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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 288 277 266
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.73% 13.85% 11.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.69% 31.99% 27.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 190 198
10th Percentile £371 £406 £418
25th Percentile £463 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £654 £675
90th Percentile £763 £720 £791
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
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 £48.25 £31.50
% change year-on-year +41.97% +53.17% -58.00%

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 970 866 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.51% 43.30% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 561 690
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £458 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year - +3.29% -7.39%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £751
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile £19.41 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £26.00 £17.39
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £24.56
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £33.98
London median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.26% +25.38% -42.70%

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 6 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 6 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 -1 271 £550 - 190
West End of London -1 6 £650 +25.00% 3
City of Westminster -1 5 £650 +10.17% 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 16 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.08%) Apache
3 6 (2.08%) Confluence
4 4 (1.39%) CICS
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.35%) Notion
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.04%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 124 (43.06%) Azure
2 69 (23.96%) GCP
3 48 (16.67%) GitHub
4 47 (16.32%) Serverless
5 42 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (14.24%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (7.99%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.29%) Power Platform
10 19 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (4.51%) Amazon SageMaker
12 13 (4.51%) SaaS
13 12 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (3.47%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.13%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.82%) Network Security
2 10 (3.47%) Firewall
3 6 (2.08%) DNS
4 3 (1.04%) VPN
5 2 (0.69%) NAS
5 2 (0.69%) SAN
5 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.35%) BGP
6 1 (0.35%) DHCP
6 1 (0.35%) IPsec
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) NGFW
6 1 (0.35%) OSPF
6 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.35%) SSL
6 1 (0.35%) VLAN
6 1 (0.35%) WAN
6 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.29%) DynamoDB
3 17 (5.90%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.56%) Power BI
5 13 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (4.51%) Metadata
5 13 (4.51%) Tableau
6 11 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.47%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.78%) DB2
9 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.74%) Big Data
11 5 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.39%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.15%) Git
2 26 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.68%) GitLab
4 19 (6.60%) JIRA
5 8 (2.78%) JUnit
6 7 (2.43%) Mockito
6 7 (2.43%) Postman
7 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.39%) JMeter
8 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.04%) Gradle
8 3 (1.04%) Maven
9 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.69%) Gatling
9 2 (0.69%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.69%) Mocha
9 2 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 97 (33.68%) Finance
2 63 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.24%) Banking
4 30 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.51%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.82%) Front Office
8 10 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.43%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.39%) Law
13 3 (1.04%) Back Office
13 3 (1.04%) Military
13 3 (1.04%) Police
14 2 (0.69%) Advertising
14 2 (0.69%) Marketing
14 2 (0.69%) Retail
14 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (21.88%) Architect
2 47 (16.32%) Developer
3 36 (12.50%) Senior
4 26 (9.03%) Data Engineer
5 23 (7.99%) Lead
6 17 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (5.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.51%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.51%) Project Manager
8 13 (4.51%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.82%) Migration Manager
9 11 (3.82%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (3.47%) AWS Architect
10 10 (3.47%) Consultant
10 10 (3.47%) Data Scientist
10 10 (3.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 10 (3.47%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.50%) Kafka
2 29 (10.07%) Spring
3 28 (9.72%) Spring Boot
4 23 (7.99%) React
5 22 (7.64%) REST
6 21 (7.29%) RESTful
7 14 (4.86%) Node.js
8 12 (4.17%) JSON
9 10 (3.47%) .NET
9 10 (3.47%) Pandas
9 10 (3.47%) PySpark
9 10 (3.47%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.13%) NumPy
10 9 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (2.78%) scikit-learn
11 8 (2.78%) SOAP
12 7 (2.43%) boto
12 7 (2.43%) HTML
12 7 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.65%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.17%) Equities
5 10 (3.47%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.78%) Derivative
7 8 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.08%) Clustering
9 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.74%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.39%) LIMS
11 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.39%) NHS
11 4 (1.39%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.21%) Linux
2 12 (4.17%) Windows
3 4 (1.39%) Android
3 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.39%) zOS
4 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.97%) CI/CD
2 82 (28.47%) DevOps
3 72 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (21.88%) Agile
4 63 (21.88%) AI
5 53 (18.40%) Migration
6 47 (16.32%) Analytics
6 47 (16.32%) Containerisation
7 45 (15.63%) Microservices
8 42 (14.58%) Machine Learning
8 42 (14.58%) Observability
9 41 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (13.54%) Event-Driven
11 35 (12.15%) Data Engineering
12 34 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (11.11%) Test Automation
14 30 (10.42%) Data Modelling
15 29 (10.07%) Software Engineering
16 28 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 112 (38.89%) Python
2 67 (23.26%) SQL
3 58 (20.14%) Java
4 20 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.86%) C#
5 14 (4.86%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.17%) Bash
7 10 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.74%) Ruby
9 5 (1.74%) Scala
10 4 (1.39%) Bicep
10 4 (1.39%) C++
10 4 (1.39%) JCL
11 3 (1.04%) Go
11 3 (1.04%) Korn
11 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.69%) R
13 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 74 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.51%) Degree
4 11 (3.82%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.82%) PMP
5 10 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.43%) CISSP
7 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.08%) PhD
8 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.74%) CISM
9 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.69%) CCSP
11 2 (0.69%) OSCP
11 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 24 (8.33%) GDPR
1 24 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (7.29%) NIST
3 8 (2.78%) SLA
4 7 (2.43%) QA
5 6 (2.08%) NCSC
5 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.04%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.04%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.04%) SEPA
7 2 (0.69%) EMIR
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
7 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.69%) MiFID
7 2 (0.69%) PSD2
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (18.75%) Docker
2 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.69%) NFS
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (21.18%) Terraform
2 58 (20.14%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.29%) Ansible
4 18 (6.25%) Grafana
5 16 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.04%) Argo
6 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.69%) Puppet
7 2 (0.69%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) Istio
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.35%) QRadar
8 1 (0.35%) Salt
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.56%) Databricks
3 13 (4.51%) Google
4 12 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 12 (4.17%) Oracle
5 9 (3.13%) IBM
6 8 (2.78%) Citrix
6 8 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.43%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.43%) Splunk
8 5 (1.74%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.74%) SAP
8 5 (1.74%) VMware
9 3 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.04%) Cognos
9 3 (1.04%) Informatica
9 3 (1.04%) Palo Alto