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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 258 241
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.23% 15.14% 11.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.50% 34.86% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 179 165
10th Percentile £391 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -11.92%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £753 £822
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

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 905 740 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.06% 43.43% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 474 611
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £455 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £100.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.79 £22.50
% change year-on-year +78.70% +27.93% -66.67%

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

AWS
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 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

AWS
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 (6.37%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.87%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) Apache
3 4 (1.50%) CICS
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.12%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (41.57%) Azure
2 57 (21.35%) GCP
3 50 (18.73%) Serverless
4 43 (16.10%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (14.23%) GitHub
6 36 (13.48%) Amazon S3
7 22 (8.24%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.87%) Power Platform
9 19 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (5.99%) SaaS
11 15 (5.62%) Amazon Bedrock
11 15 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.12%) Amazon SageMaker
13 11 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.75%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (3.37%) dbt
16 8 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.12%) Firewall
2 8 (3.00%) DNS
2 8 (3.00%) Network Security
3 5 (1.87%) DHCP
4 4 (1.50%) VPN
5 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.75%) NGFW
6 2 (0.75%) SMTP
7 1 (0.37%) BGP
7 1 (0.37%) IPsec
7 1 (0.37%) NAS
7 1 (0.37%) OSPF
7 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.37%) SAN
7 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) VLAN
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.49%) DynamoDB
2 17 (6.37%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.99%) Power BI
4 15 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.49%) Metadata
7 12 (4.49%) Tableau
8 11 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.75%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.00%) Db2
10 8 (3.00%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (2.62%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.62%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.25%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.87%) Big Data
13 5 (1.87%) Pinecone
14 4 (1.50%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 27 (10.11%) Git
2 24 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.61%) GitLab
4 21 (7.87%) JIRA
5 8 (3.00%) Postman
6 6 (2.25%) JUnit
7 5 (1.87%) Mockito
8 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.50%) JMeter
9 3 (1.12%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.12%) Gradle
9 3 (1.12%) Maven
10 2 (0.75%) Ant
10 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.75%) Gatling
10 2 (0.75%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.75%) Mocha
10 2 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 87 (32.58%) Finance
2 62 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.36%) Banking
4 31 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.49%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.62%) Front Office
9 6 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Military
11 3 (1.12%) Back Office
11 3 (1.12%) Marketing
11 3 (1.12%) Retail
12 2 (0.75%) Advertising
12 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (22.10%) Architect
2 36 (13.48%) Developer
3 35 (13.11%) Senior
4 25 (9.36%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.87%) Lead
6 18 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (5.24%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.75%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.75%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.75%) Migration Project Manager
11 10 (3.75%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.00%) AWS Architect
12 8 (3.00%) Consultant
12 8 (3.00%) Data Scientist
12 8 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.36%) Kafka
2 27 (10.11%) Spring
2 27 (10.11%) Spring Boot
3 25 (9.36%) REST
4 20 (7.49%) React
5 17 (6.37%) RESTful
6 13 (4.87%) .NET
7 12 (4.49%) JSON
8 11 (4.12%) PySpark
9 10 (3.75%) Node.js
9 10 (3.75%) SOAP
10 9 (3.37%) PyTorch
11 8 (3.00%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (2.62%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.25%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.25%) boto
13 6 (2.25%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.25%) Middleware
13 6 (2.25%) OAuth
13 6 (2.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (24.34%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.75%) AI Agents
3 10 (3.75%) Equities
3 10 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.00%) Clustering
6 7 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.25%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.87%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.87%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.50%) DataPower
9 4 (1.50%) LIMS
9 4 (1.50%) NHS
9 4 (1.50%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.62%) Linux
2 13 (4.87%) Windows
3 5 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.50%) Android
4 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.50%) zOS
5 2 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (38.58%) CI/CD
2 70 (26.22%) DevOps
3 68 (25.47%) AI
4 60 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (21.35%) Agile
6 47 (17.60%) Containerisation
6 47 (17.60%) Migration
7 41 (15.36%) Analytics
8 40 (14.98%) Machine Learning
9 38 (14.23%) Event-Driven
9 38 (14.23%) Observability
10 37 (13.86%) Microservices
11 35 (13.11%) Data Engineering
11 35 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (12.36%) Data Modelling
12 33 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (11.61%) Test Automation
14 28 (10.49%) Roadmaps
15 26 (9.74%) Performance Tuning
15 26 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 103 (38.58%) Python
2 62 (23.22%) SQL
3 52 (19.48%) Java
4 15 (5.62%) C#
4 15 (5.62%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.24%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.12%) Bash
7 9 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.87%) Ruby
9 5 (1.87%) Scala
10 4 (1.50%) JCL
10 4 (1.50%) Korn
11 3 (1.12%) Bicep
11 3 (1.12%) Go
12 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) C
13 1 (0.37%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 59 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.49%) Degree
4 11 (4.12%) PMI Certification
4 11 (4.12%) PMP
5 6 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.87%) CISSP
7 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.50%) CISM
7 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.12%) CCNP
8 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.12%) PhD
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.74%) GDPR
3 18 (6.74%) NIST
4 9 (3.37%) QA
5 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.50%) NCSC
6 4 (1.50%) SLA
7 3 (1.12%) EU AI Act
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.12%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.12%) SEPA
8 2 (0.75%) EMIR
8 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.75%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.75%) MiFID
8 2 (0.75%) PSD2
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (16.48%) Docker
2 7 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.75%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.75%) NFS
4 2 (0.75%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 47 (17.60%) Terraform
3 20 (7.49%) Ansible
4 16 (5.99%) Grafana
5 14 (5.24%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.50%) Puppet
7 3 (1.12%) Argo
7 3 (1.12%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.75%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.75%) Nagios
8 2 (0.75%) SnapMirror
8 2 (0.75%) vMotion
9 1 (0.37%) Consul
9 1 (0.37%) Packer
9 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.37%) QRadar
9 1 (0.37%) Salt
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.87%) CyberArk
2 13 (4.87%) Databricks
3 12 (4.49%) Google
4 10 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.37%) Citrix
5 9 (3.37%) Oracle
6 7 (2.62%) Splunk
6 7 (2.62%) VMware
7 5 (1.87%) IBM
7 5 (1.87%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.87%) SAP
8 4 (1.50%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.50%) Informatica
8 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.12%) Charles River
9 3 (1.12%) Cisco