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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 250 233 281
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.09% 11.00% 10.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.69% 26.72% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 159 210
10th Percentile £358 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -13.39%
75th Percentile £662 £664 £650
90th Percentile £800 £728 £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 842 872 999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.72% 41.17% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 563 723
10th Percentile £341 £365 £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 £750 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 14
10th Percentile £18.87 £28.13 £14.03
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -11.70%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £34.44
90th Percentile £47.50 £41.88 £49.80
London median hourly rate £30.50 £31.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -3.17% +3.28% +3.39%

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 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 6 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 0 238 £525 -7.08% 199
West End of London +1 1 - - 9
City of Westminster -2 1 £475 -9.52% 4
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 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.00%) Apache
4 4 (1.60%) Confluence
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) 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 (0.80%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.80%) 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 (42.80%) Azure
2 60 (24.00%) GCP
3 43 (17.20%) Serverless
4 41 (16.40%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (14.40%) Amazon S3
6 29 (11.60%) GitHub
7 24 (9.60%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.40%) Power Platform
11 11 (4.40%) dbt
12 10 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.60%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (3.20%) Apigee
14 8 (3.20%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.00%) Firewall
2 9 (3.60%) DNS
2 9 (3.60%) Network Security
3 3 (1.20%) DHCP
4 2 (0.80%) 4G
4 2 (0.80%) 5G
4 2 (0.80%) BGP
4 2 (0.80%) OSPF
4 2 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.80%) SSL
4 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.80%) VPN
4 2 (0.80%) 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 16 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (6.40%) Relational Database
2 14 (5.60%) Power BI
3 13 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (5.20%) DynamoDB
4 11 (4.40%) MySQL
4 11 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.00%) Tableau
6 9 (3.60%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.20%) Metadata
8 7 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.40%) Big Data
9 6 (2.40%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.60%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.20%) Redis
11 3 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (12.00%) Git
2 17 (6.80%) GitLab
2 17 (6.80%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.00%) JIRA
4 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.60%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.20%) Gatling
5 3 (1.20%) JUnit
6 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.80%) ERwin
6 2 (0.80%) MLflow
6 2 (0.80%) Mockito
6 2 (0.80%) Postman
6 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.40%) Hamcrest
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 91 (36.40%) Finance
2 55 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.00%) Banking
4 21 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.20%) Front Office
6 10 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.60%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.80%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Marketing
11 3 (1.20%) Retail
12 2 (0.80%) Back Office
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.80%) Military
12 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (20.80%) Architect
2 34 (13.60%) Developer
2 34 (13.60%) Senior
3 28 (11.20%) Lead
4 25 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.60%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.20%) AWS Architect
9 11 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (4.40%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.00%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.60%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.60%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.20%) Consultant
13 7 (2.80%) Enterprise Architect
14 6 (2.40%) Java Developer
14 6 (2.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.60%) Kafka
2 16 (6.40%) Node.js
3 15 (6.00%) React
3 15 (6.00%) REST
4 12 (4.80%) .NET
5 11 (4.40%) NumPy
5 11 (4.40%) Pandas
5 11 (4.40%) RESTful
6 9 (3.60%) HTML
6 9 (3.60%) OAuth
6 9 (3.60%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.20%) CSS
7 8 (3.20%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.80%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.80%) Spring
9 6 (2.40%) boto
9 6 (2.40%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.40%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.00%) JWT
10 5 (2.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.40%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.00%) Equities
5 9 (3.60%) Derivative
5 9 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.40%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.00%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.20%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.80%) Linux
2 10 (4.00%) Windows
3 3 (1.20%) Unix
3 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (35.20%) CI/CD
2 56 (22.40%) DevOps
3 52 (20.80%) Agile
4 50 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (18.00%) AI
6 42 (16.80%) Analytics
7 37 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (14.00%) Machine Learning
8 35 (14.00%) Microservices
9 34 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (13.20%) Migration
11 32 (12.80%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (12.00%) Software Engineering
13 29 (11.60%) Containerisation
14 28 (11.20%) Data Modelling
14 28 (11.20%) ETL
14 28 (11.20%) Roadmaps
15 26 (10.40%) Data Engineering
16 25 (10.00%) Generative AI
17 24 (9.60%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 105 (42.00%) Python
2 70 (28.00%) SQL
3 47 (18.80%) Java
4 14 (5.60%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.80%) Bash
5 7 (2.80%) C#
6 6 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.00%) C++
7 5 (2.00%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.60%) PHP
8 4 (1.60%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.20%) Korn
9 3 (1.20%) Perl
9 3 (1.20%) Ruby
9 3 (1.20%) Scala
10 2 (0.80%) Go
10 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) Bicep
11 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 53 (21.20%) Security Cleared
2 49 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.40%) Degree
4 13 (5.20%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.20%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.20%) PMP
6 6 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.00%) CISSP
8 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CISM
9 3 (1.20%) PhD
9 3 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.60%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.80%) GDPR
3 17 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.80%) NIST
5 7 (2.80%) QA
6 6 (2.40%) SLA
7 4 (1.60%) NCSC
7 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.80%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.80%) PSD2
8 2 (0.80%) 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 (18.40%) Docker
2 4 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.80%) 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 (22.00%) Terraform
2 41 (16.40%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.40%) Ansible
4 8 (3.20%) Grafana
5 6 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.20%) Argo
7 3 (1.20%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.80%) 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 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.00%) Databricks
3 17 (6.80%) Oracle
4 11 (4.40%) Google
5 8 (3.20%) IBM
5 8 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.80%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.40%) Splunk
8 4 (1.60%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.60%) Informatica
9 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.20%) Cognos
9 3 (1.20%) Confluent
9 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.20%) F5
9 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.20%) Sage
9 3 (1.20%) SAP
9 3 (1.20%) VMware