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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 261 227 199
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.71% 13.14% 9.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.46% 32.57% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 160 119
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £481 £479 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £720
90th Percentile £775 £800 £840
Central London median daily rate £574 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -1.97% +1.74% -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 917 697 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.16% 40.36% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 485 554
10th Percentile £359 £336 £388
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -0.22%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £561
% change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +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 22 September 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 21 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.83%) Confluence
3 9 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.68%) Apache
5 5 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.77%) CICS
7 2 (0.77%) nginx
7 2 (0.77%) SAS
8 1 (0.38%) Camunda
8 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 112 (42.91%) Azure
2 62 (23.75%) GCP
3 42 (16.09%) Serverless
4 40 (15.33%) GitHub
5 36 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (12.26%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.49%) Snowflake
8 24 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.90%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.51%) dbt
11 15 (5.75%) SaaS
12 13 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.60%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.60%) Power Platform
14 11 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.83%) OpenShift
16 9 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.13%) DNS
1 16 (6.13%) Firewall
2 9 (3.45%) DHCP
2 9 (3.45%) VPN
3 6 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.92%) BGP
5 4 (1.53%) Network Security
5 4 (1.53%) OSPF
5 4 (1.53%) VLAN
6 3 (1.15%) MPLS
6 3 (1.15%) Multicast
6 3 (1.15%) SMTP
7 2 (0.77%) Internet
7 2 (0.77%) IPsec
7 2 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.77%) SSH
7 2 (0.77%) WAN
7 2 (0.77%) Wireless
7 2 (0.77%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.77%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.60%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (4.21%) Power BI
5 10 (3.83%) Metadata
5 10 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 8 (3.07%) Delta Lake
7 8 (3.07%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.68%) Big Data
8 7 (2.68%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.92%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (11.49%) GitLab
2 27 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.43%) Git
4 19 (7.28%) JIRA
5 9 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.68%) Postman
7 6 (2.30%) JMeter
7 6 (2.30%) JUnit
8 5 (1.92%) Maven
8 5 (1.92%) Mockito
9 3 (1.15%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.15%) Selenium
10 2 (0.77%) Appium
10 2 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.77%) Gatling
10 2 (0.77%) Gradle
10 2 (0.77%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (36.02%) Finance
2 65 (24.90%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.71%) Banking
4 35 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.73%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.68%) Back Office
7 7 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.92%) Front Office
9 5 (1.92%) Military
9 5 (1.92%) Retail
10 4 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.15%) Billing
11 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.15%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing
11 3 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (22.61%) Architect
2 53 (20.31%) Senior
3 28 (10.73%) Data Engineer
4 25 (9.58%) Developer
5 24 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
6 22 (8.43%) Lead
7 13 (4.98%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (4.60%) Analyst
8 12 (4.60%) Data Architect
8 12 (4.60%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.21%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (3.07%) AWS Architect
10 8 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.07%) Consultant
10 8 (3.07%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.07%) Technical Architect
11 7 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.68%) Java Developer
11 7 (2.68%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.31%) Terraform
2 26 (9.96%) Kafka
3 25 (9.58%) REST
4 24 (9.20%) Spring
5 23 (8.81%) Spring Boot
6 13 (4.98%) RESTful
7 12 (4.60%) .NET
7 12 (4.60%) PySpark
7 12 (4.60%) React
7 12 (4.60%) SOAP
8 9 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (3.07%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (3.07%) Node.js
10 7 (2.68%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.68%) JSON
11 6 (2.30%) LangChain
11 6 (2.30%) OAuth
11 6 (2.30%) Web Services
12 5 (1.92%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 71 (27.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.20%) AI Agents
3 19 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.75%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.30%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.92%) CMDB
7 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.53%) PKI
8 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.15%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.75%) Linux
2 13 (4.98%) Windows
3 10 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.53%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) CentOS
5 2 (0.77%) zOS
6 1 (0.38%) AIX
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Solaris
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (44.83%) CI/CD
2 73 (27.97%) DevOps
3 64 (24.52%) AI
4 59 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (20.31%) Agile
6 45 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 44 (16.86%) Migration
7 44 (16.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (16.48%) Data Engineering
8 43 (16.48%) Microservices
9 42 (16.09%) Analytics
10 39 (14.94%) Event-Driven
11 38 (14.56%) Data Modelling
12 32 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (12.26%) Test Automation
13 31 (11.88%) Observability
13 31 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (11.88%) Software Engineering
14 30 (11.49%) Machine Learning
15 28 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 95 (36.40%) Python
2 55 (21.07%) SQL
3 46 (17.62%) Java
4 17 (6.51%) C#
4 17 (6.51%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 13 (4.98%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.60%) Bash
8 4 (1.53%) Bicep
8 4 (1.53%) Korn
8 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.15%) Ruby
10 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.77%) Go
10 2 (0.77%) JCL
10 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.77%) Scala
11 1 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 53 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.45%) Degree
3 9 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (1.53%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.53%) PMP
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.15%) CCNP
6 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.77%) CISM
7 2 (0.77%) CISSP
7 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.77%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.77%) OSCP
8 1 (0.38%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.21%) QA
3 9 (3.45%) NIST
4 8 (3.07%) EU AI Act
5 7 (2.68%) GDPR
6 5 (1.92%) NCSC
7 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.15%) SEPA
8 2 (0.77%) EMIR
8 2 (0.77%) MiFID
8 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.38%) GRC
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (16.48%) Docker
2 9 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.53%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.15%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.15%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.58%) Ansible
3 14 (5.36%) Grafana
4 13 (4.98%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.92%) Puppet
6 4 (1.53%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.15%) Nagios
7 3 (1.15%) vMotion
8 1 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.38%) Bosun
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.38%) Consul
8 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.38%) Packer
8 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.38%) SCCM
8 1 (0.38%) SELinux
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (10.73%) Databricks
1 28 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.90%) Google
3 16 (6.13%) Oracle
4 10 (3.83%) Citrix
4 10 (3.83%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.83%) VMware
5 8 (3.07%) Cisco
6 7 (2.68%) Palo Alto
6 7 (2.68%) SAP
7 6 (2.30%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.30%) IBM
8 5 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.15%) HP
10 3 (1.15%) Splunk
10 3 (1.15%) Symantec
10 3 (1.15%) Workday