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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 273 255 212
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.44% 13.59% 10.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.04% 32.57% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 180 133
10th Percentile £426 £400 £420
25th Percentile £474 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £761 £800 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £578 £565
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.21% -6.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

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 940 783 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 41.74% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 512 595
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £654 £670 £673
90th Percentile £750 £763 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%

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 29 July 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 15 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.93%) Confluence
3 6 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.47%) Apache
4 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.47%) CICS
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.73%) nginx
6 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
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 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.73%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.73%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (39.56%) Azure
2 61 (22.34%) GCP
3 44 (16.12%) Serverless
4 41 (15.02%) GitHub
5 39 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.45%) Amazon S3
7 25 (9.16%) Snowflake
8 20 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (7.33%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.59%) Amazon Bedrock
10 16 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.49%) SaaS
12 12 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.40%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.03%) PaaS
14 10 (3.66%) Amazon SageMaker
14 10 (3.66%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.76%) Firewall
2 12 (4.40%) DNS
3 7 (2.56%) DHCP
3 7 (2.56%) Network Security
3 7 (2.56%) VPN
4 5 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.10%) SMTP
6 2 (0.73%) BGP
6 2 (0.73%) NGFW
6 2 (0.73%) OSPF
6 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.73%) SSH
6 2 (0.73%) VLAN
6 2 (0.73%) X.509
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) NAS
7 1 (0.37%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
7 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.96%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (5.86%) Power BI
5 15 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.03%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.30%) Tableau
9 8 (2.93%) Big Data
9 8 (2.93%) Db2
9 8 (2.93%) Metadata
9 8 (2.93%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.20%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.83%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.47%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.47%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 27 (9.89%) Git
2 26 (9.52%) GitLab
3 24 (8.79%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.69%) JIRA
5 8 (2.93%) JUnit
5 8 (2.93%) Postman
6 6 (2.20%) Mockito
7 5 (1.83%) JMeter
8 4 (1.47%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.47%) Maven
9 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.10%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.10%) Gradle
10 2 (0.73%) Ant
10 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.73%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.73%) Mocha
10 2 (0.73%) webpack
11 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
General
1 89 (32.60%) Finance
2 67 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.19%) Banking
4 29 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.66%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.56%) Front Office
8 7 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.83%) Retail
10 4 (1.47%) Back Office
10 4 (1.47%) Military
10 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Advertising
12 2 (0.73%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (21.98%) Architect
2 45 (16.48%) Senior
3 33 (12.09%) Developer
4 22 (8.06%) Data Engineer
5 19 (6.96%) Lead
6 17 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.49%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.03%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.66%) Analyst
10 10 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (3.30%) Consultant
11 9 (3.30%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.93%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.09%) Kafka
2 28 (10.26%) Spring
3 27 (9.89%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.79%) REST
5 22 (8.06%) React
6 20 (7.33%) RESTful
7 12 (4.40%) Node.js
7 12 (4.40%) SOAP
8 11 (4.03%) .NET
9 10 (3.66%) JSON
9 10 (3.66%) PySpark
10 9 (3.30%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (2.93%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.56%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.20%) Middleware
13 6 (2.20%) OAuth
13 6 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.20%) Web Services
14 5 (1.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.23%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.93%) Clustering
6 8 (2.93%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.20%) Equities
7 6 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.20%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.83%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.47%) DataPower
9 4 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.47%) LIMS
9 4 (1.47%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.47%) PKI
9 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.13%) Linux
2 12 (4.40%) Windows
3 6 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.47%) Android
4 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.47%) zOS
5 3 (1.10%) Unix
6 2 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.37%) AIX
7 1 (0.37%) CentOS
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) Solaris
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 66 (24.18%) DevOps
3 65 (23.81%) AI
4 55 (20.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (19.41%) Agile
6 48 (17.58%) Containerisation
7 46 (16.85%) Microservices
8 42 (15.38%) Analytics
9 39 (14.29%) Migration
10 38 (13.92%) Event-Driven
11 37 (13.55%) Test Automation
12 36 (13.19%) Machine Learning
13 35 (12.82%) Data Engineering
13 35 (12.82%) Data Modelling
13 35 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (11.72%) Observability
14 32 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (10.99%) Software Engineering
16 27 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (8.79%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 99 (36.26%) Python
2 58 (21.25%) SQL
3 54 (19.78%) Java
4 16 (5.86%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.49%) C#
5 15 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.40%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.66%) Bash
8 6 (2.20%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.83%) Ruby
10 4 (1.47%) Bicep
10 4 (1.47%) Go
10 4 (1.47%) JCL
10 4 (1.47%) Korn
11 3 (1.10%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.37%) R
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.40%) Degree
4 7 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.20%) CISSP
5 6 (2.20%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.20%) PMP
6 5 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.83%) CISM
7 4 (1.47%) CCNP
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.10%) PhD
8 3 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.73%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.23%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.49%) NIST
3 14 (5.13%) GDPR
4 11 (4.03%) QA
5 8 (2.93%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.47%) NCSC
8 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.73%) EMIR
9 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.73%) MiFID
9 2 (0.73%) SLA
9 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
10 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (16.85%) Docker
2 9 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.93%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.10%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.10%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.73%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (20.15%) Kubernetes
2 46 (16.85%) Terraform
3 21 (7.69%) Ansible
4 15 (5.49%) Grafana
5 13 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.83%) Puppet
7 4 (1.47%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.10%) Nagios
8 3 (1.10%) vMotion
9 2 (0.73%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.37%) Argo
10 1 (0.37%) Bosun
10 1 (0.37%) Consul
10 1 (0.37%) Packer
10 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.37%) QRadar
10 1 (0.37%) Salt
10 1 (0.37%) SELinux
10 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.13%) Google
3 13 (4.76%) Databricks
4 10 (3.66%) Citrix
4 10 (3.66%) Oracle
5 9 (3.30%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.30%) VMware
6 7 (2.56%) Splunk
7 5 (1.83%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.47%) Cisco
8 4 (1.47%) IBM
8 4 (1.47%) Informatica
8 4 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.47%) SAP
9 3 (1.10%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.10%) HP
9 3 (1.10%) Symantec