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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 287 273 228
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.21% 13.28% 9.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.00% 32.73% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 189 145
10th Percentile £425 £405 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £690
90th Percentile £750 £788 £811
London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.09% -4.17% -
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 £54.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.03% +44.67% -54.63%

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 1,025 834 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.04% 40.58% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 548 660
10th Percentile £363 £354 £383
25th Percentile £459 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £661 £666
90th Percentile £750 £761 £751
London median daily rate £538 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +0.89% -3.14% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £21.80 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -26.03%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £93.25 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -3 270 £550 -4.35% 130
City of Westminster -10 11 £588 -2.08% 28
West End of London -5 10 £588 +1.29% 7
Southwark -1 2 £600 -
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 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.79%) Confluence
3 6 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.74%) Apache
5 4 (1.39%) CICS
6 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.70%) nginx
7 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.35%) Camunda
8 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (41.11%) Azure
2 64 (22.30%) GCP
3 45 (15.68%) GitHub
4 44 (15.33%) Serverless
5 39 (13.59%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (12.89%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (8.71%) Snowflake
9 18 (6.27%) Power Platform
10 17 (5.92%) Amazon Bedrock
10 17 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.57%) SaaS
12 13 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.53%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.18%) dbt
14 11 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.88%) Firewall
2 13 (4.53%) DNS
3 7 (2.44%) DHCP
4 6 (2.09%) Network Security
4 6 (2.09%) VPN
5 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.05%) SMTP
7 2 (0.70%) NGFW
7 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
7 2 (0.70%) X.509
8 1 (0.35%) BGP
8 1 (0.35%) Multicast
8 1 (0.35%) NAS
8 1 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.35%) OSPF
8 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
8 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.27%) DynamoDB
2 17 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.23%) Power BI
4 13 (4.53%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.79%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.79%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.44%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.44%) Metadata
9 7 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (2.44%) Tableau
10 6 (2.09%) Big Data
11 5 (1.74%) Db2
11 5 (1.74%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.39%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (12.20%) GitLab
2 32 (11.15%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.41%) Git
4 22 (7.67%) JIRA
5 11 (3.83%) JUnit
6 10 (3.48%) Postman
7 9 (3.14%) Mockito
8 6 (2.09%) JMeter
9 5 (1.74%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.74%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.39%) Maven
10 4 (1.39%) Selenium
11 3 (1.05%) Gradle
12 2 (0.70%) Ant
12 2 (0.70%) Appium
12 2 (0.70%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.70%) Mocha
12 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
General
1 86 (29.97%) Finance
2 64 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.85%) Banking
4 33 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 30 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.14%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.74%) Front Office
9 5 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.74%) Law
9 5 (1.74%) Retail
10 4 (1.39%) Back Office
10 4 (1.39%) Military
10 4 (1.39%) Police
10 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.05%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.05%) Marketing
12 2 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 64 (22.30%) Architect
2 49 (17.07%) Senior
3 35 (12.20%) Developer
4 24 (8.36%) Data Engineer
5 19 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (6.62%) Lead
6 16 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.23%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.53%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.18%) Analyst
10 10 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Consultant
11 9 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.79%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.85%) Kafka
2 31 (10.80%) Spring
3 30 (10.45%) Spring Boot
4 25 (8.71%) REST
5 23 (8.01%) RESTful
6 19 (6.62%) React
7 13 (4.53%) .NET
8 12 (4.18%) Node.js
8 12 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (4.18%) SOAP
9 11 (3.83%) PySpark
10 10 (3.48%) JSON
11 6 (2.09%) OAuth
11 6 (2.09%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.09%) Web Services
12 5 (1.74%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.74%) Django
12 5 (1.74%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.74%) LangChain
12 5 (1.74%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 69 (24.04%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.10%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.32%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.53%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.79%) Clustering
6 8 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.09%) CMDB
9 5 (1.74%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.39%) DataPower
10 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.39%) Equities
10 4 (1.39%) LIMS
10 4 (1.39%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.39%) PKI
10 4 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.05%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.53%) Linux
2 12 (4.18%) Windows
3 8 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.39%) zOS
5 3 (1.05%) Unix
6 2 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.35%) AIX
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.35%) Solaris
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.46%) CI/CD
2 79 (27.53%) DevOps
3 67 (23.34%) AI
4 62 (21.60%) Agile
5 59 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (18.12%) Microservices
7 49 (17.07%) Containerisation
8 44 (15.33%) Migration
9 43 (14.98%) Event-Driven
10 38 (13.24%) Analytics
10 38 (13.24%) Data Modelling
10 38 (13.24%) Test Automation
11 37 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (11.85%) Observability
13 33 (11.50%) Data Engineering
13 33 (11.50%) Machine Learning
13 33 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (10.80%) Software Engineering
15 30 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (9.06%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 102 (35.54%) Python
2 57 (19.86%) Java
3 56 (19.51%) SQL
4 22 (7.67%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.32%) C#
6 18 (6.27%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.57%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.18%) Bash
9 6 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.74%) Ruby
11 4 (1.39%) Bicep
11 4 (1.39%) JCL
11 4 (1.39%) Korn
12 3 (1.05%) Go
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.70%) Scala
14 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.14%) Degree
3 9 (3.14%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.09%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.09%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.09%) PMP
5 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.39%) CISM
5 4 (1.39%) CISSP
6 3 (1.05%) CCNP
6 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.70%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.70%) OSCP
7 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.35%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.92%) QA
3 15 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.88%) NIST
5 13 (4.53%) GDPR
6 8 (2.79%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.74%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.39%) NCSC
9 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.05%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.05%) SLA
10 2 (0.70%) EMIR
10 2 (0.70%) MiFID
10 2 (0.70%) PMO
10 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.35%) GRC
11 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 52 (18.12%) Docker
2 10 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.05%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.05%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.70%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) Firmware
7 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (21.25%) Kubernetes
2 54 (18.82%) Terraform
3 25 (8.71%) Ansible
4 15 (5.23%) Grafana
5 14 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.74%) Puppet
7 4 (1.39%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.05%) Nagios
8 3 (1.05%) vMotion
9 2 (0.70%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.35%) Argo
10 1 (0.35%) Bosun
10 1 (0.35%) Consul
10 1 (0.35%) Packer
10 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.35%) Salt
10 1 (0.35%) SELinux
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.97%) Google
3 16 (5.57%) Databricks
4 12 (4.18%) Oracle
4 12 (4.18%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.48%) Citrix
5 10 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.48%) VMware
6 9 (3.14%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.44%) SAP
8 6 (2.09%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.74%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.74%) Splunk
10 4 (1.39%) Cisco
10 4 (1.39%) IBM
10 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.05%) HP
11 3 (1.05%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.05%) Workday