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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 296 285 253
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.18% 13.90% 10.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.79% 33.06% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 199 172
10th Percentile £416 £400 £413
25th Percentile £465 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -8.13%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £693
90th Percentile £759 £765 £825
London median daily rate £561 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.52% -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 £53.50 £27.65
% change year-on-year +30.84% +93.49% -65.97%

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 1,028 862 998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.82% 42.03% 41.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 555 706
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £659
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 5
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £12.75
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £40.95
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
% change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%

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 9 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 9 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 -2 278 £550 - 141
West End of London -2 9 £650 +5.69% 12
City of Westminster -6 9 £650 +4.00% 13
Southwark 0 2 £600 - 1
Lambeth - 1 £350 -
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 18 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.36%) Confluence
3 5 (1.69%) Apache
4 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.35%) CICS
4 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.01%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (40.88%) Azure
2 66 (22.30%) GCP
3 50 (16.89%) Serverless
4 48 (16.22%) GitHub
5 43 (14.53%) AWS Lambda
6 40 (13.51%) Amazon S3
7 28 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (8.11%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.09%) Power Platform
10 20 (6.76%) Amazon Bedrock
11 18 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (5.74%) SaaS
13 16 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (3.72%) dbt
17 11 (3.72%) PaaS
18 10 (3.38%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.05%) Firewall
2 10 (3.38%) Network Security
3 9 (3.04%) DNS
4 6 (2.03%) DHCP
5 5 (1.69%) VPN
6 3 (1.01%) SMTP
6 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) NGFW
7 2 (0.68%) X.509
8 1 (0.34%) BGP
8 1 (0.34%) IPsec
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) OSPF
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.34%) SAN
8 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.34%) SSH
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.09%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (5.41%) Power BI
4 12 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.72%) Metadata
5 11 (3.72%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.72%) Tableau
6 9 (3.04%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.70%) Big Data
7 8 (2.70%) Db2
7 8 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.69%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.69%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 31 (10.47%) Git
2 30 (10.14%) GitLab
3 28 (9.46%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.77%) JIRA
5 11 (3.72%) JUnit
6 10 (3.38%) Mockito
6 10 (3.38%) Postman
7 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.69%) JMeter
8 4 (1.35%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.35%) Maven
9 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.01%) Gradle
10 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.68%) Mocha
10 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 92 (31.08%) Finance
2 68 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.84%) Banking
4 32 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.38%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.36%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.03%) Front Office
11 5 (1.69%) Law
11 5 (1.69%) Retail
12 4 (1.35%) Back Office
12 4 (1.35%) Military
12 4 (1.35%) Police
13 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.68%) Advertising
14 2 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 69 (23.31%) Architect
2 46 (15.54%) Senior
3 33 (11.15%) Developer
4 25 (8.45%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.09%) Lead
6 17 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.39%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.05%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (3.72%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.38%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.04%) Consultant
12 9 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.70%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.70%) Data Architect
13 8 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.50%) Kafka
2 30 (10.14%) Spring
3 29 (9.80%) Spring Boot
4 26 (8.78%) REST
5 21 (7.09%) React
5 21 (7.09%) RESTful
6 13 (4.39%) .NET
6 13 (4.39%) Node.js
7 12 (4.05%) SOAP
8 11 (3.72%) PySpark
9 10 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (3.04%) JSON
10 9 (3.04%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.36%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.03%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.03%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.03%) Middleware
12 6 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.03%) Web Services
13 5 (1.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 71 (23.99%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.41%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.04%) Clustering
7 8 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.70%) Equities
7 8 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.69%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.35%) DataPower
10 4 (1.35%) LIMS
10 4 (1.35%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.35%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) CMDB
11 3 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.73%) Windows
2 13 (4.39%) Linux
3 6 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.35%) Android
4 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.35%) zOS
5 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (0.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) AIX
6 1 (0.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (40.54%) CI/CD
2 74 (25.00%) AI
3 73 (24.66%) DevOps
4 65 (21.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (21.62%) Agile
6 49 (16.55%) Containerisation
7 48 (16.22%) Microservices
8 47 (15.88%) Migration
9 46 (15.54%) Event-Driven
10 45 (15.20%) Machine Learning
11 44 (14.86%) Analytics
12 39 (13.18%) Data Engineering
13 38 (12.84%) Data Modelling
13 38 (12.84%) Test Automation
14 36 (12.16%) Observability
15 35 (11.82%) Data Pipeline
15 35 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (9.46%) Software Engineering
18 27 (9.12%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 108 (36.49%) Python
2 58 (19.59%) SQL
3 56 (18.92%) Java
4 19 (6.42%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.08%) C#
6 16 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.38%) Bash
9 6 (2.03%) Ruby
10 5 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.35%) Bicep
11 4 (1.35%) JCL
11 4 (1.35%) Scala
12 3 (1.01%) Go
13 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.68%) Korn
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 (23.31%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.73%) Degree
4 8 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 8 (2.70%) PMP
5 7 (2.36%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.03%) CISSP
7 5 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.69%) CISM
8 4 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.01%) CCNP
9 3 (1.01%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.01%) PhD
9 3 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.08%) Data Quality
1 18 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (5.74%) NIST
3 16 (5.41%) GDPR
4 12 (4.05%) QA
5 8 (2.70%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.69%) NCSC
6 5 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.01%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.68%) EMIR
8 2 (0.68%) GRC
8 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.68%) MiFID
8 2 (0.68%) SLA
8 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (16.22%) Docker
2 9 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.01%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.68%) NFS
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (20.61%) Kubernetes
2 54 (18.24%) Terraform
3 24 (8.11%) Ansible
4 15 (5.07%) Grafana
5 13 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.69%) Puppet
7 4 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.01%) Nagios
8 3 (1.01%) vMotion
9 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Karpenter
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
Vendors
1 30 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.73%) Google
3 13 (4.39%) Databricks
4 11 (3.72%) CyberArk
4 11 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.38%) Citrix
6 9 (3.04%) Oracle
7 8 (2.70%) Splunk
7 8 (2.70%) VMware
8 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.69%) IBM
9 5 (1.69%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.35%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.35%) Informatica
10 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.01%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.01%) Cisco
11 3 (1.01%) HP
11 3 (1.01%) SAP