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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 230 201
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.87% 12.81% 9.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.80% 31.86% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 159 126
10th Percentile £425 £407 £425
25th Percentile £475 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £697 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £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 941 722 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.20% 40.22% 40.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 491 562
10th Percentile £362 £333 £400
25th Percentile £456 £433 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £659 £668 £675
90th Percentile £751 £750 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -
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 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +15.70%

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 12 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 22 (8.12%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.32%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.32%) Confluence
3 7 (2.58%) Apache
4 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) CICS
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
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
1 115 (42.44%) Azure
2 61 (22.51%) GCP
3 41 (15.13%) GitHub
4 40 (14.76%) Serverless
5 36 (13.28%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (12.18%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.44%) Snowflake
8 22 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.64%) dbt
10 16 (5.90%) Amazon Bedrock
10 16 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.54%) SaaS
12 14 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.80%) Power Platform
14 12 (4.43%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.06%) PaaS
16 10 (3.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.90%) DNS
1 16 (5.90%) Firewall
2 9 (3.32%) DHCP
2 9 (3.32%) VPN
3 6 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.85%) BGP
4 5 (1.85%) Network Security
5 4 (1.48%) OSPF
5 4 (1.48%) VLAN
6 3 (1.11%) MPLS
6 3 (1.11%) Multicast
6 3 (1.11%) SMTP
7 2 (0.74%) Internet
7 2 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.74%) IPsec
7 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.74%) WAN
7 2 (0.74%) Wireless
7 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.74%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.80%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.43%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.43%) Power BI
6 11 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.69%) Metadata
8 8 (2.95%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.95%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.58%) Big Data
9 7 (2.58%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.58%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.85%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.48%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (10.70%) GitLab
2 27 (9.96%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.86%) Git
4 21 (7.75%) JIRA
5 8 (2.95%) Postman
6 7 (2.58%) JUnit
7 6 (2.21%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.21%) Maven
7 6 (2.21%) Mockito
8 5 (1.85%) JMeter
9 4 (1.48%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.11%) Gradle
10 3 (1.11%) Selenium
11 2 (0.74%) Appium
11 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.37%) Gatling
12 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 97 (35.79%) Finance
2 69 (25.46%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.50%) Banking
4 36 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.07%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.58%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.85%) Back Office
9 5 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.85%) Front Office
9 5 (1.85%) Military
9 5 (1.85%) Retail
10 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.11%) Billing
11 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.11%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (22.88%) Architect
2 54 (19.93%) Senior
3 29 (10.70%) Developer
4 27 (9.96%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.49%) Lead
6 14 (5.17%) Senior Developer
7 12 (4.43%) Analyst
7 12 (4.43%) Data Architect
7 12 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.69%) AWS Data Engineer
8 10 (3.69%) Technical Architect
9 9 (3.32%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.32%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (2.95%) AWS Architect
10 8 (2.95%) Consultant
10 8 (2.95%) Data Analyst
10 8 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (2.58%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.56%) Terraform
2 29 (10.70%) Kafka
3 27 (9.96%) Spring
4 26 (9.59%) Spring Boot
5 25 (9.23%) REST
6 15 (5.54%) RESTful
7 14 (5.17%) React
8 13 (4.80%) .NET
8 13 (4.80%) SOAP
9 12 (4.43%) PySpark
10 11 (4.06%) Node.js
11 8 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.58%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.58%) JSON
13 6 (2.21%) ActiveMQ
13 6 (2.21%) LangChain
13 6 (2.21%) OAuth
13 6 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.21%) Web Services
14 5 (1.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 76 (28.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (8.49%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.90%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.85%) Clustering
7 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.48%) CMDB
8 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.48%) PKI
8 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.48%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.17%) Linux
2 12 (4.43%) Windows
3 9 (3.32%) 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
1 122 (45.02%) CI/CD
2 77 (28.41%) DevOps
3 67 (24.72%) AI
4 59 (21.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (21.40%) Agile
6 49 (18.08%) Microservices
7 47 (17.34%) Containerisation
8 45 (16.61%) Migration
8 45 (16.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (15.87%) Analytics
9 43 (15.87%) Data Engineering
10 41 (15.13%) Event-Driven
11 39 (14.39%) Data Modelling
12 36 (13.28%) Test Automation
13 35 (12.92%) Software Engineering
14 33 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (12.18%) Observability
14 33 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (11.81%) Machine Learning
16 28 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 98 (36.16%) Python
2 57 (21.03%) SQL
3 53 (19.56%) Java
4 19 (7.01%) C#
5 16 (5.90%) PowerShell
5 16 (5.90%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.54%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.43%) Bash
8 5 (1.85%) Ruby
9 4 (1.48%) Bicep
9 4 (1.48%) Korn
9 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.11%) Scala
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 54 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.69%) Degree
4 9 (3.32%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.85%) PMP
6 5 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.11%) CCNP
7 3 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.11%) CISM
7 3 (1.11%) CISSP
7 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.74%) OSCP
8 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.33%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.80%) QA
3 11 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.69%) NIST
5 9 (3.32%) GDPR
6 8 (2.95%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.85%) NCSC
8 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.11%) SEPA
9 2 (0.74%) EMIR
9 2 (0.74%) MiFID
9 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
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 42001
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
10 1 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (16.61%) Docker
2 9 (3.32%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.32%) 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 58 (21.40%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.49%) Ansible
3 14 (5.17%) Grafana
3 14 (5.17%) 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%) FortiGate
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 28 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.59%) Databricks
3 18 (6.64%) Google
3 18 (6.64%) Oracle
4 10 (3.69%) Citrix
4 10 (3.69%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.69%) VMware
5 8 (2.95%) Cisco
6 7 (2.58%) Palo Alto
6 7 (2.58%) SAP
7 6 (2.21%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.21%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.11%) HP
10 3 (1.11%) IBM
10 3 (1.11%) Informatica
10 3 (1.11%) Symantec
10 3 (1.11%) Workday