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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 286 255 275
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.75% 12.61% 10.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.69% 29.86% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 177 201
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £652 £653 £650
90th Percentile £788 £738 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £75.59 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.69% -5.22% -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 932 854 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.53% 42.24% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 558 705
10th Percentile £340 £372 £343
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £656
90th Percentile £750 £738 £744
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.87 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +55.56% -48.57%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £104.25 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.24
% change year-on-year +22.12% +10.79% -25.03%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 0 271 £538 -2.27% 279
West End of London +3 4 £650 +24.40% 15
City of Westminster +2 3 £650 +23.81% 13
Lambeth - 1 £350 - 2
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 19 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.10%) Confluence
4 5 (1.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) CICS
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.05%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 125 (43.71%) Azure
2 71 (24.83%) GCP
3 47 (16.43%) Serverless
4 46 (16.08%) GitHub
5 43 (15.03%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (14.69%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 25 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (8.04%) Power Platform
10 20 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (4.55%) dbt
14 11 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (3.50%) SaaS
15 10 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.15%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (3.15%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.55%) Network Security
2 8 (2.80%) Firewall
3 6 (2.10%) DNS
4 2 (0.70%) DHCP
4 2 (0.70%) SSL
4 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.70%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) 2G
5 1 (0.35%) 4G
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) NAS
5 1 (0.35%) OSPF
5 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.29%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.29%) Power BI
3 15 (5.24%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (4.90%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.90%) Tableau
5 12 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.85%) MySQL
7 10 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.50%) Metadata
7 10 (3.50%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.80%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.45%) Big Data
9 7 (2.45%) DB2
10 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.40%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (13.29%) Git
2 23 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.69%) GitLab
4 13 (4.55%) JIRA
5 6 (2.10%) JUnit
6 5 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.75%) Mockito
7 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.05%) Postman
9 2 (0.70%) Ant
9 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.70%) Gatling
9 2 (0.70%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.70%) Mocha
9 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.70%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.70%) webpack
10 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 98 (34.27%) Finance
2 64 (22.38%) Social Skills
3 45 (15.73%) Banking
4 26 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.90%) Financial Institution
6 14 (4.90%) Front Office
7 12 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.80%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.40%) Retail
11 3 (1.05%) Back Office
12 2 (0.70%) Advertising
12 2 (0.70%) Law
12 2 (0.70%) Legal
12 2 (0.70%) Military
12 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (21.33%) Architect
2 41 (14.34%) Developer
3 38 (13.29%) Senior
4 27 (9.44%) Data Engineer
4 27 (9.44%) Lead
5 23 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 12 (4.20%) AWS Architect
10 11 (3.85%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.50%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.50%) Migration Project Manager
11 10 (3.50%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.15%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.15%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.15%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.44%) Kafka
2 21 (7.34%) React
3 19 (6.64%) REST
4 16 (5.59%) Node.js
4 16 (5.59%) RESTful
5 14 (4.90%) Spring
6 13 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.20%) .NET
8 11 (3.85%) Pandas
8 11 (3.85%) PyTorch
9 10 (3.50%) NumPy
9 10 (3.50%) scikit-learn
10 9 (3.15%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.15%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.80%) JSON
11 8 (2.80%) OAuth
11 8 (2.80%) PySpark
12 7 (2.45%) boto
12 7 (2.45%) HTML
12 7 (2.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.28%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 13 (4.55%) Equities
5 12 (4.20%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.50%) Derivative
7 8 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.10%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.10%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.40%) Clustering
11 4 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.40%) LIMS
11 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.55%) Linux
1 13 (4.55%) Windows
2 3 (1.05%) Android
2 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.70%) zOS
4 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (37.06%) CI/CD
2 67 (23.43%) DevOps
3 66 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (20.98%) Agile
5 57 (19.93%) AI
6 45 (15.73%) Analytics
7 43 (15.03%) Migration
8 42 (14.69%) Machine Learning
9 40 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (13.64%) Microservices
11 37 (12.94%) Containerisation
11 37 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (11.54%) Data Modelling
13 33 (11.54%) Roadmaps
14 32 (11.19%) Data Engineering
15 31 (10.84%) Observability
15 31 (10.84%) Software Engineering
15 31 (10.84%) Test Automation
16 28 (9.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 114 (39.86%) Python
2 80 (27.97%) SQL
3 50 (17.48%) Java
4 18 (6.29%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.50%) C#
5 10 (3.50%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.10%) Bash
6 6 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.75%) C++
7 5 (1.75%) Ruby
8 4 (1.40%) Go
8 4 (1.40%) PHP
8 4 (1.40%) Scala
8 4 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.05%) Korn
9 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.70%) JCL
10 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.35%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 64 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.33%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.29%) Degree
4 13 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 11 (3.85%) PMP
6 9 (3.15%) CISSP
7 8 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.10%) CISM
9 6 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.10%) PhD
10 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.70%) CCSP
13 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.04%) GDPR
2 23 (8.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.64%) NIST
4 8 (2.80%) SLA
5 7 (2.45%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.45%) QA
6 3 (1.05%) NCSC
7 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.70%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.70%) PSD2
7 2 (0.70%) SEPA
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) DICOM
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 54 (18.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.70%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (23.08%) Terraform
2 49 (17.13%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.64%) Ansible
4 10 (3.50%) Grafana
5 7 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.05%) Argo
7 3 (1.05%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) CASB
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.35%) QRadar
9 1 (0.35%) SCCM
9 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.29%) Oracle
3 17 (5.94%) Databricks
4 12 (4.20%) Google
5 11 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 11 (3.85%) IBM
6 9 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.45%) Splunk
8 5 (1.75%) Informatica
9 4 (1.40%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.40%) SAP
9 4 (1.40%) VMware
10 3 (1.05%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.05%) Charles River
10 3 (1.05%) Cognos
10 3 (1.05%) Confluent
10 3 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.05%) Sage