.93%) GitLab
4 14 (5.53%) JIRA
5 6 (2.37%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.58%) JUnit
7 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.79%) MLflow
8 2 (0.79%) Mockito
8 2 (0.79%) Postman
8 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.79%) Selenium
8 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.40%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.40%) Snyk
9 1 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 90 (35.57%) Finance
2 52 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.83%) Banking
4 27 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.53%) Front Office
7 7 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.37%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.98%) Legal
10 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Back Office
11 3 (1.19%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.79%) Law
12 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.79%) Marketing
12 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Retail
12 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (20.95%) Architect
2 43 (17.00%) Senior
3 36 (14.23%) Developer
4 27 (10.67%) Data Engineer
5 25 (9.88%) Lead
6 20 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (6.32%) AWS Architect
8 16 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.74%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.35%) Consultant
11 10 (3.95%) Security Architect
12 9 (3.56%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.77%) AWS Security Architect
13 7 (2.77%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (2.77%) Data Architect
13 7 (2.77%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.77%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.77%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.77%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.32%) Node.js
1 16 (6.32%) React
2 15 (5.93%) RESTful
3 14 (5.53%) Kafka
4 11 (4.35%) Spring
5 10 (3.95%) REST
6 9 (3.56%) .NET
6 9 (3.56%) OAuth
6 9 (3.56%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.16%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.16%) CSS
7 8 (3.16%) HTML
7 8 (3.16%) Pandas
7 8 (3.16%) scikit-learn
8 7 (2.77%) NumPy
9 6 (2.37%) JWT
9 6 (2.37%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.37%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.37%) XML
10 5 (1.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.42%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.56%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.56%) Derivative
3 9 (3.56%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.77%) Equities
5 7 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.77%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.98%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.58%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.93%) Windows
2 11 (4.35%) Linux
3 7 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) Android
5 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.79%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.81%) CI/CD
2 59 (23.32%) DevOps
3 52 (20.55%) Agile
4 47 (18.58%) Analytics
5 41 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (13.04%) Microservices
8 32 (12.65%) AI
8 32 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (12.25%) Migration
10 29 (11.46%) Roadmaps
10 29 (11.46%) Software Engineering
11 28 (11.07%) Containerisation
11 28 (11.07%) Machine Learning
12 25 (9.88%) ETL
13 23 (9.09%) Data Engineering
14 22 (8.70%) Cloud Security
14 22 (8.70%) Data Modelling
14 22 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
15 19 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 103 (40.71%) Python
2 66 (26.09%) SQL
3 46 (18.18%) Java
4 17 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.74%) Bash
6 10 (3.95%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.37%) C#
9 5 (1.98%) C++
9 5 (1.98%) Go
10 3 (1.19%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.19%) Perl
10 3 (1.19%) PHP
10 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.19%) Scala
10 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.79%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.79%) PromQL
11 2 (0.79%) R
12 1 (0.40%) ProC
Qualifications
1 46 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.81%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.72%) Degree
4 15 (5.93%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.77%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.98%) CISSP
7 5 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.19%) PhD
9 3 (1.19%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.19%) PMP
9 3 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.72%) GDPR
3 14 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.95%) NIST
5 8 (3.16%) QA
6 6 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.98%) SLA
8 3 (1.19%) NCSC
9 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.79%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.40%) DICOM
10 1 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.40%) HL7
10 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.40%) PMO
10 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (17.39%) Docker
2 11 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.79%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 53 (20.95%) Terraform
2 37 (14.62%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.32%) Ansible
4 7 (2.77%) Grafana
5 6 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.79%) Istio
8 2 (0.79%) Puppet
8 2 (0.79%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) CASB
9 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) QRadar
9 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 34 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.91%) Databricks
3 16 (6.32%) Oracle
4 11 (4.35%) Google
5 9 (3.56%) IBM
5 9 (3.56%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.37%) Splunk
8 5 (1.98%) F5
8 5 (1.98%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.58%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.58%) Informatica
9 4 (1.58%) VMware
10 3 (1.19%) Citrix
10 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.19%) Tenable
11 2 (0.79%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.79%) Dell
11 2 (0.79%) Okta