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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 256 212 300
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.64% 9.09% 11.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.77% 23.14% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 136 233
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £551
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.54% -11.92%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £678
90th Percentile £788 £738 £738
London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.74%

All Cloud 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 832 916 1,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.09% 39.30% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 598 787
10th Percentile £325 £388 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £18.87 - -
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £38.88 - £38.00
90th Percentile £41.94 £69.50 £53.75
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year -16.51% -16.56% +23.77%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 +7 243 £550 -4.35% 359
City of Westminster +1 5 £475 -9.52%
West End of London +1 2 £475 -9.09% 11
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 15 (5.86%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.52%) Confluence
3 8 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.34%) Apache
5 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) CICS
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.39%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Notion
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (43.75%) Azure
2 59 (23.05%) GCP
3 43 (16.80%) Amazon S3
3 43 (16.80%) AWS Lambda
3 43 (16.80%) Serverless
4 33 (12.89%) GitHub
5 24 (9.38%) Snowflake
6 22 (8.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (5.47%) Power Platform
10 14 (5.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (4.69%) dbt
12 11 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.13%) Apigee
15 7 (2.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.03%) Firewall
2 13 (5.08%) DNS
3 8 (3.13%) Network Security
4 5 (1.95%) VPN
5 4 (1.56%) SSL
5 4 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.17%) DHCP
6 3 (1.17%) LAN
6 3 (1.17%) WAN
6 3 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.78%) 4G
7 2 (0.78%) 5G
7 2 (0.78%) BGP
7 2 (0.78%) NAS
7 2 (0.78%) OSPF
7 2 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.39%) DKIM
8 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.98%) Relational Database
2 16 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.69%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.69%) Power BI
5 11 (4.30%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.91%) MySQL
6 10 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.52%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.52%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (3.13%) Tableau
9 6 (2.34%) Big Data
9 6 (2.34%) Metadata
10 5 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.95%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.17%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (12.11%) Git
2 20 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.86%) GitLab
4 14 (5.47%) JIRA
5 6 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.56%) JUnit
7 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.78%) Gatling
8 2 (0.78%) Mockito
8 2 (0.78%) Postman
8 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.78%) Selenium
8 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.39%) MLflow
9 1 (0.39%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.39%) Snyk
9 1 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 88 (34.38%) Finance
2 52 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.84%) Banking
4 26 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.30%) Front Office
7 8 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.73%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.56%) Legal
11 3 (1.17%) Back Office
11 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.78%) Marketing
12 2 (0.78%) Military
12 2 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (19.92%) Architect
2 43 (16.80%) Senior
3 38 (14.84%) Developer
4 28 (10.94%) Data Engineer
5 26 (10.16%) Lead
6 21 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (5.86%) AWS Architect
8 15 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.08%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.52%) Consultant
12 8 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.13%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.13%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.13%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.13%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.73%) AWS Security Architect
13 7 (2.73%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.64%) Node.js
1 17 (6.64%) React
2 15 (5.86%) RESTful
3 13 (5.08%) Spring
4 12 (4.69%) Kafka
4 12 (4.69%) REST
5 11 (4.30%) .NET
5 11 (4.30%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.91%) HTML
6 10 (3.91%) OAuth
6 10 (3.91%) Pandas
7 9 (3.52%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.52%) CSS
7 9 (3.52%) NumPy
8 8 (3.13%) scikit-learn
9 6 (2.34%) JWT
9 6 (2.34%) PySpark
9 6 (2.34%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.34%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.91%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.52%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.52%) Derivative
3 9 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.73%) Equities
4 7 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.73%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.95%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.56%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.17%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.86%) Linux
1 15 (5.86%) Windows
2 6 (2.34%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.95%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) AIX
5 1 (0.39%) Solaris
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 64 (25.00%) DevOps
3 51 (19.92%) Agile
4 47 (18.36%) Analytics
5 43 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (14.06%) Microservices
8 35 (13.67%) AI
9 34 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 31 (12.11%) Containerisation
11 31 (12.11%) Migration
12 30 (11.72%) Software Engineering
13 27 (10.55%) ETL
13 27 (10.55%) Machine Learning
14 25 (9.77%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (9.38%) Data Modelling
16 22 (8.59%) Cloud Security
17 21 (8.20%) Data Engineering
18 20 (7.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 105 (41.02%) Python
2 70 (27.34%) SQL
3 51 (19.92%) Java
4 20 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.91%) Bash
5 10 (3.91%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.34%) C#
8 5 (1.95%) C++
9 4 (1.56%) Go
9 4 (1.56%) PHP
9 4 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.17%) Perl
10 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.78%) Ruby
11 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 1 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.86%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.47%) Degree
5 6 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.34%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.95%) CISSP
6 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.56%) PMP
8 3 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.17%) PhD
8 3 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.78%) CISM
9 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.98%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.03%) GDPR
3 16 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.30%) NIST
5 9 (3.52%) QA
6 6 (2.34%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.56%) SLA
8 3 (1.17%) NCSC
9 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.78%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.39%) GRC
10 1 (0.39%) HL7
10 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.39%) PMO
10 1 (0.39%) PSD2
10 1 (0.39%) SEPA
10 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (19.14%) Docker
2 9 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.78%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (21.48%) Terraform
2 39 (15.23%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.64%) Ansible
4 8 (3.13%) Grafana
5 6 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.17%) Argo
9 2 (0.78%) Istio
9 2 (0.78%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.78%) SCCM
10 1 (0.39%) CASB
10 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.39%) Kibana
10 1 (0.39%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.39%) Puppet
10 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.39%) vRealize
10 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 33 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.81%) Databricks
3 18 (7.03%) Oracle
4 12 (4.69%) Google
5 8 (3.13%) IBM
5 8 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.95%) F5
6 5 (1.95%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.95%) Splunk
7 4 (1.56%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.56%) VMware
8 3 (1.17%) Citrix
8 3 (1.17%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.17%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.17%) Informatica
8 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.17%) SAP
9 2 (0.78%) Confluent