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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 295 256 268
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.72% 13.01% 10.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.67% 30.05% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 177 198
10th Percentile £368 £413 £404
25th Percentile £465 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £661
90th Percentile £775 £701 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £72.50 £55.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +30.63% -3.48% -23.33%

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 962 852 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.47% 43.29% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 553 689
10th Percentile £345 £367 £349
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £729 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.32 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.11 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £49.83 £35.00 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.63 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +1 279 £543 -0.69% 282
West End of London +2 5 £650 +24.40% 6
City of Westminster -2 4 £650 +23.81% 4
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 20 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.03%) Apache
4 5 (1.69%) Confluence
5 3 (1.02%) CICS
6 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Notion
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.02%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.44%) Azure
2 76 (25.76%) GCP
3 49 (16.61%) GitHub
3 49 (16.61%) Serverless
4 44 (14.92%) Amazon S3
4 44 (14.92%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (8.81%) Snowflake
6 23 (7.80%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (7.80%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (4.75%) dbt
11 12 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.07%) SaaS
12 10 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
12 10 (3.39%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.41%) Network Security
2 9 (3.05%) Firewall
3 5 (1.69%) DNS
4 3 (1.02%) VPN
5 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) 2G
6 1 (0.34%) 4G
6 1 (0.34%) 5G
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) IPsec
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) NAS
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.34%) SAN
6 1 (0.34%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) VLAN
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.80%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.10%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.10%) Power BI
4 15 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.75%) Tableau
6 13 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.41%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.07%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.73%) Metadata
9 9 (3.05%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.71%) DB2
10 8 (2.71%) MySQL
11 7 (2.37%) Big Data
12 6 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (1.36%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 38 (12.88%) Git
2 23 (7.80%) GitLab
2 23 (7.80%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.75%) JIRA
4 7 (2.37%) JUnit
5 6 (2.03%) Mockito
6 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.02%) Gradle
8 3 (1.02%) Maven
8 3 (1.02%) Postman
9 2 (0.68%) Ant
9 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.68%) Gatling
9 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 99 (33.56%) Finance
2 68 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.24%) Banking
4 29 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.08%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.07%) Front Office
8 11 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.37%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.02%) Back Office
12 3 (1.02%) Law
12 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.02%) Retail
12 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Advertising
13 2 (0.68%) Legal
13 2 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (20.68%) Architect
2 45 (15.25%) Developer
3 37 (12.54%) Senior
4 29 (9.83%) Data Engineer
5 27 (9.15%) Lead
6 21 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (4.75%) Project Manager
10 12 (4.07%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.73%) Migration Manager
11 11 (3.73%) Migration Project Manager
11 11 (3.73%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.39%) AWS Architect
12 10 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.39%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.05%) Data Scientist
13 9 (3.05%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.19%) Kafka
2 22 (7.46%) Spring
3 21 (7.12%) REST
3 21 (7.12%) Spring Boot
4 20 (6.78%) React
4 20 (6.78%) RESTful
5 17 (5.76%) Node.js
6 10 (3.39%) JSON
6 10 (3.39%) Pandas
6 10 (3.39%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.05%) .NET
7 9 (3.05%) NumPy
7 9 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.05%) scikit-learn
8 8 (2.71%) OAuth
8 8 (2.71%) PySpark
8 8 (2.71%) SOAP
8 8 (2.71%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.37%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.37%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 63 (21.36%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.41%) Equities
5 12 (4.07%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.73%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.39%) Derivative
8 8 (2.71%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.03%) Clustering
9 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.03%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.03%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.36%) LIMS
11 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.36%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.75%) Linux
2 12 (4.07%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Android
3 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.02%) zOS
4 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (38.64%) CI/CD
2 74 (25.08%) DevOps
3 68 (23.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (21.69%) AI
5 63 (21.36%) Agile
6 49 (16.61%) Analytics
7 48 (16.27%) Migration
8 47 (15.93%) Microservices
9 45 (15.25%) Machine Learning
10 44 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (13.90%) Containerisation
12 38 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (11.86%) Data Engineering
13 35 (11.86%) Observability
14 34 (11.53%) Data Modelling
14 34 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (11.19%) Event-Driven
15 33 (11.19%) Software Engineering
16 32 (10.85%) Roadmaps
16 32 (10.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (38.64%) Python
2 81 (27.46%) SQL
3 55 (18.64%) Java
4 16 (5.42%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.73%) C#
5 11 (3.73%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.03%) Bash
6 6 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.03%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.69%) C++
7 5 (1.69%) Ruby
7 5 (1.69%) Scala
8 4 (1.36%) Go
9 3 (1.02%) Bicep
9 3 (1.02%) JCL
9 3 (1.02%) Korn
9 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.68%) PHP
10 2 (0.68%) R
11 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 67 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 64 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.76%) Degree
4 12 (4.07%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.07%) PMP
5 11 (3.73%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.71%) CISSP
7 7 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.03%) CISM
8 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.03%) PhD
9 5 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.02%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.17%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.14%) GDPR
2 24 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.12%) NIST
4 11 (3.73%) QA
5 8 (2.71%) SLA
6 7 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.36%) NCSC
8 2 (0.68%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.68%) GRC
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.68%) PSD2
8 2 (0.68%) SEPA
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) DICOM
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (19.66%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.68%) NFS
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.68%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (22.37%) Terraform
2 55 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.10%) Ansible
4 13 (4.41%) Grafana
5 10 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.02%) Argo
7 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.34%) CASB
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.10%) Databricks
3 16 (5.42%) Oracle
4 14 (4.75%) Google
5 12 (4.07%) CyberArk
5 12 (4.07%) IBM
6 7 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.37%) Splunk
7 6 (2.03%) Informatica
8 5 (1.69%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.69%) VMware
9 4 (1.36%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.36%) SAP
10 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.02%) Charles River
10 3 (1.02%) Citrix
10 3 (1.02%) Cognos
10 3 (1.02%) Confluent
10 3 (1.02%) Sage