AWS Contracts in Central London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 256 268 531
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 13.01% 10.57% 13.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.05% 27.35% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 198 359
10th Percentile £413 £404 £456
25th Percentile £463 £458 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £661 £750
90th Percentile £701 £775 £861
London median daily rate £585 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +1.74% -6.12% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £57.44
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.50 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.48% -23.33% -2.60%

All Cloud 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 852 980 1,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.29% 38.66% 37.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 689 1,057
10th Percentile £367 £349 £331
25th Percentile £463 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -6.43% -
75th Percentile £664 £650 £700
90th Percentile £729 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 11
10th Percentile £24.32 £12.75 £16.54
25th Percentile £25.11 £17.97 £23.00
Median hourly rate £31.86 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.60% -57.14% +204.92%
75th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £62.63 £50.25 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.81% -25.71% -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Central London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Central London.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Central London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Central London over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Central London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Central London

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 3 April 2025. 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 +1 234 £546 -0.68% 106
West End of London 0 11 £523 +4.50% 9
City of Westminster 0 7 £525 -30.00% 5
Camden -1 1 £580 +22.11% 2
AWS
London

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.47%) Confluence
2 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.56%) nginx
4 3 (1.17%) Apache
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.39%) Camunda
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Sketch
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.34%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Endur
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 89 (34.77%) Azure
2 37 (14.45%) GCP
3 33 (12.89%) Amazon S3
4 30 (11.72%) Serverless
5 24 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (6.25%) GitHub
8 14 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.69%) Entra ID
10 10 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (3.52%) Route 53
12 7 (2.73%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 7 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.73%) CloudFront
12 7 (2.73%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.73%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.86%) Firewall
2 7 (2.73%) DNS
2 7 (2.73%) VPN
3 6 (2.34%) Modbus
3 6 (2.34%) MQTT
4 4 (1.56%) DHCP
5 3 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.78%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.39%) BGP
7 1 (0.39%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.39%) HTTP
7 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.39%) MPLS
7 1 (0.39%) SAN
7 1 (0.39%) WAN
7 1 (0.39%) Wireless
7 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.23%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (10.16%) NoSQL
3 21 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 20 (7.81%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.30%) Redis
7 10 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (3.52%) DocumentDB
8 9 (3.52%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (3.13%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.73%) Power BI
11 6 (2.34%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.34%) MySQL
11 6 (2.34%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.34%) Tableau
12 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.17%) Big Data
14 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (10.55%) Git
2 26 (10.16%) Jenkins
2 26 (10.16%) JIRA
3 19 (7.42%) GitLab
4 13 (5.08%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.91%) Maven
5 10 (3.91%) Postman
5 10 (3.91%) Selenium
6 8 (3.13%) REST Assured
7 7 (2.73%) JUnit
8 6 (2.34%) MSI
9 5 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.95%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.56%) Gradle
10 4 (1.56%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.78%) Hamcrest
General
1 74 (28.91%) Finance
2 56 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.23%) Banking
3 39 (15.23%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.69%) Retail
6 11 (4.30%) Retail Banking
7 9 (3.52%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.95%) Front Office
9 4 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.17%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Billing
12 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (28.91%) Developer
2 41 (16.02%) Architect
3 37 (14.45%) Senior
4 25 (9.77%) Java Developer
5 23 (8.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (7.81%) Lead
7 19 (7.42%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (6.64%) Data Engineer
9 16 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (5.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 14 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (4.69%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Python Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) C# Developer
14 9 (3.52%) Test Engineer
15 8 (3.13%) Senior Developer
15 8 (3.13%) Technical Architect
16 7 (2.73%) Senior Test Engineer
17 6 (2.34%) .NET Developer
17 6 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.06%) React
2 30 (11.72%) Spring
3 27 (10.55%) Kafka
4 23 (8.98%) Spring Boot
5 21 (8.20%) .NET
6 19 (7.42%) Node.js
7 17 (6.64%) REST
7 17 (6.64%) RESTful
8 16 (6.25%) GraphQL
9 12 (4.69%) HTML
10 10 (3.91%) pytest
11 9 (3.52%) CSS
12 7 (2.73%) Web Services
13 6 (2.34%) JPA
13 6 (2.34%) JSON
14 5 (1.95%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
15 4 (1.56%) Jest
15 4 (1.56%) Next.js
15 4 (1.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
1 11 (4.30%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.13%) Derivative
3 6 (2.34%) IoT
3 6 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.95%) Hedge funds
4 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.17%) CMDB
6 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.17%) Equities
6 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.33%) Linux
2 24 (9.38%) Windows
3 6 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.95%) Unix
5 4 (1.56%) Android
6 3 (1.17%) Rocky
7 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.78%) Solaris
8 1 (0.39%) CentOS
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (35.94%) DevOps
2 84 (32.81%) CI/CD
3 69 (26.95%) Agile
4 46 (17.97%) Microservices
5 43 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (13.28%) Software Engineering
7 27 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (10.55%) SOLID
8 26 (10.16%) Containerisation
9 24 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (8.98%) Migration
11 21 (8.20%) Test Automation
12 19 (7.42%) Clean Code
12 19 (7.42%) Scrum
13 18 (7.03%) API Development
13 18 (7.03%) Cloud Security
14 15 (5.86%) Artificial Intelligence
15 14 (5.47%) TDD
15 14 (5.47%) Test Strategy
16 13 (5.08%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.03%) Python
2 52 (20.31%) SQL
3 51 (19.92%) Java
4 40 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 20 (7.81%) C#
6 18 (7.03%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.69%) Bash
9 5 (1.95%) C++
9 5 (1.95%) Perl
9 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.95%) Ruby
9 5 (1.95%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.56%) Bicep
10 4 (1.56%) Go
10 4 (1.56%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.17%) C
12 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 2 (0.78%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 69 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 65 (25.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.64%) AWS Certified Developer
3 17 (6.64%) Degree
4 15 (5.86%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.56%) CCNP
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.78%) CCIE
10 2 (0.78%) CCNA
10 2 (0.78%) CISM
10 2 (0.78%) CISSP
10 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.52%) GDPR
2 5 (1.95%) QA
3 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.56%) NIST
4 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (17.19%) Docker
2 11 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.17%) Lustre
5 3 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) NFS
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.39%) Platform Symphony
6 1 (0.39%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.39%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 73 (28.52%) Kubernetes
2 56 (21.88%) Terraform
3 25 (9.77%) Ansible
4 10 (3.91%) Grafana
5 8 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.95%) Consul
6 5 (1.95%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.56%) Istio
7 4 (1.56%) Kibana
7 4 (1.56%) Podman
7 4 (1.56%) Puppet
7 4 (1.56%) SCCM
8 3 (1.17%) Argo
8 3 (1.17%) Control-M
8 3 (1.17%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.78%) Packer
9 2 (0.78%) QRadar
9 2 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 23 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.86%) Oracle
3 14 (5.47%) Splunk
4 9 (3.52%) Google
5 8 (3.13%) VMware
6 6 (2.34%) Cisco
6 6 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.95%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.95%) IBM
8 4 (1.56%) BMC
8 4 (1.56%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.56%) F5
9 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.17%) Databricks
9 3 (1.17%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.17%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.78%) Arista
10 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.78%) Okta