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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 256 227 254
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.92% 12.44% 10.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.45% 29.95% 28.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 160 182
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 £750
Central London median daily rate £546 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +1.39% -2.05% -13.04%

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 814 758 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.09% 41.53% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 485 638
10th Percentile £338 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.98%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £747
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £30.04 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.34 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £51.00 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.94 £159.75 £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 25 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 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.34%) Confluence
4 5 (1.95%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.39%) Notion
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.17%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (44.53%) Azure
2 68 (26.56%) GCP
3 40 (15.63%) Serverless
4 38 (14.84%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (14.06%) GitHub
6 32 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 24 (9.38%) Snowflake
8 19 (7.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.03%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.30%) dbt
13 10 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.91%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.52%) SaaS
15 8 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
16 7 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.30%) Firewall
2 10 (3.91%) DNS
3 9 (3.52%) Network Security
4 3 (1.17%) BGP
4 3 (1.17%) DHCP
4 3 (1.17%) OSPF
4 3 (1.17%) SSL
4 3 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.17%) VPN
5 2 (0.78%) 4G
5 2 (0.78%) 5G
5 2 (0.78%) IPsec
5 2 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.39%) 2G
6 1 (0.39%) DKIM
6 1 (0.39%) NAS
6 1 (0.39%) SAN
6 1 (0.39%) VLAN
6 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.64%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.86%) DynamoDB
3 15 (5.86%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.47%) Power BI
5 11 (4.30%) MySQL
5 11 (4.30%) Tableau
6 10 (3.91%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.91%) Metadata
6 10 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.52%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.73%) Big Data
9 6 (2.34%) DB2
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.56%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (12.11%) Git
2 19 (7.42%) GitLab
3 18 (7.03%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.08%) JIRA
5 5 (1.95%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.95%) JUnit
6 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.17%) Gatling
7 3 (1.17%) Mockito
7 3 (1.17%) Postman
8 2 (0.78%) Ant
8 2 (0.78%) ERwin
8 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.78%) MLflow
8 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 89 (34.77%) Finance
2 61 (23.83%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.23%) Banking
4 22 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.91%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.91%) Front Office
8 7 (2.73%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.56%) Retail
12 2 (0.78%) Back Office
12 2 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.78%) Marketing
12 2 (0.78%) Military
12 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (21.88%) Architect
2 35 (13.67%) Senior
3 32 (12.50%) Developer
4 26 (10.16%) Data Engineer
5 25 (9.77%) Lead
6 21 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.52%) AWS Architect
12 8 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.13%) Consultant
12 8 (3.13%) Data Scientist
12 8 (3.13%) Security Architect
12 8 (3.13%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (2.73%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.20%) Kafka
2 17 (6.64%) React
3 16 (6.25%) REST
4 14 (5.47%) Node.js
5 12 (4.69%) .NET
5 12 (4.69%) PyTorch
5 12 (4.69%) RESTful
6 11 (4.30%) scikit-learn
6 11 (4.30%) TensorFlow
7 10 (3.91%) Spring
8 9 (3.52%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.52%) Pandas
8 9 (3.52%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.13%) HTML
9 8 (3.13%) NumPy
10 7 (2.73%) CSS
10 7 (2.73%) OAuth
11 6 (2.34%) boto
11 6 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.34%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.47%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.52%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.13%) Equities
6 8 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.73%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.34%) Derivative
8 6 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.95%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.86%) Linux
2 11 (4.30%) Windows
3 3 (1.17%) Android
3 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.78%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 57 (22.27%) AI
3 54 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (20.70%) Agile
5 51 (19.92%) DevOps
6 45 (17.58%) Analytics
7 41 (16.02%) Machine Learning
8 38 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (14.45%) Microservices
10 35 (13.67%) Migration
11 34 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (12.89%) Containerisation
13 31 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (11.72%) Software Engineering
15 29 (11.33%) Data Modelling
15 29 (11.33%) ETL
16 28 (10.94%) Data Engineering
16 28 (10.94%) Generative AI
16 28 (10.94%) Roadmaps
17 27 (10.55%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 105 (41.02%) Python
2 77 (30.08%) SQL
3 48 (18.75%) Java
4 13 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.73%) Bash
6 6 (2.34%) C#
6 6 (2.34%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.95%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.56%) Go
8 4 (1.56%) PHP
9 3 (1.17%) Korn
9 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.17%) Ruby
9 3 (1.17%) Scala
9 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.78%) C++
10 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.39%) C
11 1 (0.39%) JCL
11 1 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.86%) Degree
4 12 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.13%) PMP
6 6 (2.34%) CISSP
7 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.17%) CISM
9 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.17%) PhD
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.55%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.59%) GDPR
3 17 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (5.47%) NIST
5 7 (2.73%) QA
6 6 (2.34%) SLA
7 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.17%) NCSC
9 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.78%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.78%) GRC
9 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.78%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.78%) PSD2
9 2 (0.78%) SEPA
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.39%) DICOM
10 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.39%) HL7
10 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 49 (19.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.78%) vSphere
3 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (21.88%) Terraform
2 44 (17.19%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.42%) Ansible
4 9 (3.52%) Grafana
5 5 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.17%) Argo
7 3 (1.17%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.39%) CASB
8 1 (0.39%) Istio
8 1 (0.39%) Kibana
8 1 (0.39%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.39%) QRadar
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
8 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.39%) vRealize
8 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.42%) Databricks
3 16 (6.25%) Oracle
4 12 (4.69%) Google
5 11 (4.30%) IBM
6 8 (3.13%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.73%) Splunk
8 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.56%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.56%) Informatica
9 4 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.56%) SAP
10 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.17%) Charles River
10 3 (1.17%) Cognos
10 3 (1.17%) Confluent
10 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.17%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.17%) Sage