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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 290 277 239
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.12% 13.49% 10.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.10% 32.74% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 191 156
10th Percentile £430 £400 £418
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.54% -6.93%
75th Percentile £678 £684 £688
90th Percentile £751 £775 £809
London median daily rate £566 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.65% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £27.65
% change year-on-year +29.03% +96.20% -66.61%

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 1,032 846 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.57% 41.21% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 545 676
10th Percentile £338 £360 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £653
90th Percentile £750 £759 £750
London median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 4
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 £17.03
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £23.44
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £43.38
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £72.85
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -3 271 £550 -4.35% 113
West End of London -3 10 £650 +12.07% 2
City of Westminster -11 9 £650 +6.12% 12
Southwark -2 2 £600 -
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 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 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.76%) Confluence
3 6 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.72%) Apache
5 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.38%) CICS
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
7 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.69%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (40.34%) Azure
2 67 (23.10%) GCP
3 47 (16.21%) GitHub
4 43 (14.83%) Serverless
5 38 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (12.76%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.31%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (8.28%) Snowflake
9 19 (6.55%) Power Platform
10 18 (6.21%) Amazon Bedrock
11 16 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (4.83%) SaaS
14 12 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.14%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.79%) dbt
15 11 (3.79%) PaaS
16 10 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.48%) Firewall
2 11 (3.79%) DNS
3 10 (3.45%) Network Security
4 7 (2.41%) DHCP
4 7 (2.41%) VPN
5 5 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.03%) SMTP
7 2 (0.69%) BGP
7 2 (0.69%) NGFW
7 2 (0.69%) OSPF
7 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.69%) SSH
7 2 (0.69%) VLAN
7 2 (0.69%) X.509
8 1 (0.34%) Multicast
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.34%) VSAN
8 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.55%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.21%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (5.86%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.17%) Power BI
6 12 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.79%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.45%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.76%) Big Data
9 8 (2.76%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.76%) Db2
9 8 (2.76%) Metadata
9 8 (2.76%) Tableau
10 7 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.07%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.72%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (10.34%) GitLab
2 28 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.31%) Git
4 22 (7.59%) JIRA
5 11 (3.79%) JUnit
6 9 (3.10%) Mockito
6 9 (3.10%) Postman
7 6 (2.07%) JMeter
8 4 (1.38%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.38%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.38%) Maven
9 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.03%) Gradle
10 2 (0.69%) Ant
10 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.69%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.69%) Mocha
10 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 88 (30.34%) Finance
2 67 (23.10%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.41%) Banking
4 31 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.45%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.41%) Front Office
9 7 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.41%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.72%) Law
10 5 (1.72%) Retail
11 4 (1.38%) Back Office
11 4 (1.38%) Military
11 4 (1.38%) Police
11 4 (1.38%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Advertising
13 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (22.07%) Architect
2 51 (17.59%) Senior
3 35 (12.07%) Developer
4 25 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 20 (6.90%) Lead
6 19 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.17%) Senior Developer
9 14 (4.83%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.10%) Consultant
12 9 (3.10%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (3.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.10%) Snowflake Engineer
12 9 (3.10%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.76%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.10%) Kafka
2 32 (11.03%) Spring
3 31 (10.69%) Spring Boot
4 27 (9.31%) REST
5 23 (7.93%) RESTful
6 21 (7.24%) React
7 13 (4.48%) .NET
8 12 (4.14%) Node.js
8 12 (4.14%) SOAP
9 11 (3.79%) PySpark
9 11 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (3.45%) JSON
10 10 (3.45%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.76%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.07%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.07%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.07%) Middleware
12 6 (2.07%) OAuth
12 6 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (23.45%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.69%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.86%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.76%) Clustering
6 8 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.07%) Equities
8 6 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.72%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.38%) CMDB
10 4 (1.38%) DataPower
10 4 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.38%) LIMS
10 4 (1.38%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.38%) PKI
10 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.83%) Linux
2 13 (4.48%) Windows
3 6 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.38%) Android
4 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.38%) zOS
5 3 (1.03%) Unix
6 2 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.34%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (39.66%) CI/CD
2 74 (25.52%) DevOps
3 67 (23.10%) AI
4 63 (21.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (20.00%) Agile
6 51 (17.59%) Containerisation
6 51 (17.59%) Microservices
7 45 (15.52%) Event-Driven
8 43 (14.83%) Analytics
9 40 (13.79%) Migration
10 39 (13.45%) Machine Learning
11 38 (13.10%) Data Engineering
11 38 (13.10%) Test Automation
12 36 (12.41%) Observability
13 35 (12.07%) Data Modelling
14 34 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (10.69%) Data Pipeline
16 31 (10.69%) Software Engineering
17 25 (8.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 105 (36.21%) Python
2 59 (20.34%) Java
3 58 (20.00%) SQL
4 19 (6.55%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.86%) C#
6 16 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.45%) Bash
9 6 (2.07%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.72%) Ruby
11 4 (1.38%) Bicep
11 4 (1.38%) Go
11 4 (1.38%) JCL
12 3 (1.03%) Korn
12 3 (1.03%) Scala
13 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.34%) R
14 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (23.79%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.48%) Degree
4 9 (3.10%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.41%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.41%) CISSP
6 6 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.07%) CISM
6 6 (2.07%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.07%) PMP
7 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.38%) CCNP
8 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.03%) PhD
8 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.69%) OSCP
9 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.86%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (5.52%) NIST
3 14 (4.83%) GDPR
4 13 (4.48%) QA
5 8 (2.76%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.38%) NCSC
8 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.69%) EMIR
9 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.69%) MiFID
9 2 (0.69%) SLA
9 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.34%) GRC
10 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.34%) PMO
10 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (16.90%) Docker
2 9 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.03%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.03%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.69%) NFS
7 1 (0.34%) Firmware
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (21.03%) Kubernetes
2 53 (18.28%) Terraform
3 24 (8.28%) Ansible
4 16 (5.52%) Grafana
5 14 (4.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.72%) Puppet
7 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.03%) Nagios
8 3 (1.03%) vMotion
9 2 (0.69%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Bosun
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.34%) Packer
10 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.34%) QRadar
10 1 (0.34%) Salt
10 1 (0.34%) SELinux
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.83%) Databricks
2 14 (4.83%) Google
3 10 (3.45%) Citrix
3 10 (3.45%) Oracle
4 9 (3.10%) CyberArk
4 9 (3.10%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.10%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.76%) VMware
6 7 (2.41%) Splunk
7 5 (1.72%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.38%) Cisco
8 4 (1.38%) IBM
8 4 (1.38%) Informatica
8 4 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.38%) SAP
9 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.03%) HP
9 3 (1.03%) Symantec