AWS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 253 225 255
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.96% 12.24% 10.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.59% 29.68% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 159 183
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £675
90th Percentile £804 £750 £749
Central London median daily rate £543 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +0.46% -1.82% -15.38%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 801 758 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.03% 41.24% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 483 643
10th Percentile £339 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £30.04 £57.88 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.34 £75.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £111.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.45% +485.53% -55.81%
75th Percentile £51.00 £152.81 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.94 £173.63 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.76% +84.21% -45.71%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 17 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.37%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Notion
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.19%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 113 (44.66%) Azure
2 68 (26.88%) GCP
3 38 (15.02%) Serverless
4 36 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (13.83%) GitHub
6 31 (12.25%) Amazon S3
7 24 (9.49%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (7.11%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.35%) dbt
12 10 (3.95%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.56%) SaaS
14 8 (3.16%) Apigee
14 8 (3.16%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.95%) DNS
1 10 (3.95%) Firewall
2 9 (3.56%) Network Security
3 3 (1.19%) BGP
3 3 (1.19%) DHCP
3 3 (1.19%) OSPF
3 3 (1.19%) SSL
3 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.19%) VPN
4 2 (0.79%) 4G
4 2 (0.79%) 5G
4 2 (0.79%) IPsec
4 2 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.79%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.40%) 2G
5 1 (0.40%) DKIM
5 1 (0.40%) MPLS
5 1 (0.40%) NAS
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.72%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.53%) Power BI
5 13 (5.14%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.35%) MySQL
6 11 (4.35%) Tableau
7 10 (3.95%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.95%) Metadata
7 10 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.56%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.77%) Big Data
11 6 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.98%) DB2
13 4 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.58%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (11.86%) Git
2 17 (6.72%) GitLab
2 17 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.74%) JIRA
4 4 (1.58%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.58%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.58%) JUnit
5 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.19%) Gatling
6 2 (0.79%) Ant
6 2 (0.79%) ERwin
6 2 (0.79%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.79%) MLflow
6 2 (0.79%) Mockito
6 2 (0.79%) Postman
6 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Hamcrest
7 1 (0.40%) Mocha
General
1 88 (34.78%) Finance
2 58 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.62%) Banking
4 22 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.95%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.95%) Front Office
8 7 (2.77%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.58%) Retail
12 2 (0.79%) Back Office
12 2 (0.79%) Law
12 2 (0.79%) Legal
12 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.79%) Marketing
12 2 (0.79%) Military
13 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (21.74%) Architect
2 35 (13.83%) Senior
3 32 (12.65%) Developer
4 26 (10.28%) Data Engineer
4 26 (10.28%) Lead
5 21 (8.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.51%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (4.35%) Python Engineer
9 10 (3.95%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.56%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.16%) Consultant
11 8 (3.16%) Data Scientist
11 8 (3.16%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.16%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.77%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (2.77%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (2.77%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.77%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.30%) Kafka
2 17 (6.72%) React
3 16 (6.32%) REST
4 14 (5.53%) Node.js
5 12 (4.74%) .NET
5 12 (4.74%) PyTorch
5 12 (4.74%) RESTful
6 11 (4.35%) scikit-learn
6 11 (4.35%) TensorFlow
7 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.56%) Pandas
7 9 (3.56%) Spring
8 8 (3.16%) HTML
8 8 (3.16%) NumPy
8 8 (3.16%) OAuth
8 8 (3.16%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.77%) CSS
10 6 (2.37%) boto
10 6 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.76%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.53%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.56%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.16%) Equities
6 8 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.77%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.37%) Derivative
8 6 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.37%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.98%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.93%) Linux
2 11 (4.35%) Windows
3 3 (1.19%) Android
3 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.39%) CI/CD
2 55 (21.74%) AI
3 54 (21.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (20.55%) Agile
5 51 (20.16%) DevOps
6 44 (17.39%) Analytics
7 40 (15.81%) Machine Learning
8 37 (14.62%) Microservices
8 37 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (13.83%) Migration
10 34 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (13.04%) Containerisation
12 31 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (11.86%) ETL
13 30 (11.86%) Software Engineering
14 29 (11.46%) Data Modelling
15 28 (11.07%) Generative AI
15 28 (11.07%) Roadmaps
16 27 (10.67%) Data Engineering
16 27 (10.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 105 (41.50%) Python
2 76 (30.04%) SQL
3 48 (18.97%) Java
4 13 (5.14%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.77%) Bash
6 6 (2.37%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.98%) C#
7 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.58%) Go
8 4 (1.58%) PHP
9 3 (1.19%) Korn
9 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.19%) Ruby
9 3 (1.19%) Scala
10 2 (0.79%) C++
10 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
11 1 (0.40%) ProC
11 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 54 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 51 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.93%) Degree
4 12 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.16%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.16%) PMP
6 6 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.37%) CISSP
7 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.19%) CISM
8 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.19%) PhD
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.70%) GDPR
3 17 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (5.53%) NIST
5 7 (2.77%) QA
6 6 (2.37%) SLA
7 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.19%) NCSC
9 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.79%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.79%) GRC
9 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.79%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.79%) PSD2
9 2 (0.79%) SEPA
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.40%) DICOM
10 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.40%) HL7
10 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (18.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.79%) vSphere
3 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (22.13%) Terraform
2 43 (17.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.51%) Ansible
4 9 (3.56%) Grafana
5 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.19%) Argo
7 3 (1.19%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.40%) CASB
8 1 (0.40%) Istio
8 1 (0.40%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.40%) QRadar
8 1 (0.40%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.40%) vRealize
8 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.51%) Databricks
3 16 (6.32%) Oracle
4 12 (4.74%) Google
5 11 (4.35%) IBM
6 8 (3.16%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.77%) Splunk
8 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.58%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.58%) Informatica
9 4 (1.58%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.58%) SAP
10 3 (1.19%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.19%) Cognos
10 3 (1.19%) Confluent
10 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.19%) Sage