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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 292 275 225
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.30% 13.29% 9.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.19% 32.86% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 190 144
10th Percentile £425 £406 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £693
90th Percentile £750 £788 £812
London median daily rate £568 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.24% -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 1,036 837 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.09% 40.43% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 548 660
10th Percentile £352 £354 £383
25th Percentile £460 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £663 £666
90th Percentile £750 £757 £751
London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £24.21 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -22.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £94.38 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%

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 10 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 10 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 -5 274 £550 -4.35% 162
City of Westminster -10 11 £588 -2.08% 25
West End of London -5 10 £588 +1.29% 2
Southwark -1 2 £600 -
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 1
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 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.74%) Confluence
3 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.71%) Apache
5 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.37%) CICS
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 120 (41.10%) Azure
2 66 (22.60%) GCP
3 46 (15.75%) GitHub
4 45 (15.41%) Serverless
5 40 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (12.67%) Amazon S3
7 28 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (8.90%) Snowflake
9 20 (6.85%) Power Platform
10 17 (5.82%) Amazon Bedrock
10 17 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (5.82%) SaaS
11 16 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.45%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.11%) dbt
14 11 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.14%) Firewall
2 14 (4.79%) DNS
3 7 (2.40%) DHCP
3 7 (2.40%) Network Security
3 7 (2.40%) VPN
4 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.03%) SMTP
6 2 (0.68%) BGP
6 2 (0.68%) NGFW
6 2 (0.68%) OSPF
6 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.68%) SSH
6 2 (0.68%) VLAN
6 2 (0.68%) X.509
7 1 (0.34%) Multicast
7 1 (0.34%) NAS
7 1 (0.34%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.34%) VSAN
7 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.16%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (6.16%) DynamoDB
2 17 (5.82%) Power BI
3 14 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.08%) Tableau
8 8 (2.74%) Big Data
8 8 (2.74%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.74%) Metadata
8 8 (2.74%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.71%) Db2
10 5 (1.71%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.71%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.37%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.37%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 35 (11.99%) GitLab
2 32 (10.96%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.25%) Git
4 22 (7.53%) JIRA
5 11 (3.77%) JUnit
6 10 (3.42%) Postman
7 9 (3.08%) Mockito
8 6 (2.05%) JMeter
9 5 (1.71%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.71%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.37%) Maven
10 4 (1.37%) Selenium
11 3 (1.03%) Gradle
12 2 (0.68%) Ant
12 2 (0.68%) Appium
12 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.68%) Mocha
12 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 88 (30.14%) Finance
2 66 (22.60%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.33%) Banking
4 33 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 30 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Front Office
9 6 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Retail
10 5 (1.71%) Back Office
10 5 (1.71%) Law
11 4 (1.37%) Military
11 4 (1.37%) Police
11 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.03%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
12 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (21.58%) Architect
2 53 (18.15%) Senior
3 36 (12.33%) Developer
4 26 (8.90%) Data Engineer
5 19 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (6.51%) Lead
6 16 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.14%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.45%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.11%) Analyst
10 10 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (3.08%) Consultant
11 9 (3.08%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (3.08%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.08%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.74%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.64%) Kafka
2 31 (10.62%) Spring
3 30 (10.27%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.22%) REST
5 23 (7.88%) RESTful
6 19 (6.51%) React
7 14 (4.79%) .NET
8 12 (4.11%) Node.js
8 12 (4.11%) PySpark
8 12 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (4.11%) SOAP
9 10 (3.42%) JSON
10 6 (2.05%) OAuth
10 6 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.05%) PyTorch
10 6 (2.05%) Web Services
11 5 (1.71%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.71%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.71%) LangChain
11 5 (1.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.19%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.74%) Clustering
7 8 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.71%) Equities
9 5 (1.71%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.37%) CMDB
10 4 (1.37%) DataPower
10 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.37%) LIMS
10 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.45%) Linux
2 12 (4.11%) Windows
3 8 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.37%) zOS
5 3 (1.03%) Unix
6 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.34%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (40.75%) CI/CD
2 80 (27.40%) DevOps
3 67 (22.95%) AI
4 62 (21.23%) Agile
4 62 (21.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (17.81%) Microservices
6 50 (17.12%) Containerisation
7 44 (15.07%) Event-Driven
7 44 (15.07%) Migration
8 42 (14.38%) Analytics
9 39 (13.36%) Data Modelling
9 39 (13.36%) Test Automation
10 36 (12.33%) Data Engineering
10 36 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (11.99%) Observability
12 34 (11.64%) Machine Learning
13 33 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (10.62%) Software Engineering
15 30 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (8.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 105 (35.96%) Python
2 59 (20.21%) SQL
3 57 (19.52%) Java
4 22 (7.53%) C#
4 22 (7.53%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.16%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.48%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.11%) Bash
8 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.71%) Ruby
10 4 (1.37%) Bicep
10 4 (1.37%) Go
10 4 (1.37%) JCL
10 4 (1.37%) Korn
11 3 (1.03%) Scala
12 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.08%) Degree
3 9 (3.08%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.05%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.05%) CISSP
4 6 (2.05%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.05%) PMP
5 5 (1.71%) CISM
6 4 (1.37%) CCNP
7 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.68%) OSCP
8 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.48%) QA
3 15 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.79%) NIST
5 13 (4.45%) GDPR
6 8 (2.74%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.71%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.37%) NCSC
9 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.03%) SLA
10 2 (0.68%) EMIR
10 2 (0.68%) MiFID
10 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.34%) GRC
11 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.34%) PMO
11 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (18.15%) Docker
2 9 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.03%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.03%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.68%) NFS
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (21.23%) Kubernetes
2 56 (19.18%) Terraform
3 26 (8.90%) Ansible
4 15 (5.14%) Grafana
5 14 (4.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.71%) Puppet
7 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.03%) Nagios
8 3 (1.03%) vMotion
9 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Bosun
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.34%) Packer
10 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.34%) QRadar
10 1 (0.34%) Salt
10 1 (0.34%) SELinux
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (10.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.16%) Google
3 16 (5.48%) Databricks
4 11 (3.77%) Oracle
4 11 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.42%) Citrix
5 10 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.08%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.08%) VMware
7 6 (2.05%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.05%) SAP
7 6 (2.05%) Splunk
8 5 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.71%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.37%) Cisco
10 3 (1.03%) HP
10 3 (1.03%) IBM
10 3 (1.03%) Informatica
10 3 (1.03%) Symantec
10 3 (1.03%) Workday