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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 285 250 213
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.44% 12.74% 9.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.75% 32.05% 23.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 174 136
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £679 £696
90th Percentile £766 £788 £821
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 £67.00 £63.75 £30.65
% change year-on-year +5.10% +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 1,027 780 906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.23% 39.74% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 526 627
10th Percentile £351 £328 £387
25th Percentile £460 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -1.17% -1.29%
75th Percentile £656 £662 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £750
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 4
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £75.25
London median hourly rate £34.62 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.66% +3.33% -36.84%

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 5 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 5 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 -2 270 £550 -5.98% 137
City of Westminster -10 9 £525 -12.50% 50
West End of London -7 8 £525 -12.50% 38
Southwark -2 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 24 (8.42%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.51%) Confluence
3 9 (3.16%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.81%) Apache
5 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.70%) CICS
7 2 (0.70%) nginx
7 2 (0.70%) SAS
8 1 (0.35%) Camunda
8 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 121 (42.46%) Azure
2 65 (22.81%) GCP
3 41 (14.39%) GitHub
3 41 (14.39%) Serverless
4 37 (12.98%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (12.28%) Amazon S3
6 31 (10.88%) Snowflake
7 23 (8.07%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (7.37%) dbt
9 16 (5.61%) Amazon Bedrock
9 16 (5.61%) SaaS
10 15 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (4.91%) Power Platform
12 13 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
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 14 (4.91%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.56%) Power BI
6 12 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.51%) Metadata
9 8 (2.81%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.81%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.81%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.46%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.11%) Big Data
11 6 (2.11%) Tableau
12 5 (1.75%) Pinecone
12 5 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.40%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (1.40%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 32 (11.23%) GitLab
2 30 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.12%) Git
4 23 (8.07%) JIRA
5 10 (3.51%) JUnit
6 9 (3.16%) Mockito
6 9 (3.16%) Postman
7 6 (2.11%) JMeter
7 6 (2.11%) Maven
8 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.75%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.40%) Selenium
10 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
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 93 (32.63%) Finance
2 67 (23.51%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.39%) Banking
4 36 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (11.93%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.81%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.11%) Retail
10 5 (1.75%) Back Office
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 61 (21.40%) Architect
2 55 (19.30%) Senior
3 35 (12.28%) Developer
4 30 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.42%) Lead
6 15 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 14 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.56%) Analyst
8 13 (4.56%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (3.51%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.16%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (3.16%) Data Analyst
12 9 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.81%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.81%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (18.95%) Terraform
2 34 (11.93%) Kafka
3 31 (10.88%) Spring
4 30 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 26 (9.12%) REST
6 19 (6.67%) RESTful
7 18 (6.32%) React
8 14 (4.91%) .NET
8 14 (4.91%) PySpark
9 12 (4.21%) Node.js
9 12 (4.21%) SOAP
10 10 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (2.81%) JSON
12 6 (2.11%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.11%) OAuth
12 6 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.11%) Web Services
13 5 (1.75%) LangChain
13 5 (1.75%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 77 (27.02%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.72%) AI Agents
4 14 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.11%) Clustering
7 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.75%) CMDB
8 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.40%) PKI
9 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.05%) Equities
10 3 (1.05%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.05%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
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
1 126 (44.21%) CI/CD
2 83 (29.12%) DevOps
3 68 (23.86%) AI
4 66 (23.16%) Agile
5 63 (22.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (18.60%) Microservices
7 49 (17.19%) Containerisation
8 46 (16.14%) Event-Driven
8 46 (16.14%) Migration
9 45 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (15.44%) Analytics
10 44 (15.44%) Data Engineering
11 41 (14.39%) Data Modelling
12 39 (13.68%) Test Automation
13 37 (12.98%) Data Pipeline
14 35 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (11.93%) Observability
15 34 (11.93%) Software Engineering
16 33 (11.58%) Machine Learning
17 29 (10.18%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 107 (37.54%) Python
2 60 (21.05%) Java
3 59 (20.70%) SQL
4 21 (7.37%) C#
5 19 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.21%) Bash
8 5 (1.75%) Ruby
9 4 (1.40%) Bicep
9 4 (1.40%) Korn
9 4 (1.40%) Scala
9 4 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) Go
10 2 (0.70%) JCL
10 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.35%) R
11 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 48 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.86%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.81%) Degree
5 7 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.75%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.75%) PMP
7 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.05%) CCNP
8 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.05%) CISM
8 3 (1.05%) CISSP
8 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.05%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.70%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.70%) OSCP
10 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.18%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.96%) QA
3 12 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.86%) NIST
5 10 (3.51%) 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
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%) SEPA
9 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 47 (16.49%) 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 60 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.42%) 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 31 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.12%) Databricks
3 19 (6.67%) Google
4 17 (5.96%) 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%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.11%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.11%) SAP
8 5 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.40%) Informatica
10 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.05%) HP
10 3 (1.05%) IBM
10 3 (1.05%) Splunk
10 3 (1.05%) Symantec