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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 280 281 275
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.33% 14.34% 11.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.20% 33.37% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 192 202
10th Percentile £373 £400 £416
25th Percentile £464 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £661 £651 £680
90th Percentile £775 £720 £788
London median daily rate £558 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.04% - -8.00%
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 £53.50 £43.25
% change year-on-year +28.04% +23.70% -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 959 842 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.79% 42.96% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 537 683
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £456 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 7
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £59.72 £43.75 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.35 £89.75 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
% change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -35.80%

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 20 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 20 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 -3 263 £550 - 173
West End of London -5 6 £650 +21.50% 3
City of Westminster -4 5 £650 +8.33% 1
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 17 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.14%) Confluence
3 5 (1.79%) Apache
4 4 (1.43%) CICS
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Notion
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.07%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 112 (40.00%) Azure
2 62 (22.14%) GCP
3 52 (18.57%) Serverless
4 46 (16.43%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (15.71%) GitHub
6 40 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (8.21%) Snowflake
9 19 (6.79%) Power Platform
10 18 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (6.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (5.71%) SaaS
13 13 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.29%) Amazon SageMaker
14 12 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (3.57%) Amazon Bedrock
15 10 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (3.21%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) Network Security
2 8 (2.86%) Firewall
3 6 (2.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.71%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) DHCP
5 1 (0.36%) IPsec
5 1 (0.36%) NAS
5 1 (0.36%) NGFW
5 1 (0.36%) OSPF
5 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
5 1 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.50%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.07%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.00%) Power BI
5 13 (4.64%) Tableau
6 12 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.29%) Metadata
7 11 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.86%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.86%) DB2
10 7 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.43%) Big Data
13 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 29 (10.36%) Git
2 27 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.57%) GitLab
4 21 (7.50%) JIRA
5 7 (2.50%) JUnit
5 7 (2.50%) Postman
6 6 (2.14%) Mockito
7 4 (1.43%) JMeter
8 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.07%) Gradle
8 3 (1.07%) Maven
9 2 (0.71%) Ant
9 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.71%) Gatling
9 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.71%) Mocha
9 2 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 93 (33.21%) Finance
2 57 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.57%) Banking
4 28 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.64%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.57%) Front Office
8 9 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Back Office
11 3 (1.07%) Law
11 3 (1.07%) Marketing
11 3 (1.07%) Military
11 3 (1.07%) Police
11 3 (1.07%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Advertising
12 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (21.43%) Architect
2 42 (15.00%) Developer
3 33 (11.79%) Senior
4 26 (9.29%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.21%) Lead
6 20 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.29%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.29%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (3.93%) Migration Manager
11 11 (3.93%) Migration Project Manager
11 11 (3.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 11 (3.93%) Snowflake Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) Consultant
13 9 (3.21%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.21%) Data Scientist
14 8 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.14%) Kafka
2 27 (9.64%) Spring
2 27 (9.64%) Spring Boot
3 21 (7.50%) React
3 21 (7.50%) REST
4 19 (6.79%) RESTful
5 12 (4.29%) .NET
5 12 (4.29%) Node.js
6 11 (3.93%) JSON
6 11 (3.93%) PySpark
6 11 (3.93%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.21%) Pandas
8 8 (2.86%) NumPy
8 8 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (2.86%) SOAP
8 8 (2.86%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.50%) boto
10 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 67 (23.93%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.64%) Equities
4 11 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.50%) Derivative
7 7 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.14%) Clustering
9 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.79%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.43%) DataPower
10 4 (1.43%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.43%) LIMS
10 4 (1.43%) NHS
10 4 (1.43%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.64%) Linux
2 10 (3.57%) Windows
3 4 (1.43%) Android
3 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.43%) zOS
4 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 79 (28.21%) DevOps
3 69 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (22.50%) AI
5 59 (21.07%) Agile
6 48 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 47 (16.79%) Migration
8 44 (15.71%) Analytics
9 40 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 40 (14.29%) Observability
10 39 (13.93%) Machine Learning
11 38 (13.57%) Microservices
12 36 (12.86%) Data Engineering
12 36 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
14 31 (11.07%) Test Automation
15 29 (10.36%) Data Modelling
16 27 (9.64%) Roadmaps
16 27 (9.64%) Validation
17 26 (9.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (38.21%) Python
2 64 (22.86%) SQL
3 52 (18.57%) Java
4 18 (6.43%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.71%) C#
6 13 (4.64%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.57%) Bash
8 7 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.14%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.79%) Ruby
10 5 (1.79%) Scala
11 4 (1.43%) Bicep
11 4 (1.43%) JCL
12 3 (1.07%) C++
12 3 (1.07%) Go
12 3 (1.07%) Korn
12 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 67 (23.93%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.64%) Degree
4 12 (4.29%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.29%) PMP
5 10 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.14%) CISSP
6 6 (2.14%) PhD
7 5 (1.79%) CISM
8 4 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) CCNP
9 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.50%) NIST
3 20 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (6.79%) GDPR
5 8 (2.86%) SLA
6 7 (2.50%) QA
7 5 (1.79%) NCSC
8 4 (1.43%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.07%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.07%) SEPA
10 2 (0.71%) EMIR
10 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.71%) MiFID
10 2 (0.71%) PSD2
11 1 (0.36%) DICOM
11 1 (0.36%) HL7
11 1 (0.36%) PMO
11 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (18.21%) Docker
2 4 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.71%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 54 (19.29%) Terraform
3 18 (6.43%) Ansible
4 16 (5.71%) Grafana
5 15 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.07%) Argo
6 3 (1.07%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.71%) Puppet
7 2 (0.71%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.36%) QRadar
8 1 (0.36%) Salt
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.29%) CyberArk
3 11 (3.93%) Databricks
4 10 (3.57%) Google
5 9 (3.21%) Oracle
6 8 (2.86%) Citrix
6 8 (2.86%) IBM
6 8 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.50%) Splunk
8 5 (1.79%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.79%) SAP
9 4 (1.43%) VMware
10 3 (1.07%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.07%) Charles River
10 3 (1.07%) Informatica
10 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.07%) Palo Alto