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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 280 276 267
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.12% 14.65% 11.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.11% 34.16% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 192 191
10th Percentile £384 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £671 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £800
London median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £46.75 £27.65
% change year-on-year +49.73% +69.08% -63.13%

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 962 808 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.22% 42.89% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 518 679
10th Percentile £350 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -7.36%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -3.06% -1.53% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £21.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £89.75 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -50.25%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -1 266 £550 - 239
West End of London -5 6 £650 +18.18% 5
City of Westminster -7 5 £650 +6.12% 8
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 18 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.79%) Apache
3 5 (1.79%) Confluence
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
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.07%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (41.43%) Azure
2 59 (21.07%) GCP
3 51 (18.21%) Serverless
4 46 (16.43%) GitHub
5 44 (15.71%) AWS Lambda
6 40 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (8.21%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.50%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.71%) SaaS
12 13 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.29%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (3.93%) Amazon Bedrock
14 11 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (3.21%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) Network Security
2 9 (3.21%) Firewall
3 7 (2.50%) DNS
4 3 (1.07%) DHCP
4 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.71%) NGFW
5 2 (0.71%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) BGP
6 1 (0.36%) IPsec
6 1 (0.36%) NAS
6 1 (0.36%) OSPF
6 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) VLAN
6 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.50%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.43%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.71%) Power BI
5 15 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (4.64%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (4.29%) Metadata
7 12 (4.29%) Tableau
8 11 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.86%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.86%) DB2
10 7 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.79%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 28 (10.00%) Git
1 28 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.64%) GitLab
3 21 (7.50%) JIRA
4 8 (2.86%) JUnit
4 8 (2.86%) Postman
5 7 (2.50%) Mockito
6 4 (1.43%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.43%) JMeter
7 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.07%) Gradle
7 3 (1.07%) Maven
8 2 (0.71%) Ant
8 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.71%) Gatling
8 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.71%) Mocha
8 2 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 89 (31.79%) Finance
2 61 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.21%) Banking
4 32 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.29%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.86%) Front Office
9 7 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.43%) Military
12 3 (1.07%) Back Office
12 3 (1.07%) Law
12 3 (1.07%) Marketing
12 3 (1.07%) Police
12 3 (1.07%) Retail
13 2 (0.71%) Advertising
13 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (22.50%) Architect
2 41 (14.64%) Developer
3 36 (12.86%) Senior
4 27 (9.64%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.86%) Lead
6 20 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.29%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (3.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (3.93%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.57%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.57%) Migration Project Manager
11 10 (3.57%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.21%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.50%) Kafka
2 29 (10.36%) Spring
2 29 (10.36%) Spring Boot
3 24 (8.57%) REST
4 20 (7.14%) React
5 19 (6.79%) RESTful
6 14 (5.00%) .NET
7 12 (4.29%) PySpark
8 11 (3.93%) JSON
8 11 (3.93%) Node.js
8 11 (3.93%) PyTorch
9 9 (3.21%) SOAP
10 8 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (2.86%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.14%) boto
11 6 (2.14%) Pandas
11 6 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.14%) Web Services
12 5 (1.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 69 (24.64%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.93%) Equities
3 11 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.14%) Clustering
7 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.79%) Derivative
7 5 (1.79%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.43%) DataPower
8 4 (1.43%) LIMS
8 4 (1.43%) NHS
8 4 (1.43%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.07%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.00%) Linux
2 11 (3.93%) Windows
3 4 (1.43%) Android
3 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.43%) zOS
4 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.36%) AIX
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (39.64%) CI/CD
2 77 (27.50%) DevOps
3 69 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (22.86%) AI
5 59 (21.07%) Agile
6 49 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 48 (17.14%) Migration
8 42 (15.00%) Analytics
8 42 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 40 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 40 (14.29%) Observability
10 38 (13.57%) Data Engineering
10 38 (13.57%) Microservices
11 36 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
11 36 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (11.79%) Test Automation
13 32 (11.43%) Data Modelling
14 29 (10.36%) Roadmaps
15 26 (9.29%) Performance Tuning
15 26 (9.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 107 (38.21%) Python
2 64 (22.86%) SQL
3 55 (19.64%) Java
4 18 (6.43%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.71%) C#
6 14 (5.00%) 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%) Go
12 3 (1.07%) Korn
12 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.36%) C
14 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.29%) Degree
4 11 (3.93%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.93%) PMP
5 8 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.14%) CISSP
7 5 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.79%) CISM
8 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.43%) PhD
9 3 (1.07%) CCNP
10 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.79%) NIST
4 18 (6.43%) GDPR
5 8 (2.86%) QA
5 8 (2.86%) SLA
6 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.43%) NCSC
8 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.07%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.07%) SEPA
9 2 (0.71%) EMIR
9 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.71%) MiFID
9 2 (0.71%) PSD2
10 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (17.86%) Docker
2 6 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.71%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 53 (18.93%) Terraform
3 20 (7.14%) 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%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.36%) QRadar
8 1 (0.36%) Salt
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.93%) CyberArk
2 11 (3.93%) Databricks
3 10 (3.57%) Oracle
4 9 (3.21%) Google
4 9 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.50%) Citrix
6 7 (2.50%) IBM
6 7 (2.50%) Splunk
7 6 (2.14%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.79%) VMware
9 4 (1.43%) Informatica
9 4 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.43%) SAP
10 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.07%) Charles River
10 3 (1.07%) Cisco