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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 270 231 197
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.84% 12.91% 9.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.75% 31.99% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 161 126
10th Percentile £426 £413 £425
25th Percentile £477 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £698
90th Percentile £774 £800 £831
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +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 939 722 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.18% 40.34% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 489 558
10th Percentile £363 £332 £394
25th Percentile £460 £433 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £656 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £764
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £556
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

AWS
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 23 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.70%) Confluence
3 9 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.59%) Apache
5 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.74%) CICS
7 2 (0.74%) nginx
7 2 (0.74%) SAS
8 1 (0.37%) Camunda
8 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (41.11%) Azure
2 59 (21.85%) GCP
3 41 (15.19%) Serverless
4 38 (14.07%) GitHub
5 37 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (12.96%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.48%) Snowflake
8 20 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (7.04%) dbt
10 16 (5.93%) Amazon Bedrock
11 15 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.56%) SaaS
12 14 (5.19%) Power Platform
13 13 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.56%) DNS
1 15 (5.56%) Firewall
2 8 (2.96%) DHCP
2 8 (2.96%) VPN
3 5 (1.85%) Network Security
3 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.48%) BGP
5 3 (1.11%) Multicast
5 3 (1.11%) OSPF
5 3 (1.11%) SMTP
5 3 (1.11%) VLAN
6 2 (0.74%) Internet
6 2 (0.74%) MPLS
6 2 (0.74%) NGFW
6 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.74%) SSH
6 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.74%) X.509
7 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.19%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.81%) Power BI
6 12 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.70%) Metadata
9 8 (2.96%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.59%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.59%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.59%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.22%) Big Data
11 6 (2.22%) Tableau
12 5 (1.85%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.85%) Pinecone
12 5 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (1.48%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 28 (10.37%) GitLab
2 26 (9.63%) Git
2 26 (9.63%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.15%) JIRA
4 8 (2.96%) Postman
5 7 (2.59%) JUnit
6 6 (2.22%) Maven
6 6 (2.22%) Mockito
7 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.85%) JMeter
8 4 (1.48%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.11%) Gradle
9 3 (1.11%) Selenium
10 2 (0.74%) Appium
10 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.37%) Gatling
11 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 93 (34.44%) Finance
2 65 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.19%) Banking
4 35 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.22%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.85%) Back Office
10 5 (1.85%) Front Office
10 5 (1.85%) Military
10 5 (1.85%) Retail
11 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.11%) Billing
12 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.11%) Marketing
13 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (21.11%) Architect
2 51 (18.89%) Senior
3 32 (11.85%) Developer
4 28 (10.37%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.52%) Lead
6 15 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.81%) Analyst
8 11 (4.07%) Data Architect
8 11 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.70%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (3.70%) Technical Architect
10 9 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (3.33%) Data Analyst
10 9 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.96%) AWS Architect
11 8 (2.96%) Consultant
11 8 (2.96%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (18.89%) Terraform
2 29 (10.74%) Kafka
3 27 (10.00%) Spring
4 26 (9.63%) Spring Boot
5 24 (8.89%) REST
6 17 (6.30%) React
7 16 (5.93%) RESTful
8 13 (4.81%) PySpark
9 12 (4.44%) .NET
9 12 (4.44%) SOAP
10 11 (4.07%) Node.js
11 8 (2.96%) JSON
12 7 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.22%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.22%) OAuth
13 6 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.22%) Web Services
14 5 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
14 5 (1.85%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.85%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 74 (27.41%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.78%) AI Agents
4 14 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.22%) Clustering
6 6 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.48%) CMDB
8 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.48%) PKI
8 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.48%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.11%) Equities
9 3 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.11%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.19%) Linux
2 12 (4.44%) Windows
3 9 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) zOS
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (43.70%) CI/CD
2 76 (28.15%) DevOps
3 63 (23.33%) AI
4 60 (22.22%) Agile
5 59 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (17.78%) Microservices
7 46 (17.04%) Containerisation
8 44 (16.30%) Migration
8 44 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (15.93%) Analytics
9 43 (15.93%) Data Engineering
10 40 (14.81%) Data Modelling
11 39 (14.44%) Event-Driven
12 38 (14.07%) Test Automation
13 33 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (11.85%) Software Engineering
15 31 (11.48%) Machine Learning
15 31 (11.48%) Observability
16 27 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 100 (37.04%) Python
2 57 (21.11%) SQL
3 54 (20.00%) Java
4 19 (7.04%) C#
5 18 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.30%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.19%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.44%) Bash
9 5 (1.85%) Ruby
10 4 (1.48%) Bicep
10 4 (1.48%) Korn
10 4 (1.48%) Scala
10 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.74%) Go
11 2 (0.74%) JCL
11 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (20.74%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.96%) Degree
5 7 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.85%) PMP
7 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.11%) CCNP
8 3 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.11%) CISM
8 3 (1.11%) CISSP
8 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.11%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.74%) OSCP
10 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.37%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.81%) QA
3 12 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.07%) NIST
5 10 (3.70%) GDPR
6 8 (2.96%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.85%) NCSC
8 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.74%) EMIR
9 2 (0.74%) MiFID
9 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.74%) SEPA
9 2 (0.74%) 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 19770
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (16.30%) Docker
2 9 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.11%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) NFS
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.78%) Ansible
3 14 (5.19%) Grafana
3 14 (5.19%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.85%) Puppet
5 4 (1.48%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.11%) Nagios
6 3 (1.11%) vMotion
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Bosun
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.37%) Consul
7 1 (0.37%) Packer
7 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.37%) Salt
7 1 (0.37%) SELinux
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.37%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 29 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.26%) Databricks
3 18 (6.67%) Google
4 17 (6.30%) Oracle
5 10 (3.70%) Citrix
5 10 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.70%) VMware
6 7 (2.59%) Cisco
6 7 (2.59%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.22%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.22%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.22%) SAP
8 5 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.48%) Informatica
9 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.11%) HP
10 3 (1.11%) IBM
10 3 (1.11%) Symantec
10 3 (1.11%) Workday