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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 279 249 285
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.93% 11.99% 10.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.83% 28.69% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 175 208
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.39%
75th Percentile £662 £673 £675
90th Percentile £800 £738 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £573
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.62% -6.15%
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 905 868 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.96% 41.79% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 563 708
10th Percentile £332 £375 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.07 £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 - £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.50 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £29.72
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.99% -2.56%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +2 263 £538 -3.59% 189
West End of London +5 4 £650 +25.00% 1
City of Westminster +1 3 £650 +23.81% 3
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 17 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.15%) Confluence
4 5 (1.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) CICS
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) 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 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 121 (43.37%) Azure
2 70 (25.09%) GCP
3 44 (15.77%) Serverless
4 42 (15.05%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (14.34%) GitHub
6 39 (13.98%) Amazon S3
7 24 (8.60%) Snowflake
8 22 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (6.81%) Power Platform
11 17 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.94%) dbt
13 10 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.58%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (3.23%) SaaS
15 8 (2.87%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (2.87%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.66%) Network Security
2 11 (3.94%) Firewall
3 9 (3.23%) DNS
4 3 (1.08%) BGP
4 3 (1.08%) DHCP
4 3 (1.08%) OSPF
4 3 (1.08%) SSL
4 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.08%) VPN
5 2 (0.72%) 4G
5 2 (0.72%) 5G
5 2 (0.72%) IPsec
5 2 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.72%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.36%) 2G
6 1 (0.36%) DKIM
6 1 (0.36%) MPLS
6 1 (0.36%) NAS
6 1 (0.36%) VLAN
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.09%) Relational Database
3 16 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (5.73%) DynamoDB
4 15 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.38%) Power BI
5 11 (3.94%) MySQL
5 11 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.94%) Tableau
6 10 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (3.58%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.58%) Metadata
7 9 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.51%) Big Data
9 7 (2.51%) DB2
10 4 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.43%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (12.19%) Git
2 20 (7.17%) GitLab
2 20 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.02%) JIRA
4 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.79%) JUnit
5 4 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.08%) Gatling
6 3 (1.08%) Mockito
6 3 (1.08%) Postman
7 2 (0.72%) Ant
7 2 (0.72%) ERwin
7 2 (0.72%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.72%) MLflow
7 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.72%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.36%) Mocha
General
1 96 (34.41%) Finance
2 66 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.77%) Banking
4 25 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.66%) Front Office
7 12 (4.30%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.51%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.43%) Retail
13 2 (0.72%) Back Office
13 2 (0.72%) Law
13 2 (0.72%) Legal
13 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.72%) Military
13 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (21.15%) Architect
2 38 (13.62%) Developer
3 37 (13.26%) Senior
4 28 (10.04%) Lead
5 27 (9.68%) Data Engineer
6 24 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.30%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.94%) AWS Architect
10 11 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.58%) Python Engineer
12 8 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.87%) Consultant
12 8 (2.87%) Java Developer
12 8 (2.87%) Migration Manager
12 8 (2.87%) Migration Project Manager
12 8 (2.87%) Security Architect
12 8 (2.87%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.89%) Kafka
2 17 (6.09%) React
2 17 (6.09%) REST
3 15 (5.38%) Node.js
3 15 (5.38%) RESTful
4 13 (4.66%) PyTorch
5 12 (4.30%) .NET
5 12 (4.30%) Pandas
6 11 (3.94%) NumPy
6 11 (3.94%) scikit-learn
6 11 (3.94%) Spring
6 11 (3.94%) TensorFlow
7 10 (3.58%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.87%) HTML
9 8 (2.87%) OAuth
10 7 (2.51%) boto
10 7 (2.51%) CSS
10 7 (2.51%) JSON
11 6 (2.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.71%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.02%) Algorithms
4 12 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.94%) Equities
5 11 (3.94%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.23%) Derivative
7 8 (2.87%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.79%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.43%) LIMS
11 3 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.38%) Linux
2 11 (3.94%) Windows
3 3 (1.08%) Android
3 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
4 2 (0.72%) zOS
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.13%) CI/CD
2 63 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (21.86%) DevOps
4 57 (20.43%) AI
5 54 (19.35%) Agile
6 48 (17.20%) Analytics
7 41 (14.70%) Machine Learning
8 39 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (13.62%) Migration
9 38 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (13.26%) Microservices
11 32 (11.47%) Containerisation
12 31 (11.11%) Data Engineering
12 31 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (11.11%) ETL
12 31 (11.11%) Software Engineering
13 30 (10.75%) Data Modelling
14 29 (10.39%) Roadmaps
15 28 (10.04%) Observability
15 28 (10.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 111 (39.78%) Python
2 81 (29.03%) SQL
3 48 (17.20%) Java
4 17 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.23%) C#
6 7 (2.51%) Bash
7 6 (2.15%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.15%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.79%) C++
9 4 (1.43%) Go
9 4 (1.43%) PHP
9 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.08%) Korn
10 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.08%) Ruby
10 3 (1.08%) Scala
11 2 (0.72%) JCL
11 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 64 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.86%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.81%) Degree
4 15 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.58%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.58%) PMP
6 9 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.87%) CISSP
8 7 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.15%) PhD
10 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.79%) CISM
11 4 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.89%) GDPR
3 20 (7.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (6.09%) NIST
5 7 (2.51%) QA
5 7 (2.51%) SLA
6 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.43%) NCSC
8 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.72%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.72%) GRC
8 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.72%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.72%) PSD2
8 2 (0.72%) SEPA
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) DICOM
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 52 (18.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.72%) vSphere
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (23.30%) Terraform
2 48 (17.20%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.81%) Ansible
4 9 (3.23%) Grafana
5 6 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.08%) Argo
7 3 (1.08%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
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 26 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.45%) Databricks
3 16 (5.73%) Oracle
4 11 (3.94%) Google
4 11 (3.94%) IBM
5 9 (3.23%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.51%) Splunk
7 6 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.43%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.43%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.43%) Informatica
8 4 (1.43%) SAP
9 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.08%) Cognos
9 3 (1.08%) Confluent
9 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.08%) Sage