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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 257 217 254
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.23% 11.94% 10.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.85% 29.09% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 151 183
10th Percentile £356 £413 £400
25th Percentile £461 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £668 £667 £650
90th Percentile £802 £738 £737
Central London median daily rate £540 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.05% -15.06%

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 807 746 895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.53% 41.06% 37.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 469 638
10th Percentile £332 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 11
10th Percentile £27.83 £57.88 £12.75
25th Percentile £35.88 £75.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £111.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.34% +485.53% -55.81%
75th Percentile £49.83 £152.81 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.19 £173.63 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -45.71%

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 18 February 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 16 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.33%) Confluence
4 4 (1.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Notion
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.17%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (43.97%) Azure
2 68 (26.46%) GCP
3 40 (15.56%) Serverless
4 38 (14.79%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (13.23%) GitHub
6 31 (12.06%) Amazon S3
7 25 (9.73%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (7.00%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.23%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (6.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (4.28%) dbt
12 10 (3.89%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.50%) SaaS
14 8 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (3.11%) Apigee
14 8 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.28%) Firewall
2 10 (3.89%) DNS
2 10 (3.89%) Network Security
3 3 (1.17%) BGP
3 3 (1.17%) DHCP
3 3 (1.17%) OSPF
3 3 (1.17%) SSL
3 3 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.17%) VPN
4 2 (0.78%) 4G
4 2 (0.78%) 5G
4 2 (0.78%) IPsec
4 2 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.39%) 2G
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) DKIM
5 1 (0.39%) NAS
5 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.61%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.84%) Power BI
4 14 (5.45%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.67%) DynamoDB
7 11 (4.28%) MySQL
7 11 (4.28%) Tableau
8 10 (3.89%) Data Lake
8 10 (3.89%) Metadata
8 10 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.50%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.72%) Big Data
12 6 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.56%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.56%) DB2
14 3 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (11.28%) Git
2 17 (6.61%) GitLab
3 16 (6.23%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.67%) JIRA
5 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.17%) Gatling
6 3 (1.17%) JUnit
7 2 (0.78%) Ant
7 2 (0.78%) ERwin
7 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.78%) MLflow
7 2 (0.78%) Mockito
7 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 89 (34.63%) Finance
2 60 (23.35%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.18%) Banking
4 21 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.28%) Front Office
5 11 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.50%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.11%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.56%) Retail
11 3 (1.17%) Legal
11 3 (1.17%) Marketing
12 2 (0.78%) Back Office
12 2 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.78%) Military
13 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (21.79%) Architect
2 36 (14.01%) Senior
3 32 (12.45%) Developer
4 27 (10.51%) Lead
5 25 (9.73%) Data Engineer
6 22 (8.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.28%) AWS Architect
9 11 (4.28%) Python Engineer
10 9 (3.50%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.50%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.50%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.11%) Consultant
12 7 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (2.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (2.72%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.72%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.78%) Kafka
2 19 (7.39%) React
3 16 (6.23%) REST
4 15 (5.84%) Node.js
5 13 (5.06%) .NET
6 11 (4.28%) PyTorch
6 11 (4.28%) RESTful
7 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
7 10 (3.89%) scikit-learn
7 10 (3.89%) TensorFlow
8 9 (3.50%) HTML
9 8 (3.11%) CSS
9 8 (3.11%) NumPy
9 8 (3.11%) OAuth
9 8 (3.11%) Pandas
9 8 (3.11%) Spring
10 7 (2.72%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.33%) boto
11 6 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.07%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.45%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.50%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.11%) Equities
6 8 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.33%) Derivative
8 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.33%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.95%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Linux
2 12 (4.67%) Windows
3 4 (1.56%) Android
3 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.07%) CI/CD
2 53 (20.62%) AI
2 53 (20.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (20.23%) DevOps
4 51 (19.84%) Agile
5 45 (17.51%) Analytics
6 39 (15.18%) Machine Learning
7 38 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.01%) Microservices
9 34 (13.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (12.84%) Migration
11 31 (12.06%) Containerisation
11 31 (12.06%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (12.06%) Software Engineering
12 29 (11.28%) Data Modelling
12 29 (11.28%) ETL
13 28 (10.89%) Generative AI
14 27 (10.51%) Observability
14 27 (10.51%) Roadmaps
15 26 (10.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (41.63%) Python
2 74 (28.79%) SQL
3 48 (18.68%) Java
4 15 (5.84%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.11%) Bash
6 7 (2.72%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.95%) C#
9 4 (1.56%) Go
9 4 (1.56%) PHP
10 3 (1.17%) Korn
10 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.17%) Ruby
10 3 (1.17%) Scala
11 2 (0.78%) C++
11 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
11 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) SOQL
12 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.61%) Degree
4 11 (4.28%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.72%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.72%) PMP
7 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.33%) CISSP
8 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.17%) CISM
10 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.17%) PhD
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.51%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.17%) GDPR
3 16 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.06%) NIST
5 7 (2.72%) QA
6 6 (2.33%) SLA
7 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.17%) NCSC
9 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.78%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.78%) GRC
9 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.78%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.78%) PSD2
9 2 (0.78%) SEPA
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.39%) DICOM
10 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.39%) HL7
10 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 46 (17.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.78%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 56 (21.79%) Terraform
2 41 (15.95%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.39%) Ansible
4 9 (3.50%) Grafana
5 5 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.17%) Argo
7 3 (1.17%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.39%) CASB
8 1 (0.39%) Istio
8 1 (0.39%) Kibana
8 1 (0.39%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.39%) QRadar
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
8 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.39%) vRealize
8 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.78%) Databricks
3 16 (6.23%) Oracle
4 12 (4.67%) Google
5 11 (4.28%) IBM
6 8 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.11%) Splunk
7 7 (2.72%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.56%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.56%) Informatica
9 4 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.17%) Cognos
10 3 (1.17%) Confluent
10 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.17%) F5
10 3 (1.17%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.17%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.17%) Sage
10 3 (1.17%) SAP