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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 249 217 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 12.76% 9.35% 13.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.21% 23.06% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 134 307
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £788 £823 £825
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £63.75 £30.65 £85.00
% change year-on-year +107.99% -63.94% +61.90%

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 773 941 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.62% 40.56% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 637 930
10th Percentile £333 £388 £325
25th Percentile £425 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £788
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.80 £40.50
% change year-on-year +0.67% -23.96% +15.71%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +3 229 £585 +1.74% 182
City of Westminster +9 13 £600 -7.69% 4
West End of London +1 6 £600 +41.18% 5
Camden 0 1 £550 +22.22% 6
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 (5.62%) Confluence
2 13 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.61%) Apache
4 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.20%) Luigi
6 1 (0.40%) CICS
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Endur
2 4 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 98 (39.36%) Azure
2 51 (20.48%) GCP
3 35 (14.06%) Amazon S3
4 33 (13.25%) Serverless
5 31 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (9.24%) GitHub
7 17 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (6.02%) Snowflake
9 13 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.02%) SaaS
13 9 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.21%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.81%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.03%) Firewall
2 11 (4.42%) DNS
3 9 (3.61%) VPN
4 6 (2.41%) WAN
5 5 (2.01%) BGP
5 5 (2.01%) SSL
6 4 (1.61%) LAN
6 4 (1.61%) Network Security
6 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.20%) Internet
7 3 (1.20%) OSPF
8 2 (0.80%) HTTP
8 2 (0.80%) NAS
8 2 (0.80%) SSH
8 2 (0.80%) VLAN
8 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.62%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.22%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.82%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.61%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.61%) Metadata
8 8 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.81%) Redis
10 6 (2.41%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.41%) Power BI
11 5 (2.01%) Big Data
11 5 (2.01%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.61%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.20%) DataStage
13 3 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (8.43%) Git
2 19 (7.63%) JIRA
3 15 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.61%) GitLab
5 7 (2.81%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.20%) JUnit
6 3 (1.20%) MLflow
6 3 (1.20%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (1.20%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.80%) Maven
7 2 (0.80%) Postman
7 2 (0.80%) Selenium
7 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.40%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.40%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.40%) Snyk
General
1 77 (30.92%) Finance
2 64 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.84%) Banking
4 23 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.82%) Front Office
6 6 (2.41%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.41%) Legal
7 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Back Office
8 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.61%) Marketing
8 4 (1.61%) Police
9 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.20%) Japanese Language
9 3 (1.20%) Military
9 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (18.88%) Architect
2 41 (16.47%) Developer
2 41 (16.47%) Senior
3 25 (10.04%) Data Engineer
4 17 (6.83%) Lead
5 16 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (6.02%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.42%) AWS Architect
9 11 (4.42%) Security Architect
10 10 (4.02%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.61%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.61%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.81%) Analyst
12 7 (2.81%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (2.81%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.81%) Python Developer
12 7 (2.81%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.41%) Endur Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.85%) React
2 26 (10.44%) Kafka
3 20 (8.03%) Spring
4 19 (7.63%) Spring Boot
5 18 (7.23%) Node.js
6 14 (5.62%) GraphQL
6 14 (5.62%) REST
7 13 (5.22%) RESTful
8 12 (4.82%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.81%) CSS
9 7 (2.81%) HTML
9 7 (2.81%) OAuth
10 6 (2.41%) .NET
10 6 (2.41%) WebSockets
10 6 (2.41%) XML
11 5 (2.01%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.01%) Svelte
12 4 (1.61%) Hibernate
12 4 (1.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.65%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.61%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.81%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.01%) Equities
6 5 (2.01%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.01%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.20%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.23%) Linux
2 12 (4.82%) Windows
3 7 (2.81%) Unix
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.80%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.32%) DevOps
2 69 (27.71%) CI/CD
3 64 (25.70%) Agile
4 46 (18.47%) Microservices
5 38 (15.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (14.86%) Analytics
7 30 (12.05%) Software Engineering
8 28 (11.24%) Migration
9 23 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (8.84%) Data Modelling
11 21 (8.43%) Data Engineering
11 21 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (8.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (8.03%) Roadmaps
12 20 (8.03%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (7.63%) Data Governance
14 18 (7.23%) ETL
14 18 (7.23%) Mentoring
14 18 (7.23%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 99 (39.76%) Python
2 53 (21.29%) Java
3 48 (19.28%) SQL
4 32 (12.85%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.63%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.82%) Bash
7 7 (2.81%) Go
8 6 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.01%) Scala
9 5 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.20%) C#
10 3 (1.20%) DAML
10 3 (1.20%) Groovy
10 3 (1.20%) Perl
11 2 (0.80%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.80%) COBOL
11 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.80%) PromQL
11 2 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.83%) Degree
4 16 (6.43%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (3.21%) CISSP
7 7 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.61%) CISM
11 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.20%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.20%) PMP
12 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.80%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.82%) GDPR
4 11 (4.42%) NIST
5 9 (3.61%) QA
6 3 (1.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (1.20%) NCSC
7 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.80%) SLA
7 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (10.44%) Docker
2 12 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (18.07%) Terraform
2 39 (15.66%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.43%) Ansible
4 13 (5.22%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.61%) Grafana
6 6 (2.41%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.61%) Argo
8 4 (1.61%) Puppet
9 2 (0.80%) Packer
9 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.80%) SELinux
10 1 (0.40%) Cilium
10 1 (0.40%) Consul
10 1 (0.40%) Icinga
10 1 (0.40%) Istio
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.40%) Observium
10 1 (0.40%) QRadar
10 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 31 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.82%) Google
3 11 (4.42%) Databricks
3 11 (4.42%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.21%) Splunk
5 6 (2.41%) Cisco
5 6 (2.41%) Oracle
6 5 (2.01%) Adobe
6 5 (2.01%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.01%) F5
6 5 (2.01%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.61%) Arista
7 4 (1.61%) Citrix
7 4 (1.61%) IBM
8 3 (1.20%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.20%) Informatica
8 3 (1.20%) Okta
8 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.20%) Tenable
8 3 (1.20%) VMware