AWS Contracts in Central London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 282 255 514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 14.18% 10.77% 13.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.77% 25.99% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 176 331
10th Percentile £400 £414 £450
25th Percentile £475 £488 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £620
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -10.40% -0.80%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £766 £838 £825
London median daily rate £575 £600 £601
% change year-on-year -4.17% -0.08% +0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £42.50
25th Percentile - - £63.69
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £53.50 £27.65 £81.25
% change year-on-year +93.49% -65.97% +39.48%

All Cloud 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 835 981 1,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.98% 41.43% 40.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 696 995
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £650 £700
90th Percentile £751 £763 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £24.30 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.45 £14.88 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £38.63 -
London median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +21.15% -53.78% +32.35%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Central London

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Central London.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Central London

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Central London

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Central London

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 3 July 2025. 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 +2 263 £550 -4.35% 985
City of Westminster +3 9 £625 -3.85% 61
West End of London +2 6 £615 +23.00% 81
Camden +4 2 £565 +18.95% 5
Southwark - 1 - - 2
AWS
London

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.96%) Confluence
2 10 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.77%) Apache
6 3 (1.06%) Luigi
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.35%) Camunda
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Sketch
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.48%) Endur
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Magento
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 104 (36.88%) Azure
2 47 (16.67%) GCP
3 36 (12.77%) Amazon S3
4 33 (11.70%) Serverless
5 27 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (9.22%) GitHub
7 15 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (3.55%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.55%) SaaS
11 10 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.84%) Amazon Cognito
12 8 (2.84%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.03%) Firewall
2 11 (3.90%) VPN
3 8 (2.84%) DNS
4 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.42%) WAN
5 3 (1.06%) BGP
5 3 (1.06%) HTTP
5 3 (1.06%) Internet
5 3 (1.06%) Network Security
6 2 (0.71%) DHCP
6 2 (0.71%) LAN
6 2 (0.71%) SAN
6 2 (0.71%) SSH
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
6 2 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.35%) Multicast
7 1 (0.35%) NAS
7 1 (0.35%) OSPF
7 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.80%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.67%) MongoDB
4 14 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.26%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.55%) Redis
7 8 (2.84%) DocumentDB
7 8 (2.84%) Hadoop
7 8 (2.84%) MySQL
8 7 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.48%) Metadata
8 7 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.48%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.77%) Big Data
10 5 (1.77%) Power BI
10 5 (1.77%) Tableau
11 4 (1.42%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 23 (8.16%) JIRA
2 20 (7.09%) Git
2 20 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.32%) GitLab
4 12 (4.26%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (2.48%) Maven
7 6 (2.13%) JUnit
8 4 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.42%) Gradle
8 4 (1.42%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.42%) Postman
8 4 (1.42%) Selenium
9 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.06%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.06%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.71%) MLflow
General
1 84 (29.79%) Finance
2 71 (25.18%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.77%) Banking
3 36 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 33 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.61%) Front Office
6 10 (3.55%) Retail
7 9 (3.19%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.13%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.77%) Legal
10 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.42%) Military
10 4 (1.42%) Police
11 3 (1.06%) Back Office
11 3 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.71%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
13 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (21.28%) Developer
2 48 (17.02%) Architect
3 43 (15.25%) Senior
4 28 (9.93%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.45%) Lead
6 19 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (6.74%) Java Developer
7 16 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (4.96%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.90%) Security Architect
11 10 (3.55%) AWS Architect
11 10 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (3.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 9 (3.19%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.19%) Senior Architect
13 8 (2.84%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (2.84%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.84%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.84%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.12%) React
2 33 (11.70%) Kafka
3 23 (8.16%) Spring
4 19 (6.74%) Node.js
5 18 (6.38%) GraphQL
5 18 (6.38%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.03%) REST
7 13 (4.61%) .NET
8 12 (4.26%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.55%) RESTful
10 8 (2.84%) HTML
11 6 (2.13%) JPA
11 6 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.13%) pytest
11 6 (2.13%) WebSockets
12 5 (1.77%) CSS
12 5 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.77%) Svelte
13 4 (1.42%) JMS
13 4 (1.42%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.84%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.48%) Hedge funds
4 7 (2.48%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.48%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.77%) Equities
6 5 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.42%) Derivative
7 4 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.06%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.28%) Linux
2 19 (6.74%) Windows
3 7 (2.48%) Unix
3 7 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.06%) Android
4 3 (1.06%) Rocky
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.62%) DevOps
2 82 (29.08%) CI/CD
3 68 (24.11%) Agile
4 49 (17.38%) Microservices
5 44 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (12.41%) Software Engineering
8 30 (10.64%) Migration
9 27 (9.57%) Cloud Security
10 24 (8.51%) Analytics
11 22 (7.80%) Containerisation
11 22 (7.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (6.74%) Data Modelling
12 19 (6.74%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (6.38%) Data Engineering
14 17 (6.03%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (5.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 105 (37.23%) Python
2 47 (16.67%) Java
3 43 (15.25%) SQL
4 34 (12.06%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.74%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.67%) Bash
7 14 (4.96%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.26%) C#
9 7 (2.48%) Go
10 6 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.77%) Perl
11 5 (1.77%) Scala
12 4 (1.42%) Bicep
12 4 (1.42%) Groovy
12 4 (1.42%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.06%) C++
13 3 (1.06%) DAML
13 3 (1.06%) Ruby
14 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 61 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.03%) Degree
4 16 (5.67%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.90%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.48%) CISSP
8 6 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.77%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.42%) CISM
10 4 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.42%) PMP
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.06%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.71%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (4.26%) NIST
2 11 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.90%) GDPR
3 9 (3.19%) QA
4 4 (1.42%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.71%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (11.35%) Docker
2 14 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) NFS
6 1 (0.35%) Platform Symphony
6 1 (0.35%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 62 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 58 (20.57%) Terraform
3 28 (9.93%) Ansible
4 15 (5.32%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.90%) Grafana
6 7 (2.48%) ITRS Geneos
6 7 (2.48%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.48%) Puppet
7 4 (1.42%) Argo
7 4 (1.42%) Consul
7 4 (1.42%) Kibana
7 4 (1.42%) SCCM
8 2 (0.71%) Cilium
8 2 (0.71%) Control-M
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.71%) Packer
8 2 (0.71%) Podman
8 2 (0.71%) QRadar
8 2 (0.71%) SELinux
8 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.61%) Google
3 12 (4.26%) Splunk
4 11 (3.90%) Oracle
5 7 (2.48%) VMware
6 6 (2.13%) Cisco
6 6 (2.13%) IBM
7 5 (1.77%) Arista
7 5 (1.77%) Databricks
7 5 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.42%) Adobe
8 4 (1.42%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.42%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.06%) F5
9 3 (1.06%) Informatica
9 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.71%) Foundry
10 2 (0.71%) Palantir