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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 275 264 223
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.25% 14.49% 10.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.26% 34.11% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 187 148
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £464 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £854
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 940 774 884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.45% 42.48% 41.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 500 617
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £765
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 7 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 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.55%) Confluence
3 4 (1.45%) Apache
3 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.45%) CICS
3 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.09%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (39.64%) Azure
2 60 (21.82%) GCP
3 48 (17.45%) Serverless
4 41 (14.91%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (14.18%) GitHub
6 35 (12.73%) Amazon S3
7 25 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.64%) Power Platform
9 20 (7.27%) Amazon Bedrock
9 20 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (6.18%) SaaS
11 16 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (3.64%) Amazon SageMaker
16 10 (3.64%) dbt
16 10 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.36%) Firewall
2 9 (3.27%) DNS
3 7 (2.55%) Network Security
4 6 (2.18%) DHCP
5 5 (1.82%) VPN
6 3 (1.09%) SMTP
6 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.73%) NGFW
7 2 (0.73%) 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 (7.27%) DynamoDB
2 17 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (5.82%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.82%) Power BI
4 15 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.00%) Metadata
7 11 (4.00%) Tableau
8 9 (3.27%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.91%) Big Data
9 8 (2.91%) Db2
9 8 (2.91%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (2.18%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.82%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.45%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 30 (10.91%) Git
2 26 (9.45%) GitLab
3 25 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.00%) JIRA
5 9 (3.27%) Postman
6 8 (2.91%) JUnit
7 7 (2.55%) Mockito
8 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.45%) JMeter
9 4 (1.45%) Maven
10 3 (1.09%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.09%) Gradle
11 2 (0.73%) Ant
11 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.73%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.73%) Mocha
11 2 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 91 (33.09%) Finance
2 65 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.82%) Banking
4 29 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.64%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.55%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.18%) Front Office
10 4 (1.45%) Military
10 4 (1.45%) Retail
11 3 (1.09%) Back Office
11 3 (1.09%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.73%) Advertising
13 1 (0.36%) Law
13 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (22.91%) Architect
2 39 (14.18%) Senior
3 30 (10.91%) Developer
4 22 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 20 (7.27%) Lead
6 16 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (4.73%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (3.27%) Consultant
9 9 (3.27%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.27%) Technical Architect
10 8 (2.91%) AWS Architect
10 8 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (2.91%) Data Architect
10 8 (2.91%) Data Scientist
10 8 (2.91%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.64%) Kafka
2 27 (9.82%) Spring
3 26 (9.45%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.73%) REST
5 20 (7.27%) React
6 18 (6.55%) RESTful
7 12 (4.36%) SOAP
8 11 (4.00%) .NET
8 11 (4.00%) Node.js
9 10 (3.64%) PySpark
10 9 (3.27%) JSON
11 8 (2.91%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.55%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.18%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.18%) Middleware
13 6 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.18%) Web Services
14 5 (1.82%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.82%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.82%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.27%) Clustering
5 9 (3.27%) Equities
5 9 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.55%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.18%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.18%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.82%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) DataPower
10 4 (1.45%) LIMS
10 4 (1.45%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.45%) PKI
11 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.73%) Linux
1 13 (4.73%) Windows
2 6 (2.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.45%) Android
3 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.45%) zOS
4 2 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.73%) 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
1 108 (39.27%) CI/CD
2 71 (25.82%) AI
3 65 (23.64%) DevOps
4 59 (21.45%) Agile
5 56 (20.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (16.73%) Migration
7 45 (16.36%) Containerisation
8 43 (15.64%) Analytics
8 43 (15.64%) Machine Learning
9 41 (14.91%) Microservices
10 36 (13.09%) Data Engineering
10 36 (13.09%) Data Modelling
10 36 (13.09%) Test Automation
11 35 (12.73%) Event-Driven
12 34 (12.36%) Observability
12 34 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (9.82%) Generative AI
16 26 (9.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (36.36%) Python
2 55 (20.00%) SQL
3 50 (18.18%) Java
4 16 (5.82%) C#
4 16 (5.82%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.64%) Bash
8 5 (1.82%) Ruby
8 5 (1.82%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.45%) JCL
9 4 (1.45%) Scala
10 3 (1.09%) Bicep
10 3 (1.09%) Go
11 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.73%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.36%) R
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.91%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.73%) Degree
4 8 (2.91%) PMI Certification
4 8 (2.91%) PMP
5 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.82%) CISSP
8 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.45%) CISM
9 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.09%) CCNP
9 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.09%) PhD
9 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.73%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.18%) Data Quality
1 17 (6.18%) GDPR
1 17 (6.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (5.82%) NIST
3 9 (3.27%) QA
4 8 (2.91%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.82%) NCSC
5 5 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.73%) EMIR
7 2 (0.73%) GRC
7 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.73%) MiFID
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) 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 43 (15.64%) Docker
2 8 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.73%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 47 (17.09%) Terraform
3 21 (7.64%) Ansible
4 15 (5.45%) Grafana
5 12 (4.36%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.82%) Puppet
7 4 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.09%) Nagios
8 3 (1.09%) vMotion
9 2 (0.73%) 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 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.09%) Google
3 13 (4.73%) Databricks
4 11 (4.00%) CyberArk
4 11 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.64%) Citrix
6 8 (2.91%) Oracle
6 8 (2.91%) Splunk
6 8 (2.91%) VMware
7 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.82%) IBM
8 5 (1.82%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.45%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.45%) Informatica
9 4 (1.45%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.09%) Charles River
10 3 (1.09%) HP
10 3 (1.09%) Symantec