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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 246 218 325
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.70% 9.29% 11.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.83% 23.44% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 135 240
10th Percentile £407 £425 £400
25th Percentile £480 £501 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.18%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £688
90th Percentile £800 £811 £775
London median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £76.75 £40.25 £59.00
% change year-on-year +90.68% -31.78% +31.11%

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 798 930 1,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.20% 39.63% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 610 833
10th Percentile £346 £400 £350
25th Percentile £430 £474 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 11
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £24.61 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
% change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 +4 236 £575 - 901
City of Westminster +3 8 £563 +7.14% 2
West End of London +4 4 £650 +23.81% 23
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 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.47%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.66%) Confluence
4 7 (2.85%) Apache
5 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) Luigi
7 1 (0.41%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Endur
2 3 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (44.72%) Azure
2 53 (21.54%) GCP
3 43 (17.48%) Amazon S3
4 30 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
4 30 (12.20%) Serverless
5 26 (10.57%) GitHub
6 21 (8.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (8.54%) Snowflake
7 19 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (4.88%) dbt
8 12 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.88%) Power Platform
9 11 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.47%) SaaS
10 9 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.54%) Firewall
2 12 (4.88%) DNS
3 5 (2.03%) LAN
3 5 (2.03%) Network Security
3 5 (2.03%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.03%) VPN
3 5 (2.03%) WAN
4 4 (1.63%) SSL
5 3 (1.22%) BGP
5 3 (1.22%) DHCP
5 3 (1.22%) OSPF
5 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.81%) 4G
6 2 (0.81%) 5G
6 2 (0.81%) Internet
6 2 (0.81%) NAS
6 2 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.81%) SSH
6 2 (0.81%) VLAN
6 2 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.54%) Relational Database
2 20 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.47%) DynamoDB
4 11 (4.47%) MySQL
4 11 (4.47%) Power BI
5 10 (4.07%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.85%) Big Data
7 7 (2.85%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.85%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.44%) Metadata
8 6 (2.44%) Tableau
9 5 (2.03%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.63%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (10.57%) Git
2 16 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.28%) JIRA
4 11 (4.47%) GitLab
5 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.22%) JUnit
6 3 (1.22%) MLflow
7 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.81%) Postman
7 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.81%) Selenium
7 2 (0.81%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) Gatling
8 1 (0.41%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.41%) Snyk
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 85 (34.55%) Finance
2 64 (26.02%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.38%) Banking
4 24 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.10%) Front Office
7 8 (3.25%) Legal
8 6 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.22%) Japanese Language
10 3 (1.22%) Marketing
10 3 (1.22%) Military
10 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Back Office
11 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (19.92%) Architect
2 48 (19.51%) Senior
3 35 (14.23%) Developer
4 28 (11.38%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.94%) Lead
6 16 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.88%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) Security Architect
9 11 (4.47%) Senior Architect
10 10 (4.07%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.66%) Consultant
11 9 (3.66%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.85%) Data Architect
12 7 (2.85%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.85%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (2.85%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (2.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.54%) React
2 17 (6.91%) Kafka
3 15 (6.10%) Node.js
3 15 (6.10%) REST
3 15 (6.10%) RESTful
4 12 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 11 (4.47%) GraphQL
5 11 (4.47%) Spring
6 10 (4.07%) Spring Boot
7 9 (3.66%) .NET
7 9 (3.66%) CSS
7 9 (3.66%) HTML
7 9 (3.66%) OAuth
8 6 (2.44%) PySpark
8 6 (2.44%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.44%) XML
9 5 (2.03%) JWT
9 5 (2.03%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.03%) Svelte
9 5 (2.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.66%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.85%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.85%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.03%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.63%) Derivative
7 4 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.63%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.22%) Equities
8 3 (1.22%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.10%) Linux
1 15 (6.10%) Windows
2 6 (2.44%) Unix
2 6 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.81%) Android
3 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) AIX
4 1 (0.41%) Solaris
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.52%) CI/CD
2 61 (24.80%) Agile
3 58 (23.58%) DevOps
4 46 (18.70%) Analytics
5 42 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (14.63%) Microservices
8 31 (12.60%) Software Engineering
9 30 (12.20%) Migration
10 28 (11.38%) Roadmaps
11 26 (10.57%) AI
11 26 (10.57%) Data Modelling
11 26 (10.57%) Machine Learning
12 24 (9.76%) Containerisation
12 24 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (9.76%) ETL
12 24 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (9.35%) Data Engineering
14 20 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (8.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.46%) Python
2 58 (23.58%) SQL
3 47 (19.11%) Java
4 19 (7.72%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.91%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.88%) Bash
7 7 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.44%) Go
9 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.22%) C#
10 3 (1.22%) C++
10 3 (1.22%) Perl
10 3 (1.22%) PHP
10 3 (1.22%) Scala
11 2 (0.81%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.81%) COBOL
11 2 (0.81%) PromQL
11 2 (0.81%) R
11 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.32%) Degree
4 12 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.85%) CISSP
5 7 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.22%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.81%) CISM
10 2 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.81%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.81%) GIAC
10 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.81%) PMP
10 2 (0.81%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.28%) GDPR
3 12 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.88%) QA
4 10 (4.07%) NIST
5 3 (1.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (1.22%) NCSC
5 3 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.81%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (13.82%) Docker
2 13 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.41%) vSphere
3 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (18.29%) Terraform
2 30 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.50%) Ansible
4 8 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.85%) Grafana
6 6 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.81%) Argo
8 2 (0.81%) Packer
8 2 (0.81%) Puppet
8 2 (0.81%) SCCM
8 2 (0.81%) SELinux
9 1 (0.41%) CASB
9 1 (0.41%) Icinga
9 1 (0.41%) Istio
9 1 (0.41%) Nagios
9 1 (0.41%) Observium
9 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.41%) yum
Vendors
1 37 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.91%) Databricks
3 11 (4.47%) Oracle
4 10 (4.07%) Google
5 9 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.25%) Splunk
7 7 (2.85%) IBM
8 6 (2.44%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.03%) F5
9 5 (2.03%) Informatica
10 4 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.22%) Adobe
11 3 (1.22%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.22%) Cisco
11 3 (1.22%) Tenable
12 2 (0.81%) Citrix
12 2 (0.81%) Dell
12 2 (0.81%) Palantir
12 2 (0.81%) Talend
12 2 (0.81%) VMware