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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 280 247 217
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.33% 12.66% 9.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.37% 31.87% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 170 134
10th Percentile £425 £410 £425
25th Percentile £475 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £679 £699
90th Percentile £775 £789 £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 1,023 775 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.38% 39.72% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 529 635
10th Percentile £344 £332 £398
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.44%
75th Percentile £656 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £761
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -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% +15.70%
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% -36.83%

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 14 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 14 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 -2 265 £550 -5.98% 201
City of Westminster -11 9 £525 -12.50% 62
West End of London -7 8 £525 -12.50% 25
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 23 (8.21%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.21%) Confluence
3 8 (2.86%) Apache
4 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.71%) CICS
6 2 (0.71%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (44.29%) Azure
2 66 (23.57%) GCP
3 40 (14.29%) GitHub
4 39 (13.93%) Serverless
5 35 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (11.43%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.71%) Snowflake
8 24 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.14%) dbt
10 16 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
10 16 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.71%) SaaS
11 13 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.64%) Power Platform
12 12 (4.29%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (3.93%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.71%) DNS
1 16 (5.71%) Firewall
2 9 (3.21%) DHCP
2 9 (3.21%) VPN
3 6 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.79%) BGP
5 4 (1.43%) Network Security
5 4 (1.43%) OSPF
5 4 (1.43%) VLAN
6 3 (1.07%) MPLS
6 3 (1.07%) Multicast
6 3 (1.07%) SMTP
7 2 (0.71%) Internet
7 2 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.71%) IPsec
7 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.71%) SSH
7 2 (0.71%) WAN
7 2 (0.71%) Wireless
7 2 (0.71%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.64%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.29%) Power BI
6 11 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (3.93%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.57%) Metadata
8 9 (3.21%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.86%) Delta Lake
9 8 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.86%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.50%) Big Data
10 7 (2.50%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.79%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.43%) GitLab
2 29 (10.36%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.86%) Git
4 21 (7.50%) JIRA
5 9 (3.21%) JUnit
6 8 (2.86%) Mockito
6 8 (2.86%) Postman
7 6 (2.14%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.14%) JMeter
7 6 (2.14%) Maven
8 4 (1.43%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.43%) Selenium
9 3 (1.07%) Gradle
10 2 (0.71%) Appium
10 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.71%) Gatling
10 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (33.57%) Finance
2 69 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.29%) Banking
4 36 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.14%) Retail
9 5 (1.79%) Back Office
9 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.79%) Law
9 5 (1.79%) Military
10 4 (1.43%) Front Office
10 4 (1.43%) Marketing
10 4 (1.43%) Police
10 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.07%) Billing
11 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 64 (22.86%) Architect
2 58 (20.71%) Senior
3 31 (11.07%) Developer
4 29 (10.36%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.21%) Lead
7 15 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.64%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (4.29%) Analyst
10 12 (4.29%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.29%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (3.21%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.21%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.21%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.86%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.86%) Consultant
13 8 (2.86%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (19.64%) Terraform
2 33 (11.79%) Kafka
3 30 (10.71%) Spring
4 29 (10.36%) Spring Boot
5 27 (9.64%) REST
6 18 (6.43%) RESTful
7 14 (5.00%) .NET
8 13 (4.64%) PySpark
8 13 (4.64%) React
9 12 (4.29%) SOAP
10 11 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (3.57%) Node.js
12 7 (2.50%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.50%) JSON
13 6 (2.14%) ActiveMQ
13 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.14%) LangChain
13 6 (2.14%) OAuth
13 6 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.57%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.79%) Clustering
8 5 (1.79%) CMDB
8 5 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.43%) PKI
9 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.43%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.00%) Linux
2 13 (4.64%) Windows
3 9 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.43%) Unix
5 2 (0.71%) zOS
6 1 (0.36%) AIX
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (45.36%) CI/CD
2 83 (29.64%) DevOps
3 71 (25.36%) AI
4 62 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (21.79%) Agile
6 53 (18.93%) Microservices
7 49 (17.50%) Containerisation
8 47 (16.79%) Migration
9 46 (16.43%) Event-Driven
9 46 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (15.71%) Analytics
10 44 (15.71%) Data Engineering
11 39 (13.93%) Data Modelling
12 36 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (12.50%) Observability
13 35 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 35 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 33 (11.79%) Machine Learning
15 29 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 103 (36.79%) Python
2 58 (20.71%) SQL
3 55 (19.64%) Java
4 20 (7.14%) C#
5 17 (6.07%) PowerShell
6 16 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.36%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.29%) Bash
9 4 (1.43%) Bicep
9 4 (1.43%) Korn
9 4 (1.43%) Ruby
9 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.07%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.71%) Go
11 2 (0.71%) JCL
11 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.36%) R
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (20.71%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.93%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.21%) Degree
5 7 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.79%) PMP
6 5 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.07%) CCNP
7 3 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.71%) CISM
8 2 (0.71%) CISSP
8 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.36%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.07%) QA
3 11 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.57%) NIST
5 8 (2.86%) EU AI Act
5 8 (2.86%) GDPR
6 5 (1.79%) NCSC
7 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.07%) SEPA
8 2 (0.71%) EMIR
8 2 (0.71%) MiFID
8 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.71%) PMO
8 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 47 (16.79%) Docker
2 9 (3.21%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.07%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.07%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.29%) Ansible
3 15 (5.36%) Grafana
3 15 (5.36%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.79%) Puppet
5 4 (1.43%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.07%) Nagios
6 3 (1.07%) vMotion
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Bosun
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.36%) Consul
7 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.36%) Salt
7 1 (0.36%) SELinux
7 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.36%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 29 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.64%) Databricks
3 19 (6.79%) Google
4 17 (6.07%) Oracle
5 10 (3.57%) Citrix
5 10 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.57%) VMware
6 8 (2.86%) Cisco
7 7 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.50%) SAP
8 6 (2.14%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.14%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.14%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.79%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.07%) HP
10 3 (1.07%) IBM
10 3 (1.07%) Informatica
10 3 (1.07%) Symantec
10 3 (1.07%) Workday