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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 283 247 213
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.46% 12.81% 9.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.69% 32.33% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 173 127
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £708
90th Percentile £773 £788 £838
London median daily rate £567 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.48% -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 £62.50 £30.65
% change year-on-year +9.60% +103.92% -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 1,022 764 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.39% 39.63% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 530 622
10th Percentile £344 £332 £386
25th Percentile £456 £427 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £662 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
London median daily rate £546 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.02% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.11 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.60 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.80 £69.50
London median hourly rate £29.28 £30.00 £30.80
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.58% -21.04%

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 23 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 23 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 -2 264 £575 -1.71% 276
West End of London -6 10 £553 -7.92% 27
City of Westminster -13 9 £525 -12.50% 48
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 23 (8.13%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.53%) Confluence
3 9 (3.18%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.83%) Apache
5 5 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) CICS
7 2 (0.71%) nginx
7 2 (0.71%) SAS
8 1 (0.35%) Camunda
8 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (44.88%) Azure
2 71 (25.09%) GCP
3 44 (15.55%) GitHub
3 44 (15.55%) Serverless
4 38 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (11.31%) Amazon S3
6 31 (10.95%) Snowflake
7 27 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.71%) dbt
9 18 (6.36%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.65%) SaaS
11 14 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.24%) Power Platform
14 11 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.89%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.65%) DNS
1 16 (5.65%) Firewall
2 9 (3.18%) DHCP
2 9 (3.18%) VPN
3 6 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.77%) BGP
5 4 (1.41%) Network Security
5 4 (1.41%) OSPF
5 4 (1.41%) VLAN
6 3 (1.06%) MPLS
6 3 (1.06%) Multicast
6 3 (1.06%) SMTP
7 2 (0.71%) Internet
7 2 (0.71%) IPsec
7 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.71%) SSH
7 2 (0.71%) WAN
7 2 (0.71%) Wireless
7 2 (0.71%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.71%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.24%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (3.89%) Power BI
5 10 (3.53%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.53%) Metadata
5 10 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.18%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.83%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.83%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.83%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.47%) Big Data
9 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.77%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.77%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (12.01%) GitLab
2 32 (11.31%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.77%) Git
4 20 (7.07%) JIRA
5 9 (3.18%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.18%) JUnit
6 8 (2.83%) Mockito
6 8 (2.83%) Postman
7 7 (2.47%) JMeter
8 5 (1.77%) Maven
9 4 (1.41%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.41%) Selenium
10 3 (1.06%) Gatling
11 2 (0.71%) Appium
11 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.71%) Gradle
11 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 97 (34.28%) Finance
2 68 (24.03%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.19%) Banking
4 36 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.95%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.47%) Back Office
7 7 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.12%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.12%) Retail
9 5 (1.77%) Front Office
9 5 (1.77%) Law
9 5 (1.77%) Military
10 4 (1.41%) Marketing
10 4 (1.41%) Police
10 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.06%) Billing
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (23.32%) Architect
2 60 (21.20%) Senior
3 31 (10.95%) Data Engineer
4 28 (9.89%) Developer
5 25 (8.83%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (8.48%) Lead
7 17 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (4.59%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.24%) Analyst
10 12 (4.24%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.89%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.18%) Senior Architect
14 8 (2.83%) AWS Architect
14 8 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) Consultant
14 8 (2.83%) Data Analyst
14 8 (2.83%) Technical Architect
15 7 (2.47%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (20.14%) Terraform
2 31 (10.95%) Kafka
3 28 (9.89%) REST
3 28 (9.89%) Spring
4 27 (9.54%) Spring Boot
5 16 (5.65%) RESTful
6 14 (4.95%) .NET
6 14 (4.95%) PySpark
6 14 (4.95%) React
7 12 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (4.24%) SOAP
8 10 (3.53%) Node.js
9 8 (2.83%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (2.83%) JSON
10 7 (2.47%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.47%) Web Services
11 6 (2.12%) LangChain
11 6 (2.12%) Middleware
11 6 (2.12%) OAuth
11 6 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 75 (26.50%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.83%) AI Agents
2 25 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.12%) CMDB
6 6 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.41%) PKI
8 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.41%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.06%) Clustering
9 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.65%) Linux
2 14 (4.95%) Windows
3 10 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.77%) Unix
5 2 (0.71%) CentOS
5 2 (0.71%) zOS
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (44.88%) CI/CD
2 82 (28.98%) DevOps
3 72 (25.44%) AI
4 63 (22.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (21.55%) Agile
6 50 (17.67%) Microservices
7 49 (17.31%) Containerisation
8 48 (16.96%) Migration
9 47 (16.61%) Event-Driven
10 46 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 45 (15.90%) Data Engineering
12 43 (15.19%) Analytics
13 39 (13.78%) Data Modelling
14 36 (12.72%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (12.72%) Observability
15 34 (12.01%) Machine Learning
15 34 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (12.01%) Software Engineering
15 34 (12.01%) Test Automation
16 30 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 103 (36.40%) Python
2 60 (21.20%) SQL
3 52 (18.37%) Java
4 19 (6.71%) C#
4 19 (6.71%) PowerShell
5 18 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.30%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.59%) Bash
8 5 (1.77%) Korn
8 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.41%) Bicep
10 3 (1.06%) Ruby
10 3 (1.06%) Scala
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 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.35%) Rust
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.89%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.18%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.18%) Degree
5 5 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.41%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.41%) PMP
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.06%) CCNP
7 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.71%) CISM
8 2 (0.71%) CISSP
8 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.25%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.30%) QA
3 11 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.18%) NIST
5 8 (2.83%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.47%) GDPR
7 5 (1.77%) NCSC
8 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.06%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.06%) SEPA
9 2 (0.71%) EMIR
9 2 (0.71%) MiFID
9 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.71%) PMO
9 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (16.96%) Docker
2 9 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.06%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.06%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.89%) Ansible
3 16 (5.65%) Grafana
4 14 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.77%) Puppet
6 4 (1.41%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.06%) Nagios
7 3 (1.06%) vMotion
8 1 (0.35%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Bosun
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.35%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) SELinux
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.95%) Databricks
3 19 (6.71%) Google
4 17 (6.01%) Oracle
5 11 (3.89%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.53%) Citrix
6 10 (3.53%) VMware
7 8 (2.83%) Cisco
7 8 (2.83%) SAP
8 7 (2.47%) IBM
8 7 (2.47%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.12%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.12%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.77%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.77%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.06%) HP
11 3 (1.06%) Splunk
11 3 (1.06%) Symantec
11 3 (1.06%) Workday