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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 285 253 219
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.40% 12.76% 9.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.62% 32.19% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 173 139
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £698
90th Percentile £773 £788 £828
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 £68.50 £63.75 £30.65
% change year-on-year +7.45% +107.99% -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 1,032 786 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.30% 39.66% 40.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 530 641
10th Percentile £349 £331 £396
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £753
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 5
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +15.70%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £69.50
London median hourly rate £33.68 £31.00 £30.30
% change year-on-year +8.63% +2.33% -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -3 270 £550 -7.17% 160
City of Westminster -11 9 £525 -12.50% 45
West End of London -7 8 £525 -12.50% 25
Southwark -1 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 23 (8.07%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.16%) Confluence
3 8 (2.81%) Apache
4 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.70%) CICS
6 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (43.51%) Azure
2 67 (23.51%) GCP
3 44 (15.44%) GitHub
4 40 (14.04%) Serverless
5 36 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (11.58%) Amazon S3
7 31 (10.88%) Snowflake
8 25 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.02%) dbt
10 16 (5.61%) Amazon Bedrock
10 16 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.61%) SaaS
11 14 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.56%) Power Platform
13 12 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.86%) OpenShift
14 11 (3.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.26%) DNS
1 15 (5.26%) Firewall
2 8 (2.81%) DHCP
2 8 (2.81%) VPN
3 5 (1.75%) Network Security
3 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.40%) BGP
5 3 (1.05%) Multicast
5 3 (1.05%) OSPF
5 3 (1.05%) SMTP
5 3 (1.05%) VLAN
6 2 (0.70%) Internet
6 2 (0.70%) MPLS
6 2 (0.70%) NGFW
6 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.70%) SSH
6 2 (0.70%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.70%) X.509
7 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.56%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.21%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.21%) Power BI
6 11 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.51%) Metadata
8 9 (3.16%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.81%) Delta Lake
9 8 (2.81%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.81%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.46%) Big Data
10 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.75%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.40%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (11.58%) GitLab
2 31 (10.88%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.42%) Git
4 22 (7.72%) JIRA
5 10 (3.51%) JUnit
6 9 (3.16%) Mockito
6 9 (3.16%) Postman
7 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.11%) JMeter
7 6 (2.11%) Maven
8 5 (1.75%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.40%) Selenium
10 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.05%) Gradle
11 2 (0.70%) Appium
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.70%) Gatling
11 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 97 (34.04%) Finance
2 71 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.74%) Banking
4 37 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (11.58%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.11%) Retail
10 5 (1.75%) Back Office
10 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.75%) Front Office
10 5 (1.75%) Law
10 5 (1.75%) Military
11 4 (1.40%) Marketing
11 4 (1.40%) Police
11 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.05%) Billing
12 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.05%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 66 (23.16%) Architect
2 58 (20.35%) Senior
3 32 (11.23%) Developer
4 29 (10.18%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.42%) Lead
6 15 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (4.91%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (4.21%) Analyst
9 12 (4.21%) Data Architect
9 12 (4.21%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (3.51%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.16%) Senior Architect
11 9 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (2.81%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.81%) Consultant
12 8 (2.81%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (19.65%) Terraform
2 34 (11.93%) Kafka
3 31 (10.88%) Spring
4 30 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 27 (9.47%) REST
6 18 (6.32%) RESTful
7 15 (5.26%) .NET
7 15 (5.26%) React
8 13 (4.56%) PySpark
8 13 (4.56%) SOAP
9 12 (4.21%) Node.js
10 11 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.46%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.46%) JSON
12 6 (2.11%) ActiveMQ
12 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.11%) LangChain
12 6 (2.11%) OAuth
12 6 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (27.72%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.42%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.61%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.75%) Clustering
8 5 (1.75%) CMDB
8 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.40%) PKI
9 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.91%) Linux
2 13 (4.56%) Windows
3 9 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.40%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) zOS
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (45.61%) CI/CD
2 84 (29.47%) DevOps
3 72 (25.26%) AI
4 64 (22.46%) Agile
5 63 (22.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (18.95%) Microservices
7 50 (17.54%) Containerisation
8 48 (16.84%) Event-Driven
9 47 (16.49%) Migration
10 46 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 44 (15.44%) Analytics
11 44 (15.44%) Data Engineering
12 40 (14.04%) Data Modelling
13 37 (12.98%) Data Pipeline
13 37 (12.98%) Software Engineering
13 37 (12.98%) Test Automation
14 36 (12.63%) Observability
14 36 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (11.93%) Machine Learning
16 29 (10.18%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 105 (36.84%) Python
2 59 (20.70%) Java
2 59 (20.70%) SQL
3 21 (7.37%) C#
4 17 (5.96%) JavaScript
4 17 (5.96%) PowerShell
4 17 (5.96%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.21%) Bash
6 5 (1.75%) Ruby
7 4 (1.40%) Bicep
7 4 (1.40%) Korn
7 4 (1.40%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.05%) Scala
9 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.70%) Go
9 2 (0.70%) JCL
9 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.35%) R
10 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.14%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.86%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.51%) Degree
5 7 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.75%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.75%) PMP
6 5 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.05%) CCNP
7 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.05%) CISM
7 3 (1.05%) CISSP
7 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.70%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.18%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.96%) QA
3 11 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.51%) NIST
5 9 (3.16%) GDPR
6 8 (2.81%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.75%) NCSC
8 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.05%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.05%) SEPA
9 2 (0.70%) EMIR
9 2 (0.70%) MiFID
9 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.70%) PMO
9 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (16.84%) Docker
2 9 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.05%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.05%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) NFS
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (22.11%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.12%) Ansible
3 15 (5.26%) Grafana
3 15 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.75%) Puppet
5 4 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.05%) Nagios
6 3 (1.05%) vMotion
7 1 (0.35%) Argo
7 1 (0.35%) Bosun
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.35%) Consul
7 1 (0.35%) Packer
7 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.35%) Salt
7 1 (0.35%) SELinux
7 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.35%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 30 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.47%) Databricks
3 19 (6.67%) Google
4 18 (6.32%) Oracle
5 10 (3.51%) Citrix
5 10 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.51%) VMware
6 7 (2.46%) Cisco
6 7 (2.46%) SAP
7 6 (2.11%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.11%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.05%) HP
9 3 (1.05%) IBM
9 3 (1.05%) Informatica
9 3 (1.05%) Symantec
9 3 (1.05%) Workday