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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 251 206 287
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.72% 9.61% 10.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.84% 24.15% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 137 223
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £666 £664 £675
90th Percentile £788 £730 £737
London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%

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 814 853 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.24% 39.80% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 556 755
10th Percentile £340 £400 £354
25th Percentile £426 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £18.83 £26.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.97
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £30.88
90th Percentile £42.50 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £26.40 £30.59 £35.32
% change year-on-year -13.70% -13.38% +38.91%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +4 240 £541 -4.20% 190
City of Westminster -1 2 £475 -9.52% 9
West End of London +1 1 - - 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 (6.37%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.59%) Confluence
3 6 (2.39%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Notion
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (43.03%) Azure
2 59 (23.51%) GCP
3 40 (15.94%) Amazon S3
3 40 (15.94%) AWS Lambda
3 40 (15.94%) Serverless
4 31 (12.35%) GitHub
5 23 (9.16%) Snowflake
6 20 (7.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (5.18%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.38%) dbt
12 11 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (3.19%) Apigee
15 8 (3.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.37%) Firewall
2 12 (4.78%) DNS
3 8 (3.19%) Network Security
4 4 (1.59%) SSL
4 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.59%) VPN
5 3 (1.20%) DHCP
5 3 (1.20%) LAN
5 3 (1.20%) WAN
5 3 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.80%) 4G
6 2 (0.80%) 5G
6 2 (0.80%) BGP
6 2 (0.80%) OSPF
6 2 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (0.40%) DKIM
7 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.37%) Relational Database
2 16 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.78%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.78%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.38%) Power BI
6 10 (3.98%) MySQL
7 9 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.59%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.59%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.79%) Tableau
10 6 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.39%) Big Data
11 5 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.99%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.99%) Metadata
12 4 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.59%) Redis
13 3 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 29 (11.55%) Git
2 20 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.77%) GitLab
4 15 (5.98%) JIRA
5 5 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.59%) JUnit
7 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.20%) Gatling
8 2 (0.80%) MLflow
8 2 (0.80%) Mockito
8 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.80%) Selenium
8 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.40%) ERwin
9 1 (0.40%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 84 (33.47%) Finance
2 50 (19.92%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.34%) Banking
4 23 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.38%) Front Office
7 10 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.59%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.39%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Marketing
12 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Back Office
13 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Law
13 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.80%) Military
13 2 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (18.73%) Architect
2 42 (16.73%) Senior
3 38 (15.14%) Developer
4 29 (11.55%) Lead
5 27 (10.76%) Data Engineer
6 23 (9.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (8.37%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.18%) AWS Architect
9 13 (5.18%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.98%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.59%) Consultant
13 8 (3.19%) Java Developer
13 8 (3.19%) Security Architect
13 8 (3.19%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.19%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.39%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (2.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.77%) Node.js
2 16 (6.37%) React
3 12 (4.78%) Kafka
3 12 (4.78%) REST
3 12 (4.78%) Spring
4 11 (4.38%) .NET
4 11 (4.38%) Pandas
4 11 (4.38%) RESTful
5 10 (3.98%) HTML
5 10 (3.98%) NumPy
5 10 (3.98%) OAuth
5 10 (3.98%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.59%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.59%) CSS
6 9 (3.59%) scikit-learn
7 7 (2.79%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.39%) PySpark
8 6 (2.39%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.99%) boto
9 5 (1.99%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.59%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.59%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.59%) Derivative
3 9 (3.59%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.19%) Equities
5 7 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.99%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.99%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.20%) IoT
9 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.58%) Linux
2 12 (4.78%) Windows
3 5 (1.99%) Unix
4 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.86%) CI/CD
2 63 (25.10%) DevOps
3 50 (19.92%) Agile
3 50 (19.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (17.53%) Analytics
5 37 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (14.34%) AI
7 34 (13.55%) Microservices
8 31 (12.35%) Roadmaps
9 30 (11.95%) Software Engineering
10 29 (11.55%) Containerisation
10 29 (11.55%) Migration
11 28 (11.16%) Machine Learning
12 27 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (10.76%) ETL
13 24 (9.56%) Data Engineering
14 23 (9.16%) Data Modelling
15 21 (8.37%) Observability
15 21 (8.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (41.43%) Python
2 70 (27.89%) SQL
3 51 (20.32%) Java
4 18 (7.17%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.59%) Bash
6 7 (2.79%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.39%) C#
7 6 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.99%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) Go
9 4 (1.59%) PHP
9 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.20%) Korn
10 3 (1.20%) Perl
10 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.80%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.80%) Ruby
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 58 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.37%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.58%) Degree
5 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.39%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.39%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.39%) PMP
6 5 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.99%) CISSP
6 5 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.20%) PhD
8 3 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.97%) GDPR
3 14 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.98%) NIST
4 10 (3.98%) QA
5 6 (2.39%) SLA
6 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.20%) NCSC
8 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.80%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.80%) PSD2
8 2 (0.80%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.40%) DICOM
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
9 1 (0.40%) HL7
9 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (19.52%) Docker
2 7 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.80%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (23.11%) Terraform
2 39 (15.54%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.77%) Ansible
4 8 (3.19%) Grafana
5 7 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.59%) Argo
7 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.80%) Istio
8 2 (0.80%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.80%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) CASB
9 1 (0.40%) Kibana
9 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) Puppet
9 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.37%) Databricks
3 17 (6.77%) Oracle
4 10 (3.98%) Google
5 8 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.79%) IBM
7 6 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.99%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.99%) F5
8 5 (1.99%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.99%) Splunk
9 4 (1.59%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.59%) VMware
10 3 (1.20%) Citrix
10 3 (1.20%) Confluent
10 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.20%) Informatica
10 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.20%) SAP