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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 288 251 275
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.79% 12.52% 10.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.77% 29.63% 27.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 175 202
10th Percentile £363 £413 £405
25th Percentile £463 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £651 £644 £650
90th Percentile £788 £723 £775
London median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% -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 936 847 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.56% 42.24% 38.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 552 703
10th Percentile £343 £375 £343
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.97 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -48.57%
75th Percentile £49.83 £38.44 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £90.38 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £29.72
% change year-on-year +21.26% -2.19% -15.09%

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 20 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 20 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 0 273 £540 -1.82% 293
West End of London +3 4 £650 +24.40% 3
City of Westminster +1 3 £650 +23.81% 2
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 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.08%) Confluence
4 5 (1.74%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) CICS
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) 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 (1.04%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.04%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 127 (44.10%) Azure
2 72 (25.00%) GCP
3 48 (16.67%) Serverless
4 46 (15.97%) GitHub
5 44 (15.28%) Amazon S3
5 44 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (9.38%) Snowflake
7 25 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 23 (7.99%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.86%) dbt
13 12 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.47%) SaaS
15 10 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.51%) Network Security
2 8 (2.78%) Firewall
3 6 (2.08%) DNS
4 2 (0.69%) DHCP
4 2 (0.69%) SSL
4 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.69%) 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 23 (7.99%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.60%) DynamoDB
2 19 (6.60%) Power BI
3 15 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.21%) Tableau
4 14 (4.86%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.82%) MySQL
7 10 (3.47%) Metadata
7 10 (3.47%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.43%) Big Data
9 7 (2.43%) DB2
10 5 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.39%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 38 (13.19%) Git
2 23 (7.99%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.64%) GitLab
4 15 (5.21%) JIRA
5 6 (2.08%) JUnit
6 5 (1.74%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.74%) Mockito
7 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.04%) Postman
9 2 (0.69%) Ant
9 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.69%) Gatling
9 2 (0.69%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.69%) Mocha
9 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.69%) webpack
10 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 98 (34.03%) Finance
2 64 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 45 (15.63%) Banking
4 26 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.86%) Financial Institution
6 14 (4.86%) Front Office
7 12 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.78%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.04%) Back Office
11 3 (1.04%) Retail
12 2 (0.69%) Advertising
12 2 (0.69%) Law
12 2 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.69%) Military
12 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (21.18%) Architect
2 42 (14.58%) Developer
3 38 (13.19%) Senior
4 27 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 27 (9.38%) Lead
5 22 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.51%) Project Manager
9 12 (4.17%) AWS Architect
9 12 (4.17%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (3.47%) Migration Manager
10 10 (3.47%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (3.47%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.13%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.13%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.13%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.07%) Kafka
2 21 (7.29%) React
3 20 (6.94%) REST
4 17 (5.90%) Node.js
5 16 (5.56%) RESTful
6 14 (4.86%) Spring
7 13 (4.51%) Spring Boot
8 12 (4.17%) .NET
9 11 (3.82%) Pandas
9 11 (3.82%) PyTorch
10 10 (3.47%) NumPy
10 10 (3.47%) scikit-learn
11 9 (3.13%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.13%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.78%) JSON
12 8 (2.78%) OAuth
13 7 (2.43%) boto
13 7 (2.43%) HTML
13 7 (2.43%) PySpark
13 7 (2.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.14%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.51%) Algorithms
4 13 (4.51%) Equities
5 12 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.47%) Derivative
7 8 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.43%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.08%) Clustering
9 6 (2.08%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.39%) LIMS
11 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.51%) Linux
1 13 (4.51%) Windows
2 3 (1.04%) Android
2 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (0.69%) Unix
3 2 (0.69%) zOS
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (37.85%) CI/CD
2 69 (23.96%) DevOps
3 66 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (20.83%) Agile
5 58 (20.14%) AI
6 46 (15.97%) Analytics
7 43 (14.93%) Migration
8 41 (14.24%) Machine Learning
9 40 (13.89%) Microservices
9 40 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (13.19%) Containerisation
11 37 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (11.81%) Data Modelling
14 33 (11.46%) Data Engineering
15 32 (11.11%) Roadmaps
16 31 (10.76%) Observability
16 31 (10.76%) Software Engineering
16 31 (10.76%) Test Automation
17 29 (10.07%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 115 (39.93%) Python
2 80 (27.78%) SQL
3 51 (17.71%) Java
4 18 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.47%) C#
7 6 (2.08%) Bash
7 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.74%) C++
8 5 (1.74%) Ruby
8 5 (1.74%) Scala
9 4 (1.39%) Go
9 4 (1.39%) PHP
9 4 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.04%) Korn
10 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.69%) JCL
11 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.25%) Degree
4 13 (4.51%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 11 (3.82%) PMP
6 9 (3.13%) CISSP
7 8 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.08%) CISM
9 6 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.08%) PhD
10 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.04%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.69%) CCSP
13 2 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.99%) GDPR
2 23 (7.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.60%) NIST
4 8 (2.78%) QA
4 8 (2.78%) SLA
5 7 (2.43%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.04%) NCSC
7 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.69%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
7 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.69%) PSD2
7 2 (0.69%) 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 55 (19.10%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.69%) NFS
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.69%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (22.92%) Terraform
2 49 (17.01%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.60%) Ansible
4 10 (3.47%) Grafana
5 7 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.04%) Argo
7 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.69%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.35%) CASB
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
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 30 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.25%) Oracle
3 17 (5.90%) Databricks
4 13 (4.51%) Google
5 11 (3.82%) CyberArk
5 11 (3.82%) IBM
6 8 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.43%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.43%) Splunk
8 6 (2.08%) Informatica
9 5 (1.74%) VMware
10 4 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.39%) SAP
11 3 (1.04%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.04%) Charles River
11 3 (1.04%) Cognos
11 3 (1.04%) Confluent
11 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.04%) Sage