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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 256 220 198
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.80% 12.75% 9.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.41% 31.70% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 154 123
10th Percentile £430 £338 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -2.46%
75th Percentile £713 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £848
Central London median daily rate £575 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -1.29% +1.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 901 694 825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.52% 40.21% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 493 537
10th Percentile £350 £340 £393
25th Percentile £456 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £26.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.21 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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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 7 October 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 19 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.91%) Confluence
3 9 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.73%) Apache
5 5 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.78%) nginx
7 2 (0.78%) SAS
8 1 (0.39%) CICS
8 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.39%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 114 (44.53%) Azure
2 61 (23.83%) GCP
3 41 (16.02%) Serverless
4 38 (14.84%) GitHub
5 35 (13.67%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 28 (10.94%) Snowflake
8 24 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (7.03%) dbt
11 16 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
12 14 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (5.08%) Power Platform
13 13 (5.08%) SaaS
14 12 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.30%) OpenShift
16 10 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (3.52%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.25%) DNS
1 16 (6.25%) Firewall
2 10 (3.91%) VPN
3 9 (3.52%) DHCP
4 6 (2.34%) BGP
5 5 (1.95%) Network Security
5 5 (1.95%) OSPF
5 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.56%) VLAN
7 3 (1.17%) MPLS
7 3 (1.17%) Multicast
7 3 (1.17%) NGFW
7 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.17%) SMTP
7 3 (1.17%) WAN
7 3 (1.17%) Wireless
8 2 (0.78%) Internet
8 2 (0.78%) IPsec
8 2 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.69%) Power BI
4 11 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (3.91%) Metadata
6 9 (3.52%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 8 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.73%) Big Data
8 7 (2.73%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.34%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.95%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.56%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (11.72%) GitLab
2 29 (11.33%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.59%) Git
4 20 (7.81%) JIRA
5 9 (3.52%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.73%) Postman
7 6 (2.34%) JMeter
7 6 (2.34%) JUnit
8 5 (1.95%) Mockito
9 4 (1.56%) Maven
10 3 (1.17%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.17%) Selenium
11 2 (0.78%) Appium
11 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.78%) Gatling
11 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 93 (36.33%) Finance
2 63 (24.61%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.41%) Banking
4 35 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.52%) Back Office
6 9 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.52%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.34%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.34%) Front Office
7 6 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Military
8 5 (1.95%) Retail
9 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Billing
10 3 (1.17%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.17%) Marketing
10 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (25.78%) Architect
2 53 (20.70%) Senior
3 25 (9.77%) Data Engineer
4 24 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.98%) Lead
6 22 (8.59%) Developer
7 15 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (4.69%) Data Architect
10 11 (4.30%) Analyst
10 11 (4.30%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (3.52%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.73%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.73%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.73%) Technical Architect
13 7 (2.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (21.88%) Terraform
2 26 (10.16%) REST
3 23 (8.98%) Kafka
4 20 (7.81%) Spring
5 19 (7.42%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.69%) .NET
6 12 (4.69%) PySpark
7 11 (4.30%) SOAP
8 10 (3.91%) React
8 10 (3.91%) RESTful
9 9 (3.52%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (3.13%) Web Services
11 7 (2.73%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.73%) JSON
11 7 (2.73%) OAuth
12 6 (2.34%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.34%) LangChain
12 6 (2.34%) Middleware
12 6 (2.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (25.39%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.16%) AI Agents
3 19 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.86%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) CMDB
8 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.56%) PKI
9 4 (1.56%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.56%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.17%) Clustering
10 3 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.25%) Linux
2 14 (5.47%) Windows
3 10 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.95%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) AIX
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (44.14%) CI/CD
2 70 (27.34%) DevOps
3 65 (25.39%) AI
4 59 (23.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (19.53%) Agile
6 47 (18.36%) Migration
7 45 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (15.63%) Containerisation
9 38 (14.84%) Data Engineering
10 37 (14.45%) Analytics
11 36 (14.06%) Data Modelling
11 36 (14.06%) Microservices
12 34 (13.28%) Observability
13 33 (12.89%) Test Automation
14 32 (12.50%) Event-Driven
15 30 (11.72%) Roadmaps
15 30 (11.72%) Software Engineering
16 29 (11.33%) Machine Learning
16 29 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 89 (34.77%) Python
2 57 (22.27%) SQL
3 42 (16.41%) Java
4 21 (8.20%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.25%) C#
6 15 (5.86%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.08%) Bash
7 13 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.95%) Korn
9 3 (1.17%) Bicep
9 3 (1.17%) Ruby
9 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.78%) Go
10 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.78%) Scala
11 1 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.39%) Rust
11 1 (0.39%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 51 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.91%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.52%) Degree
4 9 (3.52%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.95%) CISSP
5 5 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.56%) PMP
7 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.17%) CCNP
7 3 (1.17%) CISM
7 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.78%) CCIE
8 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.55%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.52%) QA
4 8 (3.13%) EU AI Act
4 8 (3.13%) NIST
5 6 (2.34%) GDPR
6 4 (1.56%) NCSC
6 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.17%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.17%) SEPA
8 2 (0.78%) EMIR
8 2 (0.78%) MiFID
8 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (14.84%) Docker
2 9 (3.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.17%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.17%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.16%) Ansible
3 12 (4.69%) Grafana
4 11 (4.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.95%) Puppet
6 4 (1.56%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.17%) Nagios
7 3 (1.17%) vMotion
8 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.39%) Bosun
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.39%) Consul
9 1 (0.39%) Packer
9 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.39%) Salt
9 1 (0.39%) SCCM
9 1 (0.39%) SELinux
9 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.94%) Databricks
3 18 (7.03%) Google
4 16 (6.25%) Oracle
5 11 (4.30%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.91%) Cisco
6 10 (3.91%) VMware
7 8 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.73%) Citrix
8 7 (2.73%) SAP
9 6 (2.34%) IBM
10 5 (1.95%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.56%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.17%) HP
12 3 (1.17%) Informatica
12 3 (1.17%) Symantec
12 3 (1.17%) Workday