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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 279 245 216
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.44% 12.70% 9.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.73% 31.94% 23.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 172 132
10th Percentile £425 £376 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £678 £725
90th Percentile £775 £799 £838
London median daily rate £568 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.13% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
London median hourly rate £67.00 £68.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -1.47% +121.86% -64.97%

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 1,006 767 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.25% 39.76% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 544 617
10th Percentile £331 £329 £388
25th Percentile £456 £432 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £762 £757 £771
London median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.24% -3.14% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.36 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.96 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £86.43 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +0.18% -8.80% -22.84%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -5 261 £575 -1.71% 251
West End of London -4 9 £553 -7.92% 20
City of Westminster -10 8 £525 -11.02% 51
Southwark 0 2 £600 -
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 22 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.58%) Confluence
3 9 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.51%) Apache
5 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) nginx
7 2 (0.72%) SAS
8 1 (0.36%) CICS
8 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.72%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (45.16%) Azure
2 67 (24.01%) GCP
3 43 (15.41%) Serverless
4 41 (14.70%) GitHub
5 37 (13.26%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (11.47%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.75%) Snowflake
8 25 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.81%) dbt
10 18 (6.45%) Amazon Bedrock
10 18 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (5.02%) SaaS
13 13 (4.66%) Power Platform
14 12 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.30%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (3.94%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.73%) DNS
2 15 (5.38%) Firewall
3 10 (3.58%) VPN
4 9 (3.23%) DHCP
5 6 (2.15%) BGP
6 5 (1.79%) Network Security
6 5 (1.79%) OSPF
6 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.43%) VLAN
8 3 (1.08%) MPLS
8 3 (1.08%) Multicast
8 3 (1.08%) NGFW
8 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.08%) SMTP
8 3 (1.08%) WAN
8 3 (1.08%) Wireless
9 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.72%) IPsec
9 2 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.73%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.30%) Power BI
4 11 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (3.94%) Metadata
4 11 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.58%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.87%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.87%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.51%) Big Data
8 7 (2.51%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.79%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.47%) GitLab
1 32 (11.47%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.24%) Git
3 21 (7.53%) JIRA
4 9 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.87%) JUnit
5 8 (2.87%) Postman
6 7 (2.51%) JMeter
6 7 (2.51%) Mockito
7 5 (1.79%) Maven
8 4 (1.43%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.43%) Selenium
9 3 (1.08%) Gatling
10 2 (0.72%) Appium
10 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.72%) Gradle
10 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 96 (34.41%) Finance
2 66 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.41%) Banking
4 36 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.23%) Back Office
7 9 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.15%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.15%) Front Office
8 6 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.15%) Retail
9 5 (1.79%) Military
10 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Law
10 4 (1.43%) Marketing
11 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Police
11 3 (1.08%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (25.45%) Architect
2 60 (21.51%) Senior
3 30 (10.75%) Data Engineer
4 25 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (8.96%) Developer
5 24 (8.60%) Lead
6 20 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.38%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (4.66%) Data Architect
9 12 (4.30%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.94%) Analyst
10 11 (3.94%) AWS Data Engineer
11 10 (3.58%) AWS Architect
11 10 (3.58%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.23%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.51%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.51%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.51%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.15%) Terraform
2 29 (10.39%) REST
3 28 (10.04%) Kafka
4 25 (8.96%) Spring
5 24 (8.60%) Spring Boot
6 14 (5.02%) .NET
6 14 (5.02%) RESTful
7 13 (4.66%) PySpark
8 12 (4.30%) React
9 11 (3.94%) SOAP
10 10 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.23%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (2.87%) Node.js
12 8 (2.87%) Web Services
13 7 (2.51%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.51%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.51%) JSON
13 7 (2.51%) OAuth
14 6 (2.15%) LangChain
14 6 (2.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 72 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.68%) AI Agents
3 24 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.73%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.02%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.87%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.15%) CMDB
8 6 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.43%) PKI
10 4 (1.43%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.43%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.08%) Clustering
11 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.38%) Linux
1 15 (5.38%) Windows
2 10 (3.58%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.72%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (44.09%) CI/CD
2 79 (28.32%) DevOps
3 72 (25.81%) AI
4 63 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (20.07%) Agile
6 50 (17.92%) Migration
7 46 (16.49%) Containerisation
8 45 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (15.77%) Data Engineering
9 44 (15.77%) Microservices
10 43 (15.41%) Event-Driven
11 40 (14.34%) Analytics
12 39 (13.98%) Observability
13 38 (13.62%) Data Modelling
14 36 (12.90%) Test Automation
15 33 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
15 33 (11.83%) Machine Learning
15 33 (11.83%) Software Engineering
16 32 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (35.13%) Python
2 60 (21.51%) SQL
3 49 (17.56%) Java
4 21 (7.53%) PowerShell
5 18 (6.45%) C#
5 18 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.38%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.30%) Bash
8 5 (1.79%) Korn
9 4 (1.43%) Bicep
10 3 (1.08%) Ruby
10 3 (1.08%) Scala
10 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.72%) Go
11 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.36%) JCL
12 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.23%) Degree
5 5 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.43%) PMP
7 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.08%) CCNP
7 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.08%) CISSP
7 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) CCIE
8 2 (0.72%) CISM
8 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.72%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.04%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.02%) QA
3 11 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.87%) EU AI Act
5 7 (2.51%) NIST
6 6 (2.15%) GDPR
7 4 (1.43%) NCSC
7 4 (1.43%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.08%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.08%) SEPA
9 2 (0.72%) EMIR
9 2 (0.72%) MiFID
9 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (15.41%) Docker
2 9 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (21.51%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.04%) Ansible
3 15 (5.38%) Grafana
4 13 (4.66%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.79%) Puppet
6 4 (1.43%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.08%) Nagios
7 3 (1.08%) vMotion
8 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Netcool
9 1 (0.36%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.36%) Salt
9 1 (0.36%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) SELinux
9 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.11%) Databricks
3 19 (6.81%) Google
4 17 (6.09%) Oracle
5 11 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.58%) Cisco
6 10 (3.58%) VMware
7 9 (3.23%) Citrix
8 8 (2.87%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.87%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.87%) SAP
9 6 (2.15%) IBM
9 6 (2.15%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.79%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.79%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.08%) F5
11 3 (1.08%) HP
11 3 (1.08%) Splunk
11 3 (1.08%) Workday