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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 295 277 232
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.34% 13.51% 10.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.31% 32.90% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 191 149
10th Percentile £425 £406 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -6.61%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £753 £788 £804
London median daily rate £573 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.03% +44.67% -54.63%

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 1,042 842 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.06% 41.05% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 547 668
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £460 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £663
90th Percentile £750 £758 £751
London median daily rate £538 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.21 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +27.13% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £94.38 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -48.37%

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 6 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 6 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 -3 276 £550 -4.35% 181
City of Westminster -7 12 £650 +6.12% 23
West End of London -6 11 £650 +12.07% 2
Southwark -1 2 £600 -
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 1
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 16 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.71%) Confluence
3 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.69%) Apache
5 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.36%) CICS
6 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (41.02%) Azure
2 69 (23.39%) GCP
3 49 (16.61%) GitHub
4 45 (15.25%) Serverless
5 40 (13.56%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (12.88%) Amazon S3
7 28 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (8.81%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.12%) Power Platform
10 18 (6.10%) Amazon Bedrock
11 17 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.42%) SaaS
13 15 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (4.41%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (4.07%) dbt
17 11 (3.73%) OpenShift
17 11 (3.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.08%) Firewall
2 14 (4.75%) DNS
3 9 (3.05%) Network Security
4 7 (2.37%) DHCP
4 7 (2.37%) VPN
5 5 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.02%) SMTP
7 2 (0.68%) BGP
7 2 (0.68%) NGFW
7 2 (0.68%) OSPF
7 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
7 2 (0.68%) VLAN
7 2 (0.68%) X.509
8 1 (0.34%) Multicast
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.34%) VSAN
8 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.44%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (6.10%) DynamoDB
3 17 (5.76%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.76%) Power BI
4 14 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.05%) Metadata
8 9 (3.05%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.05%) Tableau
9 8 (2.71%) Big Data
9 8 (2.71%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.71%) Db2
10 7 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.69%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.36%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.36%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.36%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 34 (11.53%) GitLab
2 31 (10.51%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.15%) Git
4 22 (7.46%) JIRA
5 11 (3.73%) JUnit
6 10 (3.39%) Postman
7 9 (3.05%) Mockito
8 6 (2.03%) JMeter
9 5 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.36%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.36%) Maven
11 3 (1.02%) Gradle
11 3 (1.02%) Selenium
12 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.68%) Gatling
12 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.68%) Mocha
12 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 88 (29.83%) Finance
2 69 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.53%) Banking
4 33 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 30 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.39%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.03%) Front Office
9 6 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.03%) Retail
10 5 (1.69%) Back Office
10 5 (1.69%) Law
11 4 (1.36%) Military
11 4 (1.36%) Police
11 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.02%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.02%) Marketing
12 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (22.03%) Architect
2 52 (17.63%) Senior
3 37 (12.54%) Developer
4 25 (8.47%) Data Engineer
5 19 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (6.44%) Lead
6 17 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.41%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.07%) Analyst
10 11 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.05%) Consultant
12 9 (3.05%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (3.05%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.05%) Snowflake Engineer
12 9 (3.05%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.71%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.53%) Kafka
2 32 (10.85%) Spring
3 31 (10.51%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.14%) REST
5 22 (7.46%) React
5 22 (7.46%) RESTful
6 14 (4.75%) .NET
7 12 (4.07%) Node.js
7 12 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (4.07%) SOAP
8 11 (3.73%) PySpark
9 10 (3.39%) JSON
10 9 (3.05%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.71%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.71%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.03%) OAuth
13 6 (2.03%) Web Services
14 5 (1.69%) Django
14 5 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 70 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.78%) AI Agents
4 12 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.71%) Clustering
8 7 (2.37%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.03%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.69%) Equities
10 5 (1.69%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.36%) CMDB
11 4 (1.36%) DataPower
11 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.36%) LIMS
11 4 (1.36%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.36%) PKI
11 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.42%) Linux
2 15 (5.08%) Windows
3 8 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.36%) Android
4 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.36%) zOS
5 3 (1.02%) Unix
6 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.34%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (39.66%) CI/CD
2 77 (26.10%) DevOps
3 71 (24.07%) AI
4 63 (21.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (20.34%) Agile
6 50 (16.95%) Containerisation
6 50 (16.95%) Microservices
7 45 (15.25%) Analytics
8 44 (14.92%) Event-Driven
8 44 (14.92%) Migration
9 39 (13.22%) Data Modelling
9 39 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (12.88%) Machine Learning
11 37 (12.54%) Test Automation
12 36 (12.20%) Data Engineering
13 35 (11.86%) Observability
14 33 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (10.51%) Software Engineering
16 30 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
17 26 (8.81%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 105 (35.59%) Python
2 61 (20.68%) SQL
3 55 (18.64%) Java
4 21 (7.12%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.78%) C#
6 17 (5.76%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.08%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.07%) Bash
9 6 (2.03%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.69%) Ruby
11 4 (1.36%) Bicep
11 4 (1.36%) Go
11 4 (1.36%) JCL
11 4 (1.36%) Korn
12 3 (1.02%) Scala
13 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.34%) R
14 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 70 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.73%) Degree
4 9 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.37%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.03%) CISSP
6 6 (2.03%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.03%) PMP
7 5 (1.69%) CISM
8 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.36%) CCNP
8 4 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.02%) PhD
10 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.08%) NIST
2 15 (5.08%) QA
3 13 (4.41%) GDPR
4 8 (2.71%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.36%) NCSC
7 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.02%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.68%) EMIR
8 2 (0.68%) MiFID
8 2 (0.68%) SLA
8 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (17.29%) Docker
2 9 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.02%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.02%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.68%) NFS
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (21.02%) Kubernetes
2 55 (18.64%) Terraform
3 26 (8.81%) Ansible
4 15 (5.08%) Grafana
5 14 (4.75%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.69%) Puppet
7 4 (1.36%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.02%) Nagios
8 3 (1.02%) vMotion
9 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Bosun
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.34%) Packer
10 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.34%) QRadar
10 1 (0.34%) Salt
10 1 (0.34%) SELinux
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.76%) Google
3 15 (5.08%) Databricks
4 11 (3.73%) Oracle
4 11 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.39%) Citrix
5 10 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.05%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.05%) VMware
7 6 (2.03%) SAP
7 6 (2.03%) Splunk
8 5 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.69%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.36%) Cisco
9 4 (1.36%) IBM
10 3 (1.02%) HP
10 3 (1.02%) Informatica
10 3 (1.02%) Symantec
10 3 (1.02%) Workday