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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 278 256 217
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.09% 12.78% 9.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.36% 32.00% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 176 138
10th Percentile £425 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £820
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 £67.00 £58.75 £30.65
% change year-on-year +14.04% +91.68% -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 1,016 800 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.53% 39.94% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 537 643
10th Percentile £363 £337 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.00%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £751
London median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £59.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £79.40
London median hourly rate £34.62 £30.00 £30.30
% change year-on-year +15.38% -0.97% -31.15%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -3 263 £550 -4.35% 107
City of Westminster -10 9 £525 -12.50% 49
West End of London -7 8 £525 -9.48% 33
Southwark -3 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 20 (7.19%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.52%) Confluence
3 5 (1.80%) Apache
3 5 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.72%) CICS
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.72%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 117 (42.09%) Azure
2 62 (22.30%) GCP
3 42 (15.11%) Serverless
4 40 (14.39%) GitHub
5 36 (12.95%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.23%) Amazon S3
7 28 (10.07%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.47%) dbt
10 17 (6.12%) SaaS
11 16 (5.76%) Amazon Bedrock
12 15 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.40%) Power Platform
13 13 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.96%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.40%) DNS
2 14 (5.04%) Firewall
3 8 (2.88%) DHCP
4 7 (2.52%) VPN
5 5 (1.80%) Network Security
5 5 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.08%) BGP
6 3 (1.08%) SMTP
6 3 (1.08%) VLAN
7 2 (0.72%) Internet
7 2 (0.72%) Multicast
7 2 (0.72%) NGFW
7 2 (0.72%) OSPF
7 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.72%) SSH
7 2 (0.72%) X.509
8 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.36%) VSAN
8 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.40%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.04%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.68%) Power BI
6 12 (4.32%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.88%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.52%) Metadata
9 7 (2.52%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.16%) Big Data
10 6 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.16%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.16%) Tableau
11 5 (1.80%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.08%) Milvus
Development Applications
1 31 (11.15%) GitLab
2 28 (10.07%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.63%) Git
4 20 (7.19%) JIRA
5 9 (3.24%) Postman
6 8 (2.88%) JUnit
7 7 (2.52%) Mockito
8 6 (2.16%) JMeter
9 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.44%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.44%) Maven
10 4 (1.44%) Selenium
11 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.08%) Gradle
12 2 (0.72%) Appium
12 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.72%) Gatling
12 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.36%) TestNG
General
1 90 (32.37%) Finance
2 64 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.31%) Banking
4 33 (11.87%) Public Sector
5 32 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.16%) Retail
10 5 (1.80%) Back Office
10 5 (1.80%) Front Office
10 5 (1.80%) Law
10 5 (1.80%) Military
11 4 (1.44%) Police
12 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.08%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.08%) Marketing
12 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (21.58%) Architect
2 52 (18.71%) Senior
3 33 (11.87%) Developer
4 29 (10.43%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.63%) AWS Engineer
6 22 (7.91%) Lead
7 13 (4.68%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.32%) Analyst
9 11 (3.96%) Java Developer
9 11 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (3.60%) AWS Architect
10 10 (3.60%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.24%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (3.24%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.88%) Consultant
12 8 (2.88%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.06%) Terraform
2 31 (11.15%) Kafka
3 28 (10.07%) Spring
4 27 (9.71%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.27%) REST
6 18 (6.47%) React
7 17 (6.12%) RESTful
8 14 (5.04%) .NET
9 13 (4.68%) PySpark
10 12 (4.32%) Node.js
11 11 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.24%) SOAP
13 7 (2.52%) JSON
14 6 (2.16%) .NET Core
14 6 (2.16%) OAuth
14 6 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
15 5 (1.80%) Django
15 5 (1.80%) LangChain
16 4 (1.44%) AngularJS
16 4 (1.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 74 (26.62%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.91%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.68%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.16%) Clustering
8 6 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.80%) CMDB
10 4 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.44%) PKI
10 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Equities
11 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.08%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.40%) Windows
2 14 (5.04%) Linux
3 9 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) 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
1 122 (43.88%) CI/CD
2 84 (30.22%) DevOps
3 67 (24.10%) AI
4 63 (22.66%) Agile
4 63 (22.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (17.99%) Microservices
6 48 (17.27%) Containerisation
7 46 (16.55%) Event-Driven
8 45 (16.19%) Migration
9 44 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (14.75%) Data Engineering
11 40 (14.39%) Analytics
11 40 (14.39%) Data Modelling
12 37 (13.31%) Test Automation
13 35 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (11.87%) Machine Learning
14 33 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (11.51%) Software Engineering
16 31 (11.15%) Observability
17 25 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 106 (38.13%) Python
2 56 (20.14%) SQL
3 54 (19.42%) Java
4 21 (7.55%) C#
5 19 (6.83%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.47%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.40%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.32%) Bash
9 5 (1.80%) Ruby
10 4 (1.44%) Bicep
10 4 (1.44%) Korn
10 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.08%) Scala
12 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.72%) Go
12 2 (0.72%) JCL
12 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.36%) Rust
13 1 (0.36%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 61 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.60%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.88%) Degree
5 6 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.80%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.80%) PMP
7 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.08%) CCNP
7 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.08%) CISM
7 3 (1.08%) CISSP
7 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.08%) SnowPro
7 3 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.72%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.72%) OSCP
9 1 (0.36%) GPEN
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.12%) QA
3 14 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.96%) GDPR
4 11 (3.96%) NIST
5 8 (2.88%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.44%) NCSC
8 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.72%) EMIR
9 2 (0.72%) MiFID
9 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.72%) PMO
9 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (15.83%) Docker
2 9 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.08%) 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 59 (21.22%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.63%) Ansible
3 13 (4.68%) Grafana
3 13 (4.68%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.80%) Puppet
5 4 (1.44%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.08%) Nagios
6 3 (1.08%) 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%) 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 30 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.27%) Databricks
3 18 (6.47%) Google
4 16 (5.76%) Oracle
5 10 (3.60%) Citrix
5 10 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.60%) VMware
6 8 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.52%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.16%) Cisco
8 6 (2.16%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.16%) SAP
9 5 (1.80%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.80%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.08%) IBM
10 3 (1.08%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.08%) Splunk
10 3 (1.08%) Symantec
10 3 (1.08%) Workday