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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 256 241
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.31% 14.94% 11.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.59% 34.78% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 179 165
10th Percentile £388 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.81% -11.28%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £753 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 916 736 882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.23% 42.97% 40.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 474 614
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £453 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £655
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £100.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £28.79 £22.50
% change year-on-year +100.68% +27.93% -66.67%

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

AWS
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 13 June 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 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.85%) Confluence
3 4 (1.48%) Apache
3 4 (1.48%) CICS
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.11%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (40.96%) Azure
2 57 (21.03%) GCP
3 51 (18.82%) Serverless
4 44 (16.24%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (14.39%) GitHub
6 37 (13.65%) Amazon S3
7 22 (8.12%) Snowflake
8 20 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (7.38%) Power Platform
9 16 (5.90%) SaaS
10 15 (5.54%) Amazon Bedrock
10 15 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (4.06%) Amazon SageMaker
11 11 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.32%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.06%) Firewall
2 8 (2.95%) DNS
2 8 (2.95%) Network Security
3 5 (1.85%) DHCP
4 4 (1.48%) VPN
5 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) NGFW
6 2 (0.74%) SMTP
7 1 (0.37%) BGP
7 1 (0.37%) IPsec
7 1 (0.37%) NAS
7 1 (0.37%) OSPF
7 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.37%) SAN
7 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) VLAN
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.75%) DynamoDB
2 17 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.54%) Power BI
5 14 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (4.43%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.43%) Metadata
8 11 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.06%) Tableau
9 10 (3.69%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.95%) Db2
10 8 (2.95%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (2.58%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.85%) Big Data
13 5 (1.85%) Pinecone
14 4 (1.48%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 28 (10.33%) Git
2 25 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.86%) GitLab
4 21 (7.75%) JIRA
5 8 (2.95%) Postman
6 6 (2.21%) JUnit
7 5 (1.85%) Mockito
8 4 (1.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.48%) JMeter
9 3 (1.11%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.11%) Gradle
9 3 (1.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.74%) Ant
10 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.74%) Gatling
10 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.74%) Mocha
10 2 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 90 (33.21%) Finance
2 63 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.92%) Banking
4 31 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.43%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.21%) Front Office
8 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.85%) Military
10 3 (1.11%) Marketing
10 3 (1.11%) Retail
11 2 (0.74%) Advertising
11 2 (0.74%) Back Office
11 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Billing
12 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 60 (22.14%) Architect
2 37 (13.65%) Senior
3 34 (12.55%) Developer
4 24 (8.86%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.75%) Lead
6 18 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.17%) Senior Developer
7 14 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 11 (4.06%) Snowflake Engineer
9 10 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.69%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.69%) Migration Manager
9 10 (3.69%) Migration Project Manager
9 10 (3.69%) Project Manager
10 8 (2.95%) AWS Architect
10 8 (2.95%) Consultant
10 8 (2.95%) Data Scientist
10 8 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.18%) Kafka
2 27 (9.96%) Spring
2 27 (9.96%) Spring Boot
3 26 (9.59%) REST
4 21 (7.75%) React
5 17 (6.27%) RESTful
6 13 (4.80%) .NET
7 12 (4.43%) JSON
8 11 (4.06%) Node.js
8 11 (4.06%) PySpark
9 10 (3.69%) SOAP
10 9 (3.32%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (3.32%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.58%) OAuth
11 7 (2.58%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.21%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.21%) boto
12 6 (2.21%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.21%) Middleware
12 6 (2.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.35%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.69%) AI Agents
3 10 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.32%) Equities
4 9 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.95%) Clustering
6 7 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.85%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.48%) DataPower
9 4 (1.48%) LIMS
9 4 (1.48%) NHS
9 4 (1.48%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.54%) Linux
2 13 (4.80%) Windows
3 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.48%) Android
4 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.48%) zOS
5 2 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (38.75%) CI/CD
2 72 (26.57%) DevOps
3 68 (25.09%) AI
4 61 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (21.77%) Agile
6 48 (17.71%) Containerisation
6 48 (17.71%) Migration
7 41 (15.13%) Analytics
8 40 (14.76%) Machine Learning
9 39 (14.39%) Microservices
10 38 (14.02%) Event-Driven
10 38 (14.02%) Observability
11 36 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (12.55%) Data Engineering
13 33 (12.18%) Data Modelling
13 33 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (12.18%) Test Automation
14 28 (10.33%) Roadmaps
15 27 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (9.59%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 103 (38.01%) Python
2 60 (22.14%) SQL
3 52 (19.19%) Java
4 15 (5.54%) C#
4 15 (5.54%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.54%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.69%) Bash
6 9 (3.32%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.85%) Ruby
7 5 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.48%) JCL
8 4 (1.48%) Scala
9 3 (1.11%) Bicep
9 3 (1.11%) Go
9 3 (1.11%) Korn
10 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.37%) R
11 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 65 (23.99%) Security Cleared
2 60 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.43%) Degree
4 11 (4.06%) PMI Certification
4 11 (4.06%) PMP
5 7 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.85%) CISSP
6 5 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.48%) CISM
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.11%) CCNP
8 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.11%) PhD
8 3 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.38%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.64%) GDPR
3 18 (6.64%) NIST
4 9 (3.32%) QA
5 5 (1.85%) NCSC
5 5 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.48%) SLA
7 3 (1.11%) EU AI Act
7 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.11%) SEPA
8 2 (0.74%) EMIR
8 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.74%) MiFID
8 2 (0.74%) PSD2
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (16.61%) Docker
2 7 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.74%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.74%) NFS
4 2 (0.74%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.71%) Terraform
3 20 (7.38%) Ansible
4 17 (6.27%) Grafana
5 13 (4.80%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.48%) Argo
6 4 (1.48%) Puppet
7 3 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.74%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.74%) Nagios
8 2 (0.74%) SnapMirror
8 2 (0.74%) vMotion
9 1 (0.37%) Consul
9 1 (0.37%) Packer
9 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.37%) QRadar
9 1 (0.37%) Salt
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.80%) CyberArk
2 13 (4.80%) Databricks
2 13 (4.80%) Google
3 10 (3.69%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.32%) Citrix
5 8 (2.95%) Oracle
5 8 (2.95%) Splunk
6 7 (2.58%) VMware
7 5 (1.85%) IBM
7 5 (1.85%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.85%) SAP
8 4 (1.48%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.48%) Informatica
8 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.48%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.11%) Charles River
9 3 (1.11%) Cisco