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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 275 244 220
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.37% 12.67% 9.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.50% 31.77% 23.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 171 136
10th Percentile £425 £375 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £838
London median daily rate £568 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.13% -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 £68.50 £73.50 £30.65
% change year-on-year -6.80% +139.80% -64.97%

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 1,000 768 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.36% 39.88% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 546 621
10th Percentile £332 £336 £396
25th Percentile £456 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
London median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.36 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.96 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £86.43 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +0.18% -8.80% -22.84%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -5 257 £575 -1.71% 267
West End of London -4 9 £553 -7.92% 11
City of Westminster -10 8 £525 -11.02% 38
Southwark 0 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 22 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.64%) Confluence
3 9 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.55%) Apache
5 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) nginx
7 2 (0.73%) SAS
8 1 (0.36%) CICS
8 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.73%) 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
1 123 (44.73%) Azure
2 66 (24.00%) GCP
3 42 (15.27%) Serverless
4 40 (14.55%) GitHub
5 36 (13.09%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (11.27%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.91%) Snowflake
8 25 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.91%) dbt
10 18 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (6.18%) Amazon Bedrock
12 15 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (5.09%) SaaS
14 13 (4.73%) Power Platform
15 12 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.36%) OpenShift
16 10 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (3.27%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.82%) DNS
2 15 (5.45%) Firewall
3 10 (3.64%) VPN
4 9 (3.27%) DHCP
5 6 (2.18%) BGP
6 5 (1.82%) Network Security
6 5 (1.82%) OSPF
6 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.45%) VLAN
8 3 (1.09%) MPLS
8 3 (1.09%) Multicast
8 3 (1.09%) NGFW
8 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.09%) SMTP
8 3 (1.09%) WAN
8 3 (1.09%) Wireless
9 2 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.73%) IPsec
9 2 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.73%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.82%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.36%) Power BI
4 10 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (3.64%) Metadata
5 9 (3.27%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.27%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.91%) Delta Lake
7 7 (2.55%) Big Data
7 7 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.18%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.82%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.64%) GitLab
1 32 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.00%) Git
3 21 (7.64%) JIRA
4 9 (3.27%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.91%) JUnit
5 8 (2.91%) Postman
6 7 (2.55%) JMeter
6 7 (2.55%) Mockito
7 4 (1.45%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.45%) Maven
7 4 (1.45%) Selenium
8 3 (1.09%) Gatling
9 2 (0.73%) Appium
9 2 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.73%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
General
1 96 (34.91%) Finance
2 65 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.64%) Banking
4 36 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.27%) Back Office
7 9 (3.27%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.18%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.18%) Front Office
8 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.18%) Retail
9 5 (1.82%) Military
10 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Law
10 4 (1.45%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Police
11 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (25.45%) Architect
2 59 (21.45%) Senior
3 29 (10.55%) Data Engineer
4 25 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.73%) Developer
5 24 (8.73%) Lead
6 20 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (4.36%) Data Architect
9 11 (4.00%) Analyst
9 11 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
9 11 (4.00%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.64%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.27%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.27%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Data Analyst
12 7 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (21.09%) Terraform
2 28 (10.18%) REST
3 27 (9.82%) Kafka
4 23 (8.36%) Spring
5 22 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 14 (5.09%) .NET
7 13 (4.73%) PySpark
7 13 (4.73%) RESTful
8 12 (4.36%) React
9 11 (4.00%) SOAP
10 10 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.27%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (2.91%) Node.js
12 8 (2.91%) Web Services
13 7 (2.55%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.55%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.55%) JSON
13 7 (2.55%) OAuth
14 6 (2.18%) LangChain
14 6 (2.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 70 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.82%) AI Agents
3 23 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.82%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.09%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.91%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.18%) CMDB
8 6 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.45%) PKI
10 4 (1.45%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.45%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.09%) Clustering
11 3 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.45%) Linux
1 15 (5.45%) Windows
2 10 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.82%) Unix
4 2 (0.73%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 77 (28.00%) DevOps
3 71 (25.82%) AI
4 62 (22.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (20.36%) Agile
6 49 (17.82%) Migration
7 45 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (15.64%) Containerisation
9 42 (15.27%) Data Engineering
9 42 (15.27%) Microservices
10 40 (14.55%) Event-Driven
11 39 (14.18%) Analytics
12 38 (13.82%) Data Modelling
13 37 (13.45%) Observability
14 35 (12.73%) Test Automation
15 32 (11.64%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (11.64%) Machine Learning
15 32 (11.64%) Software Engineering
16 31 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (10.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (35.64%) Python
2 60 (21.82%) SQL
3 47 (17.09%) Java
4 21 (7.64%) PowerShell
5 18 (6.55%) C#
5 18 (6.55%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.36%) Bash
8 5 (1.82%) Korn
9 3 (1.09%) Bicep
9 3 (1.09%) Ruby
9 3 (1.09%) Scala
9 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.73%) Go
10 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.36%) JCL
11 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.27%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.27%) Degree
5 5 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.45%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.45%) PMP
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.09%) CCNP
7 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.09%) CISSP
7 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.73%) CCIE
8 2 (0.73%) CISM
8 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.73%) QA
3 11 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.91%) EU AI Act
5 7 (2.55%) NIST
6 6 (2.18%) GDPR
7 4 (1.45%) NCSC
7 4 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.09%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.09%) SEPA
9 2 (0.73%) EMIR
9 2 (0.73%) MiFID
9 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (14.91%) Docker
2 9 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.45%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.18%) Ansible
3 14 (5.09%) Grafana
4 12 (4.36%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.82%) Puppet
6 4 (1.45%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.09%) Nagios
7 3 (1.09%) vMotion
8 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Netcool
9 1 (0.36%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.36%) Salt
9 1 (0.36%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) SELinux
9 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.91%) Databricks
3 19 (6.91%) Google
4 17 (6.18%) Oracle
5 11 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.64%) Cisco
6 10 (3.64%) VMware
7 8 (2.91%) Citrix
7 8 (2.91%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.91%) SAP
8 6 (2.18%) IBM
8 6 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.82%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.09%) F5
10 3 (1.09%) HP
10 3 (1.09%) Splunk
10 3 (1.09%) Workday