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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 285 250 217
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.44% 12.84% 9.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.62% 32.22% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 173 134
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £477 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £699
90th Percentile £769 £788 £823
London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
London median hourly rate £68.50 £63.75 £30.65
% change year-on-year +7.45% +107.99% -63.94%

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 1,032 776 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.43% 39.86% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 533 633
10th Percentile £350 £334 £389
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
London median daily rate £545 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 5
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £69.50
London median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £30.80
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.67% -23.01%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -3 268 £553 -5.56% 296
West End of London -7 9 £525 -12.50% 29
City of Westminster -13 9 £525 -12.50% 73
Southwark -1 2 £600 -
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 24 (8.42%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.16%) Confluence
3 8 (2.81%) Apache
4 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.70%) CICS
6 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (44.56%) Azure
2 69 (24.21%) GCP
3 43 (15.09%) GitHub
4 41 (14.39%) Serverless
5 37 (12.98%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (11.93%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.53%) Snowflake
8 27 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.02%) dbt
10 18 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (5.96%) Amazon Bedrock
12 16 (5.61%) SaaS
13 15 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (4.91%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (4.56%) Power Platform
16 12 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (3.86%) OpenShift
18 10 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (3.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.61%) DNS
1 16 (5.61%) Firewall
2 9 (3.16%) DHCP
2 9 (3.16%) VPN
3 6 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.75%) BGP
5 4 (1.40%) Network Security
5 4 (1.40%) OSPF
5 4 (1.40%) VLAN
6 3 (1.05%) MPLS
6 3 (1.05%) Multicast
6 3 (1.05%) SMTP
7 2 (0.70%) Internet
7 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.70%) IPsec
7 2 (0.70%) NGFW
7 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) WAN
7 2 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.61%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (4.56%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.21%) Power BI
5 11 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (3.86%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.51%) Metadata
7 9 (3.16%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.81%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.81%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.81%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.46%) Big Data
9 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.75%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.75%) Tableau
11 4 (1.40%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (11.93%) GitLab
2 32 (11.23%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.42%) Git
4 21 (7.37%) JIRA
5 9 (3.16%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.16%) JUnit
6 8 (2.81%) Mockito
6 8 (2.81%) Postman
7 7 (2.46%) JMeter
8 6 (2.11%) Maven
9 4 (1.40%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.40%) Selenium
10 3 (1.05%) Gatling
10 3 (1.05%) Gradle
11 2 (0.70%) Appium
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 97 (34.04%) Finance
2 69 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.74%) Banking
4 37 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (11.23%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.46%) Back Office
7 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.11%) Retail
9 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.75%) Front Office
9 5 (1.75%) Law
9 5 (1.75%) Military
10 4 (1.40%) Marketing
10 4 (1.40%) Police
10 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.05%) Billing
11 3 (1.05%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (22.81%) Architect
2 59 (20.70%) Senior
3 31 (10.88%) Data Engineer
4 30 (10.53%) Developer
5 25 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (8.42%) Lead
7 16 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.91%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (4.56%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.21%) Analyst
10 12 (4.21%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.86%) AWS Data Engineer
11 11 (3.86%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.16%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.16%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.81%) Consultant
13 8 (2.81%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (20.00%) Terraform
2 34 (11.93%) Kafka
3 29 (10.18%) Spring
4 28 (9.82%) Spring Boot
5 27 (9.47%) REST
6 17 (5.96%) RESTful
7 14 (4.91%) .NET
8 13 (4.56%) PySpark
8 13 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (4.56%) React
9 12 (4.21%) SOAP
10 10 (3.51%) Node.js
11 8 (2.81%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (2.46%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.46%) JSON
13 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.11%) LangChain
13 6 (2.11%) OAuth
13 6 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (27.02%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.42%) AI Agents
4 17 (5.96%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.91%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.75%) Clustering
8 5 (1.75%) CMDB
8 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.40%) PKI
9 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.05%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.91%) Linux
2 13 (4.56%) Windows
3 9 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.40%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) zOS
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (45.61%) CI/CD
2 84 (29.47%) DevOps
3 71 (24.91%) AI
4 64 (22.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (21.75%) Agile
6 53 (18.60%) Microservices
7 52 (18.25%) Containerisation
8 49 (17.19%) Event-Driven
9 47 (16.49%) Migration
10 46 (16.14%) Data Engineering
10 46 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 45 (15.79%) Analytics
12 41 (14.39%) Data Modelling
13 38 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (12.63%) Observability
14 36 (12.63%) Test Automation
15 35 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (12.28%) Software Engineering
16 33 (11.58%) Machine Learning
17 30 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 106 (37.19%) Python
2 61 (21.40%) SQL
3 55 (19.30%) Java
4 20 (7.02%) C#
5 17 (5.96%) PowerShell
6 16 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 16 (5.61%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.21%) Bash
8 4 (1.40%) Bicep
8 4 (1.40%) Korn
8 4 (1.40%) Ruby
8 4 (1.40%) Scala
8 4 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.70%) Go
9 2 (0.70%) JCL
9 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.35%) R
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.86%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.16%) Degree
5 8 (2.81%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.75%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.75%) PMP
6 5 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.05%) CCNP
7 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.70%) CISM
8 2 (0.70%) CISSP
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.70%) OSCP
8 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.96%) QA
3 11 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.51%) NIST
5 8 (2.81%) EU AI Act
5 8 (2.81%) GDPR
6 5 (1.75%) NCSC
7 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.05%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.05%) SEPA
8 2 (0.70%) EMIR
8 2 (0.70%) MiFID
8 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.70%) PMO
8 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 49 (17.19%) Docker
2 9 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.05%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.05%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) NFS
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (22.46%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.47%) Ansible
3 17 (5.96%) Grafana
4 15 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.75%) Puppet
6 4 (1.40%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.05%) Nagios
7 3 (1.05%) vMotion
8 1 (0.35%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Bosun
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.35%) Salt
8 1 (0.35%) SELinux
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 29 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.82%) Databricks
3 19 (6.67%) Google
4 18 (6.32%) Oracle
5 10 (3.51%) Citrix
5 10 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.51%) VMware
6 8 (2.81%) Cisco
6 8 (2.81%) SAP
7 7 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.11%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.11%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.75%) IBM
9 5 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.05%) HP
11 3 (1.05%) Informatica
11 3 (1.05%) Splunk
11 3 (1.05%) Workday