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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 283 254 275
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.65% 12.48% 10.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.53% 29.74% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 177 201
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £790 £738 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
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 927 854 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.44% 41.97% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 559 705
10th Percentile £339 £373 £343
25th Percentile £445 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £656
90th Percentile £749 £738 £744
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.87 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +55.56% -48.57%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £104.25 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.98
% change year-on-year +22.12% +3.90% -20.06%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -1 268 £538 -2.27% 283
West End of London +3 4 £650 +24.40% 22
City of Westminster +1 3 £650 +23.81% 27
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 19 (6.71%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.12%) Confluence
4 5 (1.77%) Apache
5 2 (0.71%) CICS
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.06%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 123 (43.46%) Azure
2 70 (24.73%) GCP
3 47 (16.61%) Serverless
4 45 (15.90%) GitHub
5 43 (15.19%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (14.84%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.19%) Snowflake
8 25 (8.83%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (8.13%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (8.13%) Power Platform
10 20 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (4.59%) dbt
14 11 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (3.53%) SaaS
15 10 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.18%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (3.18%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.59%) Network Security
2 8 (2.83%) Firewall
3 6 (2.12%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) DHCP
4 2 (0.71%) SSL
4 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.71%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) 2G
5 1 (0.35%) 4G
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) NAS
5 1 (0.35%) OSPF
5 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.36%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.36%) Power BI
3 14 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (4.95%) NoSQL
3 14 (4.95%) Relational Database
3 14 (4.95%) Tableau
4 12 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.89%) MySQL
6 10 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.53%) Metadata
6 10 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.83%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.47%) Big Data
8 7 (2.47%) DB2
9 4 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.41%) CockroachDB
9 4 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (13.07%) Git
2 23 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.77%) GitLab
4 13 (4.59%) JIRA
5 6 (2.12%) JUnit
6 5 (1.77%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.77%) Mockito
7 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.06%) Postman
9 2 (0.71%) Ant
9 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.71%) Gatling
9 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.71%) Mocha
9 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.71%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.71%) webpack
10 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 96 (33.92%) Finance
2 63 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 45 (15.90%) Banking
4 25 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.48%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.95%) Front Office
7 13 (4.59%) Financial Institution
8 12 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.83%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.41%) Retail
13 3 (1.06%) Back Office
14 2 (0.71%) Advertising
14 2 (0.71%) Law
14 2 (0.71%) Legal
14 2 (0.71%) Military
14 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (21.20%) Architect
2 41 (14.49%) Developer
3 38 (13.43%) Senior
4 27 (9.54%) Data Engineer
4 27 (9.54%) Lead
5 23 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.24%) AWS Architect
8 12 (4.24%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (3.53%) Python Engineer
9 10 (3.53%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.18%) Data Scientist
10 9 (3.18%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.18%) Migration Manager
10 9 (3.18%) Migration Project Manager
10 9 (3.18%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.54%) Kafka
2 21 (7.42%) React
3 19 (6.71%) REST
4 16 (5.65%) Node.js
4 16 (5.65%) RESTful
5 14 (4.95%) Spring
6 13 (4.59%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.24%) .NET
8 11 (3.89%) Pandas
8 11 (3.89%) PyTorch
9 10 (3.53%) NumPy
9 10 (3.53%) scikit-learn
10 9 (3.18%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.18%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.83%) JSON
11 8 (2.83%) OAuth
11 8 (2.83%) PySpark
12 7 (2.47%) boto
12 7 (2.47%) HTML
12 7 (2.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.14%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.59%) Algorithms
4 13 (4.59%) Equities
5 12 (4.24%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.53%) Derivative
7 8 (2.83%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.12%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.12%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.41%) Clustering
11 4 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.41%) LIMS
11 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.59%) Linux
1 13 (4.59%) Windows
2 3 (1.06%) Android
2 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.71%) Unix
3 2 (0.71%) zOS
4 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (36.75%) CI/CD
2 66 (23.32%) DevOps
3 65 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (20.85%) Agile
5 56 (19.79%) AI
6 44 (15.55%) Analytics
7 42 (14.84%) Migration
8 41 (14.49%) Machine Learning
9 39 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (13.07%) Microservices
10 37 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (12.72%) Containerisation
12 34 (12.01%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (11.66%) Roadmaps
14 32 (11.31%) Data Modelling
15 31 (10.95%) Data Engineering
16 30 (10.60%) Observability
16 30 (10.60%) Test Automation
17 29 (10.25%) Software Engineering
18 28 (9.89%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 112 (39.58%) Python
2 79 (27.92%) SQL
3 49 (17.31%) Java
4 18 (6.36%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.53%) C#
5 10 (3.53%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.12%) Bash
6 6 (2.12%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.77%) C++
8 4 (1.41%) Go
8 4 (1.41%) PHP
8 4 (1.41%) Ruby
8 4 (1.41%) Scala
8 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.06%) Korn
9 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.71%) JCL
10 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.35%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (22.26%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.36%) Degree
4 13 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.53%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.53%) PMP
6 9 (3.18%) CISSP
7 8 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.12%) CISM
9 6 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.12%) PhD
10 5 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.71%) CCSP
13 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.19%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.77%) GDPR
2 22 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.36%) NIST
4 8 (2.83%) SLA
5 7 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.47%) QA
6 3 (1.06%) NCSC
7 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.71%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.71%) GRC
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.71%) PSD2
7 2 (0.71%) SEPA
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) DICOM
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (18.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.71%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (23.32%) Terraform
2 49 (17.31%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.71%) Ansible
4 10 (3.53%) Grafana
5 7 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.06%) Argo
7 3 (1.06%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) CASB
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.35%) QRadar
9 1 (0.35%) SCCM
9 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.01%) Databricks
2 17 (6.01%) Oracle
3 12 (4.24%) Google
4 11 (3.89%) IBM
5 10 (3.53%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.47%) Splunk
8 5 (1.77%) Informatica
9 4 (1.41%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.41%) SAP
9 4 (1.41%) VMware
10 3 (1.06%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.06%) Charles River
10 3 (1.06%) Cognos
10 3 (1.06%) Confluent
10 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.06%) Sage