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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 275 249 215
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.29% 12.87% 9.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.25% 32.34% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 175 131
10th Percentile £425 £379 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £795 £838
London median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -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 £62.50 £30.65
% change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -64.97%

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 1,009 770 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.44% 39.79% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 546 614
10th Percentile £329 £329 £386
25th Percentile £455 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.05%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £754 £761 £773
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.36 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.96 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £86.43 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
% change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -4 257 £575 -1.71% 281
West End of London -5 9 £553 -7.92% 33
City of Westminster -12 8 £525 -11.02% 65
Southwark 0 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 22 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.64%) Confluence
3 9 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.55%) Apache
5 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) nginx
7 2 (0.73%) SAS
8 1 (0.36%) CICS
8 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.73%) 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 (45.09%) Azure
2 66 (24.00%) GCP
3 44 (16.00%) Serverless
4 42 (15.27%) GitHub
5 37 (13.45%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (11.64%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.91%) Snowflake
8 25 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.91%) dbt
10 18 (6.55%) Amazon Bedrock
10 18 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (5.45%) SaaS
12 13 (4.73%) Power Platform
13 12 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.36%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.36%) OpenShift
14 11 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.45%) DNS
1 15 (5.45%) Firewall
2 9 (3.27%) DHCP
2 9 (3.27%) VPN
3 6 (2.18%) BGP
4 5 (1.82%) OSPF
4 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.45%) Network Security
5 4 (1.45%) VLAN
6 3 (1.09%) MPLS
6 3 (1.09%) Multicast
6 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.09%) SMTP
6 3 (1.09%) WAN
6 3 (1.09%) Wireless
7 2 (0.73%) Internet
7 2 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.73%) IPsec
7 2 (0.73%) NGFW
7 2 (0.73%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.82%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.36%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.36%) Power BI
4 11 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (4.00%) Metadata
5 10 (3.64%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.27%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.91%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.91%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.91%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.55%) Big Data
9 5 (1.82%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.64%) GitLab
2 31 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.00%) Git
4 20 (7.27%) JIRA
5 9 (3.27%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.91%) JUnit
6 8 (2.91%) Postman
7 7 (2.55%) JMeter
7 7 (2.55%) Mockito
8 5 (1.82%) Maven
9 4 (1.45%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.45%) Selenium
10 3 (1.09%) Gatling
11 2 (0.73%) Appium
11 2 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.73%) Gradle
11 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (33.45%) Finance
2 64 (23.27%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.91%) Banking
4 35 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.18%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.55%) Back Office
7 7 (2.55%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.18%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.18%) Retail
9 5 (1.82%) Front Office
9 5 (1.82%) Military
10 4 (1.45%) Law
10 4 (1.45%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.09%) Police
11 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (24.73%) Architect
2 60 (21.82%) Senior
3 30 (10.91%) Data Engineer
4 25 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.73%) Developer
6 23 (8.36%) Lead
7 18 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (4.73%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.36%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.00%) Analyst
11 11 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (3.64%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.27%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.27%) Senior Architect
14 8 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Technical Architect
15 7 (2.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 7 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (21.09%) Terraform
2 29 (10.55%) Kafka
2 29 (10.55%) REST
3 25 (9.09%) Spring
4 24 (8.73%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.09%) .NET
5 14 (5.09%) RESTful
6 13 (4.73%) PySpark
6 13 (4.73%) React
7 11 (4.00%) SOAP
8 10 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.27%) Node.js
10 8 (2.91%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (2.55%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.55%) JSON
11 7 (2.55%) OAuth
11 7 (2.55%) Web Services
12 6 (2.18%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.18%) LangChain
12 6 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 73 (26.55%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 23 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.82%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.09%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.91%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.18%) CMDB
8 6 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.45%) PKI
10 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.09%) Clustering
11 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.45%) Linux
1 15 (5.45%) Windows
2 10 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.82%) Unix
4 2 (0.73%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (45.09%) CI/CD
2 82 (29.82%) DevOps
3 67 (24.36%) AI
4 63 (22.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (20.00%) Agile
6 47 (17.09%) Migration
7 46 (16.73%) Containerisation
7 46 (16.73%) Microservices
8 44 (16.00%) Data Engineering
8 44 (16.00%) Event-Driven
9 42 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (14.55%) Analytics
11 38 (13.82%) Data Modelling
12 37 (13.45%) Observability
13 36 (13.09%) Test Automation
14 33 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (11.27%) Machine Learning
16 31 (11.27%) Roadmaps
16 31 (11.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (35.64%) Python
2 58 (21.09%) SQL
3 49 (17.82%) Java
4 21 (7.64%) PowerShell
5 18 (6.55%) C#
5 18 (6.55%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.36%) Bash
8 5 (1.82%) Bicep
8 5 (1.82%) Korn
9 3 (1.09%) Ruby
9 3 (1.09%) Scala
9 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.73%) Go
10 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.36%) Rust
11 1 (0.36%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 57 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.27%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.27%) Degree
5 5 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.09%) PMP
7 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.73%) CCNP
7 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.73%) CISM
7 2 (0.73%) CISSP
7 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.18%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.45%) QA
3 11 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.91%) EU AI Act
5 7 (2.55%) NIST
6 6 (2.18%) GDPR
7 5 (1.82%) NCSC
8 4 (1.45%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.09%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.09%) SEPA
10 2 (0.73%) EMIR
10 2 (0.73%) MiFID
10 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (15.64%) Docker
2 9 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.45%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.18%) Ansible
3 16 (5.82%) Grafana
4 14 (5.09%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.82%) Puppet
6 4 (1.45%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.09%) Nagios
7 3 (1.09%) vMotion
8 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.36%) Argo
9 1 (0.36%) Bosun
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Packer
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.36%) Salt
9 1 (0.36%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) SELinux
9 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.27%) Databricks
3 18 (6.55%) Google
4 17 (6.18%) Oracle
5 11 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.64%) VMware
7 9 (3.27%) Cisco
7 9 (3.27%) Citrix
8 8 (2.91%) SAP
9 7 (2.55%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.55%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.18%) IBM
10 6 (2.18%) OpenAI
10 6 (2.18%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.82%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.82%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.09%) HP
12 3 (1.09%) Informatica
12 3 (1.09%) Symantec
12 3 (1.09%) Workday