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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 257 230 200
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.67% 13.22% 9.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.21% 32.76% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 163 123
10th Percentile £425 £367 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -3.36%
75th Percentile £703 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £848
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% -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 911 702 831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.35% 40.34% 39.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 499 540
10th Percentile £350 £332 £387
25th Percentile £455 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.22%
75th Percentile £656 £666 £675
90th Percentile £763 £761 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £561
% change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.03 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.06 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +41.67% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.88 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%

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 1 October 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 20 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.89%) Confluence
3 9 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.33%) Apache
5 5 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.78%) nginx
7 2 (0.78%) SAS
8 1 (0.39%) CICS
8 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.39%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 113 (43.97%) Azure
2 60 (23.35%) GCP
3 42 (16.34%) Serverless
4 39 (15.18%) GitHub
5 35 (13.62%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (12.45%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.67%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.95%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.00%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.61%) dbt
11 14 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (5.45%) SaaS
12 13 (5.06%) Power Platform
13 12 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.28%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.84%) DNS
1 15 (5.84%) Firewall
2 9 (3.50%) DHCP
2 9 (3.50%) VPN
3 6 (2.33%) BGP
4 5 (1.95%) OSPF
4 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.56%) Network Security
5 4 (1.56%) VLAN
6 3 (1.17%) MPLS
6 3 (1.17%) Multicast
6 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.17%) SMTP
6 3 (1.17%) WAN
6 3 (1.17%) Wireless
7 2 (0.78%) Internet
7 2 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.78%) IPsec
7 2 (0.78%) SSH
7 2 (0.78%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.67%) Power BI
4 11 (4.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (4.28%) Metadata
5 10 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.11%) Delta Lake
7 8 (3.11%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.72%) Big Data
8 7 (2.72%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.33%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.95%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.56%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (11.28%) GitLab
2 27 (10.51%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.56%) Git
4 19 (7.39%) JIRA
5 9 (3.50%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.72%) Postman
7 6 (2.33%) JMeter
7 6 (2.33%) JUnit
8 5 (1.95%) Maven
8 5 (1.95%) Mockito
9 3 (1.17%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.17%) Selenium
10 2 (0.78%) Appium
10 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.78%) Gatling
10 2 (0.78%) Gradle
10 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
General
1 91 (35.41%) Finance
2 62 (24.12%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.56%) Banking
4 34 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.12%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.72%) Back Office
7 7 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Front Office
9 5 (1.95%) Military
9 5 (1.95%) Retail
10 3 (1.17%) Billing
10 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.17%) Marketing
10 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (24.51%) Architect
2 53 (20.62%) Senior
3 27 (10.51%) Data Engineer
4 24 (9.34%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (8.56%) Developer
5 22 (8.56%) Lead
6 14 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.06%) Data Architect
7 13 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.28%) Analyst
9 11 (4.28%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (3.89%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.11%) Technical Architect
12 7 (2.72%) Consultant
12 7 (2.72%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.72%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (2.72%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.01%) Terraform
2 27 (10.51%) REST
3 25 (9.73%) Kafka
4 22 (8.56%) Spring
5 21 (8.17%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.67%) .NET
6 12 (4.67%) RESTful
7 11 (4.28%) PySpark
7 11 (4.28%) React
7 11 (4.28%) SOAP
8 8 (3.11%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.72%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.72%) JSON
9 7 (2.72%) Node.js
9 7 (2.72%) OAuth
9 7 (2.72%) Web Services
10 6 (2.33%) LangChain
10 6 (2.33%) Middleware
10 6 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 69 (26.85%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.34%) AI Agents
3 19 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.84%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.72%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) CMDB
8 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.56%) PKI
9 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.17%) Clustering
10 3 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Linux
2 14 (5.45%) Windows
3 10 (3.89%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.95%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) AIX
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (44.75%) CI/CD
2 74 (28.79%) DevOps
3 61 (23.74%) AI
4 60 (23.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (18.68%) Agile
6 45 (17.51%) Migration
7 43 (16.73%) Containerisation
8 42 (16.34%) Data Engineering
9 41 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (15.56%) Microservices
11 39 (15.18%) Analytics
12 37 (14.40%) Data Modelling
12 37 (14.40%) Event-Driven
13 34 (13.23%) Observability
13 34 (13.23%) Test Automation
14 30 (11.67%) Roadmaps
15 29 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
15 29 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (11.28%) Software Engineering
16 28 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 90 (35.02%) Python
2 54 (21.01%) SQL
3 44 (17.12%) Java
4 20 (7.78%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.23%) C#
6 15 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.67%) Bash
9 5 (1.95%) Bicep
9 5 (1.95%) Korn
10 3 (1.17%) Ruby
10 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 1 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
12 1 (0.39%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 52 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.50%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.50%) Degree
3 9 (3.50%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.17%) PMP
6 2 (0.78%) CCNP
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.78%) CISM
6 2 (0.78%) CISSP
6 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.78%) CREST Certified
6 2 (0.78%) OSCP
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.51%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.28%) QA
3 8 (3.11%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.72%) NIST
5 6 (2.33%) GDPR
6 5 (1.95%) NCSC
7 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.17%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.17%) SEPA
9 2 (0.78%) EMIR
9 2 (0.78%) MiFID
9 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.39%) GRC
10 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 39 (15.18%) Docker
2 9 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.17%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.17%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (22.18%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.12%) Ansible
3 14 (5.45%) Grafana
4 13 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.95%) Puppet
6 4 (1.56%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.17%) Nagios
7 3 (1.17%) vMotion
8 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.39%) Argo
9 1 (0.39%) Bosun
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.39%) Consul
9 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.39%) Salt
9 1 (0.39%) SCCM
9 1 (0.39%) SELinux
9 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.28%) Databricks
3 17 (6.61%) Google
4 16 (6.23%) Oracle
5 11 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.89%) VMware
7 9 (3.50%) Cisco
7 9 (3.50%) Citrix
8 7 (2.72%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.72%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.72%) SAP
9 6 (2.33%) IBM
10 5 (1.95%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.95%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.17%) HP
11 3 (1.17%) Informatica
11 3 (1.17%) Symantec
11 3 (1.17%) Workday