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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 245 190 276
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.37% 9.19% 11.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.24% 23.57% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 124 209
10th Percentile £363 £421 £400
25th Percentile £468 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £788 £738 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%

All Cloud 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 760 806 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.48% 38.97% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 513 728
10th Percentile £325 £400 £361
25th Percentile £420 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £27.53 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £44.72 £92.50 £43.38
90th Percentile £51.20 - £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.04% +84.21% -7.32%

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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 24 December 2025.

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 15 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.67%) Confluence
3 8 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.45%) Apache
5 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Notion
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 107 (43.67%) Azure
2 57 (23.27%) GCP
3 40 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
3 40 (16.33%) Serverless
4 39 (15.92%) Amazon S3
5 31 (12.65%) GitHub
6 24 (9.80%) Snowflake
7 21 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (5.71%) Power Platform
11 13 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.90%) dbt
13 9 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.27%) Apigee
14 8 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.12%) Firewall
2 12 (4.90%) DNS
3 7 (2.86%) Network Security
4 5 (2.04%) VPN
5 4 (1.63%) SSL
5 4 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.22%) DHCP
6 3 (1.22%) LAN
6 3 (1.22%) WAN
6 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.82%) 4G
7 2 (0.82%) 5G
7 2 (0.82%) BGP
7 2 (0.82%) NAS
7 2 (0.82%) OSPF
7 2 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.82%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.41%) DKIM
8 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.39%) Relational Database
2 15 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.90%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.90%) Power BI
5 10 (4.08%) MySQL
5 10 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.67%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.27%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.27%) Tableau
8 7 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.86%) Metadata
9 5 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.04%) Big Data
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.22%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 28 (11.43%) Git
2 15 (6.12%) GitLab
2 15 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.71%) JIRA
4 6 (2.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.63%) JUnit
6 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.82%) Mockito
7 2 (0.82%) Postman
7 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.82%) Selenium
7 2 (0.82%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) MLflow
8 1 (0.41%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.41%) Snyk
8 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 84 (34.29%) Finance
2 50 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.88%) Banking
4 23 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.27%) Front Office
6 8 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.45%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.04%) Legal
10 3 (1.22%) Back Office
10 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Law
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Marketing
11 2 (0.82%) Military
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (20.41%) Architect
2 44 (17.96%) Senior
3 33 (13.47%) Developer
4 28 (11.43%) Data Engineer
5 25 (10.20%) Lead
6 18 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.31%) AWS Architect
8 13 (5.31%) Python Engineer
9 10 (4.08%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.67%) Consultant
11 8 (3.27%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.27%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.86%) Analyst
12 7 (2.86%) AWS Security Architect
12 7 (2.86%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.86%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.94%) React
2 16 (6.53%) Node.js
3 15 (6.12%) RESTful
4 12 (4.90%) REST
4 12 (4.90%) Spring
5 11 (4.49%) .NET
6 10 (4.08%) HTML
6 10 (4.08%) Kafka
6 10 (4.08%) Spring Boot
7 9 (3.67%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.67%) CSS
7 9 (3.67%) OAuth
8 8 (3.27%) scikit-learn
9 7 (2.86%) Pandas
10 6 (2.45%) JWT
10 6 (2.45%) NumPy
10 6 (2.45%) PySpark
10 6 (2.45%) PyTorch
10 6 (2.45%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.51%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.08%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.67%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.45%) Derivative
6 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.63%) Equities
7 4 (1.63%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.71%) Linux
2 13 (5.31%) Windows
3 4 (1.63%) Unix
3 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.82%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.65%) CI/CD
2 57 (23.27%) DevOps
3 50 (20.41%) Agile
4 44 (17.96%) Analytics
5 39 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (14.29%) AI
7 35 (14.29%) Microservices
8 32 (13.06%) Roadmaps
8 32 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (12.24%) Software Engineering
10 29 (11.84%) Containerisation
11 28 (11.43%) Migration
12 27 (11.02%) Machine Learning
13 26 (10.61%) ETL
14 25 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (9.80%) Data Modelling
16 21 (8.57%) Cloud Security
17 20 (8.16%) Data Engineering
17 20 (8.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (40.00%) Python
2 68 (27.76%) SQL
3 50 (20.41%) Java
4 19 (7.76%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.08%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.27%) Bash
7 6 (2.45%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.63%) Go
8 4 (1.63%) PHP
9 3 (1.22%) C#
9 3 (1.22%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.82%) C++
10 2 (0.82%) Perl
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
10 2 (0.82%) Scala
11 1 (0.41%) Korn
11 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.31%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.90%) Degree
5 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.63%) CISSP
8 3 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.22%) PMP
8 3 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.82%) MCP
9 2 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.35%) GDPR
3 15 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.08%) NIST
5 8 (3.27%) QA
6 6 (2.45%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.04%) SLA
8 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.82%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.82%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.41%) DICOM
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) HL7
9 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.41%) PMO
9 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (17.55%) Docker
2 7 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 50 (20.41%) Terraform
2 33 (13.47%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.53%) Ansible
4 5 (2.04%) Grafana
4 5 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.82%) Istio
6 2 (0.82%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.82%) SCCM
7 1 (0.41%) Argo
7 1 (0.41%) CASB
7 1 (0.41%) Kibana
7 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.41%) Puppet
7 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.41%) vRealize
7 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 32 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.16%) Databricks
3 17 (6.94%) Oracle
4 12 (4.90%) Google
5 8 (3.27%) IBM
5 8 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.04%) F5
6 5 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.04%) Splunk
7 4 (1.63%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.63%) Informatica
7 4 (1.63%) VMware
8 3 (1.22%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.22%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) Cognos
9 2 (0.82%) Sage
9 2 (0.82%) Tenable