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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 252 233 281
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.33% 11.13% 10.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.93% 26.91% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 159 210
10th Percentile £357 £413 £400
25th Percentile £457 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -14.46%
75th Percentile £655 £651 £663
90th Percentile £800 £725 £746
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%

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 842 866 999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.19% 41.38% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 555 723
10th Percentile £340 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £19.07 £28.13 £14.03
25th Percentile £24.31 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% -11.70%
75th Percentile £43.33 - £34.44
90th Percentile £51.69 £41.88 £49.80
London median hourly rate £31.08 £32.75 £30.11
% change year-on-year -5.11% +8.77% +5.65%

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 9 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 9 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 +1 241 £525 -4.55% 210
West End of London +2 1 - - 5
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 (6.75%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.98%) Apache
4 4 (1.59%) Confluence
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Notion
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.79%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) 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
1 107 (42.46%) Azure
2 60 (23.81%) GCP
3 43 (17.06%) Serverless
4 41 (16.27%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (13.89%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.90%) GitHub
7 24 (9.52%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (5.95%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.37%) dbt
13 10 (3.97%) Amazon SageMaker
13 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.17%) Apigee
15 8 (3.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.97%) Firewall
2 9 (3.57%) DNS
2 9 (3.57%) Network Security
3 3 (1.19%) DHCP
4 2 (0.79%) 4G
4 2 (0.79%) 5G
4 2 (0.79%) BGP
4 2 (0.79%) OSPF
4 2 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.79%) SSL
4 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.79%) VPN
4 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.40%) DKIM
5 1 (0.40%) Internet
5 1 (0.40%) MPLS
5 1 (0.40%) NAS
5 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.35%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.16%) DynamoDB
3 13 (5.16%) Power BI
4 12 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.37%) MySQL
6 10 (3.97%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.57%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.57%) Metadata
7 9 (3.57%) Tableau
8 7 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.78%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.98%) Big Data
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.59%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.19%) Redis
12 3 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (11.90%) Git
2 17 (6.75%) GitLab
2 17 (6.75%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.97%) JIRA
4 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.19%) Gatling
5 3 (1.19%) JUnit
6 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.79%) ERwin
6 2 (0.79%) MLflow
6 2 (0.79%) Mockito
6 2 (0.79%) Postman
6 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.40%) Hamcrest
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 92 (36.51%) Finance
2 56 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.87%) Banking
4 21 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.76%) Front Office
6 10 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.38%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Marketing
10 3 (1.19%) Retail
11 2 (0.79%) Law
11 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.79%) Military
11 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (21.03%) Architect
2 34 (13.49%) Senior
3 33 (13.10%) Developer
4 28 (11.11%) Lead
5 24 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 22 (8.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (7.54%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (7.54%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.16%) AWS Architect
9 11 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (4.37%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.57%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.57%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.17%) Consultant
13 7 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (2.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.94%) Kafka
2 16 (6.35%) Node.js
2 16 (6.35%) React
3 15 (5.95%) REST
4 12 (4.76%) .NET
5 11 (4.37%) NumPy
5 11 (4.37%) Pandas
5 11 (4.37%) RESTful
6 9 (3.57%) HTML
6 9 (3.57%) OAuth
6 9 (3.57%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.57%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.17%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.17%) CSS
7 8 (3.17%) Spring
8 7 (2.78%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.78%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.38%) boto
9 6 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.98%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.37%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.57%) Equities
4 9 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.17%) Derivative
5 8 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.98%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.16%) Linux
2 11 (4.37%) Windows
3 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (35.32%) CI/CD
2 56 (22.22%) DevOps
3 52 (20.63%) Agile
4 51 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (19.05%) AI
6 43 (17.06%) Analytics
7 37 (14.68%) Machine Learning
7 37 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.29%) Microservices
9 35 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (13.10%) Data Pipeline
11 32 (12.70%) Migration
12 31 (12.30%) Software Engineering
13 30 (11.90%) Containerisation
14 28 (11.11%) Data Modelling
14 28 (11.11%) Roadmaps
15 27 (10.71%) ETL
16 26 (10.32%) Data Engineering
16 26 (10.32%) Generative AI
17 25 (9.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 106 (42.06%) Python
2 70 (27.78%) SQL
3 49 (19.44%) Java
4 14 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.78%) Bash
5 7 (2.78%) C#
6 6 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.98%) C++
7 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.59%) PHP
9 3 (1.19%) Korn
9 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.19%) Ruby
10 2 (0.79%) Go
10 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.79%) Perl
10 2 (0.79%) Scala
10 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) Bicep
11 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 53 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 49 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.75%) Degree
4 13 (5.16%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.17%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.17%) PMP
6 6 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.98%) CISSP
8 4 (1.59%) PhD
9 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.19%) CISM
9 3 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.92%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.73%) GDPR
3 17 (6.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.16%) NIST
5 7 (2.78%) QA
6 6 (2.38%) SLA
7 4 (1.59%) NCSC
7 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.79%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.79%) GRC
8 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.79%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.79%) PSD2
8 2 (0.79%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.40%) DICOM
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) HL7
9 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 46 (18.25%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.79%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (21.83%) Terraform
2 42 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.35%) Ansible
4 8 (3.17%) Grafana
5 6 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.19%) Argo
7 3 (1.19%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.79%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.79%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) CASB
9 1 (0.40%) Istio
9 1 (0.40%) Kibana
9 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.94%) Databricks
3 16 (6.35%) Oracle
4 11 (4.37%) Google
5 9 (3.57%) IBM
6 8 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.78%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.38%) Splunk
9 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.59%) Informatica
10 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.19%) Cognos
10 3 (1.19%) Confluent
10 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.19%) F5
10 3 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.19%) Sage
10 3 (1.19%) SAP
10 3 (1.19%) VMware