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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 231 225 350
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.38% 9.59% 11.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.47% 23.86% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 139 248
10th Percentile £393 £425 £400
25th Percentile £479 £500 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £838 £800
London median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £73.50 £37.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +96.00% -55.88% +74.36%

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 758 943 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.62% 40.20% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 622 853
10th Percentile £325 £388 £326
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.14% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £18.87 £29.40 £15.58
25th Percentile £24.61 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £54.46 £49.38 £40.69
90th Percentile £65.57 £75.25 £49.88
London median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% -19.75% +23.66%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +2 220 £588 +2.17% 652
City of Westminster +3 9 £600 +14.29% 3
West End of London +1 4 £650 +23.81% 10
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 14 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.76%) Confluence
3 9 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.16%) Apache
5 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.87%) Luigi
7 1 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Endur
2 4 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (41.99%) Azure
2 50 (21.65%) GCP
3 36 (15.58%) Amazon S3
4 26 (11.26%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (11.26%) Serverless
5 21 (9.09%) GitHub
6 18 (7.79%) Snowflake
7 17 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (4.33%) SaaS
9 10 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.46%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.03%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.66%) Firewall
2 13 (5.63%) DNS
3 7 (3.03%) VPN
4 5 (2.16%) Network Security
4 5 (2.16%) SSL
4 5 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.16%) WAN
5 4 (1.73%) BGP
5 4 (1.73%) LAN
6 3 (1.30%) Internet
6 3 (1.30%) OSPF
6 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.87%) 4G
7 2 (0.87%) 5G
7 2 (0.87%) DHCP
7 2 (0.87%) NAS
7 2 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.87%) SSH
7 2 (0.87%) VLAN
7 2 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (7.36%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.33%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.90%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.46%) MySQL
7 7 (3.03%) Metadata
7 7 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.03%) Power BI
8 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.60%) Big Data
8 6 (2.60%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.73%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.73%) Tableau
11 3 (1.30%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.30%) Redis
11 3 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (9.52%) Git
2 15 (6.49%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.49%) JIRA
3 7 (3.03%) GitLab
4 4 (1.73%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.30%) JUnit
5 3 (1.30%) MLflow
6 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.87%) Postman
6 2 (0.87%) Selenium
6 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.43%) ERwin
7 1 (0.43%) Hamcrest
7 1 (0.43%) Maven
7 1 (0.43%) Mockito
7 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 75 (32.47%) Finance
2 57 (24.68%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.82%) Banking
4 24 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.06%) Front Office
7 8 (3.46%) Legal
8 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.73%) Marketing
10 3 (1.30%) Japanese Language
10 3 (1.30%) Military
10 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Back Office
11 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Police
11 2 (0.87%) Retail
11 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (19.91%) Architect
2 42 (18.18%) Senior
3 31 (13.42%) Developer
4 25 (10.82%) Data Engineer
5 22 (9.52%) Lead
6 15 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (5.19%) Security Architect
9 11 (4.76%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.90%) Python Engineer
10 9 (3.90%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.90%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) Consultant
11 8 (3.46%) Technical Architect
12 7 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.03%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.03%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (2.60%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.66%) Kafka
2 18 (7.79%) React
3 14 (6.06%) REST
4 13 (5.63%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.19%) GraphQL
5 12 (5.19%) RESTful
6 11 (4.76%) Node.js
6 11 (4.76%) Spring
7 10 (4.33%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.46%) CSS
8 8 (3.46%) HTML
9 7 (3.03%) .NET
10 6 (2.60%) OAuth
11 5 (2.16%) PySpark
11 5 (2.16%) Svelte
11 5 (2.16%) XML
12 4 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (1.73%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.73%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.33%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.33%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.16%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.73%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.73%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.30%) Derivative
7 3 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.30%) Equities
7 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.49%) Linux
2 12 (5.19%) Windows
3 8 (3.46%) Unix
4 4 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) Android
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) AIX
6 1 (0.43%) Solaris
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 60 (25.97%) DevOps
3 56 (24.24%) Agile
4 39 (16.88%) Analytics
4 39 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (13.42%) Microservices
7 27 (11.69%) Migration
8 26 (11.26%) Software Engineering
9 25 (10.82%) AI
9 25 (10.82%) Roadmaps
10 23 (9.96%) Containerisation
10 23 (9.96%) Data Engineering
10 23 (9.96%) Machine Learning
11 22 (9.52%) Data Modelling
12 21 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (8.66%) Mentoring
14 19 (8.23%) ETL
14 19 (8.23%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 94 (40.69%) Python
2 46 (19.91%) Java
2 46 (19.91%) SQL
3 18 (7.79%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.93%) TypeScript
5 10 (4.33%) Bash
6 6 (2.60%) Go
7 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.73%) Scala
9 3 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.30%) Perl
9 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.87%) C#
10 2 (0.87%) C++
10 2 (0.87%) COBOL
10 2 (0.87%) PHP
10 2 (0.87%) PromQL
10 2 (0.87%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.79%) Degree
4 14 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.03%) CISSP
6 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.30%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.87%) CASP
10 2 (0.87%) CCSP
10 2 (0.87%) CISM
10 2 (0.87%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.76%) QA
3 10 (4.33%) GDPR
4 9 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.90%) NIST
5 3 (1.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (1.30%) NCSC
5 3 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.87%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (12.55%) Docker
2 12 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
3 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 39 (16.88%) Terraform
2 29 (12.55%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.76%) Ansible
4 9 (3.90%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.60%) Grafana
5 6 (2.60%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.73%) Puppet
7 3 (1.30%) Argo
8 2 (0.87%) Packer
8 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.87%) SELinux
9 1 (0.43%) Icinga
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.43%) Nagios
9 1 (0.43%) QRadar
9 1 (0.43%) SCCM
9 1 (0.43%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.43%) vRealize
9 1 (0.43%) yum
Vendors
1 35 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.63%) Databricks
3 10 (4.33%) Google
3 10 (4.33%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.46%) Oracle
4 8 (3.46%) Splunk
5 6 (2.60%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.16%) F5
6 5 (2.16%) IBM
7 4 (1.73%) Adobe
7 4 (1.73%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.73%) Cisco
7 4 (1.73%) Informatica
7 4 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.30%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.30%) Citrix
8 3 (1.30%) Okta
8 3 (1.30%) Tenable
9 2 (0.87%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.87%) Sparx