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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 235 195
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.47% 13.00% 9.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.40% 31.63% 23.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 162 124
10th Percentile £431 £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 £684 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £799 £834
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -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 940 743 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.38% 41.12% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 496 575
10th Percentile £375 £345 £378
25th Percentile £463 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.18% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
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 28 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 21 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.62%) Confluence
3 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.50%) Apache
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) CICS
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 108 (40.45%) Azure
2 57 (21.35%) GCP
3 44 (16.48%) Serverless
4 38 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (14.23%) GitHub
5 36 (13.48%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.24%) Snowflake
7 21 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (6.74%) dbt
9 16 (5.99%) Amazon Bedrock
9 16 (5.99%) Power Platform
9 16 (5.99%) SaaS
10 15 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.49%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.12%) PaaS
14 10 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.62%) DNS
2 14 (5.24%) Firewall
3 8 (3.00%) DHCP
4 7 (2.62%) VPN
5 5 (1.87%) Network Security
5 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.12%) BGP
6 3 (1.12%) SMTP
6 3 (1.12%) VLAN
7 2 (0.75%) Internet
7 2 (0.75%) Multicast
7 2 (0.75%) NGFW
7 2 (0.75%) OSPF
7 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.75%) SSH
7 2 (0.75%) X.509
8 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.37%) VSAN
8 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.24%) DynamoDB
4 14 (5.24%) Power BI
5 13 (4.87%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.37%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.00%) Metadata
9 7 (2.62%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.62%) Tableau
10 6 (2.25%) Big Data
10 6 (2.25%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.87%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (10.86%) GitLab
2 26 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.99%) Git
4 19 (7.12%) JIRA
5 8 (3.00%) Postman
6 6 (2.25%) JUnit
7 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.87%) JMeter
7 5 (1.87%) Mockito
8 4 (1.50%) Maven
9 3 (1.12%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.12%) Gradle
9 3 (1.12%) Selenium
10 2 (0.75%) Appium
10 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 90 (33.71%) Finance
2 62 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.86%) Banking
4 31 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.24%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.00%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.87%) Back Office
10 5 (1.87%) Front Office
10 5 (1.87%) Military
10 5 (1.87%) Retail
11 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.75%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (20.97%) Architect
2 49 (18.35%) Senior
3 30 (11.24%) Developer
4 28 (10.49%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (7.87%) Lead
7 13 (4.87%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.49%) Analyst
9 10 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.75%) Technical Architect
10 9 (3.37%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.37%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (3.37%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.00%) Consultant
11 8 (3.00%) Data Analyst
11 8 (3.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (19.10%) Terraform
2 28 (10.49%) Kafka
3 24 (8.99%) Spring
4 23 (8.61%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.87%) REST
6 18 (6.74%) React
7 14 (5.24%) RESTful
8 13 (4.87%) PySpark
9 12 (4.49%) .NET
10 11 (4.12%) Node.js
11 9 (3.37%) SOAP
12 8 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.62%) JSON
14 6 (2.25%) .NET Core
14 6 (2.25%) OAuth
14 6 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
15 5 (1.87%) LangChain
16 4 (1.50%) Django
16 4 (1.50%) PyTorch
16 4 (1.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (26.22%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.87%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.87%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.62%) Clustering
7 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.50%) CMDB
9 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.50%) PKI
9 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.12%) Equities
10 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.12%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.24%) Linux
1 14 (5.24%) Windows
2 9 (3.37%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.50%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.75%) zOS
5 1 (0.37%) AIX
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Solaris
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (43.45%) CI/CD
2 78 (29.21%) DevOps
3 62 (23.22%) AI
4 59 (22.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (21.72%) Agile
6 45 (16.85%) Containerisation
6 45 (16.85%) Microservices
6 45 (16.85%) Migration
7 42 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (15.36%) Data Engineering
9 39 (14.61%) Analytics
9 39 (14.61%) Data Modelling
10 38 (14.23%) Event-Driven
11 36 (13.48%) Test Automation
12 32 (11.99%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (11.61%) Machine Learning
13 31 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (11.61%) Software Engineering
14 29 (10.86%) Observability
15 25 (9.36%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 101 (37.83%) Python
2 56 (20.97%) SQL
3 48 (17.98%) Java
4 19 (7.12%) C#
5 18 (6.74%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.37%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.24%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.49%) Bash
9 5 (1.87%) Ruby
10 4 (1.50%) Bicep
10 4 (1.50%) Korn
10 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.75%) Go
12 2 (0.75%) JCL
12 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.00%) Degree
3 8 (3.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.25%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.87%) PMP
6 3 (1.12%) CCNP
6 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.12%) CISM
6 3 (1.12%) CISSP
6 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.12%) SnowPro
6 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.75%) OSCP
8 1 (0.37%) CCNA
8 1 (0.37%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.87%) QA
4 11 (4.12%) GDPR
4 11 (4.12%) NIST
5 8 (3.00%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.50%) NCSC
8 2 (0.75%) EMIR
8 2 (0.75%) MiFID
8 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.75%) SLA
8 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (16.48%) Docker
2 10 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.75%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (20.60%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.87%) Ansible
3 13 (4.87%) Grafana
3 13 (4.87%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.87%) Puppet
5 4 (1.50%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.12%) Nagios
6 3 (1.12%) vMotion
7 2 (0.75%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.37%) Argo
8 1 (0.37%) Bosun
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.37%) Consul
8 1 (0.37%) Packer
8 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.37%) Salt
8 1 (0.37%) SELinux
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.24%) Databricks
3 17 (6.37%) Google
4 16 (5.99%) Oracle
5 11 (4.12%) VMware
6 10 (3.75%) Citrix
6 10 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.62%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.25%) Cisco
8 6 (2.25%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.25%) SAP
9 5 (1.87%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.50%) Splunk
11 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.12%) HP
11 3 (1.12%) IBM
11 3 (1.12%) Informatica
11 3 (1.12%) Symantec