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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 243 283
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.66% 11.69% 10.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.52% 28.06% 28.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 171 209
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £655 £673 £667
90th Percentile £800 £738 £755
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -5.74%

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 888 866 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.48% 41.65% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 567 710
10th Percentile £338 £375 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £744
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 13
10th Percentile £20.59 £29.50 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.99 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £46.11 £41.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £52.92 £104.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +2 256 £535 -2.73% 226
West End of London +3 3 £650 +25.00% 3
City of Westminster 0 2 £650 +23.81% 10
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 2
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 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.21%) Confluence
4 5 (1.85%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Notion
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.11%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (43.54%) Azure
2 69 (25.46%) GCP
3 43 (15.87%) Serverless
4 41 (15.13%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (14.02%) Amazon S3
5 38 (14.02%) GitHub
6 25 (9.23%) Snowflake
7 21 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (7.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (7.01%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.06%) dbt
11 10 (3.69%) Amazon SageMaker
11 10 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.32%) SaaS
13 8 (2.95%) Apigee
13 8 (2.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.43%) Network Security
2 10 (3.69%) DNS
2 10 (3.69%) Firewall
3 3 (1.11%) BGP
3 3 (1.11%) DHCP
3 3 (1.11%) OSPF
3 3 (1.11%) SSL
3 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.74%) 4G
4 2 (0.74%) 5G
4 2 (0.74%) IPsec
4 2 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.37%) 2G
5 1 (0.37%) DKIM
5 1 (0.37%) MPLS
5 1 (0.37%) NAS
5 1 (0.37%) VLAN
5 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.27%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.54%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.54%) Power BI
4 14 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.06%) MySQL
5 11 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.06%) Tableau
6 10 (3.69%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.69%) Metadata
7 9 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.58%) Big Data
10 5 (1.85%) DB2
11 4 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.48%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (12.18%) Git
2 20 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.27%) GitLab
4 12 (4.43%) JIRA
5 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.48%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.48%) JUnit
6 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.11%) Gatling
7 2 (0.74%) Ant
7 2 (0.74%) ERwin
7 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.74%) MLflow
7 2 (0.74%) Mockito
7 2 (0.74%) Postman
7 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.74%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.37%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 93 (34.32%) Finance
2 61 (22.51%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.13%) Banking
4 25 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.17%) Front Office
7 11 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.69%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.95%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.48%) Retail
13 3 (1.11%) Legal
13 3 (1.11%) Marketing
14 2 (0.74%) Back Office
14 2 (0.74%) Law
14 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.74%) Military
14 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (21.03%) Architect
2 38 (14.02%) Senior
3 35 (12.92%) Developer
4 28 (10.33%) Lead
5 27 (9.96%) Data Engineer
6 24 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (7.01%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.06%) AWS Architect
9 11 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (4.06%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.06%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.95%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.95%) Consultant
11 8 (2.95%) Data Scientist
11 8 (2.95%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.95%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.58%) Migration Project Manager
12 7 (2.58%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.12%) Kafka
2 18 (6.64%) React
3 16 (5.90%) Node.js
3 16 (5.90%) REST
4 13 (4.80%) .NET
4 13 (4.80%) PyTorch
5 12 (4.43%) Pandas
5 12 (4.43%) RESTful
6 11 (4.06%) NumPy
6 11 (4.06%) scikit-learn
6 11 (4.06%) TensorFlow
7 10 (3.69%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.32%) Spring
9 8 (2.95%) HTML
9 8 (2.95%) OAuth
9 8 (2.95%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.58%) CSS
11 6 (2.21%) boto
11 6 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.93%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.17%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.06%) Equities
4 11 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.06%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.32%) Derivative
6 8 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.95%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.85%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.54%) Linux
2 11 (4.06%) Windows
3 3 (1.11%) Android
3 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.74%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (35.79%) CI/CD
2 60 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (21.77%) DevOps
4 55 (20.30%) AI
5 53 (19.56%) Agile
6 49 (18.08%) Analytics
7 41 (15.13%) Machine Learning
8 39 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (13.65%) Microservices
9 37 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (13.28%) Migration
11 33 (12.18%) Containerisation
11 33 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (11.44%) Software Engineering
13 30 (11.07%) Data Engineering
13 30 (11.07%) ETL
14 29 (10.70%) Data Modelling
15 28 (10.33%) Generative AI
15 28 (10.33%) Observability
15 28 (10.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 111 (40.96%) Python
2 78 (28.78%) SQL
3 49 (18.08%) Java
4 16 (5.90%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.95%) C#
6 7 (2.58%) Bash
7 6 (2.21%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.85%) C++
8 5 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.48%) Go
9 4 (1.48%) PHP
10 3 (1.11%) Korn
10 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.11%) Ruby
10 3 (1.11%) Scala
11 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.37%) Bicep
12 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 60 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.38%) Degree
4 15 (5.54%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.32%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.32%) PMP
6 8 (2.95%) CISSP
7 7 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.21%) PhD
9 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.85%) CISM
10 4 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.74%) CCSP
12 2 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.96%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.12%) GDPR
3 19 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.90%) NIST
5 7 (2.58%) QA
6 6 (2.21%) SLA
7 5 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.48%) NCSC
9 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.74%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.74%) GRC
9 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.74%) PSD2
9 2 (0.74%) SEPA
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.37%) DICOM
10 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.37%) HL7
10 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 52 (19.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.74%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (23.25%) Terraform
2 47 (17.34%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.01%) Ansible
4 9 (3.32%) Grafana
5 6 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.11%) Argo
7 3 (1.11%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.37%) CASB
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.37%) QRadar
9 1 (0.37%) SCCM
9 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.37%) vRealize
9 1 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.01%) Databricks
3 16 (5.90%) Oracle
4 13 (4.80%) Google
5 11 (4.06%) IBM
6 8 (2.95%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.58%) Splunk
8 4 (1.48%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.48%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.48%) Informatica
8 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.48%) SAP
9 3 (1.11%) Cognos
9 3 (1.11%) Confluent
9 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.11%) Sage