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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 288 278 272
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.68% 13.94% 11.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.81% 32.33% 28.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 191 202
10th Percentile £371 £404 £418
25th Percentile £463 £457 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £675
90th Percentile £761 £720 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £68.50 £48.25 £43.25
% change year-on-year +41.97% +11.56% -42.33%

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 966 860 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.19% 43.13% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 554 687
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £453 £456 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £755
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £26.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £45.00 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £94.88 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
% change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -48.00%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -2 271 £550 - 227
West End of London 0 6 £650 +25.00% 8
City of Westminster -2 5 £650 +10.17% 5
Lambeth - 1 £350 -
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 17 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.08%) Confluence
4 5 (1.74%) Apache
5 4 (1.39%) CICS
6 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.04%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 122 (42.36%) Azure
2 68 (23.61%) GCP
3 49 (17.01%) Serverless
4 48 (16.67%) GitHub
5 44 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (14.24%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (8.33%) Snowflake
9 20 (6.94%) Power Platform
10 19 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.86%) SaaS
13 13 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (3.47%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
16 9 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (3.13%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.17%) Network Security
2 9 (3.13%) Firewall
3 5 (1.74%) DNS
4 2 (0.69%) NAS
4 2 (0.69%) SAN
4 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.69%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) NGFW
5 1 (0.35%) OSPF
5 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.35%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) VLAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.64%) DynamoDB
2 21 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.21%) Power BI
5 13 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (4.51%) Metadata
6 12 (4.17%) Tableau
7 11 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.82%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.78%) DB2
9 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.74%) Big Data
13 4 (1.39%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.15%) Git
2 26 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.68%) GitLab
4 19 (6.60%) JIRA
5 8 (2.78%) JUnit
6 7 (2.43%) Mockito
6 7 (2.43%) Postman
7 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.39%) JMeter
8 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.04%) Gradle
8 3 (1.04%) Maven
9 2 (0.69%) Ant
9 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.69%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.69%) Mocha
9 2 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 97 (33.68%) Finance
2 61 (21.18%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.24%) Banking
4 30 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.51%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.82%) Front Office
8 10 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.43%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.39%) Law
12 3 (1.04%) Back Office
12 3 (1.04%) Military
12 3 (1.04%) Police
13 2 (0.69%) Advertising
13 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.69%) Retail
13 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (21.18%) Architect
2 47 (16.32%) Developer
3 35 (12.15%) Senior
4 27 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.29%) Lead
6 18 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (5.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.51%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.51%) Project Manager
8 13 (4.51%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.82%) AWS Architect
9 11 (3.82%) Migration Manager
9 11 (3.82%) Migration Project Manager
9 11 (3.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 11 (3.82%) Snowflake Engineer
10 10 (3.47%) Consultant
11 9 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.13%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.50%) Kafka
2 29 (10.07%) Spring
3 28 (9.72%) Spring Boot
4 23 (7.99%) React
5 22 (7.64%) REST
6 21 (7.29%) RESTful
7 14 (4.86%) Node.js
8 12 (4.17%) JSON
9 11 (3.82%) .NET
9 11 (3.82%) PySpark
9 11 (3.82%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (3.13%) Pandas
11 8 (2.78%) NumPy
11 8 (2.78%) SOAP
11 8 (2.78%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.43%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.43%) HTML
12 7 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.43%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 70 (24.31%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.03%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.17%) Equities
5 9 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.78%) Derivative
6 8 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.08%) Clustering
7 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.74%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.74%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.39%) DataPower
9 4 (1.39%) LIMS
9 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.39%) NHS
9 4 (1.39%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.51%) Linux
2 10 (3.47%) Windows
3 4 (1.39%) Android
3 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.39%) zOS
4 2 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.32%) CI/CD
2 82 (28.47%) DevOps
3 72 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (22.22%) AI
5 62 (21.53%) Agile
6 51 (17.71%) Migration
7 49 (17.01%) Containerisation
8 46 (15.97%) Analytics
9 45 (15.63%) Microservices
10 41 (14.24%) Machine Learning
10 41 (14.24%) Observability
11 39 (13.54%) Event-Driven
11 39 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (12.85%) Data Engineering
13 35 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (11.46%) Test Automation
15 30 (10.42%) Data Modelling
16 29 (10.07%) Software Engineering
17 28 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (9.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 113 (39.24%) Python
2 68 (23.61%) SQL
3 58 (20.14%) Java
4 20 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.21%) C#
6 14 (4.86%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.82%) Bash
8 8 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.08%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.74%) Ruby
10 5 (1.74%) Scala
11 4 (1.39%) Bicep
11 4 (1.39%) C++
11 4 (1.39%) JCL
12 3 (1.04%) Go
12 3 (1.04%) Korn
12 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.69%) R
14 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 74 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.51%) Degree
4 11 (3.82%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.82%) PMP
5 10 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.43%) CISSP
7 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.08%) PhD
8 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.74%) CISM
9 4 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.69%) CCSP
11 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.64%) GDPR
2 22 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.29%) NIST
4 8 (2.78%) SLA
5 7 (2.43%) QA
6 6 (2.08%) NCSC
6 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.04%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.04%) SEPA
8 2 (0.69%) EMIR
8 2 (0.69%) GRC
8 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.69%) MiFID
8 2 (0.69%) PSD2
9 1 (0.35%) DICOM
9 1 (0.35%) HL7
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (19.10%) Docker
2 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.69%) NFS
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 59 (20.49%) Terraform
3 19 (6.60%) Ansible
4 18 (6.25%) Grafana
5 16 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.04%) Argo
6 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.69%) Puppet
7 2 (0.69%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) Istio
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.35%) QRadar
8 1 (0.35%) Salt
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.21%) Databricks
3 12 (4.17%) CyberArk
3 12 (4.17%) Google
3 12 (4.17%) Oracle
4 8 (2.78%) Citrix
4 8 (2.78%) IBM
4 8 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.43%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.43%) Splunk
6 5 (1.74%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.74%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.74%) SAP
6 5 (1.74%) VMware
7 3 (1.04%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.04%) Charles River
7 3 (1.04%) Informatica
7 3 (1.04%) Palo Alto