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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 297 261 268
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.54% 13.14% 10.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.56% 30.60% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 181 198
10th Percentile £368 £413 £410
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £651 £653 £650
90th Percentile £775 £701 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £60.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +16.18% +4.78% -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 972 853 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.03% 42.95% 38.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 556 687
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £665 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £54.05 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.47 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +2 281 £540 -1.82% 282
West End of London 0 5 £650 +24.40% 6
City of Westminster -1 4 £650 +20.93% 4
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 1
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 21 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.36%) Apache
2 7 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.02%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) CICS
5 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.34%) Notion
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.01%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.67%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 131 (44.11%) Azure
2 74 (24.92%) GCP
3 50 (16.84%) Serverless
4 48 (16.16%) GitHub
5 46 (15.49%) Amazon S3
6 45 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 25 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (7.41%) Power Platform
10 19 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (4.71%) SaaS
12 12 (4.04%) Amazon SageMaker
12 12 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.04%) dbt
13 11 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Network Security
2 11 (3.70%) Firewall
3 5 (1.68%) DNS
4 3 (1.01%) VPN
5 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) 2G
6 1 (0.34%) 4G
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) IPsec
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) NAS
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.34%) SAN
6 1 (0.34%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) VLAN
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.74%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.72%) Power BI
5 14 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.71%) Tableau
6 12 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.04%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.70%) Metadata
7 11 (3.70%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.03%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.69%) DB2
10 6 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.02%) Big Data
10 6 (2.02%) MySQL
11 5 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.35%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 38 (12.79%) Git
2 24 (8.08%) GitLab
3 22 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.72%) JIRA
5 7 (2.36%) JUnit
6 6 (2.02%) Mockito
7 5 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.01%) Gradle
9 3 (1.01%) Maven
9 3 (1.01%) Postman
10 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.67%) Gatling
10 2 (0.67%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.67%) Mocha
10 2 (0.67%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 101 (34.01%) Finance
2 68 (22.90%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.47%) Banking
4 30 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.05%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.04%) Front Office
8 11 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.36%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.35%) Law
12 3 (1.01%) Back Office
12 3 (1.01%) Military
12 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.01%) Retail
12 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.67%) Advertising
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 62 (20.88%) Architect
2 44 (14.81%) Developer
3 37 (12.46%) Senior
4 31 (10.44%) Data Engineer
5 25 (8.42%) Lead
6 21 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.71%) Project Manager
10 12 (4.04%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 12 (4.04%) Snowflake Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) AWS Architect
11 11 (3.70%) Migration Manager
11 11 (3.70%) Migration Project Manager
12 10 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.37%) Data Scientist
12 10 (3.37%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.44%) Kafka
2 23 (7.74%) Spring
3 22 (7.41%) Spring Boot
4 21 (7.07%) React
4 21 (7.07%) REST
5 20 (6.73%) RESTful
6 17 (5.72%) Node.js
7 10 (3.37%) JSON
7 10 (3.37%) Pandas
7 10 (3.37%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.03%) .NET
8 9 (3.03%) NumPy
8 9 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (3.03%) PySpark
9 8 (2.69%) OAuth
9 8 (2.69%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.69%) SOAP
10 7 (2.36%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.36%) boto
10 7 (2.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.38%) Equities
5 11 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.03%) Derivative
7 8 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.02%) Clustering
9 6 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.02%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.35%) LIMS
11 4 (1.35%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.05%) Linux
2 13 (4.38%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) Android
3 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) zOS
5 2 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (0.67%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) AIX
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 76 (25.59%) DevOps
3 68 (22.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (21.21%) Agile
5 62 (20.88%) AI
6 50 (16.84%) Analytics
7 48 (16.16%) Migration
8 47 (15.82%) Microservices
9 43 (14.48%) Machine Learning
10 42 (14.14%) Containerisation
10 42 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (12.12%) Observability
13 34 (11.45%) Data Modelling
13 34 (11.45%) Event-Driven
14 33 (11.11%) Data Engineering
15 32 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (10.77%) Software Engineering
15 32 (10.77%) Test Automation
16 30 (10.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 116 (39.06%) Python
2 75 (25.25%) SQL
3 55 (18.52%) Java
4 16 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.04%) C#
5 12 (4.04%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.69%) Bash
7 6 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.68%) C++
8 5 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.68%) Ruby
8 5 (1.68%) Scala
9 3 (1.01%) Bicep
9 3 (1.01%) Go
9 3 (1.01%) JCL
9 3 (1.01%) Korn
9 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.67%) PHP
10 2 (0.67%) R
11 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 69 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.56%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.39%) Degree
4 12 (4.04%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.04%) PMP
5 11 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.69%) CISSP
7 7 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.02%) CISM
8 6 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.02%) PhD
9 5 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.01%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.67%) CCSP
12 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.08%) GDPR
2 24 (8.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.07%) NIST
4 9 (3.03%) QA
5 8 (2.69%) SLA
6 7 (2.36%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.35%) NCSC
8 2 (0.67%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.67%) GRC
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.67%) PSD2
8 2 (0.67%) SEPA
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) DICOM
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (19.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.67%) NFS
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (21.21%) Terraform
2 57 (19.19%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.06%) Ansible
4 14 (4.71%) Grafana
5 12 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.01%) Argo
7 3 (1.01%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.67%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.34%) CASB
9 1 (0.34%) Consul
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.34%) Salt
9 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.39%) Databricks
3 14 (4.71%) Google
4 13 (4.38%) Oracle
5 12 (4.04%) CyberArk
5 12 (4.04%) IBM
6 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.36%) Splunk
7 5 (1.68%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.35%) Citrix
8 4 (1.35%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.35%) Informatica
8 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.35%) SAP
8 4 (1.35%) VMware
9 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.01%) Charles River
9 3 (1.01%) Cognos
9 3 (1.01%) Sage