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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 244 213 329
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.73% 9.02% 11.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.93% 22.93% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 131 243
10th Percentile £413 £426 £400
25th Percentile £480 £501 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
London median daily rate £550 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £76.75 £40.25 £59.00
% change year-on-year +90.68% -31.78% +31.11%

All Cloud 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 789 929 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.18% 39.33% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 609 850
10th Percentile £340 £400 £349
25th Percentile £430 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 11
10th Percentile £18.61 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £51.00 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.93 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -26.47% -7.89% +49.02%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +5 234 £575 - 857
City of Westminster +4 8 £563 +7.14% 2
West End of London +2 4 £650 +23.81% 24
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 15 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.51%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.69%) Confluence
4 7 (2.87%) Apache
5 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) Luigi
7 1 (0.41%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Endur
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (45.90%) Azure
2 55 (22.54%) GCP
3 41 (16.80%) Amazon S3
4 30 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
4 30 (12.30%) Serverless
5 26 (10.66%) GitHub
6 22 (9.02%) Snowflake
7 21 (8.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (4.92%) dbt
9 12 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.92%) Power Platform
10 11 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.28%) SaaS
13 6 (2.46%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.61%) Firewall
2 12 (4.92%) DNS
3 6 (2.46%) Network Security
4 5 (2.05%) LAN
4 5 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.05%) VPN
4 5 (2.05%) WAN
5 4 (1.64%) SSL
6 3 (1.23%) BGP
6 3 (1.23%) DHCP
6 3 (1.23%) NAS
6 3 (1.23%) OSPF
6 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.82%) 4G
7 2 (0.82%) Internet
7 2 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.82%) SAN
7 2 (0.82%) SSH
7 2 (0.82%) VLAN
7 2 (0.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.02%) Relational Database
2 20 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.38%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.92%) MySQL
5 11 (4.51%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.51%) Power BI
6 10 (4.10%) Data Lake
6 10 (4.10%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.87%) Big Data
7 7 (2.87%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.87%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.46%) Metadata
8 6 (2.46%) Tableau
9 5 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.64%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (11.48%) Git
2 16 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.33%) JIRA
4 12 (4.92%) GitLab
5 5 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.64%) JUnit
7 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.23%) MLflow
8 2 (0.82%) Mockito
8 2 (0.82%) Postman
8 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.82%) Selenium
8 2 (0.82%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.41%) ERwin
9 1 (0.41%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 87 (35.66%) Finance
2 63 (25.82%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.89%) Banking
4 24 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.74%) Front Office
5 14 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.28%) Legal
7 6 (2.46%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.23%) Japanese Language
10 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Back Office
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Law
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Marketing
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (18.85%) Architect
1 46 (18.85%) Senior
2 35 (14.34%) Developer
3 29 (11.89%) Data Engineer
4 23 (9.43%) Lead
5 15 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.92%) Python Engineer
7 11 (4.51%) AWS Architect
8 10 (4.10%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.10%) Senior Architect
9 9 (3.69%) Consultant
9 9 (3.69%) Software Engineer
10 7 (2.87%) Java Developer
10 7 (2.87%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (2.46%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.46%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.46%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.46%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.61%) React
2 17 (6.97%) Kafka
3 16 (6.56%) RESTful
4 15 (6.15%) REST
5 14 (5.74%) Node.js
6 13 (5.33%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.92%) Spring
8 11 (4.51%) Spring Boot
9 10 (4.10%) CSS
9 10 (4.10%) GraphQL
9 10 (4.10%) HTML
10 9 (3.69%) .NET
10 9 (3.69%) OAuth
11 6 (2.46%) PySpark
11 6 (2.46%) scikit-learn
11 6 (2.46%) XML
12 5 (2.05%) JWT
12 5 (2.05%) PyTorch
12 5 (2.05%) TensorFlow
13 4 (1.64%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.69%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.87%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.05%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.05%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.64%) Derivative
7 4 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.64%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.23%) Equities
8 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.15%) Linux
1 15 (6.15%) Windows
2 6 (2.46%) Unix
2 6 (2.46%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.82%) Android
3 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.82%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) AIX
4 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (34.02%) CI/CD
2 61 (25.00%) Agile
3 57 (23.36%) DevOps
4 46 (18.85%) Analytics
5 44 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (16.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (14.34%) Microservices
8 32 (13.11%) Software Engineering
9 30 (12.30%) Migration
10 27 (11.07%) AI
10 27 (11.07%) Data Modelling
10 27 (11.07%) Roadmaps
11 26 (10.66%) Machine Learning
12 25 (10.25%) Containerisation
12 25 (10.25%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (10.25%) ETL
13 23 (9.43%) Data Engineering
13 23 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (8.20%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (8.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.80%) Python
2 60 (24.59%) SQL
3 47 (19.26%) Java
4 20 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.33%) Bash
7 7 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.46%) Go
9 4 (1.64%) C#
10 3 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.23%) Perl
10 3 (1.23%) PHP
10 3 (1.23%) Scala
11 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.82%) C++
11 2 (0.82%) COBOL
11 2 (0.82%) PromQL
11 2 (0.82%) R
11 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (15.16%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.38%) Degree
4 13 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.46%) CISSP
6 6 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.82%) CASP
10 2 (0.82%) CCSP
10 2 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.82%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.82%) PMP
10 2 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.74%) GDPR
3 13 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.92%) QA
5 10 (4.10%) NIST
6 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.23%) NCSC
8 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.82%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.41%) PMO
9 1 (0.41%) SLA
9 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (14.75%) Docker
2 13 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (18.85%) Terraform
2 32 (13.11%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.97%) Ansible
4 8 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.87%) Grafana
6 6 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.82%) Argo
9 2 (0.82%) Istio
9 2 (0.82%) Packer
9 2 (0.82%) Puppet
9 2 (0.82%) SCCM
9 2 (0.82%) SELinux
10 1 (0.41%) Consul
10 1 (0.41%) Icinga
10 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.41%) QRadar
10 1 (0.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.38%) Databricks
3 12 (4.92%) Oracle
4 9 (3.69%) Google
5 8 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.87%) IBM
7 6 (2.46%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.46%) Splunk
8 5 (2.05%) F5
9 4 (1.64%) Informatica
9 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.23%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.23%) Cisco
10 3 (1.23%) Tenable
10 3 (1.23%) VMware
11 2 (0.82%) Adobe
11 2 (0.82%) Dell
11 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.82%) Okta
11 2 (0.82%) Sparx