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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 281 251 217
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.26% 12.63% 9.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.71% 31.65% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 174 138
10th Percentile £425 £400 £425
25th Percentile £478 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £820
London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
London median hourly rate £67.00 £58.75 £30.65
% change year-on-year +14.04% +91.68% -63.94%

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 1,014 793 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.63% 39.91% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 533 642
10th Percentile £363 £334 £376
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £751
London median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 4
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £75.25
London median hourly rate £34.23 £30.00 £30.59
% change year-on-year +14.10% -1.93% -30.48%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -2 266 £550 -5.17% 195
City of Westminster -11 9 £525 -12.50% 50
West End of London -7 8 £525 -12.50% 36
Southwark -3 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 21 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.49%) Confluence
4 5 (1.78%) Apache
4 5 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.71%) CICS
6 2 (0.71%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 120 (42.70%) Azure
2 64 (22.78%) GCP
3 41 (14.59%) Serverless
4 40 (14.23%) GitHub
5 36 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.10%) Amazon S3
7 29 (10.32%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.19%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.76%) dbt
10 17 (6.05%) SaaS
11 16 (5.69%) Amazon Bedrock
12 15 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.34%) Power Platform
13 13 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.91%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.34%) DNS
1 15 (5.34%) Firewall
2 8 (2.85%) DHCP
2 8 (2.85%) VPN
3 5 (1.78%) Network Security
3 5 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.42%) BGP
5 3 (1.07%) Multicast
5 3 (1.07%) OSPF
5 3 (1.07%) SMTP
5 3 (1.07%) VLAN
6 2 (0.71%) Internet
6 2 (0.71%) MPLS
6 2 (0.71%) NGFW
6 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.71%) SSH
6 2 (0.71%) X.509
7 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.36%) VSAN
7 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.05%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (5.34%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (4.98%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.63%) Power BI
5 12 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.85%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.49%) Metadata
8 7 (2.49%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.14%) Big Data
9 6 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.14%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.14%) Tableau
10 5 (1.78%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.07%) Milvus
11 3 (1.07%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (11.03%) GitLab
2 28 (9.96%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.90%) Git
4 20 (7.12%) JIRA
5 9 (3.20%) Postman
6 8 (2.85%) JUnit
7 7 (2.49%) Mockito
8 6 (2.14%) JMeter
9 5 (1.78%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.42%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.42%) Maven
10 4 (1.42%) Selenium
11 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.07%) Gradle
12 2 (0.71%) Appium
12 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.71%) Gatling
12 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 91 (32.38%) Finance
2 64 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.52%) Banking
4 33 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 32 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.85%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.14%) Retail
10 5 (1.78%) Back Office
10 5 (1.78%) Front Office
10 5 (1.78%) Law
10 5 (1.78%) Military
11 4 (1.42%) Police
12 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.07%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.07%) Marketing
12 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 60 (21.35%) Architect
2 53 (18.86%) Senior
3 33 (11.74%) Developer
4 30 (10.68%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.19%) Lead
7 14 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.63%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.27%) Analyst
9 12 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (3.91%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.56%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.20%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.20%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.85%) Consultant
13 8 (2.85%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.85%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (19.22%) Terraform
2 33 (11.74%) Kafka
3 28 (9.96%) Spring
4 27 (9.61%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.19%) REST
6 18 (6.41%) React
7 17 (6.05%) RESTful
8 14 (4.98%) .NET
9 13 (4.63%) PySpark
10 12 (4.27%) Node.js
11 11 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.20%) SOAP
13 7 (2.49%) JSON
14 6 (2.14%) .NET Core
14 6 (2.14%) OAuth
14 6 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
15 5 (1.78%) Django
15 5 (1.78%) LangChain
16 4 (1.42%) AngularJS
16 4 (1.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (26.33%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.83%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.56%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.14%) Clustering
7 6 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.78%) CMDB
9 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.42%) PKI
9 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.07%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.07%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.98%) Linux
1 14 (4.98%) Windows
2 9 (3.20%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.42%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) zOS
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (43.77%) CI/CD
2 83 (29.54%) DevOps
3 68 (24.20%) AI
4 63 (22.42%) Agile
4 63 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (18.15%) Microservices
6 47 (16.73%) Containerisation
6 47 (16.73%) Event-Driven
7 45 (16.01%) Migration
7 45 (16.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (14.95%) Data Engineering
9 41 (14.59%) Analytics
10 40 (14.23%) Data Modelling
11 37 (13.17%) Test Automation
12 35 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (12.10%) Machine Learning
14 33 (11.74%) Observability
14 33 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (11.74%) Software Engineering
15 26 (9.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 108 (38.43%) Python
2 57 (20.28%) SQL
3 56 (19.93%) Java
4 21 (7.47%) C#
5 19 (6.76%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.41%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.34%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.27%) Bash
9 5 (1.78%) Ruby
10 4 (1.42%) Bicep
10 4 (1.42%) Korn
10 4 (1.42%) Scala
10 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.71%) Go
11 2 (0.71%) JCL
11 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.36%) R
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.85%) Degree
5 6 (2.14%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.78%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.78%) PMP
7 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.07%) CCNP
7 3 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.07%) CISM
7 3 (1.07%) CISSP
7 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.07%) SnowPro
7 3 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.71%) OSCP
9 1 (0.36%) GPEN
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.90%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.05%) QA
3 13 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.91%) GDPR
4 11 (3.91%) NIST
5 8 (2.85%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.42%) NCSC
6 4 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.71%) EMIR
8 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.71%) MiFID
8 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.71%) PMO
8 2 (0.71%) SEPA
8 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (15.66%) Docker
2 9 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.07%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.07%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.54%) Ansible
3 13 (4.63%) Grafana
3 13 (4.63%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.78%) Puppet
5 4 (1.42%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.07%) Nagios
6 3 (1.07%) vMotion
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Bosun
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.36%) Consul
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.36%) Salt
7 1 (0.36%) SELinux
7 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.36%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 31 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.54%) Databricks
3 18 (6.41%) Google
4 16 (5.69%) Oracle
5 10 (3.56%) Citrix
5 10 (3.56%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.56%) VMware
6 8 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.49%) Cisco
7 7 (2.49%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.14%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.14%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.14%) SAP
9 5 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.07%) HP
10 3 (1.07%) IBM
10 3 (1.07%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.07%) Symantec
10 3 (1.07%) Workday