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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 263 235 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.43% 12.96% 9.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.31% 31.71% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 163 124
10th Percentile £429 £400 £425
25th Percentile £477 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £798 £834
Central London median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -

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 929 741 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.37% 40.87% 40.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 500 568
10th Percentile £375 £339 £380
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £552
Median % change year-on-year - -0.32% -4.04%
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +25.93% -10.74%

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 31 August 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 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.66%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.66%) Confluence
3 5 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.52%) Apache
5 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.76%) CICS
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 2 (0.76%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 107 (40.68%) Azure
2 56 (21.29%) GCP
3 42 (15.97%) Serverless
4 37 (14.07%) GitHub
5 36 (13.69%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.93%) Amazon S3
7 28 (10.65%) Snowflake
8 20 (7.60%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (6.08%) Amazon Bedrock
9 16 (6.08%) dbt
9 16 (6.08%) SaaS
10 15 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (5.70%) Power Platform
11 13 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.70%) DNS
2 14 (5.32%) Firewall
3 8 (3.04%) DHCP
4 7 (2.66%) VPN
5 5 (1.90%) Network Security
5 5 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.14%) BGP
6 3 (1.14%) SMTP
6 3 (1.14%) VLAN
7 2 (0.76%) Internet
7 2 (0.76%) Multicast
7 2 (0.76%) NGFW
7 2 (0.76%) OSPF
7 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.76%) SSH
7 2 (0.76%) X.509
8 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.38%) VSAN
8 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.32%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.94%) Power BI
6 12 (4.56%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (3.04%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.66%) Metadata
10 6 (2.28%) Big Data
10 6 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.28%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.28%) Tableau
11 5 (1.90%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.90%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.14%) Milvus
12 3 (1.14%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (10.27%) GitLab
2 24 (9.13%) Git
2 24 (9.13%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.22%) JIRA
4 8 (3.04%) Postman
5 5 (1.90%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.90%) JMeter
5 5 (1.90%) JUnit
6 4 (1.52%) Maven
6 4 (1.52%) Mockito
7 3 (1.14%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.14%) Gradle
7 3 (1.14%) Selenium
8 2 (0.76%) Appium
8 2 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.38%) Mocha
9 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 90 (34.22%) Finance
2 62 (23.57%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.07%) Banking
4 31 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.41%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.04%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.28%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.90%) Back Office
10 5 (1.90%) Front Office
10 5 (1.90%) Military
10 5 (1.90%) Retail
11 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.14%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.76%) Marketing
13 1 (0.38%) Billing
13 1 (0.38%) Police
13 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (21.29%) Architect
2 48 (18.25%) Senior
3 30 (11.41%) Developer
4 27 (10.27%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.75%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (7.98%) Lead
7 13 (4.94%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.56%) Analyst
9 10 (3.80%) AWS Architect
9 10 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.80%) Technical Architect
10 9 (3.42%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (3.42%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.04%) Consultant
11 8 (3.04%) Data Analyst
11 8 (3.04%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.04%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (19.01%) Terraform
2 26 (9.89%) Kafka
3 24 (9.13%) Spring
4 23 (8.75%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.98%) REST
6 17 (6.46%) React
7 14 (5.32%) RESTful
8 12 (4.56%) .NET
8 12 (4.56%) PySpark
9 11 (4.18%) Node.js
10 9 (3.42%) SOAP
11 8 (3.04%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.66%) JSON
13 6 (2.28%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.28%) OAuth
13 6 (2.28%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (1.90%) LangChain
15 4 (1.52%) Django
15 4 (1.52%) PyTorch
15 4 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 71 (27.00%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.98%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.94%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.28%) Clustering
6 6 (2.28%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) CMDB
8 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.52%) PKI
8 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.14%) Equities
9 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.14%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.32%) Linux
1 14 (5.32%) Windows
2 9 (3.42%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.52%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) zOS
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) CentOS
5 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (43.35%) CI/CD
2 77 (29.28%) DevOps
3 62 (23.57%) AI
4 59 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (21.67%) Agile
6 45 (17.11%) Containerisation
6 45 (17.11%) Microservices
7 43 (16.35%) Migration
7 43 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (15.21%) Data Engineering
9 39 (14.83%) Analytics
9 39 (14.83%) Data Modelling
9 39 (14.83%) Event-Driven
10 36 (13.69%) Test Automation
11 31 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (11.79%) Machine Learning
12 30 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (11.41%) Software Engineering
13 28 (10.65%) Observability
14 24 (9.13%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 99 (37.64%) Python
2 54 (20.53%) SQL
3 48 (18.25%) Java
4 19 (7.22%) C#
5 17 (6.46%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.46%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.32%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.56%) Bash
8 5 (1.90%) Ruby
9 4 (1.52%) Bicep
9 4 (1.52%) Korn
9 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.14%) Scala
11 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.76%) Go
11 2 (0.76%) JCL
11 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 56 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.04%) Degree
3 8 (3.04%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.28%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.90%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.90%) PMP
6 3 (1.14%) CCNP
6 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.14%) CISM
6 3 (1.14%) CISSP
6 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.14%) SnowPro
6 3 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.76%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.76%) OSCP
8 1 (0.38%) GPEN
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.94%) QA
4 11 (4.18%) GDPR
4 11 (4.18%) NIST
5 8 (3.04%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.52%) NCSC
8 2 (0.76%) EMIR
8 2 (0.76%) MiFID
8 2 (0.76%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.38%) GRC
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (15.59%) Docker
2 9 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.14%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.14%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) NFS
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (20.53%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.98%) Ansible
3 12 (4.56%) Grafana
3 12 (4.56%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.90%) Puppet
5 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.14%) Nagios
6 3 (1.14%) vMotion
7 1 (0.38%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Bosun
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.38%) Consul
7 1 (0.38%) Packer
7 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.38%) Salt
7 1 (0.38%) SELinux
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.38%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 28 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.37%) Databricks
3 17 (6.46%) Google
4 16 (6.08%) Oracle
5 10 (3.80%) Citrix
5 10 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.80%) VMware
6 7 (2.66%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.28%) Cisco
7 6 (2.28%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.28%) SAP
8 5 (1.90%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.52%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.14%) IBM
10 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.14%) Splunk
10 3 (1.14%) Symantec
10 3 (1.14%) Workday