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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 284 283 271
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.59% 14.37% 11.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.52% 33.06% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 194 199
10th Percentile £371 £401 £417
25th Percentile £463 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £678
90th Percentile £763 £714 £790
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.81%
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 962 856 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.25% 43.45% 39.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 547 680
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £453 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £751
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £43.75 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £89.75 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%

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 15 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 15 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 -4 266 £550 - 224
West End of London -1 6 £650 +25.00% 5
City of Westminster -3 5 £650 +10.17% 2
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 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.11%) Confluence
3 5 (1.76%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) CICS
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.06%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.70%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 115 (40.49%) Azure
2 62 (21.83%) GCP
3 51 (17.96%) Serverless
4 47 (16.55%) GitHub
5 45 (15.85%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (14.44%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (8.80%) Snowflake
9 20 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (6.69%) Power Platform
11 18 (6.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.28%) SaaS
13 14 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (4.23%) Amazon SageMaker
16 10 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (3.52%) AWS CodePipeline
17 9 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (3.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.23%) Network Security
2 8 (2.82%) Firewall
3 5 (1.76%) DNS
4 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.70%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) NAS
5 1 (0.35%) NGFW
5 1 (0.35%) OSPF
5 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.75%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.99%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.93%) Power BI
5 13 (4.58%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (4.58%) Tableau
6 12 (4.23%) Metadata
7 11 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.82%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.82%) DB2
11 7 (2.46%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.46%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.41%) Big Data
14 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.41%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 30 (10.56%) Git
2 27 (9.51%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.45%) GitLab
4 21 (7.39%) JIRA
5 7 (2.46%) JUnit
5 7 (2.46%) Postman
6 6 (2.11%) Mockito
7 4 (1.41%) JMeter
8 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.06%) Gradle
8 3 (1.06%) Maven
9 2 (0.70%) Ant
9 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.70%) Gatling
9 2 (0.70%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.70%) Mocha
9 2 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 91 (32.04%) Finance
2 57 (20.07%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.73%) Banking
4 30 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.23%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.52%) Front Office
7 10 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.46%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Back Office
10 3 (1.06%) Law
10 3 (1.06%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Military
10 3 (1.06%) Police
10 3 (1.06%) Retail
11 2 (0.70%) Advertising
11 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (22.54%) Architect
2 42 (14.79%) Developer
3 34 (11.97%) Senior
4 26 (9.15%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.39%) Lead
6 19 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.23%) AWS Architect
10 12 (4.23%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.23%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.87%) Migration Manager
11 11 (3.87%) Migration Project Manager
11 11 (3.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 11 (3.87%) Snowflake Engineer
12 10 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.52%) Consultant
13 9 (3.17%) Data Scientist
14 8 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.32%) Kafka
2 28 (9.86%) Spring
3 27 (9.51%) Spring Boot
4 22 (7.75%) REST
5 21 (7.39%) React
6 19 (6.69%) RESTful
7 13 (4.58%) Node.js
8 11 (3.87%) .NET
8 11 (3.87%) JSON
8 11 (3.87%) PySpark
8 11 (3.87%) PyTorch
9 9 (3.17%) Pandas
10 8 (2.82%) NumPy
10 8 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (2.82%) SOAP
10 8 (2.82%) TensorFlow
11 7 (2.46%) boto
12 6 (2.11%) OAuth
12 6 (2.11%) scikit-learn
12 6 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.23%) Equities
5 9 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.82%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.82%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.46%) Derivative
8 6 (2.11%) Clustering
9 5 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.76%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.41%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.41%) LIMS
10 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.41%) NHS
10 4 (1.41%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.58%) Linux
2 9 (3.17%) Windows
3 4 (1.41%) Android
3 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.41%) zOS
4 2 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (40.49%) CI/CD
2 81 (28.52%) DevOps
3 71 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (23.24%) AI
5 60 (21.13%) Agile
6 49 (17.25%) Containerisation
6 49 (17.25%) Migration
7 43 (15.14%) Analytics
8 41 (14.44%) Machine Learning
8 41 (14.44%) Microservices
9 40 (14.08%) Event-Driven
9 40 (14.08%) Observability
10 39 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (12.32%) Data Engineering
12 34 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (11.27%) Test Automation
14 29 (10.21%) Data Modelling
15 28 (9.86%) Roadmaps
16 27 (9.51%) Software Engineering
16 27 (9.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 109 (38.38%) Python
2 64 (22.54%) SQL
3 54 (19.01%) Java
4 18 (6.34%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.93%) C#
6 13 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.52%) Bash
8 7 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.76%) Ruby
10 5 (1.76%) Scala
11 4 (1.41%) Bicep
11 4 (1.41%) JCL
12 3 (1.06%) C++
12 3 (1.06%) Go
12 3 (1.06%) Korn
12 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (26.41%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.58%) Degree
4 12 (4.23%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.23%) PMP
5 11 (3.87%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.46%) CISSP
7 6 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.11%) PhD
8 5 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.76%) CISM
9 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.75%) Data Quality
1 22 (7.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (7.39%) GDPR
2 21 (7.39%) NIST
3 8 (2.82%) SLA
4 7 (2.46%) QA
5 6 (2.11%) NCSC
5 6 (2.11%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.06%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.06%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.06%) SEPA
7 2 (0.70%) EMIR
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.70%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.70%) MiFID
7 2 (0.70%) PSD2
8 1 (0.35%) DICOM
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (18.66%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (20.07%) Kubernetes
1 57 (20.07%) Terraform
2 18 (6.34%) Ansible
3 16 (5.63%) Grafana
4 15 (5.28%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.06%) Argo
5 3 (1.06%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.70%) Puppet
6 2 (0.70%) SnapMirror
7 1 (0.35%) Consul
7 1 (0.35%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
7 1 (0.35%) Salt
7 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.39%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.93%) Databricks
3 11 (3.87%) CyberArk
3 11 (3.87%) Google
4 9 (3.17%) Oracle
5 8 (2.82%) Citrix
5 8 (2.82%) IBM
5 8 (2.82%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.46%) Splunk
7 5 (1.76%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.76%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.76%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.76%) SAP
8 4 (1.41%) VMware
9 3 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.06%) Charles River
9 3 (1.06%) Informatica
9 3 (1.06%) Palo Alto