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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 255 214 285
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.57% 9.92% 10.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.58% 24.77% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 143 220
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -12.28%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £788 £725 £738
London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.05%

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 834 864 1,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.10% 40.06% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 560 750
10th Percentile £342 £400 £363
25th Percentile £426 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £18.83 £26.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.97
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £30.88
90th Percentile £42.50 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £26.50 £30.80 £34.50
% change year-on-year -13.95% -10.74% +38.00%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +2 243 £540 -4.42% 196
City of Westminster -2 2 £475 -9.52% 2
West End of London +1 1 - - 3
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 16 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.75%) Confluence
4 6 (2.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Notion
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (43.53%) Azure
2 61 (23.92%) GCP
3 45 (17.65%) Serverless
4 43 (16.86%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (14.90%) Amazon S3
6 32 (12.55%) GitHub
7 24 (9.41%) Snowflake
8 21 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (7.06%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (5.49%) Power Platform
14 11 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (4.31%) dbt
14 11 (4.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (3.14%) Apigee
17 8 (3.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.88%) Firewall
2 12 (4.71%) DNS
3 8 (3.14%) Network Security
4 4 (1.57%) SSL
4 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.57%) VPN
5 3 (1.18%) DHCP
5 3 (1.18%) LAN
5 3 (1.18%) WAN
5 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.78%) 4G
6 2 (0.78%) 5G
6 2 (0.78%) BGP
6 2 (0.78%) OSPF
6 2 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (0.39%) DKIM
7 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 16 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.10%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.71%) Power BI
6 11 (4.31%) MySQL
7 10 (3.92%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.53%) Data Lake
9 8 (3.14%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.14%) Tableau
10 7 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.75%) Metadata
11 6 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.35%) Big Data
12 5 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.57%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.57%) Redis
14 3 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 32 (12.55%) Git
2 20 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.06%) GitLab
4 12 (4.71%) JIRA
5 5 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.18%) Gatling
6 3 (1.18%) JUnit
7 2 (0.78%) ERwin
7 2 (0.78%) MLflow
7 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.78%) Selenium
7 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.39%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.39%) Mockito
8 1 (0.39%) Postman
8 1 (0.39%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (33.73%) Finance
2 53 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.12%) Banking
4 22 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.71%) Front Office
6 10 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.35%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.57%) Marketing
11 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Retail
12 2 (0.78%) Back Office
12 2 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (19.22%) Architect
2 42 (16.47%) Senior
3 36 (14.12%) Developer
4 29 (11.37%) Lead
5 25 (9.80%) Data Engineer
5 25 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.10%) AWS Architect
8 13 (5.10%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.92%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.53%) Consultant
11 9 (3.53%) Security Architect
12 8 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.14%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.14%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.75%) Java Developer
14 6 (2.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.67%) Node.js
2 16 (6.27%) React
3 13 (5.10%) Kafka
3 13 (5.10%) REST
4 11 (4.31%) .NET
4 11 (4.31%) Pandas
4 11 (4.31%) RESTful
5 10 (3.92%) HTML
5 10 (3.92%) NumPy
5 10 (3.92%) Spring
6 9 (3.53%) CSS
6 9 (3.53%) OAuth
6 9 (3.53%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.14%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.14%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.75%) boto
8 7 (2.75%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.35%) PySpark
9 6 (2.35%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.96%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.53%) Derivative
4 9 (3.53%) Equities
4 9 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.75%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.96%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.96%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.49%) Linux
2 12 (4.71%) Windows
3 4 (1.57%) Unix
3 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.47%) CI/CD
2 68 (26.67%) DevOps
3 54 (21.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (20.78%) Agile
5 44 (17.25%) Analytics
6 41 (16.08%) AI
7 38 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (13.73%) Microservices
10 31 (12.16%) Containerisation
10 31 (12.16%) Migration
11 30 (11.76%) Machine Learning
11 30 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 29 (11.37%) Roadmaps
13 27 (10.59%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (10.20%) ETL
15 25 (9.80%) Data Modelling
16 24 (9.41%) Data Engineering
17 23 (9.02%) Observability
18 22 (8.63%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 107 (41.96%) Python
2 67 (26.27%) SQL
3 48 (18.82%) Java
4 17 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.53%) Bash
6 6 (2.35%) C#
6 6 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.96%) C++
7 5 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.57%) Go
8 4 (1.57%) PHP
8 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.18%) Korn
9 3 (1.18%) Perl
10 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.78%) Ruby
10 2 (0.78%) Scala
10 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 59 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 55 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.49%) Degree
5 7 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.75%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.75%) PMP
6 6 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.57%) CISSP
8 4 (1.57%) MCP
9 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.18%) PhD
9 3 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.63%) Data Quality
1 22 (8.63%) GDPR
2 16 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.92%) NIST
3 10 (3.92%) QA
4 6 (2.35%) SLA
5 4 (1.57%) NCSC
5 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.78%) PSD2
6 2 (0.78%) SEPA
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.39%) DICOM
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) HL7
7 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (20.39%) Docker
2 6 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.78%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (24.31%) Terraform
2 44 (17.25%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.06%) Ansible
4 9 (3.53%) Grafana
5 8 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.57%) Argo
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.18%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.78%) Istio
9 2 (0.78%) SCCM
10 1 (0.39%) CASB
10 1 (0.39%) Kibana
10 1 (0.39%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.39%) Puppet
10 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.39%) vRealize
10 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.24%) Databricks
3 18 (7.06%) Oracle
4 11 (4.31%) Google
5 8 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.75%) IBM
6 7 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.35%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.35%) Splunk
8 5 (1.96%) F5
8 5 (1.96%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.57%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.57%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.57%) VMware
10 3 (1.18%) Citrix
10 3 (1.18%) Confluent
10 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.18%) Informatica
10 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.18%) SAP