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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 12 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 274 266 529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 13.60% 10.78% 13.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.71% 27.68% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 201 358
10th Percentile £413 £413 £456
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +0.40%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £710 £775 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £57.44
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.50 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.48% -23.33% -3.69%

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 864 961 1,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.88% 38.94% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 692 1,019
10th Percentile £364 £350 £313
25th Percentile £463 £427 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.74% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 10
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £20.48
25th Percentile £26.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -66.67% +292.04%
75th Percentile £45.00 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £52.60 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +11.81% -32.90% +10.71%

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
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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +2 251 £550 -0.09% 110
West End of London +3 9 £520 +4.00% 16
City of Westminster -1 5 £580 -22.67% 5
Camden -1 2 £565 +25.56% 4
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 15 (5.47%) Confluence
2 7 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.09%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.73%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Sketch
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Endur
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 94 (34.31%) Azure
2 43 (15.69%) GCP
3 35 (12.77%) Serverless
4 30 (10.95%) Amazon S3
5 28 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (7.66%) GitHub
7 17 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (4.01%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.92%) Route 53
13 8 (2.92%) SaaS
14 7 (2.55%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.55%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.47%) Firewall
2 10 (3.65%) VPN
3 8 (2.92%) DNS
4 4 (1.46%) DHCP
4 4 (1.46%) Modbus
4 4 (1.46%) MQTT
5 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.73%) BGP
6 2 (0.73%) HTTP
6 2 (0.73%) Internet
6 2 (0.73%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.73%) Network Security
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.36%) SAN
7 1 (0.36%) SSL
7 1 (0.36%) WAN
7 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.58%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.39%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.57%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (4.74%) Redis
7 11 (4.01%) DocumentDB
8 9 (3.28%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.92%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.55%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.19%) MySQL
11 6 (2.19%) Power BI
11 6 (2.19%) Tableau
12 5 (1.82%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (10.22%) Git
2 27 (9.85%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.85%) JIRA
3 18 (6.57%) GitLab
4 15 (5.47%) SonarQube
5 9 (3.28%) Maven
5 9 (3.28%) Postman
5 9 (3.28%) Selenium
6 8 (2.92%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (2.19%) JUnit
8 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.46%) Gradle
8 4 (1.46%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.46%) MSI
9 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.09%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.09%) Terragrunt
General
1 76 (27.74%) Finance
2 61 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.06%) Banking
4 42 (15.33%) Public Sector
5 30 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.11%) Retail
7 11 (4.01%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.65%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.82%) Front Office
10 4 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.09%) Back Office
11 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Military
12 2 (0.73%) Police
12 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.36%) Billing
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (25.55%) Developer
2 45 (16.42%) Architect
3 40 (14.60%) Senior
4 27 (9.85%) Java Developer
5 22 (8.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.66%) Data Engineer
6 21 (7.66%) Lead
7 18 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (6.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 13 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (4.38%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.65%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.28%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.28%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.92%) Project Manager
13 8 (2.92%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.19%) C# Developer
14 6 (2.19%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (2.19%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.60%) React
2 33 (12.04%) Kafka
3 32 (11.68%) Spring
4 25 (9.12%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.66%) Node.js
6 20 (7.30%) .NET
7 17 (6.20%) GraphQL
8 16 (5.84%) REST
9 15 (5.47%) RESTful
10 13 (4.74%) HTML
11 10 (3.65%) CSS
11 10 (3.65%) pytest
12 6 (2.19%) JPA
12 6 (2.19%) Web Services
13 5 (1.82%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (1.46%) Jest
14 4 (1.46%) JSON
14 4 (1.46%) NumPy
14 4 (1.46%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.92%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.55%) Derivative
5 6 (2.19%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.19%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.82%) Equities
6 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.46%) IoT
7 4 (1.46%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.12%) Linux
2 22 (8.03%) Windows
3 6 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.82%) Unix
5 4 (1.46%) Android
6 3 (1.09%) Rocky
7 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.73%) Solaris
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (33.21%) DevOps
2 83 (30.29%) CI/CD
3 70 (25.55%) Agile
4 51 (18.61%) Microservices
5 49 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.14%) Software Engineering
7 34 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (10.22%) Containerisation
9 27 (9.85%) SOLID
10 25 (9.12%) Migration
11 23 (8.39%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (8.03%) Clean Code
13 21 (7.66%) Cloud Security
14 20 (7.30%) API Development
15 18 (6.57%) Artificial Intelligence
15 18 (6.57%) Test Automation
16 15 (5.47%) Analytics
16 15 (5.47%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (5.47%) Scrum
17 14 (5.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 95 (34.67%) Python
2 56 (20.44%) SQL
3 52 (18.98%) Java
4 46 (16.79%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.57%) C#
6 17 (6.20%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.74%) Bash
7 13 (4.74%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.19%) Ruby
8 6 (2.19%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.82%) Bicep
9 5 (1.82%) Go
9 5 (1.82%) Perl
9 5 (1.82%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.46%) C++
10 4 (1.46%) Groovy
10 4 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.09%) DAML
12 2 (0.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 77 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 73 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.57%) AWS Certified Developer
4 16 (5.84%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.84%) Degree
5 12 (4.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.82%) CISM
7 5 (1.82%) CISSP
8 4 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.46%) PMP
9 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.09%) CCNP
9 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.73%) CCIE
11 1 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.38%) GDPR
2 8 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.19%) NIST
4 5 (1.82%) QA
5 4 (1.46%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) PMO
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (14.96%) Docker
2 12 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.73%) Lustre
6 1 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.36%) Platform Symphony
6 1 (0.36%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 77 (28.10%) Kubernetes
2 59 (21.53%) Terraform
3 27 (9.85%) Ansible
4 10 (3.65%) Grafana
4 10 (3.65%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.19%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.82%) Puppet
7 4 (1.46%) Argo
7 4 (1.46%) Kibana
7 4 (1.46%) SCCM
8 3 (1.09%) Consul
8 3 (1.09%) Control-M
8 3 (1.09%) Istio
8 3 (1.09%) Podman
9 2 (0.73%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.73%) QRadar
9 2 (0.73%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.36%) Cilium
Vendors
1 17 (6.20%) Microsoft
1 17 (6.20%) Oracle
2 10 (3.65%) Splunk
3 9 (3.28%) Google
4 8 (2.92%) VMware
5 6 (2.19%) Cisco
5 6 (2.19%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.19%) IBM
5 6 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.82%) Databricks
6 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.46%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.46%) F5
8 3 (1.09%) Arista
8 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.09%) BMC
8 3 (1.09%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft