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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 243 191 281
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.16% 9.35% 11.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.72% 23.96% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 127 211
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £656
90th Percentile £798 £738 £738
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £551
% change year-on-year +2.27% -0.09% -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 766 797 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.47% 39.01% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 511 727
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £26.41 - -
25th Percentile £32.13 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.18% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £41.89 £92.50 £43.38
90th Percentile £44.72 - £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%

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 27 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 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.70%) Confluence
3 8 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.47%) Apache
5 3 (1.23%) 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 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
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 (44.03%) Azure
2 58 (23.87%) GCP
3 39 (16.05%) AWS Lambda
3 39 (16.05%) Serverless
4 38 (15.64%) Amazon S3
5 32 (13.17%) GitHub
6 23 (9.47%) Snowflake
7 21 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (5.76%) Power Platform
11 13 (5.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.94%) dbt
13 9 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.29%) Apigee
15 7 (2.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.17%) Firewall
2 12 (4.94%) DNS
3 7 (2.88%) Network Security
4 5 (2.06%) VPN
5 4 (1.65%) SSL
5 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.23%) DHCP
6 3 (1.23%) LAN
6 3 (1.23%) WAN
6 3 (1.23%) 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%) DKIM
8 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.47%) Relational Database
2 15 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.94%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.94%) Power BI
5 11 (4.53%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.12%) MySQL
6 10 (4.12%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.29%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.29%) Tableau
9 7 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.47%) Metadata
11 5 (2.06%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.06%) Big Data
12 4 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.23%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 28 (11.52%) Git
2 16 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.17%) GitLab
3 15 (6.17%) JIRA
4 6 (2.47%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.65%) JUnit
6 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.82%) Gatling
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%) ERwin
8 1 (0.41%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (34.16%) Finance
2 51 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.40%) Banking
4 22 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.29%) Front Office
8 7 (2.88%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.47%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.65%) Legal
11 3 (1.23%) Back Office
12 2 (0.82%) Law
12 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.82%) Marketing
12 2 (0.82%) Military
12 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Retail
13 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 50 (20.58%) Architect
2 42 (17.28%) Senior
3 34 (13.99%) Developer
4 27 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 26 (10.70%) Lead
6 18 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.35%) AWS Architect
9 13 (5.35%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.12%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.70%) Consultant
12 8 (3.29%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.29%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.29%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.88%) AWS Security Architect
13 7 (2.88%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.47%) Analyst
14 6 (2.47%) Lead Developer
14 6 (2.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.00%) React
2 16 (6.58%) Node.js
3 15 (6.17%) RESTful
4 13 (5.35%) Spring
5 12 (4.94%) REST
6 11 (4.53%) .NET
6 11 (4.53%) Kafka
6 11 (4.53%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.12%) HTML
7 10 (4.12%) OAuth
8 9 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.70%) CSS
9 8 (3.29%) scikit-learn
10 7 (2.88%) Pandas
11 6 (2.47%) JWT
11 6 (2.47%) NumPy
11 6 (2.47%) PySpark
11 6 (2.47%) PyTorch
11 6 (2.47%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.12%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.88%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.47%) Derivative
6 6 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.06%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.65%) Equities
8 4 (1.65%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.76%) Linux
2 13 (5.35%) Windows
3 4 (1.65%) Unix
3 4 (1.65%) 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 82 (33.74%) CI/CD
2 59 (24.28%) DevOps
3 51 (20.99%) Agile
4 45 (18.52%) Analytics
5 41 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (14.81%) Microservices
6 36 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (14.40%) AI
8 33 (13.58%) Roadmaps
8 33 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (12.35%) Containerisation
9 30 (12.35%) Software Engineering
10 27 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 27 (11.11%) Migration
11 26 (10.70%) ETL
12 25 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (9.88%) Data Modelling
14 21 (8.64%) Data Engineering
15 20 (8.23%) Cloud Security
15 20 (8.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (40.33%) Python
2 69 (28.40%) SQL
3 51 (20.99%) Java
4 19 (7.82%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.12%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.29%) Bash
7 6 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.65%) Go
8 4 (1.65%) PHP
9 3 (1.23%) C#
9 3 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.82%) C++
10 2 (0.82%) Korn
10 2 (0.82%) Perl
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
10 2 (0.82%) Scala
11 1 (0.41%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 50 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.35%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.53%) Degree
5 6 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.65%) CISSP
7 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.23%) PMP
8 3 (1.23%) 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 22 (9.05%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.41%) GDPR
3 15 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.12%) NIST
5 9 (3.70%) QA
6 6 (2.47%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.06%) 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%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) HL7
9 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.41%) PMO
9 1 (0.41%) PSD2
9 1 (0.41%) SEPA
9 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (18.11%) Docker
2 7 (2.88%) 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 51 (20.99%) Terraform
2 34 (13.99%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.00%) Ansible
4 6 (2.47%) Grafana
5 5 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.82%) Argo
7 2 (0.82%) Istio
7 2 (0.82%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.82%) SCCM
8 1 (0.41%) CASB
8 1 (0.41%) Kibana
8 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.41%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.41%) vRealize
8 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.64%) Databricks
3 16 (6.58%) Oracle
4 12 (4.94%) Google
5 8 (3.29%) IBM
5 8 (3.29%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.06%) F5
6 5 (2.06%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.06%) Splunk
7 4 (1.65%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.65%) VMware
8 3 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.23%) Informatica
8 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.23%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) Confluent
9 2 (0.82%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.82%) Tenable