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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 279 263 226
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.35% 14.11% 10.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.28% 33.33% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 184 150
10th Percentile £418 £400 £413
25th Percentile £464 £473 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £851
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -7.94%
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 953 789 894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.76% 42.33% 41.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 513 623
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 5
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 -
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 £12.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £40.95
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 11 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 17 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.51%) Confluence
3 4 (1.43%) Apache
3 4 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.43%) CICS
3 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (39.07%) Azure
2 60 (21.51%) GCP
3 49 (17.56%) Serverless
4 42 (15.05%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (14.70%) GitHub
6 36 (12.90%) Amazon S3
7 24 (8.60%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (7.53%) Power Platform
9 20 (7.17%) Amazon Bedrock
10 17 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.73%) SaaS
12 13 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.30%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.94%) PaaS
15 10 (3.58%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (3.58%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.30%) Firewall
2 9 (3.23%) DNS
3 7 (2.51%) Network Security
4 6 (2.15%) DHCP
5 5 (1.79%) VPN
6 3 (1.08%) SMTP
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) NGFW
7 2 (0.72%) X.509
8 1 (0.36%) BGP
8 1 (0.36%) IPsec
8 1 (0.36%) NAS
8 1 (0.36%) OSPF
8 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.36%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.36%) SSH
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.17%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (5.73%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.73%) Power BI
4 15 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.94%) Metadata
6 11 (3.94%) Tableau
7 9 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.87%) Big Data
8 8 (2.87%) Db2
8 8 (2.87%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.79%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 31 (11.11%) Git
2 28 (10.04%) GitLab
3 25 (8.96%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.89%) JIRA
5 9 (3.23%) Postman
6 8 (2.87%) JUnit
7 7 (2.51%) Mockito
8 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.43%) JMeter
9 4 (1.43%) Maven
10 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.08%) Gradle
11 2 (0.72%) Ant
11 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.72%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.72%) Mocha
11 2 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 93 (33.33%) Finance
2 66 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.98%) Banking
4 29 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.58%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.51%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.15%) Front Office
10 4 (1.43%) Back Office
10 4 (1.43%) Military
10 4 (1.43%) Retail
11 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.72%) Advertising
12 2 (0.72%) Marketing
13 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (23.30%) Architect
2 40 (14.34%) Senior
3 30 (10.75%) Developer
4 23 (8.24%) Data Engineer
5 20 (7.17%) Lead
6 17 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (4.66%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (3.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 11 (3.94%) Snowflake Engineer
9 10 (3.58%) Technical Architect
10 9 (3.23%) Consultant
10 9 (3.23%) Java Developer
11 8 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.87%) Data Architect
11 8 (2.87%) Data Scientist
11 8 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (2.87%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (2.87%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.83%) Kafka
2 27 (9.68%) Spring
3 26 (9.32%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.60%) REST
5 21 (7.53%) React
6 18 (6.45%) RESTful
7 12 (4.30%) SOAP
8 11 (3.94%) .NET
8 11 (3.94%) Node.js
9 10 (3.58%) PySpark
10 9 (3.23%) JSON
11 8 (2.87%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.51%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.15%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.15%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.15%) Middleware
13 6 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.15%) Web Services
14 5 (1.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 69 (24.73%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.73%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.23%) Clustering
5 9 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.87%) Equities
7 7 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.15%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.15%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.79%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.43%) DataPower
10 4 (1.43%) LIMS
10 4 (1.43%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.43%) PKI
11 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.66%) Linux
1 13 (4.66%) Windows
2 6 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.43%) Android
3 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.43%) zOS
4 2 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (39.43%) CI/CD
2 70 (25.09%) AI
3 66 (23.66%) DevOps
4 58 (20.79%) Agile
4 58 (20.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (16.85%) Containerisation
6 46 (16.49%) Migration
7 44 (15.77%) Microservices
8 42 (15.05%) Analytics
8 42 (15.05%) Machine Learning
9 39 (13.98%) Event-Driven
10 38 (13.62%) Test Automation
11 37 (13.26%) Data Modelling
12 36 (12.90%) Data Engineering
13 35 (12.54%) Observability
14 34 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
17 27 (9.68%) Generative AI
17 27 (9.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (36.92%) Python
2 56 (20.07%) SQL
3 52 (18.64%) Java
4 16 (5.73%) C#
4 16 (5.73%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.94%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.58%) Bash
8 6 (2.15%) Ruby
9 5 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.43%) JCL
10 4 (1.43%) Scala
11 3 (1.08%) Bicep
11 3 (1.08%) Go
12 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.72%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.66%) Degree
4 8 (2.87%) PMI Certification
4 8 (2.87%) PMP
5 7 (2.51%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.79%) CISSP
8 4 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.43%) CISM
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.08%) CCNP
9 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.08%) PhD
9 3 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.09%) Data Quality
1 17 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (5.73%) GDPR
2 16 (5.73%) NIST
3 9 (3.23%) QA
4 8 (2.87%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.79%) NCSC
5 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.08%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.72%) EMIR
7 2 (0.72%) GRC
7 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.72%) MiFID
7 2 (0.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.36%) PMO
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (16.13%) Docker
2 8 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.72%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (20.43%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.20%) Terraform
3 21 (7.53%) Ansible
4 15 (5.38%) Grafana
5 12 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.79%) Puppet
7 4 (1.43%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.08%) Nagios
8 3 (1.08%) vMotion
9 2 (0.72%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.36%) Consul
10 1 (0.36%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.36%) QRadar
10 1 (0.36%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.02%) Google
3 13 (4.66%) Databricks
4 11 (3.94%) CyberArk
4 11 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.58%) Citrix
6 9 (3.23%) Oracle
7 8 (2.87%) Splunk
7 8 (2.87%) VMware
8 7 (2.51%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.79%) IBM
9 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.43%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.43%) Informatica
10 4 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.08%) Charles River
11 3 (1.08%) HP
11 3 (1.08%) Symantec