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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 248 214 314
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.48% 8.88% 11.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.32% 22.41% 27.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 135 241
10th Percentile £407 £425 £400
25th Percentile £475 £498 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year - +1.32% -9.20%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%

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 818 955 1,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.17% 39.64% 41.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 628 833
10th Percentile £329 £388 £356
25th Percentile £425 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £675
90th Percentile £744 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £20.85 £31.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £34.44
90th Percentile £62.93 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +21.77%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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 +5 235 £563 -2.17% 99
City of Westminster +2 6 £475 -9.52% 2
West End of London +3 2 £475 -9.52%
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 15 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.03%) Confluence
3 8 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.02%) Apache
5 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) CICS
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Luigi
7 1 (0.40%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Notion
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (43.95%) Azure
2 55 (22.18%) GCP
3 42 (16.94%) Amazon S3
4 36 (14.52%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (14.52%) Serverless
5 29 (11.69%) GitHub
6 24 (9.68%) Snowflake
7 21 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.84%) dbt
10 12 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (4.84%) Power Platform
10 12 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.63%) SaaS
12 7 (2.82%) Apigee
13 6 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.66%) Firewall
2 12 (4.84%) DNS
3 7 (2.82%) Network Security
4 5 (2.02%) VPN
5 4 (1.61%) SSL
5 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.21%) DHCP
6 3 (1.21%) LAN
6 3 (1.21%) WAN
6 3 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.81%) 4G
7 2 (0.81%) 5G
7 2 (0.81%) BGP
7 2 (0.81%) NAS
7 2 (0.81%) OSPF
7 2 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.81%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.40%) DKIM
8 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.87%) Relational Database
2 19 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.44%) Power BI
5 10 (4.03%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.03%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.03%) MySQL
5 10 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.82%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.82%) Tableau
7 6 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.42%) Big Data
8 5 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (2.02%) Metadata
9 4 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (12.90%) Git
2 17 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.05%) JIRA
4 11 (4.44%) GitLab
5 6 (2.42%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.61%) JUnit
7 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.21%) MLflow
8 2 (0.81%) Mockito
8 2 (0.81%) Postman
8 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.81%) Selenium
8 2 (0.81%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.40%) ERwin
9 1 (0.40%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 90 (36.29%) Finance
2 55 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.50%) Banking
4 25 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.05%) Front Office
7 7 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.42%) Legal
9 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.21%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.81%) Back Office
12 2 (0.81%) Law
12 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.81%) Marketing
12 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Retail
12 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (19.76%) Architect
2 43 (17.34%) Senior
3 34 (13.71%) Developer
4 27 (10.89%) Data Engineer
5 25 (10.08%) Lead
6 19 (7.66%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (6.05%) AWS Architect
10 12 (4.84%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.44%) Consultant
12 10 (4.03%) Security Architect
13 9 (3.63%) Senior Architect
14 8 (3.23%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.82%) AWS DevOps
15 7 (2.82%) AWS Security Architect
15 7 (2.82%) Java Developer
15 7 (2.82%) Security Engineer
15 7 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
15 7 (2.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.26%) React
2 16 (6.45%) Kafka
2 16 (6.45%) Node.js
2 16 (6.45%) RESTful
3 12 (4.84%) REST
4 11 (4.44%) Spring
5 10 (4.03%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.63%) .NET
6 9 (3.63%) CSS
6 9 (3.63%) HTML
6 9 (3.63%) OAuth
6 9 (3.63%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.23%) Pandas
8 7 (2.82%) NumPy
8 7 (2.82%) scikit-learn
9 6 (2.42%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.42%) JWT
9 6 (2.42%) XML
10 5 (2.02%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.03%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.82%) Derivative
5 7 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.82%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.42%) Equities
7 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.21%) IoT
9 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.21%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.05%) Windows
2 11 (4.44%) Linux
3 7 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.02%) Unix
5 2 (0.81%) Android
5 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.81%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (33.87%) CI/CD
2 59 (23.79%) DevOps
3 58 (23.39%) Agile
4 47 (18.95%) Analytics
5 42 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (14.11%) Microservices
8 33 (13.31%) AI
9 31 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 30 (12.10%) Migration
11 28 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (10.89%) Machine Learning
12 27 (10.89%) Roadmaps
13 26 (10.48%) Containerisation
14 25 (10.08%) ETL
15 23 (9.27%) Data Modelling
16 21 (8.47%) Data Engineering
16 21 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
17 20 (8.06%) Cloud Security
18 18 (7.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.13%) Python
2 62 (25.00%) SQL
3 46 (18.55%) Java
4 18 (7.26%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.44%) Bash
5 11 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.82%) C#
6 7 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.02%) C++
7 5 (2.02%) Go
8 3 (1.21%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.21%) Perl
8 3 (1.21%) PHP
9 2 (0.81%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.81%) PromQL
9 2 (0.81%) R
9 2 (0.81%) Scala
9 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) SOQL
10 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.66%) Degree
4 15 (6.05%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.02%) CISSP
7 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.21%) PhD
9 3 (1.21%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.21%) PMP
9 3 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.81%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.87%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.85%) GDPR
3 14 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.44%) NIST
5 9 (3.63%) QA
6 6 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.21%) NCSC
8 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.81%) EU AI Act
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
9 1 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (16.13%) Docker
2 11 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.81%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.81%) 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 52 (20.97%) Terraform
2 34 (13.71%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.05%) Ansible
4 7 (2.82%) Grafana
5 6 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.81%) Istio
8 2 (0.81%) Puppet
8 2 (0.81%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) CASB
9 1 (0.40%) Consul
9 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) QRadar
9 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 34 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.06%) Databricks
3 13 (5.24%) Oracle
4 11 (4.44%) Google
5 8 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.82%) IBM
7 6 (2.42%) Splunk
8 5 (2.02%) F5
8 5 (2.02%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.61%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.61%) Informatica
9 4 (1.61%) VMware
10 3 (1.21%) Citrix
10 3 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.21%) Tenable
11 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.81%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.81%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.81%) Okta