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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 281 256 275
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.69% 12.62% 10.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.48% 29.94% 27.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 177 202
10th Percentile £363 £413 £401
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £661
90th Percentile £789 £730 £773
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -23.33%

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 922 855 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.63% 42.14% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 564 703
10th Percentile £339 £363 £343
25th Percentile £440 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £653
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.30 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £104.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
% change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -25.03%

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 March 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 March 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 -1 266 £538 -2.27% 283
West End of London +4 4 £650 +24.40% 17
City of Westminster +1 3 £650 +23.81% 14
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 2
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 19 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.49%) Confluence
4 5 (1.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.71%) CICS
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Notion
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.07%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 123 (43.77%) Azure
2 70 (24.91%) GCP
3 46 (16.37%) Serverless
4 43 (15.30%) GitHub
5 42 (14.95%) Amazon S3
5 42 (14.95%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (8.90%) Snowflake
7 24 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (8.19%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (8.19%) Power Platform
9 19 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.63%) dbt
12 11 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.56%) SaaS
13 10 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.20%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (3.20%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.63%) Network Security
2 8 (2.85%) Firewall
3 6 (2.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) DHCP
4 2 (0.71%) SSL
4 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.71%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) 2G
5 1 (0.36%) 4G
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.36%) Internet
5 1 (0.36%) IPsec
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
5 1 (0.36%) NAS
5 1 (0.36%) OSPF
5 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
5 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.41%) Power BI
3 17 (6.05%) DynamoDB
4 16 (5.69%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.98%) NoSQL
6 14 (4.98%) Tableau
7 12 (4.27%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (3.91%) MySQL
9 10 (3.56%) Metadata
9 10 (3.56%) MongoDB
10 9 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.85%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.49%) Big Data
12 7 (2.49%) DB2
13 4 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.42%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (12.81%) Git
2 22 (7.83%) GitLab
2 22 (7.83%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.63%) JIRA
4 6 (2.14%) JUnit
5 5 (1.78%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.42%) Mockito
7 3 (1.07%) Gatling
7 3 (1.07%) Postman
8 2 (0.71%) Ant
8 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.71%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.36%) ERwin
9 1 (0.36%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.36%) Mocha
General
1 94 (33.45%) Finance
2 65 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.30%) Banking
4 25 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.63%) Financial Institution
6 13 (4.63%) Front Office
7 12 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.49%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.42%) Retail
11 3 (1.07%) Back Office
11 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Law
12 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 2 (0.71%) Military
12 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (21.35%) Architect
2 39 (13.88%) Developer
2 39 (13.88%) Senior
3 28 (9.96%) Data Engineer
4 26 (9.25%) Lead
5 23 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.27%) AWS Architect
8 12 (4.27%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.91%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.20%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.20%) Migration Manager
11 9 (3.20%) Migration Project Manager
11 9 (3.20%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.20%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.85%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.25%) Kafka
2 19 (6.76%) React
2 19 (6.76%) REST
3 16 (5.69%) RESTful
4 14 (4.98%) Node.js
5 12 (4.27%) Spring
6 11 (3.91%) .NET
6 11 (3.91%) Pandas
6 11 (3.91%) PyTorch
6 11 (3.91%) Spring Boot
7 10 (3.56%) NumPy
7 10 (3.56%) scikit-learn
8 9 (3.20%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.20%) TensorFlow
9 8 (2.85%) JSON
9 8 (2.85%) OAuth
9 8 (2.85%) PySpark
10 7 (2.49%) boto
10 7 (2.49%) HTML
11 6 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.63%) Algorithms
5 12 (4.27%) Equities
5 12 (4.27%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.56%) Derivative
7 8 (2.85%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.49%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.49%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.42%) Clustering
10 4 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.42%) LIMS
10 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.98%) Linux
2 13 (4.63%) Windows
3 3 (1.07%) Android
3 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.71%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) zOS
5 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (37.01%) CI/CD
2 66 (23.49%) DevOps
3 65 (23.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (20.28%) Agile
5 55 (19.57%) AI
6 44 (15.66%) Analytics
7 43 (15.30%) Migration
8 40 (14.23%) Machine Learning
9 39 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (13.17%) Microservices
10 37 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (12.81%) Containerisation
12 33 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (11.74%) Roadmaps
13 32 (11.39%) Data Modelling
14 31 (11.03%) Data Engineering
14 31 (11.03%) Test Automation
15 30 (10.68%) Observability
15 30 (10.68%) Software Engineering
16 29 (10.32%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 112 (39.86%) Python
2 79 (28.11%) SQL
3 47 (16.73%) Java
4 16 (5.69%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.20%) C#
5 9 (3.20%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.14%) Bash
6 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.78%) C++
8 4 (1.42%) Go
8 4 (1.42%) PHP
8 4 (1.42%) Ruby
8 4 (1.42%) Scala
8 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.07%) Korn
9 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.71%) JCL
10 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 65 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.05%) Degree
4 14 (4.98%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.56%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.56%) PMP
6 9 (3.20%) CISSP
7 7 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.14%) CISM
8 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.14%) PhD
9 5 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.71%) CCSP
12 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.83%) GDPR
2 22 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.41%) NIST
4 8 (2.85%) SLA
5 7 (2.49%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.49%) QA
6 3 (1.07%) NCSC
7 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.71%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.71%) GRC
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.71%) PSD2
7 2 (0.71%) SEPA
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) DICOM
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 54 (19.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.71%) vSphere
4 1 (0.36%) NFS
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (23.13%) Terraform
2 49 (17.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.76%) Ansible
4 10 (3.56%) Grafana
5 7 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.07%) Argo
7 3 (1.07%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) CASB
9 1 (0.36%) Istio
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.36%) QRadar
9 1 (0.36%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.36%) vRealize
9 1 (0.36%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.05%) Databricks
2 17 (6.05%) Oracle
3 12 (4.27%) Google
4 11 (3.91%) IBM
5 10 (3.56%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.85%) Splunk
8 7 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.78%) Informatica
10 4 (1.42%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.42%) SAP
10 4 (1.42%) VMware
11 3 (1.07%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.07%) Charles River
11 3 (1.07%) Cognos
11 3 (1.07%) Confluent
11 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.07%) Sage